George Strait born in Poteet, Texas
George Harvey Strait is born in Poteet, Texas to Doris and John Strait. His father is a school teacher and owns and operates a ranch. He is the second of three childre, his oldest brother’s Buddy and his younger sister, Percy. George’s mother and father divorce when he is in fourth grade. He and his older brother stay with their Dad. Their younger sister, Percy, leaves with his Mother.
Erwitt, Capa meet
Erwitt meets Capa, one of the founders of the select Magnum photographic agency, in New York. Capa invites him to join the Magnum photos. He works with Magnum for over forty years , mixing commercial jobs with personal photography.
Receives undergraduate degree
Receives a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (course 6) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jeb Bush born in Midland, Texas
John Ellis “Jeb” Bush is born in Midland, Texas to Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush. He is third of his parent’s six children.
Ricky Steamboat born in West Point, NY
Steamboat (Richard Henry Blood) is born in West Point, New york despite being billed from Honolulu, Hawaii during his wrestling career. After graduating high school, he decides to pursue a career in the world of professional wrestling. He makes his professional debut in 1976 with the AWA after training under Verne Gagne and The Iron Sheik.
Erwitt, Van Kan marry
0 0 Enzo Sardellaro Enzo Sardellaro2015-08-11 09:37:502015-08-12 21:03:24Erwitt, Van Kan marryHulk Hogan born in Augusta, Ga.
Hogan (Terry Bollea) is born in Augsta, Georgia despite being billed from Hollywood, Calif. for most of his wrestling career. He develops and early interest in music and begins playing bass guitar as a young man. He is spotted by the Brisco Brothers while playing music at a bar and convinced to pursue professional wrestling.
First attempt
The first attempt at a head transplant is carried out on a dog by Soviet surgeon Vladimir Demikhov. A puppy’s head and forelegs are transplanted onto the back of a larger dog. Demikhov conducts several further attempts but the dogs only survive between two and six days.
Roddy Piper born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Piper (Roderick George Toombs) is born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada despite being billed from Glasgow, Scotland during his career. After a dispute with his father, Piper leaves home and stays in youth hostels and works odd jobs. He begins playing bagpipes as a young man. He makes his professional wrestling debut at age 15, playing his own entrance music on his bagpipe. The announcer calls him Roddy the Piper which later sticks as his ring name, Roddy Piper.
Graduates College
Rivers graduates from Barnard College in New York City with a degree in English literature. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Jonathan Jay Pollard born in Galveston, TX
Jonathan Jay Pollard is born in Galvaston, Texas to Jewish parents. He has two older siblings. When he is seven years old, his family moved to South Bend, Indiana when his father, a renowned microbiologist is hired to teach at Notre Dame. As he grew up, Pollards parents instill a strong love for the State of Israel. He went to a Hebrew Day School and Stanford University. Pollard is bullied a great deal as a child for being Jewish and for his connection to Israel.
I grew up with a racial obligation to Israel. I got beaten up, but at least I knew the Israelis would beat up a couple Arab countries and maybe I would feel better.
Stieg Larsson born in Västerbotten
Karl Stig-Erland Larsson is born in the town of Skelleftehamn in the Västerbotten region of northeast Sweden, about 400 miles north of Stockholm. He is the first child of Erland and Vivianne. He is raised by his maternal grandparents in Västerbotten after his father contracts arsenic poisoning from his job at a smelting plant. When he is nine, his grandfather, Severin Boström, dies of a heart attack and he moves to the city of Umeå to live with his parents and his younger brother, Joakim. His grandfather is a survivor of imprisonment by the Nazis and is an outspoken political activist. Stieg’s favorite pastime during childhood is reading Enid Blyton and Astrid Lindgren, the author of The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. He later begins writing novels of his own. His father:
When Stieg was 12 I read a novel he had written in a notebook. It was then that we gave him a typewriter — it was his thirteenth birthday and I remember it was very expensive at that time. It was also very noisy, so we had to make space for him in the cellar. He would write in the cellar and come up for meals, but at least we could sleep at night.
Denzel Washington born in Mount Vernon
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is born in Mount Vernon, New York. His father, Denzel Washington, Sr. is a Pentecostal minister and his mother Lennis, is a beautician. A middle child, he has an older sister named Lorice and a younger brother named David. At the age of 14, his parents’ divorce. Washington starts hanging out on the streets and getting into fights.
I started heading toward the streets, getting into all sorts of trouble. My three closest friends ended up in penitentiaries.
Rowan Atkinson born in Consett, England
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is born in Consett, England to farmer and company director Erick Atkinson and Ella May. He is youngest of four brothers. He attends Durham Choristers School. The school headmaster, Canon John Grove:
He is shy with a slight stutter and a slightly rubbery face.
Albert Einstein dies age 76
Einstein dies in Princeton Hospital, having refused surgery for internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
Jake Roberts born in Gainesville, Ga.
Roberts (Aurelian Smith Jr) is born in Gainesville, Georgia. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young man and begins his career as a referee with Mid-South Wrestling. He later makes his wrestling debut for the company.
Rivers, Sanger marriage annulled
Rivers and Sanger’s marriage ends with annulment. Rivers ends the marriage when Sanger told her he did not want to have children.
he never had dinner cooked when I got home; he forgot little things, like getting out of bed in the morning; he was always lying there figuring out how to retire before he even started work.
Rivers, Sanger marry
Rivers marrys Sanger, the son of a Bond Clothing Stores merchandise manager.
Yitzhak Rabin assassinated at 73
Rabin is shot by Amir after a peace rally held in Kings Square in Tel Aviv. Rabin is in the process of retrieving his care when he was shot in the back and the arm. A third shot slightly wounds a security guard. The Prime Minister later dies on the operating table at Ichilov Hospital, in Tel Aviv, from blood loss and a punctured lung within 40 minutes. Announcement:
The government of Israel announces in consternation, in great sadness, and in deep sorrow, the death of prime minister and minister of defense Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered by an assassin, tonight in Tel Aviv. The government shall convene in one hour for a mourning session in Tel Aviv. Blessed be his memory.
Dallas Page born in Point Pleasant, NJ
Page (Page Joseph Falkinburg Jr.) is born in Point Pleasant, NJ. As a child he overcomes ADD, illiteracy and dyslexia.
I was a kid growing up dealing with ADD and Dyslexia. I’m fifty-eight years young. I grew up in a time when people didn’t know what ADD and Dyslexia was.