Today’s Birthdays: Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977): actor-comedian, remembered as the beloved Little Tramp of Hollywood’s silent film era, starring in such classic comedies as “Citizen Tramp,” “Tramp Without a Cause” and “A Tramp Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”...
On this day in 1955, the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Illinois, serving its famous pork burger, the Pig Mac. On this day in 1912, responding to claims that the Titanic luxury liner was “unsinkable,” God dispatched it to the bottom of the...
On this day in 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic and began to sink. Within 24 hours Hollywood secured the movie rights. On this day in 1910, William Howard Taft tore his rotator cuff throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day in Washington, and...
On this day in 1633, the Catholic Church accused Galileo of heresy and placed him under house arrest for telling the truth that the Earth revolves around the sun; 359 years later the Church declared him “not guilty.” On this day in 1934, F. Scott Fitzgerald published...
Oleg Cassini (1913-2006): fashion designer; served as “Secretary of Style” under first lady Jackie Kennedy; is credited with creating her signature bullet-proof sunglasses and her iconic pillbox, pandora’s box and jack-in-the-box hats. (Video: Steve Martin on Jackie...