Tag: Celebrities
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24-year-old Actor James Dean Died in Cholame, California, When the Porsche He Was Driving Crashed Into a Ford Tudor Sedan at an Intersection. September 30, 1955.
Photograph of Dean next to his Porsche 550, a few hours before his death. (Public Domain) On this day in history, September 30, 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean died in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he was driving crashed into a Ford Tudor sedan at an intersection. The motorist in the other car, 23-year-old California…
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New York Times writer Gilbert Millstein reviews “On the Road,” the second novel (hardly anyone had read the first) by a 35-year-old Columbia Dropout Named Jack Kerouac. September 5, 1957.
Image: Jack Kerouac, 1956. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, September 5, 1957, New York Times writer Gilbert Millstein reviews “On the Road,” the second novel (hardly anyone had read the first) by a 35-year-old Columbia dropout named Jack Kerouac. “Jack went to bed obscure,” Kerouac’s girlfriend told a journalist, “and woke up famous.”…
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Werner Klemperer
Image: Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink in the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. Werner Klemperer was born on 22 March 1920 in Cologne, Germany. His father, Otto Klemperer, was a prominent conductor and composer while his mother was soprano Johanna Geisler. His father was a Jew who had converted to Catholicism and his mother a Lutheran…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 