Saturday, May 23, 2009
Actress Betty Garrett is 90.
Actress Betty Garrett is 90.
Pianist Alicia de Larrocha is 86.
Bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman is 84.
Actress Joan Collins is 76.
R&B singer General Johnson (Chairmen of the Board) is 66.
Country singer Judy Rodman is 58.
Singer Luka Bloom is 54.
Actor-comedian Drew Carey is 51.
Country singer Shelly West is 51.
Actor Linden Ashby is 49.
Actress-model Karen Duffy is 48.
Actress Laurel Holloman is 41.
Singer Maxwell is 36.
Singer Jewel is 35.
Actor Lane Garrison is 29.
Actor Adam Wylie is 25.
"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
-- Henry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman (1878-1969).
On May 23, 1533, the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
In 1701, William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder.
In 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
In 1939, the Navy submarine USS Squalus sank during a test dive off the New England coast. One civilian and 32 crew members were rescued, but 26 others died.
In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was established.
In 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was "very solid" evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in nonsmokers.





