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March 25Copyright 1989-2007 epicidiot.com
1993 Dave Thomas gets his GED: The 60-year-old founder of the Wendy's hamburger chain - and high school dropout - passes his General Educational Development exam. He was then awarded an honorary diploma by a Florida high school who voted him most likely to succeed.
1990 Arson fire in the "Happy Land Social Club" kills 87 people.
1982 Cagney and Lacey debuts on CBS.
1958 Sugar Ray Robinson wins the boxing middleweight championship for a record 5th time.
1949 First British film to win the Best Picture Oscar, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, winning a total of five.
1934 First Masters golf tournament is won by Horton Smith.
1863 First U.S. Medal of Honor is awarded.
1807 Slavery: British Parliament abolishes slave trade.
1965 Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress. Film: Hocus Pocus (1993). TV: Square Pegs (Patty Greene).
1948 Bonnie Bedelia, American actress. Film: the Die Hard movies (rescued by Bruce Willis). TV: Love of Life (Sandy Porter).
1947 Elton John (Reginald Dwight), British singer, songwriter. He was the first Western rock star to play Moscow. Music: Crocodile Rock (1973, #1) and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973). Film: Tommy (1975, playing the Pinball Wizard).
1942 Aretha Franklin, American Grammy-winning soul singer. Music: Respect (1967, #1). She has more million-selling singles than any other female artist.
1940 Anita Bryant, American singer, "It's not just for breakfast anymore."
1934 Gloria Steinem, American feminist, founder of Ms. magazine (1971).
1920 d. 1995 Howard Cosell (Howard Cohen), American Emmy-winning sports commentator.
1919 Jeanne Cagney, American actress, James Cagney's sister, and co-host of Queen for a Day.
1918 d. 1977 Jackie Condon (John Condon), American child actor, one of the original Little Rascals. He appeared in 78 Our Gang films.
1916 Jean Rogers (Eleanor Lovegreen), American actress, Dale Arden of the Flash Gordon movie serials (1936-38).
1908 d. 1991 Sir David Lean, British director, whose films have won 28 Oscars. Film: Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Dr. Zhivago (1965).
1901 d. 1970 Ed Begley, American Oscar-winning actor. Film: Sweet Bird of Youth (1962, Oscar).
1892 d. 1967 Andy Clyde, Scottish-born actor. Film: Hopalong Cassidy movies (Gabby Hayes). TV: Lassie (Cully Wilson).
1871 d. 1941 Gutzon Borglum, American sculpture. Works: Mt. Rushmore (1927-41), the colossal head of Lincoln in Washington D.C., and the twelve apostles for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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2006 b. 1916 Richard Fleischer, American film director. Film: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Dr. Dolittle (1967), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Soylent Green (1973), and Red Sonja (1985).
2006 b. 1929 Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr.), American country-western singer. He helped create the "Bakersfield Sound" and was a regular on Hee Haw (Co-host). He had 15 #1 hits in a row.
1992 b. 1922 Nancy Walker (Anna Myrtle Swoyer), American actress. TV: Rhoda (Rhoda's mom), McMillan and Wife (Mildred the maid), and in commercials as Rosie - the quicker picker upper.
1918 b. 1862 Claude Debussy, French musician, composer, known for his impressionist "tone poems."
1860 b. circa 1795 James Braid, Scottish surgeon. He coined the term "hypnotism," of which he was a practitioner.
1857 b. 1783 William Colgate, English-born American soap and toiletries maker, philanthropist. He helped found the American Bible Society (1816).
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