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Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was shot in the back and mouth during an unsuccessful assassination attempt. As the Shah was getting out of his car on the steps of Tehran University, a journalist pretended to take his picture but instead fired five shots at point blank range.
100: Iranian-British film director and writer [98] Dercy Gonçalves: 1907–2008: 101: Brazilian actress [99] Coleridge Goode: 1914–2015: 100: Jamaican-born British jazz bassist [100] Bert I. Gordon: 1922–2023: 100: American film director [101] Guido Gorgatti: 1919–2023: 103: Italian-born Argentine film actor [102] Karl Otto Götz: 1914 ...
In 1947, Rainey left Boston for Broadway to begin her singing career. She found work as a show girl the Zanzibar Night Club which was popular at the time. [2] By February 1949, the 10" single "Gotta Love You 'Til I Die" / "Headin' For A Heartache" was released on Gold Medal GM 949.
Getty Background: Legendary television newsman and host Hugh Downs was born far from the limelight in Akron, Ohio, and spent his early years traveling around the Midwest Detroit, Chicago working ...
Robert Cletus Driscoll (March 3, 1937 – March 30, 1968) was an American actor who performed on film and television from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios' best-known live-action pictures of that period: Song of the South (1946), So Dear to My Heart (1949), and Treasure Island (1950), as well as RKO's The Window (1949).
On 14 February 1949, Valentine, an unknown, was signed by Ted Heath to join his band, Ted Heath and his Music, to sing alongside Lita Roza and Dennis Lotis. [4] He was voted the Top UK Male Vocalist in 1952 while singing with the Ted Heath Orchestra , the most successful of all British big bands , [ 5 ] and again after going solo in 1954.
Still other accounts record that Nana Saheb escaped and place his date of death as late as 1906. [11] 1862 Jean Baptiste: 49 United States: Jean Baptiste, a grave robber in Utah in the 1860s, was arrested in 1862 for stealing items from graves. He was exiled to Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake, but disappeared shortly after his arrival ...
The number of living former U.S. presidents dwindled to four on Dec. 29, 2024, when Jimmy Carter died at age 100 just months after extending his record as the longest-living president in U.S ...