Born on This Day
Golden Age Hollywood star who played strong-willed women in "Jezebel," "All About Eve" and "Dark Victory."
Musician, songwriter and record producer best known for the foot-tapping hit "Happy."
Old-school Hollywood actor known for playing upright All-American heroes in movies like "To Kill a Mockingbird."
US Pvt. 1st Class Sadao S. Munemori knocks out two German machine gun nests and falls on a live hand grenade to save his comrades. He becomes the first Japanese American awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumously.
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