Born on This Day
Actor whose ubiquitous screen credits, including "Footloose;" inspired the parlor game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."
Freestyle wrestler with six world championships, who won Olympic gold in 2012.
Actress and daughter of director John Huston. Starred in the "Addams Family" films and won an Oscar for "Prizzi's Honor."
The shockingly well-preserved body of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, discovered after 113 years in a French graveyard, begins its final transatlantic journey. It is interred at the US Naval Academy in Maryland.
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