The Royal Canadian Mint has produced a $1,000,000 gold coin, weighing 100 kg. Six of the coins have been minted - one for display at the Mint, and five specially ordered by collectors.
Guy Lombardo, bandleader of the New Year’s Eve regulars The Royal Canadians, who produced “the sweetest music this side of heaven”, was also a championship powerboat racer.
In 1973, Ray Guy was the first and only punter to date to ever be picked in the first round of the NFL draft.
The U.S. Navy never had a “heavy battleship.” All of its battleships were just… battleships.
Gregory Hines played three different characters named “Ray” in the course of his movie career.
I think the Pennsylvania was pretty heavy. 
Raymond Burr never played a Greg, but he did play three Georges: in The Web (1957), Undercurrent (1955), and in Celebrity Playhouse (1955).
Guy Williams, who played Zorro in the 1957–59 Disney series of the same name, was supposed to replace Pernell Roberts on NBC’s “Bonanza” in 1964, but was let go when Roberts decided to stay for another year. He went on to star in CBS’s “Lost in Space” instead.
Norwegian Marta Kristen played the Robinson family’s daughter, Judy, on Lost in Space.
Angela Cartwright, who played Penny Robinson on “Lost in Space,” also played Brigitta von Trapp in The Sound of Music. Her older sister, Veronica, appeared in the first season of NBC’s “Daniel Boone” as Daniel’s daughter Jemima, and was one of the Nostromo crew killed by the monster in Alien.
Penny Marshall directed a few movies, including two favorites of mine, Big, and A League of Their Own.
(Nevermind: Missed several posts and wrote about Gregory Hines!)
In 1974 Dodgers pitcher Mike Marshall set a still-standing record
for game appearances in an MLB season with 106.
He is also tied for 4th on the list with 92 in 1973, and tied for 7th
with 90 in 1979.
You can still visit the home of the great Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall of Virginia, in Richmond. Marshall was a cousin of Thomas Jefferson, and was personally persuaded to run for Congress by George Washington, late in his life a political foe of Jefferson’s.
Four of the first five Presidents of the United States were born in Virginia. John Adams, the second President, was born in Massachusetts.
More presidents have been born in October than in any other month, six of the 44, but not that doofus Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico Il.
The Story of Mankind was the last film to feature the three Marx Brothers – Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, though they did not appear in any scenes together. It was also the last film appearance of Oscar-winner Ronald Colman.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was a Democrat in his youth, and campaigned for Harry Truman’s reelection in 1948. He made his earliest political splash in 1964 as a Republican, however, giving a televised address in support of Barry Goldwater’s campaign.
That speech was in San Francisco’s Cow Palace at the 1964 Republican National Convention.
The Cow Palace is actually in Daly City, a suburb adjacent to “The City by the Bay”. The only part of the property within San Francisco is a corner of the parking lot.
On January 18, 1991, three teenagers were killed at an AC/DC concert at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah.