Actress Anne Baxter, who starred opposite Raymond Burr in the TV series Ironside. died of a brain aneurysm which happened while she was hailing a taxi on Madison Avenue in New York City.
Winston Churchill was hit and injured by a taxi in New York City; Margaret Mitchell was hit and killed by a taxi in Atlanta.
After Washington Post critic Paul Hume gave a negative review to one of Margaret Truman’s singing performances, her father, President Harry Truman, sent him a letter saying "“Someday I hope to meet you. And when that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below.”
Margaret gave up music and became a successful mystery writer.
The video for the Black Eyed Peas song “Shut Up” has five “André the Giant” posters near the stage.
Jimmy Carl Black was called “The Indian of the Group” during his time as drummer and occasional vocalist with the Mothers of Invention. He later formed his own group, Geronimo Black. He was of Cheyenne heritage.
The Indian election in 1984 was the largest election of any country.
George Orwell wrote most of his dystopian novel 1984 while on the Scottish island of Jura.
In the 1984 federal election in Canada, the Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney won 211 seats in the House of Commons, out of 282 seats in total. It was the largest landslide in Canadian history at the federal level.
In the 1993 federal election, the Progressive Conservatives under Mulroney’s successor, Kim Campbell, won 2 seats out of 295 seats in the House of Commons, the largest defeat of a sitting government in Canadian history.
The British House of Commons is purposefully designed without seats for every single member. After the chamber was damaged during the Blitz, Churchill decided to rebuild it almost exactly as it had been before, despite having too few seats, because he thought its overcrowding during major debates lent a sense of urgency to the occasion.
In the comic book American Flagg!, Chicago was run by mayor C. Keenan Blitz. His daughter Madea Blitz joined Reuben Flagg on the police force.
William Pitt the Younger was the youngest Prime Minister in history, having reached the pinnacle at the age of 24. He was also the only son of a PM to be PM himself.
Fred Rogers, host of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, was a Presbyterian minister.
Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath. She was given the name “Ginger” by her little cousin who couldn’t pronounce “Virginia” correctly.
Playwright William Saroyan was a cousin of Ross Bagdasarian, aka David Seville, creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Together, they wrote Rosemary Clooney’s signature song, “Come On-a My House.”
George Clooney is Rosemary’s nephew.
Among many other roles, George Clooney has played a master thief, the Governor of Pennsylvania, an assassin, a divorce lawyer and a doctor.
Rosemary gets its name from the Latin translation for “dew of the sea” as it can survive simply on the dew created from the humidity carried by sea breezes
Gloria Gaynor was known for singing the disco hit “I will Survive” which was actually written by by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris.
Janet Gaynor won the very first Oscar ever given out for Best Actress, for her work in*** Seventh*** Heaven, Sunrise, and Street Angel.
Gainerism–or being a gainer–is a form of fat fetishism. There is some overlap with being a feeder, or a feedee. Gainers often couple with encouragers.