Johnny Depp would close a club he partially owned on Halloween every year because his good friend and fellow actor, River Phoenix, collapsed and died in front of it. He did this for over 10 years until he sold his part.
Dr Jack Kevorkian was imprisoned for 8 years after performing voluntary euthanasia on patients. His tombstone reads “He sacrificed himself for everyone’s rights.”
1948 - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
1959 - "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
1969 - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
1985 - NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
1987 - "Ronnies Rap" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93
1988 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6
1707 - Carl August Thielo, composer
1833 - Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
1871 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
1920 - Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1973 - Kristin Godridge, Traralgon Aust, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore)
1979 - Jon Leicester, American baseball player
1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway and Sons) (b. 1797)
1940 - Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for England v Australia 1894-95), dies
1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1988 - Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
2012 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer, dies of natural causes at 80
