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| Jerry Lewis |
SpotlightHappy 80th birthday to the king of slapstick, Jerry Lewis. First gaining fame as half of the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis comedy duo, Lewis played clown to Martin's straight man. They split in 1956 and Lewis went on to star in a string of comedies including The Bellboy, The Nutty Professor and The King of Comedy. In 1966, Lewis hosted his first annual Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. To date, the telethon has raised over $2 billion.
Today in History
- West Point: US Military Academy established (1802)
- Robert Goddard: launched the first
liquid fuel rocket , in Auburn, Massachusetts (1926) - My Lai massacre: US soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam (1968)
Today's Birthdays
- James Madison: fourth POTUS, one of the Founding Fathers (1751-1836)
- Georg Simon Ohm: physicist who formulated Ohm's Law (1789-1854)
- Bernardo Bertolucci: director, The Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor (66)
Word of the Dayboisterous: loud and lacking in restraint; Jerry Lewis is outgoing and boisterous.
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