1960 Clark Gable, age 59 – Actor (Gone With The Wind, The Misfits, Teacher’s Pet, Soldier of Fortune, Across the Wide Missouri, Comrade X)

Margaret Mitchell must have had him in mind when she created Rett Butler. I feel sorry for his daughter Judy Lewis, that her mother and father kept the information that he was her father from her, so she never got to know him.

1907 Oklahoma became the 46th state of the Union as the Indian and Oklahoma Territories collectively entered the US under the state name of Oklahoma.

Both my parents were born in Oklahoma - not long after it became a state.