2004 Tony Randall, age 84 – Stage and screen actor (The Odd Couple, Pillow Talk, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Fatal Instinct, The Alphabet Murders, Love Sidney, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?)

One of my favorites. I was sad when he died.

1875 The first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville. The winner was Aristides

It's over for this year and today is the Preakness. YAY!

1978 Police in Lausanne, Switzerland retrieved the body of Charlie Chaplin and arrested two men on extortion charges. The body had been stolen from a graveyard 11 weeks earlier. The body, in its coffin, was found ten miles from its original Swiss cemetery

The thieves must have been drunk or stoned.