1926 Richard Jaeckel - Actor (Come Back Little Sheba, The Devil's Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, Sands of Iwo Jima, Herbie Goes Bananas, Spenser: For Hire, Baywatch) He was in the Perry Mason episodes The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers and the Case of the Lover’s Leap

I think I've commented on him before but not sure. I always liked him thinking that he was a pretty good actor that never seemed to get much acclaim. He was good looking too and it seems just the type to become a heartthrob.

1913 The Panama Canal, a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was completed with the explosion of the Gamboa Dike.

I haven't heard any more about the U.S. trying to take it back. I wonder if it is in the works.

1962 The BBC banned Bobby Pickett's novelty song, Monster Mash, because it deemed the record offensive. The goofy tune about a horror-movie-star record hop was soon the No. 1 record in the US, and was a big hit again when it was re-released in the early 1970s

I wonder if it's still banned.