On This Day – Pete Rose suspended from baseball for life

ON THIS DAY - August 24th:

1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1972 - Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame

1989 - Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1902 - Carlo Gambino, Palermo Sicily, Italian-born American mafioso
1958 - Steve Guttenberg, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
1965 - Marlee Matlin, Morton Grove Illinois, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award
1988 - Rupert Grint, Hertfordshire England, English actor (Harry Potter)

GOODBYE TO:

1998 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
2013 - Julie Harris, American actress, heart failure at 87
2014 - Richard Attenborough, English actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston), dies at 90

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