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Axios
20 hours ago
- Business
- Axios
Oakland Cemetery's columbarium could be your true forever home
For the first time in roughly 140 years, the public has an opportunity to secure a space in Atlanta's most exclusive spot to spend eternity. Driving the news: The nonprofit that oversees Oakland Cemetery, the final resting place for famous Atlantans that's also a city park, is moving forward with plans to build a columbarium (pronounced kuh-luhm-br-ee-uhm). Why it matters: The columbarium — essentially a mausoleum for urns containing people's cremains — opens end-of-life access to a new generation of Atlantans who love the 48-acre cemetery. The sales of the spaces will help create sustainable funding to maintain the grounds and preserve headstones of people whose loved ones and family members no longer care for the plots. Catch up quick: Founded in 1850, Oakland was the city of Atlanta's first municipal cemetery. Within 30 years, all the cemetery's burial spots had been sold, Richard Harker, the president and CEO of the Historic Oakland Foundation, told Axios. Since then, people wanting to purchase burial plots had to turn to private sales, sometimes from families who owned the coveted spots for decades. Harker said the cemetery conducted a feasibility study about adding a columbarium in 2008. Zoom in: The 250-space columbarium will be located on an abandoned roadway next to the recently restored Women's Comfort Station and African American burial grounds. The spaces will accommodate one to as many as four urns in various sizes. They will include eight "family estates" that can fit eight urns, Harker said. Pricing will be finalized in the next two to four weeks, he said. Solo spaces on the lower level could start around $6,000. The big picture: If the project is successful, Harker said, the foundation could build a few additional columbaria. Yes, but: Harker said the foundation intends to honor community members' and city officials' stated desires to ensure the columbarium blends seamlessly into the cemetery's landscape and history. What they're saying:"You don't want to overwhelm the historic fabric of the cemetery by building units that are massively high or massively overbearing," he said. "So that's part of our thought process: How do we do this sensitively to the historic cemetery, while also offering folk that new opportunity?" Fun fact: Famous residents include former mayors (Maynard Jackson), athletes (golf legend Bobby Jones) and celebrities ("Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell and country singer Kenny Rogers.) The intrigue: Oakland was founded without an endowment and is not a perpetual care cemetery, meaning the foundation must find funding to care for the grounds and buildings and launch capital campaigns.
Buzz Feed
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
60 Pop Culture Photos That You Probably Have Never Seen
Titanic was originally supposed to open in the summer of 1997, but the movie went over schedule and was delayed until December of '97. This advance poster, which was created for its summer release date, marketed the film more in the style of an action summer blockbuster: James Cameron had a 2/3 scale of the Titanic built for the movie in Mexico. These images show just how huge the ship set was: Coincidentally, CBS aired a two-part made-for-TV movie titled Titanic a little bit over a year earlier, in November of '96. The movie starred a then-unknown Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tim Curry, Peter Gallagher, George Scott, and Marilu Henner as Molly Brown: Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Dave Prowse in the Darth Vader costume, trying to cool off during the filming of Star Wars: A New Hope: The very first Star Wars spoof was on the Season 3 premiere of the Donny & Marie show in September of 1977 (the film, which opened in May, was still the No. 1 movie in theaters then, and Star Wars mania was in full swing). It featured Donny and Marie as Luke and Leia, Kris Kirstofferson as Han Solo, and Redd Foxx as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and featured dancing Stormtroopers, cheesy jokes, and Chewie hugging Darth Vader: The spoof was made with the approval of George Lucas, who allowed the show to use the original Stormtrooper and Darth Vader costumes. Along with the authentic costumes and props (including the actual R2-D2 used in the movie), Anthony Daniels played C-3PO, and Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca: Revenge of the Jedi was the original working title of Return of the Jedi, the change in the name was so last-minute that a (now rare) pre-release poster and teaser trailer for the movie both had the title Revenge of the Jedi in it: By all accounts, George Lucas always wanted to call the film Return of the Jedi, but the film's co-writer, Lawrence Kasdan, felt that "Return" was "too weak" and thought "Revenge" sounded better. Lucas changed the name close to the film's release because he thought that revenge was out of character for the Jedi. These are a couple of photos of Sarah Jessica Parker filming the very first episode of Sex and the City in June of 1997: Here's a promotional photo taken of Jonathan Taylor Thomas while he was recording the speaking voice of Young Simba for The Lion King: Gone With the Wind is a classic and considered one of the greatest films of all time. The film also did a lot of firsts, including being the first color movie to win the Best Picture Oscar and having the first Black actor to be nominated and win an Oscar — which was Hattie McDaniel for Best Supporting Actress. However, one first you might not know is that it was the first film to have its premiere televised (and yes, TVs existed back in the '30s, but they were EXTREMELY rare). Gone With the Wind's New York premiere was televised, and below is a photo from the premiere announcing it: The development of television was delayed because of WWII. Speaking of firsts, in 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first US president to appear on TV — FDR gave a speech to open the 1939 World's Fair in New York, which was televised. It also wouldn't be the only time he appeared on TV: The original opening credits for I Love Lucy throughout its run were actually animated. They were changed to the classic satin and heart credits when the show was syndicated (put into reruns), as the animated credits wouldn't work because they incorporated whichever brand was sponsoring that week's episode: The very first issue of TV Guide, released on April 3, 1953, featured Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's newborn son, Desi Arnaz Jr., on the cover: In 1977, 26 years after first costarring together on I Love Lucy, Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball would costar together one last time in the TV special Lucy Calls The President: Lucille and Vivian became friends and first costarred together when Truman was president — and their deep friendship and working relationship would span over seven presidents. Before Kermit the Frog became famous as the leader of The Muppets, he was actually well-known for his drag act! He went by "Kermina" and performed a lipsync-comedy act to Rosemary Clooney's "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face." Here's a screenshot of him performing it on The Steve Allen Show in 1956: And here is a screenshot of Kermit performing the lipsync-comedy act on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967: Here is a rare color photo of Coco Chanel at her 1958 Chanel Spring-Summer collection show: This is what the set of the Petries' living room on The Dick Van Dyke Show looked like in color: The iconic Hollywood sign was actually built in 1923 to advertise the Hollywoodland real estate development in the hills below it. The sign was originally only supposed to be up for 18 months, but it became a visual symbol of Los Angeles. Throughout most of the Golden Age of Hollywood the Hollywood sign read "Hollywoodland," with the "land" part only being removed in 1949: If you look at this photo of Hollywood (looking up Vine St.) from 1949, you can see that the sign still spells out "Hollywoodland" in the distance: In 1992, a seductive 75-foot cartoon cutout of the character of Holli Would from the movie Cool World was placed on top of the "D" in the Hollywood sign as part of the publicity stunt for the film. People who lived in the area were not happy: The movie was an adult animated/live-action film, in the vein of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and starred Brad Pitt and Kim Basinger as Holli Would: This is what the Bayside High set from Saved by the Bell looked like behind-the-scenes (which, TBH, looks a lot smaller than I imagined): Also, Saved by the Bell didn't use canned laughter; it was filmed before a live studio audience: Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor were actually not that old when All In The Family premiered in 1971. Stapleton was 48, and O'Connor was 46 — for context, Reese Witherspoon is currently 48, and Ashton Kutcher is 46: This is what a 20-year-old Madonna looked like in 1978, when she first moved to New York: While filming Scooby-Doo, the actors employed various methods to help them act opposite a CGI Scooby. One method was to memorize exactly where (the creepy) Scooby's head on a stick — which was used for camera placement — was during the set-up: In case you were wondering, the scene in the airport where Scooby is in disguise as a grandma was filmed using a man dressed in costume and wearing a green screen hood: Here's Cameron Diaz... And Eddie Murphy recording their lines for Shrek: Michael Keaton's Batman wears Nike shoes in Batman and Batman Returns, but there are contradictory reasons why that came to be. According to the assistant costume designer on the 1989 Batman film, one of the producers had struck a product deal with Nike and needed them in the movie, and because they didn't fit stylistically with any of the other characters or background actors, they incorporated them into Batman's costume. While the lead costume designer on the 1989 movie remembers Nike gifting it to them without a tie-in: You might have never noticed, but Jack Nicholson gets top billing on the poster and opening credits of Batman (over the lead, Micheal Keaton). This was part of Nicholson's list of demands for signing on to play the Joker: This promotional photo of Jack Nicholson in the "Here's Johnny!" moment in The Shining was what got him cast as the Joker. In 1980, Michael Uslan, who would go on to executive produce all the Batman films, picked up a copy of the New York Post, and when he opened up the movie section, he saw this photo of Nicholson, which was advertising that The Shining was opening that weekend. Uslan, who had bought the film rights for Batman the year prior, immediately thought that Nicholson was the only one who could play the Joker. When he got home, he tore the photo from the paper and drew the Joker's face over it using Wite-Out and markers. The drawing, indeed, looks a lot like the Joker from the film: According to Uslan, "The day Jack Nicholson was hired was the best day of my career to that point." Here's what Humphrey Bogart looked like in color as his Casablanca character Rick Blaine: If you've ever seen Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, then you know it's one of the funniest movies ever and has aged surprisingly well. This is what Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis looked like in color as their drag characters Josephine and Jerraldine/Daphne: While here's a color photo of the rehearsal on the train scene in from Some Like It Hot: And here's a color photo of Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane: Popular Hollywood movies being adapted into Broadway musicals is not a new phenomenon. In 1970, one of the greatest films of all time, All About Eve, was adapted into the popular musical Applause, with Lauren Bacall in the role of Margo Channing (who was iconically portrayed by Bette Davis in the film). Below are some photos of the production when it was adapted for a CBS television special: In 1999, in an interview on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Lauren Bacall spoke about how Bette Davis approved of her performance. In 1966, Breakfast at Tiffany's was adapted into a musical, with Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain as Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak. The show was a huge failure, closing quickly after only four previews on Broadway. Here are a couple of photos of Moore and Chamberlain rehearsing for the show: These clay models of Woody and Buzz's faces were created for Toy Story so that they could be scanned into the computer whenever needed so that animators could always get the right shape, depth, and scale when animating them: To promote the remake of Child's Play in 2019, promotional posters of Chucky killing Toy Story characters were released: The poster designs were based on the promotional character posters for Toy Story 4 — which was released on the same day as Child's Play: Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews rehearsing a dance number for Mary Poppins: Here is a screenshot of Britney Spears and Madonna rehearsing the iconic kiss they did during the 2003 VMA's "Like A Virgin"/"Hollywood" opening performance: And here's a screenshot of Christina Aguilera kissing Madonna during rehearsal, which wasn't seen during the original telecast because the camera people cut to Justin Timberlake to get his reaction: This is Ronald Reagan modeling for a sculpture class in 1939-ish: Here's a photo of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks putting their handprints and signatures in cement outside the Chinese Theater in 1927. They were the first two celebrities to ever do it: This is an awesome (at least to me) photo of George Lucas, David Bowie, and Jim Henson taken to promote Labyrinth: Here's Princess Diana at the London premiere of Labyrinth, alongside Jim Henson, as she meets Ludo: And here's Princess Di at the London premiere of Jurassic Park in 1993, warmly greeting her longtime friend, actor-director Sir Richard Attenborough, who played John Hammond in the film: In fact, the last premiere Princess Di attended was for Attenborough's In Love and War in February of 1997: Here's Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger in 1967, having a conversation as they wait for their train to depart: These photos are of the Apple Boutique, a short-lived London store owned by the Beatles. The store was open from December 1967 to July 1968 — closing for several reasons, including too much shoplifting and not being able to make a profit because they sold rather expensive to produce clothes at low prices: But the shop was open long enough for a young Maggie Smith to film a scene there for the movie Hot Millions, where her character goes shopping at the Apple Boutique for psychedelic clothing: When Forrest Gump was released in 1994, the special effects scenes that incorporated archived footage with Forrest in them were pretty mind-blowing. Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of how the scene where Forrest meets Richard Nixon was filmed: And here's how the scene looked in the film: This is what the mysterious and spooky, and all together ooky cast of The Addams Family looked like in color: While Salvador Dalí is an artist who is most associated with the surrealism movement of the '20s and '30s, he was actually still a very active artist at the same time Andy Warhol was in the '60s and '70s (in fact, Dalí outlived Warhol). Below is a photo of the two in 1975, at a screening of the film Shampoo: Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of the Clueless cast with the movie's director, Amy Heckerling, taken while they filmed the movie's final scene: Jackie Kennedy's iconic pink suit is, of course, forever linked to JFK's assassination. However, she wore the suit publicly at least six times before that day. Below is a photo of her wearing it to visit her sister, Lee Radziwill, in London in March 1962. She also wore it when the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur visited the White House in October 1962. When The Wizard of Oz started filming, the Wicked Witch of West was not as menacing looking as she would be in the final film, with Margaret Hamilton wearing less makeup and a long bob wig. While Judy Garland's Dorothy wore a strawberry blonde wig and a lot of makeup to give her a "baby-doll" look: Two weeks' worth of footage was shot with the characters having these looks until the film's director, Richard Thrope, was let go from the film, after MGM executives thought that the scenes he shot "did not have the right air of fantasy about them." The movie was paused and Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West's costumes were redesigned to what we saw in the final film: Also, none of the footage Thrope shot survived. Here's a photo of Martin Luther King Jr., along with his kids, Yolanda and Martin Luther III, in 1964, riding the Ford Magic Skyway attraction that was built by Disney for the New York World's Fair: It's A Small World was actually an attraction that Disney originally built for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and this is what the exterior of the ride looked like: Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Alfred Hitchcock directing Janet Leigh in the iconic shower scene in Psycho: This is a marketing poster for Psycho featuring Alfred Hitchcock telling people they needed to arrive at the movie on time or else they wouldn't be allowed to be let in. Before the 1970s, it was common for people to buy tickets and drop into a theater at any point during a movie. The poster was created because Hitchcock wanted to ensure that people didn't have the plot twists spoiled by showing up late — and the campaign worked: If you've been on TikTok, then you might have stumbled upon a video of some younger people who didn't know that we used to have commercial supersonic planes. This is a photo of Queen Elizabeth on a chartered Concorde on her way back to London in 1977, after her Silver Jubilee tour of Canada and the West Indies: Did the late Queen Elizabeth ever watch a Lindsay Lohan movie? The answer is YES! Here's the Queen meeting Natasha Richardson at The Parent Trap's Royal Premiere in London in 1998: This is how the water balloon scene was filmed in The Parent Trap: Here's a behind-the-scenes photo of director Mark Waters showing Daniel Franzese how to grab Lindsay Lohan's hair in the "Is that your natural hair color" moment in Mean Girls: And here's a behind-the-scenes photo of Tina Fey filming the gym scene in Mean Girls: And lastly, here are Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe at a photo-call in London, in August 2000, after it was announced that they would be playing Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Harry Potter in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone film:
New York Post
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Gone With the Wind' star Ann Rutherford's ‘one-of-a-kind' Beverly Hills estate hits market for $42M
'Gone With the Wind' star Ann Rutherford's former 1930s Beverly Hills estate has hit the market for $42 million. The actress – who played Carreen O'Hara, one of the sisters of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in the iconic 1939 movie – and her husband, television producer William Dozier, lived at the French Revival-style residence, known as Rutherford House, for decades, according to the Los Angeles Times. Dozier was known for creating the 1960s TV series 'Batman' and 'The Green Hornet,' while Rutherford also starred opposite Mickey Rooney in the 'Andy Hardy' film series during the 1930s and 1940s. During their tenure at the residence, Rutherford and Dozier frequently hosted celebrity weddings at the home, which they nicknamed Greenway Chapel, according to the LA Times. Built in 1938, the estate was designed by renowned architect Paul R. Williams, who created homes for a number of Hollywood legends, including Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and Barbara Stanwyck. 3 The actress lived at the French Revival-style residence, known as Rutherford House, for decades. REUTERS The 13,678-square-foot home boasts five bedrooms, nine full bathrooms along with two partial bathrooms and sits on more than half an acre of land. The estate was listed by Jacob Dadon of Sotheby's International Realty – Beverly Hills Brokerage. According to the listing, Rutherford House is a 'one-of-a-kind residence' that 'blends old Hollywood with modern luxury.' The main entry features a sweeping staircase and herringbone-patterned wood floors. The foyer opens to a formal dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the expansive grounds. 3 The 13,678-square-foot home boasts five bedrooms, nine full bathrooms along with two partial bathrooms and sits on more than half an acre of land. Nils Timm for Sothebyâs International Realty The main level also includes a formal living room, a bar with wood paneling and a marble countertop and a wood-paneled library and billiard room inspired by the style of master Art Deco interior designer Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann. In addition, the first floor features a morning room with 18th-century wallpaper and the original fireplace, according to the listing. 3 According to the listing, Rutherford House is a 'one-of-a-kind residence' that 'blends old Hollywood with modern luxury.' Everett Collection / Everett Col The marble kitchen boasts white-painted wood-paneled cabinets, a mosaic-tiled ceiling, black and white checked flooring, a center island, stainless steel appliances and a breakfast nook with floor-to-ceiling windows. The primary suite is located on the second level and features two marble bathrooms, oversized dual closets and a separate lounge area with views of a manicured garden, per the listing. The second level also offers four en-suite bedrooms, an office and a family room, according to Mansion Global. A back pavilion outside leads to an oval-shaped pool and a separate pool house with an outdoor covered bar and spa. Per Mansion Global, the estate last sold for $27.625 million in 2018.
Indian Express
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Frankly, my dear, Gone With the Wind is problematic. Here's why readers still give a damn
The opening lines of Gone With the Wind, the cult classic published 89 years ago today (June 30), read, 'Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realised it when caught by her charm…' The same could be said of Margaret Mitchell's book, later made into a movie widely considered one of Hollywood's greatest. Gone With the Wind is not beautiful. It is sexist, it is racist, it romanticises slavery, and mourns the antebellum South almost like a lost Eden. But readers across generations remain caught by its irresistible charm, reading and loving it despite its obvious problems. So what is it that makes Gone With the Wind such a compelling read, beloved in countries and contexts far removed from the Civil War Georgia and Atlanta it is set in? We explain, in 3 points and with a few spoilers. First, the basics Gone With the Wind is the story of Scarlett O'Hara, whose 16-inch waist and bewitching green eyes hold three counties in thrall. The sheltered daughter of a rich cotton plantation owner, the 16-year-old Scarlett will soon see her world 'gone with the wind that had swept across Georgia' as the southern states of the US go to war against the north to safeguard their right to own and trade slaves. But Scarlett will survive, through courage, cunning, and sheer refusal to give up. She will be helped, baited, loved, and hated by Rhett Butler, who could have been Prince Charming, but is too much of an adult to value fairy tales. Gone With the Wind has its sympathies firmly on the wrong side of the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). It paints Black people as lovable and loyal pets, their white owners as benign masters who occasionally whip the slaves for their own good. Tara, the plantation Scarlett owns, has become a trope of the lost world of the pre-war South, a place of safety and beauty. All its 'good women' are angels in the house — women who tirelessly perform acts of care, and never question their husbands. It assumes that on a night of soaring passion, the alpha male hero can dispense with consent. And yet. Come for the beauty, stay for the lessons Gone With the Wind is over 1,000 pages. Yet, it is utterly unputdownable. The writing is vivid and captivating. Scarlett's many trials and tribulations, her triumphs, her irresistible spirit, and her unfailing instinct to survive hook you in and hold you firm. The book is peopled with scores of characters, yet they all have something defining, something worth remembering. Scarlett is contrasted with the saintly Melanie Wilkes, her sister-in-law and rival in love, while the enterprising, unscrupulous Rhett Butler is contrasted with Ashley Wilkes, the virtuous, but ultimately useless, honourable gentleman. But for an aware reader, there is much to read between the lines. Gone With the Wind is a lesson in what happens if nostalgia is allowed to take over memory. Your country can have a terrible past, but you can still love it. But if you allow the love to take over rationality, what results is something like this beautifully ugly book — a cause doomed because it ran against the arc of justice and progress is made to look like a heroic quest, all the braver because it was undertaken in the face of certain defeat. The defeat of racist slave owners is made to look like 'gotterdammerung, the dusk of Gods' (the words of Ashley Wilkes), like the fading away of an elegant and refined way of life. To understand how white-washing and revanchism work, Gone With the Wind is an invaluable read. Look around for the Wilkeses In the times we live in, where sexism, bigotry and xenophobia are enjoying a revival, Gone With the Wind holds important lessons — that people with discriminatory politics can be perfectly nice in person. That conflicting things can be true for characters in books and characters around you. That someone can be brave or funny or warm or supportive, along with being bigoted or racist. People, like books, are more than the sum of their parts, and the parts can be both enchanting and repulsive. An alert reading of Gone With the Wind is a great exercise in learning to resist propaganda. A book can be dazzling, touching, relatable, and still get many important things very wrong. One of the most famous quotes from the book, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn', is in this piece's headline. Scarlett, at long last, has realised that she has always loved Rhett. But he is by now tired of waiting for her. He delivers this line and walks out on her, once again robbing Scarlett of the sanctuary she was just within reach of. Scarlett is thwarted again. But she refuses to give up. The book ends with Scarlett telling herself she will get Rhett back. Tomorrow is another day. Unstained by the defeats of today, tomorrow is a fresh chance to start anew. This defiant declaration of hope is another of the book's most famous quotes. It can be argued that Scarlett is deluded and in denial. And yet, 'tomorrow is another day' is an important mantra to remember in today's age, where challenges seem to multiply everywhere and hope is in short supply. It is never too late to hope. There is always tomorrow, a new chance to get out of bed and put on pretty clothes and place one foot in front of the other, till one's personal version of Tara is reached. Yashee is an Assistant Editor with the where she is a member of the Explained team. She is a journalist with over 10 years of experience, starting her career with the Mumbai edition of Hindustan Times. She has also worked with India Today, where she wrote opinion and analysis pieces for DailyO. Her articles break down complex issues for readers with context and insight. Yashee has a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from Presidency College, Kolkata, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, one of the premier media institutes in the countr ... Read More
Chicago Tribune
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: Eugene V. Debs arrested
Today is Monday, June 30, the 181st day of 2025. There are 184 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 30, 1918, labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech he had made two weeks earlier in which he denounced U.S. involvement in World War I. (Debs was sentenced to prison and disenfranchised for life.) Also on this date: In 1921, President Warren G. Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding the late Edward Douglass White. In 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his 'blood purge' of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as the 'Night of the Long Knives.' In 1936, Margaret Mitchell's novel 'Gone With the Wind' was released. In 1958, the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill. In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers. In 1971, A Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 were found dead of asphyxiation inside their capsule after it had returned to Earth. In 1985, 39 American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner were freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. In 1994, the U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the national championship and banned her for life for her role in the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. In 2009, American soldier Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan, and was later confirmed to have been captured by insurgents after walking away from his post. (Bergdahl was released on May 31, 2014, in exchange for five Taliban detainees; he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, but was spared a prison sentence by a military judge.) In 2012, Islamist Mohammed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt's first freely elected president during a pair of ceremonies. In 2016, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender people would be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. In 2019, Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea, meeting Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. In 2020, then-Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a landmark bill retiring the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem. Boston's arts commission voted unanimously to remove a statue depicting a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln's feet. In 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation's highest court. Today's Birthdays: Actor Lea Massari ('L'Avventura') is 92. Actor Nancy Dussault is 89. Olympic track champion Billy Mills is 87. Oceanographer Robert Ballard is 83. Singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock (Little River Band) is 81. Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is 74. Actor David Garrison ('Married…with Children) is 73. Actor-comedian David Alan Grier is 69. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is 67. Actor Vincent D'Onofrio is 66. Actor Deirdre Lovejoy ('The Wire') is 63. Actor Rupert Graves is 62. Boxer Mike Tyson is 59. Actor Monica Potter is 54. Actor Rick Gonzalez is 46. Actor Lizzy Caplan is 43. Country music singer-songwriter Cole Swindell is 42. Singer and actress Fantasia is 41. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is 40. Baseball player Trea Turner is 32.
