Actress Bridget Fonda, 62, was born on Jan. 27, 1964 in Los Angeles, Calif. She is best known for her roles in the films Single White Female, Point of No Return, It Could Happen to You, and Lake Placid.
1967 - At Cape Kennedy, Fla., astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard the Apollo 1 Command Module.
Fact of the Day
The most Oscar-nominated woman in history s Edith Head, a costume designer who was nominated 35 times.
Nature Oddities
In 2024, a bear known as Chunk was observed eating 45 sockeye salmon in 10 hours from Brooks River in Katmai National Park in Alaska, consuming an estimated 135,000 calories in the one sitting.
Food and Drink
A British university was fined £400,000 ($546,276) for almost killing 2 students by giving them 30g of caffeine instead of 0.3g because of a misplaced decimal point. It was the equivalent of 300 cups of coffee.