On This Day In History – August 8th
Marilyn Monroe, an underpants party with Tom Cruise, prison for David Crosby and the death of Obi Wan. No shanking 39 years ago – In 1983, David Crosby was sentenced…
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Marilyn Monroe, an underpants party with Tom Cruise, prison for David Crosby and the death of Obi Wan.
No shanking
39 years ago - In 1983, David Crosby was sentenced to five years in prison for drugs and another three years for firearms possession after he slept through most of the trial. He got to serve both sentences concurrently. He was paroled in 1986.
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Underpants party
39 years ago - In 1983, "Risky Business" was released . . . starring Tom Cruise
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You don't know the power of the dark side
22 years ago - In 2000, Obi-Wan Kenobi died. Sir Alec Guinness, the original Obi-Wan, died of the liver cancer in a southern England hospital at the age of 86. When doctors came to check on him, all they found was his hospital gown in a
heap on the floor.
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Sex bomb
60 years ago - In 1962, Marilyn Monroe's housekeeper discovered Marilyn's beautiful nude body in the bedroom of her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a "possible suicide" from an overdose of barbiturates.
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