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In 1960, there was another racially charged public controversy when Davis married white, Swedish-born actress May Britt in a ceremony officiated by Rabbi William M. Kramer at Temple Israel of Hollywood. While interracial marriage had been legal in California since 1948, anti-miscegenation laws in the U.S. still stood in 23 states, and a 1958 opinion poll had found that only four percent of Americans supported marriage between black and white spouses. During 1964–66, Davis received racist hate mail while starring in the Broadway adaptation of Golden Boy, in which his character is in a relationship with a white woman, paralleling his own interracial relationship. At the time Davis appeared in the musical, although New York had no laws against it, debate about interracial marriage was still ongoing in America as Loving v. Virginia was being fought. It was only in 1967, after the musical finished, that anti-miscegenation laws in all states were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

1630s

• 1637: DAVID KIRKE GRANTED CO-PROPRIETORSHIP OF NEWFOUNDLAND

1770s

• 1775: “U.S.” GENERAL MONTGOMERY CAPTURED MONTREAL

1780s

• BORN 1782: ESAIAS TEGNER (WRITER)
• BORN 1785: LADY CAROLINE PONSONBY LAMB (AUTHOR)

1830s

• BORN 1833: EDWIN BOOTH (ACTOR)
• 1833: THOUSANDS OF METEORS FELL PER HOUR IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES

1850s

• BORN 1850: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (AUTHOR)
• BORN 1856: LOUIS BRANDEIS (U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE)

1860s

• DIED 1868: GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (COMPOSER)

1910s

• BORN 1913: ALEXANDER SCOURBY (ACTOR)

1920s

• 1927: THE HOLLAND TUNNEL BETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY OPENED

1930s

• BORN 1932: RICHARD MULLIGAN (ACTOR)
• BORN 1934: GARRY MARSHALL (PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, & ACTOR)
• 1934: GINGER ROGERS MARRIED LEW AYRES

1940s

• 1940: WALT DISNEY’S FANTASIA PREMIERED AT THE BROADWAY THEATER IN NEW YORK; FIRST FILM TO ATTEMPT TO USE STEREOPHONIC SOUND
• BORN 1941: DACK RAMBO (ACTOR)

1950s

• BORN 1954: CHRIS NOTH (ACTOR)
• BORN 1955: WHOOPI GOLDBERG (ACTRESS)

1960s

• 1960: SAMMY DAVIS JR. MARRIED MAY BRITT
• 1964: BOB PETTIT WAS THE FIRST TO REACH 20,000 CAREER POINTS IN THE NBA
• BORN 1967: JIMMY KIMMEL (TELEVISION HOST)

1970s

• 1971: MARINER 9 BECAME THE FIRST SPACECRAFT TO ORBIT ANOTHER PLANET (MARS)50 Years Ago
• 1977: LI’L ABNER, AL CAPP’S 43-YEAR-OLD COMIC STRIP, APPEARED IN NEWSPAPERS FOR THE LAST TIME

1980s

• BORN 1980: MONIQUE COLEMAN (ACTRESS)
• 1982: THE WALL OF THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL DEDICATED, WASHINGTON, D.C.
• 1985: VOLCANO NEVADO DEL RUIZ ERUPTS IN COLOMBIA, KILLING OVER 23,000 PEOPLE.

2000s

• DIED 2002: IRV RUBIN (JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE LEADER)
• 2006: GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY HELD FOR THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

2010s

• DIED 2017: ROBERT PERSHING “BOBBY” DOERR (BASEBALL PLAYER)
• DIED 2018: KATHERINE MACGREGOR (ACTRESS)

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