Today in Entertainment History: Marilyn Monroe was born

Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1st, 1926. Her birthday is June 1st. Her full name was stated as Norma Jeane Mortenson on the birth certificate.

In 1964, the Rolling Stones made their way to New York City to kick off their very first tour throughout North America. The first game was played on opening night at a high school stadium in a suburb of Boston.

The album “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by The Beatles was initially released in Britain in the year 1967. It wasn’t until two days later that it was made available in North America.

Elvis Presley’s birthplace, a two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi, was made available to the general public for the first time in 1971. The James Bond film “Live and Let Die” had its premiere that year (1973).

The Rolling Stones embarked on their first tour after guitarist Ron Wood joined the band in 1975. In 1990, singer Mariah Carey made her national TV debut on the “Arsenio Hall Show,” playing “Vision of Love.”

At the age of fifty, in the year 1991, singer David Ruffin passed away in Philadelphia from an overdose of cocaine. It is likely that Ruffin will be best remembered for performing lead vocals on Temptations hits such as “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg.”

The year 1993 saw the beginning of Dan Rather and Connie Chung’s tenure as co-anchors on “The CBS Evening News.”

In the year 1998, the lead vocalist of the band Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland (WY’-land), was stopped as he walked out of a housing project in Manhattan and arrested for possession of heroin.

Jack White, lead singer for the band The White Stripes, tied the knot with model Karen Elson in Brazil in 2005. Six years later, in order to publicise their decision to divorce, they held a party.

In 2022, an actor named Johnny Depp was awarded more than $10 million by a jury in a libel action he filed against his ex-wife, another star named Amber Heard. In addition, the jury decided that Heard had been defamed by one of Depp’s attorneys and awarded her an additional $2 million.