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AMY WINKLER/Arizona Daily Wildcat Iron worker Allen Isaac, standing, directs the last steel beam of the new Student Union Memorial Center into place while David Pate waits. An American flag was draped on the beam as a show of patriotism. Fast facts: Steven Spielberg makes a cameo as the man in the electric wheelchair with a TV monitor in "Gremlins." Throughout "Dirty Dancing," Johnny and Baby always wear contrasting colors: Baby in very light colors, and Johnny in black or something very dark. Christian Slater became physically ill several times during filming due to all the cigarette smoking he had to do in "Pump up the Volume." Director John Hughes insisted that the entire cast and crew of "Breakfast Club" eat their meals on location in the Maine North High School cafeteria. The cast of "The Goonies" was not permitted to see the pirate ship before the filming of the scene where they find it. The fencing masters that Inigo and Wesley talk about studying in "The Princess Bride" are all real fencing masters from the 14th to 16th centuries. Tom Hanks gained 30 pounds in preparation for his role in "A League of Their Own." He attributed the weight he gained to a nearby Dairy Queen. Matthew Broderick's character hacks into his high school's computer system and changes his grades in both "WarGames" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

 

On this date: In 1791, the first Jewish member of the U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (Pa.), took office. In 1797, John Adams was inaugurated as the second president of the United States. In 1917, Rep. Jeannette Rankin (R-Mt.) became the first female member of Congress. In 1994, four Arab terrorists were found guilty of bombing the World Trade Center. In 1995, a blind teen-age boy received a "bionic eye" at a Washington Hospital. In 1997, President Clinton banned federally funded human cloning research.

 

Quotable... "Hand over Taliban and al-Qaida or you will be destroyed. Come forward with information about Taliban and al-Qaida." - Leaflets dropped by U.S. aircraft onto Paktia province in Afghanistan.