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Fast facts: In her 1990 autobiography, talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael said this about the entertainment field: "I secretly believe that there are more villains than good guys in this business." In her 1987 autobiography, "This 'N That," actress Bette Davis made the following observation: "We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to." In Jalisco, Mexico, the harp was significant in the development of mariachi music, which originally featured only string instruments "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969. In the famous shower scene in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock chiller "Psycho," chocolate syrup was used to simulate blood.

 

On this date: In 1904, the American Academy of Arts and Letters formed. In 1954, "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 homers In 1962, the New York Mets won their first game ever after going 0-9. They beat the Pirates 9-1. In 1965, the Soviet Union launched its first communications satellite. In 1968, the United Methodist Church forms. In 1977, Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort played 201 games simultaneously. In 1989, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played his last game as a Laker.

 

Quotable... "It is the honor of our country that is at stake." -Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former finance minister and spokesman for France's defeated socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, explaining why he would support the conservative French President Jacques Chirac.