JULY 28
1939:Seventeen-year-old Judy Garland records the studio version of “Over the
Rainbow” with the Victor Young Orchestra for Decca Records, a month
before the young singer-actress hits movie theaters as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. “Over the Rainbow,”
composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg, will win the Oscar
for best original song at the 12th Annual Academy Awards.
1932: President Herbert Hoover makes a controversial decision to forcibly evict the World War I veterans known as the “Bonus Army,” who were camped out in Washington, D.C., to demand the early payment of their wartime service certificates. Troops led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Maj. George S. Patton, and armed with tanks and tear gas, force the vets and their families out of the nation’s capital without receiving their desired pensions.
1973: In a match made in prime-time television heaven, The Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors marries actress Farrah Fawcett of future Charlie’s Angels fame, in a ceremony at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.
1932: President Herbert Hoover makes a controversial decision to forcibly evict the World War I veterans known as the “Bonus Army,” who were camped out in Washington, D.C., to demand the early payment of their wartime service certificates. Troops led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Maj. George S. Patton, and armed with tanks and tear gas, force the vets and their families out of the nation’s capital without receiving their desired pensions.
1973: In a match made in prime-time television heaven, The Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors marries actress Farrah Fawcett of future Charlie’s Angels fame, in a ceremony at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.
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