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- Lally was educated at Hulme Grammar School in Oldham and worked as a secretary before walking-on and understudying at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. As a professional actress, she appeared in hundreds of stage productions, films and television programmes and rep at Manchester, Sheffield, Southport, Guilford, Liverpool, Birmingham and the Bristol Old Vic. Her London debut came in 1944 and her many West End successes included 'Dinner With the Family' (for which she won a Clarence Derwent award in 1957), 'Difference of Opinion', 'The Killing of Sister George', 'Dear Octopus' and 'The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B'. Lally worked constantly until her death.
- James Oliver Huberty will forever be remembered for one of the most shocking acts of violence in American history. Huberty, 41, was a welder in Ohio who had lost his job when the plant where he worked closed down. His volatile temper kept him from getting another job so he moved himself and his wife and kids to California where he got a job as a security guard. On July 18th, 1984 he tried to get help for his anger and called a mental health center for an appointment. When the clinic didn't call him back he began an hour-long violent encounter with his wife that ended with Huberty proclaiming "I'm going to hunt humans". He then walked a quarter of a mile from his house to the busy McDonald's restaurant where shortly before 4pm he opened fire with three semi-automatic weapons killing 21 people and injuring 19 more, the youngest six months and the oldest 74. An off-duty police officer driving by moments after the shooting noticed three boys lying in the grass, two dead and one pretending to be dead so that Huberty would not come out and kill him. Pinned inside the restaurant by police, Huberty was ordered to surrender his weapons and step outside but did nothing and was then shot in the head by a sniper stationed on the roof across the street. On September 26th, the city demolished the McDonald's promising never again to build any kind of restaurant in that spot again. Instead, it became the campus of a local college and out front is a memorial to Huberty's victims that consists of 21 hexagonal granite pillars ranging in height from one to six feet which represent each of the people killed that day plus a plaque that bears their names.
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Grigori Kromanov was born on 8 March 1926 in Tallinn, Estonia. He was a director and actor, known for Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979), Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1975) and The Last Relic (1969). He was married to Irena Veisaite. He died on 18 July 1984 in Lahe, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union [now Estonia].- Eduard Bredun was born on 6 October 1934 in Stalino Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973), Artist iz Kokhanovki (1962) and It Can't Be! (1975). He died on 18 July 1984.
- Angelo Sepe was born on 14 January 1941 in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He died on 18 July 1984 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- Catrine da Costa, born Bäckström, was a Swedish woman who was brutally murdered in June 1984. She was born in Luleå, a city in Northern Sweden. The family moved to Stockholm where Catrine Bäckström attended school. She was aiming to become a hairdresser, but never finished the training because of drug abuse. In 1979 she visited Coimbra, Portugal and met Jose da Costa. When Catherine Bäckström returned to Sweden Jose da Costa followed. Shortly after arriving in Sweden he was arrested by the police for a minor drug charge, and sentenced to a two year in prison term. In the summer of 1981 Catrine Bäckström gave birth to a boy and reunited with Jose da Costa in Coimbra, Portugal. The couple had problems with drugs, married, and decided that Catrine da Costa and her son should return to Sweden and get treatment. They never met again. Catrine da Costa was last seen on Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm on June 10, 1984. One week later, on June 18th, the dismembered parts of her body where found in plastic bags, spread out far apart. How Catrine da Costa died has not been established, since vital organs and her head has not been found.
- Catrine da Costa was a Swedish woman that was last seen alive around June 10, 1984. Parts of her dismembered body was found on July 18, 1984, under a highway overpass in Solna, just outside Stockholm. On Oct. 6, 1987, Teet Härm and Thomas Allgén are being arrested and charged. The two are sentenced for murder by the District Court of Stockholm on March 8, 1988. Catrine Bäckström was born in Luleå, 725 km North of Stockholm. As a child she moved to Stockholm and lived with her mother. In Portugal 1979 she met Joao da Costa who she married in 1982. The couple had a son who were taken care of by social authorities in Sweden. Shortly before Catrine da Costa's disappearance in June 1984 she was making ready to move to Portugal.
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Producer, director, author and songwriter who moved on from a high-school education to a show-business career, directing and producing (and associate-producing) films with Sam Goldwyn, Arthur Freed, and Darryl Zanuck. He direced the Broadway musicals "Pins and Needles", "Sing Out the News", "Carmen Jones", "Street Scene" and "My Darlin' Aida" (and he was the librettist for the latter). He also co-authored the play "The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N". He was a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Authors League, and he joined ASCAP in 1954. His popular-song compositions include "King Cotton", "Me and Lee", "Why Ain't We Free?", and "My Darlin' Aida".