Source: Good News Network
Happy Birthday to Pierce Brosnan who turns 65 today. Famous for playing James Bond in four films, the Irish immigrant came to the U.S. looking for acting work and now says he is “proud to be an American.” Brosnan is currently sporting a thick white beard, speaking in a Texas drawl, and riding a horse while shooting the second season of AMC’s drama, The Son.
After losing both his first wife and daughter to cancer, he has been happily remarried for almost a quarter century. You can see him—with his handsome, clean-shaven face, alongside Cher playing an uninvited risqué grandmother—in the upcoming sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, opening July 20. WATCH the trailer…
MORE Good News on this Date:
- A single vote in the United States Senate saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment (1868)
- In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonized Joan of Arc as a saint (1920)
- In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards were handed out (1929)
- Theodore Maiman operated the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California (1960)
- Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1975)
- The Kuwaiti National Assembly passed a law 35–23 permitting women to vote and run for office, as long as they adhere to Islamic law (2005)
- U2’s Bono was guest editor for a day at UK’s newspaper, The Independent, and featured the AIDS issue on every page— calling it the Red Edition, it sold out within hours and…
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