Source: Good News Network
70 years ago today, John Belushi was born in Chicago to Albanian-American parents. An original cast member on Saturday Night Live, the comedian-actor was beloved for his colorful characters which included the Samurai hotel clerk, the diner cook (“cheeseburger, cheeseburger”) and Jake in The Blues Brothers, alongside fellow SNL star Dan Aykroyd.
After his breakout film role as John “Bluto” Blutarsky in National Lampoon’s Animal House, Belushi and Aykroyd recorded a chart-topping album and starred together in The Blues Brothers film. WATCH the cheeseburger sketch to celebrate the day… (1949)
Belushi passed away of a drug overdose when he was 33.
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- The University of Calcutta was founded, the first full-fledged university in south Asia (1857)
- Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts (1908)
- The first Apple Macintosh computer with mouse went on sale (1984)
- NASA landed Opportunity, a robotic rover, on Mars three weeks after its identical twin, Spirit (2004)
- Lady Gaga played a concert in New York City and donated all…
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