July 3

was The End for charismatic pop singer, Jim Morrison of The Doors in 1971.

Morrison trivia - Jim was born in Melbourne, Florida and his girlfriend (who died of a heroin overdose in 1974) was born in Weed, California. His father was a US Navy Admiral who still resides in California, although Morrison's fortune was eventually inherited by his girlfriend's parents.

is the anniversary of the 1989 death of actor, Jim Backus, best remembered as Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island and the voice of Mr Magoo. In 1952 Backus had a brief scene in a movie with Marilyn Monroe. Years later, he recalled the time Monroe urgently beckoned him into her dressing room. Once there, she exclaimed in her breathless voice, "Do Mr. Magoo!"