American actress (died 1991)

Eleanor Audley

Eleanor Audley was an American actress with a distinctive voice and a diverse body of work. She played Oliver Douglas's mom, Eunice Douglas, on the CBS sitcom Green Acres (1965–1969), and provided two Disney animated classics with the voices of the two iconic villainesses: Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother in Cinderella (1950), and Maleficent, the wicked fairy in Sleeping Beauty (1959). She had roles in live-action films, but was most active in radio programs such as My Favorite Husband as Liz Cooper's mother-in-law, Mrs. Cooper, and Father Knows Best as the Anderson family's neighbor, Mrs.

Born

1905

November 19

Died

1991

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1900s

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1991 Died

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1646 The current Saint Peter's Basilica is consecrated in Rome, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site.
1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

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The world in 1905

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april 17 The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
april 3 Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
april 30 Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
april 4 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.

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Alan Young 1919–2016 English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919) André Lotterer 1981– German race car driver Bunny Ahearne 1900–1985 Irish-born English businessman (born 1900) Charles I of England 1600–1649 Scotland, and Ireland (born 1600) Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Erika Alexander 1969– American actress and screenwriter Gail Devers 1966– American sprinter and hurdler George Rogers Clark 1752–1818 American general (born 1752) Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (died 1984)

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Andy Devine 1905–1977 American actor (born 1905) Dorothy Fields 1905–1974 American songwriter (died 1974) Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1905–1993 Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905) Franchot Tone 1905–1968 American actor, singer, and producer (died 1968) Francisco Javier Arana 1905–1949 Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949) Geoffrey Grigson 1905–1985 English poet and critic (died 1985) Helen Sawyer Hogg 1905–1993 American-Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1993) J. William Fulbright 1905–1995 American lawyer and politician (died 1995) Marc Blitzstein 1905–1964 American pianist and composer (born 1905)

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