The First Dream Cast And The First Dream Princess

There will never be another one like Princess Grace of Monaco...
On this date, she suffered a stroke and drove over a cliff, subsequently dying from the injuries sustained when her car plunged down a 45-foot (13.7-metre) embankment. That was on September 14, 1982.
The spot where she fatally lost control is said to be the same spot where the picnic scene in To Catch a Thief was filmed in 1954.
The inscription at her burial site in Monaco's cathedral does not refer to her as a princess. It uses the title "uxor principis" (prince's wife), which is traditional in the House of Grimaldi.

She is interred at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#5). [1995]

Ranked #51 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Grace Kelly had hoped "to return to acting in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), but the people of Monaco didn't want their princess playing a thief and romancing Sean Connery." Instead, she stayed in Monaco - and would, of course, never return to the dream life of films and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.

September 14th is known for less somber things too:
In 1920, the first live radio dance music was broadcast, carried by a Detroit station and featuring Paul Specht and his orchestra. The idea caught on fast... From Paul Specht to Phil Spector, music would never look back!

Sort of like Grace who, once she set foot into her princess glass slipper and onto Monaco, never looked twice at Tinseltown...

Also of note, on this date - September 14th, 1628, Salem, Massachusetts, was founded.
Mexico City was occupied by the U.S. Army, in 1847...
The Soviet probe Lunik-2 became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to land on the moon in 1959 while, in 1963 ("wish I could be - back in 1963" - who penned those words that I paraphrase here, quick? Oh... Alan Moore. Carry on as if nothing happened then - cause not much did...!) the first surviving U.S. quintuplets were born in Aberdeen, S.D., to Maryann and Andrew Fischer.
See - not all somber events.
Now for the more somber events on this date:
U.S. President William McKinley died of wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier, in 1901. He was succeeded by his vice-president, Theodore Roosevelt.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR DEATHS...
2003 - An estimated 124 people were reported dead or missing after South Korea was struck by the most powerful typhoon to hit the nation in a century.
DEATH OF THE EURO DREAM... PARTLY SO ANYWAY
2003 - Swedish voters turned thumbs down on a proposal to make the euro the national currency.
FOURTY-SEVEN DEATHS
2004 - A massive car bomb killed 47 people and injured more than 100 others in Baghdad, catching mostly conscripts seeking a job in the Iraqi police force. The many wounded were reported gravely injured.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN DEAD
2005 - 12 suicide bombings in Baghdad, aimed at Shiites and believed to be carried out by Sunnis, killed 167 people and injured 600.
DEATH OF THE AIRLINES (THEY'D BE PHOENIX-LIKE ANYWAY, I THINK - AND IF NOT, THEY'RE JUST CORPORATE ENTITIES ANYWAY!)
2005 - Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, the third and fourth largest U.S. air carriers, filed for bankruptcy as the industry continued to reel under record high jet fuel costs.
AND, OF COURSE... THE PRINCESS, AGAIN, DEAD TOO YOUNG ON THIS DAY, 24 YEARS AGO... A lifetime for many, such as Anastasia De Sousa who died this week from nine bullets she took, and was not even that... She was 18.
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