In context
- When
- Sunday, February 3 20197 years ago
- Category
- DeathA notable person who died on this day.
- Era
- 21st century · 2010s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
- Person
- Julie Adams
Who they were
Julie Adams was an American actress, billed as Julia Adams in her early career, primarily known for her numerous television guest roles. She starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Bend of the River (1952), opposite James Stewart; and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Adams also had an extensive television career including roles as Paula Denning on the 1980s soap opera Capitol, and Eve Simpson on Murder, She Wrote.
Path and career
Career Adams and Jack Kelly in Maverick (1960) Film After moving to Hollywood, Adams worked as a part-time secretary and spent time taking speech lessons to lose her accent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Working under her real name, Betty Adams, she landed a role in Red, Hot and Blue (1949). [ 3 ] Then, she landed a leading role in the Lippert Western The Dalton Gang (1949). [ 3 ]
Why this date
Julie Adams appears on our February 3 calendar for 2019 as a death entry.
February 3 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 19981998 Cavalese cable car crash
- 1998Commutation (law)
- 2005Kam Air Flight 904
- 2006Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
- 2007February 2007 Al-Saydiya market bombing
- 2010L'Homme qui marche I
- 20142014 Moscow school shooting
- 2014School shooting
- 2019Julie Adams
- 2023East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment
- 20262026 Kwara State attacks
Also in 2019
- March 14Cyclone IdaiCyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
- September 14Abqaiq–Khurais attackDrone attacks on major processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais forced Saudi Arabia to cut more than half of its oil production.
- September 14YemenYemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
- November 17COVID-19The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
- October 22Same-sex marriage in Northern IrelandSame-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being…
- August 10Typhoon LekimaHaving already caused severe flooding in the Philippines, Typhoon Lekima made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing 45 people in the provi…
- August 10Jeffrey EpsteinJeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Ne…
- August 102019 Bærum murder and mosque attackPhilip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.
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February 3 2019 — 7 years ago, on a Sunday.
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