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...
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.
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.
There's your dream cast - the original Party of Five; the Fischers! ;)

See - not all somber events.
But for more somber events on this date, all throughout the year(s?) - check out The Lugubrious Blog!