It's been a big year for avocados. So it's no surprise that the avocado emoji on Unicode 9 is basically groundbreaking news. Sure, there are important things going on in the world today, but nothing as fulfilling and long-awaited as the introduction of the avocado emoji. I mean, what have we even been doing all of this time without it?
Bette Davis died from cancer at the age of 81 on October 6, 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nanterre, France. Prior to her death, she experienced many health problems in succession. In 1983, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy.
A year earlier, 1933, Bonnie and Clyde had murdered Deputy Malcolm Davis in a shoot-out in Dallas. He was engaged to Florence McPherson of Grapevine, whose family had come to this area in 1893 from Alabama; they lived near what's now Park Boulevard and Dove Road. Deputy Davis is buried in Grapevine Cemetery.