Marilyn Monroe was still largely unknown when her image, along with the descriptive “Cloudless,” was selected for the cover of this Picture Post, an immensely popular British photo magazine published from 1938 to 1957. Monroe had scored only one credited film role so far—in Ladies of the Chorus—and went the entire next year without appearing on a movie screen. It was during this time, having gone back to full-time modeling, that she posed for her famous nude set. The next year she landed a part in the hit drama The Asphalt Jungle and she was on her way. This issue of Picture Post appeared today in 1949.
1929—Seven Men Shot Dead in Chicago
Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s South Side gang, are machine gunned to death in Chicago, Illinois, in an event that would become known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Because two of the shooters were dressed as police officers, it was initially thought that police might have been responsible, but an investigation soon proved the killings were gang related. The slaughter exceeded anything yet seen in the United States at that time.