July 2, 1942: Buster Keaton’s sons Robert, 18, and James, 20, legally change their last names to Talmadge after a petition to the court by Keaton’s ex-wife Natalie Talmadge.

Lee Gilcrease, 29, kills his wife, Ethel, and commits suicide in an orange grove near 14333 Van Nuys Blvd., leaving their children, ages 3 and 2 months, without parents. Gilcrease apparently suspected his wife of being unfaithful and said in a suicide note: “I am stopping it all.”

The 14300 block of Van Nuys Boulevard via Google’s Street View.