Bud, Not Buddy. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
At 5:45 PM on this day in 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an intersection.
The mangled wreck of actor James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder after his fatal crash on September 30, 1955 near Cholame, Calif. 2. James Dean. The life of James Dean was tragically cut short when the star died in a high-speed car crash at the height of his career on Sept. 30, 1955. He was 24.