CELEBRITY OF THE DAY:Marilyn MonroeBorn on this date on June 1, 1926, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane in Los Angeles, California. Her mother was a film-cutter at RKO Studios who, widowed and mentally ill, abandoned her to sequence of foster homes. She was almost smothered to death at two, nearly raped at six. At nine, the LA Orphans’ Home paid her a nickel a month for kitchen work while taking back a penny every Sunday for church. She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton)…