Today in history highlights:In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.

In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid’s Barajas airport.

In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727 killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

Celebrity birthdays:Anders Celsius – Swedish astronomer (1701- 1944) died at 42

Bruce Lee -martial-artist, actor (1940 – 1973) died at 32

Jimi Hendrix -rock musician (1942 – 1970) died at 27

Robin Givens – actress, 44

Fisher Stevens – actor, 45

Caroline Kennedy – daughter of President J.F. Kennedy, 51

William Fichtner – actor, 52

According to Vivid Entertainment, the film, which has no audio, allegedly shows Hendrix having sex with two women in a dimly-lit bedroom, the Times reports.

“I believe that we did our due diligence, and as a result of that clearly believe that it’s him,” said Steven Hirsch, Vivid’s co-chairman told the Times. “If they said that it wasn’t him, I would never have put it out.”

Some who knew Hendrix, who died of a drug overdose in 1970 at the age of 27, disagree. Kathy Etchingham, one of his girlfriends from the 1960s, says the man in the film couldn’t be Hendrix.

“He would never have allowed anyone to see that,” she told the Times. “In private he was very shy and would cover up.”

- Fox News