On January 26, 1979, “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a television
comedy about two cousins in the rural South and their
souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger known as the General Lee,
debuted on CBS.

The show, which originally aired for seven seasons, centered
around cousins Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke
(Tom Wopat) and their ongoing efforts to elude their nemeses,
the crooked county commissioner “Boss” Jefferson Davis Hogg
(Sorrell Booke) and the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
(James Best).

“The Dukes of Hazzard” was known for its car chases, stunts
and the General Lee.

The General Lee in action.

The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

The awards recognize excellence in television (which in the
1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sydney Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank
Capra who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and
an entertainment journalist.

Sydney Cassyd (1908 – 2000) 

       

  
MIKE GRACIA

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)    
    
    
    
   

Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond has sold more than 130 million
records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians
of all time. He has written and recorded ten singles that reached
No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

Belushi as a senior at Wheaton Central High School (1967)


John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)     
Born in Chicago, Illinois. 
    
    
   
Belushi was a comedian, actor and musician who was one
of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first        
season on NBC.

During a preliminary hearing held in September 1985, two
Los Angeles pathologists testified that Belushi’s cause of
death was due to a drug overdose. He was 33.

“Blues Brothers” with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi (1980)

Bluto (John Belushi): "See if you can guess what I am now."
”Animal House” (1978)