Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee
Meriwether (seen above) as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private
detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS-TV until April 3, 1980,
when it was cancelled due to low ratings among young viewers.
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BARNABY JONES PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1973
BIRTHDAY WISHES TO ALAN ALDA ~ 75 TODAY
Alan Alda ,an actor, director and screenwriter is a five-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award winner. He is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce ( above)
in the TV series M*A*S*H on CBS from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983. He was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards, and won five. He took part in writing 19 episodes, including the finale, and directed 32. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism.
Alda as U.S. Republican Senator Arnold Vinick in West Wing on NBC-TV
from 1999 to 2006
Alan Alda played U.S. Senator Owen Brewster (above) in The Aviator
in 2004. He received his first Academy Award nomination for the role.
FIRST NATIONAL TV APPEARANCE ON THIS DATE IN 1956
Elvis Presley made his first national television appearance on CBS’s Stage Show. The program, produced in New York, was hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders
and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Elvis was booked for six appearances on the show over a two month period.
WHERE WERE YOU ON THIS DAY IN 1986?
Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA’s second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia being the first. Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members. The break up was ultimately due to the failure of an O-ring on its right solid-fuel rocket booster (SRB). The failure was due to a variety of factors, including unusually low temperatures prior to liftoff.
The accident led to a two-and-a-half year grounding of the shuttle fleet. The missions resumed in 1988 with the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery.
Challenger memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
COMPOSER BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1756
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a influential Austrian composer of the Classical era.
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as the finest of symphonic, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most popular of classical composers.
Mozart showed extraordinary ability from early childhood by being competent on the piano and violin. He composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At the age of 17, Mozart was hired as a court musician. Mozart died in 1791 at the age of 35. Many believe the cause was acute rheumatic fever.
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