Archive for March, 2011

VINCE VAUGHN TURNED 42 TODAY

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(High school photo)

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Vincent Anthony "Vince" Vaughn, film actor, screenwriter, producer,
and comedian, began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor TV
roles before gaining wider recognition with the 1996 movie Swingers. He 
has since appeared in a number of other films, mainly comedies, such as
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Dodgeball
(2004), Couples Retreat (2009), and Wedding Crashers (2005). Vaughn’s
most recent film was Ron Howard’s comedy, The Dilemma, which was
released in January.


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ACCIDENT AT THREE MILE ISLAND WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1979

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America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at 
the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa. It was the most significant accident
in the history of Americas commercial nuclear power generating industry. A cooling system malfunction caused the release of a significant amount of radioactivity when 
a partial core meltdown occurred. No deaths or injuries to plant workers or members
of the community in the area were reported. 

 No.  2 reactor three-mile-island
  
Time magazine april 9, 1979
The April 9, 1979 issue of Time magazine

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IRONSIDE DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1967

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Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September
14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr (above) as
the Wheelchair-confined Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. Burr’s 
character debuted in a made for TV movie. The show earned Burr six
Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.  

The opening theme music was written by Quincy Jones and was the first
synthesizer-based television theme song.

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SUMMERTIME BLUES RECORDED ON THIS DATE IN 1958

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Summertime Blues was written in the late 1950s by Eddie Cochran
and his manager Jerry Capehart. Originally a single B-side, it peaked
at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 29, 1958.

 
Eddie Cochran album

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JERRY LEWIS WITH COLONEL SANDERS

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