Archive for May 20th, 2011

TV SHOW’S FINAL EPISODE ON THIS DATE IN 1982

Barney Miller was a situation comedy set in a New York City police
station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast
from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by
Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed a
majority of the episodes.

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LINDBERGH TOOK OFF FOR PARIS ON THIS DATE IN 1927

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Charles Lindbergh beside Spirit of St. Louis before take off (below) on May
20th from
Roosevelt Field in Garden City, Nassau County, New York.

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Nearly a thousand people assembled at Roosevelt Field to see Charles Lindbergh off on his historic flight.

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‘’THE GODDESS OF POP’’ IS 65 TODAY

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Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian) is a #1 hit recording artist, Emmy-award
winning television personality, award-winning actress, director, record
producer and philanthropist. she has won an Academy Award, a Gammy
Award, an Emmy Award , three Golden Globes, and a Cannes Film Festival
Award among others for her work in film, music and television. She is the
only person in history to have received all of these awards. Cher began
her career as a backup singer and later came to prominence as one half
of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher with the success of their song "I Got
You Babe” in 1965. Her hit dance single "Believe" is her biggest-selling
recording and was the best-selling single of 1999,having sold over 10
million copies worldwide.

 

Sonny and Cher - KRLA May 1966a

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FIRST POST COVER BY ROCKWELL ~ ON THIS DATE IN 1916

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When Norman Rockwell (above) was 21 years old, living in New Rochelle, New York,
when he submitted his first cover painting to “The Saturday Evening Post”. The
title of the painting was Mother’s Day Off (below). 

norman rockwell first cover for sat ev post 1916

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