Archive for October, 2012

NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1961

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The song was backed by the vocal group, The Del-Satins. It ranked #  
342 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of "
The 500 Greatest Songs of  
All Time
".

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The Del-Satins

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Dion Francis DiMucci turned 73 in July

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HEEEERE’S JOHNNY!

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                        John William "Johnny" Carson

                  (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

Johnny Carson was host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 
for thirty years on NBC (1962 – 1992). He was awarded six Emmy Awards,
and was inducted in the the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. 


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LAST SURVIVING ASSASSINATION WITNESS

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(Original run on CBS 1952 – 1976)


February 9, 1956

I saw Lincoln shot

Mr. Seymour lived in Maryland and died in April of 1956, 91 years after 
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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Booth-Lincoln

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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS 74 TODAY

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Christopher Lloyd, High School yearbook

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Christopher Allen Lloyd played Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the
Future
trilogy (1985 – 1990), He rose to fame in the 1980s as Jim
Ignatowski
in the television series Taxi (ABC, 1978 – 1982 & NBC,
(1982 – 1983).

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Christopher Lloyd as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest,
1975
. His first motion picture role.

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Lloyd in Taxi

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Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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