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THE MDA TELETHON ON THIS DAY IN 1972

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon

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GETTING READY FOR THE BIG DAY?

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NUMBER-ONE SINGLE ON THIS DAY IN 1961

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The Highwaymen, clockwise from top right: Steve Trott, Chan Daniels,
Bob Burnett, Dave Fisher and Steve Butts, in 1961.

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SHOWS LAST EPISODE ON THIS DAY IN 1967

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The cast from left: Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Bob Denver, Tina Louise,
Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, and Alan Hale, Jr.

The situation comedy series Gilligan’s Island aired for three seasons on the CBS 
television network from September 26, 1964, to September 4, 1967 for a total of
98 episodes.

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Bob Denver as Gilligan

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MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN IS DEAD AT 54

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Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan in “The Green Mile”

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor 
whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row 
inmate in "The Green Mile" (1999) and such other box office hits as “Armageddon” 
(1998) and "Planet of the Apes" (2001) has died..

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where
he was being treated for a heart attack, according to his fiancée, Reverend Omarosa
Maniqauilt in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.  

The muscular, 6-foot-4 Duncan, a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s
"suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered," the statement
said. 

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