Archive for January, 2013

THE NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

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Sally Ann Struthers turned 64 on July 28

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A TRUE AMERICAN ORIGINAL IS 83 TODAY!

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1965

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Folk singer Glenn Yarbrough was the lead singer with The Limeliters
between 1959 and 1963. He has had a good
solo career, recording for
various
labels. Yarbrough is also an accomplished sailor who has
owned and lived aboard three different sailboats.

”Baby The Rain Must Fall” is from the 1965 movie of the same name
starring Steve McQueen and Lee Remick.   

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HOST OF THE AIRWAVES ~ 1950

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SELLING SPONSORS ON A NEW TV SHOW!

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Screenwriter, novelist, and television producer Rod Serling pitched his new 
science fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone, to prospective advertisers in
the spring of 1959. This was before the pilot episode, “Where Is Everybody?”
was shown to them.

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THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton
(January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804)

Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father and the first Secretary of 
the Treasury of the United States in the administration of President 
George Washington. He was also one of America’s first constitutional
lawyers and the founder of the American Federalist party..

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