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A LOOK AT ~ TODAY IN HISTORY

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 chuck yeager today

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is 90 (Feb. 13, 1923)

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ROGER MOORE IS 86 TODAY

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Sir Roger George Moore

Actor Roger Moore replaced Sean Connery as secret agent 007 James Bond
in the series for seven films between 1973 and 1985. He won a Monte Carlo
TV Festival Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Moore is currently a Goodwill
Ambassador for the charity UNICEF.

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SERIES DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1934

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The long-running anthropology series Lux Radio Theatre, was broadcast
on the
NBC Blue Network (1934-35); NBC (1935-54) and CBS (1954-55). At
first the series adapted
Broadway plays during its first two seasons before
it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed
live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic series 
on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as
the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s.

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The original host was the show’s fictional producer, Douglass
Garrick (portrayed by John J. Anthony shown above). Cecil B.
DeMille
(below) took over as the
host on June 1, 1936, until
January 22, 1945.

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Cecil B. DeMille

 

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DEMOND WILSON IS 67 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Grady Demond Wilson

Wilson is best known for his role as peacemaker Lamont Sanford
in the NBC-TV hit series, Sanford and Son (1972-1977). Time
magazine included the show on their list of the "100 Best TV
Shows of All Time in 2007. He was wounded while fighting in
the Vietnam War with the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division
and returned home a decorated veteran in the late 1960s.

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LOOKING AT ~ TODAY IN HISTORY

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Paul Frederic Simon is 72 now

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