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ACTOR ROD TAYLOR IS 84 TODAY

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Rod Taylor, Time Machine

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Rod in The Birds

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Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor                         

The Australian born actor has appeared in over 50 films, and is well known for
his leading roles in the science fiction classic The Time Machine (1960), and in
the Alfred Hitchcock horror thriller The Birds (1963). For a time Taylor worked
as a commercial artist after studying at a fine arts college.

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Rod Taylor in episode 1.11 of Twilight Light Zone “And When the Sky was
Opened”, December 11, 1959.

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SINGER IS 61 TODAY

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Pat Benatar in high school, 1971

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Pat Benatar (Patricia Mae Andrzejewski)

Pat is a four-time Grammy winner with two RIAA-certified Multi-Platinum
albums, five RIAA-certified Platinum albums, three RIAA-certified Gold
albums and 14 Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits, "Hit Me with
Your Best Shot
", "Love Is a Battlefield", "We Belong" and "Invincible”.

When Benatar began voice lessons, she sang her first solo at age
eight. She was the most popular artist to be played on MTV when
the channel first aired.

 

1980

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY

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Roderick David "Rod" Stewart is 69 today

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FIRST AIRED ON THIS DAY IN 1984

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Clara Peller (August 4, 1902 – August 11, 1987), was a retired manicurist
and
character actress

Clara was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where’s the Beef?" commercial campaign
for Wendy’s chain of hamburger restaurants. In 2011, Wendy’s revived the phrase
for its new ad campaign, finally answering its own question with "Here’s the beef”.

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY

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