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AL PACINO IS 74 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Alfredo James "Al" Pacino

Actor and director Al Pacino has won the Academy Award
for Best Actor for his role as Frank Slade in the 1992 film,
Scent of a Woman. He also starred in Dog Day Afternoon
(1975), Scarface (1983). Pacino played mobster Michael
Corleone in The Godfather trilogy beginning in 1972, still
considered one of the greatest performances of all time.

Before fame, Al Pacino developed a love for acting at an
early age and participated in the majority of his school’s
productions. As a teenager, he went by the nickname
Sunny and dreamed of becoming a pro baseball player. 

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THE EARLY DAYS OF A MUSIC LEGEND

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Dick Dale (Richard Anthony Monsour) will be 77 on May 4

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1961

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"Runaway" was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and became a 
major international hit. It is No. 472 on Rolling Stone‘s list of The 500 Greatest
Songs of All
Time
from 2010.

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Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover)

   (December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990)

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY

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Sandy Kozel

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Barbra Joan Streisand is 72 today

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RADIO DRAMA DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1955

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X Minus One
was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast
from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on
NBC.

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(#3) May 8, 1955

The program opened with announcer Fred Collins delivering the countdown…

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Fred Collins

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