Archive for January, 2015

FIRST APPEARANCE ON U.S. TELEVISION

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The Beatles made their first appearance on television in a film clip shown
on the "Jack Paar Show”, January 3, 1964. It was a performance of the
song "She Loves You." Paar showed the film clips of The Beatles one  
month before their famous live appearance on the The Ed Sullivan Show.

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IN THE NEWS ON THIS DAY

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SERIES EPISODE AIRED ON THIS DAY IN 1952

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GRAND OLE OPRY MEMBER DEAD AT 94

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Little Jimmy Dickens (James Cecil Dickens)
(December 19, 1920 – January 2, 2015)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. AP) –  Little Jimmy Dickens, a diminutive singer-songwriter who
was the oldest cast member of the Grand Ole Opry, has died.

Dickens died Friday at a Nashville-area hospital of cardiac arrest after suffering a
stroke on Christmas Day, Opry spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said.

Dickens, who stood 4-foot-11, had performed on the Opry almost continuously
since 1948. His last performance was Dec. 20 as part of his birthday celebration.

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STAMPS INTRODUCED ON THIS DAY IN 1893

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The 2¢ Landing of Columbus is the most common stamp of the Columbian
Issue.

Often cited as the world’s first commemoratives are the sixteen stamps of the
United States Columbian Issue, produced to help celebrate the World Columbian
Exposition
in Chicago honoring the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s
arrival in the New World in 1492. The stamps are today highly prized by collectors.

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The $1 stamp is included in the US issue of commemoratives introduced
in 1893.

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