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THE KING MET THE FAB FOUR ON THIS DAY
Fan photo of The Beatles leaving Elvis’ mansion after their meeting.
Elvis Presley played host to The Beatles in his Bel Air, Los Angeles home on Friday evening August 27, 1965. They met for the first and only time. There are no known pictures of them together because the press had not been invited and no recordings
were made of their meeting and impromptu jam session as part of the fundamental ground rules and planning that had been made three days in advance.
RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF PAST NEWS
MONTY HALL IS 94 TODAY
Monty Hall (born Monte Halparin in Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Hall was host of the game show Let’s Make a Deal (NBC/ABC) for 23
years. He received the Order of Canada honor and a Golden Palm
Star for his humanitarian work. Hall graduated with a Bachelor of
Science degree from the University of Manitoba, where he majored
in chemistry and zoology.
On October 13, 2007, Monty Hall was one of the first inductees into
the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada. He
received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Daytime Emmy
Awards.
RECAPPING PAST NEWS STORIES
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is 85 today.
Connery worked as a milkman, a truck driver, and a body builder. The U.S.
Navy discharged him due to his being afflicted with a duodenal ulcer. In July
2000, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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