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Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is 72 today.

Randolph Peter "Pete" Best (born Randolph Peter Scanland) is 74.

Surfin’ U.S.A. is the second studio album released by the Beach Boys. It
reached number two in the US, lasting 78 weeks on the albums chart,
eventually being certified gold by the RIAA.

RCA model CT-100

Mass production of the first RCA Victor television color sets (above) began
on March 25, 1954. The cost…$1,000. It featured a 15-inch tri-color picture 
tube.

Publicity photo of the CT-100 production line, RCA’s first consumer
color receiver.