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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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SANDY KOZEL

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CAMILLE  BOHANNON      

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Tony Bennett Rare Photos: See How He Got His Start | Time

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Singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) is
96 today.

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MIKE GRACIA

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President Nixon shakes hands with Premier Chou En-lai of
the People’s Republic of China. Nixon’s trip to China was
to seek a “normalization of relations.”

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REMEMBERING THIS MORNING TV SERIES

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The Songbird. a twin-engine Cessna T-50 .


The television version (NBC/ABC) starred
Kirby Grant as Schuyler 
“Sky” King, an Arizona rancher and airplane pilot, with
Gloria
Winters
as his niece Penny and Sky’s nephew Clipper, played by
Ron Hagerty


The series had strong Western elements, King usually captured
criminals and spies and found lost hikers, though he did so with
the use of his airplane, the Songbird.
 

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From left: Kirgy Grant,Gloria Winters and Ron Hagerty.

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Original Release: September 16, 1951 – March 8, 1959.

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During production of the series.

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