TIM MAGUIRE

"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on
the front page of the early editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune
(later Chicago Tribune) on November 3, 1948, the day after
incumbent United States president Harry S. Truman won an
upset victory over his opponent, Governor Thomas E. Dewey
of New York, in the 1948 presidential election.

It was one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902 – 1971)

Actress Julia Fiona Roberts was born in Smyrna,
Georgia. She’s 57 years young today.

1990                               2000

CARLATA BRADLEY

Before Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak
served as a disc jockey during the
Vietnam War in Vietnam on the
Armed Forces Radio.

TV game show host Patrick Leonard
Sajak is 78 today.

One of television’s best-known personalities, Johnny Carson,
the iconic host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, was born
on this day in history, on Oct. 23, 1925.

Carson had Midwestern roots and was born John William
Carson in Corning, Iowa.

TIM MAGUIRE