Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
(December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000)

The Steve Allen Show was a variety show hosted by Steve Allen
from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to
December 1961 on ABC,and in first-run syndication from 1962
to 1964.

Elvis Presley rehearsing for the Steve Allen Show in 1956. 

(1951 – 2022)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career
as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning
performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,”
died Friday in a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from a form
of blood cancer. He was 68.

Robert Lane Saget (May 17, 1956 – January 9, 2022)

(FOX NEWS) – “Full House” Actor Bob Saget is dead after being
found in a hotel room in Orlando on Sunday afternoon, according
to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

"Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando,
Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel
room. The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced
deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or
drug use in this case," the tweet read.

Saget had performed a stand-up comedy set in Jacksonville
Saturday evening.

Original release on ABC:1987– 1995)

Comedian Bob Hope gave what he says is his last Christmas show
to U.S. servicemen in Saigon. Hope was a star of stage, radio, TV
and over 50 feature films.
 

Hope was one of many Hollywood stars who followed the tradition
of traveling overseas to entertain American troops stationed abroad.

The 1972 show marked Hope’s ninth consecutive Christmas Vietnam appearance. Although some antiwar protesters criticized Hope for supporting government policies in Vietnam, the comedian said he believed it was his responsibility to lift spirits by entertaining the
troops.

The USO Christmas Show at Tan Son Nhut Air Base.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Ferdinand Magellan  (February 4, 1480 – April 27, 1521)

After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America
that now bear his name, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan entered the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first
European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic.