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Ross Simpson


Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron is 82 today.

The Sporting News ranked the "Hammer" fifth on its "100 Greatest Baseball
Players" list. After learning to play by hitting bottle caps with sticks he found
in the street, Aaron led his high school team to the Mobile Negro High School
Championship two consecutive years.

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TV ACTOR HAS DIED AT AGE 94


Abraham Charles "Abe" Vigoda (February 24, 1921 – January 26, 2016)

Vigoda is most notable for his portrayal of Sal Tessio in the 1972 Francis Ford
Coppola
film The Godfather, for the 1990 film Joe Versus the Volcano, and for
his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on the television sitcom series Barney
Miller
from 1975 to 1977 and on its spinoff show Fish that aired from February
1977 to June 1978 on ABC.

On January 22, 2016, Vigoda’s nephew, Jesse Vigoda Kurland, reported that
Abe Vigoda was dying and had been committed into a hospice, having stopped
taking his medication.

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REVIEWING PAST NEWS EVENTS

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Sandy Kozel

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ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1900


Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974)

Moorehead played the mother, Endora, on the ABC- TV series Bewitched
(1964-1972). She won Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for
her roles in the 1945 movie Mrs. Tarkington and the 1965 film Hush…Hush,
Sweet Charlotte.
She received four Academy Award nominations for Best
Supporting Actress from 1943 to 1965, but never became a winner. The 
actress graduated with a degree in Biology from Muskingum College in
Ohio.

 
Agnes Moorehead in a Twilight Zone episode, The Invaders (1961).


Moorehead performing in "Sorry, Wrong
Number" on a CBS-radio progam.

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ELVIS FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1962

The movie Girls! Girls! Girls! is a musical comedy starring Elvis Presley. The song 
"Return to Sender", which reached number-two on the Billboard pop singles chart,
is featured in the movie. It was the second of three films Presley shot on location
in Hawaii.

 


Elvis checking a shot behind the camera

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