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LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY IN 1797

USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United
States Navy, named by President George Washington after the Constitution of
the United States of America. The Constitution was one of six original frigates
authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and was the third to be
constructed.

USS Constitution fires a 17-gun salute.jpg
USS Constitution fires a 17-gun salute near U.S. Coast Guard Base
Boston during the ship’s Independence Day demonstration last year
in Boston Harbor.

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CLASSIC FILM IS CELEBRATING 30 YEARS

           


Back to the Future
opened on July 3, 1985, on 1,200 screens in North America. It
spent 11 weeks at number one had the fourth-highest opening weekend of 1985
and was the top grossing film of the year.

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PROGRAM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1957

The Twentieth Century was a documentary television program, sponsored by
the Prudential Insurance Company, which ran on the CBS network from 20
October 1957 until 4 January 1970. It was hosted by Walter Cronkite.


Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

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RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1962

The Four Seasons song “Big Girls Don’t Cry” hit number-
one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 17, 1962, and,
like its predecessor "Sherry", spent five weeks in the top
position. The song also made it to number one, for three
weeks, on Billboard’s Rhythm and Blues survey.


The surviving Four Seasons at the opening of "Jersey Boys."
From left,Tommy DeVito, Bob
Gaudio, and Frankie Valli. Nick
Massi passed away in
2000.

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SINGLE RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1967

The song “ I Second That Emotion” peaked for three weeks at #4 on the
Billboard pop singles chart in December 1967. It became the Miracles
highest charting popular single since "Shop Around". The song also
topped the Billboard Black Singles Chart and was a million-selling hit
for The Miracles, their sixth overall.


William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. turned 75 in February.

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