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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989)

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ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1908


Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana) 
(October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)

Lombard starred with Clark Gable in 1932’s No Man of Her Own and played
the lead role in the 1942 film To Be or Not to Be. She made her film debut at
age twelve in The Perfect Crime (1921). The career of Carole Lombard ended
at age 33 when she died in an airplane crash on Mount Potosi, Nevada while
returning from a War Bond tour.


1937

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COMIC STRIP DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1931

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy),a 
police detective created by Chester Gould. The strip made its debut in the Detroit
Mirror
. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Gould
wrote and drew the strip until 1977.


Cartoonist Chester Gould (November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985)

dick tracy squad car

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SERIES DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1966


Original run on CBS-TV: October 3, 1961 – June 1, 1966

The series,created by Carl Reiner, won 15 Emmy Awards. In 1997, the
episodes "Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth" and "It May Look Like a Walnut"
were ranked at #8 and #15 respectively on TV Guide’s 100 Greatest
Episodes of All Time
. In 2002, it was ranked at 13 on TV Guide’s 50
Greatest TV Shows of All Time
.

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SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1957

The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom was a half-hour variety show that aired 
on ABCTV from October 3, 1957 to June 23, 1960. Boone was at the time
the youngest person to host his own network variety program until ABC’s
The Donny & Marie Show in 1976.


Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone turned 81 June 1.

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