Robert William Barker was born in Darrington, Washington.
Former host of CBS’s Truth or Consequences (1956 to 1974) and The Price
Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show
in North American television history. Barker has had some health problems
including prostate surgery and several mild bouts with skin cancer.
MIKE GRACIA
Harry S. Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the incorrect headline
Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency on this
day in 1948. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the
headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN (above)." The Truman victory had
surprised many polls and newspapers.
President Truman (right) on his campaign train whistle-stop.
On this day in 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was
assassinated in a military coup.
Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California on this day in 1947. It was the plane’s first and only
flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of
the spruce used to build it, never went into production.
The H-4 today is in McMinnville, Oregon, at the Evergreen Air and
Space Museum, about an hour outside of Portland.
On this day in 1959, Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant
on the NBC-TV program "Twenty-One" admitted that he had been
given questions and answers in advance.
Charles Lincoln Van Doren turned 91 in Feb.
Monte Hall (Monte Halparin) (August 25, 1921 – September 30, 2017)
Hall’s family reported that the Canadian born former game show host and
producer died from heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills. He was best
known as the long-running host of Let’s Make a Deal.
The panel game show “I’ve Got a Secret” was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. The original run was
June 19, 1952–April 3, 1967. The show was originally hosted by
radio and television personality Garry Moore. Various celebrity
panelists would try to determine a contestant’s "secret".
Panelists included from left: Bill Cullen, Jayne Medows, Henry
Morgan, and Faye Emerson. Host Gary Moore (standing).
Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017)
(AP) – Chuck Barris, whose game show empire included "The Dating Game,"
"The Newlywed Game" and that infamous factory of cheese, "The Gong Show,"
According to publicist Paul Shefrin, Barris.died of natural causes Tuesday
afternoon at his home in Palisades, New York.
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