Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. originally aired on CBS television from Friday September
25, 1964, to May 2, 1969 for a total of 150 episodes. The sitcom was a spinoff
of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth
season the The Andy Griffith Show on May 19,1964.

Jim Nabors became 81 years old on June 12

On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln announced that he would
issue a formal emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States
of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. None did
return and the actual order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect
except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control.Total
abolition of slavery was finalized by the Thirteenth Amendment which took effect
in December 1865.The freedom of 3.1 million of the nation’s 4 million slaves was proclaimed, and immediately 50,000 of them were freed, with nearly all the rest
seeing freedom as Union armies advanced.

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln 

 
2006 DVD

The Phil Silvers Show (originally titled You’ll Never Get Rich) is a comedy
television series which aired on CBS from Tuesday September 20, 1955
to September 11, 1959 for a total of 142 black and white episodes, plus
a 1959 special. The star of the series was comedian Phil Silvers as U.S.
Army Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko.

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of
the United Armed Forces. It was Initially part of the United States Army, the
USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18,
1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the most recent branch
of the U.S. military to be formed, as well as the world’s most technologically
sophisticated air force.

The Thunderbirds are the air demonstration squadron of the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, Nevada.  

I Dream of Jeannie is a sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara
Eden as a 2,000-year old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes
her master and eventually her husband. The series was produced by Screen Gems
and ran on NBC-TV from September 18, 1965 to May 26, 1970 for a total of 139
episodes. The first season has 30 episodes filmed in black and white.

Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden today