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TELEVISION ON THIS DAY IN 1959


Ralph Livingstone Edwards
(June 13, 1913 – November 16, 2005)


Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto)
(May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973)

                ThisIsYourLife 
                  Original air dates on NBC-TV: 1952 – 1961

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Ed Donahue



Heywood "Woody" Allen
(born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is 80 today.

Allen performed card and magic tricks in his youth and underwent the legal process
of changing his name to Heywood Allen when he was 17.

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Camille Bohannon


Richard Augustus Wagstaff
"Dick" Clark Jr.
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

Clark, who began his career in the mailroom of WRUN radio in Rome, New York
in 1945, won a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 for hosting
American Bandstand. He was known as America’s Oldest Teenager.

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SINGLE RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1968

The song "Everyday People" by Sly and the Family Stone was the first
single by the band to go to number one on the Soul singles chart and
the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It held the Hot 100 position for four weeks
from February 15, 1969, until March 14, 1969. Billboard ranked the
hit as the No. 5 song of 1969.

             
  

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John Belmont


George Harrison (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001)

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