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The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American
football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I was played on January 15,
1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.
The National Football League champion Green Bay Packers defeated
the American Football League champion Kansas City Chiefs by the
score of 35–10.
The song Venus became Frankie Avalon’s first number-one hit on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent five weeks atop the survey. The
song also reached number ten on the R&B chart.
Frankie Avalon (Francis Thomas Avallone) turned 77 September 18.
Carol Elaine Channing was born in Seattle, Washington.
Carol Channing is a Broadway veteran who is best known for her
roles in Hello, Dolly! and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She received
an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe Award, and a total of three
Tony Awards. After attending high school in San Francisco, she
worked as a model in Los Angeles.
The song “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro hit No. 1 the week after Martin Luther
King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Further, the Billboard Hot 100 top 10
run of "Honey" began the week of the King assassination and ended the week
of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and no other Hot 100 entry had a top
10 run that spanned that same time interval. It sold over one million copies in
the United States.
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Bobby Goldsboro turned 76 January 18.
Thomas William "Tom" Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Actor Tom Selleck is known to audiences as Magnum PI on CBS (1980-1988)
and later appeared in the CBS drama series Blue Bloods (2010-present). He
earned a scholarship in business administration at the University of Southern
California after being admitted on a basketball scholarship. Selleck had a
supporting role in Friends as Dr. Richard Burke, a role which earned him a
nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a
Comedy Series.
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