John Cameron Swayze (April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995)

Launched by NBC as NBC Television Newsreel, and later Camel Newsreel Theatre
it began as a 10-minute program that featured Fox Movietone News newsreels. John Cameron Swayze provided voice-over for the series. The Camel News Caravan was
an expanded version of the Camel Newsreel Theatre with Swayze on-camera. It was
also known as the Camel Caravan of News.

On February 16, 1954, the Camel News Caravan became the first news program
broadcast in color, making use of 16mm color film. The show was replaced by the Huntley-Brinkley Report on October 29, 1956. According to sources, then President Dwight D. Eisenhower was displeased by the switch. 

Christie Brinkley (born Christie Lee Hudson in Monroe, Michigan)

Model and actress Christie Brinkley gained worldwide fame beginning in
the late 1970s with three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
covers through 1981. She spent twenty five years as the face of CoverGirl
(the longest running cosmetics contract of any model in history), has
appeared on over 500 magazine covers, and has signed contracts with
major brands—both fashion and non-fashion.

Tim Maguire

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is having her 53rd birthday today.

Foster graduated from Yale’s prestigious theater program magna cum laude
in 1985 and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in
1997.

1991

Freddie Dalton "Fred" Thompson
(August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Fox News) – Fred Thomson, the former U.S. senator
from Tennessee, 2008 Republican presidential candidate and “Law and
Order” television actor, died Sunday after a recurrence of lymphoma.

Albert Francis "Al" Molinaro (born Umberto Francesca Molinaro)
(June 24, 1919 – October 30, 2015)

Al Molinaro died in a Glendale, California, hospital on Friday. His son
said his father’s death was the result of complications from an infected
gallbladder. He was best known for portraying Al Delvecchio on Happy
Days on ABC from 1974-1984. He retired from acting in television and
films in 1992, but continued to appear in TV commercials until the early
2000s.

Al Molinaro as police officer Murray Greshler
inThe Odd Couple in 1974.