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CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER IS 85 TODAY

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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer


Christopher Plummer is a theatre, film and television actor who
made his film debut in 1958’s Stage Struck. He went on to  a
successful film career that has spanned over five decades
with film performances such as The Return of the Pink
Panther (1975), Murder by Decree (1979), and Star Trek
VI: The
Undiscovered Country.

Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work
and is both the oldest actor and person ever to win an Academy
Award. He won an Oscar in 2012 at the age of 82 for the movie
Beginners.

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Christopher Plummer and General Chang from Star Trek VI

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IN THE NEWS ON THIS DAY

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Sandy Kozel

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Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is 89 today

Dick Van Dyke served as a radio announcer in the U.S.
Army Air Corps during World War II and later transferred
to the Special Services as an entertainer.

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CONNIE FRANCIS IS 76 TODAY

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Connie Francis

Connie Francis was born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero in Newark,
New Jersey
. She was one of the highest charting female solo singers
in the 1950s and 1960s. Connie is known for her 1958 hit  “Who’s
Sorry Now?” which launched her into worldwide stardom when it
debuted on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand on January 1, 1958.

Francis is still active as a recording and performing artist. In 2010,
she appeared at the Las Vegas Hilton with Dionne Warwick, a show 
billed as "Eric Floyd’s Grand Divas of Stage"

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IN THE NEWS ON THIS DAY

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Ed Donahue

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Magnam, P.I. originally ran from 1980 to 1988 on the CBS television
network

 

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Thomas William "Tom" Selleck turned 69 in January

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NEWSCASTER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

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Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 – March 20, 1974)

Chet Huntley was a television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC’s
evening news, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.

He attended three different colleges: Montana State University, Cornish College
of the Arts, and the University of Washington. Early in his career, Chet worked
for Seattle, Washington’s AM radio station KIRO and later went to 620 AM KGW
radio in Portland, Oregon where he was a writer, newscaster and announcer
from 1936 to 1937. 

CHET AT CBS RADSIO
A young Chet Huntley conducts an interview for
CBS radio.

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NBC news anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley

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