HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Pat Sajak ( Patrick Leonard Sajdak) is 76 years old today.

Sajak is a television personality and game show host. He is
best known as the host of the American
television game
show
Wheel of Fortune, a position he has held since 1981.

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FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT IN A TV WESTERN

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Ronald Reagan (left) with John McIntire in Wagon Train (1963)
“The Fort Pierce Story”.

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Ann Blyth plays the wife of Capt. Winters 
(
Ronald Reagan), whose name was Nancy.

Reagan’s wife at the time was also named
Nancy-
Nancy Reagan, whom he had
married in 1952.

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The Western series aired 8 seasons: first on NBC-TV (1957 –
1962), and then on
ABC-TV (1962–1965).

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SENATOR WAS ‘’A FALL GUY’’ FOR A SCANDAL

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Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944)

During the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Albert B. Fall,
who served as secretary of the interior in President
Warren G.
Harding
’s cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while
in office.

Fall was the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed
while a presidential cabinet member.



Senate committee investigating the Teapot Dome oil leases, 1924.

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Warren Gamaliel Harding
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923)

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THIS ‘STICKY’ BUSINESS STARTED IN 1891

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1929

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, known as the Wrigley Company,
is a multinational
chewing gum (Wrigley’s gum) company, based
in the Global Innovation Center (GIC) in
Goose Island, Chicago.       

Wrigley’s is wholly owned by Mars, Incorporated, and, along with
Mars chocolate bars and other candy products, makes up Mars
Wrigley Confectionery. It is the largest manufacturer and marketer
of chewing gum in the world.

The company currently sells its products in over 180 countries
and districts, operates in over 50 countries, and has 21 production facilities in 14 countries including the United States,

The company was founded on April 1, 1891, in Chicago, Illinois by William Wrigley Jr.

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William Mills Wrigley Jr.
(September 30, 1861 – January 26, 1932)

William Wrigley Jr. on the cover of Time in 1929
1929 issue        
        
        
       

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RADIO DJ IN ENGLAND DIES WHILE ON AIR

Tributes have poured in for Tim

A radio DJ tragically died live on air this morning, (Monday, October
24). Tim Gough, who presented a breakfast show on GenX Radio
Suffolk, England passed away an hour into his broadcast today.

The music stopped partway through a song during the 55-year-old’s show. It resumed a few minutes later but Tim did not return.

GenX Radio Suffolk confirmed Tim had died. A spokesperson said
on Twitter: "It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to inform you,
our dear friend and breakfast host Tim Gough passed away this
morning whilst presenting his program.

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