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1955 - Birth of Patti Weaver in West Virginia, USA; actress (Days of Our Lives, Gina - The Young and the Restless).

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1956 - Birth of Maren Jensen in Arcadia, California, USA; actress (Athena - Battlestar Galactica).

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1956 - Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at age 75.

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1961 - First movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire.

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1961 - Birth of Elizabeth Peña in Havana, Cuba; actress (La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder).

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1962 - ABC's first color TV series - The Jetsons.

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1962 - Los Angeles Dodgers' Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104.

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1962 - New York's Philharmonic Hall (later renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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1967 - Birth of Harry Connick Jr; singer ("We Are in Love").

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1969 - The ABC TV network airs the first Marcus Welby, M.D. 60-minute medical drama TV show in the USA.

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