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100 years anniversary | ||||
11 Oct 1925 | Elmore Leonard: US writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up) | |||
11 Oct 1925 | Nancy Guild: Los Angeles, California -- Actress (Where Was I?) | |||
11 Oct 1925 | Karl M Lybeck: Fin / Swedish language Poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71 | |||
11 Oct 1925 | Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism | |||
11 Oct 1925 | New York Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0 | |||
11 Oct 1925 | Elmore Leonard, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013) | |||
11 Oct 1925 | Elmore Leonard American writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk) | |||
11 Oct 1925 | Nancy Guild LA Calif, actress (Where Was I?) | |||
11 Oct 1925 | NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0 | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
11 Oct 1950 | Amos Gitai: Actor (Neo-Fascist Trilogy, Golem, Arena of Murder) | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Andrew Woolfolk: US pop musician (Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star) | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Catlin Adams: Los Angeles, California -- Actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs) | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Patty Murry: (Sen-D Washington) | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Thomas J Tauke: (Rep-R-Iowa, 1979- ) | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Rene Bond, American porn actress (d. 1996) | |||
11 Oct 1950 | William R. Forstchen, American author and historian | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Amos Gitai, Israeli director, producer, and author | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Patty Murray, American educator and politician | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. | |||
11 Oct 1950 | birth Andrew Woolfolk, sax, Earth Wind and Fire, (1975 US No.1 single 'Shining Star', 1981 UK No.3 single 'Let's Groove'). | |||
11 Oct 1950 | Catlin Adams LA Calif, actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs) | |||
11 Oct 1950
field-sequential color system |
field-sequential color system (technology) A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian American engineer Dr. Peter Goldmark becomes the first color television system to be adopted for commercial use (by CBS in the United States), but is abandoned a year later. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
11 Oct 1975 | Zach Conrad: Ft Collins, Colorado -- Cyclist (1996 Olympics) | |||
11 Oct 1975 | "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin | |||
11 Oct 1975 | Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham | |||
11 Oct 1975 | Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host | |||
11 Oct 1975 | Orlando Maturana, Colombian footballer | |||
11 Oct 1975 | The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests. | |||
11 Oct 1975 | Kellie Martin actress (Life Goes On) | |||
11 Oct 1975 | "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin | |||
11 Oct 1975 | Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
11 Oct 2000 | NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
11 Oct 2005 | Freddie Mercury's 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was offered for auction on eBay by his sister, Kashmira Cooke, who had inherited the car from him. The luxury vehicle had not appeared in public since 2002, when it had been used to transport the Bulsara family to the premiere of the Queen stage musical We Will Rock You. It came with a box of Kleenex Mansize tissues left in the car by Freddie. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
11 Oct 2010 | George Michael was released from Highpoint Prison in Suffolk, England after serving four of an eight week sentence for driving under the influence of drugs. The singer had been arrested after crashing his car into the front of a Snappy Snaps store in Hampstead, North London in July of this year. |