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2 hours ago · (1931–2011) Roy Skelton, actor, best known for the voices of Zippy and George from children's television programme Rainbow, and The Daleks, Dr Who, was born in Nottingham. (1933–1996) Leslie Crowther, comedian, actor and game show host, was born in West Bridgford. [171] (1933–1996) Dennis McCarthy, radio presenter, notably with Radio ...
1 day ago · The Road to Coronation Street. Coronation Street (colloquially referred to as Corrie) is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. [2] The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced street in the fictional town of Weatherfield in Greater Manchester.
1 day ago · Born in the 1860s. George Arliss (1868–1946) George Bellamy (1866–1944) Lionel Belmore (1867–1953) Nina Boucicault (1867–1950) Arthur Bourchier (1863–1927) Beatrice Campbell (1965–1940)
2 hours ago · Chūji Kinoshita (also referred to as Tadashi Kinoshita) was born on 9 April 1916 in Hamamatsu. Elder brother of film director Keisuke, after high school he moved to Tōkyō in 1934 to study musical theory with composer Saburō Moroi and to attend the Musashino Conservatory of Music, from where he graduated in 1940.
1 day ago · She was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP (1993), the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom From Want Award (1993), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the 7th Annual Heinz Award Chairman's Medal (2001), the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush on behalf of the United States Congress (2004), and the Foremothers Lifetime Achievement Award from the NRC for Women ...
2 hours ago · By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael O'Donoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBC's Saturday Night because Saturday Night Live was in use by a program on the rival network ABC that was hosted by its sportscaster Howard Cosell .
1 day ago · t. e. Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, [1] famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both ...
