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December 4, 1927

Today In History

Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club | Harlem

The Cotton Club located in Harlem was the place to be during Prohibition. The jazz club featured marquee performers including Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, etc… Owney Madden, a prominent bootlegger and gangster, took over the club in 1923 while imprisoned in Sing Sing and changed its name to the Cotton Club. While the club was closed briefly in 1925 for selling liquor, it reopened without trouble from the police.

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CLASSIC NEW YORK SCENE - 1915
The Rockets first championship in their franchise history - The 1993-1994 season
Joe Medwick | The last NL player to win the Triple Crown
Joe Medwick played in the majors from 1932 to 1948 for several teams but is best remembered for his days as a St. Louis Cardinal. Medwick’s finest season was in 1937 when his 31 home runs, 154 RBIs, and .374 batting average all led the National League, making him the NL’s Triple Crown winner and MVP. He remains the last NL player to win the Triple Crown. Medwick batted .324 for his career and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1968.
Song of the Day
David Bowie | Changes
Remember | "Barbary Coast" | TV Pilot
Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. Barbary Coast features the adventures of 19th century government agent Jeff Cable played by William Shatner, and his pal, conman and gambler Cash "Cash makes no enemies" | Conover Doug McClure played by Dennis Cole in the pilot, who is the owner of the Golden Gate Casino. This was Shatner's first attempt at a live-action series since Star Trek. In their battle against various criminals and foreign spies, Cable and Conover operated out of the latter's saloon and casino located on San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. Like Wild Wild West's Artemus Gordon, Cable frequently donned disguises in the course of his investigations.
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Which program won Best Coverage Of An Unscheduled Newsworthy Event in 1958?

  • Little Rock, 1957
  • News Coverage of first Russian Sputnik, The U.S. S
  • News coverage of the integration story in Little Rock
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We are going to an Ivy league football game in New Haven against a team from Ithaca, what are the team nicknames ?

The Big Red from Cornell and the Bulldogs from Yale

Name the largest freshwater lake in the world?  Lake Superior.

While many believe Hydrox cookies are an Oreo knock-off Hydrox actually came first—in 1908, four years before the Oreo.

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

TV Show of the Day
Lets make a Deal - Pilot in 1963 - This 37 minute pilot, produced on May 25, 1963 with Monty Hall led to the series becoming a regular scheduled program
“Let’s Make A Deal” hosted by Monte Hall debuted on NBC during the daytime last week. This show is one of the most innovative 30 minutes in television this year. Would be contestants dress up in colorful outfits to get Monte’s attention. He’ll offer them $ 50.in cash on the spot if they can produce from their handbags such items as a hardboiled egg, a picture of their elementary school gym teacher, a hair curler, etc… Once they get paid off, they are offered the chance to trade for a box or maybe what is behind door # 1,2, or 3. They might win a living room set, a trip to Hawaii, a washer dryer, or maybe a lonely smelly goat. From rags to riches and sometimes back, this show is fun, a little bizarre, and full of laughs. Find time to watch it !
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Ted Williams | Sports Illustrated | 1955
Interview of the Day
Rodney Dangerfield Funniest Jokes Ever on The Johnny Carson Show | 1983
JFK Cuban Missile Crisis Speech - October 22, 1962

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What year was the Miracle on Ice ?

1980

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What show was considered the sister show to Green Acres

Green Acres was produced by Filmways and was the sister show to Petticoat Junction

For the Year 1906 | Ninety percent of all doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as ‘substandard.’

The five most stolen items in a drugstore are batteries, cosmetics, film, sunglasses, and, get this, Preparation H.

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