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November 6, 1981

Today In History

Fernando Valenzuela is the First rookie to win the Cy Young Award

Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea born November 1, 1960 is a Mexican former Major League Baseball pitcher. During a 17-year baseball career, he achieved his greatest success with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1980-1990, and went on to pitch for five more major league teams. In 1981, the 20-year-old Valenzuela took Los Angeles and Major League Baseball by storm, winning his first 8 decisions and leading the Dodgers to the World Series. That year, Valenzuela became the only player in Major League history to win the Rookie of the Year award and the Cy Young Award in the same season, adding the Silver Slugger Award and World Series championship for good measure. With his youthful charm, devastating screwball, "Ruthian physique", and a connection with Los Angeles' large Latino community, Valenzuela touched off an early '80s craze dubbed "Fernandomania".

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Remember Harvard Graduates
American and world leaders in several fields have been greatly influenced by Harvard University. Several notable graduates and students include John Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, e. e. Cummings, John Updike, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, Stanley Marcus, Sumner Redstone, Jack Lemmon, John Lithgow, Bill Gates, Yo-Yo Ma, Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, and Conan O’Brien.
Highlights of the 1969 NBA Finals Game 7 Celtics vs. Lakers (4th Quarter)
The Lost Ball Parks
Song of the Day
The Beach Boys perform the song I Get Around
TOP MUSICAL HITS FROM 1964 1. I Want To Hold Your Hand, Beatles 2. She Loves You, Beatles 3. Where Did Our Love Go, Supremes 4. Oh, Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison 5. I Get Around, Beach Boys 6. Everybody Loves Somebody, Dean Martin 7. My Guy, Mary Wells 8. People, Barbara Streissand 9. Last Kiss, J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers 10. Hello, Dolly!, Louis Armstrong
Tony Bennett | Fly Me to the Moon
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NEW YORK CITY - The authentic Delis - start with Carnegie

Who is your favorite female actress?

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Which show won Best Direction Of A Single Drama - One Hour Or Longer in 1959?

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  • Playhouse 90
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What was so special about my fourth no-hitter

I pitched a perfect game and my opponent lost with a one hitter

In an average lifetime the human heart circulates 55 million gallons of blood.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." ( thus the name of the Don McLean song)

CLASSIC MOVIE SCENES

TV Show of the Day
The Burns and Allen TV Show (The Pilot)
A Movie Star Emerges - John Wayne Stars in the movie Big Trail - 1930
A Star Emerges John Wayne Stars in The Big Trail - 1930 Breck, played by a new emerging star John Wayne leads a wagon train of pioneers through Indian attack, storms, deserts, swollen rivers, down cliffs to their destiny out west while looking for the murder of a trapper and falling in love with Ruth ( played by Marguerite Churchill ). The plot is not much, but the cinema photography and direction make it an exciting movie. Raoul Walsh, the director said about his new star, John Wayne: "He stepped down off his horse and gave me that lopsided grin which was to become one of his trademarks. How did I do, Mr Walsh? He was confident in himself by this time and looked as if he knew the answer... My leading man had made a fine frontiersman. His acting was instinctive, so that he became whatever or whoever he was playing. There is a lot of pride in the knowledge that I discovered a winner".
CBS Sports recaps the 1966-67 NFL Football Season and Super Bowl I
Interview of the Day
Tim Conway EXCLUSIVE on EWTN's World Over Live with Raymond Arroyo | 2013
Warner Brothers Theaters in Los Angeles for a premier

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Who was the original host of the Newlywed Game Show

Bob Eubanks

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

Glitter is so unique it can be used as forensic evidence if matching glitter is found at the crime scene and on the suspect since glitter often goes unnoticed by the suspect.

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