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March 21, 1980

Today In History

J.R. Ewing was shot on the TV show 'Dallas'

Dallas – Prime Time Television Soap Opera First Telecast on April 2, 1978 Dallas, the saga of the Ewing Family, began as a five-part mini-series in 1978. At this time no evening show caught the soap opera crowd's attention. The ratings were fair, until the show moved to Friday nights. The Ewing family lived at the sprawling South Fork ranch, in high end Braddock Country just outside Dallas. Like any good power family, there was the matriarch and patriarch, Jock and Miss Ellie and three sons. Their extensive romantic relations, and the Barnes clan of rival oilers were all that was needed to create a self-contained world of intrigue, dysfunction and passion. Brothers Bobby and older brother J.R. didn't exactly play nice with each other. J.R. was nearly a hundred percent scoundrel, Bobby had streaks of honesty and integrity…but that patented Ewing viciousness certainly reared its head once in a while.

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Who won Best Actress in 1948?

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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

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The same person who sang "You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" was also the voice of Tony the Tiger (Thurl Ravenscroft).

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Hope and Crosby

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Edgar Bergen

Hope and Crosby

Sonny and Cher

Edgar Bergen

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I was the first astronaut to orbit the earth and 36 years later the oldest to go in to space, Who am I ?

John Glenn

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. 

Name the actress whose career began at the age of 3, and who went on to star in films such as Contact, Maverick and The Silence of the Lambs? Jodie Foster.

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