
On This Day April 30
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Click each item below to learn more! 1746 – Artist Francisco Goya (d. 1828) 1853 – Artist Vincent Van Gogh (d. 1890) 1926 – TV game show host Peter Marshall 1930 – Actor John Astin, best known as Gomez Addams in the hit TV series “The Addams Family” 1957 – Comedian-actor Paul Reiser (“Diner,” “Aliens,” “Mad About You”) 1964 – Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman (“Fast Car,” “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution”)
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Musical Milestones
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Click each item below to learn more! 1977 – After nearly four decades with CBS News, anchor Eric Sevareid retires. Sevareid was among a group of elite war correspondents hired by legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow, and nicknamed “Murrow’s Boys.” He was the first to report the Fall of Paris when the city was captured by the Germans in World War II.
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Musical Milestones
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Click each item below to learn more! 1924 – “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood” author Truman Capote (d. 1984) 1928 – Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (d. 2016) 1931 – Actress Angie Dickinson, who starred in the 1970s TV crime drama “Police Woman” 1943 – Singer Marilyn McCoo, formerly of the band the 5th Dimension 1954 – Actor Barry Williams, born Barry William Blenkhorn, who played Greg on TV’s “The Brady Bunch”
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History Highlights
Click each item below to learn more! 1908 – Actor Fred MacMurray (“Double Indemnity,” “My Three Sons”) (d. 1991) 1918 – Baseball legend Ted Williams (d. 2002) 1924 – Fashion designer Geoffrey Beene (d. 2004) 1927 – Actor Bill Daily (“I Dream of Jeannie,” “The Bob Newhart Show”) (d. 2018) 1930 – Investment guru and philanthropist Warren Buffett, a.k.a. “The Oracle of Omaha” 1946 – Actress Peggy Lipton (“The Mod Squad,” “Twin Peaks,” “The Postman”) (d. 2019)
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History Highlights
Click each item below to learn more! 1863 – Industrialist and Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford 1890 – Baseball Hall of Famer Casey Stengel 1941 – Singer-songwriter Paul Anka 1947 – Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger 1964 – Actress Vivica Fox (“Days of Our Lives,” “Independence Day,” “Batman & Robin,” “Alias”)
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