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On This Day April 11
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1926 – Comedian Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman (d. 2009)
1933 – Retired CBS News host, anchor and commentator Charles Osgood
1937 – Singer Shirley Bassey, whose numerous hits include three James Bond theme songs
1938 – “The Newlywed Game” host Bob Eubanks
1942 – Physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking (“A Brief History of Time”) (d. 2018)
1947 – Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Bowie (“Space Oddity,” “Fame”) (d. 2016)
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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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