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2011 Event - Muammar Gaddafi appears on Libyan television claiming himself the 'father of Libya'

2011 Event - The moon appears 30% brighter and 14% larger than at its furthest point; it reaches its closest point to Earth since 1993

2011 Event - In an effort to disprove claims that he has fled the country, Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi appears on television and claims to remain head of the revolution

1996 Event - O. J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict

1992 Event - Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars

1992 Event - 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman

1991 Event - Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer

1990 Event - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years

1990 Event - Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time

1987 Event - Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy

1986 Event - To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV

1985 Event - "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers

1985 Event - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King and I"

1984 Event - Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live

1984 Event - Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine

1982 Event - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"

1981 Event - Jerry Lee Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons

1981 Event - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue

1980 Event - Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"

1980 Event - David Bowie appears in role of 'Elephant Man' in Denver

1980 Event - Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California

1979 Event - Bob Dylan appears on SNL

1979 Event - Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show

1978 Event - Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip

1977 Event - 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson

1976 Event - George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live

1976 Event - Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears

1976 Birthday - Andy Milonakis, born in Katonah, New York, actor, comedian, uses comedy to deflect from his congenital growth-hormone condition, giving him the voice, appearance of an adolescent boy, appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live television show

1975 Event - John Lennon appears on "Tonight" and Ringo on "Smother Brothers"

1974 Event - John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (New York City)

1974 Event - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"

1974 Event - Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"

1973 Event - Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"

1973 Event - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol"

1973 Event - Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"

1973 Event - Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"

1972 Event - Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"

1971 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV

1969 Event - Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute

1968 Event - Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"

1967 Birthday - Tim Vine, born in London, Enlgand, actor, comedian, performs stand up comedy, television, appears at festivals, tours through the United Kingdom include 'Current Puns' and 'Punslinger', achieved Guinness World Record for most jokes told in an hour

1964 Event - New York Yankees appears in 14 and win 9 of last 16 World Series

1964 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section

1963 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"

1963 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"

1962 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"

1961 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"

1960 Event - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special

1959 Birthday - Hugh Laurie, born in Oxford, England, James Hugh Calum Laurie, actor, writer, musician, comedian, comedy partner, Stephen Fry, known for the Fry and Laurie double act, appears in successful Fox television drama House, playing role of Dr. Gregory House

1958 Event - Comic strip "BC" 1st appears

1957 Event - New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores

1956 Event - Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show

1956 Event - Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers

1954 Event - Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"

1950 Event - Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England

1949 Event - "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts

1948 Event - J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY

1945 Event - Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci"

1943 Event - 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam

1941 Event - "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers

1941 Event - "Captain America" appears in a comic book

1940 Event - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears

1940 Event - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago

1938 Event - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears

1938 Event - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1

1937 Event - "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail

1934 Event - Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"

1932 Event - Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney

1930 Event - "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears

1929 Event - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears

1924 Event - 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in New York City Daily News

1916 Event - 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)

1898 Event - 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life and Letters" appears

1897 Event - John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal

1887 Event - Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"

1886 Event - 1st U.S. nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, New York City

1864 Event - U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg

1853 Event - Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan

1849 Death - Dolley Madison, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins, died at age 81 in Washington, D.C.

1840 Event - Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st U.S. electrical journal, appears

1823 Event - Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith

1780 Event - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor)

1768 Birthday - Dolley Madison, born in New Garden, North Carolina, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins

1495 Event - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller

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