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

1992 Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars

1992 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman

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

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

1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time

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

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

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

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

1984 Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live

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

1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"

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

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

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

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

1980 Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California

1979 Bob Dylan appears on SNL

1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show

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

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

1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live

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

1976 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 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" and Ringo on "Smother Brothers"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute

1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"

1967 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 New York Yankees appears in 14 and win 9 of last 16 World Series

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

1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"

1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"

1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"

1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"

1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special

1959 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 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears

1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores

1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show

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

1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"

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

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

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

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

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

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

1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1853 Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan

1849 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 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st U.S. electrical journal, appears

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

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

1768 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 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller


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