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2003 Michael Jeter, actor, Evening Shade, dies at 50

1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News

1988 Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair

1985 Jack Miller, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89

1983 Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59

1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News

1978 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84

1974 "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 438 performances

1974 Stewart Alsop, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek, dies

1973 "Good Evening" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 438 performances

1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

1965 Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley

1964 Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63

1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden New York City after 55 performances

1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden New York City for 55 performances

1961 Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"

1960 In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News

1959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47

1954 Tom Blomberg, Dutch radio host/producer, Evening Rush Hour

1944 Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph

1943 Roelof den Ambtman, Dutch actor and director, One Evening at Eva

1943 Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief, Evening News, Manchester

1939 Elizabeth Ashley, Cole, Ocala Florida, actress, Coma, Evening Shade

1939 Max Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, black news anchor, ABC Evening News

1938 Peter Jennings, born in Toronto, Canada, news anchor, ABC Evening News

1936 Burt Reynolds, born in Michigan, actor, Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball

1932 New York newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt

1931 Dan Rather, born in Wharton, Texas, news anchor, CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes

1931 Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper

1928 Roger Mudd, Washington D.C., news ancher, CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News

1925 Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate, Daily Mail, Evening News

1923 Frank Reynolds, E Chicago, Indiana, news anchor, ABC Evening News

1921 Frank McGee, born in Monroe, Louisiana, news anchor, NBC Evening News

1917 Douglas Edwards, born in Alda, Oklahoma, newscaster, CBS Evening News, FYI

1916 Walter Cronkite, St. Joseph, Missouri, news anchor, CBS Evening News 1962-81

1916 Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting

1914 Stewart Alsop, born in Avon, Connecticut, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek

1908 Lord Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar

1904 Don Goddard, born in Binghamton, New York, news anchor, ABC Evening News 1958-59

1902 Morgan Beatty, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, news anchor, Du Mont Evening News

1894 Venus is both a morning star and evening star

1894 Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers

1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)

1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi

1849 Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter, New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun

1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)

1801 1st edition of New York Evening Post

1776 Declaration of Independence announced on front page of "Pennsylvania Evening Gazette"

1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"

1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)


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