2002 Walter Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist/ambassador, started TV GUide, dies at 94
2001 Douglas Adams, hysterically-funny writer, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dies at 49
1991 TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition
1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1970 John Gerak, NFL tight end/guide, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams
1964 Cornelia Guest, debutante, Debutante's Guide to Life
1962 Richard de Guide, composer, dies at 52
1953 "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1952 Douglas Adams, born in England, author, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1942 Margaret Wright, chief commissioner, Guide Assn
1938 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78
1929 Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1925 Elliot Lawrence, Philadelphia, orch leader, Guide Right, Howard Cosell
1922 Judith Crist, New York, movie critic, TV Guide
1917 Cleveland Amory, Nahant Massachusetts, conservationist/TV reviewer, TV Guide
1909 Richard de Guide, composer
1908 Walter Annenberg, born in Milwaukee, publisher, Triangle-TV Guide and Ambassador to Great Britain
1905 Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit
1899 Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade
1880 Duncan Hines, U.S., restaurant guide writer, Out of Kentucky Kitchens
1859 Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1834 Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24
1808 Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher, The Guide
1709 Samuel Johnson, lexicographer/writer, Boswell's Tour Guide
1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew
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