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2001 Tony Miles, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 dies

1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC and drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people

1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating

1989 MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes

1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)

1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)

1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"

1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating

1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)

1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

1955 Tony Miles, born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996

1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres

1921 Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system

1919 Huntz Hall, New York City, actor, Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game


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