Did you know - - - - - --Johnny Carsons first guest when he took over the Tonight Show on October 1, 1962, was Groucho Marx. --Censors banned the word pregnant from I Love Lucy scripts during the 1952-53 TV season even though Lucy was obviously expecting. The birth of her son was the highlight of the season. --The name Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisiana, is French for red stick--for the red cypress tree that once marked the boundary between local Indian tribes. --The oldest church bells in the U.S. are in Bostons Old North Church. They were made in England in 1744 and shipped to Boston. --Actress/singer Bette Midler worked in a pineapple cannery before getting her first taste of show business as an extra in the 1966 film Hawaii. She was paid $350 for portraying a Christian missionary. --Today in 1818, in the Flag Act of 1818, Congress decided that the U.S. flag would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state. --Today in 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office and the one with the shortest term served. --Today in 1932, Vitamin C was first isolated by C.C. King at the University of Pittsburgh. --Today in 1960, William Wylers Technicolor epic Ben-Hur set an Oscar record and swept 11 of the 12 categories in which it was nominated including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (Charlton Heston). On a budget of some $15 million, Ben-Hur was the most expensive movie ever made up to that point. The only Oscar the film did not win was Best Adapted Screenplay. Today in 1968, just after 6:00 p.m., civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated by James Earl Ray as King stood on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was in Memphis to support a strike by the citys sanitation workers. A gossip is a newscaster without the sponsor. If you suspect your date is deaf, its a bad sign. (Cynthia Heimel)
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