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It was Feb 23rd when The Beatles made their third appearance in as many weeks on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show, When The Fifth Dimension guested on ABC-TV’s action series ‘It Takes a Thief.’ When the first Juno Awards were handed out, celebrating the best in Canadian music. (The first year they were ‘The Gold Leaf Awards.) And when 65 million Americans tuned in to NBC-TV for the Spielberg movie ‘Schindler’s List’ with minimal commercials. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Nordine, of Edgewater, Ill., was famous for a velvet baritone voice that was featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. He hosted the show “Word Jazz” on WBEZ in Chicago for 40 years.

PPC candidate Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson was excluded from a Thursday appearance on Breakfast Television Vancouver.

One of the oldest three-letter call signs in the US, radio station WOR went on the air from studios in Newark N.J. The first presidential address on radio from the White House was delivered by Calvin Coolidge. Vancouver’s CKLG AM 730 dropped its experiment in talk radio and returned to contemporary hit music. And Sportscaster Al Michaels (pictured) was at the mike as the USA scored its ‘Miracle on Ice,’ upsetting the USSR, enroute to Olympic hockey Gold. Bernie Pascall called the game live to Canada. ALL the milestones for Feb. 22nd INSIDE.

KQMV Movin' 92.5 retained its dominance in all the Demo breakouts.

“HBO will move forward with the airing of the two-part documentary on March 3 and 4. This will allow everyone the opportunity to assess the film and the claims in it for themselves.”

The musician was best-known as the wise-cracking dummy in the fictitious TV rock band. He became a teenage heartthrob in the late-1960s thanks to his endearing personality and lovable character.

O’Donnell would follow in the footsteps of Diane Sawyer at ABC and Katie Couric at CBS in the anchor seat of a top news show should the move go ahead.

The first TV soap opera ‘A Woman to Remember’ debuted on the shortlived Dumont network. The 200th episode of “Perry Mason” (starring New Westminster’s Raymond Burr) aired on CBS TV. Neil Diamond’s first TV special aired on NBC-TV. The 200th episode of the hit sitcom 'The Jeffersons' was seen on CBS-TV. Montreal's Leonard Cohen made a rare TV appearance guesting on NBC's 'Miami Vice.' And David Letterman (pictured) returned to his CBS Late Show some five weeks after having emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery, ALL the milestones for Feb. 21st INSIDE.

Such a charge occurs when a person makes a report of a crime to peace officer while knowing that the information isn’t true.