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Besides singing, Jimmy is a best selling author. In 1977 he had the hit Margaritaville.

It’s the date of birth of Goldie Hawn, Marlo Thomas, Lorna Luft, Harold Ramis, Carly Rae Jepsen, and (pictured) the late Foster Hewitt. Albertans first heard the call letters CKUA, as the University of Alberta took over radio station CFCK. Vancouver got its first FM station as CBR-FM debuted at 105.7; The ‘Roy Rogers Show’ was first heard on the Mutual radio network; CKO-FM came to Vancouver with All News Radio at 96.1 MHz; 82 million saw the season opener on CBS-TV’s ‘Dallas’; Aerosmith guested on Fox-TV’s ‘The Simpsons’; and Sherry Stringfield left the cast of NBC-TV’s ‘ER’ for the first time. Leaving this mortal coil on Nov. 21st were Bruno Gerussi, Harry Von Zell, Jerry Colonna, Bill Bixby, Gardner McKay and Bill Black. Details and ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Allan Gee, you set a FANTASTIC example for what it means to be a positive community member and it has been an absolute pleasure working in the same building as you

The five StarMetro bureaus — in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and Halifax — produced stories for their respective free print daily newspapers and the Star website.

Ricky was an accomplished actor (both TV and film) and singer. He died in a plane crash on December 1985, Ricky was just 45 years old. His music goes on like this hit from 1958

Happy Birthday to Dick Smothers, Judy Woodruff, Estelle Parsons, Richard Masur, Sean Young and Joe Walsh of The Eagles. On this date 72 years ago ‘Meet the Press’ made its TV debut on NBC; 22 years ago today Victoria got its own CBC Radio station at 90.5 MHz; George Harrison and Paul Simon sang as a duet on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and six years later to the day, 7-year old Drew Barrymore hosted the show. CBS-TV aired the 100th episode of ‘Green Acres’; 12 years later it broadcast ‘M*A*S*H*’ episode #200. ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ featured headliners the Dave Clark Five, Bobby Vinton and Dick Cavett, and U2 was profiled on ’60 Minutes.’ Obits include Canadian broadcasters Chuck Davis and Tom Rivers, and the ‘first lady’ of radio, Cathy Lewis (pictured). ALL the milestones for Nov. 20th INSIDE.

Snow, 48, took over after longtime CFRA host Lowell Green retired his morning show in 2016. Snow’s show, News & Views, aired on CFRA from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.