On This Day – 32nd Annual CMA Awards
ON THIS DAY - September 23rd:
1845 - 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1961 - 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
1962 - ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons
1969 - 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV
1969 - "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford premieres
1998 - 32nd Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks "Entertainer Of Year", Trisha Yearwood "Female Vocalist Of Year", George Strait "Male Vocalist Of Year" & Tim McGraw "Album of Year" for "Everywhere"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:
1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor, (d. 2014)
1947 - Mary Kay Place, actress/country singer (Mary Hartman!), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
GOODBYE TO:
1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and creator of psychoanalysis, dies at 83
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