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Gary Owens May 10, 1934 - February 12, 2015 Announcer |
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Owens was an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished
baritone speaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total
nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on "Rowan
and Martin's Laugh-In". He is best known, aside from being the announcer
on Laugh-In, for providing the voice of the Space Ghost on "Space
Ghost". | |
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On this day 149 years ago, in 1872, Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States. |
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| 1773 Britain passes the Tea Act to save the British East India Co., granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. 1837 New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels. 1863 Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies 8 days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops. 1869 The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike. 1893 The Supreme Court rules that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883. 1908 Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia. 1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation 1940 Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1946 First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan. 2005 A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet from President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. | |
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