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 1950: Disney released the movie "Cinderella."
1961: Frank Sinatra unveiled his own record label, Reprise. Sinatra did not have a very high opinion of rock music, but the label would release recordings by The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix and The Kinks.
1965: Singer Nat "King" Cole died of lung cancer in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 46.
1965: Ringo Starr married Maureen Cox in London. They divorced in 1975.
1972: David Bowie first performed as "Ziggy Stardust," at a show in England.
1980: CBS announced that Dan Rather would succeed Walter Cronkite as anchorman and managing editor on "The CBS Evening News" the following year.
1984: Broadway singer and actress Ethel Merman died at the age of 76.
1993: Michael Jackson revealed during a live TV interview with Oprah Winfrey that he has a disorder that destroys the pigmentation of his skin. He also insisted he's had very little plastic surgery.
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 1997: Michael Jackson and then-wife Debbie Rowe became parents to a son named Prince.
2000: "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz died at his home in San Francisco after battling colon cancer. He was 77. He died the day before his last "Peanuts" strip was published.
2006: Singer Scott Stapp married former Miss New York Jaclyn Nesheiwat in Miami. The next day, he was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in the Los Angeles International Airport.
2007: Britney Spears shaved her head after a salon owner refused to do it for her.
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