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 1953: The Academy Awards were televised for the first time. "The Greatest Show On Earth" was named best picture.
1957: Elvis Presley bought Graceland.
1963: Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould were married. They divorced in 1971.
1968: The Bee Gees made their U.S. television debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The brothers sang "To Love Somebody" and "Words."
1969: John Lennon married Yoko Ono in a private ceremony in Gibraltar.
1970: Singer Tammi Terrell died of a brain tumor in Philadelphia at age 24. The tumor was diagnosed three years earlier when she collapsed during a concert.
1970: David Bowie and Angela Barnett got married in England. They later split up.
1989: Madonna's "Like A Prayer" album was released.
1991: Seven members of Reba McEntire's band and her road manager were killed when their plane crashed after taking off from an airport in San Diego.
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 1991: Eric Clapton's 4-year-old son, Conor, died when he fell out of a window in New York.
1993: Comedian Eddie Murphy and Nicole Mitchell got married in New York. They divorced in 2006.
1996: The second installment of The Beatles' "Anthology" album was released, featuring the song "Real Love."
2005: Actor Robert Blake was acquitted of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. He was later found liable in a civil court and ordered to pay her children $30 million.
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