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What happened in history on this day: December 18?
On December 18 in ...
- 1956 - CBS-TV debuts panel show To Tell the Turth, hosted by Bud Collyer.
- 1976 - ABC TV debuts series Wonder Woman.
- 1996 - American TV industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system.
- 2002 - New Line releases the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers to theaters.
- 2009 - Fox releases the film Avatar to theaters.
- 2015 - Buena Vista releases the film Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens to theaters.
Births on December 18
- 1870 - Birth of Andres Randolf in Denmark; actor (The Kiss).
- 1877 - Birth of Max Pallenberg in Austria; actor (Brave Suender)/husband of Fritzi Massary.
- 1888 - Birth of Gladys Cooper in Lewisham, England; actress (My Fair Lady).
- 1906 - Birth of Kam Tong; actor (Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song).
- 1908 - Birth of Celia Johnson in England; actress (Happy Breed, Brief Encounter).
- 1913 - Birth of Lynn Bari in Roanoke, Virginia, USA; actress (Connie - Detective Wife, Earthbound).
- 1917 - Birth of Ossie Davis in Cogdell, Georgia, USA; actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam).
- 1922 - Birth of Larry D Mann in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Marty - Accidental Family).
- 1926 - Birth of Peggy Cummins in North Wales; actress (Curse of the Demon).
- 1931 - Birth of Gunnel Lindblom in Goteborg, Sweden; actor (Hunger, Virgin Spring).
- 1932 - Birth of Roger Smith in South Gate, California, USA; actor (77 Sunset Strip).
- 1943 - Birth of Alan Rudolph; actor (Endangers Species, Love at Large, Made in Heaven).
- 1949 - Birth of Joni Flynn in Assam, India; actress (Octopussy).
- 1950 - Birth of Gillian Armstrong in Melbourne, Australia; director (High Tide, Mrs Soffel).
- 1951 - Birth of Candice Rialson in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Chatterbox).
- 1955 - Birth of Ray Liotta in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Henry Hill - Goodfellas, Sacha - Casablanca).
- 1959 - Birth of Barrie Chase; actress (Mardi Gras, Cape Fear).
- 1963 - Birth of Brad Pitt in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Fight Club, Meet Joe Black, Legends of the Fall).
- 1966 - Birth of Gianluca Pagliuca; Italian actress (Ugly Dirty and Bad).
- 1968 - Birth of Casper Van Dien; actor (Starship Troopers).
Deaths on December 18
- 1971 - Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at age 45.
- 1977 - Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at age 80.
- 1977 - Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line?), dies at age 92.
- 1986 - Mamo Clark, actor (One Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies.
- 1990 - Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at age 87.
- 1990 - Death of Connie Russell at age 66 of heart problems; singer (Garroway at Large TV show (1949), variety TV shows of Morey Amsterdam, Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor).
- 1991 - June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at age 73.
- 1993 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Private Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at age 74.
- 1994 - Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at age 98.
- 1997 - Death of Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Tommy Boy), at age 33 (born 1964).
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