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What happened in history on this day: August 14?
On August 14 in ...
- 1948 - CBS-TV inaugurates first nightly televised news broadcast, with anchorman Douglas Edwards.
- 1978 - French TV announces a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday.
Births on August 14
- 1920 - Birth of Nehemiah Persoff; actor (Al Capone, Yentl).
- 1926 - Birth of Alice Ghostly in Montana, USA; actress (Bewitched, With Six You Get Egg Roll).
- 1942 - Birth of Sandy Gilmour in Montclair, New Jersey, USA; newscaster (Prime Time Sunday).
- 1945 - Birth of Steve Martin in Waco, Texas, USA; comedian-actor (The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains).
- 1946 - Birth of Antonio Fargas in the Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Huggy Bear - Starsky and Hutch, Everybody Hates Chris).
- 1946 - Birth of Susan Saint James in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (MacMillan and Wife, Kate and Allie, Name of the Game).
- 1951 - Birth of Carl Lumbly; actor (Alias, Cagney and Lacey).
- 1953 - Birth of James Horner; film composer (Titanic).
- 1956 - Birth of Jackee Harry; actress (Sister Sister, 227).
- 1957 - Birth of Jackee (Harry) Winston-Salem in North Carolina, USA; actress (Sandra - 227).
- 1959 - Birth of Marcia Gay Harden; actress (Damages, Education of Max Bickford).
- 1961 - Birth of Susan Olson; actress (Cindy - The Brady Bunch).
- 1965 - Birth of Emmanuelle Béart in Saint Tropez, France; actress (Manon of the Spring).
- 1966 - Birth of Halle Berry; actress (Knots Landings, Living Dolls).
- 1968 - Birth of Catherine Bell; actress (JAG).
- 1974 - Birth of Christopher Gorham; actor (Ugly Betty).
- 1983 - Birth of Mila Kunis; Ukrainian-American actress (That '70s Show).
- 1983 - Birth of Spencer Pratt; TV personality (The Hills).
Deaths on August 14
- 1972 - Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at age 65.
- 1980 - Vancouver-born actress and Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten is shot-gunned to death by her husband Paul Snider in a West Los Angeles apartment. Snider then shoots himself.
- 1991 - Death of Douglas Kiker of a heart attack at age 61; news correspondent (NBC Magazine, Peabody award 1970).
- 2011 - Death of Shamsher Raj Kapoor AKA Shammi Kapoor at age 79; Indian film actor and director (Tumsa Nahin Dekha (Never Seen Anyone Like You) 1957, Junglee (Wild) 1961, Dil Deke Dekho, An Evening in Paris, Kasmir Ki Kah).
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