AUGUST 11, 2014 – NATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL JOKE DAY – NATIONAL RASPBERRY BOMBE DAY
Birthdays: Hulk Hogan 61; Anna Gunn 46; John Conlee 68;
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1924 – Newsreel pictures were taken of U.S. presidential candidates for the first time.
1948 – “ABC Network News and Views” premiered. It was ABC’s first regularly scheduled nightly newscast.
1951 – The first major league baseball game to be televised in color was broadcast. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves 8-1.
1951 – Hank Williams hits #1 in Billboard’s country chart with “Hey, Good Lookin'”
1972 – Elvis Presley files for divorce from Priscilla in Santa Monica, California
