Sunday, October 02, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 2
1959:Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS, taking viewers to "a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity." The anthology series runs for five seasons, featuring a variety of well-known actors in science fiction tales of the futuristic and the paranormal.

1971: Rod Stewart scores his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit with "Maggie May," a song about a young man's liaison with an older woman.

1985: Movie leading man Rock Hudson dies of complications from AIDS in Hollywood, Calif. He is the first U.S. celebrity to die of the disease. Hudson was 59.
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