#50YearsAgoToday the Merced Sun-Star (Merced, CA) ran this highlight image of @lyndacarter.bsky.social in her #Amazon contest garb with #Feminum bracelets at the ready. In six days she would make her television debut as #WonderWoman Published on this date Saturday, November 1, 1975. #LyndaCater
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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"Mahogany" starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Perkins was released #50yearsagotoday. The film got mostly negative reviews but the soundtrack, which included "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)", sold one million copies.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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#50yearsagotoday, "Welcome Back, Kotter" premiered on ABC. The series starred Gabe Kaplan, a successful stand-up comic from Brooklyn, who helped to create the other characters on the show. The show ran for 95 episodes and helped to launch John Travolta's career.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday #BatmanMetTheShadow in #Batman #comics #253 aMonthAft #TheShadow’s #comicSeriesDebut @DCOfficial #TheMostPowerfulPulpAvengersToHaveOpenedAndClosedThe1930s #crackedACaseTogether #DennyONeil #DickGiordano #IrvNovick& #LamontCranston’s #alterEgo #returnTheNextSummer
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RT @HumanoidHistory: #50YearsAgoToday: The Gemini 12 #space capsule, docked with the Agena target vehicle, passes … <a href="http://buff.ly/2g5gQyU" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/2g5gQyU
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November 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Bettelon Peterson's TV Questions letter column featured another #BionicWoman fan wondering if #LindsayWagner was coming back to #SixMillionDollarMan (also, if she was married to #LeeMajors in real life!).
October 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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#50YearsAgoToday little Betsy Dodd, a #BionicWoman fan (obviously!), pretended to be 4 different people and wrote strongly-worded letters to the Philadelphia Inquirer, printed on this date Oct. 12, 1975.
JUST KIDDING! But visit her wonderful tribute to #TheBionicWoman at bionicblonde.com #Not!Steve
JUST KIDDING! But visit her wonderful tribute to #TheBionicWoman at bionicblonde.com #Not!Steve
October 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You" was the #1 song in the United States #50yearsagotoday. Featuring Ripperton's whistle register, the song is certified gold in the United States.
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April 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Lauryn Noelle Hill was born #50yearsagotoday in East Orange, NJ. Starting her career in entertainment as an actress, Hill later became the frontwoman for the hip-hop group, The Fugees. Going solo, Hill then released "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" in 1998.
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May 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#50yearsagotoday, a rowdy fans of the rock band, Led Zeppelin, trashed Boston Garden while they waited for the box office to open. The fans caused nearly $30,000 in damages to the arena.
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How Led Zeppelin Got Banned In Boston
On their record-breaking tours in the 1970s, rock band Led Zeppelin earned a reputation for excess and debauchery. One story even has their drummer riding…
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#50yearsAgoToday #DCComics published #FamousFirstEdition F-6 a #tabloid-size #coverToCover #exactReplica #reprint of 1942’s #WonderWoman #comics #1 featuring #TheOriginOfWonderWoman and 3 other adventures starring #TheAmazingAmazon + #WonderWomenOfHistory #FlorenceNightingale
January 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday in #yyc: Australian writer and feminist Dr. Germaine Greer speaks to a standing-room only crowd at MacEwan Hall, @ucalgary.bsky.social. The United Nations had proclaimed 1975 as International Women's Year. Calgary Herald photo
March 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday #Supergirl teamedWith #Batgirl vs #TheJusticeLeagueOfAmerica in #SupermanFamily #comics #171 when a descendant of #Cleopatra & #TheJLA areEnsorcelledBy #theOriginalScepter of #EgyptsFamedQueen & she #triesToClaimRuleOfTheUSA features #Babs resuscitating #Kara with #autoTireValveStem
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"The Towering Inferno" was the #1 film in the country #50yearsagotoday. Based on two novels and featuring an ensemble cast, The Towering Inferno grossed $203 million on a a budget of $14 million and was nominated for eight Academy Awards
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January 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The #1 book on The New York Times Best Seller List for non-fiction was Charles Berlitz's "The Bermuda Triangle." Berlitz's book explored theories about the disappearances of airplanes and ships in the Atlantic Ocean. Slammed by critics, the book still sold well.
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May 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday Was #JaimeSommers comig back to #SixMillionDollarMan? A #bionic official said, "If we don't have #BionicWoman, we'll have a #bionicbaby or a #bionicdog or something. Muncie Evening Press (Muncie, Indiana) on this date Monday, October 13, 1975.
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday #Toyman II debuted in #ActionComics #432 at #MetropolisAirport using his #LaserReducerRifle #toTurnA707AndOtherExpensiveMeansOfTravelToToySize & holdForRansom prompting #TheOriginalToyman80 to #comeOutRetirement & help #Superman85 take him down while #pretendingToTeamUp
November 29, 2023 at 6:26 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday this ad ran in the LA Times for the ABC-TV Sunday night Prime Time line-up for September 21, 1975. Did YOU tune in? #SixMillionDollarMan #BionicWoman #LeeMajors #LindsayWagner
September 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday the #SixMillionDollarMan crash sequence and the pilot who lived through it, #BrucePeterson This article ran in the Anaheim Bulletin (Anaheim, CA) on this day September 30, 1975.
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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#50YearsAgoToday #ClawTheUnconquered debuted in #hisOwnComicSeries #Valcan of #Pytharia a #HyborianAge-like #ConanTheBarbarian clone with #ADeformedRightHand battles #TheSorcerer #Occulas who murdered his father & #OurHero’s affliction is #laterRevealed to be #ADemonsBloodlineCurse
February 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday #originalMember #MartianManhunter returned to #JLA65 #comics after a #5YearAbsence in #JusticeLeagueOfAmerica #115’s #TheLastAngryGod where #Superman #Atom #TheFlash & #GreenLanternHalJordan65 travel to #JOnnJOnnz & #hisFellowMartians #newlyAdoptedHomeworld to help defeat #Korge
October 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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RT @HumanoidHistory: #50YearsAgoToday: The Gemini 9 #space capsule over the Pacific Ocean, June 5, 1966. <a href="http://buff.ly/1U25h5M" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://buff.ly/1U25h5M
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November 11, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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#50YearsAgoToday the Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) ran this profile on #RichardAnderson who is surprised and overjoyed at the sudden success of #SixMillionDollarMan "...we're all standing around staring at one another and wondering, "What did we do right?" On this date Saturday, October 25, 1975
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday #OMAC #comics #1 debuted #InTheComingFuture #BuddyBlank is #programmed by #TheGlobalPeaceAgency via it’s #superSateillite #BrotherEye ( #retconned #Batman85) as #TheHumanHost of #TheOneManArmyCorps #JackKirby’s final @dcofficial.bsky.social post #4thWorld concept cutShortAt #8issues
June 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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#50YearsAgoToday @dcofficial.bsky.social #LimitedCollectorsEdition C-31 was published #Superman’s 1st #tabloid-size #reprint volume 6 tales w #1stColorPrinting of 1973 #NealAdams #ENelsonBridwell #CurtSwan & #MurphyAnderson material & cover reproducing #HughJWard’s 1940 #firstKnownPaintingOfSuperman
July 2, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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