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In History 1966 Bill Cosby wins Emmy On this day in 1966, Bill Cosby wins the Emmy for Best Actor, for his series I Spy. Cosby, the first African American actor to star in a regular dramatic series, also won Emmys in 1967 and 1968 for his role in the adventure and espionage show. Cosby was born in Philadelphia in 1937. He dropped out of high school and joined the navy in 1956, later finishing his high school degree by correspondence. In 1960, he entered Temple University on a football scholarship, but by the following year he had become more interested in comedy and began performing regularly in a Greenwich Village nightclub. He pursued a career in show business and was cast in 1965 as the partner of a white undercover agent in I Spy, which ran until 1968. The show co-starred Robert Culp, and was the first TV show to portray a natural working relationship between white and black colleagues. Article No. 320110320584 1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born It's the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr. Joseph Bell, a teacher with extraordinary deductive reasoning power. Bell partly inspired Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes years later. After medical school, Doyle moved to London, where his slow medical practice left him ample free time to write. His first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. Article No. 300110305254 1455 THE WAR OF THE ROSES In the opening battle of England's War of the Roses, the Yorkists defeat King Henry VI's Lancastrian forces at St. Albans, 20 miles northwest of London. Many Lancastrian nobles perished, including Edmund Beaufort, the duke of Somerset, and the king was forced to submit to the rule of his cousin, Richard of York. The dynastic struggle between the House of York, whose badge was a red rose, and the House of Lancaster, later associated with a white rose, would stretch on for 30 years. Article No. 29011029262 |