Peter Jennings

In 1961, Jennings became, with Baden Langton, the first anchors of a Canadian private national news program. The two were the first coanchors of CTV National News. The program had varying anchor teams in its first years, although Jennings was the sole constant. He was with the program until 1964. During his years at CTV, he also covered the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, being present at the Dallas ...

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Peter Jennings, Peter Jennings - Early life, Peter Jennings - Anchor career, Peter Jennings - Ratings, Peter Jennings - Leaving the chair, Peter Jennings - Citizenship, Peter Jennings - Awards, Peter Jennings - Trivia

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country's national radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Société Radio-Canada (Radio-Canada or SRC). The umbrella corporate brand is CBC/Radio-Canada. The CBC is the oldest broadcasting service in the country, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, La Première Chaîne, Espace musique, and the in ...

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• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - History
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• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Television
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Internet
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Podcasting
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Other ventures
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Audio services
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Technical services
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC in other countries
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Newsworld International
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - US border audiences
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Carriage of CBC News
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC Radio
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Caribbean and Bermuda
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC Bureaus
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Overseas
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Public versus private ownership
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Issue of bias
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Nicknames
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Labour problems
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Presidents
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Famous people who got their starts on the CBC

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August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. August 9 - Events. 48 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. AD 378 - Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with 2/3 of his army. 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a ...

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August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in North Hemisphere summer, South Hemisphere winter. The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through the summer on August 7. August 7 - Events. 1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Gre ...

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Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, who served as anchor of the CBS Evening News from March 9, 1981, until March 9, 2005. Dan Rather - Biography. Rather was born in Wharton, Texas, the son of Daniel Irvin Rather Sr. and his wife, the former Byrl Veda Page. In 1953 he received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sam Houston State Teachers College where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Houstonian. Rather began his career in 1950 as an Associated Pres ...

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• Dan Rather - Biography
• Dan Rather - Journalist history and influence
• Dan Rather - Nixon
• Dan Rather - Afghanistan Reagan and George H.W. Bush
• Dan Rather - The Wall Within
• Dan Rather - The Killian documents
• Dan Rather - Retirement from the Evening News
• Dan Rather - Awards
• Dan Rather - Criticisms of Rather
• Dan Rather - Notable incidents
• Dan Rather - 1968 Democratic convention
• Dan Rather - Kenneth what is the frequency?
• Dan Rather - Courage
• Dan Rather - Dead Air
• Dan Rather - AIDS activists
• Dan Rather - Ratherisms
• Dan Rather - Pop culture figure
• Dan Rather - Drug Use
• Dan Rather - Ratings

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2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → August 2005 - Deaths in August. August 31: Michael Sheard August 26: Lord Fitt August 24: Jack Slipper August 24: Maurice Cowling August 24: Dr. Tom Pashby August 23: Brock Peters August 22: Lord Lane August 21: Robert Moog August 19: Mo Mowlam August 18: Gao Xiumin August 16: Frère Roger August ...

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Dr. Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a physicist and one of the world's foremost string theorists. Since 2003 he has been a professor at Columbia University. Born in New York City, Greene was a prodigy in mathematics. At the age of five, he could multiply 30-digit numbers. His skill in mathematics was such that by the time he was twelve years old, he was being privately tutored in mathematics by a Columbia University professor because he had surpassed the high-school math level. He entered Harvard in 1980 to major in physics, and with his bachelor's degree, Greene went to ...

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Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television sportscaster. Since 1977, he has been employed by ABC Sports and has been one of the most prominent and respected members of his profession. Michaels is best known for his broadcast of the Miracle on Ice, where he said the famous quote "Do you believe in miracles?" Michaels has won numerous awards during his career, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality (Play-by-Play Host) four times, the NSSA Award from t ...

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• Al Michaels - Early life and career
• Al Michaels - Monday Night Football
• Al Michaels - National Basketball Association
• Al Michaels - The Miracle on Ice
• Al Michaels - 1989 World Series
• Al Michaels - 1986 American League Championship Series
• Al Michaels - Personal
• Al Michaels - Trivia

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See also: list of 'years in Canada' 2005 in Canadian politics 2005 in Canadian culture 2005 Canadian incumbents 2004-05 NHL season 2005-06 NHL season other events of 2005 2005 in Canada - Incumbents. Head of State - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Governor General - Adrienne Clarkson then Michaëlle Jean Prime Minister - Paul Martin Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein Premie ...

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• 2005 in Canada - Incumbents
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• 2005 in Canada - Arts and literature
• 2005 in Canada - Sports
• 2005 in Canada - Births
• 2005 in Canada - Deaths

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The 1991 Gulf War also known as Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations[1] mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. The lead up to the war began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, following Iraqi contentions that Kuwait was illegally "slant-drilling" oil across Iraq's border. The invasion was met with immediate economic sanc ...

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• Gulf War - Name
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• Gulf War - Pre-war Iraqi-American relations
• Gulf War - Invasion of Kuwait
• Gulf War - Diplomacy
• Gulf War - Air campaign
• Gulf War - Ground campaign
• Gulf War - The end of hostilities
• Gulf War - Coalition involvement
• Gulf War - Canada
• Gulf War - Casualties
• Gulf War - Casualties during the War
• Gulf War - The Post-War Effects of Depleted Uranium
• Gulf War - Cost
• Gulf War - Media
• Gulf War - Consequences
• Gulf War - Technology
• Gulf War - Films about the Gulf War
• Gulf War - Further reading
• Gulf War - Notes

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This is a list of television-related events in 2005. 2004 in film 2005 in film 2006 in film 2004 in home video 2005 in home video 2006 in home video 2004 in television 2005 in television 2006 in television 2005 in television - Events. January 1 - The U.S. channel package "PT East", originally created by the New York, New York, company PrimeTime 24, and ...

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• 2005 in television - Deaths
• 2005 in television - Movies

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2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → April 2005 - Deaths in April. • 26: Augusto Roa Bastos • 24: Ezer Weizman • 23: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen • 23: John Mills • 16: Marla Ruzicka • 9: Andrea Dworkin • 6: Prince Rainier III • 5: Dale Messick • 5: Saul Bellow • 2: Pope John Paul II • 1: Harald Juhnke

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• April 2005 - Deaths in April
• April 2005 - Events by month
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April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). There are 270 days remaining. April 5 - Events. 33 - (traditional date) Resurrection of Jesus, according to the Christian gospels. (date est. by Sir Isaac Newton) 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. < ...

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2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponded to the years 5765-5766 in the Hebrew Calendar, 1425-1426 in the Islamic Calendar, 1383-1384 in the Iranian calendar and 2758 a.U.c. 2005 was the World Year of Physics, the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, and the International Year of the Eucharist in Catholicism. 2005 - Events. 2005 - January. January 4 - Death of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri, a ...

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Black triangles are a kind of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) that have been observed in the skies since the 1970s (and possibly earlier), to the present day. They have appeared more commonly over cities of the United States, and England, but have been spotted world wide including a mass sighting over St. Petersburg, Russia on February 19, 1997. Since then, hundreds of observers have reported enormous, totally silent, black triangular craft hovering or slowly cruising at low altitudes over cities and highways, usually at night ...

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• Black triangles - Reported sightings
• Black triangles - Typical sightings
• Black triangles - Illinois police sighting incident
• Black triangles - Rendlesham Forest incident
• Black triangles - Phoenix lights incident
• Black triangles - The Belgian Air Force report
• Black triangles - The TR-3A and TR-3B
• Black triangles - Other theories
• Black triangles - Black triangles in fiction

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ABC News is a division of the American Broadcasting Company television and radio networks (ABC). Its current president is David Westin. ABC News - Current ABC News programs. Good Morning America World News Tonight 20/20 PrimeTime Live Nightline World News Now World News This Morning This Week with George Stephanopoulos ABC News also runs ABC Radio bulletins on th ...

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• ABC News - Current ABC News programs
• ABC News - Current and past ABC News personalities
• ABC News - External link

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Regis Philbin hosted the December 31, 2004 broadcast because Clark was in the hospital with a stroke. In August 2005 it was announced that Ryan Seacrest would become the executive producer and co-host with Clark. During this edition of New Year's Rockin Eve, when the countdown for the final seconds of 2004 began rolling, Philbin was so surprised to see millions of United States citizens cheering for the new year to be rang in and dancing in their audience podiums with their hats, noise makers and confetti, that since it was the ...

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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - The 2005 New Year's special, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - The 2006 New Year's special, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - Dick Clark's future as host

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Madeleine Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and raised Roman Catholic by her parents, who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism in order to escape persecution. Madeleine was the French version of "Madlenka", a Czech nickname given by her grandmother. Albright adopted the new name when she attended a Swiss boarding school. In 1939, the Korbel family fled to England after Bohemia and Moravia were annexed by Germany in 1939. That may have saved her life, as many of h ...

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Madeleine Albright, Madeleine Albright - Personal information, Madeleine Albright - Academic and public career, Madeleine Albright - Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright - Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright - Post-2001

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Regis Philbin hosted the December 31, 2004 broadcast because Clark was in the hospital with a stroke, marking the second time Clark could not host his New Year's Eve broadcast. During this edition of New Year's Rockin Eve, when the countdown for the final seconds of 2004 began rolling, Philbin was so surprised to see millions of United States citizens cheering for the new year to be rang in and dancing in their audience podiums with their hats, noise makers and confetti, that since it was the first time he has ever hosted a New ...

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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - The 2005 New Year's special, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - The 2006 New Year's special, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - Dick Clark's future as host, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - Awards and honors

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News presenter - American news anchors. Rudi Bakhtiar (possibly retired), CNN David Brinkley (deceased), The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) Tom Brokaw (semi-retired), NBC News Wolf Blitzer, CNN Aaron Brown, CNN formerly at ABC News John Chancellor (deceased), NBC Nightly News Connie Chung Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom Anderson Cooper, CNN Walter Cronkite (retired), CBS News Sam Donaldson, ABC News Lo ...

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