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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Highlights from this week in entertainment history

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1933 Five-year-old Shirley Temple signs a movie contract with Fox. Her age is later changed to make her appear a year younger.

1937 Disney releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, its first full-length animated film in color.

1970 Elvis Presley pays a visit to President Richard Nixon at the White House.

1976 The Eagles' album Hotel California goes platinum.

1990 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman get married in Colorado. They had met while filming Days of Thunder. They've since divorced.

1991 Jane Fonda marries Ted Turner on his ranch in Florida. It is her 54th birthday. They've since split up.

1997 Woody Allen marries Soon-Yi Previn in a secret wedding in Venice, Italy.

1999 Jerry Seinfeld marries public relations executive Jessica Sklar in New York.

2000 Madonna marries Guy Ritchie at a church in Scotland. They recently divorced.

2005 Elton John and David Furnish hold a civil union ceremony in Windsor, England, the first day that same-sex partnerships become legal in Britain.

Birthdays

Phil Donahue, 73 ... Jeffrey Katzenberg, 58 ... Ray Romano, 51 ... Natalie Grant, 37 ... Luke Stricklin, 26

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