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1966 - Final Episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Popular TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs its last episode after more than a decade on television.

The sitcom focused on the comic antics of a young family based on the real-life family of show founders and stars Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. The show premiered as a radio comedy in 1944 and ran for 10 years. Even before the radio show ended, a TV version launched in 1952; the television show ran until 1966. The Nelson's two sons, Ricky and David, played themselves on the TV version. Ricky later became a rock musician and died in a plane crash in 1985.

1991 - Frank Capra Dies

Born Francesco Rosario Capra in Bisacquino, Sicily, Capra moved to the United States in 1903 with his father Salvatore, his mother Rosaria Nicolosi and his siblings Giuseppa, Giuseppe, and Antonia. In California they met up with Benedetto Capra, (the oldest sibling) and settled in Los Angeles, California, where Frank Capra graduated from Throop Institute (later renamed the California Institute of Technology) with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering. On October 18, 1918, he joined the United States Army. While at the Presidio, he got Spanish influenza and was discharged on December 13. In 1920, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

Capra was best known for feel-good films like It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

Frank Capra died in La Quinta, California of a heart attack in his sleep in 1991 at the age of 94. He was interred in the Coachella Valley Cemetery in Coachella, California.

His son Frank Capra, Jr. - one of the three children born to Capra's second wife, Lou Capra - is president of Screen Gems, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Frank Capra's grandson is Frank Capra III, and his great-grandson Francis Capra plays the role of Eli "Weevil" Navarro on the popular series Veronica Mars.