Monday, February 17, 2025

This Week in Television History: February 2025 PART III

     

 February 18, 1925

George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is born. 

The actor who has appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions. He is perhaps best known for three of his roles: as the convict "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke, for which he won an Academy Award; as airline mechanic Joe Patroni in all four of the 1970s Airport disaster films; and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films.

February 22, 1980
The "Miracle on Ice" was an ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. 


It was played between the hosting United States and the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980, during the medal round of the men's ice hockey tournament. Although the Soviet Union was a four-time defending gold medalist and heavily favored, the United States achieved an upset victory, winning 4–3.



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