George Washington dies, a spacecraft flies by Venus for the first time, Bob Dylan releases his first single, and President George W. Bush ducks flying shoes in Iraq, all on this day.
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Shout! Factory
1946: Actress Patty Duke, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1962's "The Miracle Worker" and then starred in her own sitcom, "The Patty Duke Show," in the mid-1960s, is born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. She's seen here in "The Patty Duke Show," in which she played a dual role as identical cousins.