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02-01-2009 - 11:21

Entertainment highlights during the week of Jan. 4-10:

1935: Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1977.

1948: Future country star Loretta Webb married Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, becoming Loretta Lynn.

1959: "Rawhide" premiered on CBS.

1963: "Wild Kingdom" premiered on NBC.

1976: Bluesman Howlin' Wolf died of cancer in a Chicago-area hospital. He was a major influence on musicians like Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones.

1984: Van Halen released their "1984" album.

1988: Madonna filed for divorce from Sean Penn.

1989: "The Pat Sajak Show" made its debut on late-night TV, but was unable to compete with the likes of Johnny Carson and David Letterman.

1990: The movie "Fourth of July," starring Tom Cruise, opened nationwide.

1992: Singer Debbie Gibson made her Broadway debut in "Les Miserables." She played the part of Eponine.

2000: Melissa Etheridge and her then-partner, Julie Cypher, revealed that David Crosby was the father of their two children by artificial insemination.

2004: Britney Spears' marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander was annulled. They had been married 55 hours.

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