Entertainment highlights during the week of Oct. 19-25:
1941: The Disney film “Dumbo” was released.
1957: Singer-actor Bing Crosby married Kathy Grant.
1967: Smokey Robinson and The Miracles released “I Second That Emotion.”
1971: Mick and Bianca Jagger had a daughter, named Jade.
1973: “The Six Million Dollar Man,” starring Lee Majors, premiered on ABC.
1977: Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a privately chartered plane in Mississippi. The crash took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backup singer Cassie Gaines.
1992: Madonna’s album “Erotica” was released, one day before her book “Sex” hit the bookshelves.
1999: Santana’s “Supernatural” album reached the top of the Billboard album chart.
2004: Ashlee Simpson walked off stage after the wrong vocal track was played during her performance on “Saturday Night Live,” which revealed she was lip-synching.
2007: Marie Osmond fainted on live television during ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.”
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