1928: First broadcast of color TV by JL Baird, in London.
1971: Julian Assange, Australian WikiLeaks founder, is born.
1971: Jim Morrison, American singer and leader of “The Doors”, an icon of the cursed generation of rock and roll, dies in Paris. He was 27 years old, the same age at which Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse died.
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