A double set of birthday wishes go out to Bruce Springsteen and Ray Charles. Also celebrating a birthday today is Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Emmy Award winning actor Mickey Rooney.
Day: September 23, 2008
What Christmas special won a Peabody award for “Outstanding Children’s Program?”
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” won this distinguished award in 1965, the same year the special debuted on network television, partly because 50% of American households tuned in to watch the Christmas special on the night that it first aired.