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Events on Wednesday 17 July 1935 2
1935 – 2019Diahann Carroll (1935-2019)Died 4 October 2019, aged 84Diahann Carroll was an American actress and singer who became the first Black woman to star in her own non-servant television series with Julia in 1968. She won a Tony Award and was Oscar-nominated for Claudine. She died in Los Angeles of cancer.
1935 – 1953Donald Sutherland born in Saint JohnDonald McNichol Sutherland is born on 17 July 1935 at the Saint John General Hospital in New Brunswick, Canada. His father, Frederick McLea Sutherland, runs the local gas, electricity and bus company; his mother, Dorothy Isobel McNichol, is of Scottish descent. As a child Donald suffers from rheumatic fever, hepatitis and polio, leaving one leg shorter than the other. The family lives first in Hampton, then moves back to Saint John, then to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, when he is 12. At 14 he gets his first job as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW.