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This Day in Film History:
October 17

1918:

The glamorous actress Rita Hayworth (Gilda) is born Margarita Carmen Cansino in Brooklyn.

1990:

Col Needham posts a set of Unix script shells to add searchability to the Usenet bulletin rec.arts.movies, creating the first incarnation of the Internet Movie Database.
Source: IMDb.com




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