Entertainment highlights during the week of Dec. 23-29:
1947: The children's program "Howdy Doody" made its debut on NBC.
1963: Capitol Records released the single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles, which became the band's first No. 1 hit in the U.S.
1976: The Eagles' album "Hotel California" went platinum.
1977: Comedian Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at age 88.
1984: Actor Peter Lawford died. He was 61.
1989: Jane Pauley marked her last day as co-host of the "Today" show after 13 years. Her successor was Deborah Norville.
1990: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman got married in Colorado. They had met while filming "Days of Thunder." They've since divorced.
1997: Woody Allen married Soon-Yi Previn in a secret wedding in Venice, Italy.
1999: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld married public relations executive Jessica Sklar in New York.
2003: New York Governor George Pataki issued a pardon to comedian Lenny Bruce, 37 years after Bruce's death. Bruce was convicted of obscenity for using more than 100 words considered dirty during a concert in 1964.
2006: James Brown died at an Atlanta hospital. He was 73.
