Gavin MacLeod of Love Boat and Mary Tyler Moore fame dead at 90 Variety © Provided by NBC News
LOS ANGELES Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played seaman Happy Haines on McHale s Navy, Murray on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the very different, vaguely patrician Captain Stubing on The Love Boat, has died. He was 90.
MacLeod s nephew, Mark See, confirmed his death to Variety.
MacLeod played a relatively minor character on ABC hit McHale s Navy, starring Ernest Borgnine, but as newswriter Murray Slaughter, he was certainly one of the stars of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, appearing in every one of the classic comedy s 168 episodes during its 1970-77 run on CBS. Murray was married to Marie (Joyce Bulifant) but was in love with Moore s Mary Richards. His desk was right next to Mary s in the WGN newsroom, so MacLeod was frequently in the shot during the sitcom, and Murray, like all the other characters, was richly developed a hallmark of MTM sho
This day in history, December 16: Colin Powell nominated to become first African-American secretary of state
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Today in History - Dec 16
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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 16, the 351st day of 2020. There are 15 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 16, 2000, President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to become the first African-American secretary of state.
On this date:
In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
In 1809, the French Senate granted a divorce decree to Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Josephine (the dissolution was made final the following month).
In 1811, the first of the powerful New Madrid (MAD’-rihd) earthquakes struck the central Mississippi Valley with an estimated magnitude of 7.7.