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The Charlie Jade TV series debuts (2005). The Charlie Jade series stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role as a detective who finds himself trapped in a parallel universe. This Canadian and South African co-production used sci-fi film-noir writing and unique visual styling.

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Lukas Haas is born (1976). After holding his own in his debut performance as an Amish boy opposite Harrison Ford's big-city cop in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), child actor Haas would go on to be haunted by a vengeful ghost in The Lady in White (1988). In recent years, Lukas has also been seen as an imprisoned teen in Solarbabies (1986), as one of the few survivors in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), and as part of a real-life party posse led by pal Leonardo DiCaprio. Lukas was born in West Hollywood, California.

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Les Tremayne is born (1913). This durable character actor is known by "creature feature" aficionados for his roles in a host of 1950s horror films, including The War of the Worlds (1953), The Monolith Monsters (1957), The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1958), and The Angry Red Planet (1959). Tremayne also provided the voice of the narrator in Forbidden Planet (1956). Later in his career, he kept the chills coming in such low-budget projects as Creature of Destruction (1967), The Slime People (1962) and Snakes (1974). Tremayne was born in London, England.

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