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The Bionic Woman TV series debuts (1976). In 1975, Lindsay Wagner (Jaime Sommers) made a guest appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man as the girlfriend of Steve Austin. ABC created a spinoff for Jaime, in a life that combined a career as a schoolteacher and a secret career as an intelligence agent for the OSI, the agency that had saved her life.

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Rod Taylor is born (1930). This rugged leading man played Mitch Brenner in Alfred Hitchcock's classic adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's The Birds (1963). Rod's other genre appearances include George Pal's popular 1960 version of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and 1956's World Without End. His television credits include a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone titled "And When the Sky Was Opened." Rod was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Diana Gabaldon is born (1952). Diana Gabaldon is an best-selling American author known for her time-travel fiction, particularly her popular Outlander series.

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SCIFIpedia Timeline for January 11