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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premieres (1993). This syndicated TV series was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and tells the story of a small Federation space station that orbits the newly liberated planet of Bajor. Commonly referred to as DS9, it is the fourth Star Trek series and its cast includes Avery Brooks, Nana Visitor, Alexander Siddig, Michael Dorn, Rene Auberjonois, Colm Meaney, and Armin Shimerman.

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Ray Milland is born (1907). Oscar-winning actor Milland was the subject of sinister scientific experiments in The Thing with Two Heads (1972) and X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963). He also battled vengeful ghosts in the classic The Uninvited (1944) and played Sire Uri in television's original Battlestar Galactica (1978). His other big-screen genre credits include The Attic (1979), The Uncanny (1977), Terror in the Wax Museum (1973), Frogs (1972), The Premature Burial (1962), Panic in Year Zero! (1962), and Alfred Hitchcock's Dial "M" for Murder (1954). Milland's television projects include Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976), Daughter of the Mind (1969), and a 1971 episode of Night Gallery titled "The Hand of Borgus Weems." Milland, who died in 1986, was born in Neath, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Mel Gibson is born (1956). Academy Award–winning leading man Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson has starred in a number of notable genre projects. The role that launched him to global stardom was that of "Mad" Max Rockatansky in the films Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1981), and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). His other credits include Forever Young (1992), Casper (1995), Conspiracy Theory (1997), and What Women Want (2000). Mel was born in Peekskill, New York.

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