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    • Apr 19, 1966
    Gene Autry's California Angels hold their first regular-season baseball game at their new Anaheim Stadium. The team loses to the Chicago White Sox, 3-1
    Jan 20, 1967
    Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters purchase the KTLA-TV studio on Hollywood's Sunset Strip for $5 million from Paramount, which had been leasing the property to Golden West
    Feb 17, 1967
    Western actor Smiley Burnette dies of leukemia in Encino, California. He served as Gene Autry's sidekick in a wave of movies in the 1930s and '40s
    Feb 17, 1967
    Loew's announces it's purchased the lease on the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco from Gene Autry
    Jan 2, 1968
    The Hyatt Corporation takes over the Continental Hotel in West Hollywood after buying it from Gene Autry, who insisted the contract start on January 2, instead of January 1, so he could keep bar receipts from New Year's Eve
    Aug 30, 1968
    Cowboy singer Gene Autry gives a rare locker room pep talk to his baseball team, the California Angels. It is not enough to keep them from finishing the season eighth among the American League's 10 teams
    May 26, 1969
    Country legend Gene Autry fires a baseball manager for the first time, giving Bill Rigney the boot after eight years as the skipper for Autry's California Angels
    Oct 15, 1969
    Gene Autry joins the Country Music Hall Of Fame during the NBC telecast of the Country Music Association's third annual awards from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on "The Kraft Music Hall"
    Nov 10, 1969
    Gene Autry receives a gold single from the Recording Industry Association of America for the first time, honoring his Christmas hit "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer"
    Apr 14, 1970
    President Richard Nixon is California Angels owner Gene Autry's guest for the team's home opener, a 3-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox at Anaheim Stadium
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