Today I learned that: the Man From Uncle aired its last ep on this date

I've been watching football all day - and all yesterday - so haven't learned anything new in these two days.

I decided to dip into The Mystery Book of Days (William Malloy, Mysterious Press, 1990) to see what happened today, mysteriously speaking.

15 January 1947
The body of Elizabeth Short, viciously mutilated, was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. I think that her nickname of The Black Dahlia was actually made up by the newspapers and not something she was actually called - I'd look that up if I cared but it's such a gruesome story that I don't want to do so. (Some years ago, I'd tried to read Who Killed the Black Dahlia by Max Collins, but couldn't get through it.)

15 January 1968
The Man From Uncle aired its final episode on NBC. It starred Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo, David McCallum as Ilya Kuryakin (who looks surprising like Dr. Donald Mallard on NCIS today) and Leo G. Carroll as Alexander Waverly.

The show is replaced by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.