Scooby-Doo is a long-running American animated television series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the present. The series was created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears for Hanna-Barbera Productions, who produced numerous spin-offs and related works until being absorbed in 1997 into Warner Bros, which has handled production since then. Though the format of the show and the cast (and ages) of characters have varied significantly over the years, the most familiar versions of the show feature a talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo and four teenagers: Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers. These five characters (officially referred to collectively as "Mystery, Inc.", but never referred to as such in the original series) drive around the world in a van called the "Mystery Machine," and solve mysteries typically involving tales of ghosts and other supernatural forces. At the end of each episode, the supernatural forces turn out to have a rational explanation (usually a criminal of some sort trying to scare people away so that they can commit crimes). (more...)</div>
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467: Anthemius became Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthemius)
1927: Chinese Civil War: A large-scale purge of communists from the nationalist Kuomintang began in Shanghai. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12_Incident)
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to enter outer space, completing one orbit in a time of 108 minutes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin)
1980: Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland, and began running his Marathon of Hope towards the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, British Columbia to raise funds across Canada for cancer research. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_of_Hope)
1981: Columbia, the first space shuttle, was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center for its first flight, the first US manned space mission for six years. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia)
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