American actress and businesswoman

Victoria Principal

Vicki Ree Principal, later known as Victoria Principal, is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime television soap opera Dallas. She spent nine years on the long-running series, leaving in 1987. Afterwards, she opened her own production company, Victoria Principal Productions, focusing mostly on television films. In the mid-1980s, she became interested in natural beauty therapies, and in 1989, she created an eponymous line of skincare products, Principal Secret.

Born

1950

January 3

Died

Living

Era

1950s

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Key dates

1950 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

69 The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
250 Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
1521 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
1653 By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.

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The world in 1950

When Victoria arrived

april 21 The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.
august 1 Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
august 12 Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
august 15 Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on January 3

Cicero -106–-43 Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (born 106 BC) Eithne Coyle 1897–1985 Irish republican revolutionary, (died 1985) George Martin 1926–2016 English composer, conductor, and producer (died 2016) James Harrington 1611–1485 Yorkist knight John Paul Jones 1946–1792 English bass player, songwriter, and producer Katie McGrath 1983– Irish actress Rondae Hollis-Jefferson 1995– American-Jordanian basketball player Savitribai Phule 1831–1897 Indian poet, educator, and activist (died 1897)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1950

Abraham Sarmiento 1950–1977 Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (died 1977) Alex Chilton 1950–2010 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010) Alexander Lebed 1950–2002 Russian general and politician (died 2002) Billy Smith 1950– Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager Charles Fleischer 1950– American comedian and actor Charles Krauthammer 1950–2018 American columnist and conservative political commentator (born 1950) Claire Morissette 1950– Canadian cycling activist (died 2007) Daniel Auteuil 1950– French actor, director, and screenwriter David Cannadine 1950– English historian and author

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