* 1945 – Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist

which began in 1964 and the original version of The Match Game first aired in 1962.

Early in his term, Major presided over British participation in the Gulf War in March 1991 and negotiated " Game, Set and Match for Britain " at the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991.

* August 5 – 14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.

* December 22 – Gene Rayburn, American television personality ( Match Game ) ( d. 1999 )

Hollywood Squares was the final touch to a short-lived game show powerhouse on NBC which also included Concentration, Jeopardy !, You Don't Say !, Let's Make a Deal, The Match Game and others.

From October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, Jon " Bowzer " Bauman of Sha Na Na hosted the Hollywood Squares segment of Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions ( owners of the Match Game format ) and Orion Television, which obtained the rights to Hollywood Squares upon acquiring the Filmways production company.

The day's winner from the Match Game segment faced the show's returning champion in the Hollywood Squares segment, and played until time ran out, with the winner playing the " Super Match " bonus from Match Game.

The only regular panelist was Match Game host Gene Rayburn, who occupied the lower-left square ; Bauman, in turn, filled that seat during Match Game.

Game show hosts Bob Eubanks, Wink Martindale, and Chuck Woolery served on the panel, as did frequent 1970s game show panelist Jimmie Walker, and Match Game regulars Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly shared a square for the week.

He is best known as the host of various editions of the popular American television game show Match Game for over two decades.

In 2006, Cruz became spokesmodel for the French beauty company, L ' Oréal, to promote products such as the L ' Oréal Paris hair dye Natural Match and L ' Oreal mascara products.

An expert shot, he became a member of his company's rifle team, winning many prestigious competitions, including the Bisley Match in England.

Whatever the cultural context or audience composition of Dark Shadows, it became one of ABC's first daytime shows to actually win its timeslot, leading to the demise of NBC's original Match Game and Art Linkletter's long-running House Party on CBS, both in 1969.

The building also featured in recent movies such as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct 2 and Woody Allen's Match Point and, rechristened the Spirit of London, became the spaceship centrepiece of Keith Mansfield's 2008 novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London.

Between the two world wars, he negotiated match monopolies with European and Central and South American governments, and finally controlled between two thirds and three quarters of the worldwide match production, and became known as the " Match King ".

Dorian instantly became busy with modeling assignments, landing on the covers of major magazines such as " Vogue ," " Harper's Bazaar ," " Paris Match ," " LIFE ," and " Elle ," Because of her schedule, Dorian's two children were sent to live with her parents in Florida, while she was based in New York and traveling to Europe.

The " birdsong " test transmissions became a famous landmark of British radio and attracted many newspaper articles and comment prior to the station's launch, including one live comment during BBC Radio 4's Test Match Special when commentator Brian Johnston referred to listening to the birdsong, much to the fury of BBC management who were fearful of Classic FM's impending launch.

During the filming of Match Game 74 his toupee became the joke of the filming when Reilly had to go to NYC to have his toupee put back on.

Klugman also appeared on the very first week of the 1970s revival of Match Game and then from time to time filled in for his then-wife, Brett Somers, when she became a regular on the program a few weeks later.

A successful businessman, he became president of the Diamond Match Company ( 1909 – 1915 ) in Barberton, Ohio.

Swedish Match became a publicly listed company in 1996, having been spun off from Volvo.

On television he became a frequent guest star, appearing in such programs as Bewitched, Get Smart, That Girl, Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, Match Game and McCloud.

He became a spokesperson for Match. com, guest starred on " The Re-Run Show ", and starred in and executive produced a short film that set records for Internet distribution.

She was the first of the medical staff to leave and quickly became a media sensation, appearing on the cover of Paris Match that week.

His participation in the merger of that company and several others in the same line to form Babcock & Wilcox helped his reputation, and he was recruited to work at Diamond Match Company, where he became president in 1909.

The combination of the Leatherwood ART with M14 National Match rifles to produce what became the M21 Sniper Rifle, allowed the Army to place competent snipers in the field with all line units.

By then, Match of the Day was not the only football highlights programme on English television ; the BBC faced competition from 1967 as ITV started to show highlights on a regional basis on Sunday afternoons ; London Weekend Television's The Big Match, which later became the programme for the entire ITV network, was first broadcast in 1968.

During the 1970s, Match of the Day became one of the BBC's most successful programmes, with audiences peaking at over 12 million.

In the same year, at the age of 43, Woosnam became the oldest player to win the World Match Play Championship ( not an official European Tour event at the time ) when he beat Padraig Harrington 2 & 1 in the 2001 final.

Woosnam also became the first player to capture the trophy in three different decades, having previously won the World Match Play Championship in 1987 and 1990.

" The Match " became one of the most played songs on Swedish radio and the album achieved gold status.

In 1981, Stevenson became a regular panelist on the Match Game's syndicated version, staying with the show until its cancellation a year later.

Other shows included Saint & Greavsie, On the Ball, and The Big Match ( renamed The Match between 1988 and 1992 ).

Big-money jackpots remained on NBC from 1959-1961 on Jackpot Bowling ; however, more large jackpots returned permanently in 1973 with the success of The $ 10, 000 Pyramid and " Big Money " Match Game 73, both daytime shows on CBS.

In the 1980s, Thorn contributed guest vocals and backing vocals for The Style Council on the track " Paris Match " ( from the album Café Bleu ), The Go-Betweens on their track Head Full of Steam, Working Week on the single " Venceremos ( We Will Win )", Lloyd Cole and the Commotions on the track " Big Snake ", and Adam F on " The Tree Knows Everything ", from Colours.

They were Freddi Fish: The Big Froople Match, Pajama Sam: Mission to the Moon and Freddi Fish: The Missing Letters Mystery.

A bootleg CD is in circulation which contains all of the material listed above as well as demo versions of " Society for Cutting Up Men ", " Boys Cry ", " Big in Japan ", " Space Walk " and " Match of the Day " and " Taxi ".

At the Royal Rumble, Big Show lost a Royal Rumble Qualifying Match to Lesnar.

At Survivor Series, Cena wrestled Big Show in a traditional 10-Man Survivor Series Tag Team Match, with Cena and Bobby Lashley leaving as the sole survivors of the match after Cena pinned Big Show to claim the victory due to a double team with Lashley.

During the latter event, JBL successfully defended the WWE title against The Big Show in a Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match.

The next match was between Akebono and The Big Show in a Sumo Match.

The match was a little over a minute and Akebono won the match after he threw The Big Show out of the ring, thus winning the Sumo Match.

Although ITV had covered League football before, the launch of The Big Match in 1968 began to garner the network a reputation as a respected alternative to the BBC.

The Mountie began a feud with The Big Boss Man after declaring that he was the sole legitimate law enforcer in the WWF, and on August 26, 1991, he spent a night in prison ( kayfabe ) after Bossman defeated him in a Jailhouse Match at SummerSlam ' 91.

The match was being recorded by Yorkshire Television for transmission on their Sunday afternoon regional football show The Big Match.

* The Big Match ( 1991 )

), who, along with Kevin Kopelow, was notably slimed for " having a shiny head "; Paul Wight ( WWE's " The Big Show ", then known as " The Giant "); Chris Jericho also from WWE ; " Hacksaw " Jim Duggan ( WWE Hall of Famer ); and Rondell Sheridan ( regular on the 1998 Match Game ).

won ITV's The Big Match Goal Of The Season that year.

The feud continued with Steamboat winning most of the matches ( losing only one because he threw Roberts back in the ring before the 10 count, then not beating said count himself ), most notably a Snake Pit Match ( ostensibly a no-DQ match ) at The Big Event in Toronto, and the rematch on the October 1986 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event.

Match funding for the SRDP grant has now been raised-notably through a Big Lottery grant of £ 539, 950 announced on Feb 9 2012.

She began acting at the age of five, and had a highly successful child star career in Pre-Code movies, appearing in such films as the 1930 version of Liliom, Tom Mix's Riders of the Purple Sage, So Big, Three on a Match and Rasputin and the Empress.