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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 13:

Manka Bros.' annual day to remember all those who died while on the Manka Bros. Studio Tour.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 9, 1923

This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 9, 1923:

Studio chief Khan Manka married Irina Borislava, Miss Bulgaria 1921, the fiancée of his younger brother, Harry.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 8, 1959

Manka Bros. ends the practice of using ‘stunt-children’ in movies. Studio chief Harry Manka said, ‘Kids under the age of twelve should not be doing deadly stunts.’

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 7, 1974

‘Norman Lear's Cheer Camp’ debuts on MBS. With this series, Mr. Lear invented the genre known as ‘Jiggle TV.’

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 6, 1954

On the 10th anniversary of D-Day, studio head Harry Manka staged a reenactment of the Normandy Landing at his Malibu beach house using studio employees.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 5, 1944

Future Manka Bros. star Joey Levitch injures his leg while entertaining the troops the day before D-Day. He would have been in the first wave on Omaha Beach, but was unable to go.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 4, 1924

Bulgarian artist Dimi Draganov draws Manka Bros.’ first animated character - Ollie Ostrich.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 2, 1946

Simeon Manka is abducted and tortured by other studio moguls after he comes out in favor of the 'new' technology called 'Television.'

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - June 1, 1935

As a joke, MGM head Louis B. Mayer blows up Khan Manka’s car. Luckily, Mr. Manka was not in the car at the time.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 31, 1947

Manka Bros. scientists invented Digital Photography. Studio chief Harry Manka ‘didn’t get it’ and sold the patents to Walt Disney for $300.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 30, 2007

‘Gulag! A New Musical’ - based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ - opened and closed after one performance. Manka Bros. CEO Khan Manka, Jr. said critics didn’t ‘have the balls’ to love it.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 29, 1971

‘Escape From Satan's Planet’ was pulled from theaters after several filmgoers were so traumatized by the ‘final escape’ scene that they required hospitalization.

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 28, 1966

Film director Sam Peckinpah is discovered sleeping (and living) in Manka Bros. Stage 16 (and he wasn’t working on a Manka Bros. film at the time).

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 27, 1932

Following the huge success of Bulgarian juggling comedy ‘The Brothers Kielbasa,’ Khan Manka buys a 100,000 square foot mansion on Long Island’s Gold Coast and names it ‘Kubla Khan.’

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 26, 1939

Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria visits Manka Bros. Studios and has lunch with studio co-founder Simeon Manka. (Photographers were not allowed, only a sketch artist.)

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 25, 1916

Desperate for content, studio chief Khan Manka ordered the studio to produce one movie PER DAY - starting with ‘Les Miserables.’

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This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 24, 1986

This Date In Manka Bros. History - May 24, 1986:

Manka Bros. stopped providing drugs to talent after CEO Khan Manka, Jr. heard a plea to ‘Just Say No’ from Nancy Reagan. Of the major studios, only Disney continued the practice.

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