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 * 1923: Screenwriter Arthur Rowe is born in Sandborn, Indiana. Rowe wrote an unfilmed story for the Planet of the Apes TV series, titled "Freedom Road".


 * 1924: Screenwriter Shimon Bar-David Wincelberg is born in Kiel, Germany. Wincelberg co-wrote the Planet of the Apes television series episode "Up Above the World So High".


 * 1966: Richard D. Zanuck, head of production at Twentieth Century Fox, gives the go-ahead for Arthur P. Jacobs to film a Planet of the Apes movie.