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I've done TIH threads on some other sites, and thought I'd give it a shot here to see if anyone has any interest in it.

Today in History - March 16th

Today's Birthdays

1751 James Madison, 4th US President; died June 28, 1836
1906 Henny (Henry) Youngman, comedian; died died Feb 24, 1998
1912 Pat Nixon (Ryan), former U.S. First Lady; died June 22, 1993
1926 Jerry Lewis, actor-comedian ("Hey, Lay-dee!")
1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York; died Mar 26, 2003
1941 Bernardo Bertolucci, film director (Stealing beauty, Little Buddha)
1941 Chuck Woolery, game show host
1942 Roger Crozier, NHL (Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Washington Capitals); died Jan 11, 1996
1949 Erik Estrada, actor (CHiPS)
1949 Victor Garber, actor (Alias)
1951 Brian McKenzie, NHL (Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers)
1954 Nancy Wilson, rock singer (Heart)
1956 Ozzie Newsome, Football Hall of Famer
1959 Flavor Flav, rapper (Public Enemy)
1961 Todd McFarlane, graphic novelist (Spawn)
1963 Jimmy DeGrasso, rock musician (Megadeth)
1966 Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback
1967 Lauren Graham, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1971 Alan Tudyk, actor (Dodgeball)
1979 Brooke Burns, actress (Baywatch)
1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, rock musician (Van Halen)

Today in History

1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
1802 Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
1836 The Republic of Texas approved a constitution.
1850 The novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time.
1882 The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.
1915 The Federal Trade Commission was organized.
1955 The Ballad of Davy Crockett, by Bill Hayes, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts and stayed for five weeks.
1963 Peter, Paul and Mary released the single "Puff The Magic Dragon."
1964 Paul Hornung, ‘The Golden Boy’, and Alex Karras were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games.
1968 U.S. troops gunned down hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War.
1985 Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut. (He was held captive until December 1991.)
1988 Former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter, former White House aide Oliver L. North and two others were indicted on charges relating to the Iran-Contra affair.
1994 Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to conspiracy for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
1995 Astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to visit the Russian space station Mir.
1998 The Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII.
1998 Rwanda began mass trials for the country's 1994 genocide.
2000 Independent counsel Robert Ray said he had found no credible evidence that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton or senior White House officials were involved in seeking the FBI background files of Republicans.
2002 Brittanie Cecil, 13, was struck by a flying hockey puck during an NHL game between the hometown Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames; she died two days later.
2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American college student in Gaza to protest Israel operations, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.
2005 A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci.
2005 A jury in Los Angeles acquitted actor Robert Blake of murder in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (A civil court jury later ordered Blake to pay $30 million to Bakley's four children.)
2006 Iraq's new parliament met briefly for the first time; lawmakers took the oath but did no business and adjourned after just 40 minutes.

Chart Toppers

1947
The Anniversary Song - Dinah Shore
Managua, Nicaragua - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Don Rodney)
Oh, But I Do - Margaret Whiting
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed - Merle Travis

1955
The Ballad of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes
Sincerely - McGuire Sisters
Pledging My Love - Johnny Ace
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963
Walk like a Man - The 4 Seasons
Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics
You’re the Reason I’m Living - Bobby Darin
The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Flatt & Scruggs

1971
One Bad Apple - The Osmonds
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
For All We Know - Carpenters
I’d Rather Love You - Charley Pride

1979
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Tragedy - Bee Gees
Heaven Knows - Donna Summer with Brooklyn Dreams
Golden Tears - Dave & Sugar

1987
Jacob’s Ladder - Huey Lewis & The News
Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
Let’s Wait Awhile - Janet Jackson
Baby’s Got a New Baby - S-K-O

Quote of the Day

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 - 1881)

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Today in History - May 21st

Today’s Birthdays

1688 Alexander Pope, poet (The Rape of the Lock) died May 30, 1744
1904 Fats (Thomas Wright) Waller, blues pianist/songwriter (Ain’t Misbehavin’) died Dec 15, 1943
1916 Harold Robbins (Francis Kane), writer (The Carpetbaggers) died Oct 14, 1997
1917 Raymond (William Stacy) Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironside) died Sep 12, 1993
1921 Andrei Sakharov, physicist/human rights activist (produced first Soviet atomic bomb) died Dec 14, 1989
1923 Ara Parseghian, College Football Hall of Fame head coach (Notre Dame)
1941 Ronald Isley, singer (The Isley Brothers)
1945 Richard Hatch, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Leo Sayer (Gerard Hugh Sayer), singer (Long Tall Glasses, You Make Me Feel like Dancing)
1951 Al Franken, comedian/pundit (Air America)
1952 Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud), actor (The A-Team, Rocky III)
1955 Stan Lynch, rock drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1956 Judge Reinhold (Edward Ernest Reinhold Jr.), actor (Beverly Hills Cop series, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer, died Nov 28, 1994
1972 Alesha Oreskovich, playmate (June 1993)
1972 The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), rapper, shot and killed in Los Angeles Mar 9, 1997
1974 Fairuza Balk, actress (The Craft)
1977 Ricky Williams, former running back (Miami Dolphins)

Today’s Deaths in History

1894 Emile Henry, French anarchist, is executed at 22
1988 Sammy Davis, Sr., dancer, dies at 87
1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, is assassinated at 46
1996 Lash LaRue, actor (Westerns) dies at 80
2000 Barbara Cartland, English author (romance novels) dies at 98
2000 Sir John Gielgud, British actor (Arthur) dies at 96
2006 Spencer Clark, NASCAR race driver, dies at 29 in an auto accident

Today in History

1819 The first bicycles in the United States, called swift walkers, were first seen on the streets of New York City.
1881 The American Red Cross was established by Clara Barton.
1906 Louis H. Perlman of New York City received his patent for the demountable tire-carrying automobile rim.
1927 Charles A. Lindbergh arrived to a hero’s welcome in Paris in his monoplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis."
1932 Amelia Earhart landed in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, became the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.
1945 Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were married.
1947 Joe DiMaggio and five of his New York Yankees teammates were slapped with $100 fines for not fulfilling contract requirements to do promotional duties for the team.
1956 The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1961 Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declared martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1968 The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from (the remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores).
1979 Former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk; White's argument that junk food had fueled his rampage was derided as the "Twinkie defense."
1980 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released.
1991 Rajiv Gandhi, the prime minister of India from 1984 until 1989, was assassinated.
1998 At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel, suspended for bringing a gun to school, shot a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home.
1999 Susan Lucci, star of the ABC soap opera All My Children, won a Daytime Emmy Award for best actress for the first time in the 19th straight year she was nominated.
2006 The Republic of Montenegro held a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2006 The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor took gold in the World Championship and became the first nation to take gold in both the World Championship and Olympic games in ice hockey.

Chart Toppers

1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Forever and Ever - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The Skylarks)
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams

1957
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
School Day - Chuck Berry
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins

1965
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves

1973
You are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
Little Willy - The Sweet
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
What’s Your Mama’s Name - Tanya Tucker

1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr./Bill Withers
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
I Loved ’Em Every One - T.G. Sheppard

1989
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Real Love - Jody Watley
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
If I Had You - Alabama

Quote of the Day

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)