Rangerland Forum Information

[Giac]

Today in History - July 27th

Today's Birthdays

1880 Joe Tinker, Baseball Hall of Famer shortstop (Chicago Cubs) died Jul 27, 1948
1905 Leo ‘Lippy’ (Ernest) Durocher, MLB player/coach (NY Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals) died Oct 07, 1991
1916 Keenan (Francis Xavier Aloysius) Wynn, actor (Dr. Strangelove, Finian’s Rainbow, The Absent-Minded Professor) died Oct 14, 1986
1922 Norman Lear, producer (All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford & Son, The Jeffersons)
1931 Jerry Van Dyke, actor (Coach, My Mother the Car)
1933 Nick Reynolds, singer (The Kingston Trio)
1943 Al Ramsey, guitarist (Gary Lewis & The Playboys)
1944 Bobbie Gentry, singer (Ode to Billy Joe)
1948 Peggy Fleming, Olympic Hall of Fame figure skater
1948 Betty Thomas, actress/director (Hill Street Blues, The Seventh Sign, Troop Beverly Hills)
1949 Maury Chaykin, actor (Dances with Wolves, WarGames, My Cousin Vinny)
1949 Maureen McGovern, singer (There's Got to Be a Morning After)
1950 Michael Vaughn, guitarist (Paperlace)
1952 Bump (Elliott Taylor) Wills, MLB 2nd baseman (Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs)
1952 Roxanne Hart, actress (Highlander)
1953 Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1957 Bill Engvall, comedian/actor (Here's Your Sign)
1962 Karl Mueller, rock bassist (Soul Asylum)
1963 Donnie Yen, martial artist/actor (Once Upon a Time in China II, The Iron Monkey series)
1964 Rex Brown, rock bassist (Pantera)
1967 Juliana Hatfield, rock singer
1968 Julian McMahon, actor (Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four series)
1969 Maria Grazia Cucinotta, actor (The World Is Not Enough)
1972 Maya Rudolph, actress (Saturday Night Live, City of Angels, Chuck & Buck, Duets, Idiocracy)
1973 Abe Cunningham, rock drummer (Deftones)
1974 Pete Yorn, rock singer/songwriter (Leaving Town)
1975 Fred Mascherino, rock guitarist/singer (Taking Back Sunday)
1975 Alex Rodriguez, MLB 3rd baseman (NY Yankees)
1977 Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actor (Bend it Like Beckham, Elvis, The Tudors)

Today's Deaths in History

1946 Gertrude Stein, writer (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) dies at 72
1980 Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran, dies in at 60
1984 James Mason, English actor (Heaven Can Wait, Julius Caesar) dies at 75
1988 Frank Zamboni, American inventor (ice resurfacer) dies at 87
1990 Bobby Day, singer (Little Pretty One) dies at 62
1992 Reggie Lewis, Boston Celtics star, collapses and dies at 27
2001 Leon Wilkeson, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies at 49
2003 Bob Hope, comedian/actor/entertainer, dies at 100

Today in History

1694 The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1775 Benjamin Church began his service as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.
1789 The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by the U.S. Congress and President George Washington.
1794 French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day.
1866 After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.
1909 Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight, testing the Army's first airplane and keeping it aloft for 1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Myer, Virginia.
1921 Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, announced the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1940 Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon A Wild Hare.
1950 During a match in Chicago, IL, professional wrestler Gorgeous George completely missed a flying tackle on Lou Thesem, flying out of the ring and landing on top of a newspaper reporter’s typewriter.
1953 The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War was signed at Panmunjon, Korea.
1960 Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1967 In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence.
1972 Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard signed a one-year contract to coach the Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association.
1974 The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Richard M. Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
1976 John Lennon finally had his request for permanent residency in the United States approved.
1984 Pete Rose passed Ty Cobb’s record for most singles in a career, connecting for his 3,503rd base hit.
1991 Bryan Adams’ "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to the public on the 42nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.
1996 An early-morning pipe-bomb blast in Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta killed Alice Hawthorne of Albany, Georgia and injured more than 100 other people as an overnight celebration erupted into chaos.
2002 A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashed during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, making it the largest air show disaster in history.
2003 Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight Tour de France title.
2005 NASA said a sizable chunk of foam insulation came flying off the shuttle Discovery's fuel bank during liftoff, prompting the space agency to ground future shuttle flights until the problem could be fixed.
2005 Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a judge in Seattle.

Chart Toppers

1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
Amor - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952
I’m Yours - Eddie Fisher
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Are You Teasing Me - Carl Smith

1960
I’m Sorry - Brenda Lee
Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Brian Hyland
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
Grazing in the Grass - Hugh Masekela
Stoned Soul Picnic - The 5th Dimension
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnn Cash

1976
Kiss and Say Goodbye - Manhattans
Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
Teddy Bear - Red Sovine

1984
When Doves Cry - Prince
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
Just Another Woman in Love - Anne Murray

Quote of the Day

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
Benjamin Stolberg

[Giac]

Today in History - July 28th

Today's Birthdays

1866 Beatrix (Helen) Potter, children’s stories author (Peter Rabbit books) died Dec 22, 1943
1892 Joe E. (Evan) Brown, comedian/actor (Some like It Hot) died July 6, 1973
1901 Rudy (Hubert Prior) Vallee, singer/actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) died July 3, 1986
1907 Earl Tupper, inventor (Tupperware) died Oct 5, 1983
1929 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady, died May 19, 1994
1933 Charlie Hodge, NHL goaltender (Montreal Canadiens)
1938 George Cummings, guitarist (Dr. Hook)
1943 Bill Bradley, Basketball Hall of Famer/Senator (NY Knicks)
1945 Jim Davis, cartoonist (Garfield)
1945 Rick Wright, keyboardist (Pink Floyd)
1948 Georgia Engel, actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Coach)
1948 Sally (Ann) Struthers, actress (All in the Family)
1949 Steve Peregrin Took, English singer/drummer (T Rex) died Oct 27, 1980
1949 Vida (Rochelle) Blue, MLB pitcher (Oakland Athletics, SF Giants)
1949 Simon Kirke, drummer (Free)
1954 Steve Morse, rock guitarist (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple)
1954 Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela
1957 Scott Pelley, broadcast journalist (60 Minutes)
1958 Terry Fox, Marathon of Hope runner, died June 28, 1981
1962 Rachel Sweet, rock singer (Everlasting Love)
1964 Lori Loughlin, actress (Secret Admirer, Full House)
1969 Garth Snow, NHL goaltender/GM (NY Islanders)
1972 Elizabeth Berkley, actress (Saved by the Bell, Showgirls)
1976 Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1984 Zach Parise, NHL center (NJ Devils)

Today's Deaths in History

1540 Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman, executed at 55
1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet, dies at 36
1741 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (The Four Seasons) dies at 63
1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (The Brandenburg Concertos) dies at 65
1794 Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader, is executed at 36
1968 Otto Hahn, Father of Nuclear Chemistry, dies at 89
1996 Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, singer (Shangri-Las) dies at 24
2004 Sam Edwards, actor (Little House on the Prarie) dies at 89

Today in History

1540 Thomas Cromwell was executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason; Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, the same day.
1794 Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
1865 The American Dental Association proposed its first code of ethics.
1866 Although its use was not required, the metric system was legalized by the U.S. Congress for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States.
1868 The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process and the equal protection of the laws to former slaves, was declared in effect.
1896 The community of Miami, Florida was incorporated with a population of 260.
1933 The singing telegram was introduced.
1939 Judy Garland, with the Victor Young Orchestra, recorded "Over the Rainbow" for Decca Records.
1942 L.A. Thatcher of Stamford, CT received a patent for a coin-operated mailbox.
1945 A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the fog-shrouded Empire State Building in New York City, killing more than a dozen people.
1951 The Walt Disney film Alice in Wonderland was released by RKO pictures.
1954 The Crew Cuts reached the top spot of the Billboard pop singles chart with "Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)."
1959 In preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Hiram L. Fong, to the Senate and the first Japanese-American, Daniel K. Inouye, to the House of Representatives.
1965 The American Football Conference set a new record as more reporters showed up in Lowell, MA to cover an exhibition game than were on hand to cover the AFC championship game the year before.
1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1973 Exactly a year after their first date, TV’s Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors, married one of Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett.
1984 The 23rd Summer Olympic Games opened at the Los Angeles Coliseum in Southern California.
1985 Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, Hoyt Wilhelm and Arky Vaughn were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York.
1991 The Montreal Expos' Dennis Martinez pitched the 13th perfect game in major league baseball.
1994 Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers threw the 14th perfect game in the history of major league baseball.
1998 Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. announced a $52.88 billion stock-swap deal to create the second-biggest telephone company behind AT&T.
1998 Monica Lewinsky was given blanket immunity from prosecution in exchange for grand jury testimony in the investigation of her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
2002 Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
2002 Cycling champion Lance Armstrong won his fourth straight Tour de France.
2004 The Democratic National Convention in Boston nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for president.
2005 The Irish Republican Army renounced the use of violence against British rule in Northern Ireland and said it would disarm.
2006 Actor-director Mel Gibson launched an anti-Semitic tirade as he was arrested in Malibu, Calif., for driving drunk; Gibson later apologized and was sentenced to probation and alcohol treatment.

Chart Toppers

1945
The More I See You - Dick Haymes
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie

1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
It’s Been So Long - Webb Pierce

1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
The Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton
Yellow Bird - Arthur Lyman Group
Heartbreak U.S.A. - Kitty Wells

1969
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & The Shondells
My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
Johnny B. Goode - Buck Owens

1977
Looks like We Made It - Barry Manilow
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
I’m in You - Peter Frampton
It was Almost like a Song - Ronnie Milsap

1985
Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
Shout - Tears For Fears
You Give Good Love - Whitney Houston
Love Don’t Care (Whose Heart It Breaks) - Earl Thomas Conley

Quote of the Day

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely

[Giac]

Today in History - July 29th

Today's Birthdays

1861 Alice Roosevelt, first wife of 26th President of the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt, died Feb 14, 1884
1869 Booth Tarkington, author (The Magnificent Ambersons) died May 19, 1946
1883 Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, executed April 28, 1945
1885 Theda Bara, actress (Cleopatra) died April 13, 1955
1892 William Powell, actor (Thin Man series) died March 5, 1984
1905 Clara (Gordon) Bow, actress (Down to the Sea in Ships) died Sep 27, 1965
1907 Melvin Belli, ‘King of Torts’ attorney, died July 9, 1996
1917 Homer (Henry D. Haynes), comedy singer (Homer and Jethro)
1923 Jim Marshall, founder (Marshall Amplification)
1924 Lloyd Bochner, actor (Naked Gun 2 1/2, Dynasty) died Oct 29, 2005
1925 Ted Lindsay, Hockey Hall of Famer (Detroit Red Wings)
1934 Robert Fuller, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train, Emergency, Maverick)
1936 Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator (R-NC)
1938 Peter Jennings, journalist (World News Tonight with Peter Jennings) died Aug 7, 2005
1941 David Warner, actor (Time Bandits, Star Trek V & VI)
1946 Neal Doughty, keyboardist (REO Speedwagon)
1949 Marilyn Quayle (Tucker), wife of 44th Vice-President of the U.S. Dan Quayle
1951 Leslie Easterbrook, actress (Police Academy series)
1953 Ken Burns, writer/producer/director (The Civil War, Baseball)
1953 Geddy Lee, bassist/singer (Rush)
1959 John Sykes, British rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake)
1963 Alexandra Paul, actress (Baywatch, Christine)
1966 Martina McBride, country singer
1972 Wil Wheaton, actor (Stand by Me, Star Trek: the Next Generation)
1973 Stephen Dorff, actor (Blade, Judgment Night)
1973 Wanya Morris, R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1976 Josh Radnor, actor (How I Met Your Mother)
1980 Rachel Miner, actress (The Black Dahlia)
1982 Allison Mack, actress (Smallville)

Today's Deaths in History

1890 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (Expressionist) dies at 37
1974 "Mama" Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & the Papas) dies at 32
1976 Mickey Cohen, gangster, dies at 62
1979 Bill Todman, television game show producer (Match Game) dies at 72
1983 David Niven, English actor (Guns of Navarone) dies at 73
1984 Fred Waring, band leader/inventor (Waring Blender) dies at 84
1994 Megan Kanka, rape victim (Megan's Law) dies at 7
1996 Jason Thirsk, rock bassist (Pennywise) dies at 28
1998 Jerome Robbins, choreographer (West Side Story) dies at 79

Today in History

1754 The first international boxing match was held in Harlston, England.
1773 The first schoolhouse to be located west of the Allegheny Mountains was built in Schoenbrunn, OH.
1874 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of England received a patent for the lawn-tennis court.
1914 The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York and San Francisco.
1921 Adolf Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1945 U.S. heavy cruiser Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk near Leyte Gulf, by a Japanese submarine after delivering the makings for the first atomic bomb to Tinian Island; only 316 of the crew of 1,199 men survived.
1947 After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, was reactivated; it remained in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
1948 After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
1950 RKO pictures released the Walt Disney adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson literary classic, Treasure Island.
1957 Jack Paar began a successful five-year run as host of the Tonight show on NBC-TV, changing its name to The Jack Paar Show.
1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
1958 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by Congress.
1965 The Queen of England attended the premiere of the motion picture Help! starring The Beatles.
1966 American magazine Datebook released an issue with the Beatles article from the London Evening Standard four months earlier, which included John Lennon's "bigger than Jesus" statement, setting off a furor resulting the trashing and burning of Beatles records and merchandise and the banning of Beatles songs on the radio.
1967 The USS Forrestal caught fire off the coast of North Vietnam in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control.
1975 President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.
1976 The "Son of Sam" killed one person and seriously wounded another in the first of a series of attacks in New York City.
1981 Millions of people around the world watched on television as England’s Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took center stage amidst the pomp and splendor of their royal wedding at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
1983 Steve Garvey of the Los Angeles Dodgers was injured, ending his National League consecutive game record at 1,207.
1985 Spring Hill, Tennessee was selected as the new home of the Saturn automobile assembly plant.
1987 British PM Margaret Thatcher and French president François Mitterrand signed the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel.
1993 The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he was set free.
1996 Carl Lewis won his ninth Olympic gold medal by winning the long jump competition at the 1996 games.
1996 The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act was struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
1997 Minamata Bay in Japan, once a worldwide symbol of industrial pollution, was declared free of mercury 40 years after contaminated fish were blamed for deaths and birth defects.
1999 A day trader opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; he had earlier killed his wife and two children.
2003 Boston Red Sox batter Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a single game in a 14-7 win at Texas.
2005 Astronomers announced their discovery of Eris, a possible tenth planet.

Chart Toppers

1946
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
Surrender - Perry Como
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Even Tho - Webb Pierce

1962
Roses are Red - Bobby Vinton
The Wah Watusi - The Orlons
Sealed with a Kiss - Brian Hyland
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

1970
(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters
Band of Gold - Freda Payne
Make It with You - Bread
Wonder Could I Live There Anymore - Charley Pride

1978
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Only One Love in My Life - Ronnie Milsap

1986
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Glory of Love - Peter Cetera
On the Other Hand - Randy Travis

Quote of the Day

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

[Giac]

Today in History - July 30th

Today's Birthdays

1818 Emily Bronte, author (Wuthering Heights) died Dec 19, 1848
1863 Henry Ford, auto manufacturer, died Apr 7, 1947
1890 Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel, MLB player/manager (NY Yankees) died Sep 29, 1975
1929 Sid Krofft, children's television producer (Sid & Marty Krofft)
1933 Edd Byrnes (Breitenberger), actor (77 Sunset Strip)
1934 Ben Piazza, actor (The Bad News Bears, The Blues Brothers, Dynasty, Dallas) died Sep 7, 1991
1934 Bud Selig, MLB commissioner
1936 Buddy (George) Guy, blues guitarist/singer
1939 Peter Bogdanovich, director/writer (The Last Picture Show, Texasville)
1941 Paul Anka, singer/songwriter (Johnny’s Theme, My Way, She’s a Lady, Diana)
1945 David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist
1946 Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver, died Feb 11, 1994
1947 William Atherton, actor (Real Genius, Bio-Dome, Die Hard series, Ghostbusters)
1947 Marc Bolan (Feld), singer (T. Rex) killed in car crash Sep 16, 1977
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor/politician (Total Recall, Terminator series; Governor of California)
1948 Jean Reno, actor (Léon: The Professional, Mission: Impossible, Godzilla)
1950 Frank Stallone, actor (Rocky series, Staying Alive)
1954 Ken Olin, actor (Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Thirtysomething)
1956 Delta Burke, actress (Designing Women)
1956 Anita Hill, law professor (Hill-Thomas hearings)
1957 Rat Scabies (Chris Millar), drummer (The Damned)
1958 Kate Bush, singer (Running Up That Hill, This Woman's Work)
1961 Laurence Fishburne (Lawrence Fishburne III), actor (Apocalypse Now, Boyz N the Hood, Matrix series)
1963 Monique Gabrielle, actress (Night Shift, Bachelor Party, Amazon Women on the Moon)
1963 Lisa Kudrow, actress (Friends, Mad About You, The Opposite of Sex)
1964 Vivica A. Fox, actress (Independence Day, Booty Call)
1969 Simon Baker, actor (LA Confidential, The Guardian)
1970 Christopher Nolan, director (Batman Begins, Memento)
1971 Tom Green, comedian/actor (Road Trip, Freddy Got Fingered)
1971 Christine Taylor, actress/Mrs Ben Stiller (Dodgeball, Zoolander, Brady Bunch movies)
1974 Hilary Swank, actress (The Next Karate Kid, Boys Don't Cry)
1975 Melvin, board member
1977 Jaime Pressly, model/actress (My Name is Earl)

Today's Deaths in History

1718 William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, dies at 73
1918 (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer, poet (Trees and Other Poems) is killed in combat at 31
1992 Joe Shuster, comic book artist (Superman) dies at 78
1996 Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (Midnight) dies at 92
1998 "Buffalo Bob" Smith, TV host (The Howdy Doody Show) died at 80
2003 Sam Phillips, record producer (Sun Records-Elvis Presley) dies at 80
2007 Ingmar Bergman, film director (The Seventh Seal) dies at 89
2007 Tom Snyder, newsman/talk show host (Tomorrow) dies at 71

Today in History

1619 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convened for the first time.
1729 The city of Baltimore was founded.
1792 The French national anthem "La Marseillaise," by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.
1898 Scientific American carried the first magazine automobile ad, for the Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH.
1932 The Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles, CA.
1932 Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award-winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premiered.
1937 The American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was organized as part of the American Federation of Labor.
1942 The WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services, were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a part of of the U.S. Navy.
1952 The popular radio soap opera The Guiding Light was seen for the first time on CBS Television.
1956 The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
1959 Willie McCovey, of the San Francisco Giants, stepped to the plate for the first time in his major-league baseball career.
1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1968 Ron Hansen of the Washington Senators made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years.
1971 David Scott and James Irwin, in Lunar module Falcon (Apollo 15), landed with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
1974 President Richard M. Nixon released subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m, never to be seen or heard from again.
1984 Reggie Jackson hit the 494th home run of his career, passing the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig and taking over 13th place on the all-time home run list.
1987 NBC’s L.A. Law was nominated for 20 Emmy Awards, one shy of the record for nominations, held by Hill Street Blues (in the 1981-1982 season).
1990 The first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line.
1997 San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young signed a 6-year contract extension worth $45 million, making him one of the NFL's highest-paid players.
1998 A world-record Powerball jackpot of $295.7 million was won by a group of 13 machinists who worked together in Westerville, Ohio.
2002 WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks became the first woman to dunk in a professional game during her team's 82-73 loss to the Miami Sol.
2003 In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line.
2006 The world's longest running music show, Top of the Pops, was broadcast for the last time on BBC Two after 42 years on the air.

Chart Toppers

1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Hard to Get - Giselle Mackenzie
Sweet and Gentle - Alan Dale
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce

1963
Surf City - Jan & Dean
So Much in Love - The Tymes
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

1971
Indian Reservation - Raiders
You’ve Got a Friend - James Taylor
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
I’m Just Me - Charley Pride

1979
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Good Times - Chic
Gold - John Stewart
You’re the Only One - Dolly Parton

1987
Alone - Heart
Shakedown - Bob Seger
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
The Weekend - Steve Wariner

Quote of the Day

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of US (1743 - 1826)

[Giac]

Today in History - July 31st

Today's Birthdays

1867 S.S. (Sebastian Spering) Kresge, merchant (S.S. Kresge’s five & dime stores: now Kmart) died in 1966
1913 Bryan Hextall, Hockey Hall of Famer (New York Rangers) died July 25, 1984
1918 Bill (William) Todman, game show producer (The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth) died July 29, 1979
1919 Curt Gowdy, sports commentator (ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO) died Feb 20, 2006
1929 Don Murray, actor (Bus Stop, Knots Landing, Peggy Sue Got Married)
1932 Ted Cassidy, actor (The Addams Family) died Jan 16, 1979
1939 France Nuyen (Vannga), actress (The Joy Luck Club, South Pacific, St. Elsewhere)
1939 John West, keyboardist (Gary Lewis and the Playboys)
1943 Lobo, singer (Me & You & a Dog Named Boo)
1944 Geraldine Chaplin, actress (Nashville, Chaplin, Dr. Zhivago)
1945 Gary Lewis (Levitch), singer (Gary Lewis and the Playboys)
1946 Bob Welch, guitarist/singer (Fleetwood Mac; Sentimental Lady)
1947 Karl Green, guitarist/harmonica (Herman’s Hermits)
1951 Evonne Goolagong, tennis champion
1951 Barry Van Dyke, actor/son of Dick van Dyke (Diagnosis Murder)
1956 Michael Biehn, actor (The Rock, Aliens, The Terminator, The Abyss)
1956 Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Gov.
1956 Bill Callahan, University of Nebraska football coach
1957 Daniel Ash, guitarist/singer (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
1958 Bill Berry, drummer (R.E.M.)
1958 Mark Cuban, businessman/producer/basketball team owner (Dallas Mavericks)
1962 Wesley Snipes, actor (Demolition Man, Rising Sun, Major League, Blade, White Men Can’t Jump)
1963 Norman (Quentin) Cook, singer (The Housemartins)
1964 Jim Corr, guitarist (The Corrs)
1965 J.K. Rowling, author (Harry Potter books)
1966 Dean Cain, actor (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Las Vegas)
1969 Loren Dean, actor (Mumford)
1973 Chandra North, supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1975 Annie Parisse, actress (Law and Order)
1978 Will Champion, drummer (Coldplay)
1980 Harry Potter, boy wizard

Today's Deaths in History

1099 El Cid, Spanish warrior, dies at 55
1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, dies at 66
1953 Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio, "Mr. Republican") dies at 63
1964 Jim Reeves, country singer, is killed in a plane crash at 40
1990 Albert Leduc, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers) dies at 87
2006 Paul Eells, sportscaster ("Voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks") dies at 70

Today in History

1777 The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.
1790 The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont, for a process for making potash and pearl ashes.
1792 Construction started with the laying of the cornerstone in the first building to be used solely as a U.S. Government building, the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
1845 The French Army introduced the saxophone to its military band.
1928 MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time as he introduced MGM’s first talking picture, White Shadows on the South Seas.
1930 The radio mystery program The Shadow aired for the first time.
1941 Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1948 U.S. President Harry S Truman dedicated the airport now known as New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport as International Airport at Idlewild Field.
1955 Marilyn Bell of Toronto, Canada, at age 17, became the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
1961 The first tie in All-Star Game history was recorded as the second All-Star Game of the year (there were two a year back then) was stopped in the 9th inning due to rain at Boston’s Fenway Park.
1964 Country Music Hall of Famer Jim Reeves died when his single-engine Beechcraft crashed near Nashville, TN.
1964 American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon's surface.
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin became the first men to ride in a vehicle on the moon, as they drove the Lunar Rover vehicle (LRV) for five miles on the lunar surface.
1972 Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, withdrew from the ticket with presidential candidate George McGovern following disclosure that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment for depression.
1974 John Erlichman was sentenced to prison for his role in the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist.
1981 The seven-week baseball players’ strike came to an end as the players and owners agreed on the issue of free agent compensation.
1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
1989 A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a grisly videotape purportedly showing the hanged body of American hostage William R. Higgins.
1990 Nolan Ryan became the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games as his Texas Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 11-3.
1991 President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.
1996 Alanis Morissette kicked off her first Canadian tour with a show before 15,000 at General Motors Place, Vancouver.
1997 New York City police seized five bombs believed bound for terrorist attacks on subways.
2002 A bomb exploded inside a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine people, including five Americans.
2006 Fidel Castro temporarily handed over power to brother Raúl Castro.

Chart Toppers

1948
You Can’t Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Woody Woodpecker Song - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

1964
Rag Doll - The 4 Seasons
A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) - Jan & Dean
Dang Me - Roger Miller

1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilber O’Sullivan
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right - Luther Ingram
It’s Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer - Charley Pride

1980
It’s Still Rock & Roll to Me - Billy Joel
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Cupid/I’ve Loved You for a Long Time - Spinners
Bar Room Buddies - Merle Haggard & Clint Eastwood

1988
Roll with It - Steve Winwood
Hands to Heaven - Breathe
Make Me Lose Control - Eric Carmen
Don’t We All Have the Right - Ricky Van Shelton

Quote of the Day

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash, US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)

[Giac]

Today in History – August 1st

Today's Birthdays

1770 William Clark, explorer (Lewis and Clark Expedition) died Sep 1, 1838
1779 Francis Scott Key, attorney/poet (The Star-Spangled Banner) died Jan 11, 1843
1818 Maria Mitchell, astronomer (first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, first woman professor of astronomy) died June 28, 1889
1819 Herman Melville, author (Moby Dick, Typee, Omoo) died Sep 28, 1891
1843 Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln (rescued from train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of man who assassinated President Lincoln) died July 26, 1926
1929 Michael Stewart (Rubin), playwright (Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!) died Sep 20, 1987
1930 Geoffrey Holder, dancer/actor (Live and Let Die, Doctor Dolittle, Boomerang)
1931 Tom Wilson, cartoonist (Ziggy)
1933 Dom Deluise, comedian/actor (Cannonball Run 1 & 2, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie)
1936 Yves St. Laurent (Henry Mathieu), fashion designer
1937 Alfonse M. D’Amato, U.S. Senator (New York)
1939 Robert James Waller, author (The Bridges of Madison County)
1941 Ronald Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, killed in plane crash Apr 3, 1996
1942 Jerry Garcia, guitarist/lyricist/singer (The Grateful Dead) died Aug 9, 1995
1946 Boz Burrell, bassist (King Crimson, Bad Company) died Sept 21, 2006
1947 Rick Anderson, bassist (The Tubes)
1947 Rick Coonce, singer/drummer (The Grass Roots)
1950 Jim Carroll, poet/actor (The Basketball Diaries)
1950 Roy Williams, basketball coach (University of North Carolina)
1953 Robert Cray, blues singer/guitarist (Strong Persuader)
1955 Trevor Berbick, WBC heavyweight boxing champion, was murdered Oct 28, 2006
1958 Taylor Negron, comedian/actor (Angels in the Outfield, Punchline)
1958 Adrian Dunbar, actor (My left Foot, The Crying Game)
1958 Rob Buck, guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) died Dec 19, 2000
1960 Joe Elliot, singer (Def Leppard)
1960 Chuck D, rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 Suzi Gardner, rock singer/guitarist (L7)
1963 Coolio (Artis Ivey Jr.), rapper (Gangsta's Paradise, Fantastic Voyage)
1964 Adam Duritz, singer (Counting Crows)
1965 Sam Mendes, British director (American Beauty)
1968 Dan Donegan, guitarist (Disturbed)
1973 Tempestt Bledsoe, actress (The Cosby Show)
1977 Marc Denis, NHL goaltender (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1978 Edgerrin James, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)

Today's Deaths in History

1903 Calamity Jane, frontierswoman/Indian fighter, dies at 50
1964 Johnny Burnette, rockabilly singer (God Country & My Baby) dies at 30
1977 Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (U2) dies at 47
1980 Strother Martin, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slap Shot) dies at 61
1981 Paddy Chayefsky, writer (Marty) dies at
2001 Korey Stringer, NFL lineman (Minnesota Vikings) dies of a heat stroke at 27
2005 Al Aronowitz, music journalist (introduced the Beatles) dies at 77
2006 Bob Thaves, cartoonist (Frank and Ernest) dies at 81

Today in History

1619 The first African slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia.
1790 The first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people.
1800 The Act of Union 1800 was passed, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1873 The first cable streetcar in America began operation on Clay Street Hill in San Francisco, CA.
1876 Colorado entered the United States of America as the 38th state.
1893 Henry Perky and William Ford of Watertown, NY patented shredded wheat.
1894 George Samuelson and Frank Harbo completed a 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat.
1902 The United States bought the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
1936 The Olympic games opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
1940 23-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy published his first book, entitled Why England Slept.
1941 The first Jeep was produced.
1942 The American Federation of Musicians went on strike because union president James C. Petrillo told musicians that phonograph records were “a threat to members’ jobs.”
1943 A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Oak Ridge, TN for the first uranium 235 plant (needed for the atomic bomb).
1944 13-year-old Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary, kept for two years while hiding with her family to escape Nazi deportation to a concentration camp.
1944 An uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation.
1945 Mel Ott became the third member of the 500 home run club with a homer at the Polo Grounds in New York.
1946 President Harry S. Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Sen. J. William Fulbright.
1946 The Atomic Energy Commission was established.
1950 Pitcher Curt Simmons of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first major-league baseball player to be called to active military duty during the Korean War.
1957 The United States and Canada formed the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 Chubby Checker’s "The Twist" was released.
1966 Charles Whitman killed 15 people, shooting from the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin, before being killed by the police.
1966 Purges of intellectuals and imperialists became official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1971 The Concert for Bangladesh was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City; George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston performed.
1978 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds failed to get a hit in five times at bat in Atlanta, ending his consecutive hitting streak at 44 games, just 12 short of Joe DiMaggio’s major-league baseball record with the New York Yankees.
1981 MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m.
1994 Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
1995 Westinghouse Electric Corp. struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion.
2001 Pro Bowl tackle Korey Stringer died of heat stroke, a day after collapsing at the Minnesota Vikings' training camp.
2001 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore had a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 The federal government warned of possible al-Qaida terrorist attacks against specific financial institutions in New York City, Washington and Newark, N.J.
2004 Alexandra Scott, a young cancer patient who started a lemonade stand to raise money for cancer research, sparking a nationwide fund-raising campaign, died at her home in Wynnewood, Pa., at age 8.
2005 Saudi Arabia's ruler, King Fahd, died, and Crown Prince Abdullah, the king's half brother, became the country's new monarch.
2005 President George W. Bush used a recess appointment to install John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, bypassing the Senate after a testy standoff with Democrats.
2005 Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days following a positive test for steroids.

Chart Toppers

1944
Amor - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan

1952
I’m Yours - Don Cornell
Delicado - Percy Faith
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Are You Teasing Me - Carl Smith

1960
I’m Sorry - Brenda Lee
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Brian Hyland
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
Grazing in the Grass - Hugh Masekela
Stoned Soul Picnic - The 5th Dimension
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

1976
Kiss and Say Goodbye - Manhattans
Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
Teddy Bear - Red Sovine

1984
When Doves Cry - Prince
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
State of Shock - Jacksons
Angel in Disguise - Earl Thomas Conley
Quote of the Day

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan, US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996)

This post has been edited by Giac: Aug 1 2007, 05:24 PM

[Giac]

Today in History – August 2nd

Today's Birthdays

1754 Pierre Charles L’Enfant, architect/engineer/Revolutionary War officer (designed the city of Washington D.C.) died June 14, 1825
1835 Elisha Gray, inventor (telephone prototype) died Jan 21, 1901
1892 Jack L. (Leonard) Warner (Eichelbaum), movie mogul (Warner Bros.) died Sep 9, 1978
1905 Myrna Loy (Williams), actress (Thin Man) died Dec 14, 1993
1912 Ann Dvorak (Anna McKim), actress (Scarface) died Dec 10, 1979
1918 Beatrice Straight, actress (Network, Poltergeist) died Apr 7, 2001
1924 Carroll O’Connor, actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night, The Devil’s Brigade, Kelly’s Heroes) died June 21, 2001
1932 Peter O’Toole, actor (Lawrence of Arabia, A Lion in Winter, The Last Emperor)
1937 Dave (David) Balon, NHL left wing (NY Rangers) died May 29, 2007
1937 Garth Hudson, keyboardist (The Band)
1939 Wes Craven, author/director (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The People Under the Stairs, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes series)
1939 Edward Patten, singer (Gladys Knight & The Pips)
1941 Doris Kenner-Jackson, singer (The Shirelles) died Feb 4, 2000
1943 Max Wright, actor (ALF, Fraternity Vacation)
1944 Joanna Cassidy, actress (Blade Runner, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
1944 Jim Capaldi, drummer/songwriter (Traffic) died Jan 28, 2005
1948 Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist/songwriter/singer
1950 Lance Ito, judge (O.J. Simpson case)
1951 Andrew Gold, singer (Lonely Boy, Thank You for Being a Friend)
1953 Butch Patrick, actor (The Munsters)
1957 Mojo Nixon, psychobilly musician
1959 Victoria Jackson, actress (Saturday Night Live, Casual Sex, UHF)
1959 Patricia Apollonia Kotero, singer/actress (Purple Rain)
1960 Linda Fratianne, Olympic figure skater
1962 Cynthia Stevenson, actress (Men in Trees)
1964 Mary-Louise Parker, actress (Weeds, Boys on the Side, The Client, Bullets over Broadway)
1966 Tim Wakefield, MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 Tony Amonte, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1970 Kevin Smith, director/screenwriter (Clerks series, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
1971 NYRhitter, board member
1972 Jacinda Barrett, model/actress (School for Scoundrels)
1972 Jimmy Pop, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Bloodhound Gang)
1977 Edward Furlong, actor (Terminator 2, American History X)
1992 Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress (Bicentennial Man, The Goodbye Girl)

Today's Deaths in History

1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (The Blue Boy) dies at 61
1876 James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, gunfighter, is shot in the back and killed at 39
1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (Metropolitan Opera) dies at 48
1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (telephone) dies at 75
1923 Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, dies at 57
1972 Brian Cole, bassist (The Association) dies at 29 of a heroin overdose
1979 Thurman Munson, MLB catcher, dies in a small plane crash at 32
1986 Roy Cohn, politician (McCarthy Hearings) dies at 59
1997 William S. Burroughs, writer (Naked Lunch) dies at 83
1998 Shari Lewis, puppeteer (Lamb Chop) dies at 65
2001 Ron Townson, R&B singer (The Fifth Dimension) dies at 68

Today in History

1610 Henry Hudson sailed into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1769 The city of Los Angeles was named by Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain, and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest, who named it Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula).
1776 Delegates to the Continental Congress began signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
1791 Samuel Briggs and his son, Samuel Briggs, Jr., became the first father-son pair to receive a joint patent, for their nail-making machine.
1823 The New York Mirror and Ladies Literary Gazette was founded; it later became the daily New York Mirror.
1824 Fifth Avenue was opened in New York City.
1858 The first mailboxes were installed along the streets of Boston and New York City.
1876 Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok was gunned down by Jack McCall, a desperado from Texas, in Saloon #10 at Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory; the poker hand Hickok was holding when he died consisted of a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights, now known as "the dead man's hand."
1887 Barbed wire was patented by Chester A. Hodge of Beloit, WI.
1921 A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox and two others of conspiring to defraud the public by throwing the World Series.
1926 The first demonstration of the Vitaphone system, which combined picture and sound for movies, was held at the Warner Theatre in New York City.
1931 Einstein urged all scientists to refuse military work.
1939 Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 PT 109, with Lieutenant (j.g.) John F. Kennedy on board, was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amigiri.
1964 North Vietnamese gunboats fired on the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy (Gulf of Tonkin Incident).
1979 New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane in Canton, Ohio.
1984 Charles Schulz’ award-winning comic strip Peanuts was picked up by the Daily Times in Portsmouth, OH, its 2,000th newspaper.
1985 A Delta Air Lines jumbo jet crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 137 people.
1987 The 50-year-old Walt Disney movie classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was rereleased.
1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces.
1992 Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
2000 Republicans nominated Texas Gov. George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
2003 Liberian President Charles Taylor agreed to cede power.

Chart Toppers

1945
The More I See You - Dick Haymes
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie

1953
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
Ruby - Richard Hayman
Rub-A-Dub-Dub - Hank Thompson

1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner
Dum Dum - Brenda Lee
Heartbreak U.S.A. - Kitty Wells

1969
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & The Shondells
What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Johnny B. Goode - Buck Owens

1977
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
I’m in You - Peter Frampton
My Heart Belongs to Me - Barbra Streisand
It was Almost like a Song - Ronnie Milsap

1985
Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
Shout - Tears For Fears
You Give Good Love - Whitney Houston
Love Don’t Care (Whose Heart It Breaks) - Earl Thomas Conley

Quote of the Day

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1897 - 1937)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 3rd

Today's Birthdays

1811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (elevator safety device) died April 7, 1861
1900 Ernie Pyle, journalist (World War II) killed by sniper’s bullet on Ie Shima, off Okinawa, April 18, 1945
1900 John T. Scopes, high school teacher (1925 Scopes Monkey Trial) died Oct 21, 1970
1902 Ray Bloch, orchestra leader (The Ed Sullivan Show, The Jackie Gleason Show) died Mar 29, 1982
1905 Margaret Kuhn, National Women’s Hall of Famer (The Gray Panthers) died Apr 22, 1995
1920 P.D. James, author (Children of Men)
1921 Richard Adler, composer/lyricist (Pajama Game, Damn Yankees)
1924 Leon Uris, author (Exodus, Battle Cry, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) died June 21, 2003
1925 Marv Levy, NFL GM (Buffalo Bills)
1926 Tony Bennett (Benedetto), singer (I Left My Heart in San Francisco)
1937 Steven Berkoff, actor (Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Beverly Hills Cop, A Clockwork Orange, War & Remembrance)
1940 Lance (Bambi) Alworth, Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1940 Martin Sheen (Ramon Estevez), actor (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now, J.F.K., Wall Street, The Final Countdown)
1941 Beverly Lee, singer (The Shirelles)
1941 Martha Stewart, cooking/craft/decorating advisor (Martha Stewart’s Living)
1949 B.B. (Morris) Dickerson, bassist/singer (War)
1950 John Landis, director (Twilight Zone: The Movie, Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Three Amigos, Trading Places)
1951 Marcel Dionne, Hockey Hall of Fame center (NY Rangers)
1951 Johnny Graham, guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1951 Jay North (Hopper), actor (Dennis the Menace)
1959 John C. McGinley, actor (The Rock, Point Break, Talk Radio, Wall Street, Platoon, Scrubs)
1961 Lee Rocker, rock bassist (Stray Cats)
1963 James Hetfield, guitarist/singer (Metallica)
1963 Ed Roland, rock singer/guitarist (Collective Soul)
1963 Isaiah Washington, actor (Grey's Anatomy, Bionic Woman)
1971 Spinderella, hip-hop artist (Salt-N-Pepa)
1972 Brigid Brannagh, actress (Army Wives)
1973 Stephen Carpenter, rock guitarist (Deftones)
1977 Tom Brady, NFL quarterback (New England Patriots)
1979 Evangeline Lilly, actress (Lost)
1980 Dominic Moore, NHL center (NY Rangers)

Today's Deaths in History

1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (Heart of Darkness) dies at 66
1966 Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 40
1983 Carolyn Jones, actress (Addams Family) dies at 53
1995 Ida Lupino, actress/director (On Dangerous Ground) dies at 77
2003 Roger Voudouris, singer/songwriter (Get Used To It) dies at 48
2006 Arthur Lee, psychedelic rock singer/songwriter (Love) dies at 61

Today in History

1492 Christopher Columbus set sail on the Santa Maria, accompanied by a crew of 90 and two more ships, the Nina and the Pinta, to begin the search for a water passage to Cathay.
1750 Christopher Dock completed the first book of teaching methods, titled A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management.
1852 America's first intercollegiate athletic event was held as Yale and Harvard met for a crew race on Lake Winnipesaukee in Center Harbor, N.H.
1880 The American Canoe Association was formed at Lake George, New York.
1914 At the outbreak of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey remarked: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
1923 Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, one day after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.
1933 The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the New York Yankees, 7-0, ending the Yankees 308-game streak without being shut out.
1933 The world-famous Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced.
1934 Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
1943 Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948 Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss denied.
1949 The National Basketball Association was formed.
1958 James Robert Sordelet of Fort Wayne, IN, became the first person to reenlist in the U.S. Navy while under the North Pole (aboard the Nautilus).
1963 The Beatles made their final appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.
1963 Comedian Allan Sherman’s summer camp parody, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)" was released on Warner Brothers Records.
1966 Comedian Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose.
1981 U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired.
1983 Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn resigned after 14 years on the job.
1985 Mail service returned to the Paradise Lakes, FL nudist colony, but only after residents promised that they’d wear clothes or stay out of sight when the mailperson came to deliver.
1987 Joe Niekro was suspended for 10 days for throwing scuffed baseballs; he first denied the charge made by the home plate umpire, but an emery board fell right out of his pocket during an inspection.
1987 The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ended with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Ronald Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels.
1989 The ABC news magazine Primetime Live debuted, with Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer reporting/starring.
1993 Boston Ventures sold Motown Records to the Dutch recording and entertainment company, Polygram, for $325 million.
1993 The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court.
1994 Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.
1996 "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)," by Los Del Rio, hit #1 on the Billboard charts.
2003 Annika Sorenstam completed a career Grand Slam by winning the Women's British Open.
2004 The Statue of Liberty pedestal in New York City reopened to the public for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Chart Toppers

1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
Doin’ What Comes Naturally - Dinah Shore
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Sh-Boom - The Crewcuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
One by One - Kitty Wells & Red Foley

1962
Roses are Red - Bobby Vinton
The Wah Watusi - The Orlons
Sealed with a Kiss - Brian Hyland
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

1970
(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters
Make It with You - Bread
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours - Stevie Wonder
Wonder Could I Live There Anymore - Charley Pride

1978
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Only One Love in My Life - Ronnie Milsap

1986
Glory of Love - Peter Cetera
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Mad About You - Belinda Carlisle
Nobody in His Right Mind Would’ve Left Her - George Strait

Quote of the Day

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams, US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 4th

Today's Birthdays

1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, lyric poet (Prometheus Unbound) died July 18, 1822
1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Admiral (Pearl Harbor) killed when U.S. 13th Air Force shot down his plane Apr 18, 1943
1900 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) died March 30, 2002
1901 (Daniel) Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo," jazz trumpeter/singer (Hello Dolly) died July 6, 1971
1910 William Schuman, composer (Secular Cantata No. 2) died Feb 15, 1992
1912 Raoul Wallenberg, architect/humanitarian (rescued at least 100,000 Jews in World War II) died in a Russian prison July 17, 1947
1920 Helen Thomas, journalist (UPI White House correspondent)
1921 Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (Montreal Canadiens) died May 27, 2000
1929 Yasser Arafat, former Palestian Liberation Organization leader, died Nov 11, 2004
1939 Frankie Ford (Guzzo), singer (Sea Cruise)
1944 Richard Belzer, comedian/actor (Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: SVU)
1949 John Riggins, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Washington Redskins)
1955 Billy Bob Thornton, actor (Armageddon, Pushing Tin, Sling Blade, The Astronaut Farmer)
1955 Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General
1959 Robbin Crosby, rock guitarist (Ratt) died June 6, 2002
1961 Lauren Tom, actress (The Joy Luck Club, When a Man Loves a Woman)
1961 Michael Gelman, TV producer (Live With Regis and Kelly)
1961 Barak Obama, U.S. Senator, D-Ill./U.S. Presidential Candidate
1962 (William) Roger Clemens, MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees)
1968 Daniel Dae Kim, actor (Lost)
1969 Michael DeLuise, actor (Wayne's World)
1971 Jeff Gordon, NASCAR driver
1978 Kurt Busch, NASCAR driver

Today's Deaths in History

1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (The Little Mermaid) dies at 70
1981 Melvyn Douglas, actor (HUD, Being There) dies at 80
1999 Victor Mature, actor (Samson and Delilah) dies at 86
2001 Lorenzo Music, actor (Rhoda) dies at 64

Today in History

1693 Dom Perignon invented Champagne.
1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart married Constanze Weber.
1790 The Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.
1821 The Saturday Evening Post was published as a weekly for the first time.
1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass; Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, though she was later acquitted.
1914 Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality.
1927 Radio station 2XAG, later named WGY, in Schenectady, NY, began experimental operations from a 100,000-watt transmitter.
1934 Mel Ott became the first major-league baseball player to score six runs in a single game.
1944 Nazi police discovered Anne Frank and her family, hiding in secret quarters above her father’s factory in Amsterdam, Holland.
1956 Wilhelm Herz was clocked at 210 miles per hour at Wendover, UT, making him the first person to race a motorcycle at more than 200 mph.
1958 The first potato flake plant was completed in Grand Forks, ND.
1963 After two months out of the lineup due to a broken left foot, Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees got a tie-breaking, pinch-hit, home run in the ninth inning to lead the Yankees to a win over the Baltimore Orioles.
1964 The murdered bodies of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
1977 President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.
1983 New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warmups and accidentally killed a seagull; after the game, Toronto police surrounded the slugger and arrested him for “causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.”
1985 Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox becamesthe 17th pitcher to win 300th career games and Rod Carew of the California Angels became the 16th player ever to collect 3000 career hits.
1987 A new 22-cent stamp honoring noted author William Faulkner went on sale in Oxford, MS; Faulkner had been fired as postmaster of that same post office in 1924.
1987 The Federal Communications Commission voted to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and TV stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues.
1993 A federal judge sentenced LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1994 Serb-dominated Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs, sealing the 300-mile border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia.
2002 A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in northern Israel during rush hour, killing himself and nine passengers.
2004 Richard Smith, a Staten Island ferry pilot, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in a crash that killed 11 commuters the previous October.
2005 A mini-submarine carrying seven Russians became caught on an underwater antenna 600 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean; the men were rescued three days later with help from a British vessel.
2006 Israeli warplanes destroyed four key bridges on Lebanon's last untouched highway, severing the country's final major connection to Syria.

Chart Toppers

1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Ain’t That a Shame - Fats Domino
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce

1963
So Much in Love - The Tymes
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
(You’re the) Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

1971
You’ve Got a Friend - James Taylor
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Draggin’ the Line - Tommy James
I’m Just Me - Charley Pride

1979
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Good Times - Chic
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
You’re the Only One - Dolly Parton

1987
Shakedown - Bob Seger
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
I Want Your Sex - George Michael
Snap Your Fingers - Ronnie Milsap

Quote of the Day

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 5th

Today's Birthdays

1850 Guy de Maupassant, author (The Tellier House) died July 6, 1893
1862 Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man, died April 11, 1890
1906 John Huston, director (Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, Prizzi’s Honor) died Aug 28, 1987
1911 Robert Taylor (Spangler Brugh), actor (Quo Vadis, Death Valley Days) died June 8, 1969
1930 Neil Armstrong, NASA astronaut/first man to step on the Moon
1935 John Saxon (Carmen Orrico), actor (Raid on Entebbe, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Beverly Hills Cop 3)
1937 Herb Brooks, Olympic/NHL hockey coach (Miracle on Ice, NY Rangers) died Aug. 11, 2003
1940 Roman Gabriel, College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (North Carolina State, LA Rams, Philadelphia Eagles)
1942 Rick Huxley, bassist (Dave Clark Five)
1943 Sammi Smith, singer (Help Me Make It Through the Night) died Feb 12, 2005
1945 Loni Anderson, actress (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1947 Rick Derringer (Zehringer), singer/songwriter (The McCoys; Rock and Roll Hootchie Coo)
1948 William Hootkins, actor (Star Wars, The Lost Boys, Flash Gordon, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1953 Samantha Sang, singer (Emotion)
1956 Maureen McCormick, actress (The Brady Bunch)
1959 Pat Smear, rock guitarist (Foo Fighters)
1959 Pete Burns, singer (Dead or Alive)
1961 Tawney Kitaen, actress (Bachelor Party, Whitesnake videos)
1962 Patrick Ewing, NBA center (New York Knicks)
1964 MCA, rapper (The Beastie Boys)
1966 Jonathan Silverman, actor (Little Big League, Weekend at Bernie’s series, Caddyshack 2, Brighton Beach Memoirs)
1975 Ami Foster, actress (Punky Brewster)
1977 Mark Mulder, MLB pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1981 Travis McCoy, singer (Gym Class Heroes)

Today's Deaths in History

1955 Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress/singer (The Brazilian Bombshell) dies at 46
1962 Marilyn Monroe, actress/singer (Some Like It Hot, 7 Year Itch) dies at 36 of a drug overdose
1964 Art Ross, NHL Hall of Fame defenseman/executive, dies at 78
1984 Richard Burton, actor (The Robe) dies of a stroke at 58
1991 Paul Brown, NFL coach (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals) dies at 82
1992 Jeff Porcaro, rock drummer (Toto) dies at 38
2000 Alec Guinness, actor (Star Wars series) dies at 86
2002 Chick Hearn, basketball announcer (LA Lakers) dies at 85
2006 Susan Butcher, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, dies at 51

Today in History

1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, was captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1620 The Mayflower departed Southampton, England for the New World.
1861 The federal government levied an income tax for the first time.
1861 The United States Army abolished flogging.
1864 Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" as he led his fleet against Mobile Bay, Ala., during the Civil War.
1882 Standard Oil of New Jersey was established.
1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid at Bedloe’s Island (now called Liberty Island), New York.
1914 Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio became the first intersection in the U.S. to be equipped with an electric traffic light.
1921 KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, PA did the first play-by-play broadcast of a baseball game.
1921 The New York World published the first cartoon to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize: "On the Road to Moscow," by Rollin Kirby.
1923 Henry Sullivan became the first American to swim across the English Channel.
1924 The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" debuted in the New York Daily News.
1936 Jesse Owens won his third gold medal by running a 200-meter race in 20.7 seconds at the Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany.
1957 Dick Clark’s American Bandstand caught the attention of network executives at ABC-TV in New York, who decided to put the show on its afternoon schedule.
1960 In an unprecedented move, two major-league baseball clubs traded managers: Jimmy Dykes of the Detroit Tigers moved to manage the Cleveland Indians while Joe Gordon left the Indians to take over the managerial reins of the Tigers.
1962 Nelson Mandela was jailed in South Africa; he would not be released until 1990.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe died at 36 from a drug overdose in Los Angeles, in a case that is still unsolved.
1963 The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.
1964 American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bombed North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1966 The Beatles' album Revolver was released.
1969 The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data.
1974 The comic strip Tank McNamara premiered in 75 newspapers.
1975 Singer Stevie Wonder signed the recording industry’s largest contract: $13 million over a seven-year period.
1981 Ronald Reagan fired 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1984 Toronto’s Cliff Johnson set a major-league baseball record by hitting the 19th pinch-hit home run in his career as he led the Blue Jays to a 4-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
1984 Joan Benoit won the first women’s Olympic marathon at the Summer Games in Los Angeles, California.
1992 Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were later convicted.
1994 A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington chose Kenneth W. Starr to take over the Whitewater investigation from Robert Fiske.
1998 Marie Noe of Philadelphia was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, accused of smothering eight of her children to death between 1949 and 1968.
1999 St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire belted home runs #500 and 501 to reach the 500-homer mark faster than anyone had before, doing it in his 5,487th at-bat.
2001 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban jailed eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, for allegedly preaching Christianity.
2002 The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic.
2006 Floyd Landis was fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considered him its champion after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone.

Chart Toppers

1948 - You Can’t Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Woody Woodpecker Song - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956 - My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

1964 - A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) - Jan & Dean
Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin
Dang Me - Roger Miller

1972 - Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right - Luther Ingram
Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
It’s Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer - Charley Pride

1980 - Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Little Jeannie - Elton John
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Dancin’ Cowboys - The Bellamy Brothers

1988 - Roll with It - Steve Winwood
Hands to Heaven - Breathe
Make Me Lose Control - Eric Carmen
Don’t We All Have the Right - Ricky Van Shelton

Quote of the Day

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan, US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 - 1996)

This post has been edited by Giac: Aug 5 2007, 05:44 PM

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 6th

Today's Birthdays

1809 Alfred Tennyson, England’s Poet Laureate (The Charge of the Light Brigade) died Oct 6, 1892
1881 Leo Carrillo, actor (The Cisco Kid) died Sep 10, 1961
1881 Sir Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist (discovered penicillin) died Mar 11, 1955
1911 Lucille Ball, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show) died April 26, 1989
1917 Robert Mitchum, actor (The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Cape Fear) died July 1, 1997
1928 Andy Warhol (Warhola), filmmaker/pop artist ("in the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes”) died Feb 21, 1987
1938 Paul Bartel, writer/director/actor (Eating Raoul) died May 13, 2000
1945 Andy (John Alexander) Messersmith, MLB pitcher (California Angels, LA Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, NY Yankees)
1951 Catherine Hicks, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, The Bad News Bears)
1952 Pat MacDonald, musician/singer (Timbuk 3)
1958 Randy DeBarge, bassist/vocals (DeBarge)
1962 Michelle Yeoh, actress (Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha)
1965 David Robinson, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs)
1969 Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter, died Oct 21, 2003
1970 M. Night Shyamalan, film director (The Sixth Sense)
1972 Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), singer (Spice Girls)
1976 Melissa George, actress (Home and Away, Dark City, Mulholland Drive)
1976 Soleil Moon Frye, actress (Punky Brewster)
1978 Marisa Miller, supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1982 Adrianne Curry, model/Mrs. Christopher Knight (Peter Brady)
1990 JonBenét Ramsey, murder victim, died Dec 26, 1996

Today's Deaths in History

1623 Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) dies at 67
1978 Pope Paul VI dies at 80
1991 Harry Reasoner, broadcast news reporter, dies at 68
2004 Rick James, funk guitarist/singer/songwriter, dies of a heart attack at 56
2005 Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) dies at 78

Today in History

1787 The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate a draft of the U.S. Constitution.
1819 Norwich University was founded in Vermont, the first private military school in the United States.
1890 Convicted murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair as he was put to death at Auburn State Prison in New York.
1890 Denton ‘Cy’ Young pitched his first major-league baseball game, leading the Cleveland Spiders past the Chicago White Sox.
1926 Nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle from New York became the first woman to swim the English Channel.
1926 Harry Houdini performed his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1926 The first talking picture, Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, was shown at New York’s Warners Theatre in glorious black and white.
1930 Joseph Crater, 41-years old and a New York Supreme Court Justice, mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.
1940 Columbia Records cut the prices of its 12-inch classical records to $1.
1942 Queen Wilhelmina became the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 More than 200,000 civilians died from the explosion and/or radiation when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, Japan.
1948 Seventeen-year-old Bob Mathias won the decathlon competition at the Olympic Games being held in London, England.
1949 Chicago White Sox baseball star Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game of his 19-year, major-league career.
1952 Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major-league baseball game, pitching a shutout of the Detroit Tigers, 1-0 in a 12-inning game.
1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, broadcasting company DuMont Television Network had its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
1967 Dean Chance of the Minnesota Twins pitched five innings of perfect baseball, leading his team to victory over the Boston Red Sox; Chance was only the third player to pitch a shortened, perfect game.
1969 Willie ‘Pops’ Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit the first fair ball to sail completely out of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
1973 Stevie Wonder came close to losing his life, following a freak auto accident; he was in a coma for 10 days.
1981 Stevie Nicks’ first solo album, Bella Donna, was released.
1984 Prince released Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
1986 Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named "James Bond.”
1990 The United Nations Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1996 Legendary punk rock band the Ramones play their 2,263rd and final concert, in The Palace, Los Angeles.
1996 NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced the possibility that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago.
1997 A Korean Air Boeing 747, Flight 801, plowed into a hillside short of the Guam International Airport, killing 226 of the 254 aboard.
1997 British Prime Minister Tony Blair shook hands with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams in the first meeting in 76 years between a British leader and the IRA's allies.
1997 Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.
1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
1998 A House committee voted to cite Attorney General Janet Reno for contempt of Congress for her refusal to turn over reports recommending that she seek an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund-raising.
2005 Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier-son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, began a weeks-long protest outside President Bush's ranch in Texas.

Chart Toppers

1949
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold

1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley

1965
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
I’m Henry VIII, I Am - Herman’s Hermits
What’s New Pussycat? - Tom Jones
The First Thing Ev’ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev’ry Night) - Jimmy Dean

1973
The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
Live and Let Die - Wings
Diamond Girl - Seals & Crofts
Lord, Mr. Ford - Jerry Reed

1981
Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield
Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
I Don’t Need You - Kenny Rogers
Dixie on My Mind - Hank Williams, Jr.

1989
Batdance - Prince
On Our Own - Bobby Brown
So Alive - Love & Rockets
Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ like That - Dolly Parton

Quote of the Day

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 7th

Today's Birthdays

1876 Mata Hari (Gertrud Margarete Zelle), courtesan/double agent/German spy, executed by firing squad near Paris Oct 15, 1917
1885 Billie (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton) Burke, comedienne/actress (The Wizard of Oz) died May 14, 1970
1903 Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies) died July 18, 1992
1925 Felice Bryant, songwriter (Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie) died April 22, 2003
1926 Stan Freberg, comedian
1927 Carl Switzer, child actor (Alfalfa- Little Rascals) doed jan 21, 1959
1929 Don (James) Larsen, MLB pitcher (pitched only perfect game in World Series history)
1942 Garrison Keillor, humorist/radio host (A Prairie Home Companion)
1942 B.J. (Billy Joe) Thomas, singer (Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, Hooked on a Feeling)
1943 Dino Valente, singer/guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) died Nov 16, 1994
1945 Alan Page, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle (Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings)
1952 Caroline Aaron, actress (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepless in Seattle)
1952 Andy Fraser, bassist (Free)
1955 Wayne Knight, actor (Seinfeld, Jurassic Park, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Space Jam)
1958 Bruce Dickinson, rock singer (Iron Maiden)
1960 David Duchovny, actor (The X-Files, Playing God, Evolution, Californication)
1963 Harold Perrineau Jr., actor (Lost, Romeo + Juliet)
1967 Charlotte Lewis, actress (The Golden Child)
1971 Sydney Penny, actress (The Thorn Birds, Pale Rider, St. Elsewhere)
1971 Rachel York, actress (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
1975 Charlize Theron, actress (That Thing You Do!, The Devil’s Advocate, Mighty Joe Young, The Cider House Rules)
1978 Jamey Jasta, rock singer (Hatebreed)
1987 Sidney Crosby, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins)

Today's Deaths in History

1917 Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship, dies at 25
1957 Oliver Hardy, comedian/actor (Laurel & Hardy) dies at 65
1972 Joi Lansing, model/actress (Beverly Hillbillies) dies at 43
1985 Grayson Hall, actress (Dark Shadows) dies at 62
1992 John Anderson, actor (McGyver) dies at 69
1994 Larry Martyn, comedy actor (Are You Being Served?) dies at 60
1999 Brion James, actor (Blade Runner, Enemy Mine, The 5th Element) dies at 54
2004 Red Adair, oil field firefighter (Hellfighters) dies at 89
2005 Peter Jennings, ABC anchorman, dies at 67

Today in History

1782 George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and noncommissioned officers.
1789 The War Department was established by Congress.
1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia received a patent for the revolving door.
1907 Walter Johnson pitched his first major-league victory by leading the Washington Senators to a 7-2 win over the Cleveland Indians; Johnson went on to win 414 games in his career.
1927 The Peace Bridge opened between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1934 The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the government's attempt to ban the James Joyce novel Ulysses.
1941 Television station WNBT, Channel 4 in New York City, broadcast the first audience-participation show.
1942 U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
1947 The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a six-man crew 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago.
1948 A new Olympic Games record was set when 83,000 spectators attended the final day of track and field events in London, England.
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, began selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
1959 The United States launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.
1964 Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers to deal with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1970 Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac as the group’s first female member.
1972 Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn were among eight players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1973 NBC aired the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television.
1974 Rock singer Peter Wolf married actress Faye Dunaway in Beverly Hills, California.
1974 French daredevil Philip Petit tightroped his way between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
1975 The Rolling Stones received a gold album for Made in the Shade.
1981 After 128 years of publication, The Washington Star newspaper ceased operation.
1984 An urbanologist at the University of Chicago issued a report stating that the richest community in America was Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
1990 President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq.
1991 The World Wide Web debuted as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1993 The rap trio Cypress Hill saw their Black Sunday hit #1 on U.S. LP charts.
1996 A federal appeals court in New York ruled that two former members of Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers waited too long to claim that they were cowriters of the group’s legendary 1955 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love."
1997 Garth Brooks played to a crowd estimated at between 250,000 and 900,000, with an HBO audience of more than 15 million, in New York's Central Park.
1998 A pair of major explosions near U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selected Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.
2004 Greg Maddux became the 22nd pitcher in major league history to reach 300 victories as he led the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory over San Francisco.
2005 Seven people in a Russian mini-submarine trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away undersea cables that snarled their vessel.

Chart Toppers

1950
Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Count Every Star - The Ray Anthony Orchestra (vocal: Dick Noel)
Mississippi - Red Foley

1958
Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Patricia - Perez Prado
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Alone with You - Faron Young

1966
Wild Thing - The Troggs
Lil’ Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Think of Me - Buck Owens

1974
Annie’s Song - John Denver
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John
Feel like Makin’ Love - Roberta Flack
Rub It In - Billy "Crash" Craddock

1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Honky Tonkin’ - Hank Williams, Jr.

1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Cradle of Love - Billy Idol
Rub You the Right Way - Johnny Gill
Good Times - Dan Seals

Quote of the Day

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker, American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 8th

Today's Birthdays

1866 Matthew Henson, explorer (North Pole expedition w/Robert Peary) died Mar 9, 1955
1879 Bob Smith, physician/surgeon/founder (Alcoholics Anonymous) died Nov 16, 1950
1907 Benny Carter, jazz musician/arranger (Honeysuckle Rose, Crazy Rhythm) died July 12, 2003
1910 Sylvia Sidney (Sophia Kosow), actress (Beetlejuice, You Only Live Once) died July 1, 1999
1919 Dino De Laurentiis, producer (The Bible, Barbarella, Jaws IV)
1921 Webb Pierce, singer (In the Jailhouse Now) died Feb 24, 1991
1922 Rory Calhoun (Francis Durgin), actor (Apache Uprising, Treasure of Pancho Villa) died Apr 28, 1999
1922 Esther Williams, swimmer/actress (Dangerous When Wet, Neptune’s Daughter, Million Dollar Mermaid)
1926 Richard Anderson, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman)
1930 Joan Mondale (Adams), wife of 42nd U.S. Vice-President Walter ‘Fritz’ Mondale
1932 Mel Tillis, singer/songwriter (I Believe In You, Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town)
1933 Joe Tex (Arrington, Jr.), singer (I Gotcha, Ain’t Gonna Bump No More With No Big Fat Woman) died Aug 13, 1982
1937 Dustin Hoffman, actor (Rain Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Graduate, Tootsie, Midnight Cowboy, Hook, Outbreak, Sphere)
1938 Connie Stevens (Concetta Ingolia), singer/actress (Kookie Kookie; Hawaiian Eye, Back to the Beach)
1944 Brooke Bundy, actress (Nightmare on Elm Street series)
1947 Larry Wilcox, actor (CHiPs)
1947 Ken Dryden, NHL goaltender/parliamentarian (Montreal Canadiens)
1949 Keith Carradine, actor (Pretty Baby, Kung Fu)
1950 Andy Fairweather Low, rock guitarist/singer
1951 Randy Shilts, journalist/writer (And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic) died Feb 17, 1994
1953 Don Most, actor (Happy Days)
1956 Chris Foreman, guitarist (Madness)
1957 Dennis Drew, rock keyboardist (10,000 Maniacs)
1958 Deborah Norville, TV host (Today, Inside Edition)
1961 The Edge (David Evans) guitarist (U2)
1961 Rikki Rockett, rock drummer (Poison)
1973 Scott Stapp, rock singer (Creed)
1976 J.C. Chasez, singer (’N Sync)
1976 Drew Lachey, singer (98 Degrees)
1976 Tawny Cypress, actress (Heroes)
1977 Lindsay Sloane, actress (The Wonder Years, Dharma & Greg)
1981 Roger Federer, tennis champion
1987 Greatone, board member
1988 Beatrice (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary Windsor), Princess of York

Today's Deaths in History

1965 Shirley Jackson, author (The Lottery) dies at 48
1975 Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz saxophonist, dies at 46
1985 Louise Brooks, actress (The Gold Rush) dies at 78
1988 Alan Napier, actor (Batman) dies at 85
1991 James Irwin, astronaut (Apollo 15) dies at 61
1992 John Kordic, NHL enforcer (Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Washington Capitals) dies at 27
2001 Maureen Reagen, former President Ronald Reagan's daughter, dies at 60
2004 Fay Wray, actress (King Kong) dies at 96
2005 Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (Dallas) dies at 82

Today in History

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, to spend the remainder of his days in exile.
1839 Beta Theta Pi became the first Greek-letter fraternity west of the Alleghenies, at Miami University in Oxford, OH.
1844 Brigham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons following the killing of Joseph Smith.
1863 Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sent a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (it was refused).
1876 Thomas A. Edison of Menlo Park, NJ patented the mimeograph machine.
1900 Competition began for the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts; it later became the Davis Cup.
1911 Membership in the U.S. House of Representatives was established at 435, so every 211,877 residents of the U.S. were represented by one member of Congress.
1911 The millionth patent was filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton, for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1923 Benny Goodman began his professional career as a clarinet player; he was 14 years old.
1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world flight.
1934 Bing Crosby became the first singer to record for the newly created Decca Records.
1941 Les Brown and His Band of Renown paid tribute to baseball’s ‘Yankee Clipper,’ Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees, with the recording of "Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio" on Okeh Records.
1942 Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who had landed in the United States were executed in Washington, D.C.
1945 President Harry S. Truman signed the United Nations Charter.
1953 The United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact.
1960 25,000 copies of "Tell Laura I Love Her," by Ray Peterson, were destroyed in Great Britain; Decca Records in England said the song was “too tasteless and vulgar for the English sensibility.”
1962 Elizabeth Ann Duncan became the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977.
1963 Seven million dollars was stolen in Britain’s Great Train Robbery by a gang of fifteen thieves.
1968 Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach and chose Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to be his running mate.
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland and vowed not to resign.
1974 Roberta Flack received a gold record for the single, "Feel Like Makin’ Love."
1974 President Richard M. Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
1978 The United States launched Pioneer Venus II, which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.
1987 The opening ceremonies of the Pan American Games were held in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1988 U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq.
1988 The lights were turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games.
1990 Iraq announced that it had annexed the kingdom of Kuwait, moving more than 200,000 troops into the tiny, oil-rich country.
2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
2005 Iran resumed work at a uranium conversion facility after suspending nuclear work for nine months to avoid U.N. sanctions.
2006 Sen. Joseph Lieberman lost the Connecticut Democratic primary to political newcomer Ned Lamont (however, Lieberman won re-election to the Senate by running as an independent).

Chart Toppers

1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Mister and Mississippi - Patti Page
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Wanna Play House with You - Eddy Arnold

1959
Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
A Big Hunk o’ Love - Elvis Presley
My Heart is an Open Book - Carl Dobkins, Jr.
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson

1967
Light My Fire - The Doors
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James

1975
One of These Nights - Eagles
Jive Talkin’ - Bee Gees
Please Mr. Please - Olivia Newton-John
Just Get Up and Close the Door - Johnny Rodriguez

1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
Your Love’s on the Line - Earl Thomas Conley

1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
P.A.S.S.I.O.N. - Rythm Syndicate
Summertime - D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
She’s in Love with the Boy - Trisha Yearwood

Quote of the Day

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell, English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 9th

Today's Birthdays

1593 Isaac (Isaak) Walton, fishing expert/author (The Compleat Angler) died Dec 15, 1683
1927 Robert Shaw, actor (Black Sunday, The Deep, Jaws) died Aug 28, 1978
1928 Bob Cousy, Basketball Hall of Famer (Boston Celtics)
1934 Merle Kilgore, Songwriter Hall of Famer (Ring of Fire, Wolverton Mountain)
1938 Rod Laver, tennis champion
1939 Billy Henderson, singer (Spinners)
1943 Ken Norton, Boxing Hall of Famer
1944 Sam Elliott, actor (Lonesome Dove, Mask, Tombstone, Road House)
1946 Jim Kiick, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1955 Benjamin Orr (Orzechowski), bassist/singer (The Cars)
1957 Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Born Yesterday, Body Double)
1958 Amanda Bearse, actress (Married......with Children, Fright Night)
1959 Kurtis Blow (Walker), rapper/disc jockey
1963 Whitney Houston, singer/actress (I Will Always Love You, Greatest Love of All, Saving All My Love for You)
1964 Brett Hull, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes)
1967 Deion Sanders, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins)
1968 Gillian Anderson, actress (The X Files, Playing by Heart, The House of Mirth, The Mighty)
1968 Eric Bana, actor (The Hulk)
1968 Sam Fogarino, rock drummer (Interpol)
1970 Arion Salazar, bassist (Third Eye Blind)
1970 Thomas Lennon, actor (Reno 911)
1972 Liz Vassey, actress (The Tick, CSI)
1976 Jessica Capshaw, actress (The Practice)
1978 Audrey Tautou, French actress (Ameile, The daVinci Code)

Today's Deaths in History

1962 Hermann Hesse, German-born writer (Steppenwolf) dies at 85
1979 Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers owner) dies at 75
1995 Jerry Garcia, guitarist (Grateful Dead) dies at 53
2003 Gregory Hines, dancer/actor (Running Scared, The Cotton Club, White Nights) dies at 57
2004 Tony Mottola, guitarist (Tonight Show Orchestra) dies at 86
2005 Matthew McGrory, actor (Carnivalé) dies at 32

Today in History

1831 The first steam locomotive train began its inaugural run, between Albany and Schenectady, in New York.
1854 Henry David Thoreau published Walden, which described his experiences living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
1859 Nathan Ames of Saugus, MA patented the escalator.
1892 Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1893 America’s first bowling magazine was published in New York City.
1902 Edward VII was crowned king of England following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1910 Alva J. Fisher of Chicago, IL received a patent for the electric washing machine.
1930 Betty Boop premiered in her first cartoon, Dizzy Dishes.
1936 Jesse Owens became the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1945 ‘Fat Man’, a plutonium bomb carried by the U.S.A. B-29 bomber, "Bock’s Car", was scheduled to be dropped on the Japanese city of Kokura; the weather made visibility poor, so the aircraft passed Kokura and chose its secondary target, Nagasaki.
1956 The first statewide, state-supported educational television network went on the air in Alabama.
1963 The TV music program Ready Steady Go! premiered on ITV in London, England.
1969 Cult leader Charles Manson and his disciples committed one of Los Angeles’ most heinous crimes, entering the home of movie director Roman Polanski and brutally murdering Polanski’s wife (actress Sharon Tate), movie director Voityck Frykowski, famous hair stylist Jay Sebring, student Steven Parent and coffee heiress Abigail Folger.
1971 LeRoy Satchel Paige, one of baseball’s pitching legends, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1974 Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon.
1975 The Superdome was opened as the hometown Saints met the Houston Oilers in an exhibition football game.
1981 Major-league baseball teams resumed play at the conclusion of the first mid-season players’ strike.
1983 Peter Jennings hosted his first broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight as sole anchor.
1985 A federal judge in Norfolk, Va., found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union.
1988 President Reagan nominated Lauro F. Cavazos to be secretary of education, the first Hispanic in U.S. history to be named to a cabinet position.
1995 Jerry Garcia, 53-year-old guitarist and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, died at a Northern California residential drug treatment center.
1999 William Shatner found his wife, Nerine dead in the swimming pool of their Studio City, California home.
1999 For the first time in 129 years of major league baseball, five grand slams were hit in one day.
2000 Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced it was recalling 6.5 million tires that had been implicated in hundreds of accidents and at least 46 deaths.
2001 President George W. Bush approved federal funding only for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.
2002 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th homer, becoming the fourth major leaguer to reach the mark.

Chart Toppers

1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Amor - Bing Crosby
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan

1952
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
I’m Yours - Don Cornell
Are You Teasing Me - Carl Smith

1960
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Brian Hyland
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Image of a Girl - Safaris
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
Hello, I Love You - The Doors
Classical Gas - Mason Williams
Stoned Soul Picnic - The 5th Dimension
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
Let ’Em In - Wings
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Golden Ring - George Jones & Tammy Wynette

1984
When Doves Cry - Prince
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
State of Shock - Jacksons
Mama He’s Crazy - The Judds

Quote of the Day

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost, US poet (1874 - 1963)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 10th

Today's Birthdays

1874 Herbert (Clark) Hoover, 31st U.S. President, died Oct 20, 1964
1899 Jack (John Joseph) Haley, actor (The Wizard of Oz) died June 6, 1979
1926 Junior Samples, comedian (Hee Haw) died Nov 13, 1983
1928 Jimmy Dean (Seth Ward), sausage mogul/singer (Big Bad John)
1933 Doyle Brunson, professional poker player
1940 Bobby Hatfield, singer (The Righteous Brothers) died Nov 5, 2003
1943 Ronnie Spector (Veronica Bennett), singer (The Ronettes)
1943 Jimmy Griffin, guitarist (Bread) died Jan 11, 2005
1943 Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan
1947 Ian Anderson, flute/singer (Jethro Tull)
1948 Patti Austin, R&B/Jazz singer
1959 Rosanna Arquette, actress (Pulp Fiction, Desperately Seeking Susan)
1960 Antonio Banderas (José Antonio Domínguez Banderas), actor (Assassins, Interview with the Vampire, Philadelphia)
1961 Jon Farriss, rock drummer (INXS)
1964 Neneh Cherry, R&B singer (Buffalo Stance)
1965 Claudia Christian, actress (Babylon 5, Dallas)
1967 Riddick Bowe, boxing champion
1967 Todd Nichols, guitarist (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
1968 Michael Bivins, R&B singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
1972 Angie Harmon, actress (Law & Order, Batman Beyond)
1974 Reggie Dunlop, board member
1977 Aaron Kamin, guitarist/songwriter (The Calling)
1979 Joanna Garcia, actress (Freaks and Geeks)
1982 Devon Aoki, supermodel/actress (Sin City)

Today's Deaths in History

1932 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd actor (Rin Tin Tin) dies at 13
1945 Robert Goddard, rocket scientist, dies at 62
1963 Estes Kefauver, U.S. Congressman/Senator from Tennessee, dies at 60
2001 Lou Boudreau, baseball player/manager/announcer (Chicago Cubs) dies at 84
2002 Michael Houser, guitarist (Widespread Panic) dies at 40

Today in History

1519 Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1776 Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reached London.
1821 Missouri became the 24th state.
1833 Chicago, Illinois was incorporated, not as a city, but as a village.
1846 The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was established by the United States Congress as an institute of learning.
1869 O.B. Brown of Malden, MA patented the motion-picture projector.
1885 The nation’s first electric streetcar railway opened in Baltimore, MD.
1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
1944 American forces overcame Japanese resistance on Guam during World War II.
1948 Candid Camera made its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1949 The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1954 Workers at the Studebaker auto plant in South Bend, IN agreed to take pay cuts of from $12 to $20 weekly in an attempt to help the faltering automaker.
1969 Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
1971 Harmon Killebrew became the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1973 For the first time in his golfing career, Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the final two rounds of the PGA Golf Championship.
1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, N.Y., accused of being the "Son of Sam" gunman responsible for six random slayings and seven woundings.
1981 Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies connected for career hit number 3,631, becoming the National League leader for hits, breaking the record set by Stan ‘The Man’ Musial.
1981 The head of John Walsh's son Adam was found in Hollywood, Florida.
1985 Madonna’s album Like a Virgin became the first solo album by a female artist to be certified for sales of five million copies.
1986 Billy Martin’s uniform # 1 was retired by the New York Yankees, the 13th Yankee to receive the honor.
1987 A Chorus Line celebrated its 5,000th performance.
1988 President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interred by the U.S. government during World War II.
1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.
1994 President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
1995 The Los Angeles Dodgers were forced to forfeit against the St. Louis Cardinals after fans threw souvenir baseballs on to the field en masse.
1995 Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" in the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
1995 Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were indicted (11 counts each) for bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
2000 The California State Legislature approved a bill to make March 31, the birthday of the late labor leader Cesar Chavez, a holiday for state workers.
2003 Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history against the St. Louis Cardinals.
2005 Lee Seung Seop died from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
2006 British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.

Chart Toppers

1945
Dream - The Pied Pipers
I Wish I Knew - Dick Haymes
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie

1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
I Believe - Frankie Laine
Rub-A-Dub-Dub - Hank Thompson

1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner
Last Night - Mar-Keys
I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline

1969
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & The Shondells
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) - Charley Pride

1977
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
I’m in You - Peter Frampton
Best of My Love - Emotions
Rollin’ with the Flow - Charlie Rich

1985
Shout - Tears For Fears
Never Surrender - Corey Hart
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
I’m for Love - Hank Williams, Jr.

Quote of the Day

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West, US movie actress (1892 - 1980)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 11th

Today's Birthdays

1862 Carrie Bond, composer (I Love You Truly, A Perfect Day) died Dec 28, 1946
1920 Chuck Rayner, Hockey Hall of fame goaltender (NY Rangers) died Oct 5, 2002
1921 Alex Haley, author (Roots, Queen) died Feb 10, 1992
1925 Mike Douglas (Dowd), TV host (The Mike Douglas Show) died Aug 11, 2006
1925 Carl Rowan, journalist/author/director of the U.S. Information Agency (NBC News, Chicago Daily News) died Sep 23, 2000
1928 Arlene Dahl, actress (Three Little Words, One Life to Live)
1933 Jerry Falwell, minister/university president (Liberty University) died May 15, 2007
1942 Mike Hugg, drummer (Manfred Mann)
1943 Jim Kale, bassist (The Guess Who)
1944 Fred Smith, entrepreneur/CEO (FedEx)
1949 Eric Carmen, bassist/keyboards/songwriter/singer (All By Myself, Almost Paradise, Hungry Eyes)
1950 Erik Braunn, guitarist/singer (Iron Butterfly)
1950 Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computer, Inc)
1953 Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea), wrestler/actor
1954 Joe Jackson, pianist/singer (Steppin’ Out, Is She Really Going Out with Him?, Look Sharp!)
1957 Richie Ramone, punk drummer (The Ramones)
1966 Embeth Davidtz, actress (Army of Darkness, Schindler's List)
1967 Joe Rogan, actor/host/comedian (NewsRadio, Fear Factor)
1968 Charlie Sexton, rock singer/guitarist (Beat So Lonely)
1970 Andy Bell, rock bassist/songwriter (Oasis)
1976 Ben Gibbard, singer (Death Cab for Cutie)
1978 Amber Brkich, reality TV personality (Survivor)

Today's Deaths in History

0480 BC Leonidas, King of Sparta, dies in battle at Thermopylae at 40
1919 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist/philanthropist U.S. Steel) dies at 83
1937 Edith Wharton, author (The House of Mirth) dies at 75
1956 Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in an automobile accident at 44
1984 Alfred A. Knopf, publisher, dies at 91
1988 Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama from the Train) dies at 59
1991 J. D. McDuffie, NASCAR driver, dies at 52 in a crash at Watkins Glen racetrack
1994 Peter Cushing, British actor (Dracula, Star Wars) dies at 81
1996 Mel Taylor, rock drummer (The Ventures) dies at 62
2003 Herb Brooks, ice hockey coach (1980 Olympics Team, NY Rangers) dies at 66 in an auto accident
2006 Mike Douglas, talk show host (The Mike Douglas Show) dies on his 81st birthday

Today in History

1874 Harry S. Parmelee of New Haven, CT received a patent for the sprinkler head.
1896 Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, CT received a patent for the pull-chain, electric-light socket.
1909 The liner "Arapahoe" was the first American ship to use the radio distress call, SOS, when the ship found itself in trouble off Cape Hatteras, NC and radioed for help.
1929 Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 The first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1951 WCBS-TV in New York City televised the first baseball doubleheader in color.
1954 A formal peace took hold in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and the Communist Vietminh.
1958 Elvis Presley received a gold record for the hit "Hard Headed Woman," from the movie King Creole.
1961 Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves got his 300th major-league victory as he beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1.
1965 The Watts riots began in Los Angeles, ijn which 34 people died, more than 3,000 were arrested and there was more than $40 million in damage to property; the riots was caused by a minor confrontation between the California Highway Patrol and two young black men.
1968 The Beatles launched their new record label, Apple.
1970 Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in each of the two major leagues.
1971 Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins got the 500th and 501st home runs of his major-league baseball career.
1977 Pistol Pete Maravich signed a five-year basketball contract with the New Orleans Jazz for $3 million.
1984 The Cincinnati Reds honored All-Star and Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench by retiring his #5.
1984 U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, “...I have signed legislation that will outlaw Russia. We begin bombing in five minutes.“ The remark was made during a time when technicians had the microphone open and the President didn’t think he was being heard.
1987 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was called “the best album made during the last 20 years” by Rolling Stone magazine.
1992 The Mall of America opened in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest retail and entertainment complex in the United States.
1997 President Bill Clinton made the first use of the line-item veto approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills (the Supreme Court later struck down the line-item veto as unconstitutional).
1998 British Petroleum announced it was merging with Amoco Corp. in a $53-billion deal.
2000 Pat Buchanan won the Reform Party presidential nomination in a victory bitterly disputed by party founder Ross Perot's supporters, who chose their own nominee in a rival convention.
2002 US Airways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2003 NATO took command of the 5,000-strong peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
2003 Charles Taylor resigned as Liberia's president and went into exile in Nigeria.
2003 NATO took over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2006 The last software patent expired on the GIF format.

Chart Toppers

1946
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
Surrender - Perry Como
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Sh-Boom - The Crewcuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
In the Chapel in the Moonlight - Kitty Kallen
One by One - Kitty Wells & Red Foley

1962
Breaking Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
Ahab, the Arab - Ray Stevens
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

1970
(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters
Make It with You - Bread
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours - Stevie Wonder
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James

1978
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Grease - Frankie Valli
Love or Something Like It - Kenny Rogers

1986
Glory of Love - Peter Cetera
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Mad About You - Belinda Carlisle
Rockin’ with the Rhythm of the Rain - The Judds

Quote of the Day

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 12th

Today's Birthdays

1849 Abbott Thayer, artist (created camouflage pattern for military) died in 1921
1880 Christy (Christopher) ‘Matty’ Mathewson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds) died Oct 7, 1925
1881 Cecil B. (Blount) DeMille, Academy Award-winning film producer, died Jan 21, 1959
1911 Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), comic actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Pepe) died Apr 20, 1993
1911 Jane Wyatt, actress (Father Knows Best, Lost Horizon) died Oct 20, 2006
1917 Marjorie Reynolds (Goodspeed), actress (Gone with the Wind, The Time of Their Lives) died Feb 1, 1997
1925 Norris and Ross McWhirter, co-founders of the Guinness Book of Records; Ross died Nov 27, 1975, Norris died Apr 19, 2004
1926 John Derek (Derek Harris), actor/director (All the King’s Men, Exodus, Bolero) died May 22, 1998
1927 Porter Wagoner, country singer/TV Host (The Porter Wagoner Show)
1929 Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr.), country singer/TV Host (Hee Haw) died Mar 25, 2006
1931 William Goldman, screenwriter (Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
1932 Charlie O'Donnell, game show announcer (Wheel of Fortune)
1933 Parnelli (Rufus) Jones, Indy car racer/team owner
1939 George Hamilton, actor (Love at First Bite, Zorro, the Gay Blade, Evel Knievel, Doc Hollywood)
1941 Jennifer Warren, actress (Slap Shot)
1949 Mark Knopfler, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Dire Straits)
1954 Sam J. Jones, actor (Flash Gordon)
1954 Pat Metheny, Jazz guitarist/composer
1956 Bruce Greenwood, actor (John from Cincinnati,
1959 Suzanne Vega, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Luka, Tom’s Diner)
1961 Roy Hay, guitarist (Culture Club)
1963 Sir Mix-A-Lot, rapper (Baby Got Back)
1965 Peter Krause, actor (Sports Night, Six Feet Under)
1971 Pete Sampras, tennis champion
1971 Michael Ian Black, actor (Ed)
1972 Rebecca Gayheart, actress (Urban Legend, Jawbreaker, Scream 2, Dead Like Me)
1975 Casey Affleck, actor (Good Will Hunting)
1975 Bill Uechi, rock bassist (Save Ferris)
1977 Plaxico Burress, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1978 Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian women's ice hockey player
1978 Chris Chambers, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1980 Dominique Swain, actress (Lolita)

Today's Deaths in History

0030 BC Cleopatra, Egyptian Queen, commits suicide by asp at 39
1827 William Blake, English poet/artist, dies at 69
1861 Eliphalet Remington, inventor (Remington rifle) dies at 67
1948 Harry Brearley, English inventor (stainless steel) dies at 77
1964 Ian Fleming, English novelist, (James Bond) dies at 56
1982 Henry Fonda, actor (12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond) dies at 77
1997 Luther Allison, blues guitarist, dies at 57
2000 Loretta Young, actress (The Bishop's Wife) dies at 87
2002 Enos Slaughter, Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder (St Louis Cardinals, NY Yankees) dies at 86
2007 Merv Griffin, TV mogul (talk shows, game shows) dies at 82

Today in History

0030 BC Cleopatra committed suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
1851 Isaac Singer of New York City patented the double-treadle sewing machine.
1865 Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use disinfectant during surgery.
1877 Thomas A. Edison finished plans for his first phonograph.
1879 The first National Archery Association tournament began in Chicago, IL.
1898 The Hawaiian flag was lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai'i to the United States.
1908 The first Model T Ford was built.
1918 Regular air-mail service began between New York City and Washington, D.C.
1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
1944 Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.
1953 The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1964 For the 10th time in his major-league baseball career, Mickey Mantle hit home runs from both the left and ride sides of the plate in the same game, setting a new baseball record.
1966 The last tour for the Beatles began at the International Amphitheater in Chicago.
1966 John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for remarking "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
1967 Fleetwood Mac made their stage debut at the National Blues and Jazz Festival in Great Britain.
1969 The Boston Celtics basketball team was sold for $6,000,000, the highest dollar figure ever paid for a pro basketball team to that time.
1973 Golfer Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major golf title, breaking a record held for nearly 50 years by Bobby Jones.
1977 The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.
1981 IBM (International Business Machines) introduced the Model 5150 personal computer; it ran on the Intel 8088 microprocessor at 4.77 mHz with one or two 160K floppy disk drives.
1982 Terry Felton of the Minnesota Twins set a major-league record for rookie pitchers, with his 14th loss without a win.
1984 Luis Aparicio and Don Drysdale, who began their playing careers on the same day in 1956, were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1986 Paul Simon released his landmark Graceland album.
1986 Rod Carew became the first player in the history of the California Angels franchise to have his uniform retired (#29).
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ, the controversial film directed by Martin Scorsese, opened despite demonstrations and protestations by religious groups.
1992 The United States, Mexico and Canada agreed to form a free-trade zone that would remove most barriers to trade and investment and create the world’s largest trading bloc: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1994 "Woodstock ’94" began in Saugerties, New York.
1994 Major League Baseball players went on strike; the work stoppage forced the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
1998 Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle lawsuits filed by Holocaust survivors and their heirs; the banks had kept millions of dollars deposited by Holocaust victims and their relatives before and during World War II.
2000 The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
2004 New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and acknowledged that he had had an extramarital affair with a man.
2004 The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.

Chart Toppers

1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Ain’t that a Shame - Fats Domino
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce

1963
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Wipe Out - The Surfaris
(You’re the) Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

1971
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Beginnings/Colour My World - Chicago
I’m Just Me - Charley Pride

1979
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Good Times - Chic
The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
Suspicions - Eddie Rabbitt

1987
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
I Want Your Sex - George Michael
Heart and Soul - T’Pau
One Promise Too Late - Reba McEntire

quote of the Day

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Unknown

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 13th

Today's Birthdays

1422 William Caxton, printer (first to print a book in English language) died in 1491
1860 Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee), sharpshooter/performer (Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show) died Nov 3, 1926
1895 Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim), actor (The Wizard of Oz) died Dec 4, 1967
1899 Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock, director (Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window) died Apr 29, 1980
1912 Ben Hogan, golf champion, died July 25, 1997
1920 Neville Brand, soldier/actor (Stalag 17, Birdman of Alcatraz) died Apr 16, 1992
1926 Fidel Castro (Ruz), Cuban dictator
1929 Pat Harrington, comedian/actor (One Day at a Time)
1930 Don Ho, singer/entertainer (Tiny Bubbles) died April 14, 2007
1930 Vinegar Bend (Wilmer David) Mizell, MLB pitcher (StL Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Mets)
1933 Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General
1944 Kevin Tighe, actor (Emergency, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Roadhouse)
1949 Cliff Fish, bassist (Paper Lace)
1949 Bobby Clarke, Hockey Hall of Fame player/coach/GM (Philadelphia Flyers)
1951 Dan Fogelberg, folk/rock singer (Part of the Plan, Run for the Roses)
1952 Herb Ritts, glamour photographer, died Dec 26, 2002
1958 Feargal Sharkey, singer (The Undertones)
1959 Danny Bonaduce, actor (The Partridge Family)
1967 Quinn Cummings, actress (The Goodbye Girl)
1969 Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
1975 Marty Turco, NHL goaltender (Dallas Stars)

Today's Deaths in History

1910 Florence Nightingale, English nurse/humanitarian, dies at 90
1946 H. G. Wells, English writer (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine) dies at 79
1982 Joe Tex, singer/songwriter (I Gotcha!) dies at 49
1989 Tim Richmond, NASCAR driver, dies at 34 of AIDS
1991 Jack Ryan, toy designer (Barbie) dies at 64
1995 Mickey Mantle, Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Yankees) dies of liver cancer at 63
2004 Julia Child, chef/television personality, dies at 91

Today in History

1521 Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured present-day Mexico City from the Aztecs.
1784 The Continental Congress met for the final time in Annapolis, Maryland, before moving to Philadelphia.
1889 William Gray of Hartford, CT patented the coin-operated telephone.
1907 The first taxicab took to the streets of New York City.
1912 St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, PA was granted the first experimental radio license by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
1918 Opha Mae Johnson was the first woman to enlist, as women were permitted enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time.
1924 "The Prisoner’s Song," by Vernon Dalhart, became the first country music record to sell one million copies.
1931 Elk City, Oklahoma dedicated its new community hospital, the first of its kind in the United States.
1932 Adolf Hitler rejected the post of vice-chancellor of Germany, saying he was prepared to hold out "for all or nothing."
1934 Cartoonist Al Capp began his famous comic strip, Li’l Abner.
1935 The first roller derby match was held at the Coliseum in Chicago, IL.
1942 The Walt Disney classic Bambi opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
1948 Cleveland Indians rookie pitcher Satchel Paige threw his first complete game in the major leagues.
1952 The original version of "Hound Dog" was recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton.
1961 Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees.
1979 Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals got his 3,000th career hit while leading the Cardinals past the Chicago Cubs, 3-2.
1981 President Ronald Reagan signed a historic package of tax and budget reductions in a ceremony at his California ranch.
1986 United States Football League standout Herschel Walker signed to play with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.
1986 After 22 seasons, Tony Perez of the Cincinnati Reds announced his plan to retire at the end of the 1986 season.
1990 Soul singer/songwriter Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down after a lighting tower fell on him at a concert in Brooklyn, New York.
1996 CNN reported that The New York Post reported that Donald Trump planned to construct a 140-story NYSE Tower at the end of Wall Street.
2003 Libya agreed to set up a $2.7 billion fund for families of 270 people killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
2004 The 28th summer Olympic games opened in Athens.

Chart Toppers

1948
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Woody Woodpecker Song - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

1964
A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
Dang Me - Roger Miller

1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right - Luther Ingram
Bless Your Heart - Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats

1980
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Stand by Me - Mickey Gilley

1988
Roll with It - Steve Winwood
Hands to Heaven - Breathe
Make Me Lose Control - Eric Carmen
Don’t Close Your Eyes - Keith Whitley

Quote of the Day

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz, Russian-American violinist (1901 - 1987)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 14th

Today's Birthdays

1851 Doc Holliday, gambler/gunslinger/dentist (Gunfight at the OK Corral) died Nov 8, 1887
1863 Ernest Thayer, author (Casey at the Bat) died in 1940
1867 John Galsworthy, author (The Forsyte Saga) died Jan 31, 1933
1916 Wellington Mara, Co-Owner (New York Giants) died Oct 25, 2005
1926 Alice Ghostley, actress (Designing Women, Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D., The Graduate, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1930 Earl Weaver, MLB manager (Baltimore Orioles)
1940 Dash Crofts, drummer/mandolin/keyboards (Seals & Crofts)
1941 David Crosby (Van Cortland), guitarist/songwriter/singer (The Byrds, Crosby Stills Nash & Young)
1943 Jimmy Johnson, NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins)
1945 Steve Martin, comedy writer/comedian/actor (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; Roxanne, The Jerk, Three Amigos, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Saturday Night Live)
1945 Wim Wenders, German-born film director (The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty)
1946 Antonio Fargas, actor (Car Wash, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka!, Shaft, Starsky and Hutch)
1946 Larry Graham, bassist/singer (Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station)
1946 Susan Saint James (Susan Jane Miller), actress (McMillan and Wife, Kate and Allie, Love at First Bite)
1947 Danielle Steel (Schuelein-Steel), author (Vanished, Wanderlust, Daddy, The Ring, Secrets, Going Home)
1950 Gary Larson, cartoonist (The Far Side)
1950 Terry Adams, blues/rock singer/guitarist (NRBQ)
1954 Mark (Steven) "The Bird" Fidrych, MLB pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1956 Rusty Wallace, NASCAR driver
1959 Magic (Earvin Jr.) Johnson, NBA Hall of Famer (LA Lakers)
1959 Marcia Gay Harden, actress (Meet Joe Black, Space Cowboys)
1960 Sarah Brightman, operatic singer
1961 Susan Olsen, actress (The Brady Bunch)
1968 Catherine Bell, actress (JAG)
1968 Halle Berry, actress (Monster’s Ball, Boomerang, Losing Isaiah, Bulworth, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, X-Men)
1970 Kevin Cadogan, rock guitarist (Third Eye Blind, Radio Angel)
1974 Christopher Gorham, actor (Ugly Betty)
1981 Julius Jones, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1983 Mila Kunis, actress (That 70's Show)

Today's Deaths in History

1951 William Randolph Hearst, Newspaper publisher, dies at 88
1956 Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist, dies at age 58
1964 Johnny Burnette, rckabilly singer, dies at 30
1972 Oscar Levant, actor/pianist (An American in Paris) dies at 65
1980 Dorothy Stratten, actress/model/playmate (August 1979, Playmate of the Year 1980) is murdered at 20
1988 Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker, dies at 90
1992 Tony Williams, R&B singer (The Platters) dies at 64
1999 Pee Wee Reese, MLB All-Star shortstop (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers) dies at 81
2002 Dave Williams, rock singer (Drowning Pool) dies at 30
2006 Bruno Kirby, actor (Good Morning Vietnam, When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers) dies at 57
2007 Phil Rizzuto, baseball player/announcer (NY Yankees) dies at 89

Today in History

1873 The first issue of Field and Stream magazine was published.
1848 The U.S. Congress created the Oregon Territory, made up of today’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
1880 Exactly 632 years after rebuilding began, the Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, was completed.
1885 Japan's first patent was issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 Oliver B. Shallenberger of Rochester, PA received a patent for the electric meter.
1900 International forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
1935 The U.S. Congress passed, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law, a bill that established the Social Security Act.
1936 The first basketball competition was held at the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany; the U.S. defeated Canada, 19-8.
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.
1945 U.S. President Harry S Truman announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies.
1947 Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias turned golfing professional in order to accept $300,000 for a series of golf movies.
1953 David N. Mullany and his 13-year-old son David A. Mullany invented the Wiffle Ball.
1959 The first meeting to organize the American Football League was held.
1969 British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
1971 Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the first no-hitter against the Pirates since 1955.
1971 Elton John put the finishing touches to his Madman Across the Water LP at Trident Studios, London.
1980 Workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.
1980 President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.
1981 The BBC recording of the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana reached number one on the album charts in Britain.
1984 IBM released PC-DOS v3.0 for PC/AT (with network support); it boasted a 286 processor, a 20-30meg hard drive and 256k/512k RAM, and went for somewhere between $6000 and $9000.
1987 Mark McGwire set the record for home runs by a rookie, as he connected for his 39th of the season.
1994 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," was captured.
1996 The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
1997 An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 A blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.
2006 Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.
2006 Cuban state television aired the first video of Fidel Castro since he stepped down as president to recover from surgery, showing the bedridden Cuban leader talking with his brother Raul and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Chart Toppers

1949
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
Again - Doris Day
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold

1957
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers

1965
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
Save Your Heart for Me - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
The First Thing Ev’ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev’ry Night) - Jimmy Dean

1973
The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
Live and Let Die - Wings
Brother Louie - Stories
Trip to Heaven - Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats

1981
Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
Too Many Lovers - Crystal Gayle

1989
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
On Our Own - Bobby Brown
Once Bitten Twice Shy - Great White
Timber, I’m Falling in Love - Patty Loveless

Quote of the Day

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
William Feather (1908 - 1976)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 15th

Today's Birthdays

1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, died May 5, 1821
1771 Sir Walter Scott, writer (Ivanhoe) died Sep 21, 1832
1859 Charles Comiskey, baseball owner (Chicago White Sox) died Oct 26, 1931
1879 Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Mae Blythe), actress (None But the Lonely Heart) died June 18, 1959
1885 Edna Ferber, novelist (Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant) died Apr 16, 1968
1912 Julia Child (McWilliams), Culinary Institute of America Hall of Fame chef/author/TV host (Dinner with Julia) died Aug 12, 2004
1912 Dame Wendy Hiller, actress (Murder on the Orient Express, The Elephant Man) died May 14, 2003
1923 Rose Marie (Mazetta), comedienne/actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
1925 Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian), actor (Mannix)
1925 Bill Pinkney, bassist (The Drifters) died July 4, 2007
1933 Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock) died June 19, 1997
1936 Pat Priest, actress (The Munsters)
1938 Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Justice
1942 Peter York, drummer (Spencer Davis Group)
1945 Gene Upshaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame guard (Oakland Raiders)
1946 Jimmy Webb, songwriter (Up, Up and Away, MacArthur Park, Wichita Lineman)
1950 Princess Anne (Mountbatten), daughter of Philip Mountbatten and Queen Elizabeth II, sister of Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward
1958 Craig MacTavish, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1961 Matt Johnson, guitarist/singer (The The)
1964 Debi Mazar, actress (So I Married an Axe Murderer, Bullets Over Broadway, Entourage)
1968 Debra Messing, actress (Will & Grace, The Mothman Prophecies)
1970 Anthony Anderson, actor (Barbershop, Transformers)
1972 Ben Affleck, actor (Pearl Harbor, Good Will Hunting, Armageddon)
1974 Natasha Henstridge, actress (Species, The Whole Nine Yards series)
1977 Martin Biron, NHL goaltender (Buffalo Sabres, Philadelphia Flyers)

Today's Deaths in History

1935 Wiley Post, pilot/inventor (pressure suit) dies in an airplane crash at 36
1935 Will Rogers, humorist/actor, dies in an airplane crash at 55
1975 Clay Shaw, John F. Kennedy assassination investigator, dies at 61
1995 John Cameron Swayze, journalist/spokesperson (Timex watches) dies at 89

Today in History

1057 Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan.
1248 The foundation stone of the Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, was laid; construction eventually completed in 1880.
1534 Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates took initial vows that would lead to the creation of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in September of 1540.
1840 M. Waldo Hanchett of Syracuse, NY patented the dental chair.
1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii was dedicated; now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1877 Thomas Edison wrote the president of the Telegraph Company stating that “hello” would be a more appropriate greeting than “ahoy,” as suggested by Alexander Graham Bell, when answering the telephone.
1911 Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, OH introduced Crisco hydrogenated shortening.
1926 The famous Three Men on Third play happened in Boston’s Fenway Park.
1935 Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
1939 The MGM musical The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1943 The War Department awarded Sgt. Edward Dzuba the Legion of Merit for his special talent for using food scraps in both unusual and appetizing recipes.
1945 The Allies proclaimed V-J Day, one day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
1947 India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.
1948 CBS-TV inaugurated the first nightly news broadcast, with anchorman Douglas Edwards reporting the day’s events.
1965 The Beatles played to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the birth of "stadium rock."
1969 Three Dog Night (Danny Hutton, Cory Wells and Chuck Negron) was awarded a gold record for the album Three Dog Night.
1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
1980 I Me Mine, an autobiography by former Beatle George Harrison, went on sale.
1981 Lionel Richie and Diana Ross hit number one on the pop music charts with their duet, "Endless Love."
1984 New York City turned out to honor the Team USA Olympic medalists; an estimated two million people lined the streets during the 10-block-long ticker-tape parade.
1984 Pete Rose returned to become player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds after being away from his hometown for six years.
1995 Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet to attend the Citadel, but dropped out in less than a week.
1997 The Los Angeles Dodgers retired player, scout, coach, manager and executive Tommy Lasorda’s uniform #2 in a pre-game ceremony at Dodger Stadium.
1998 A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370; it was the single deadliest act of violence in 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
2000 A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.
2001 Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own: two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
2005 Iraqi leaders failed to meet a key deadline for finishing a new constitution.
2006 Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon.

Chart Toppers

1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
I Wanna Be Loved - The Andrews Sisters
Sam’s Song - Bing & Gary Crosby
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow

1958
Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
My True Love - Jack Scott
Alone with You - Faron Young

1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
Almost Persuaded - David Houston

1974
Feel like Makin’ Love - Roberta Flack
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins
Rub It In - Billy "Crash" Craddock

1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home - David Frizzell

1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
The Power - Snap!
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation

Quote of the Day

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 16th

Today's Birthdays

1888 T.E. Lawrence, British soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) died May 19, 1935
1894 George Meany, labor leader (American Federation of Labor) died Jan 10, 1980
1913 Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, died Mar 9, 1992
1924 Fess Parker, singer/actor (Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett)
1930 Robert Culp, actor (I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice)
1930 Frank Gifford, College/Pro Football Hall of Famer/sportscaster (New York Giants)
1932 Eydie Gorme (Edith Gormezano), singer (Blame it on the Bossa Nova)
1935 Julie Newmar (Newmeyer), actress (Batman)
1942 Robert Lester, R&B singer (The Chi-Lites)
1945 Bob Balaban, actor (Whose Life is It Anyway?, Altered States, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghost World)
1946 Lesley Ann Warren, actress (Clue, Color of Night, Portrait of a Showgirl, Portrait of a Stripper)
1951 Richard Hunt, muppeteer (Janice, Beaker, Statler) died Jan 7, 1992
1952 Reginald VelJohnson, actor (Die Hard series, Family Matters)
1953 Kathie Lee Gifford (Kathryn Lee Epstein), talk show host (Live with Regis and Kathie Lee)
1953 James ‘J.T.’ Taylor, singer (Kool and the Gang)
1954 James Cameron, director (Titanic, The Terminator series, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies)
1955 Jeff Perry, actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1957 Tim Farriss, rock guitarist (INXS)
1958 Angela Bassett, actress (Waiting to Exhale, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Contact)
1958 Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone), singer (Material Girl)
1959 Laura Innes, actress (ER, Wings)
1960 Timothy Hutton, actor (Taps, Made in Heaven, Ordinary People, The Dark Half, The Falcon and the Snowman)
1963 Steve Carell, actor (The Office, Anchorman, The 40-Year Old Virgin)
1970 Bonnie Bernstein, sportscaster (ESPN)
1980 Vanessa Carlton, singer (1000 Miles)
1980 Robert Hardy, rock bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
1983 Colt Brennan, University of Hawai'i quarterback
1988 Rumer Willis, actress/daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore

Today's Deaths in History

1888 John Pemberton, druggist/inventor (Coca-Cola) dies at 57
1938 Robert Johnson, blues singer/guitarist/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Crossroads) dies at 27
1948 Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 53
1949 Margaret Mitchell, novelist (Gone with the Wind) dies at 48
1956 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (Dracula) dies at 73
1977 Elvis Presley, 'The King of Rock and Roll,' dies at 42
1989 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke) dies at 60
1993 Stewart Granger, British film actor (The Hound of the Baskervilles) dies at 80
2002 Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist (Fatah) is killed at 65
2003 Idi Amin, former dictator (Uganda) dies at

Today in History

1812 Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
1829 The first Siamese twins brought to the United States, Chang and Eng (Bunker), arrived in Boston, MA.
1858 A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1896 Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie and George Carmack found gold in Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River, leading to the famous Klondike Gold Rush.
1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and died early the next day; to date, Chapman is the only player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
1923 Carnegie Steel Corporation established an eight-hour work day for its workers.
1930 The first British Empire Games (now called the British Commonwealth Games) were held at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1937 Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, became the first school to institute graduate study courses in traffic engineering and administration.
1939 The famous vaudeville house, Hippodrome, in New York City, was used for the last time.
1954 Comedian Jack Paar replaced Walter Cronkite as host of The Morning Show on CBS-TV.
1954 The first issue of Sports Illustrated was published.
1960 A world record for a successful free fall was set by Colonel Joseph W. Kittinger Jr; he dropped from an altitude of 102,800 feet, more than 19 miles, before opening his parachute at 17,500 feet over New Mexico.
1962 Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, fired drummer Pete Best.
1977 Elvis Presley was rushed from Graceland to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee; doctors’ efforts to revive him were fruitless and he was pronounced dead (coronary arrhythmia) at 3:30 p.m.
1978 Xerox was fined $25.6 million for excluding Smith-Corona Manufacturing from the copier market.
1984 The U.S. Jaycees voted to admit women to full membership in the organization.
1984 Carmaker John De Lorean was acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
1987 Thousands of people prayed and meditated for universal peace, as the much publicized Harmonic Convergence, the exact alignment of planets in the solar system, occured.
1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from a Detroit airport, killing 156 people; the sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket.
1999 Vladimir Putin won confirmation (by the Russian parliament) as Russia’s fifth prime minister since early 1998.
2000 Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
2002 Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
2003 A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a rural road in South Dakota and collided with a motorcyclist, who died in the accident (Janklow was later convicted of manslaughter and resigned from Congress).
2006 John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey (Karr's confession that he had killed JonBenet was later discredited).

Chart Toppers

1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
My Truly, Truly Fair - Guy Mitchell
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams

1959
A Big Hunk o’ Love - Elvis Presley
My Heart is an Open Book - Carl Dobkins, Jr.
There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson

1967
Light My Fire - The Doors
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James

1975
Jive Talkin’ - Bee Gees
One of These Nights - Eagles
Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender

1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
He’s a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen) - Janie Fricke

1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
P.A.S.S.I.O.N. - Rythm Syndicate
Every Heartbeat - Amy Grant
She’s in Love with the Boy - Trisha Yearwood

Quote of the Day

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
Gotama Buddha

[leedsy99]

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.

Yeah, but then you throw it at the dude and he gets burned. Then you're happy. Buddha, you're dumb. And fat.

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 17th

Today's Birthdays

1786 Davy Crockett, frontiersman/soldier, killed Mar 6, 1836 at the Alamo
1882 Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), movie pioneer/producer (MGM) died Jan 31, 1974
1893 Mae (Mary Jane) West, actress (Go West Young Man, I’m No Angel, Diamond Lil) died Nov 22, 1980
1896 Leslie Groves, military engineer (Manhattan Project) died June 13, 1970
1920 Maureen O’Hara (FitzSimons), actress (Miracle on 34th Street, How Green was My Valley, The Quiet Man)
1929 Francis Gary Powers, spy plane pilot (U-2) killed in helicopter crash Aug 1, 1977
1929 Isabel Sanford, actress (The Jeffersons, Love at First Bite) died July 9, 2004
1933 Mark Dinning, singer (Teen Angel) died Mar 22, 1986
1939 Luther Allison, blues guitarist, died Aug 12, 1997
1941 Boog (John Wesley) Powell, MLB 1st baseman (Cleveland Indians)
1943 Robert DeNiro, actor/director (Raging Bull, The Godfather II, The Deer Hunter, The Untouchables, Taxi Driver, Awakenings, Cape Fear, A Bronx Tale)
1947 Gary Talley, guitarist (The Box Tops)
1949 Sib Hashian, rock drummer (Boston)
1953 Kevin Rowland, guitarist/singer (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
1955 Colin Moulding, songwriter/singer/bassist (XTC)
1958 Belinda Carlisle, guitarist/singer (The Go-Go’s)
1959 David Koresh, cult leader (Branch Davidians) died Apr 19, 1993 in a fire in Waco, Texas
1960 Sean Penn, actor (Mystic River, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Casualties of War, Colors, Dead Man Walking)
1962 Gilby Clarke, replacement guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1963 Jon Gruden, NFL head coach (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1964 Maria McKee, singer (Lone Justice)
1965 Steve Gorman, drummer (The Black Crowes)
1969 Donnie Wahlberg, singer/actor (New Kids on the Block; Kill Point)
1971 Jorge Posada, MLB catcher (NY Yankees)
1979 Antwaan Randle El, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)

Today's Deaths in History

1896 Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality, dies at 44
1940 Billy Fiske, Olympic bobsledder/pilot, is killed at 29 in the Battle of Britain
1962 Peter Fechter, killed at 18 trying to cross the Berlin Wall
1973 Paul Williams, R&B singer (The Temptations) dies at 34
1979 Vivian Vance, actress (I Love Lucy) dies at 70
1983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist (Porgy and Bess) dies at 86
1987 Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy, dies in Spandau Prison at 93
1990 Pearl Bailey, singer/actress, dies at 72

Today in History

1790 The capital city of the United States moved from New York City to Philadelphia.
1807 Fulton’s steamboat made its first journey, traveling between Albany, New York and New York City, a 150-mile journey which took 32 hours.
1815 Napoleon arrived at Saint Helena for the beginning of his exile.
1835 Solyman Merrick of Springfield, MA patented the wrench.
1877 Blacksmith F.P. Cahill became the first man to be mortally wounded by Billy the Kid.
1894 Pitcher John Wadsworth of Louisville gave up 28 base hits, all singles, in a single game, setting a National League and major-league record.
1903 Joseph Pulitzer made a million-dollar donation to Columbia University to establish the Pulitzer Prize.
1915 Charles F. Kettering of Detroit, MI patented the electric, automobile self-starter.
1918 Famous race horse Man o’ War was sold at auction for $5,000.
1933 New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig played his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking Everett Scott's record; he would continue the streak until 1939.
1942 U.S. Marines raided the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari) in the first offensive action of World War II.
1948 Former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee in New York; Hiss repeated his denial that he'd ever been a Communist agent.
1962 East German border guards killed 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin, making him the first victim of the wall.
1963 Dick Hall, a relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, retired his 28th batter in a row, spanning five games.
1969 Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.
1973 Lee Trevino got the first hole in one of his career at the U.S.I. Golf Classic, in Sutton, MA.
1978 Max Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed at Miserey, France, after traveling 137 hours, 18 minutes and approximately 3,200 miles, the first to cross the Atlantic in a hot air balloon.
1987 Steffi Graf replaced Martina Navratilova as the number one tennis player in the Women’s International Tennis Association.
1992 Actor-director Woody Allen admitted being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his longtime companion, actress Mia Farrow.
1993 Allegations of child abuse prompted Los Angeles police to investigate entertainer Michael Jackson.
1997 The old Canadian National train station in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, home town of country singing legend Hank Snow, was dedicated as the Hank Snow Country Music Centre.
1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; he also admitted that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 More than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Turkey, close to the town of Izmit.
2000 The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman for vice president.
2002 Pope John Paul II arrived in Krakow, Poland, for the ninth and final visit to his native country during his papacy.
2005 Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of Jews from four settlements in the Gaza Strip.

Chart Toppers

1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Amor - Bing Crosby
Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet - Ella Mae Morse
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan

1952
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
A Full Time Job - Eddy Arnold

1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
Walking to New Orleans - Fats Domino
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Heaven Says Hello - Sonny James

1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In -Wings
Say It Again - Don Williams

1984
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
State of Shock - Jacksons
That’s the Thing About Love - Don Williams

Quote of the Day

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)

[NYRhitter]

Weezie was in the Love at First Bite? No kidding.

[Giac]

Weezie was in the Love at First Bite? No kidding.

She played the Judge.

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 18th

Today's Birthdays

1774 Meriwether Lewis, explorer (Lewis and Clark) died of gunshot wounds Oct 11, 1809
1904 Max Factor Jr., cosmetics mogul, died June 7, 1996
1917 Caspar W. Weinberger, 15th U.S. Secretary of Defense, died Mar 28, 2006
1920 Shelley Winters (Schrift), actress (Patch of Blue, The Poseidon Adventure, A Place in the Sun) died Jan 14, 2006
1927 Rosalynn Carter (Smith), former First Lady (wife of 39th President, Jimmy Carter)
1933 Roman Polanski, director (Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, MacBeth)
1934 Roberto Clemente (Walker), Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder (Pittsburgh Pirates) killed in plane crash Dec 31, 1972
1937 Robert Redford, actor/director (All the President’s Men, Quiz Show, The Sting, Sneakers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Natural)
1939 Johnny Preston, singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1941 Matt Snell, NFL running back (NY Jets)
1943 Martin Mull, comedian/actor (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Take This Job and Shove It)
1950 Dennis Elliott, drummer (Foreigner)
1952 Patrick Swayze, dancer/actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Red Dawn, Point Break, Roadhouse)
1957 Ron Strykert, guitarist (Men at Work)
1957 Denis Leary, actor/comedian (The Ref, Rescue Me)
1958 Madeleine Stowe, actress (Unlawful Entry, The Last of the Mohicans)
1961 Bob Woodruff, broadcast journalist (ABC World News Tonight)
1964 Craig Bierko, actor (Cinderella Man)
1969 Edward Norton, actor (Fight Club, American History X, Keeping the Faith, Primal Fear)
1969 Christian Slater (actor: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Murder in the First, Untamed Heart, Young Guns, Interview with the Vampire)
1969 Everlast, Hip-hop artist
1970 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor (The Cosby Show, The Tuskegee Airmen)
1975 Kaitlin Olson, actress (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1976 Dirk Lance, bassist (Incubus)
1976 Daphnée Duplaix, playmate (July 1997)
1978 Andy Samberg, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1980 Jeremy Shockey, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1987 Mika Boorem, actress (Blue Crush, Dawson's Creek)

Today's Deaths in History

1227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conquerer, dies at around 65
1919 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (Seagram's) dies at 78
1940 Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive, dies at 65
1981 Anita Loos, screenwriter (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) dies at 93
1990 B.F. Skinner, psychological theorist, dies at 86
1998 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) dies at 47
2003 Tony Jackson, bassist (The Searchers) dies at 65
2004 Elmer Bernstein, film score composer (Stripes, National Lampoon's Animal House) dies at 82

Today in History

1587 An expedition led by Sir Walter Raleigh landed at what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina; Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C.
1735 The Evening Post, of Boston, MA was published for the first time.
1840 The organization of the American Society of Dental Surgeons was founded in New York City.
1894 Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.
1899 The Chicago Anti-Cigarette League was formed by Lucy Payne Gaston.
1920 The19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote.
1937 The first FM radio construction permit was issued, to W1XOJ, Boston, MA.
1941 Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.
1954 Assistant Secretary of Labor James E. Wilkins became the first black to attend a meeting of a president's Cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.
1958 Perez Prado, the ‘Mambo King’, received one of the first gold records awarded by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) for his single, "Patricia."
1958 The novel Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, was published.
1963 James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair near Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
1973 Jazz drummer Gene Krupa played for the final time with members of the original Benny Goodman Quartet.
1981 Rex Harrison brought the award-winning My Fair Lady back to Broadway as he recreated the role of Henry Higgins; the play had originally opened in 1956.
1981 Football running back Herschel Walker of the University of Georgia took out a $1 milllion insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London.
1983 Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion damage.
1986 Jim Kelly signed with the Buffalo Bills for an estimated $7.5 million over five years, making him the highest paid player in the NFL.
1987 Earl Campbell, the ‘Tyler Rose,’ announced his retirement from professional football.
1988 Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H.W. Bush's running mate during the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.
1991 Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea.
1992 Due to severe back pain, basketball star Larry Bird was forced to retire after 13 years with the Boston Celtics.
1997 The Rolling Stones launched their "Bridges to Babylon" album/tour package with a news conference under the Brooklyn Bridge.
1997 Beth Ann Hogan became the first coed in the Virginia Military Institute's 158-year history.
2005 A judge in Wichita, Kan., sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI began his first foreign trip as pontiff in low-key style, returning to his German homeland.

Chart Toppers

1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
I Wish I Knew - Dick Haymes
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie

1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Rub-A-Dub-Dub - Hank Thompson

1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner
Last Night - Mar-Keys
I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline

1969
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Workin’ Man Blues - Merle Haggard

1977
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
I’m in You - Peter Frampton
Best of My Love - Emotions
Rollin’ with the Flow - Charlie Rich

1985
Shout - Tears For Fears
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Highwayman - Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash/Kris Kristofferson

Quote of the Day

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
Dame Edna Everage, Australian Comedian (character of Barry Humphries)(1934 - )

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 19th

Today's Birthdays

1871 Orville Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) died Jan 30, 1948
1883 Coco (Gabriel Bonheur) Chanel, fashion designer/perfume creator (Chanel #5) died Jan 10, 1971
1902 Ogden Nash, poet (nonsense rhymes) died May 19, 1971
1903 Claude (Legrand) Dauphin (Franc-Nohain), actor (Les Miserables) died Nov 16, 1978
1906 Philo Farnsworth, inventor (all-electronic television) died March 11, 1971
1915 Ring Lardner Jr. (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.), screenwriter (M*A*S*H, Semi-Tough) died Oct 31, 2000
1919 Malcolm Forbes Sr., publishing magnate (Forbes magazine) died Feb 24, 1990
1921 Gene (Eugene Wesley) Roddenberry, creator/producer (Star Trek) died Oct 24, 1991
1931 Willie Shoemaker, jockey (record for most wins in a career: 8,833) died Oct 12, 2003
1935 Bobby (Robert Clinton) Richardson, MLB 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1938 Diana Muldaur, actress: (Star Trek: The Next Generation, L.A. Law)
1939 Ginger (Peter) Baker, rock drummer (Cream)
1940 Johnny Nash, singer (I Can See Clearly Now, Stir It Up)
1940 Jill St. John (Oppenheim), actress (Diamonds are Forever)
1942 Fred Thompson, actor/US Senator/Presidential candidate
1945 Ian Gillan, rock singer (Deep Purple)
1946 William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd U.S. President
1947 Gerald McRaney, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1948 Tipper (Mary) Gore (Aitcheson), wife of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
1951 John Deacon, rock bassist (Queen)
1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1955 Peter Gallagher, actor (Sex Lies and Videotape, The Hudsucker Proxy, American Beauty)
1957 Adam Arkin, actor (Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure)
1957 Martin Donovan, actor (Weeds, The Sentinel)
1960 Morten Anderson, NFL placekicker (New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, NY Giants, KC Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings)
1963 John Stamos (Stamotopoulos), actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1963 Joey Tempest, rock singer (Europe)
1965 Kevin Dillon, actor (Platoon, A Midnight Clear, Entourage)
1965 Kyra Sedgwick, actress (Phenomenon, Something to Talk About, Heart & Souls, The Closer)
1966 Lee Ann Womack, country singer
1967 Tabitha Soren, MTV reporter
1969 Matthew Perry, actor (Friends, Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1973 Callum Blue, actor (Dead Like Me, The Tudors)
1975 Tracie Thoms, actress (Cold Case)

Today's Deaths in History

1895 John Wesley Hardin, gunfighter, shot in the back and killed by lawman John Seldon at 42
1976 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor/rector of Edinburgh University (Scrooge) dies at 75
1977 Groucho Marx, comedia/actor/TV host (Marx Brothers, You Bet Your LIfe) dies at 86
1979 Dorsey Burnette, rockabilly singer (The Rock and Roll Trio) dies at 46
1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel chemist (chemical bonds) dies at 93

Today in History

1692 In Salem, Massachusetts, five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1812 The USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
1848 The first report of the California gold strike was published in the New York Herald newspaper.
1856 Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY patented his process for condensed milk.
1909 The first race was run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.
1929 The comedy Amos 'n' Andy made its network radio debut on NBC.
1934 A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.
1940 The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1 to Orville Wright.
1960 The Russians sent two dogs, Belka and Strekla, into earth orbit in a Sputnik satellite.
1960 A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.
1962 Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament held at Longview, TX, the lowest score in U.S. competitive golf history.
1964 The Beatles began their first North American concert tour.
1972 NBC-TV presented The Midnight Special for the first time; John Denver was the host for the first show, and Wolfman Jack was the announcer.
1974 U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.
1976 President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's national convention in Kansas City.
1981 Charlie’s Angels, starring Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and the voice of John Forsythe as Charlie, was seen for the last time on ABC-TV.
1981 United States Navy F-14 "Tomcat" fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1987 Consumer reporter David Horowitz was held at gunpoint on camera during a KNBC-TV newscast in Burbank, CA.
1991 Hurricane Bob was located 30-35 miles east of Cape Hatteras NC, and was at its peak intensity of 115 mph; damage from Bob was estimated at $1.5 billion, making it the 15th most costly hurricane in U.S. history.
1994 President Bill Clinton halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.
1996 A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes.
1999 In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2003 A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
2004 Internet search engine Google went public.
2005 A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who'd taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx, awarding his widow $253.4 million in damages (the award was reduced to about $26 million by state caps on punitive damages).

Chart Toppers

1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
I Don’t Know Enough About You - The Mills Brothers
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Sh-Boom - The Crewcuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow

1962
Breaking Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

1970
(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters
Make It with You - Bread
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James

1978
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Grease - Frankie Valli
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Talking in Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle

1986
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Your the Last Thing I Needed Tonight - John Schneider

Quote of the Day

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal, US author & dramatist (1925 - )

[xcheck24]

1991 Hurricane Bob was located 30-35 miles east of Cape Hatteras NC, and was at its peak intensity of 115 mph; damage from Bob was estimated at $1.5 billion, making it the 15th most costly hurricane in U.S. history.

I remember when Bob came through Connecticut. I was at a camping thing, and they evacuated all of us to a nearby school.

I think that was the last actual hurricane that came through the northeast. there have been tropical storms since (i remember covering one back in either '99 or '00 when I was editor of my hometown newspaper), but no hurricanes.

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 20th

Today's Birthdays

1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President, died Mar 13, 1901
1890 H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft, horror/sci-fi auithor (Call of Cthulhu) died Mar 15, 1937
1918 Jacqueline Susann, author (The Valley of the Dolls) died Sep 21, 1974
1923 ‘Gentleman’ Jim (James Travis) Reeves, singer (I Guess I’m Crazy, Four Walls) killed in plane crash near Nashville July 31, 1964
1941 Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia, died March 11, 2006
1942 Isaac Hayes, singer/songwriter/voice actor (Theme from Shaft; South Park)
1942 Anthony Earl Numkena, actor (Wagon Train, A Man Called Horse)
1944 Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated May 21, 1991
1946 Connie Chung (Yu-Hwa), broadcast journalist (CBS Evening News)
1947 Jim Pankow, trombonist/songwriter (Chicago)
1948 Robert Plant, rock singer (Led Zeppelin, Honeydrippers)
1951 Philip Parris Lynott, bassist/singer (Thin Lizzy) died Jan 4, 1986
1952 Doug Fieger, guitarist/singer (The Knack)
1952 Rudy Gatlin, singer (The Gatlin Brothers)
1953 Peter Horton, actor (Thirtysomething)
1954 Al Roker, TV weatherman (The Today Show)
1956 Joan Allen, actress (Searching for Bobby Fischer, Peggy Sue Got Married, Pleasantville)
1962 Geoffrey Blake, actor (The Last Starfighter, Young Guns, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13)
1962 James Marsters, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel)
1966 Dimebag Darrell, rock guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) shot and killed onstage at 38
1970 Fred Durst, rock singer (Limp Bizkit)
1974 Amy Adams, actress (Drop Dead Gorgeous, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
1975 Monique Powell, rock singer (Save Ferris)
1976 Chris Drury, NHL center (NY Rangers)

Today's Deaths in History

1912 William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army, dies
2001 Kim Stanley, actress (Bus Stop, The Right Stuff) dies at 76
2006 Joe Rosenthal, former Associated Press photographer (Iwo Jima flag-raising) dies at 94
2007 Leona Helmsley, hotel operator/real estate investor/jailbird, dies at 87

Today in History

1741 Alaska was discovered by Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering.
1866 The National Labor Union advocated an eight-hour workday.
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the U.S. Civil War over.
1882 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow.
1885 The Mikado, by Gilbert and Sullivan, opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City.
1923 The first American dirigible, the Shenandoah, was launched at Lakehurst, NJ.
1938 Lou Gehrig hit his 23rd career grand slam, a record that still stands.
1939 The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI.
1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1945 Tommy Brown became the youngest player to hit a home run in a major-league ball game, at 17 years, 8 months and 14 days old.
1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1960 The Philadelphia Phillies snapped their modern major-league record of 23 consecutive losses by beating the Milwaukee Braves.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
1968 The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1969 All four Beatles were together in the recording studio for the final time as they finished the Abbey Road LP.
1977 The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1980 Bob Watson of the New York Yankees hit a baseball that bounced off the loudspeakers in Seattle’s Kingdome.
1985 The the original Xerox 914 copier took its place among the honored machines of other eras at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
1986 U.S. Census Bureau officials reported that the U.S. population stood at 240,468,000 and the median age reached an all-time high of 31-1/2 years.
1986 U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill gunned down 14 of his co-workers and then committed suicide in Edmond, Oklahoma.
1991 More than 100,000 people rallied outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1992 The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
1998 The Supreme Court of Canada stated Quebec could not legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.
2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.
2006 Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who had taken the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died at age 94.

Chart Toppers

1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Across the Alley from the Alamo - The Mills Brothers
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Hard to Get - Gisele MacKenzie
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce

1963
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Blowin’ in the Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary
Judy’s Turn to Cry - Lesley Gore
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

1971
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
I’m Just Me - Charley Pride

1979
Good Times - Chic
My Sharona - The Knack
The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
Coca Cola Cowboy - Mel Tillis

1987
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
Who’s That Girl - Madonna
Luka - Suzanne Vega
A Long Line of Love - Michael Martin Murphy

Quote of the Day

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun, US (German-born) rocket engineer (1912 - 1977)

[Bleedin-Blue]

1966 Dimebag Darrell, rock guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) shot and killed onstage at 38




We still miss you, brother.

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 21st

Hawaii Statehood Day


Today's Birthdays

1904 (William Allen) Count Basie, bandleader/composer (One O’Clock Jump, Jumpin’ at the Woodside) died Apr 26, 1984
1906 Friz Freleng, movie animator (Lonney Tunes, Merrie Melodies) died May 26, 1995
1912 Toe Blake, NHL left wing/coach (Montreal Canadiens) died May 17, 1995
1920 Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, died April 20, 1996
1923 Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (CBS Sports, ABC Sports) died Sep 11, 2005
1924 Jack Buck, sportscaster (St. Luois Cardinals) died June 18, 2002
1930 Princess Margaret Rose, sister of England’s Queen Elizabeth II, died Feb 9, 2002
1932 Melvin Van Peebles, screenwriter/actor (Terminal Velocity, Boomerang)
1936 Wilt (Wilton) Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer (Philadelphia 76ers) died Oct 12, 1999
1938 Kenny (Kenneth Donald) Rogers, singer (Coward of the County, The Gambler)
1939 Harold Reid, singer (The Statler Brothers)
1939 Clarence Williams III, actor (The Mod Squad, Purple Rain)
1944 Jackie DeShannon (Sharon Myers), songwriter/singer (What the World Needs Now is Love, Put a Little Love in Your Heart)
1944 Peter Weir, director (Dead Poets Society, Witness, The Truman Show)
1945 Basil Poledouris, film score composer (Hunt for Red October) died Nov. 8, 2006
1945 Willie Lanier, Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1947 Carl Giammarese, guitarist (The Buckinghams)
1951 Harry Smith, TV host (CBS This Morning, A&E: Biography)
1952 Joe Strummer (John Mellors), guitarist/singer (The Clash, The Mescaleros) died Dec 22, 2002
1952 Glenn Hughes, rock singer (Deep Purple)
1954 Archie Griffin, running back (Heisman Trophy winner: Ohio State, Cincinnati Bengals)
1956 Kim Cattrall, actress (Police Academy, Mannequin, Sex & the City)
1957 Kim Sledge, singer (Sister Sledge)
1959 Jim McMahon, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1967 Serj Tankian, rock singer (System of a Down)
1968 Bavoo, board member
1970 Carrie-Anne Moss, actress (Matrix series, Chocolat, Disturbia)
1971 Liam Howlett, keyboardist (Prodigy)
1973 Steve McKenna, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1973 Sergey Brin, co-founder (Google)
1975 Alicia Witt, actress (Cybill, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Four Rooms, Ally McBeal)
1978 Reuben Droughns, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1986 Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton, died March 20, 1991
1988 Paris Bennett, singer/TV perosnality (American Idol)
1989 Hayden Panettiere, actress (Remember the Titans, Heroes)

Today's Deaths in History

1814 Benjamin Thompson, physicist/inventor (drip coffee pot, kitchen range, double boiler) dies at 61
1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, is assassinated at 60
1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer, dies at 65
1983 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader, assassinated at 50
2005 Robert Moog, electronic music pioneer (Moog synthesizer) dies at 71

Today in History

1770 James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1831 Nat Turner launched a short-lived, violent slave rebellion in Virginia.
1841 John Hampton of New Orleans, LA, received a patent for venetian blinds.
1858 The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was held in Ottawa, Ill.
1878 A group of 100 lawyers got together at Saratoga Springs, New York and formed the American Bar Association.
1888 William Burroughs of St. Louis, MO patented his adding machine.
1911 The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee.
1912 Arthur R. Eldred of Oceanside, NY became the first boy reached the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program.
1929 The Chicago Cardinals became the first professional football team to go out of town for training camp.
1938 Fats Waller recorded his classic, "Ain’t Misbehavin'."
1940 Exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1945 President Harry S. Truman ended the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion in aid to America's allies during World War II.
1950 The United Nations moved into its new permanent facilities in New York City, on land donated by the Rockefeller family.
1959 The Hawaiian Islands became the State of Hawaii by a proclamation signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1968 James Anderson, Jr. posthumously received the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1976 RCA Victor Records announced that sales of Elvis Presley records had passed the 400 million mark.
1983 Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport.
1984 Victoria Roche was the first girl to compete in a Little League World Series game.
1984 Clint Eastwood contributed a hand print and the words, “You made my day,” to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre.
1987 Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB.
1988 More than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake at Bihar, India, the Himalayan region and Nepal.
1991 A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
1993 The soundtrack from Sleepless in Seattle hit number one on the Billboard LP chart.
1997 Hudson Foods Co. closed a plant in Nebraska, agreeing to destroy some 25 million pounds of hamburger after the largest meat recall in U.S. history. 1998 Samuel Bowers, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Miss., of ordering a 1966 firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer.
1999 Hua Mei, the giant panda cub, was born at the San Diego Zoo, weighing 4-5 ounces.
2000 Rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announcing none of the 118 sailors had survived.
2002 A jury in San Diego convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping 7-year-old Danielle van Dam from her home and killing her; he was later sentenced to death.
2006 British prosecutors announced that 11 people had been charged in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners bound for the United States.

Chart Toppers

1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
My Happiness - Jon & Sandra Steele
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Haywood
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

1964
Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
Rag Doll - The 4 Seasons
Dang Me - Roger Miller

1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
Bless Your Heart - Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats

1980
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Tennessee River - Alabama

1988
Roll with It - Steve Winwood
Monkey - George Michael
1-2-3 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Bluest Eyes in Texas - Restless Heart

Quote of the Day

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler, British (Hungarian-born) author (1905 - 1983)

This post has been edited by Giac: Aug 22 2007, 12:44 AM

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 22nd

Today's Birthdays

1822 Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe, died Jan 30, 1947
1834 Samuel Langley, aviation pioneer (Langley Air Force Base) died in 1906
1862 Claude Debussy, composer (Clair de Lune, Nocturnes) died Mar 25, 1918
1880 George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) died Apr 25, 1944
1902 Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (Triumph des Willens) died Sept 8, 2003
1904 Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China, died Feb 19, 1997
1917 John Lee Hooker, blues singer (Boom Boom, One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer) died June 21, 2001
1920 Ray Bradbury, author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles)
1934 H. Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army General (Operation Desert Storm)
1935 E. Annie Proulx, author (The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain)
1938 Paul Maguire, football commentator (ESPN)
1939 Carl (Michael) Yastrzemski, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1940 Valerie Harper, actress (Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1941 Bill (Duane) Parcells, NFL head coach (NY Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys)
1942 Joe Chambers, guitarist/singer (The Chambers Brothers)
1945 Steve Kroft, broadcast journalist (60 Minutes)
1947 Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne & Shirley, American Graffiti)
1958 Vernon Reid, rock guitarist (Living Colour)
1960 Debbi Peterson, drummer/singer (Bangles)
1961 Roland Orzabal, singer/guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1962 Gary Lee Connor, guitarist (Screaming Trees)
1963 Tori Amos, singer/songwriter
1964 Mats Wilander, tennis champion
1967 Layne Staley, rock singer (Alice in Chains) died April 5, 2002
1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, actor (Lost)
1970 Giada De Laurentiis, chef/television host (Food Network)
1971 Rick Yune, actor (The Fast and the Furious)
1972 Paul Doucette, drummer/rhythm guitarist (Matchbox 20)
1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor (Lost, The 300)
1980 Christi Shake, playmate (May 2002)

Today's Deaths in History

1922 Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary, killed in an ambush at 31
1940 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (pioneer in wireless telegraphy) dies at 89
1965 Ellen Church, first American airline stewardess, dies at 60
1977 Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (Family Affair) dies at 59
1989 Huey P. Newton, activist (Black Panthers) is shot to death at 47
1991 Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Anne of Green Gables) dies at 67
2006 Bruce Gary, rock drummer/producer (The Knack) dies at 55

Today in History

0565 St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
1485 England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.
1762 Ann Franklin became the first woman to hold the title of newspaper editor, assuming those duties at The Newport Mercury in Newport, RI.
1775 England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.
1831 Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commenced just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African-Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 The United States annexed New Mexico.
1851 The Hundred Guinea Cup, a silver trophy, was presented by the Royal Yacht Squadron to the U.S. schooner America, the winner of an international race around the Isle of Wight (the trophy later became the America's Cup)
1865 William Sheppard of New York City patented liquid soap.
1901 Cadillac Motor Company was founded.
1902 Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1906 The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey began to manufacture the Victrola (record player).
1932 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began its first experimental TV broadcast in England.
1938 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared, dancing, on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1938 Count Basie recorded the classic swing tune, "Jumpin’ at the Woodside," for Decca Records.
1947 The college all-stars won for the first time in the annual charity football game between the Chicago Bears and a select team of college football standouts.
1950 Althea Gibson became the first black competitor in international tennis.
1951 The largest crowd to see a basketball game to that time, 75,052, looked on as the Harlem Globetrotters performed before a non-paying crowd in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson welcomed the Shah of Iran to the U.S. for a two-day visit.
1968 Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1972 The Republican party renominated Richard M. Nixon (President of U.S.) and Spiro T. Agnew (Vice President) in Miami, FL.
1984 The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in Westmoreland, PA (it was brought back in 2006).
1986 Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1989 Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers fanned Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics to become the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters.
1990 Scores of angry smokers blocked a street near Moscow's Red Square for hours in protest of the summer-long cigarette shortage.
1992 FBI Hostage Rescue Team sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1996 President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 Versions of The Scream and [/i]Madonna,[/i] two paintings by Edvard Munch, were stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2005 The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.

Chart Toppers

1949
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold

1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Whispering Bells - The Dell-Vikings
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley

1965
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
Save Your Heart for Me - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Help! - The Beatles
Yes, Mr. Peters - Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell

1973
Touch Me in the Morning - Diana Ross
Live and Let Die - Wings
Brother Louie - Stories
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
I Don’t Need You - Kenny Rogers

1989
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
On Our Own - Bobby Brown
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Sunday in the South - Shenandoah

Quote of the Day

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

[SorryaboutthatWh...]

0565 St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

Was this the frst sighting? Probably did see something.

[Giac]

Was this the frst sighting? Probably did see something.

I think it was the first recorded sighting.

[Alitaki]

I think it was the first recorded sighting.

You think. Yeah right. Like you weren't there.

[Giac]

You think. Yeah right. Like you weren't there.

Yeah, I was swimming on my back, and St Columba confused me with a sea monster........


(sorry, knew I couldn't say that with a straight face).

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 23rd

Today's Birthdays

1754 Louis XVI, last King of France, executed Jan 21, 1793
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval officer (“We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”) died Aug 23, 1819
1912 Gene (Eugene Curran) Kelly, director/dancer/singer/actor (Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh, The Three Musketeers) died Feb 2, 1996
1922 Jean Darling (LeVake), actress (March of the Wooden Soldiers, Little Rascals)
1925 Robert Mulligan, director (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1929 Vera Miles (Vera June Ralston), actress (Psycho, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
1932 Mark Russell (Ruslander), political satirist/comedian (Real People)
1934 Barbara Eden (Barbara Jean Moorhead), actress (I Dream of Jeannie)
1934 Sonny (Christian) Jurgensen, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1936 Rudy Lewis, singer (Drifters)
1936 Henry Lee Lucas, serial killer, executed March 13, 2001
1940 Richard Sanders, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1946 Keith Moon, singer/drummer (The Who) died Sep 7, 1978
1948 Ron (Ronald Mark) 'Boomer' Blomberg, baseball's first designated hitter (NY Yankees)
1948 Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, University of Notre Dame football legend
1949 Shelley Long, actress (Cheers, Night Shift, The Brady Bunch Movie)
1949 Rick Springfield, singer/actor (Jessie’s Girl; General Hospital)
1951 Lisa Najeeb Halaby (Queen Noor), widow of Jordan’s King Hussein
1951 Mark Hudson, singer (The Hudson Brothers)
1951 Jimi Jamison, singer (Survivor)
1961 Dean DeLeo, rock guitarist (Stone Temple Pilots)
1962 Shaun Ryder, singer (Happy Mondays)
1963 Kenny Wallace, NASCAR driver
1970 River (Jude) Phoenix, actor (Stand by Me, Sneakers, Little Nikita) died Oct 31, 1993
1970 Jay Mohr, comedian/actor (Jerry McGuire)
1976 Scott Caan, actor (Varsity Blues, Gone in 60 Seconds)
1978 Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1978 Julian Casablancas, rock singer (The Strokes)
1980 Rex Grossman, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)

Today's Deaths in History

1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval officer, dies on his 34th birthday
1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent film star, dies at 31
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1971 The original Shamu, Sea World orca, dies
1990 David Rose, composer/orchestra leader (The Stripper) dies at 80
1995 Dwayne Goettel, punk keyboardist (Skinny Puppy) dies at 31
1999 Norman Wexler, screenwriter (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico) dies at 73
2002 Hoyt Wilhelm, MLB pitcher/knuckleballer (NY Giants) dies at 79
2003 Bobby Bonds, MLB player/manager (SF Giants) dies at 57
2005 Brock Peters, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) dies at 78
2006 Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter/bandleader, dies at 78

Today in History

1784 Eastern Tennessee declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; the step is rejected by the United States Congress one year later.
1892 John H. Stedman of Rochester, NY patented the printed streetcar transfer.
1902 Fannie Merrit Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, in Boston, MA.
1904 Hard D. Weed of New York state patented the grip-tread tire chain for automobiles.
1913 The statue of The Little Mermaid, based on the tale by Hans Christien Andersen, was unveiled in Copenhagen.
1923 Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, the Happiness Boys, were heard on radio for the first time; they were billed as radio’s first comedians and were also credited with creating and performing the first singing commercial.
1923 Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling (on De Havilland DH-4B), setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.
1936 Bob Feller made his pitching debut with the Cleveland Indians.
1943 LIFE magazine spotlighted a dance craze that was sweeping the U.S.A.: the Lindy Hop.
1947 Margaret Truman, daughter of U.S. President Harry S Truman, presented her first public concert, singing before 15,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl.
1965 The U.S. premiere of the motion picture [/i]Help!,[/i] starring the Beatles, was held for thousands of moviegoers.
1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.
1982 Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners was tossed out of a game for throwing an illegal spitball.
1984 The gang from the PBS series Sesame Street was seen in a feature film; the movie, starring Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, revolved around Big Bird leaving Sesame Street and joining a family of dodo birds.
1984 South Fork Ranch, the home of the fictitious Ewing clan of the CBS-TV show [/i]Dallas,[/i] was sold.
1986 Darrell Waltrip became the first racecar driver to earn $7 million in a racing career.
1987 The Pan American games concluded in Indianapolis, with the United States winning a record 369 medals.
1989 Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
1990 Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 West Germany and East Germany announced that they would unite on October 3.
1996 Osama bin Laden issued a message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 An estimated 51 million viewers watched the first season finale of the reality show Survivor on CBS; contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.
2002 New York publicist Lizzie Grubman pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that injured 16 people outside a Hamptons nightclub.
2003 Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison.
2005 Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.

Chart Toppers

1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
I Wanna Be Loved - The Andrews Sisters
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow

1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
My True Love - Jack Scott
Alone with You - Faron Young

1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
See You in September - The Happenings
Almost Persuaded - David Houston

1974
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Nobody - Sylvia

1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Come Back to Me - Janet Jackson
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation
Next to You, Next to Me - Shenandoah

Quote of the Day

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742 - 1799)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 24th

Today's Birthdays

1890 Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic swimmer/father of modern surfing, died Jan 22, 1968
1917 Dennis James (Demie James Sposa), TV host (Chance of a Lifetime) died June 3, 1997
1929 Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, died Nov 11, 2004
1930 Roger McCluskey, National Sprint Car Hall of Famer, died July 29, 1993
1934 Kenny Baker, actor (Star Wars)
1938 David Freiberg, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
1938 Mason Williams, guitarist (Classical Gas)
1941 Ernest Wright, singer (Little Anthony and the Imperials)
1943 John Cipollina, guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1944 Bill Goldsworthy, NHL right wing (NY Rangers) died Mar 29, 1996
1945 Ken Hensley, guitarist/keyboards/composer (Uriah Heep)
1945 Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1947 Anne Archer, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1949 Charles Rocket, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Dumb & Dumber) died Oct 7, 2005
1952 Mike Shanahan, NFL coach (Denver Broncos)
1955 Jeffrey Daniel, R&B singer (Shalamar)
1958 Steve Guttenberg, actor (Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy series)
1960 Cal (Calvin Edwin) Ripken Jr., MLB shortstop (Baltimore Orioles)
1961 Mark Bedford, bassist (Madness)
1962 David Koechner, actor (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Naked Trucker)
1962 Craig Kilborn, TV host (Late Late Show, The Daily Show)
1963 John Bush, rock singer (Anthrax)
1965 Marlee Matlin, actress (Children of a Lesser God, The West Wing)
1965 Reggie Miller, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1968 Andreas Kisser, rock guitarist (Sepultura)
1973 Dave Chappelle, actor/comedian (Chappelle's Show, Undercover Brother)
1973 Carmine Giovinazzo, actor (CSI: NY)
1974 Jennifer Lien, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
1988 Rupert Grint, actor (Harry Potter series)

Today's Deaths in History

0079 Pliny the Elder, Roman writer/naturalist, dies at 56
1946 James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dies at 94
1967 Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (shipbuilder) dies at 85
1977 Buddy O'Connor, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 61
1978 Louis Prima, swing band leader/singer (I Wanna Be Like You) dies at 67
1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer (V-J Day in Times Square) dies at 96
1998 E.G. Marshall, actor (12 Angry Men) dies at 84
1999 Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist, dies at 70
2001 Jane Greer, actress (Prisoner of Zenda) dies at 76
2004 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist (On Death in Dying) dies at 78

Today in History

0079 The volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, erupted for the first time, destroying southern Italy’s cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.
1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.
1682 William Penn received the area that is now the state of Delaware, and added it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1814 British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1853 The American Pharmaceutical Association held its first convention.
1853 Potato chips were first prepared.
1869 Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York received a patent for the waffle iron.
1891 Thomas Edison applied for a movie camera patent.
1912 Alaska became a United States territory.
1912 The U.S. Post Office abolished its rule that only parcels up to four pounds could be sent through the system.
1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours.
1939 Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter, the leader of Murder, Incorporated, gave himself up to columnist Walter Winchell in New York City.
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
1954 The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1959 Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator, while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.
1967 A group of hippies, led by Abbie Hoffman, temporarily disrupted trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scrambled to grab them up.
1968 France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
1969 Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant premiered in both New York and Los Angeles.
1970 A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.
1975 Davey Lopes of the Los Angeles Dodgers established a major-league baseball record as he successfully stole his 38th consecutive base.
1979 B.B. King celebrated his 30th year in show business at a special celebration held at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of rock musician John Lennon.
1989 Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, was banned from baseball for life.
1990 A judge ruled that Judas Priest were not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.
1990 Sinéad O'Connor refused to perform at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Holmdel, New Jersey if "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played before her show, as was customary.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as head of the Communist party.
1992 Hurricane Andrew crashed into southern Florida, leaving a trail of destruction that killed at least 20 people, left more than 50,000 without homes and caused billions of dollars in property damage.
1995 Microsoft officially rolled out their Windows 95 operating system.
2004 Chechen separatists set off bombs aboard two Russian airliners that crashed after taking off from the same Moscow airport, killing 90 people.
2006 The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."

Chart Toppers

1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Because of You - Tony Bennett
My Truly, Truly Fair - Guy Mitchell
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams

1959
The Three Bells - The Browns
Sea of Love - Phil Phillips
Lavender-Blue - Sammy Turner
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson

1967
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James

1975
Fallin’ in Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
One of These Nights - Eagles
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
Love Song - The Oak Ridge Boys

1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over - Lanny Kravitz
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) - Roxette
You Know Me Better Than That - George Strait

Quote of the Day

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 25th

Today's Birthdays

1819 Allan Pinkerton, created first private detective agency, died July 1, 1884
1909 Ruby (Ethel Hilda) Keeler, dancer/actress (42nd Street, No No Nanette) died Feb 28, 1993
1909 Michael Rennie, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, The Day the Earth Stood Still) died June 10, 1971
1913 Walt Kelly, cartoonist/animator (Pogo) died Oct 19, 1973
1916 (Charles) Van Johnson, actor (Brigadoon, The Caine Mutiny)
1917 Mel Ferrer, actor (The Sun Also Rises, War and Peace)
1918 Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor (New York Philharmonic Orchestra) died Oct 14, 1990
1919 George Wallace, Governor of Alabama/segregationist, died Sep 13, 1998
1921 Monty Hall (Halparin), TV host (Let’s Make a Deal)
1927 Althea Gibson, tennis champion, died Sep 28, 2003
1930 Sir Sean Connery, actor (The Untouchables, The Rock, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Rising Sun, Outland, The Longest Day, Dragonheart, Entrapment, James Bond films)
1931 Regis (Francis Xavier) Philbin, TV host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly)
1933 Tom Skerritt, actor (Picket Fences, Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It, M*A*S*H, The Turning Point, Top Gun, Alien)
1936 Gordon Johncock, Indy car driver
1942 Walter Williams, singer (The O’Jays)
1944 Anthony Heald, actor (The Client, Boston Public, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Silence of the Lambs)
1946 Rollie (Roland Glen) Fingers, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Oakland Athletics)
1949 John Savage, actor (The Godfather Part 3, The Onion Fields, Hair, The Deer Hunter)
1949 Gene Simmons, rock bassist (Kiss)
1951 Rob Halford, singer (Judas Priest)
1952 Geoff Downes, pop/rock musician (The Buggles, Asia)
1954 Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick McManus), singer/songwriter (Watching the Detectives, Oliver’s Army, Every Day I Write the Book)
1958 Tim Burton, director (Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!)
1960 Ashley Crow, actress (Heroes)
1961 Billy Ray Cyrus, singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1962 Vivian Campbell, rock guitarist (Def Leppard)
1964 Blair Underwood, actor (L.A. Law)
1964 Joanne Whalley, actress (Trial by Jury, The Singing Detective)
1965 Mia Zapata, punk singer (The Gits) murdered July 7, 1993
1967 Jeff Tweedy, rock singer (Wilco)
1968 Rachael Ray, TV chef
1968 Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer/songwriter (Belle & Sebastian)
1970 Jo Dee Messina, country singer
1970 Claudia Schiffer, supermodel/actress
1970 Robert Horry, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1972 Marvin Harrison, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1981 Rachel Bilson, actress (The O.C.)

Today's Deaths in History

1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, dies at 55
1939 Babe Siebert, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 35
1956 Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher/biologist (The Kinsey Report) dies at 62
1967 Paul Muni, actor (The Story of Louis Pasteur) dies at 71
1979 Stan Kenton, jazz bandleader, dies at 67
1984 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood) dies at 59
1998 Lewis F. Powell, Former Supreme Court Justice, dies at 90
1999 Rob Fisher, keyboardist/songwriter (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher) dies at 42
2000 Carl Barks, Disney cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck) dies at 99
2001 Aaliyah, R&B singer/actress, dies in a plane crash at 22

Today in History

1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.
1814 Washington, D.C. was burned and White House was destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812.
1840 Joseph Gibbons of Albion, Michigan patented the seeding machine.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel.
1879 New York’s Madison Square Garden displayed a real floating ship in a gigantic water tank as Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta H.M.S. Pinafore was performed.
1902 The first Arabic daily newspaper in the U.S., Al-Hoda, began publication in New York City.
1910 Yellow Cab was founded.
1916 The U.S. National Park Service was created.
1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey became the first woman to win an event for the United States in Olympic competition, winning the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition at Antwerp, Belgium.
1940 Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward were married while suspended in parachutes at the World’s Fair in New York City.
1944 Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1946 Ben Hogan captured the PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association) championship at Portland, OR, his first major title.
1949 NBC radio debuted Father Knows Best.
1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1964 The Beatles received a gold record for their hit single "A Hard Day’s Night."
1970 British singer and pianist Elton John made his U.S. concert debut at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.
1975 Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run was released.
1979 "My Sharona," by The Knack, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
1981 The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet.
1984 The Cabbage Patch Kids and Trivial Pursuit were replaced by the latest fad toys: robotic action figures that fought galactic battles, called Transformers.
1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the communist country, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.
1991 The Russian Communist party issued a declaration of full independence for Belarus, the Soviet state that had declared its independence on July 27, 1991.
1996 Tiger Woods won his third U.S. Amateur Championship in a row.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
2003 Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York.

Chart Toppers

1944
Amor - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Time Waits for No One - Helen Forest
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan

1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells

1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Already It’s Heaven - David Houston

1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In - Wings
Bring It on Home to Me - Mickey Gilley

1984
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream) - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Quote of the Day

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 26th

Today's Birthdays

1740 Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (hot air balloon) died June 26, 1810
1838 John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin (President Abraham Lincoln) died Apr 26, 1865
1845 Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper, died Aug 31, 1888
1873 Lee DeForest, inventor/‘Father of Radio’ (the triode tube) died June 30, 1961
1906 Albert Sabin, polio researcher (Sabin oral polio vaccine) died Mar 03, 1993
1910 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Roman Catholic nun, died Sept 5, 1997
1921 Ben (Benjamin C.) Bradlee, executive editor/VP-at-large (The Washington Post)
1922 Irving R. Levine, broadcast journalist/author (Main Street U.S.S.R.)
1934 Tommy Heinsohn, Basketball Hall of Famer (Boston Celtics)
1935 Geraldine Ferraro, first woman to be nominated for Vice President of the U.S.
1936 Yvette Vickers, actress/playmate (July 1959)
1940 Don LaFontaine, voice actor (movie trailers)
1942 Vic Dana, singer (Red Roses for a Blue Lady)
1944 Maureen Tucker, drummer (The Velvet Underground)
1945 Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1946 Swede Savage, Indy car driver, killed in crash during the 1973 Indianapolis 500
1946 Valerie Simpson, R&B singer (Ashford and Simpson)
1952 Michael Jeter, actor (Waterworld, Sister Act 2, The Fisher King, The Green Mile) died Mar 30, 2003
1952 Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor
1957 John O’Neill, guitarist (That Petrol Emotion, The Undertones)
1958 Jet Black (Brian Duffy), drummer (The Stranglers)
1960 Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist/bandleader
1965 Chris Burke, actor (Life Goes On)
1966 Dan Vickrey, guitarist (Counting Crows)
1966 Shirley Manson, rock singer (Garbage)
1969 Adrian Young, rock drummer (No Doubt)
1970 Melissa McCarthy, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1979 Jamal Lewis, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1980 Macaulay Culkin, actor (Home Alone series, The Good Son, My Girl, Uncle Buck)

Today's Deaths in History

1930 Lon Chaney, Sr., actor (The Man of a Thousand Faces) dies at 47
1968 Kay Francis, actress (The Cocoanuts) dies at 63
1974 Charles Lindbergh, aviation pioneer, dies at 72
1978 Charles Boyer, French actor (The Garden of Allah) dies at 78
1980 Tex Avery, cartoonist (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny) dies at 72
1986 Ted Knight, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack) dies at 62
1992 Arthur Leigh Allen, suspected Zodiac serial killer, dies at 58
1995 Ronald White, singer/songwriter (The Miracles) dies at 56
2004 Laura Branigan, singer (Gloria) dies at 47
2005 Denis D'Amour, rock guitarist (Voivod) dies at 45

Today in History

1498 Michelangelo was commissioned to make the Pieta.
1842 The U.S. Congress established the fiscal year, which begins on July 1st.
1873 The first public school kindergarten in the U.S. was authorized by the school board of St. Louis, MO.
1883 The eruption of Mount Krakatoa began.
1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which gave women the right to vote, was certified by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
1939 Red Barber announced the first televised baseball games, on New York’s WXBS.
1947 Don Bankhead of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first black pitcher in major-league baseball.
1957 The Ford Motor Company rolled out the first Edsel automobile.
1957 The Soviet Union announced it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1961 The International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto, Canada.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
1970 Jimi Hendrix opened his recording studio in New York City.
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I.
1982 Rickey Henderson tied Lou Brock’s 1974 record of 118 stolen bases in a season.
1987 The Fuller Brush Company announced plans to open two retail stores in Dallas, TX, the first for the company that had sold its products door to door for 81 years.
1987 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1992 A no-fly zone was imposed on southern Iraq, and Operation Southern Watch was undertaken by the United States, France and Britain.
2002 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Éric Gagné converted his first of a record 84 consecutive successful save opportunities.
2003 Investigators concluded that NASA's overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did.

Chart Toppers

1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter

1953
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Hey Joe! - Carl Smith

1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
Michael - The Highwaymen
Tender Years - George Jones

1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Put a Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash

1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Easy - Commodores
Way Down - Elvis Presley

1985
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Real Love - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton

Quote of the Day

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope, US (English-born) actor & comedian (1903 - 2003)

This post has been edited by Giac: Aug 26 2007, 05:53 PM

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 27th

Today's Birthdays

0551 B.C. Confucius (K’ung Fu-tzu), philosopher, died in 479 B.C.
1809 Hannibal Hamlin, 15th U.S. Vice President, died July 4, 1891
1865 Charles Dawes, 30th U.S. Vice President, died Apr 23, 1951
1899 C.S. Forester, British author (The African Queen, Horatio Hornblower series) died Apr 2, 1966
1908 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th U.S. President, died Jan 22, 1973
1916 Martha Raye (Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed), comedienne/actress (McMillan and Wife, Airport ’79) died Oct 19, 1994
1937 Tommy (Adrian) Sands, singer (Teen-Age Crush, Goin’ Steady)
1942 Daryl Dragon, keyboardist/songwriter (The Captain & Tennille)
1943 Tuesday Weld (Susan Kerr), actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Falling Down)
1944 Tim Bogert, bassist (Vanilla Fudge)
1947 Barbara Bach (Goldbach), actress (Caveman, The Spy Who Loved Me)
1948 Sgt. Slaughter, professional wrestler
1949 Jeff Cook, singer/guitarist (Alabama)
1952 Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), comedian/actor (Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Big Top Pee Wee)
1953 Alex Lifeson, guitarist (Rush)
1953 Peter Stormare, actor (Fargo, Armageddon, The Big Lebowski)
1955 Diana Scarwid, actress (Mommy Dearest)
1956 Glen Matlock, bassist (The Sex Pistols)
1963 Downtown Julie Brown, former MTV VJ
1969 Chandra Wilson, actress (Grey's Anatomy)
1970 Tony Kanal, rock bassist (No Doubt)
1975 Sarah Chalke, actress (Scrubs)
1979 Jon Siebels, rock guitarist (Eve 6)
1979 Sarah Neufeld, violinist (Arcade Fire)
1980 Rhino, board member
1988 Alexa Vega, actress (Spy Kids films)

Today's Deaths in History

1948 Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dies at 86
1963 Garrett Morgan, inventor (respiratory protective hood - predecessor to the gas mask) dies at 86
1963 W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights activist and scholar, dies at 95
1964 Gracie Allen, actress/comedienne/Mrs George Burns, dies at 69
1967 Brian Epstein, Beatles manager, dies at 32
1971 Bennett Cerf, publisher/television personality (Random House) dies at 73
1971 Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (Fortune magazine) dies at 67
1975 Haile Selassie, Ethiopian monarch, dies at 83
1979 Lord Louis Mountbatten, British war hero, is killed at 79
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist (Pride and Joy) is killed in a helicopter crash at 35
1996 Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible) dies at 62
2006 Jesse Pintado, rock guitarist (Napalm Death) dies at 37

Today in History

1660 John Milton’s books were burned in London, because of the author’s attacks on King Charles II.
1858 The first cabled news dispatch was sent to and published by The New York Sun newspaper.
1859 Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville, Pa.
1883 The island volcano Krakatoa erupted; the resulting tidal waves claimed some 36,000 lives on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.
1889 Boxer Jack Dempsey was defeated for the first time in his career as George LaBlanche used the pivot punch to knock Dempsey out.
1889 Charles G. Conn of Elkhart, IN patented the metal clarinet.
1892 Fire seriously damaged New York City's original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street.
1912 Tarzan of the Apes was published by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs.
1921 J.E. Clair, who owned the Acme Packing Company, bought a pro football franchise for Green Bay, WI.
1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
1938 At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, another poet, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers in order to disrupt the recital (the other poet was Robert Frost).
1939 The Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft, made its first flight.
1945 American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1962 The United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
1967 The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
1970 Elton John’s first concert in America was held at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA.
1975 Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.
1979 British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion; the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.
1981 Divers probing the wreckage of the luxury cruise ship "Andrea Doria" recovered two safes from the purser’s office; the safes contained about $1 million in cash and jewelry.
1984 Diane Sawyer became the fifth reporter on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes.
1986 Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros notched career win #250, by leading the Astros to a 7-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
1990 The British Broadcasting Corporation launched BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming.
1993 The Florida Department of Transportation decided to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it could make use of federal funds for those signs.
2001 Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows and killed senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.
2003 A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery.
2003 Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.

Chart Toppers

1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Surrender - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow

1962
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
Things - Bobby Darin
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

1970
Make It with You - Bread
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
War - Edwin Starr
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James

1978
Grease - Frankie Valli
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Talking in Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle

1986
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Strong Heart - T.G. Sheppard

Quote of the Day

Adventure is just bad planning.
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Arctic & Antarctic explorer (1872 - 1928)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 28th

Today's Birthdays

1749 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, writer (Faust) died Mar 22, 1832
1774 Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint, died Jan 4, 1821
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (War and Peace) died Nov 7, 1910
1831 Lucy (Ware Webb) Hayes, First Lady (wife of 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes) died June 25, 1889
1897 Charles Boyer, actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Barefoot in the Park, Casino Royale) died Aug 26, 1978
1917 Jack Kirby, comic book artist (Fantastic Four, X-Men, Hulk, Captain America) died Feb 6, 1994
1921 Nancy Kulp, actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) died Feb 3, 1991
1924 Peggy Ryan, actress (Hawaii Five-O) died Oct 30, 2004
1925 Donald (David Dixon) O’Connor, dancer/singer/actor (Singin’ in the Rain, Toys, Out to Sea) died Sep 27, 2003
1929 Roxie Roker, actress (The Jeffersons) died Dec 2, 1995
1930 Ben (Biagio Anthony) Gazzara, actor (Run for Your Life, Arrest and Trial, Anatomy of a Murder, Roadhouse)
1932 Andy Bathgate, Hockey Hall of Fame center (New York Rangers)
1939 Clem Cattini, drummer (Tornados)
1940 Richard Sanders, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1942 Sterling Morrison, rock guitarist (The Velvet Underground) died Aug 30, 1995
1943 Lou (Louis Victor) Piniella, MLB player/manager (NY Yankees; Chicago Cubs)
1943 David Soul (Solberg), actor/singer (Starsky and Hutch, Salem’s Lot)
1946 Mike (Michael Augustine) Torrez, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees, MY Mets)
1948 Daniel Seraphine, drummer (Chicago)
1950 Ron (Ronald Ames) Guidry, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
1951 Wayne Osmond, singer (The Osmond Brothers)
1957 Rick Rossovich, actor (ER, Roxanne, Top Gun, The Lords of Discipline)
1957 Daniel Stern, actor (City Slickers series, Home Alone series, Diner, Breaking Away)
1958 Scott Hamilton, Olympic Hall of Fame figure skater
1960 Emma Samms (Samuelson), actress (Dynasty, General Hospital)
1963 Jennifer Coolidge, actress (American Pie series, Legally Blonde, Best in Show)
1965 Amanda Tapping, actress (Stargate: Atlantis)
1965 Shania Twain (Eilleen Regina Edwards), singer (I Feel Like a Woman)
1968 Billy Boyd, actor (Lord of the Rings series)
1969 Jason Priestley, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Tombstone)
1969 Jack Black, actor (School of Rock, Nacho Libre)
1978 Max Collins, bassist/lead singer (Eve 6)
1980 Carly Pope, actress (Orange County)
1982 LeeAnn Rimes, country singer (Blue)

Today's Deaths in History

1955 Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon, is killed at 14
1976 Anissa Jones, actress (Family Affair) dies at 18
1978 Robert Shaw, actor (Jaws) dies at 51
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress/writer (Adam's Rib) dies at 88
1987 John Huston, movie director (Treasure of the Sierra Madre) dies at 81

Today in History

1565 St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States, was established.
1830 The passenger-carrying train locomotive "Tom Thumb" was demonstrated for the first time at Baltimore, MD.
1845 Scientific American magazine published its first issue.
1850 Wagner’s opera Lohengrin was performed for the first time.
1867 The United States occupied Midway Island.
1898 Caleb Bradham renamed his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola."
1907 Nineteen-year-old Jim Casey borrowed $100 from his friend, Claude Ryan, and started a local delivery service in Seattle, Washington, which eventually became UPS.
1922 The Walker Cup, the oldest international team golf match in America, was held for the first time at Southampton, NY.
1922 The first commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on WEAF in New York City; announcer H.M. Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York.
1941 The Football Writers Association of America was organized.
1945 Baseball commissioner Branch Rickey and future baseball great Jackie Robinson met to discuss the difficulties Robinson, a black athlete, would face in major league baseball.
1947 Legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day.
1953 Nippon Television broadcasted Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1954 "That’s All Right (Mama)" b/w "Blue Moon of Kentucky" became Elvis Presley’s first hit single on local charts in Memphis, Tennessee.
1955 Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he was accused of whistling at a white woman; he was found murdered three days later.
1961 Motown released what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in the shadows of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1964 The Beatles appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1965 Bob Dylan was booed during his performance at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York for playing with an electric rock band.
1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
1972 Mark Spitz captured the first of his seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1981 The New York Daily News published its final afternoon edition.
1981 John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1981 The National Centers for Disease Control announced a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men; these would soon be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder called AIDS.
1984 The Jacksons’ Victory Tour broke the record for concert ticket sales, surpassing the 1.1 million mark in only two months.
1990 Iraq declared Kuwait to be its newest province.
1991 A drunk motorman sped into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City; the train derailed on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
1996 Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.
1996 A divorce decree ending the 15-year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana was issued.
2002 Prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse; both later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.
2005 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
2006 Prosecutors in Colorado abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he'd killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Chart Toppers

1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Ask Anyone Who Knows - The Ink Spots
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Seventeen - Boyd Bennett & His Rockets
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce

1963
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! - Allan Sherman
Candy Girl - Four Seasons
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

1971
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Good Lovin’ (Makes It Right) - Tammy Wynette

1979
My Sharona - The Knack
The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band

1987
Who’s That Girl - Madonna
La Bamba - Los Lobos
Luka - Suzanne Vega
Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right) - Restless Heart

Quote of the Day

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
George Carlin, US comedian and actor (1937 - )





This post has been edited by Giac: Aug 28 2007, 06:04 PM

[Tex]

I'll never forget August of '79. My cousin from North Bergen (near 75th and B'way in NB, NJ) came down to stay with us for two weeks. Every time we got in the car to go do something, My Sharona was on the radio. Totally killer summer. Tied forever to that song. Allsome.

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 29th

Today's Birthdays

1632 John Locke, English philosopher (enlightenment thinkers) died Oct 28, 1704
1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician/author/poet (Old Ironsides) died Oct 7, 1894
1876 Charles F. Kettering, inventor (automotive electric systems/starters) died Nov 24, 1958
1912 (Patrick) Barry Sullivan, actor (The Bad and the Beautiful, Oh, God!) died June 6, 1994
1915 Ingrid Bergman, actress (Gaslight, Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express, Casablanca) died Aug 29, 1982
1917 Isabel Sanford, actress (The Jeffersons) died July 9, 2004
1920 Charlie (Charles Christopher) "The Bird" Parker, Jr., jazz saxophonist, died Mar 12, 1955
1923 Sir Richard Attenborough, actor/director (Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape)
1924 Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones), singer (What A Diff’rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You) died Dec 14, 1963
1928 Charles Gray, English actor (Diamonds are Forever, Rocky Horror Picture Show) died Mar 7, 2000
1935 William Friedkin, director (The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band)
1936 Sen. John McCain, presidential hopeful (R-Ariz)
1938 Elliott Gould (Goldstein), actor (Bob & Carol Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H)
1939 Joel Schumacher, film director (The Lost Boys, Batman Forever)
1940 James Brady, White House Press Secretary to Ronald Reagan
1941 Robin Leach, TV host (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous)
1945 G.W. Bailey, actor (Police Academy series, Mannequin)
1952 Dave Malone, rock guitarist (The Radiators)
1958 Michael (Joe) Jackson, ‘King of Pop,’ R&B singer/alleged pedophile
1962 Rebecca De Mornay (Rebecca George), actress (Risky Business, The Three Musketeers)
1969 Me'Shell NdegéOcello, singer (John Mellencamp)
1971 Carla Gugino, actress (Spy Kids, Karen Sisco, Spin City)
1975 Kyle Cook, guitarist (Matchbox 20)
1977 John Hensley, actor (Nip/Tuck)
1977 Roy Oswalt, MLB pitcher (Houston Astros)
1980 Chris Simms, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Today's Deaths in History

1877 Brigham Young, Mormon leader/settler, dies at 76
1931 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, dies at 64
1976 Jimmy Reed, blues singer, dies at 50
1981 Lowell Thomas, writer/broadcaster (made Lawrence of Arabia famous) dies at 88
1982 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Casablanca) dies on her 67th birthday
1987 Lee Marvin, actor (The Dirty Dozen) dies at 63
2002 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (The Avengers) dies at 82

Today in History

1533 The last Incan king, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, began in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1828 Robert Turner of Ward, MA received a patent for his self-regulating wagon brake.
1831 Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
1833 Legislation to settle child labor laws, called the Factory Act, was passed in England.
1885 The first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH; John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.
1885 Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first motorcycle.
1886 Li Hung-Chang’s chef devised a tasty dish in New York City, which satisfied both American and Oriental tastes: chop suey.
1898 The Goodyear tire company was founded.
1944 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
1946 Ella Fitzgerald and The Delta Rhythm Boys recorded "It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight" on Decca Records.
1949 The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1957 Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. Senate, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
1958 The United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1964 Roy Orbison’s "Oh, Pretty Woman" was released.
1965 Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
1966 Mia Farrow withdrew from the cast of the ABC-TV prime time drama Peyton Place, after starring for two years.
1966 The Beatles performed at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA, the group’s last live appearance before they disbanded in 1970.
1971 Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to drive in 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
1977 Lou Brock got the 893rd stolen base of his baseball career, breaking the major-league mark set by Ty Cobb.
1986 The former American Bandstand studio, at the original home of WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, PA, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1991 The Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the party’s 75-year controlling regime in the Soviet Union.
1994 Viacom Inc. announced the purchase of Blockbuster Entertainment Corp., the video rental store giant, for $8 billion.
1996 President Bill Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
2000 Pope John Paul II endorsed organ donation and adult stem cell study but condemned human cloning and embryo experiments.
2002 A judge in Norwalk, Conn., sentenced Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to 20 years to life in prison for bludgeoning his teenage neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing along with nearly 100 worshippers as they left a mosque in Najaf.
2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the U.S. Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing more than $115 billion in damage.

Chart Toppers

1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Allegheny Moon - Patti Page
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

1964
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
C’mon and Swim - Bobby Freeman
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves

1972
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry - Jerry Wallace

1980
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt

1988
Monkey - George Michael
I Don’t Wanna to Go on with You like That - Elton John
I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love - Chicago
The Wanderer - Eddie Rabbitt

Quote of the Day

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Anonymous

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 30th

Today's Birthdays

1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author/wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (Frankenstein) died Feb 1, 1851
1837 Ellen Arthur (Ellen Lewis Herndon), wife of 21st President Chester A. Arthur, died Jan 12, 1880
1896 Raymond (Hart) Massey, actor (Battle Cry, East of Eden, Dr. Kildare) died July 29, 1983
1898 Shirley Booth (Thelma Booth Ford), actress (Come Back Little Sheba, The Matchmaker, Hazel) died Oct 16, 1992
1908 Fred (Fredrick Martin) MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons, The Caine Mutiny, The Apartment, The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor) died Nov 5, 1991
1918 Ted (Theodore Samuel) Williams, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder/US Marine Fighter Pilot (Boston Red Sox)
1919 Kitty Wells (Muriel Ellen Deason), The Queen of Country Music
1927 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
1927 Bill Daily, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show)
1931 John "Jack" Swigert Jr., NASA astronaut (Apollo 13) died Dec 27, 1982
1935 John Phillips, singer (The Mamas & The Papas) died Mar 18, 2001
1941 John McNally, singer/guitarist (The Searchers)
1943 Jean-Claude Killy, Olympic Gold Medal skier
1943 Robert Crumb, cartoonist (Fritz the Cat)
1944 Tug (Frank Edwin) McGraw, MLB pitcher (NY Mets) died Jan 5, 2004
1947 Peggy Lipton, actress (Twin Peaks, The Mod Squad)
1948 Lewis Black, comedian/actor (Accepted)
1950 Mick Moody, guitarist (Whitesnake)
1951 Timothy Bottoms, actor (Last Picture Show, Texasville, East of Eden)
1953 Robert Parish, Basketball Hall of Famer (Boston Celtics)
1953 Horace Panter, bassist (The Specials, General Public)
1953 Robin Harris, comedian/actor (Bébé's Kids) died Mar 18, 1990
1954 David Paymer, actor (Unforgettable, Nixon, Get Shorty, City Slickers series, Mr. Saturday Night, The American President)
1958 Martin Jackson, drummer (Swing out Sister)
1963 Michael Chiklis, actor (The Shield, Fantastic Four)
1964 Robert Clivilles, music producer (C+C Music Factory)
1966 Michael Michele, actress (ER, Homicide: Life on the Street)
1968 Vladimir Malakhov, NHL player (NY Rangers)
1971 Lars Frederiksen, guitarist (Rancid)
1972 Cameron Diaz, model/actress (The Mask, My Best Friend’s Wedding, There’s Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Charlie’s Angels)
1973 Lisa Ling, TV personality (The View)
1974 Aaron Barrett, lead guitarist/singer (Reel Big Fish)
1976 Judas, board member
1977 Shaun Alexander, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1978 Matt Taul, rock musician (Days of the New, Tantric)
1982 Andy Roddick, tennis champion
1986 Ryan Ross, guitarist (Panic! At the Disco)

Today's Deaths in History

1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (Father of Microbiology) dies at 90
1938 Max Factor, make-up artist/cosmetic manufacturer, dies at 61
1981 Vera-Ellen, actress (White Christmas, On the Town) dies at 60
1995 Sterling Morrison, guitarist (The Velvet Underground) dies at 53
2004 Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (hypothesis of comet composition) dies at 97
2006 Glenn Ford, actor (Blackboard Jungle, The Teahouse of the August Moon) dies at 90

Today in History

1806 The last issue of the Daily Advertiser, New York City’s second daily newspaper was published.
1862 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va.
1905 Ty Cobb appeared in his first major-league baseball game, playing for the Detroit Tigers.
1918 Fanya Kaplan shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.
1922 The New Orleans Rhythm Kings recorded "Tiger Rag," one of the most familiar ragtime jazz tunes ever.
1941 Nazi forces began a siege of Leningrad during World War II that lasted nearly two and a half years.
1945 Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1963 A hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.
1965 Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited was released.
1965 After 40 years in baseball, Casey Stengel announced his retirement.
1967 The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
1968 The Beatles recorded their first songs for their own Apple label, including the big hits "Revolution" and "Hey Jude."
1968 The stars came out for charity as John and Yoko Lennon hosted the "One on One" concert in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
1972 President Nixon announced that John Dean completed his investigation into the Watergate wiretapping debacle.
1974 The Brady Bunch, a family sitcom which first aired on TV Sept. 26, 1969, came to an end.
1974 The largest fountain in America, the visual symbol of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was dedicated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space when he blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 President Ronald Reagan, along with Red Barber, Bill Stern, Graham McNamee, Don Dunphy and Ted Husing were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame, in ceremonies at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
1986 Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox became the first 20-game winner of the year.
1989 A federal jury in New York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion.
1990 President George H.W. Bush told a news conference that a "new world order" could emerge from the Persian Gulf crisis.
1993 The Late Show with David Letterman debuted on CBS-TV.
1995 James Taylor and former wife Carly Simon got back together for their first concert together in 16 years, a benefit performance on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusettes.
1999 Residents of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored ballot.
2005 A day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floodwaters covered 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.

Chart Toppers

1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold

1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley

1965
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
Help! - The Beatles
California Girls - The Beach Boys
Yes, Mr. Peters - Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell

1973
Brother Louie - Stories
Live and Let Die - Wings
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Everybody’s Had the Blues - Merle Haggard

1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me - Ronnie Milsap

1989
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Are You Ever Gonna Love Me - Holly Dunn

Quote of the Day

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields, actor (1880 - 1946)

[Giac]

Today in History - Aug 31st

Today's Birthdays

0012 Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, died Jan 24, 0041
1870 Maria Montessori, educator (Montessori schools) died May 6, 1952
1897 Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel), actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives) died Apr 14, 1975
1903 Arthur (Morton) Godfrey, ukulele playing/TV & radio entertainer (Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts) died Mar 16, 1983
1908 William Saroyan, playwright (The Time of Your Life) died May 18, 1981
1916 Daniel Schorr, journalist (CBS News, CNN)
1918 Alan Jay Lerner, songwriter/lyricist (Gigi, An American in Paris, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, Camelot, My Fair Lady) died June 14, 1986
1920 G.D. Spradlin, actor (North Dallas Forty, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part 2)
1924 Buddy Hackett (Leonard Hacker), comedian/actor (The Love Bug) died Jun 30, 2003
1928 James Coburn, actor (The Great Escape, Our Man Flint, The Magnificent Seven) died Nov 18, 2002
1935 Eldridge Cleaver, activist (Black Panthers) died May 1, 1998
1935 Frank Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer (Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, LA Dodgers, California Angels, Cleveland Indians)
1939 Jerry Allison, drummer (The Crickets)
1940 Jack Thompson, actor (Breaker Morant, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
1945 Itzhak Perlman, violin virtuoso
1945 Van Morrison, songwriter/singer (Brown Eyed Girl, Domino)
1946 Tom Coughlin, NFL coach (NY Giants)
1949 Richard Gere, actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, American Gigolo, The Cotton Club, First Knight, The Jackal)
1952 Rudolph Schenker, guitarist (Scorpions)
1957 Glenn Tilbrook, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Squeeze)
1957 Gina Schock, drummer (The Go-Gos)
1959 Tony DeFranco, singer (The DeFranco Family)
1963 Reb Beach, guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1969 Jeff Russo, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Tonic)
1970 Queen Rania, wife of Jordan's King Abdullah II
1970 Deborah (Ann) Gibson, singer (Only in My Dreams)
1970 Greg Richling, bassist (Wallflowers)
1972 Chris Tucker, actor (Rush Hour series, The Fifth Element, Jackie Brown)
1975 Sara Ramirez, actress (Gery's Anatomy, Spamalot)

Today's Deaths in History

1422 King Henry V of England dies at 34
1888 Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, first victim of Jack the Ripper, is murdered at 43
1948 Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, actor (Our Gang) dies at 16
1969 Rocky Marciano, boxing champion, dies in a plane crash at 45
1973 John Ford, film director (The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath) dies at 79
1979 Sally Rand, dancer/actress (Bolero) dies at 75
1997 Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris at 36
2002 Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician and bandleader, dies at 94

Today in History

1852 The United States Congress passed legislation creating the first prestamped envelopes.
1864 Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launched an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1888 A prostitute, Mary Ann Nicholls, was found murdered in London's East End, she is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.
1897 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.
1939 Nazi Germany mounted a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe.
1940 Actor Lawrence Olivier and actress Vivian Leigh were married.
1943 The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for an African-American, was commissioned.
1946 Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System by popular demand after having been dropped earlier in the year.
1948 Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a Hollywood drug raid; he would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1950 Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game.
1954 Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.
1959 Sandy Koufax set a National League record by striking out 18 hitters.
1962 The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1964 California officially became the most populated of the United States.
1969 Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash in Iowa the day before his 46th birthday.
1976 A judge ruled that George Harrison was guilty of copying from the song "He’s So Fine;" the judge said that the chorus to Harrison’s "My Sweet Lord" was identical to "He’s So Fine" and it eventually cost the former Beatle more than half a million dollars.
1978 William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, pled guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1981 The 30-year contract between ‘Mr. Television’, Milton Berle, and NBC-TV expired; Uncle Miltie had received $6 million for not being on the air since his show, The Texaco Star Theatre, went off the air in the mid-1950s (NBC held Berle to the contract to keep him from appearing on competing networks).
1985 Richard Ramirez, later convicted of California's "Night Stalker" killings, was captured by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood.
1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr were the first father-and-son teammate combo to play on same baseball team (Seattle Mariners).
1991 Kyrgyzstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that claimed the lives of Weaver's wife, son and a deputy U.S. marshal.
1994 Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century.
1997 Diana, Britain’s Princess of Wales, was killed in an early-morning car crash in Paris, France.
2001 A Bronx, N.Y., team's third-place finish in the Little League World Series was ruled invalid because one player was two years older than the age limit of 12.
2004 Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses in Beersheba, Israel, killing 16 passengers.
2004 A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station, killing 10 people.
2005 Some 1,000 people were killed when a religious procession across a Baghdad bridge was engulfed in panic over rumors of a suicide bomber.
2006 Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium.
2006 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, was recovered during a raid by Norwegian police.

Chart Toppers

1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Sam’s Song - Bing & Gary Crosby
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb

1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
My True Love - Jack Scott
Blue Blue Day - Don Gibson

1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
See You in September - The Happenings
Almost Persuaded - David Houston

1974
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
The Grand Tour - George Jones

1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Fool Hearted Memory - George Strait

1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Come Back to Me - Janet Jackson
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation
Next to You, Next to Me - Shenandoah

Quote of the Day

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France, French novelist (1844 - 1924)

[Giac]

Today in History - Sept 1st

Today's Birthdays

1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer (Canon in D) died Mar 3, 1706
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, opera composer (Hansel and Gretel) died Sep 27, 1921
1866 James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight boxing champion, died Feb 18, 1933
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer (Tarzan of the Apes) died Mar 19, 1950
1907 Walter (Philip) Reuther, labor union leader (United Automobile Workers, CIO) killed in plane crash May 9, 1970
1920 Richard Farnsworth, actor (The Two Jakes, The Natural, The Straight Story) died Oct 6, 2000
1922 Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton), actress (The Munsters) died Jan 8, 2007
1923 Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano), undefeated World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, died Aug 31, 1969
1928 George Maharis (Maharias), actor (Route 66, Rich Man Poor Man, Exodus)
1929 Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama from the Train) died Aug 11, 1988
1931 Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin), ‘The Singing Hobo,’ songwriter/singer, died Apr 12, 1999
1933 Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins), country singer/songwriter (Hello Darlin’) died June 5, 1993
1937 Ron O’Neal, actor (Super Fly, Red Dawn, The Equalizer) died Jan 14, 2004
1939 Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin, comedienne/actress (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The West Wing)
1940 Dave White (Tricker), singer/songwriter (Danny & The Juniors)
1943 Don Stroud, actor (Amityville Horror, The Buddy Holly Story)
1946 Barry Gibb, rhythm guitarist/songwriter/singer (The BeeGees)
1946 Greg Errico, drummer (Sly and The Family Stone)
1947 Ed Podolak, NFL running back (Kansas City Chiefs)
1950 Phil McGraw, talk show host (Dr. Phil)
1955 Bruce Foxton, bassist (The Jam)
1957 Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo), singer (Queen of Latin Pop)
1961 Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary
1966 Tim Hardaway, NBA point guard (Indiana Pacers)
1968 Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist, died Sept 11, 2001
1971 Ricardo Antonio Chavira, actor (Desperate Housewives)
1973 Zach Thomas, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1974 Jason Taylor, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1975 Scott Speedman, actor (Felicity)
1981 Clinton Portis, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1984 Joe Trohman, guitarist (Fall Out Boy)

Today's Deaths in History

1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada) dies at 65
1715 King Louis XIV of France dies at 76
1981 Albert Speer, Nazi, dies at 76
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, Baseball Commissioner, dies at 51

Today in History

1715 King Louis XIV of France died after a reign of 72 years, the longest of any major European monarch.
1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1819 The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by Jethro Wood.
1859 The Pullman railroad sleeping car was placed into service.
1864 Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuated Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
1878 Emma M. Nutt, of the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston, Massachusetts, became the first female telephone operator.
1887 Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone.
1897 The first section of Boston's subway system opened.
1902 A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, was released in France.
1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
1923 The worst earthquake in Japan’s history (magnituded 7.1) occured in Kanto, killing some 140,000 people.
1932 New York City Mayor James "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his administration.
1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1949 Martin Kane, Private Eye debuted on NBC-TV.
1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed the ANZUS Treaty, a mutual defense pact.
1971 Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates handed in his lineup card to the umpire with the names of nine black players, a first for the major leagues.
1972 The O’Jays received a gold record for "Back Stabbers."
1972 America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion.
1974 The SR-71 Blackbird set (and still holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1975 The last original episode of Gunsmoke aired on CBS after a record 20-year run.
1975 The last Monday Night Baseball game was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1977 Singer Debbie Harry (of Blondie) signed a recording deal with Chrysalis Records.
1983 A Soviet interceptor plane destroyed a Korean Air Boeing 747 that had strayed 100 miles off course, flying over Soviet military installations.
1986 Jerry Lewis raised a record $34 million for Muscular Dystrophy during his annual telethon for Jerry’s kids over the Labor Day weekend.
1992 Chess champ Bobby Fischer came out of his 20-year retirement to hold a press conference in Yugoslavia; he spit on an order from the U.S. Treasury Department warning him of his pending violation of U.N. sanctions if he played chess in Yugoslavia.
1997 The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raised $50,475,055, a new record, to support Muscular Dystrophy Association research and services.
1997 Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes in which Princess Diana was fatally injured, was found to have had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs of the season, breaking the National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
2004 More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal.

Chart Toppers

1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
Shangai - Doris Day
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell

1959
Sea of Love - Phil Phillips
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price
The Three Bells - The Browns

1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James

1975
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - James Taylor
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Maniac - Michael Sembello
You’re Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation - Ronnie McDowell

1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) - Roxette
Wind of Change - Scorpions
You Know Me Better Than That - George Strait

Quote of the Day

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993)

[Giac]

Today in History - Sept 2nd

Today's Birthdays

1838 Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (last monarch of the Hawaiian kingdom) died Nov 11, 1917
1917 Cleveland Amory, writer/TV Guide columnist, died Oct 14, 1998
1918 Martha Mitchell (Beall), socialite (wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell) died May 31, 1976
1937 Peter Ueberroth, businessman/promoter (1984 Summer Olympics in LA; Major League Baseball Commissioner)
1940 Jimmy Clanton, singer/songwriter (Venus in Blue Jeans)
1943 Rosalind Ashford, singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1943 Glen Sather, hockey executive (NY Rangers)
1946 Marty Grebb, keyboards (The Buckinghams)
1946 Billy Preston, keyboards/composer (the unofficial "fifth Beatle") died Jun 6, 2006
1948 Nate (Nathaniel) ‘Tiny’ Archibald, Basketball Hall of Famer (New York Nets, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 Terry Bradshaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback/sportscaster (Pittsburgh Steelers, Fox Sports)
1948 Christa McAuliffe (Sharon Christa Corrigan), teacher/astronaut, killed in Challenger explosion Jan 28, 1986
1950 Rosanna DeSoto, actress (La Bamba, Stand and Deliver)
1951 Lenvil Elliott, NFL running back (San Francisco 49ers)
1951 Mark Harmon, actor (Navy NCIS, St. Elsewhere, Summer School)
1952 Jimmy Connors, tennis champion
1955 Linda Purl, actress (Happy Days, Matlock)
1957 Steve Porcaro, keyboards/singer (Toto)
1958 Fritz McIntyre, keyboards (Simply Red)
1958 Jerry Augustyniak, drummer (10,000 Maniacs)
1960 Eric Dickerson, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (LA Rams, Indianapolis Colts, LA Raiders, Atlanta Falcons)
1964 Keanu Reeves, actor (Speed, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Parenthood, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons, Matrix series, Point Break)
1965 Lennox Lewis, heavyweight champion boxer
1966 Salma Hayek, actress/producer (From Dusk til Dawn, Desperado, Dogma, Frida, Ugly Betty)
1968 Cynthia Watros, actress (Titus, Lost)
1969 Stéphane Matteau, NHL player (NY Rangers)
1971 Lisa Snowdon, English Model
1977 Sam Rivers, bassist (Limp Bizkit)
1987 Spencer Smith, drummer (Panic! at the Disco)

Today's Deaths in History

0490 BC Pheidippides, Greek runner, dies at 40
1910 Henri Rousseau, French painter (Post-Impressionist) dies at 66
1964 Alvin York, soldier/Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 72
1969 Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam, dies at 79
1973 J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings) dies at 81
2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (first successful herat transplant) dies at 78
2001 Troy Donahue, actor (Godfather Part II) dies at 65
2005 Bob Denver, actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) dies at 70
2006 Bob Mathias, Olympic athlete/congressman, dies at 75

Today in History

0490 BC After the Battle of Marathon, where the Greeks defeated the invading Persians, Pheidippides, who had already run 140 miles in 2 days and nights, ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of the victory; his last words before he collapsed and died, "Rejoice, we are victorious."
1666 The three-day Great Fire of London, which burned more than 13,000 houses and killed six people, started in a wooden house on Pudding Lane near the Tower of London.
1789 The United States Treasury Department, the third presidential cabinet department, was organized by an act of Congress.
1897 The first issue of McCall’s magazine was published.
1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
1935 A hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming 423 lives.
1938 The first railroad car to be equipped with fluorescent lighting was placed in operation on the New York Central railroad.
1944 Navy pilot George H.W. Bush was shot down by Japanese forces as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands; he was rescued by a U.S. submarine.
1945 Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic.
1945 Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II.
1945 U.S. President Harry S Truman proclaimed this day as Victory-over-Japan Day (V-J Day or Victory Day).
1949 Alben W. Barkley, the Vice President of the United States under President Harry S Truman, wrote a letter that made reference to his office as the "Veep," a nickname that has stuck since.
1962 Ken Hubbs of the Chicago Cubs set a major-league baseball fielding record, playing errorless ball inr his 74th consecutive game.
1963 Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
1963 The CBS Evening News was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1965 The Beatles received a gold record for their single "Help!"
1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States was installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1970 NASA announced the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation was re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1972 Milt Pappas of the Chicago Cubs pitched 9-2/3 innings of perfect baseball before giving up a walk to Larry Stahl of the Philadelphia Phillies.
1973 Billy Martin was fired as manager of the Detroit Tigers three days after ordering his pitching staff to toss spitballs against Cleveland Indians batters.
1983 Tom Brokaw took over as sole anchor of NBC's Nightly News.
1985 A U.S.-French expedition announced that it had located the wreckage of the Titanic about 560 miles off Newfoundland.
1986 Pitcher Steve Carlton earned career win #322, giving up seven hits in leading the Chicago White Sox to a 3-0 win over the Kansas City Royals.
1992 The United States and Russia agreed to build a space station.
1995 The soundtrack album from the Michelle Pfeiffer movie Dangerous Minds hit number one on Billboard.
1998 Swissair Flight 111 went down about five miles off the Nova Scotia hamlet of Peggy’s Cove.
1999 Cal Ripken, Jr. hit his 400th home run as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore.
2003 A federal appeals court in San Francisco threw out more than 100 death sentences in Arizona, Montana and Idaho because the inmates had been sent to death row by judges instead of juries.
2004 President George W. Bush accepted his party's nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
2005 The Natural Bridge, a very popular tourist attraction in Aruba, collapses after thousands of years in good condition.
2005 A National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina.

Chart Toppers

1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
It Could Happen to You - Jo Stafford
Soldier’s Last Letter - Ernest Tubb

1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells

1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard

1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In - Wings
(I’m A) Stand by My Woman Man - Ronnie Milsap

1984
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Missing You - John Waite
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Let’s Fall to Pieces Together - George Strait

Quote of the Day

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce, US author & satirist (1842 - 1914) The Devil's Dictionary

[Giac]

Today in History - Sept 3rd

Today's Birthdays

1596 Nicolo Amati, violin maker, died in 1684
1875 Ferdinand Porsche, auto designer, died Jan 30, 1951
1910 Kitty Carlisle (Catherine Conn), actress/TV panelist (A Night at the Opera, To Tell the Truth) died April 17, 2007
1913 Alan (Walbridge) Ladd, actor (Citizen Kane, Shane) died Jan 29, 1964
1914 Tom Glazer, singer/songwriter (On Top of Spaghetti) died Feb 21, 2003
1923 Mort Walker (Addison), cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois)
1926 Irene Papas, Greek actress (The Guns of navarone, Zorba the Greek)
1933 Tompall (Tom Paul) Glaser, country singer (The Glaser Brothers)
1935 Eileen Brennan, actress (Private Benjamin, The Last Picture Show, The Sting)
1940 Pauline Collins, actress (Shirley Valentine, City of Joy, Upstairs Downstairs)
1942 Al Jardine, songwriter/singer/bass/guitar (The Beach Boys)
1943 Valerie Perrine, actress (Lenny, Superman)
1945 George Biondo, bassist (Steppenwolf)
1947 Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1948 Donald Brewer, drummer (Grand Funk Railroad, The Silver Bullet Band)
1950 Doug Pinnick, bassist/singer (King's X)
1955 Steve Jones, rock guitarist (The Sex Pistols)
1964 Adam Curry, TV personality (MTV VJ)
1965 Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez), actor (Wall Street, Platoon, Hot Shots, Young Guns, Major League series, Spin City)
1965 Costas Mandylor, actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1969 Dominic West, British actor (The Wire, Rock Star)
1972 Martin Straka, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1978 Michal Rozsival, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1979 Tomo Miličević, guitarist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 Cone, bassist (Sum 41)
1980 Jennie Finch, Olympic softball player
1986 Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White, Olympic snowboarder

Today's Deaths in History

1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies at 59
1893 James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (mechanical refrigeration) dies at 77
1962 e. e. cummings, poet, dies at 67
1967 James Dunn, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) dies at 65
1970 "Blind Owl" Wilson, singer/songwriter (Canned Heat) dies at 27
1970 Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach (Green Bay Packers) dies at 57
1991 Frank Capra, film director (It's a Wonderful Life) dies at 94
1994 Major Lance, R&B singer (The Monkey Time) dies at 55
2005 William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 80

Today in History

1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.
1783 The Revolutionary War ended when a treaty was signed by Great Britain and the United States in Paris, France.
1833 The first successful one-cent (or penny) newspaper was published when Benjamin H. Day issued the first copy of The New York Sun.
1838 Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
1895 The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA as the Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile more than 300 miles an hour.
1939 Britain’s Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the declaration of war against Germany at 11:15 a.m.
1942 Frank Sinatra bid adieu to the Tommy Dorsey Band as he started his solo singing career.
1944 Diarist Anne Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
1951 Search for Tomorrow debuted on CBS-TV; it would eventually become the longest-running TV serial (or soap opera).
1954 The Lone Ranger was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes spanning 21 years.
1963 Reprise Records, owned by Frank Sinatra, became part of Warner Brothers Records.
1967 After 17 years, What’s My Line aired for the final time on CBS-TV.
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1971 The Lawrence Welk Show was seen for the last time on ABC-TV.
1973 David Pearson became the first race car driver to earn one million dollars in career earnings.
1976 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
1978 Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1981 David Brinkley ended an illustrious 38-year career with NBC News, leaving for ABC (and more money).
1984 Jerry Lewis smashed all previous records for charity fund-raising as a total of $32,074,566 was pledged on the annual Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
1984 Bruce Sutter of the St. Louis Cardinals set a National League record by earning his 38th save of the season.
1986 Peat Marwick International and Klynveld Main Goerdeler of the Netherlands agreed to merge, forming the world’s largest accounting firm.
1994 China and Russia pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force against each other.
1997 Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire (the conviction was overturned in 1999).
2004 A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
2004 Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized in New York with chest pains and shortness of breath; he later underwent heart bypass surgery.
2005 President George W. Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his administration intensified efforts to send aid to the hurricane-ravaged region in the face of criticism it did not act quickly enough.
2006 Tennis player Andre Agassi retired after losing his third-round match at the U.S. Open.

Chart Toppers

1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
Gotta Be This or That - Benny Goodman
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter

1953
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky

1961
Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
Michael - The Highwaymen
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got (Until You Lose It) - Ral Donner
Tender Years - George Jones

1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Put a Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash

1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle

1985
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Love is Alive - The Judds

Quote of the Day

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote, US author (1924 - 1984)

[Giac]

Today in History - Sept 4th

Today's Birthdays

1803 Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of 11th President James Knox Polk, died Aug 14, 1891
1908 Richard Wright, author (Black Boy, The Outsider) died Nov 28, 1960
1913 Mickey Cohen, gangster, died July 29, 1976
1917 Henry Ford II, head of Ford Motor Co., died Sep 29, 1987
1918 Paul Harvey, news commentator (The Rest of the Story)
1919 Howard Morris, comedian/actor/director (Splash, High Anxiety, The Nutty Professor) died May 21, 2005
1928 Dick (Richard Allen) York, actor (Bewitched) died Feb 20, 1992
1931 Mitzi Gaynor (Franchesca Mitzi Marlene de Charney von Gerber), singer/dancer/actress (South Pacific)
1942 Raymond Floyd, golf champion
1942 Merald ‘Bubba’ Knight, singer (Gladys Night and the Pips)
1945 Gene Parsons, drummer (The Byrds)
1946 Gary Duncan (Grubb), guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1946 Greg Elmore, drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1949 Tom Watson, golf champion
1950 Ronald LaPread, bassist (Commodores)
1951 Martin Chambers, drummer (The Pretenders)
1953 Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
1957 Khandi Alexander, actress (CSI: Miami)
1958 David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host
1960 Damon Wayans, actor/comedian (My Wife and Kids)
1960 Kim Thayil, guitarist (Soundgarden)
1963 John Vanbiesbrouck, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1965 Sergio Momesso, NHL left Wing (NY Rangers)
1968 Mike Piazza, MLB catcher/DH (Oakland A's)
1969 Noah Taylor, actor (Shine, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider)
1970 Igor Cavalera, drummer (Sepultura)
1971 Ione Skye, actress (Say Anything)
1974 Carmit Bachar, singer/dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1974 Nona Gaye, singer/actress/daughter of Marvin Gaye
1978 Wes Bentley, actor (American Beauty)
1979 Maxim Afinogenov, NHL right wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1981 Rick91981, board member and computer guru
1981 Beyonce Knowles, singer/dancer/actress

Today's Deaths in History

1907 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt) dies at 64
1965 Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary/Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 90
1990 Irene Dunne, actress (Anna and the King of Siam) dies at 91
1991 Dottie West, country singer, dies at 58
1993 Hervé Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island) dies at 50
2001 Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio personality (Howard Stern) dies at 39
2006 Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter dies at 44

Today in History

1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.
1833 Barney Flaherty answered an ad in The New York Sun and became the first newsboy.
1882 Thomas Edison displayed the first practical electrical lighting system.
1885 The Exchange Buffet, the first self-service restaurant in the U.S., opened in New York City.
1888 The name Kodak was registered by George Eastman of Rochester, NY.
1917 The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.
1941 The New York Yankees won their 12th American League baseball pennant.
1948 Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.
1949 The longest pro tennis match in history was played; Pancho Gonzales and Ted Schroeder played 67 games in five sets.
1950 The Beetle Bailey comic strip made its debut.
1950 The inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race, was run at Darlington, S.C.
1951 The first coast-to-coast telecast using coaxial cable was seen by viewers in New York City; they saw U.S. President Harry S. Truman giving a speech to the nation from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.
1953 The New York Yankees became the first baseball team, and Casey Stengel the first manager, to win five consecutive American League championships.
1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
1957 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.
1967 Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam; the comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.
1972 Thieves stole 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was, at the time, the largest art theft in North America.
1972 Swimmer Mark Spitz captured his seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay event at Munich, Germany.
1997 Three Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later destroyed or altered records.
2002 Singer Kelly Clarkson was voted the first American Idol on the Fox TV series.
2006 Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray's barb pierced his chest.

Chart Toppers

1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Surrender - Perry Como
Doin’ What Comes Naturally - Dinah Shore
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Skokiaan - Ralph Marterie
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow

1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Party Lights - Claudine Clark
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins

1970
War - Edwin Starr
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
(If You Let Me Make Love to You) Why Can’t I Touch You? - Ronnie Dyson
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James

1978
Grease - Frankie Valli
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Blue Skies - Willie Nelson

1986
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Heartbeat in the Darkness - Don Williams

Quote of the Day

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
Randy K. Milholland, Webcomic pioneer

This post has been edited by Giac: Sep 4 2007, 06:48 PM