Today in History - May 18th

Today’s Birthdays

1897 Frank Capra, director (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, It's a Wonderful Life) died Sep 3, 1991
1912 Perry (Pierino) Como, singer (Catch a Falling Star) died May 12, 2001
1920 Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), 264th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, died April 2, 2005
1937 Brooks (Calbert) Robinson, Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (Baltimore Orioles)
1946 Reggie (Reginald Martinez) Jackson, ‘Mr. October,’ Baseball Hall of Famer (Kansas City Athletics, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees, California Angels)
1949 Rick Wakeman, songwriter/keyboards (Yes)
1950 Mark Mothersbaugh, composer/singer (Devo)
1955 Chow Yun-Fat, actor (Replacement Killers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
1960 Jari Kurri, NHL right winger (Edmonton Oilers, LA Kings, NY Rangers, Colorado Avalanche, Anaheim Ducks)
1960 Page Hamilton, rock singer (Helmet)
1963 Marty McSorely, NHL defenseman (Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, LA Kings, NY Rangers, San Jose Sharks, Boston Bruins)
1966 Cathie Speakman, actress (24)
1970 Tina Fey, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock)
1975 Jack Johnson, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Bubbly Toes)
1984 Scarlett Keegan, playmate (September 2004)

Today’s Deaths in History

1911 Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer, dies at 50
1980 Ian Curtis, singer (Joy Division) hangs himself at 23
1990 Jill Ireland, actress/Mrs Charles Bronson, dies at 54
1995 Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer/actor, dies at 45
1995 Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched) dies at 62
1996 Kevin Gilbert, songwriter/keybaords/guitarist (Madonna) dies at 29
2006 Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy," commits suicide at 33

Today in History

1631 John Winthrop took the oath of office and became the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1860 Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL was nominated for the U.S. Presidency by Republican Party leaders at a meeting in Chicago.
1876 Wyatt Earp started work in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Larry Deger.
1896 The United States Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.
1897 Dracula, by Irish author Bram Stoker, was published.
1951 The United Nations moved out of its temporary headquarters in Lake Success, N.Y., for its permanent home in Manhattan.
1953 The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour.
1980 9,677-foot Mt. St. Helens, quiet for 93 years, blew its top; the blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
1992 The season finale of Murphy Brown aired on CBS with Murphy Brown, played by Candice Bergen, giving birth to an illegitimate son.
1992 The Archivist of the United States issued a proclamation to officially announce that the 27th Amendment (Congressional salaries) to the U.S. Constitution has been ratified, despite more than 200 years for completion of the ratification process by the state legislatures.
1998 The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states filed an antitrust case against Microsoft.
2004 Randy Johnson, at age 40, became the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game; the lefty retired all 27 batters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0.

Chart Toppers

1946
All Through the Day - Perry Como
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
Shoo Fly Pie - The Stan Kenton Orchestra (vocal: June Christy)
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Wanted - Perry Como
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold

1962
Soldier Boy - The Shirelles
Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
She Cried - Jay & The Americans
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970
American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
Vehicle - The Ides of March
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
My Love - Sonny James

1978
If I Can’t Have You - Yvonne Elliman
The Closer I Get to You - Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway
With a Little Luck - Wings
It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right - Dolly Parton

1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Why Can’t This Be Love - Van Halen
What Have You Done for Me Lateley - Janet Jackson
Ain’t Misbehavin’ - Hank Williams, Jr.

Quote of the Day

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter, US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

Today in History - May 19th

Today’s Birthdays

1890 Ho Chi Mihn (Nguyen That Thanh), North Vietnamese leader, died Sep 2, 1969
1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), black nationalist and civil rights activist, assassinated Feb 21, 1965
1934 James Lehrer, journalist/news anchor (The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour)
1941 Nora Ephron, author (Heartburn, Sleepless in Seattle)
1944 Peter Mayhew, actor (Star Wars)
1945 Peter Townshend, rock guitarist (The Who)
1949 Dusty Hill, bassist/singer (ZZ Top)
1949 Archie Manning, NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints, Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings)
1951 Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman), punk singer (The Ramones) died Apr 15, 2001
1952 Grace Jones (Mendoza), singer/actress (Slave to the Rhythm)
1954 Phil Rudd, rock drummer (AC/DC)
1956 Martyn Ware, keyboardist (The Human League)
1972 Jenny Berggren, pop singer (Ace of Base)
1973 Dario Franchitti, Indy race car driver/Mr. Ashley Judd
1976 Kevin Garnett, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)

Today’s Deaths in History

1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded
1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, author (The Scarlet Letter) dies at 59
1935 T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) dies at 46
1946 Booth Tarkington, novelist (The Magnificent Ambersons) dies 76
1971 Ogden Nash, poet (light verse) dies at 68
1980 Ian Curtis, singer (Joy Division) commits suicide at 23
1994 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady of the United States, dies at 64
2006 Freddie Garrity, singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) dies at 69

Today in History

1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
1780 A never-explained complete darkness fell on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.
1857 William F. Channing and Moses G. Farmer patented the electric fire alarm system in Boston, MA.
1911 Caesar Cella became the first person to commit a crime and be convicted through the use of fingerprints.
1921 Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
1926 Thomas Edison spoke at a dinner for the National Electric Light Association in Atlantic City, NJ; when asked to speak into the microphone, he said, “I don’t know what to say. This is the first time I ever spoke into one of these things...Good night.”
1958 Bobby Darin’s single "Splish Splash" was released as the first eight-track master recording pressed to a plastic 45 RPM disc.
1962 A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy took place at Madison Square Garden; the highlight was Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of "Happy Birthday."
1964 The State Department disclosed that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1973 Secretariat won the second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown by capturing the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, MD.
1984 The Edmonton Oilers defeated the New York Islanders by a 5-2 score to win the Stanley Cup.
1992 In a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, Vice President Dan Quayle criticized television character Murphy Brown for ignoring the importance of fathers and bearing a child alone.
1992 Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded in Massapequa, N.Y., by her husband Joey's teenage lover, Amy Fisher.
2003 WorldCom Inc. agreed to pay investors $500 million to settle civil fraud charges.
2004 Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits wept and apologized after receiving a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge in the first court-martial stemming from abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.
2005 The final Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, debuted.
2006 A key U.N. panel joined European and United Nations leaders in urging the Bush administration to close its prison in Guantanamo Bay, saying the indefinite detention of terror suspects there violated the world's ban on torture.

Chart Toppers

1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde) - Red Foley

1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963
If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
Surfin’ USA - The Beatles
Foolish Little Girl - The Shirelles
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins

1971
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price

1979
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
In the Navy - Village People
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers

1987
With or Without You - U2
The Lady in Red - Chris DeBurgh
Heat of the Night - Bryan Adams
To Know Him is to Love Him - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris

Quote of the Day

Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

The new Ian Curtis/Joy Division biopic is getting strong positive reaction at Cannes.

I saw some articles on-line about that -- apparently the kid who plays Curtis is getting quite the buzz about his performance. I'd like to see that film, but there's a snowball's chance in a volcano that it'll ever come out here, so I'll just have to hope is finds a distributor and eventually comes to DVD.

Heh..

Happy Birthday, Mr. President...

Today in History - May 20th

Today’s Birthdays

1768 Dolley Madison (Payne), U.S. First Lady/wife of 4th U.S. President James Madison, died July 12, 1849
1908 (Jimmy) James (Maitland) Stewart, actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Rear Window, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Vertigo) died July 2, 1997
1926 Bob Sweikert, Indy car racer, killed in race at Salem, IN, June 17, 1956
1927 Bud (Henry) Grant, Pro Football Hall of Famer/coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings)
1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1942 Carlos Hathcock, Marine sniper (93 confirmed kills in Vietnam) died Feb 23, 1999
1944 Joe (John Robert) Cocker, singer/songwriter (With a Little Help from My Friends)
1946 Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre), singer/actress (Moonstruck)
1946 Bobby (Ray) Murcer, center fielder (NY Yankees, SF Giants, Chicago Cubs)
1949 Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian/actor (Strange Brew)
1952 Warren Cann, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1958 Jane Wiedlin, rock singer (The Go-Go's)
1959 Bronson Pinchot, actor (Perfect Strangers)
1961 Nick Heyward, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Haircut 100)
1962 TeddyC, board member
1963 Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash, guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1963 David Wells, pitcher (NY Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays)
1966 Mindy Cohn, actress (Facts of Life)
1966 Lisa Edelstein, actress (House)
1971 Tony Stewart, NASCAR race driver
1972 Busta Rhymes, rapper


Today’s Deaths in History

1506 Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, dies at 55
1989 Gilda Radner, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live) dies at 42
1995 Ingrid Bergman, wife of Ingmar Bergman, dies at 65

Today in History

1813 Napoleon Bonaparte led his troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia.
1830 H.D. Hyde of Reading, Pennsylvania patented the fountain pen.
1861 The capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, Ala., to Richmond, Va.
1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1891 The first public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope was held at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
1899 Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be arrested for speeding.
1902 Cuba gained independence from the United States.
1916 Norman Rockwell's first cover of The Saturday Evening Post was published.
1927 ‘Lucky’ Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York aboard the small airplane "Spirit of St. Louis," en route to Paris, France.
1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1939 Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.
1940 The first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz.
1949 The Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, was established.
1961 A white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order.
1978 Mavis Hutchinson, 53, made it to New York City, becoming the first woman to run across America.
1982 TV’s Barney Miller was seen for the last time in its original network run on ABC-TV.
1983 First publications were made of the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
1985 The Dow Jones industrial average broke the 1300 mark for the first time.
1989 The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1993 An estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of Cheers on NBC.
1996 The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
2002 East Timor becomes independent from Indonesian rule.
2003 The United States banned beef imports from Canada after a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Canada's cattle country.
2004 Iraqi police backed by American soldiers raided the home and offices of Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician once groomed as a possible replacement for Saddam Hussein.

Chart Toppers

1948
Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
The Dickey Bird Song - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Glenn Hughes)
Anytime - Eddy Arnold

1956
Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

1964
My Guy - Mary Wells
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Ronnie - The 4 Seasons
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens

1972
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
Grandma Harp - Merle Haggard

1980
Call Me - Blondie
Ride like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Lost in Love - Air Supply
Gone Too Far - Eddie Rabbitt

1988
Anything for You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
One More Try - George Michael
I’m Gonna Get You - Eddy Raven

Quote of the Day

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell, US essayist & novelist (1879 - 1958)

FIXED. Thanks Giac. I'm in hiding today...so you're only the 3rd person to acknowledge my BD to me!
I'll be back at the home PC soon with some tunes of appreciation.

Happy slightly belated birthday teddy!

Today in History - May 21st

Today’s Birthdays

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

Today’s Deaths in History

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

Today in History

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

Chart Toppers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quote of the Day

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

Today in History - May 22nd

Today’s Birthdays

1813 Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer (Die Valkyrie) died Feb 13, 1883
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, physician/writer (Sherlock Holmes) died July 7, 1930
1907 Sir Laurence (Kerr) Olivier, actor (Hamlet, The Jazz Singer) died July 11, 1989
1927 Michael Constantine, actor ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding")
1939 Paul Winfield, actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) died Mar 7, 2004
1943 Tommy (Thomas Edward) John, pitcher (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, LA Dodgers, NY Yankees, California Angels, Oakland Athletics)
1950 Bernie Taupin, lyricist (Elton John)
1959 Morrissey (Stephen Morrissey), singer (The Smiths)
1962 Jesse Valenzuela, rock musician (Gin Blossoms)
1966 Johnny Gill, R&B singer (New Edition)
1967 Brooke Smith, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan)
1970 Naomi Campbell, model
1972 Anna Belknap, actress (CSI: NY)
1972 Alison Eastwood, actress (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
1973 Julian Tavarez, pitcher (StL Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins)
1975 Janne Niinimaa, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, NY Islanders)
1978 Ginnifer Goodwin, actress (Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, Big Love)
1979 Maggie Q, actress (Live Free or Die Hard, Mission Impossible III)
1982 Apolo Anton Ohno, short track speed skater

Today’s Deaths in History

1885 Victor Hugo, French author (Les Miserables) dies at 83
1967 Langston Hughes, writer (The Ways of White Folks) dies at 65
1972 Margaret Rutherford, actress (The Importance of Being Earnest) dies at 80
1990 Rocky Graziano, boxing champion, dies at 78
2004 Richard Biggs, actor (Babylon 5) dies at 44
2005 Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor/singer (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Tony the Tiger) dies at 91

Today in History

1761 The first life insurance policy issued in the United States was issued.
1807 A grand jury indicted former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1819 The SS Savannah left port at Savannah, Georgia, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, arriving at Liverpool, England on June 20.
1841 Henry Kennedy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania received a patent for the first reclining chair.
1849 Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.
1868 The Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds.
1900 A. DeVilbiss, Jr. of Toledo, OH patented his pendulum-type computing scale.
1900 Edwin S. Votey of Detroit, MI patented his pianola, a pneumatic piano player.
1906 The Wright brothers were granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine."
1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a "Pact of Steel" committing Germany and Italy to a military alliance.
1947 The Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
1955 Jack Benny signed off his last live network radio broadcast after a run of 23 years.
1965 The Beatles got their eighth consecutive number one hit as "Ticket to Ride" rode to the top of the singles list.
1966 Bruce Springsteen recorded his very first song, along with his band, The Castilles, titled, "That’s What You Get."
1967 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the Public Broadcasting System’s longest-running children’s program, debuted.
1970 The Guess Who earned a gold record for both the album and single, American Woman.
1972 President Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit Moscow.
1990 The Windows 3.0 operating system was released by Microsoft.
1992 Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show for the last time.
2002 The remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.
2002 A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
2003 The U.N. Security Council gave the U.S. and Britain a mandate to rule Iraq, ending 13 years of economic sanctions.
2003 Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since 1945 to tee off against the men on the pro tour, playing in the first round of the Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.
2004 The town of Hallam, Nebraska, was wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide.

Chart Toppers

1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake - Eileen Barton
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley

1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Just Married - Marty Robbins

1966
Monday Monday - The Mamas & The Papas
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves

1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
Country Bumpkin - Cal Smith

1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Just to Satisfy You - Waylon & Willie

1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Walkin’ Away - Clint Black

Quote of the Day

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)

Unhappy birthday Morrissey!

I saw him in concert out here in Hawaii sometime around 1990-1991 -- and he actually smiled during ons of his songs! We were stunned, to say the least.....

Today in History - May 23rd

Today’s Birthdays

1824 Ambrose Burnside, hirsute Civil War general (sideburns are named for him) died Sept 13, 1881
1846 Arabella Mansfield (Belle Aurelia Babb), first woman admitted to legal profession in U.S., died Aug 2, 1911
1883 Douglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Ulman), actor (The Three Musketeers) died Dec 12, 1939
1910 Scatman (Benjamin Sherman) Crothers, entertainer/actor (The Shining, Twilight Zone: The Movie) died Nov 22, 1986
1910 Artie Shaw (Arthur Arschawsky), clarinetist/bandleader (Begin The Beguine) died Dec 30, 2004
1912 John Payne, actor (Miracle on 34th Street) died Dec 6, 1989
1928 Rosemary Clooney, singer (Come on-a My House) died June 29, 2002
1933 Joan Collins, actress (Dynasty)
1934 Dr. Robert Moog, electronics inventor (Moog synthesizer) died Aug 21, 2005
1954 Marvelous Marvin Hagler, International Boxing Hall of Famer
1956 Buck Showalter, baseball manager (NY Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks. Texas Rangers)
1957 Baltimora, singer (Tarzan Boy) died Mar 29, 1995 of AIDS
1958 Drew Carey, comedian/actor/producer/writer (The Drew Carey Show)
1962 Karen "Duff" Duffy, MTV V-J/actress (Dumb & Dumber)
1963 Gregg "Opie" Hughes, radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1963 Wally Dallenbach, former NASCAR driver
1967 Phil Selway, rock drummer (Radiohead)
1970 Matt Flynn, rock musician (Maroon 5)
1974 Jewel Kilcher, pop/folk singer
1974 Kimber West, playmate (February 1997)
1976 Kelly Monaco, playmate/actress/TV personality (April 1997; Dancing with the Stars)
1978 Scott Raynor, rock drummer (original Blink-182 drummer)

Today’s Deaths in History

1701 Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at 55
1868 Kit Carson, trapper/scout/Indian agent, dies at 58
1906 Henrik Ibsen, playwright (Peer Gynt) dies at 78
1934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw, is gunned down at 25
1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw, is gunned down at 23
1945 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS commander, commits suicide at 44
1999 Owen Hart, wrestler, dies in a stunt gone bad at 34
2002 Sam Snead, golf champion, dies at 89

Today in History

1430 Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1701 After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London.
1788 South Carolina, the colony originally named in honor of Charles I of England, became one of the United States.
1827 The first nursery school in the United States was established in New York City.
1873 The Canadian Parliament established the North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1879 Iowa State College, located in Ames, IA, established the first veterinary school in the U.S.
1900 Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first African-American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the assault on the Battery Wagner.
1929 The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, was released.
1934 Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sank off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 26 sailors.
1944 Chicago University announced plans to withdraw from the Big 10 Conference of the NCAA and all other athletic competition.
1945 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, committed suicide while in Allied custody.
1949 Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin lifted the Berlin Blockade.
1960 Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announced that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
1962 The National Basketball Association agreed to plans to transfer the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, CA.
1962 Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees set a major-league baseball record by hitting two home runs in one inning.
1969 The Who released Tommy, the first rock opera.
1985 Engineer Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1999 WWE superstar Owen Hart fell to his death during Over the Edge at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri after a botched entrance stunt.
2003 Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts - the third of his presidency.
2006 ABC appointed Charles Gibson to replace Elizabeth Vargas as anchor of its World News Tonight evening newscast.

Chart Toppers

1951
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Kentucky Waltz - Eddy Arnold

1959
The Happy Organ - Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez
A Teenager in Love - Dion & The Belmonts
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Respect - Aretha Franklin
I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens

1975
Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter

1983
Let’s Dance - David Bowie
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Common Man - John Conlee

1991
I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) - Hi-Five
Touch Me (All Night Long) - Cathy Dennis
Here We Go - C + C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
If I Know Me - George Strait

Quote of the Day

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, philosopher, & scientist (582 BC - 507 BC)

Today in History - May 24th

Today’s Birthdays

1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist/inventor (mercury thermometer) died Sep 16, 1736
1816 Emanuel Leutze, artist (Washington Crossing the Delaware) died July 18, 1868
1938 Tommy Chong, comedian (Cheech and Chong)
1941 Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman), singer/songwriter (Like a Rolling Stone)
1942 Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1943 Gary Burghoff, actor (M*A*S*H)
1944 Patti LaBelle (Patricia Louise Holte), singer (Lady Marmalade)
1945 Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (Priscilla Ann Wagner), Elvis' widow/actress (Naked Gun series)
1949 Jim Broadbent, actor (Hot Fuzz)
1953 Alfred Molina, actor (Spiderman 2)
1956 Larry Blackmon, R&B musician (Cameo)
1960 Kristen Scott Thomas, actress (The English Patient)
1962 Gene Anthony Ray, actor/dancer (Fame) died Nov 14, 2003
1964 Pat Verbeek, NHL right wing (NJ Devils, Hartford Whalers, NY Rangers, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings)
1965 John C. Reilly, actor (Talladega Nights)
1967 Heavy D, rapper/actor (Now That We Found Love)
1969 Rich Robinson, guitarist (The Black Crowes)
1971 Kris Draper, NHL center (Detroit Red Wings)
1972 Layne Beachley, professional surfer/actress (Blue Crush)
1973 Elisa Bridges, playmate (December 1994) died Feb 7, 2002 of an accidental drug overdose
1973 Bartolo Colón, pitcher (Los Angeles Angels)
1979 Tracy McGrady, guard/forward (Orlando Magic)

Today’s Deaths in History

1959 John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, dies at 71
1963 Elmore James, "King of the Slide Guitar," blues musician, dies at 45
1974 Duke Ellington, composer/jazz musician, dies at 75
1991 Gene Clark, singer/songwriter (The Byrds) dies at 46
1997 Edward Mulhare, actor (Knight Rider) dies at 74
2006 Desmond Dekker, ska/reggae singer/songwriter, dies at 64

Today in History

1830 "Mary Had a Little Lamb," by Sarah Hale, was published.
1844 Samuel F.B. Morse tapped out the message, “What hath God wrought,” in Morse Code, inaugurating America’s telegraph industry.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, officially opened.
1899 W. T. McCullough of Boston, MA opened the first public garage.
1911 The New York Public Library opened.
1929 The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the Marx Brothers, opens.
1935 The first major-league baseball game to be played under the lights saw the Cincinnati Reds defeat Philadelphia 2-1 at Crosley Field.
1940 Igor Sikorsky performed the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1943 Josef Mengele became chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp.
1950 ‘Sweetwater’ (Nat) Clifton’s contract was purchased by the New York Knicks from the Harlem Globetrotters, making him the first black player in the NBA.
1954 The first traveling sidewalk in a railroad station went into service in Jersey City, NJ.
1958 United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1962 Astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1980 Bobby Nystrom scored the game winning overtime goal to lift the New York Islanders to their first of four consecutive Stanley Cups.
1981 Bobby Unser won the Indianapolis 500, but race stewards took the win away from him the next day and awarded it to Mario Andretti.
1983 The Brooklyn Bridge celebrated its 100th birthday with a huge fireworks display.
1984 Ralph Sampson, one of the twin towers of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, became the first unanimous choice for Rookie of the Year since Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabar) of the Milwaukee Bucks in 1970.
1986 Montreal skated past Calgary 4-3 to capture its 23rd National Hockey League Stanley Cup championship (Stanley Cup), the most by any sports franchise.
1993 Microsoft unveiled Windows NT.
1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1995 "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call girl ring that catered to the rich and famous.
2000 Anthony Landini sold his pair of ruby slippers, one of several worn by Dorothy (Judy Garland) in the movie, "The Wizard of Oz," at Christie's Auction House for $600,000.
2000 Israeli troops pulled out of southern Lebanon, ending 18 years of occupation.
2001 The Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandoned the Republican Party and declared himself an independent.
2006 Taylor Hicks was named the new American Idol over runner-up Katharine McPhee.

Chart Toppers

1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson

1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Good Timin’ - Jimmy Jones
Cradle of Love - Johnny Preston
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
A Beautiful Morning - The Rascals
I Wanna Live - Glen Campbell

1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
After All the Good is Gone - Conway Twitty

1984
Hello - Lionel Richie
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before - Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson

Quote of the Day

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Today in History - May 25th

Today’s Birthdays

1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer (Essays) died Apr 27, 1882
1878 Bill ‘Bojangles’ (Luther) Robinson, dancer/actor (Shirley Temple films, Stormy Weather) died Nov 25, 1949
1889 Igor Sikorsky, engineer (first successful helicopter) died Oct 26, 1972
1898 Bennett Cerf, publisher/TV personality (What's My Line) died Aug 27, 1971
1898 Gene (James Joseph) Tunney, Heavyweight Boxing Champion, died July 11, 1978
1926 Claude Akins, actor (The Caine Mutiny) died Jan 27, 1994
1926 Miles (Dewey) Davis III, jazz trumpet/flugelhorn, died Sep 28, 1991
1927 Robert Ludlum, novelist (Bourne series) died Mar 12, 2001
1939 Sir Ian McKellen, actor (X-Men series, Lord of the Rings series)
1944 Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz), muppeteer/film director (Miss Piggy)
1948 Klaus Meine, rock singer (Scorpions)
1958 Paul Weller, guitarist/singer (The Jam, The Style Council)
1963 Mike Myers, actor/comedian (Wayne's World, Shrek)
1969 Anne Heche, actress (Wag the Dog)
1969 Glen Drover, rock guitarist (Megadeth)
1970 Jamie Kennedy, actor (Scream series)
1972 Octavia Spencer, actress (Ugly Betty)
1973 Molly Sims, supermodel/actress (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Las Vegas)
1975 Lauryn Hill, singer (Fugees)
1976 Cillian Murphy, actor (28 Days Later)
1976 Ethan Suplee, actor (My Name Is Earl)
1978 Shannon Stewart, playmate (June 2000)
1978 Todd Whitener, rock musician (Tantric)
1978 Brian Urlacher, linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1984 Shawne Merriman, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)

Today’s Deaths in History

1934 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) dies at 59
1965 Sonny Boy Williamson, singer/songwriter/blues musician, dies at 65
1974 Donald Crisp, actor (How Green Was My valley) dies at 94
1990 Vic Tayback, actor (Alice) dies at 60
1996 Bradley Nowell, singer/guitarist (Sublime) dies at 28 of a heroin overdose
2005 Ismail Merchant, film producer (Merchant/Ivory films) dies at 68
2005 Dominic Troiano, rock musician/songwriter (James Gang, Guess Who) dies at 59

Today in History

1787 Delegates convened a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to write a new Constitution for the United States with George Washington presiding.
1844 Stuart Perry of New York City patented the gasoline engine.
1844 The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
1895 Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde was convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1925 John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1927 The Ford Motor Company announced that its popular automobile model, the Model T, would be replaced by the more modern Model A.
1927 The Movietone News was shown for the first time at the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City.
1935 Babe Ruth, then of the Boston Braves, hit home runs 713 and 714 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, the last of his career.
1951 Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays made his major league debut with the New York Giants.
1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
1965 Cassius Clay knocked out challenger Sonny Liston in one minute and 56 seconds of the first round.
1977 George Lucas' film Star Wars was released.
1979 An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, killing all 271 people on board and two on the ground.
1981 Twenty-five year old Dan Goodwin, with nothing but three suction cups and a Spiderman cartoon costume, scaled the Sears Tower in Chicago, Il.
1983 Return of the Jedi topped all previous opening day box office records with a gross of $6,219,629.
1985 Bangladesh was hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which killed approximately 10,000 people.
1985 CBS radio began network baseball coverage for the first time in 25 years as Brent Musburger called the play-by-play for the Los Angeles Dodgers-New York Mets game.
1985 Wham!, featuring George Michael, became the first group since the Bee Gees in 1979 to place three consecutive singles in the number one spot on the music charts ("Everything She Wants," "Careless Whisper," and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go").
1986 An estimated seven million people participated in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless.
1997 Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, marking 41 years, 10 months in office (Thurmond's record was surpassed in 2006 by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who won re-election to a ninth six-year term in November).
1998 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire made baseball history, hitting his 25th home run before June 1.
1999 The United States House of Representatives released the Cox Report which detailed the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer of Boulder, Colorado became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2004 The Boston Roman Catholic archdiocese announced it would close 65 of 357 parishes because of financial problems caused in part by the clergy sex abuse scandal.
2006 Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company's downfall (Lay died in July from heart disease and his convictions were vacated; Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison).

Chart Toppers

1945
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Candy - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Mexican Joe - Jim Reeves

1961
Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe
Daddy’s Home - Shep & The Limelites
Travelin’ Man - Ricky Nelson
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins’ Singers
My Life (Throw It Away if I Want To) - Bill Anderson

1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Couldn’t Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Radio Heart - Charly McClain

Quote of the Day

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov, US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

Today in History - May 26th

Today’s Birthdays

1886 Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), singer/actor (The Jazz Singer) died Oct 23, 1950
1907 John ‘Duke’ Wayne (Marion Morrison), actor (True Grit, The Cowboys, The Green Berets, The Shootist) died June 11, 1979
1912 Jay Silverheels, American actor (Tonto) died March 5, 1980
1913 Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, The Horror of Dracula) died Aug 11, 1994
1920 Peggy Lee (Norma Delores Egstrom), singer (Fever) died Jan 21, 2002
1923 James Arness (Aurness), actor (Gunsmoke)
1926 Miles Davis, Jazz trumpeter/band leader, died Sept 28, 1991
1939 Brent Musburger, sportscaster (ABC Sports, CBS Sports)
1940 Levon Helm, drummer/singer (The Band)
1944 Verden Allen, keyboards (Mott the Hoople)
1945 Garry Peterson, drums (The Guess Who)
1946 Mick Ronson, rock guitarist/composer (David Bowie) died Apr 29, 1993
1948 Stevie (Stephanie) Nicks, singer/songwriter (Fleetwood Mac; Edge of Seventeen)
1949 Philip Michael Thomas, actor (Miami Vice)
1949 Pam Grier, actress (Foxy Brown)
1949 Hank Williams Jr., singer (Are You Ready For Some Football?)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut (first American woman in space)
1959 Wayne Hussey, guitarist/singer (The Mission, Sisters of Mercy)
1962 Genie Francis, actress (General Hospital)
1962 Bobcat Goldthwait, comic/actor (Police Academy series)
1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer/songwriter (Are You Gonna Go My Way?)
1966 Helena Bonham Carter, actress (Planet of the Apes)
1971 Matt Stone, television producer/writer (South Park)

Today’s Deaths in History

1907 Ida McKinley, First Lady, dies at 59
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, singer (The Brakeman’s Blues) dies at 35
1943 Edsel Ford, automobile executive/son of Henry Ford, dies at 49
1968 Little Willie John, singer/songwriter (All Around the World) dies at 30
1977 William Powell, R&B singer (The O'Jays) dies at 35
1995 Friz Freleng, animator (Looney Tunes) dies at 89
2003 Kathleen Winsor, writer (Forever Amber) dies at 83
2005 Eddie Albert, actor (Green Acres) dies at 99

Today in History

1521, Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs.
1836 The United States House of Representatives adopted what has been called the Gag Rule, made to restrict needless, overly long discussion about legislation in Congress.
1864 Montana was organized as a United States territory.
1865 Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, became the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1868 The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1896 Charles Dow published the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1956 The first trailer bank opened for business in Locust Grove, Long Island, NY.
1959 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix threw a no-hitter for 12 innings, but lost to the Milwaukee Braves 1-0 in the 13th inning.
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their second Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.
1977 The man called The Human Fly, George Willig, scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by fixing himself up to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up.
1985 A.J. Foyt drove in his 30th Indianapolis 500.
1986 Sylvester Stallone set a sales record for a non-sequel film with the release of Cobra (Ticket sales for the opening day premiere were $12.4 million).
1994 Pop star Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic (they were divorced 19 months later).
1998 The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island - historic gateway for millions of immigrants - is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
2002 Barges being pushed by a towboat crashed into the piers of the Interstate 40 bridge in Webbers Falls, Okla., causing part of the structure to fall into the Arkansas River, killing 14 people.
2002 The Mars Odyssey found signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2004 The New York Times published an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004 Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing (he later received 161 consecutive life sentences).

Chart Toppers

1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
Laughing on the Outside - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Billy Williams)
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Wanted - Perry Como
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Man Upstairs - Kay Starr
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold

1962
Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Old Rivers - Walter Brennan
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970
American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
My Love - Sonny James

1978
With a Little Luck - Wings
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed (Anytime) - Johnny Duncan

1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
Tomb of the Unknown Love - Kenny Rogers

Quote of the Day

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Today in History - May 27th

Today’s Birthdays

1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, capitalist (established ferry service between Manhattan & Staten Islands) died Jan 4, 1877
1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, women’s rights advocate/newspaper publisher, died Dec 30, 1894
1837 Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok, U.S. Marshall/frontiersman/army scout/gambler/legendary marksman, shot from behind and killed Aug 2, 1876 while playing poker holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights (the ‘dead man’s hand’)
1878 Isadora Duncan, dancer/choreographer, killed in freak accident Sep 15, 1927
1894 Dashiell Hammett, author (The Maltese Falcon) died Jan 10, 1961
1911 Hubert Humphrey, 38th vice president of the U.S., died Jan 13, 1978
1911 Vincent (Leonard) Price, actor (Edward Scissorhands) died Oct 25, 1993
1912 ‘Slammin’ Sammy Snead (Samuel Jackson Snead), golf champion, died May 23, 2002
1915 Herman Wouk, writer (The Winds of War)
1922 Christopher (Frank Carandini) Lee, actor (Dracula, Lords of the Rings series)
1923 Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
1935 Ramsey Lewis, jazz/fusion musician (Ramsey Lewis Trio)
1936 Lou Gossett Jr., actor (An Officer and a Gentleman)
1955 Richard Schiff, actor (The West Wing)
1957 Siouxsie Sioux (Janet Susan Ballion), singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1958 Neil Finn, singer/songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1958 Linnea Quigley, actress (Return of the Living Dead)
1961 Peri Gilpin, actress (Frazier)
1965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff’rent Strokes)
1970 Joseph Fiennes, actor (Shakespeare in Love)
1971 Paul Bettany, actor (A Beautiful Mind, A Knight's Tale)
1971 Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, singer/rapper (TLC) died Apr 25, 2002
1971 Brian Desveaux, rock singer, musician (Nine Days)
1975 André 3000 (Andre Benjamin) musician/actor (OutKast; Be Cool)

Today’s Deaths in History

1564 John Calvin, French Protestant theologian, dies at 54
1831 Jedediah Smith, explorer (Rocky Mountains) dies at 32
1840 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 57
1949 Robert Ripley, cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) dies at 58
2000 Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, NHL right Wing (Montreal Candiens) dies at 78
2006 Paul Gleason, actor (Breakfast Club) dies at 67
2006 Alex Toth, cartoonist (Space Ghost, Johnny Quest) dies at 76

Today in History

1647 Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in America when she was hanged in Hartford, Conn.
1926 The people of Hannibal, MO erected the first statue of literary characters, as the bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were hoisted above a red granite base.
1936 The maiden voyage of the ship RMS Queen Mary began.
1937 Ceremonies marking the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge were held in San Francisco, CA.
1939 DC Comics published its second superhero in Detective Comics #27 (Batman).
1941 The German battleship Bismarck was sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2,300 men.
1950 Frank Sinatra made his TV debut as he appeared on NBC’s [/i]Star-Spangled Review[/i] with show biz legend Bob Hope.
1957 Senator Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island became the oldest person to serve in the U.S. Congress (89 years, 7 months and 26 days).
1957 "That’ll be the Day," by The Crickets and featuring Buddy Holly, was released by Brunswick Records.
1963 Folk singer Bob Dylan released The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
1967 Australians vote in favour of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians, and to count them in the national census.
1968 George Halas retired as head coach of the Chicago Bears.
1985 The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 148-114 in the first game of the NBA championship series, setting a new record for total points by a team.
1986 Mel Fisher found a jar containing 2,300 emeralds (recovered from the Spanish ship Atocha, which sank in the 17th century).
1994 Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after spending two decades in exile.
1995 Actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1997 The Supreme Court ruled Paula Jones could pursue her sex harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he was in office.
1998 Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the Oklahoma City bombing terrorist plot.
1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicted Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2006 An earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time in Indonesia, devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta, and killing more than 6,600 people.
2006 Actress Angelina Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Namibia, where she and actor Brad Pitt had traveled for privacy.

Chart Toppers

1947
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Heartaches - The Ted Weems Orchestra (whistler: Elmo Tanner)
What is Life Without Love - Eddy Arnold

1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963
If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
Surfin’ USA - The Beach Boys
Foolish Little Girl - The Shirelles
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins

1971
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price

1979
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers

1987
With or Without You - U2
The Lady in Red - Chris DeBurgh
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You - The O’Kanes
Quote of the Day

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce, US author & satirist (1842 - 1914)

Today in History - May 28th

Happy Memorial Day

Today's Birthdays

1888 Jim Thorpe, Olympic gold medalist (decathlon, pentathlon) died Mar 28, 1953
1900 Clarence ‘Taffy’ Abel, Hockey Hall of Famer (NY Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks) died Aug 1, 1964
1908 Ian Fleming, author (James Bond series) died Aug 12, 1964
1938 Jerry West, Basketball Hall of Famer (Los Angeles Lakers)
1944 Rudolph Giuliani, former NYC mayor/presidential candidate
1944 Gladys Knight, R&B singer (Midnight Train to Georgia)
1945 John Fogerty, rock musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1949 Wendy O. Williams, punk singer (The Plasmatics) committed suicide Apr 6, 1998
1955 Mark Howe, WHA defenseman/son of Gordie Howe (Houston Aeros)
1955 John McGeoch, guitaristn (Siouxsie and the Banshees) died Mar 4, 2004
1956 Susie Owens, playmate (March 1988)
1962 Brandon Cruz, actor (The Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1962 Roland Gift, rock singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
1964 Christa Miller, actress (Scrubs)
1965 Chris Ballew, rock guitarist (Presidents of the USA)
1968 Kylie Minogue, pop singer
1969 Justin Kirk, actor (Weeds)
1970 Morgan Fox, playmate (December 1990)
1977 Elisabeth Hasselbeck, TV host (The View)
1979 Jesse Bradford, actor (Bring It On)

Today's Deaths in History

1843 Noah Webster, author/politician/lexicographer, dies at 84
1937 Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (individual psychology) dies at 67
1971 Audie Murphy, actor/war hero (To Hell and Back) dies at 46
1993 Billy Conn, light-heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 75
1998 Phil Hartman, actor/comedian )Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio) is murderd by his wife at 49
1998 Brynn Hartman, wife of Phil Hartman, commits suicide at 40 after shooting and killing her husband
2002 James Grant Benton, Hawaiian comic/actor (Booga-Booga) dies at 53

Today in History

1533 England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1863 The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, left Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
1892 The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
1928 Walter P. Chrysler merged his Chrysler Corporation with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
1929 Warner Brothers debuted the first all-color talking picture, On With the Show.
1930 The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opened.
1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.
1953 The first 3-D (three-dimensional) cartoon premiered at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood, California, a Walt Disney creation/RKO picture, was titled Melody.
1957 The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
1957 The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was established.
1961 Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" was published in several internationally read newspapers (this will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International).
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.
1984 President Ronald Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War (the remains were later identified as those of Air Force Lt. Michael J. Blassie).
1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
1987 A robot probe found the wreckage of the ironclad USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1996 President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
1998 Comic actor Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display.
2002 NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2003 President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts.
2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chose Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.

Chart Toppers

1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold

1956
Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
The Happy Whistler - Don Robertson
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

1964
My Guy - Mary Wells
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens

1972
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
Look What You Done for Me - Al Green
(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date - Conway Twitty

1980
Call Me - Blondie
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
Starting Over Again - Dolly Parton

1988
One More Try - George Michael
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea

Quote of the Day

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The Gospel According to John, Chapter 15, Verse 13 (King James Version)

Today in History - May 29th

Today's Birthdays

1736 Patrick Henry, patriot (“give me liberty, or give me death!”) died June 6, 1799
1903 Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope), comedian/entertainer/actor, died July 27, 2003
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, assassinated Nov 22, 1963
1938 Francis ‘Fay’ Vincent Jr., baseball commissioner
1939 Al Unser Sr., Indy car racer
1945 Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1947 Anthony Geary, actor (General Hospital)
1950 Rebbie (Maureen Reilette) Jackson, singer/Michael's oldest sister
1953 Danny Elfman, singer/songwriter/film score composer (Oingo Boingo)
1955 Michael Porcaro, rock musician (Toto)
1955 John Hinckley, Jr., shot President Reagan
1956 Larry Blackmon, drummer/singer (Cameo)
1956 LaToya (Yvonne) Jackson, singer/Michael's sister
1957 Ted Levine, actor (Silence of the Lambs)
1958 Annette Bening, actress (America Beauty, The American President)
1959 Rupert Everett, actor (My Best Friend's Wedding, Shrek series)
1961 Melissa Etheridge, singer/songwriter (Come to My Window)
1963 Lisa Whelchel, actress (The Facts of Life)
1967 Noel Gallagher, rock guitarist (Oasis)
1967 Mike Keane, NHL right Wing (NY Rangers)
1969 Chan Kinchla, rock musician (Blues Traveler)
1973 Tiffany Sloan, playmate (October 1992)
1974 Aaron McGruder, comic strip creator (The Boondocks)
1976 David Buckner, drummer (Papa Roach)
1978 Pelle Almqvist, rock singer (The Hives)
1982 Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1984 Carmelo Anthony, NBA player (Denver Nuggets)

Today's Deaths in History

1866 Winfield Scott, American Army general (Grand old Man of the Army, served 50 years) dies at 79
1942 John Barrymore, actor (grandfather of Drew Barrymore) dies at 60
1979 Mary Pickford, actress/studio founder (Coquette) dies at 86
1997 Jeff Buckley, singer/guitarist, drowns at 30
1998 Barry Goldwater, former Arizona Senator/Presidential candidate, dies at 89
2004 Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor, dies at 92

Today in History

1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, saying, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1790 Rhode Island, the Ocean State, and the smallest of the United States, joined the first 12 states as number 13.
1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state to enter the United States of America.
1886 Chemist John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1916 The U.S. President’s flag was adopted by executive order.
1932 World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1942 The biggest selling record of all time, the Irving Berlin classic "White Christmas," was recorded by Bing Crosby for Decca Records.
1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, became the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1962 Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major-league baseball (Chicago Cubs).
1973 Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
1985 Soccer fans rioted at the European Cup Final at Heysel Stadium between Liverpool and Juventus of Turin, killing 39 and injuring 400 or more.
1988 President Ronald Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1990 Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
1999 Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
2001 The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 America dedicated a memorial to its World War II veterans on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
2005 French voters soundly rejected the European Union's proposed constitution.

Chart Toppers

1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams

1957
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves

1973
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett

1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash

1989
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
After All This Time - Rodney Crowell

Quote of the Day
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers, English mystery author (1893 - 1957)

Today in History - May 30th

Today's Birthdays

1672 Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov), Russian Tsar, died died Jan 28, 1725
1896 Howard Hawks, producer/director (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) died Dec 26, 1977
1908 Mel Blanc, "the man of a thousand voices," cartoon voice actor (Warner Bros), died July 10, 1989
1909 Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader, died June 13, 1986
1926 Christine Jorgensen, transsexual/activist, died May 3, 1989
1927 Clint Walker, actor (Cheyenne)
1936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1940 Gilles Villemure, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1943 Gayle Sayers, Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears)
1945 Meredith MacRae, actress (Petticoat Junction) died July 14, 2000
1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, actor (Groundhog Day, Sneakers)
1955 (Nicky) Topper Headon, drummer (The Clash)
1958 Marie Fredriksson, singer (Roxette)
1958 Ted McGinley, actor (Revenge of the Nerds series, Married...with Children)
1962 Kevin Eastman, comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
1963 Lynda Wiesmeier, playmate (July 1982)
1964 Wynonna Judd (Christina Claire Ciminella), country singer
1964 Tom Morello, rock guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1966 Stephen Malkmus, rock guitarist (Pavement)
1968 Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted terrorist (September 11, 2001 attacks)
1972 Trey Parker, actor/producer (South Park)
1972 Manny Ramirez, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)

Today's Deaths in History

1431 Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint, is burned at the stake at 19
1593 Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, dies at 29
1778 Voltaire, French philosopher and author, dies at 83
1912 Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, dies at 45
1939 Floyd Roberts, Indy racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 at 35
1953 Dooley Wilson, musician/actor (Casablanca, Stormy Weather) dies at 57
1955 Bill Vukovich, Indy racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 at 36
1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago) dies at 70
1964 Eddie Sachs, Indy racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 at 24
1964 Dave MacDonald, Indy racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 at 27
1967 Claude Rains, English actor (Casablanca) dies at 77
1975 Steve Prefontaine, runner, dies at 24
1980 Carl Radle, bass guitarist (Derek & the Dominos) dies at 37
1986 Perry Ellis, fashion designer, dies at 46 of AIDS
1993 Sun Ra, jazz/fusion musician, dies at 79
2000 Tex Beneke, bandleader/singer/saxophone player (Glenn Miller Orchestra) dies at 86

Today in History

1431 Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
1539 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.
1783 The first daily paper in the U.S., the Pennsylvania Evening Post, was first published by Benjamin Towne in Philadelphia, PA.
1848 W.G. Young of Baltimore, MD patented the ice-cream freezer.
1854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1868 Decoration day (now Memorial Day) was observed for the first time in the United States, at the request of General John A. Logan, the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic.
1879 William Vanderbilt renamed Gilmore’s Garden to its current name: Madison Square Garden.
1883 A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing triggered a stampede that led to the trampling deaths of 12 people.
1896 The first documented auto accident occurred in New York City, when a Duryea Motor Wagon, driven by Henry Wells from Springfield, MA collided with a bicycle ridden by Evylyn Thomas of NYC.
1911 The first long-distance auto race in Indianapolis was won by Ray Harroun.
1922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1933 Sally Rand made a name for herself when she introduced her exotic and erotic fan dance to audiences at Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition.
1935 Babe Ruth playsed in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves.
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean War were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1967 Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped 16 automobiles in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.
1975 Alice Cooper received a gold record for the album Welcome to My Nightmare.
1982 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
1985 ABC-TV announced that every game of the World Series would be played under the lights for the biggest baseball audience possible.
1989 Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy."
1996 Britain's Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
1997 Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2002 A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2005 American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown.
2006 A jury in Rockville, Md., convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.
2006 The FBI said it had found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm.

Chart Toppers

1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
It Isn’t Fair - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley

1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Just Married - Marty Robbins

1966
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves

1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
The Show Must Go On - Three Dog Night
No Charge - Melba Montgomery

1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Just to Satisfy You - Waylon & Willie

1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Walkin’ Away - Clint Black

Quote of the Day

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith, US administrator & economist (1908 - 2006)

Today in History - May 31st

Today's Birthdays

1819 Walt Whitman, poet (Leaves of Grass) died Mar 26, 1892
1898 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman/author (The Power of Positive Thinking) died Dec 24, 1993
1908 Don Ameche (Dominic Felix Amici), actor (Cocoon, Trading Places) died Dec 6, 1993
1922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Trading Places) died Oct 6, 1992
1923 Prince Rainer III, head of state (Monaco) died Apr 6, 2005
1930 Clint Eastwood (Jr.), actor/director/producer (Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima)
1938 Peter Yarrow, singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1941 Johnny Paycheck (Donald Eugene Lytle), country singer (Take This Job and Shove It) died Feb 18, 2003
1943 Sharon Gless, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Queer as Folk)
1943 Joe ‘Broadway Joe’ Namath, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (NY Jets)
1948 John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) died Sep 25, 1980
1949 Tom Berenger, (Thomas Michael Moore), actor (Platoon, Eddie & the Cruisers, Major League)
1957 Jim Craig, 1980 USA Olympic hockey goaltender
1960 Chris Elliott, comic/actor (Groundhog Day)
1961 Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future series)
1962 Corey Hart, rock singer (Sunglasses at Night)
1964 Darryl McDaniels, rapper (Run-D.M.C.)
1965 Brooke Shields, model/actress (The Blue Lagoon)
1976 Colin Farrell, Irish actor (Phone Booth, Dare Devil)
1977 Scott Klopfenstein, trumpeter/guitarist/singer (Reel Big Fish)
1980 Andy Hurley, drummer (Fall Out Boy)

Today's Deaths in History

1809 Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Father of the Symphony) dies at 77
1837 Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (Commedia dell'arte) dies at 48
1962 Adolph Eichmann, Nazi SS, is hanged at 56
1970 Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Detroit Red Wings, NY Rangers) dies at 40
1983 Jack Dempsey, boxing champion, dies at 87
1996 Timothy Leary, professor/LSD advocate, dies at 75
2000 Tito Puente, Latin jazz musician, dies at 77
2000 Johnnie Taylor, singer (Who's Making Love?) dies at 62
2001 Arlene Francis, TV personality (What's My Line) dies at 93
2004 Robert Quine, guitarist (Lou reed, Brian Eno) dies at 61
2006 Lula Mae Hardaway, songwriter/mother of singer Stevie Wonder, dies at 76

Today in History

1678 Lady Godiva began her ride through Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband on his tenants.
1790 The United States enacted its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1870 Edward J. de Smedt of New York City patented asphalt.
1880 The League of American Wheelmen was formed in Newport, RI, the first national bicycle society to be organized in the United States.
1911 The R.M.S. Titanic was launched.
1913 The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1927 The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1937 The first quadruplets to complete college courses of study were awarded Bachelor of Arts degrees (Mary, Mona, Roberta and Leota Keys, Baylor University)
1941 The very first issue of Parade: The Weekly Picture Newspaper went on sale.
1964 The longest major-league baseball doubleheader (to the time) ended after 19 hours, 16 minutes (New York Mets vs. San Francisco Giants).
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace a Chance," the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed.
1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurred on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1976 The Who put out a total of 76,000 watts of power at 120 decibels, playing the loudest concert ever, making it into The Guinness Book of World Records.
1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of work.
1990 A summer replacement TV show named Seinfeld made its debut.
1994 The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
2003 1996 Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph was captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
2004 A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada led to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
2005 W. Mark Felt admitted in Vanity Fair that he was the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
2006 NBC's Today show threw a going-away party for 15-year host Katie Couric, who left to become anchor of The CBS Evening News.

Chart Toppers

1951
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959
Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Respect - Aretha Franklin
I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens

1975
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
How Long - Ace
Sister Golden Hair - America
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver

1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men At Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
You Take Me for Granted - Merle Haggard

1991
I Don’t Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey
More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
In a Different Light - Doug Stone

Quote of the Day

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner, US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)

Today in History - June 1st

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Today's Birthdays

1265 Dante Alighieri, poet (Inferno) died Sept 14, 1321
1801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, Aug 28, 1877
1890 Frank Morgan (Francis Wuppermann), actor (The Wizard of Oz) died Sep 18, 1949
1901 Clarence Henry "Happy" Day, NHL Hall of famer (Toronto St. Pats, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Americans) died Feb 17, 1990
1926 Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortensen), actress/singer (Seven Year Itch) died Aug 5, 1962
1926 Andy Griffith, actor (Mayberry RFD, Matlock)
1930 Edward Woodward, actor (The Equalizer)
1934 Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone), singer (Love Letters in the Sand)
1937 Morgan Freeman, actor (Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption)
1939 Cleavon (Jake) Little, actor (Blazing Saddles) died Oct 22, 1992
1946 Brian Cox, actor (X-Men United, Manhunter)
1947 Jonathan Pryce, actor (Jumpin' Jack Flash)
1947 Ron Wood, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones)
1949 Powers Boothe, actor (Red Dawn, 24)
1950 Graham Russell, singer (Air Supply)
1950 Wayne Nelson, bassist (Little River Band)
1953 David Berkowitz, serial killer (The Son of Sam)
1955 Tony Snow, White House press secretary
1956 Lisa Hartman Black, actress (Knots Landing)
1959 Alan Wilder, singer/keyboards (Depeche Mode)
1960 Simon Gallup, rock guitarist (The Cure)
1963 Mike Joyce, drummer (The Smiths)
1968 Jeff Hackett, former NHL goaltender (Philadelphia Flyers)
1969 Teri Polo, actress (Sports Night, Meet the Parents series)
1972 Shae Marks, playmate (May 1994)
1973 Heidi Klum, supermodel/actress
1973 Brian Leeds, raconteur/playboy
1973 Derek Lowe, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1974 Alanis Morissette, rock singer (You Oughta Know)
1976 Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss Hawaii/Miss America 2001
1981 Carlos Zambrano, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)

Today's Deaths in History

1868 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, dies at 77
1943 Leslie Howard, English actor (Gone With the Wind) dies at 50
1948 Sonny Boy Williamson I, blues musician, dies at 34
1960 Lester Patrick, NHL Hall of fame defenseman/coach (NY Rangers) dies at 76
1962 Adolf Eichmann, Nazi SS official, is hanged at 56
1965 Earl "Curly" Lambeau, football coach (Green Bay Packers) dies at 67
1968 Helen Keller, blind/deaf/mute advocate, dies at 87
1991 David Ruffin, R&B singer (The Temptations) dies at 50
2001 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) dies at 81

Today in History

1533 Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England.
1792 Kentucky became the 15th state.
1796 Tennessee became the 16th state.
1813 The Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate.
1831 Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic North Pole while on his Arctic exploration.
1869 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1925 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig's streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games began when he pinch hit for shortstop Pee Wee Wanniger.
1938 The first issue of Action Comics was published, featuring the world's first super hero, Superman.
1944 The British Broadcasting Corp. aired a coded message intended to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1957 Don Bowden became the first American to break the four-minute mile (3 minutes, 58.7 seconds).
1958 Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting was heard for the first time by listeners to FM radio in Schenectady, NY, Los Angeles and Chicago.
1967 The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in the U.K.
1975 Nolan Ryan of the California Angels tied the no-hit record in major-league baseball, tossing his fourth career no-hitter with a 1-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
1980 CNN made its debut.
1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1997 Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, was fatally burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment.
2001 A suicide bomber attacked a Tel Aviv nightclub, killing 21 Israelis.
2001 The king, queen and seven other members of Nepal's royal family were slain by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then mortally wounded himself.
2004 A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringed on women's right to choose.
2005 Dutch voters rejected the European Union constitution.
2006 A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
2007 Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.

Chart Toppers

1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson

1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
He’ll Have to Stay - Jeanne Black
Paper Roses - Anita Bryant
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

1976
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash

1984
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
As Long as I’m Rockin’ with You - John Conlee

Quote of the Day

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham, English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

Today in History - June 2nd

Today's Birthdays

1740 Marquis de Sade (Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade), author (Justine) died Dec 2, 1814
1857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance) died Feb 23, 1934
1890 Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry), celebrity columnist/show biz gossip, died Feb 1, 1966
1904 Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer/actor (Tarzan films) died Jan 20, 1984
1920 Tex Schramm, NFL team president/GM (Dallas Cowboys) died July 15, 2003
1926 Milo O’Shea, actor (The Playboys)
1930 Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Jr., NASA astronaut (Gemini, Apollo) died July 8, 1999
1937 Sally Kellerman, actress (M*A*S*H)
1939 Charles Miller, saxophonist/clarinet (War)
1941 (Walter) Stacy Keach Jr., actor (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer)
1941 William Guest, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones)
1944 Marvin Hamlisch, pianist/composer
1944 Garo Yepremian, NFL kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1948 Jerry Mathers, actor (Leave It to Beaver)
1951 Larry Robinson, NHL defenseman/coach (New Jersey Devils)
1952 Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner
1954 Dennis Haysbert, actor (Major League series, 24)
1955 Dana Carvey, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World)
1955 Michael Steele, bassist/singer (The Bangles)
1959 Tony Hadley, singer (Spandau Ballet)
1960 Kyle Petty, NASCAR driver
1972 Wayne Brady, actor/comedian (Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
1972 Wentworth Miller, actor (Prison Break)
1976 Tim Rice-Oxley, pianist/composer (Keane)
1977 Zachary Quinto, actor (Heroes)
1978 Nikki Cox, actress (The Norm Show, Las Vegas)
1978 Justin Long, actor (Accepted, Dodgeball, Mac ads)
1980 Fabrizio Moretti, rock drummer (The Strokes)
1989 Freddy Adu, Ghanaian/American soccer star

Today's Deaths in History

1941 Lou Gehrig, Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Yankees) dies of ALS at 37
1948 Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler, dies at 44
1969 Leo Gorcey, actor (Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys series) dies at 51
1970 Bruce McLaren, auto racer/designer/manufacturer, dies at 32
1979 Jim Hutton, actor/father of Timothy Hutton (Green berets) dies at 45
1987 Sammy Kaye, bandleader, dies at 77
1990 Rex Harrison, English actor (My Fair Lady, Dr. Doolittle) dies at 82
1999 Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican reggae singer (The Wailers) dies at 50
2001 Imogene Coca, actress/comedienne (partner with Sid Caesar) dies at 92
2003 "Classy" Fred Blassie, professional wrestler, dies at 95
2006 Vince Welnick, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) dies at 55

Today in History

1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus began their first tour of the United States.
1851 Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1886 Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. President to get married in the White House.
1896 Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1897 Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House.
1953 The coronation of 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II was broadcast on all three American TV networks.
1967 The Beatles’ album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, was released in the U.S.
1975 Baseball’s Billy Martin appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 19 years after his April 23, 1956 cover debut, setting the record for length of time between covers on the same subject.
1975 French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.
1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1985 The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate of food distribution and other popular products, including tobacco.
1985 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the all-time leading point scorer in the National Basketball Association playoffs (4,458 points).
1995 United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 was shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.
2003 The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2005 Georgia "runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks pleaded no contest to faking her own abduction; she was sentenced to probation, community service and a fine.
2006 Canadian authorities announced they had foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects.

Chart Toppers

1945
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961
Travelin’ Man - Ricky Nelson
Daddy’s Home - Shep & The Limelites
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins’ Singers
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette

1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Don’t Call Him a Cowboy - Conway Twitty

Quote of the Day

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
Kevin Smith, film director

Today in History – June 3rd

Today's Birthdays

1808 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died Dec 5, 1889
1878 Barney Oldfield, Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer, died Oct 4, 1946
1901 Maurice Evans, actor (Planet of the Apes) died Mar 12, 1989
1906 Josephine Baker, dancer (The Black Pearl) died April 12, 1975
1911 Paulette Goddard, actress (Ziegfeld Follies) died April 23, 1990
1917 Leo Gorcey, actor (Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys series) died June 2, 1969
1925 Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), actor (Some Like It Hot)
1926 (Irwin) Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation poet, died Apr 5, 1997
1929 Chuck Barris, producer/TV Host (Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Gong Show)
1936 Larry McMurtry, author (Lonesome Dove)
1939 Ian Hunter (Patterson), guitarist/singer/songwriter (Mott the Hoople)
1942 Curtis Mayfield, songwriter/singer (Superfly)
1945 Hale Irwin, golf champion
1946 Mike Clarke (Michael Dick), drummer (The Byrds) died Dec 19, 1993
1947 Mickey Finn, guitarist/percussionist (T. Rex) died Jan 11, 2003
1950 Suzi Quatro (Susan Kay Quatro), rock singer/guitarist (Stumblin' In)
1950 Deniece Williams, singer (Let’s Hear It for the Boy)
1952 Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynryd Skynyrd)
1954 Dan Hill, singer (Sometimes When We Touch)
1964 Kerry King, rock guitarist (Slayer)
1965 Mike Gordon, bassist (Phish)
1967 Anderson Cooper, newsman/anchor (CNN)
1975 Jose Molina, catcher (Los Angeles Angels)
1977 Travis Hafner, first baseman/DH (Cleveland Indians)
1977 Az-Zahir Hakim, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins)
1983 Janine Habeck, playmate (September 2006)
1986 Rafael Nadal, tennis champion

Today's Deaths in History

1861 Stephen A. Douglas, politician, dies at 48
1975 Ozzie Nelson, band leader/producer/director/actor, dies at 69
1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director, dies at 71
1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader, dies at 89
1990 Stiv Bators, punk singer/guitarist (The Dead Boys, Lords of the New Church) dies at 40
2001 Anthony Quinn, actor (Zorba the Greek) dies at
2003 Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (Iwo Jima flag-raising) dies at 96

Today in History

1539 DeSoto claimed Florida for Spain.
1800 John Adams became the first President to live in the new capital of the United States, Washington, D.C.
1849 The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.
1856 Cullen Whipple of Providence, RI patented the screw machine (let the jokes begin).
1888 "Casey at the Bat" was first published in The San Francisco Examiner.
1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 The ROTC was established by the U.S. Congress.
1932 Lou Gehrig connected for four consecutive home runs, setting a major-league baseball record.
1932 John J. McGraw retired as manager of the New York Giants after leading the Giants to ten National League pennants and three World Series championships.
1937 Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore, MD, the woman who was the cause of King Edward VIII’s abdication of the British throne, was married this day to the former King (The Duke of Windsor).
1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
1953 Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song "Ode to Billy Joe" by Bobbie Gentry.
1959 The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.
1965 Astronaut Edward White became the first American to walk in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
1968 Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1977 Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which would be named Time magazine's Album of the Century in 1999.
1978 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams combined their singing talents to reach the number one spot on the nation’s pop music charts with "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late."
1979 A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico caused at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
1983 Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
1985 American Health magazine released a survey that indicated 52 percent of doctors claimed that no one really should need to eat red meat more than once or twice a week, and 72 percent said that a vegetarian diet was a passing fad.
1989 The government of China sent troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1992 The Mabo Decision was handed down, recognizing the land rights of Australian Aborigines.
1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
2001 Mel Brooks' musical comedy The Producers won a record 12 Tony Awards.

Chart Toppers

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

1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
The Happy Wanderer - Frank Weir
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold

1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out) - Ernie Maresca
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Love on a Two-Way Street - The Moments
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
My Love - Sonny James

1978
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Do You Know You are My Sunshine - The Statler Brothers

1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
Whoever’s in New England - Reba McEntire

Quote of the Day

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Today in History - June 4th

Today's Birthdays

1910 Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor (Hovercraft) died June 1, 1999
1917 Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller), Metropolitan Opera singing star, died Oct 23, 2004
1924 (Billy) Dennis Weaver, actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud) died Feb 24, 2006
1928 Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Karola Ruth Siegel), sex therapist/author
1936 Bruce Dern, actor (Silent Running, Diggstown)
1937 Freddy Fender (Baldemar Huerta), singer (Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, Before the Next Teardrop Falls) died Oct 14, 2006
1944 Roger Ball, saxophonist/keyboards (Average White Band)
1944 Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam), singer (The Mamas and the Papas)
1945 Gordon Waller, singer (Peter and Gordon)
1951 Danny Brown, rock musician (The Fixx)
1952 Parker Stevenson, actor (The Hardy Boys Mysteries)
1953 Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii
1956 Keith David, actor (Platoon, The Quick and the Dead)
1968 Scott Wolf, actor (Party of Five)
1968 Stacy Arthur, playmate (January 1991)
1971 Noah Wyle, actor (ER)
1971 Tanya Beyer, playmate (February 1992)
1974 Stefan Lessard, rock musician (The Dave Matthews Band)
1974 Horatio Sanz, comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live)
1974 Darin Erstad, center fielder (Chicago White Sox)
1975 Angelina Jolie, actress (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Girl Interrupted)
1980 JoJo Garza, rock bassist (Los Lonely Boys)
1981 Lani Todd, playmate (December 2002)
1985 Bar Refaeli, Israeli model (Victoria's Secret) Leonardo DiCaprio's main squeeze

Today's Deaths in History

1798 Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover/writer, dies at 73
1929 Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923, dies at 47
1941 Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor, dies at 82
1989 Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hagar the Horrible, Hi and Lois) dies at 71
1990 Stiv Bators, punk rock singer (The Dead Boys) dies at 40
1994 Derek Leckenby, guitarist (Herman's Hermits) dies at 51
1997 Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces) dies at 51

Today in History

0780 -BC- The first solar eclipse was recorded in China.
1584 Sir Walter Raleigh established first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrated their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1812 Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
1892 The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
1896 Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.
1912 Massachusetts became the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1919 The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sent it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1924 In memory of all the soldiers from the state of New York who died in the first World War, an eternal light was dedicated at Madison Square in New York City.
1939 Sylvan Goldman introduced the first grocery-store shopping cart in Oklahoma City, OK.
1939 The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, was denied permission to land in Florida after already having been turned away from Cuba; forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France.
1942 The Battle of Midway began during World War II.
1947 The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1954 French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris according independence to Vietnam.
1964 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers tied Bob Feller’s 1951 record by pitching a third career no-hit baseball game.
1973 A patent for the ATM was granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 Cleveland Indians public relations experts thought that ‘Ten Cent Beer Night’ would bring out the fans and otherwise help the slumping Indians, but the promotion was a disaster, as rowdy, drunken fans caused the game to have to be forfeited.
1984 Born in the U.S.A., by Bruce Springsteen, was released.
1984 For the first time in 32 years, golfing-great Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the U.S. Open golf tournament.
1985 The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
1986 Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to spying for Israel.
1989 Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement; hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were killed.
1992 The U.S. Postal Service announced the results of a nationwide vote on the Elvis Presley stamp, saying more people preferred the "younger Elvis" design.
1998 A federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire, hours after federal prosecutors in New York charged her with obstruction of justice, conspiracy, securities fraud and lying to investigators.

Chart Toppers

1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
What is Life Without Love - Eddy Arnold

1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963
It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
I Love You Because - Al Martino
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins

1971
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Want Ads - The Honey Cone
It Don’t Come Easy - Ringo Starr
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price

1979
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers

1987
With or Without You - U2
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
It Takes a Little Rain (To Make Love Grow) - The Oak Ridge Boys

Quote of the Day

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

2003 -- Jen was cursing out Martha Stewart and the federal prosecutors for making her work her ass off and localize the fucking story

Today in History - June 5th

Today's Birthdays

1819 John Couch Adams, mathematician/astronomer (determined the existence of the planet Neptune) died Jan 21, 1892
1878 Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, died July 23, 1923
1895 William Boyd, actor (Hopalong Cassidy) died Sep 12, 1972
1919 Richard Scarry, children's books author/illustrator, died Apr 30, 1994
1932 Christy Brown, Irish author (My Left Foot) died Sept 6, 1981
1941 Floyd Butler, singer (Fifth Dimension) died in 1990
1941 Robert Kraft, NFL owner (New England Patriots)
1941 Spalding Gray, actor/screenwriter (The Killing Fields) died Jan 10, 2004
1945 Don Reid, singer (The Statler Brothers)
1946 Freddie Stone, singer (Sly and the Family Stone)
1949 Ken Follett, Welsh author (Pillars of the Earth)
1954 Nicko McBrain, rock drummer (Iron Maiden)
1956 Kenny G, Jazz saxophonist
1956 Richard ‘Butler Rep’ Butler, singer/songwriter (Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love)
1961 Mary Kay Bergman, voice actress (Beauty and the Beast, South Park) died Nov 11, 1999
1968 Ron Livingston, actor (Office Space)
1969 Brian McKnight, R&B singer
1970 Martin Gelinas, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1971 Mark Wahlberg, singer/actor (Renaissance Man, The Departed)
1974 P-nut, rock musician (311)
1976 Torry Holt, NFL wide reciever (St Louis Rams)
1976 Kevin Faulk, NFL fullback (New England Patriots)
1977 Navi Rawat, actress (Numb3ers)
1979 Pete Wentz, rock bassist/singer (Fall Out Boy)
1983 Marques Colston, NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)

Today's Deaths in History

1900 Stephen Crane, author (The Red Badge of Courage) dies at 28
1910 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), author (The Gift of the Magi) dies at 47
1993 Conway Twitty, country singer, dies at 59
1999 Mel Tormé, "The Velvet Fog," singer/songwriter, dies at 73
2002 Dee Dee Ramone, punk rock bassist (The Ramones), dies at 49
2004 Ronald Reagan, movie star/former President of the United States, dies at 93


Today in History

1794 Congress passed the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
1884 Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1917 Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
1947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall, speaking at Harvard University, outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as the Marshall Plan.
1956 Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog," on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 Bob Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) graduated from high school in Hibbing, MN.
1967 Ongoing political problems -- control and reunification of Jerusalem, access through the strait of Tiran, control of the West Bank of the Jordan River, etc. -- came to a head, causing a major outbreak of hostilities, later referred to as the Six Day War, between Israel and Egypt.
1967 New franchises in the National Hockey League were awarded to the Minnesota North Stars, the California Golden Seals and the Los Angeles Kings.
1968 While celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, brother of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was shot in the head; he died the following day.
1977 The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
1981 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.
1987 Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s Nightline; it is believed that this was a record for the longest live-TV broadcast, other than of space coverage and political conventions.
1989 The "Unknown Rebel" halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for more than half an hour during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1998 A strike at a General Motors parts factory near Detroit closed five assembly plants and idled workers nationwide; the walkout lasted seven weeks.
2002 Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released.
2002 Elizabeth Smart, 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in her family's Salt Lake City home (she was found alive in March 2003; two people accused of abducting her have been found mentally unfit to stand trial) .
2004 Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan died at his home in Los Angeles, CA.
2006 An Islamic militia with alleged links to al-Qaida seized Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after weeks of fighting with U.S.-backed secular warlords.
2006 Serbian lawmakers proclaimed their Balkan republic a sovereign state after Montenegro decided to split from a union and dissolve the remnants of what was once Yugoslavia.

Chart Toppers

1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold

1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Standing on the Corner - The Four Lads
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

1964
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens

1972
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sylvia’s Mother - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo

1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap

1988
One More Try - George Michael
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox
What She Is (Is a Woman in Love) - Earl Thomas Conley

Quote of the Day

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Today in History - June 6th

Today's Birthdays

1755 Nathan Hale, patriot/Revolutionary War military officer (“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”) executed Sep 22, 1776
1799 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (Boris Gudunov, Eugene Onegin) died Feb 10, 1837
1907 Bill (William Malcolm) Dickey, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (NY Yankees) died Nov 12, 1993
1926 Tom Ryan, cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
1936 Levi Stubbs (Stubbles), singer (The Four Tops)
1939 Gary "U.S." Bonds (Anderson), singer (Quarter to Three)
1939 Ed (Edward) Giacomin, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie (NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings)
1944 Peter Albin, bassist/guitarist/singer (Big Brother and The Holding Company)
1949 Robert Englund, actor (A Nightmare on Elm Street series)
1954 Harvey Fierstein, actor (Torch Song Trilogy, Mrs Doubtfire)
1955 Sandra Bernhard, comedienne/actress
1956 Bjorn Borg, tennis champion
1959 Amanda Pays, actress (Oxford Blues, Max Headroom)
1959 Colin Quinn, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1959 Jimmy Jam, record producer
1960 Steve Vai, rock guitar virtuoso
1961 Tom Araya, rock bassist/singer (Slayer)
1965 Cam Neely, NHL right wing (Boston Bruins)
1966 Sean Yseult, rock bassist (White Zombie)
1966 Murdoc Niccals, bassist/lead singer (Gorillaz)
1967 Paul Giamatti, actor (Duets, Sideways)
1967 Max Casella, actor (Googie Howser)
1970 James "Munky" Shaffer, rock guitarist (Korn)
1972 Cristina Scabbia, rock singer (Lacuna Coil)
1974 Uncle Kracker,rapper/singer
1975 Niklas Sundström, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1978 Carl Barât, singer/guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things)
1980 Lauren Anderson, playmate (July 2002)

Today's Deaths in History

1799 Patrick Henry, American patriot, dies at 63
1865 William Quantrill, Confederate raider, dies at 27
1941 Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer, dies at 62
1961 Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, dies at 85
1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies at 42
1979 Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz) dies at 80
1991 Stan Getz, Jazz saxophonist, dies at 64
2002 Robbin Crosby, rock guitarist (Ratt) dies at 42
2003 Dave Rowberry, rock keyboardist (The Animals) dies at 62
2005 Anne Bancroft, actress/Mrs Mel Brooks (The Turning Point, The Miracle Worker) dies at 73
2006 Billy Preston, keyboardist/"The Fifth Beatle," dies at 59

Today in History

1833 U.S. President Andrew Jackson became the first President to ride a train.
1844 The first YMCA was founded in London by George Williams.
1882 The first electric flatiron, or what we call the electric iron, was patented by Henry W. Seely of New York City.
1904 The National Tuberculosis Association was formed in Atlantic City, NJ.
1918 The Battle of Belleau Wood began in World War II; afterward, the Germans would say that U.S. Marines fought like "teufel hunden," the hounds of hell, and the nickname "Devil Dogs" was born.
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.
1932 The first U.S. federal tax on gasoline was enacted ($.01/gallon).
1933 The first U.S. drive-in to show movies opened in Camden, New Jersey on Crescent Boulevard.
1934 The Securities and Exchange Commission was established.
1942 Adeline Gray made the first nylon-parachute jump, in Hartford, CT.
1944 This was D-Day, the day thousands of Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France; their objective: to open a second major European front in the battle against the Nazis.
1946 The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
1962 The Beatles auditioned for producer George Martin of EMI Records; after listening to a playback of the audition tapes, Martin said, “They’re pretty awful.”
1966 Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
1971 The Ed Sullivan Show left CBS-TV.
1978 Proposition 13 passed in California, cutting property taxes by 57 percent.
1978 ABC-TV newsmagazine 20/20 debuted.
1982 Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country.
1985 Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz during World War II.
1990 A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ruled that the 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was obscene (the decision was overturned on appeal).
1994 U.S. President Bill Clinton and other dignitaries from around the world visited Normandy, France to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Operation Overlord and to pay respects to the thousands who died there in World War II.
2001 Democrats assumed control of the U.S. Senate when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party to become an independent.
2004 Phylicia Rashad became the first black actress to win a Tony for a leading dramatic role for her work in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun.
2005 The Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating federal drug laws.

Chart Toppers

1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams

1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenager’s Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold

1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett

1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Friends - Razzy Bailey

1989
Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Where Did I Go Wrong - Steve Wariner

Quote of the Day

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey, US politician (1911 - 1978)

Today in History - June 7th

Today's Birthdays

1848 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin, artist (The Yellow Christ) died May 8, 1903
1909 Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy, Cocoon) died Sep 11, 1994
1917 Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti), singer/actor/Rat Pack member, died Dec 25, 1995
1928 James Ivory, director (Jefferson in Paris, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End)
1940 Tom Jones (Thomas Jones Woodward), singer (It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, What’s New Pussycat?)
1943 Ken Osmond, actor (Leave It to Beaver)
1946 Jenny Jones, former TV talk show host
1947 Thurman (Lee) Munson, MLB catcher (NY Yankees) killed in plane crash Aug 2, 1979
1952 Liam Neeson, actor (Schindler’s List, Star Wars Episode I)
1955 William Forsythe, actor (Blue Streak, Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo)
1955 Tim Richmond, NASCAR driver, died of AIDS Aug 13, 1989
1956 Bonnie Lee Bakley, wife of Robert Blake, murdered May 4, 2001
1958 Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson), singer/guitarist/composer (Purple Rain, 1999)
1963 Gordon Gano, singer/guitarist (The Violent Femmes)
1964 Mark Steines, TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1964 Gia Carides, actress (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Strictly Ballroom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1966 Eric Kretz, rock drummer (Stone Temple Pilots)
1967 David M. Navarro, rock guitarist (Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 Mike Modano, NHL center (Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars)
1972 Karl Urban, actor (Lord of the Rings series)
1973 PuckforBrains, board member
1975 Allen Iverson, NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers)
1981 Anna Kournikova, tennis champ/model

Today's Deaths in History

1329 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, dies at 54
1937 Jean Harlow, actress (Platinum Blonde) dies at 26
1963 Zasu Pitts, actress (Fibber McGee and Molly) dies at 69
1968 Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees) dies at 61
1970 E. M. Forster, English author (Howard's End) dies at 91
1980 Henry Miller, writer (Tropic of Cancer) dies at 88
1988 Vernon Washington, actor (The Last Starfighter) dies at 60
1993 Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (Portland Trail Blazers, New Jersey Nets) dies in a car accident at 28
1996 Marjorie Gross, screenwriter (Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show) dies at 40
1996 Max Factor, Jr., cosmetics mogul, dies at 91
2003 Trevor Goddard, actor (Mortal Kombat, JAG) dies at 40

Today in History

1654 Louis XIV was crowned King of France.
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1892 J.F. Palmer of Chicago, IL patented the cord bicycle tire.
1892 The first pinch-hitter in baseball was used in a game between the Cleveland Spiders and Ward’s Wonders.
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans; the case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
1906 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania was launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1929 The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1948 The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes.
1953 Kukla, Fran (Allison) and Ollie, along with the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, were featured on the first network telecast in ‘compatible color.’
1955 The $64,000 Question, a summer replacement show with host Hal March, premiered.
1965 Sony Corporation unveiled its first consumer 1/2-inch format helical scan VTR (video tape recorder); it was priced under $3000 and only in black & white.
1965 The US Supreme Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1969 Blind Faith (Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Stevie Winwood and Rick Grech) made its British debut at a free concert at London’s Hyde Park.
1975 Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1976 The NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley aired for the first time.
1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1985 Kevin Koch quit as the Pirate Parrot, the mascot of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1991 Mount Pinatubo exploded, generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
1996 The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."
1998 James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.
2000 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2002 A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving three Americans came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the captives.
2003 In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.
2006 The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
2007 Paris Hilton gets out of jail after only serving three days of her twenty-three day sentence, because of a "medical condition;" she is expected to been under house-arrest for forty days.

Chart Toppers

1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Third Man Theme - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley

1958
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers

1966
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves

1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Pure Love - Ronnie Milsap

1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Finally - T.G. Sheppard

1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
I’ve Cried My Last Tear for You - Ricky Van Shelton

Quote of the Day

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807 - 1882)

Truly a dark day in history.

Dark, like how...some dark is good...

Today in History - June 8th

Today's Birthdays

1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (NYC’s Guggenheim Museum) died Apr 9, 1959
1918 Robert Preston (Meservey), actor (The Music Man, The Last Starfighter) died Mar 21, 1987
1925 Barbara Bush (Pierce), First Lady of the 41st President of the U.S., George H. W. Bush
1927 Jerry Stiller, comedian/actor (Seinfeld, The King of Queens)
1933 Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra Molinsky), comedienne/TV personality
1936 James Darren (Ercolani), singer/actor (The Guns of Navarone)
1939 Bernie Casey, actor (Revenge of the Nerds, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
1940 Nancy Sinatra, singer (These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, Something Stupid)
1941 Fuzzy Haskins, guitarist/singer (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1942 Chuck Negron, singer (Three Dog Night)
1944 Boz (William) Scaggs, singer (Lowdown, Lido Shuffle)
1947 Mick Box, guitarist/songwriter (Uriah Heep)
1950 Kathy Baker, actress (Picket Fences, Edward Scissorhands)
1951 Bonnie Tyler, singer (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1955 Griffin Dunne, actor (Johnny Dangerously)
1955 Greg Ginn, punk rock guitarist (Black Flag)
1957 Scott Adams, cartoonist (Dilbert)
1958 Keenan Ivory Wayans, producer/actor/writer (In Living Color)
1960 Mick ‘Red’ Hucknall, singer (Simply Red)
1962 Nick Rhodes (Bates), keyboardist (Duran Duran)
1965 Robert Pilatus, lip-syncer (Milli Vanilli) died Apr 2, 1998
1966 Julianna Margulies, actress (ER, The Newton Boys)
1967 Neil Mitchell, keyboardist (Wet Wet Wet)
1970 Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
1971 Mark Feuerstein, actor (West Wing, Woman on Top)
1976 Lindsay Davenport, tennis champion
1978 Kanye West, R&B performer
1978 Maria Menounos, TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1979 Derek Trucks, rock guitarist (Allman Brothers Band)
1983 Kim Clijsters, tennis champion

Today's Deaths in History

0632 Mohammed, prophet of Islam, dies at 62
1845 Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, dies at 78
1874 Cochise, Apache leader, dies at 59
1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Quo Vadis?) dies at 57
1982 Satchel Paige, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 75
1993 Root Boy Slim, singer/bandleader (& the Sex Change Band) dies at 48
2000 Jeff MacNelly, political cartoonist (Shoe) dies at 51
2006 Robert Donner, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Mork & Mindy) dies at 75

Today in History

1783 Iceland’s Laki volcano blew its top and continued to spew lava for eight more months, killing 9,350 people and causing a famine which lasted until 1790.
1786 Commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time, in New York City.
1789 James Madison introduced a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union.
1869 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago, IL received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.
1887 Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1948 Mr. Television, Milton Berle, became the first host of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 1984, by George Orwell, was published.
1949 Celebrities such as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson were named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1953 The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1961 A major-league baseball record was set when four Milwaukee Braves batters hit consecutive home runs in the seventh inning of a game against the Cincinnati Reds.
1968 LA Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale’s major-league streak of scoreless innings pitched was stopped at 58-2/3 as Howie Bedell of the Philadelphia Phillies hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning.
1968 Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1969 Yankee Stadium in New York City was sold out as Number 7, Mickey Mantle, formally retired from baseball.
1969 NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced that a single-league schedule would replace the separate NFL and AFL schedules in 1970.
1978 A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
1982 In the first speech by an American president to a joint session of the British Parliament, President Ronald Reagan predicted that Marxism-Leninism would wind up "on the ash heap of history."
1987 Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents.
1995 U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1998 Actor Charlton Heston formally assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association.
2001 British Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected to a second term in a landslide.

Chart Toppers

1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) - Engelbert Humperdinck
Creeque Alley - The Mamas & The Papas
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

1975
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
Sister Golden Hair - America
Bad Time - Grand Funk
Window Up Above - Mickey Gilley

1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men At Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Lucille (You Won’t Do Your Daddy’s Will) - Waylon Jennings

1991
More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Meet in the Middle - Diamond Rio

Quote of the Day

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana, US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

Boy - we needed Nirvana pretty bad...

Today in History - June 9th

Today's Birthdays

1672 Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov), Russian Czar, died Feb 8, 1725
1781 George Stephenson, inventor (steam locomotive), died Aug 12, 1848
1891 Cole (Albert) Porter, composer/lyricist (It’s De-Lovely, Night and Day), died Oct 15, 1964
1915 Les Paul (Polfus), guitarist/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
1922 George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
1929 Johnny Ace, R&B singer (Hound Dog) died Dec 25, 1954 while playing Russian Roulette
1930 Marvin Kalb, journalist (NBC News, Meet the Press)
1931 Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza), comedian/actor (Caddyshack 2)
1934 Jackie Wilson, R&B singer (Lonely Teardrops) died Jan 21, 1984
1939 Dick Vitale, sportscaster/basketball analyst (ABC, ESPN)
1940 Shirley Muldowney, "The First Lady of Drag Racing"
1941 Jon Lord, keyboardist (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
1950 Trevor Bolder, bassist (Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep)
1956 Patricia Cornwell, author (crime novelist)
1961 Michael J. Fox, actor (Back to the Future series)
1961 Aaron Sorkin, writer/producer (Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1963 Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp III), actor (Pirates of the Caribbean series)
1964 Gloria Reuben, actress (ER)
1967 Dean Felber, rock bassist (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 Dean Dinning, rock bassist (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
1973 Tedy Bruschi, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
1978 Michaela Conlin, actress (Bones)
1981 Natalie Portman, actress (The Professional, Star Wars series)

Today's Deaths in History

0068 Nero, Roman Emperor, commits suicide at 31
1870 Charles Dickesn, author (Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol) dies at 58
1979 Cyclone Taylor, Hockey Hall of Fame forward (Ottawa Senators) dies at 94
1981 Allen Ludden, TV personality (Password) dies at 62
2006 Roosevelt Brown, NFL tackle (NY Giants) dies at 73

Today in History

0068 Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
1790 The first copyright for a book was given to The Philadelphia Spelling Book.
1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States.
1915 U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
1934 Walt Disney’s Donald Duck made his first appearance (as a bit player) on film in The Wise Little Hen.
1943 The U.S. Congress authorized legislation on a withholding tax on payrolls (income tax).
1946 Mel Ott of the NY Giants became the first manager to be ejected form both games of a double header.
1954 Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, asking, "Have you no sense of decency?"
1959 The USS George Washington, the first Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire.
1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.
1970 Bob Dylan received an honorary Doctorate in Music from Princeton University.
1973 Secretariat, the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years of horse racing, won the Belmont Stakes in New York.
1978 Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1980 Comedian Richard Pryor was rushed to the hospital after suffering third-degree burns over most of his upper body, suffered in an explosion while he was freebasing cocaine.
1985 The Los Angeles Lakers edged the Boston Celtics, 111-100, to win their first National Basketball Association title in nine tries over the Celtics.
1986 The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
1992 Entertainer Ben Vereen was critically injured when he was struck by a van while walking along the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, California.
1993 Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada.
1993 The Montréal Canadiens won their 24th Stanley Cup.
1996 Linux v2.0 was released.
2004 The Federal Communications Commission agreed to a record $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities.

Chart Toppers

1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson

1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Paper Roses - Anita Bryant
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

1976
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash

1984
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Someday When Things are Good - Merle Haggard

Quote of the Day

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

And she *only* took out 17 mailboxes and three pedestrians.

Today in History - June 10th

Today's Birthdays

1895 Hattie McDaniel, actress/first African-American Oscar winner (Gone with the Wind) died Oct 2, 1952
1903 Clyde Beatty, circus performer/owner, died July 19, 1965
1904 Frederick Loewe, composer (Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) died Feb 14, 1988
1910 Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett), blues guitarist/singer, died Jan 10, 1976
1915 Saul Bellow, writer (The Adventures of Augie March) died Apr 5, 2005
1921 Prince Philip (Mountbatten), Duke of Edinburgh/married to Queen Elizabeth II
1922 Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm), singer/actress (The Wizard of Oz) died June 22, 1969
1928 Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are)
1930 Grace Mirabella, fashion publishing executive (Vogue magazine, Mirabella magazine)
1933 F. (Francis) Lee Bailey, defense attorney (O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst)
1941 Shirley Owens Alston, singer (The Shirelles)
1941 Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Das Boot)
1947 Ken (Kenneth Wayne) Singleton, outfilder/DH (NY Mets, Baltimore Orioles)
1949 Kevin Corcoran, actor (Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog)
1951 Dan Fouts, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1955 Andrew Stevens, actor (Dallas)
1959 Eliot Spitzer, New York Gov.
1961 Kim Deal, rock bassist (Pixies, The Breeders)
1961 Kelley Deal, rock guitarist (The Breeders)
1961 Maxi Priest, reggae singer (Close to You)
1962 Gina Gershon, actress (Showgirls, Bound)
1963 Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress (The Firm, Waterworld)
1964 Jimmy Chamberlin, rock drummer (Smashing Pumpkins)
1965 Linda Evangelista, supermodel
1965 Elizabeth Hurley model/actress (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
1966 Doug McKeon, actor (On Golden Pond)
1967 Emma Anderson, guitarist/songwriter (Lush)
1967 Darren Robinson, human beatbox/rapper (Fat Boys) died Dec 10, 1995
1971 Leanza Cornett, Miss America 1993
1978 DJ Qualls, actor (Road Trip, The New Guy)
1981 Hoku Ho, singer/daughter of Don Ho
1982 Tara (Kristen) Lipinski, Olympic figure skating medalist
1982 Leelee Sobieski (Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski), actress (Deep Impact, Eyes Wide Shut)

Today's Deaths in History

0323 BC - Alexander the Great, world conqueror, dies at 32
1946 Jack Johnson, boxing champion, dies at 68
1967 Spencer Tracy, actor (Captains Courageous, Boys Town) dies at 67
1971 Michael Rennie, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still) dies at 61
1973 William Inge, playwright (Come Back Little Sheba) dies at 60
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, author/director (Lili Marleen) dies at 37
1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (The Shirelles) dies at 42
1987 Elizabeth Hartman, actress (A Patch of Blue) dies at 43
1988 Louis L'Amour, author (westerns) dies at 80
1998 Steve Sanders, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys) commits suicide at 45
2000 Hafez Assad, Syrian President, dies at 69
2002 John Gotti, Organized crime figure, dies in a prison hospital at 61
2003 Donald Regan, White House Chief of Staff/U.S. Treasury Secretary, dies at 84
2004 Ray Charles, singer/songwriter/pianist, dies at 73

Today in History

1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries."
1846 The California Republic declared independence from Mexico.
1854 The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD graduated its first class.
1902 Americus F. Callahan patented what he called the outlook or see-through envelope.
1935 After completing one full day without imbibing liquor, Dr. Robert Smith, better known as Doctor Bob, and his friend William G. Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous.
1942 The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
1944 15-year old pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds became the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1954 General Motors announced that the first successful gas-turbine bus had been produced.
1964 The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.
1967 The Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
1976 Paul McCartney and Wings set a record for an indoor concert crowd as 67,100 fans gathered in Seattle, WA to hear the former Beatle and his new group.
1977 James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured three days later.
1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1978 Affirmed won horse racing's Triple Crown by taking the Belmont Stakes.
1981 Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies singled off of Houston pitcher Nolan Ryan to tie Stan Musial’s baseball career-hit total at 3,630.
1983 Johnny Bench, all-star catcher of the Cincinnati Reds (elected in 1989 to baseball Hall of Fame), announced his plans to retire from the game.
1985 Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.
1985 Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals (USFL) broke the 2,000-yard mark in rushing during the season as the Generals won over Jacksonville, 31-24.
1991 In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosted a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.
1999 Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
2003 ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal.
2003 The Spirit Rover was launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Chart Toppers

1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Pretend - Nat King Cole
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Moody River - Pat Boone
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Grazing in the Grass - The Friends of Distinction
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette

1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Suddenly - Billy Ocean
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Natural High - Merle Haggard

Quote of the Day

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer (1601-1658)

Today in History - June 11th

Today's Birthdays

1864 Richard Strauss, composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra) died Sep 8, 1949
1880 Jeannette Rankin, First U.S. Congresswoman, died May 18, 1973
1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer/inventor (co-inventor of Aqua-Lung) died June 25, 1997
1913 Vince Lombardi, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Green Bay Packers) died Sep 3, 1970
1925 William Styron, author (Sophie’s Choice)
1935 Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman), actor (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
1936 Chad Everett (Raymon Cramton), actor (Medical Center)
1939 Jackie Stewart (John Young Stewart), World Grand Prix champion auto racer/sportscaster
1940 Joey Dee (Joseph DiNicola), singer (Joey Dee and The Starliters)
1945 Adrienne Barbeau, actress (Swamp Thing, Maude, Cannonball Run)
1947 Richard Palmer-James, yricist/guitarist (King Crimson, Supertramp)
1949 Frank Beard, rock drummer (ZZ Top)
1950 Graham Russell, guitarist/singer (Air Supply)
1952 Donnie Van Zandt, guitarist/singer (.38 Special)
1954 Greta Van Susteren, Fox news anchor
1956 Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs)
1956 Ray Nagin, New Orleans mayor
1959 Hugh Laurie, actor (House, Jeeves and Wooster)

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1965 Joey Santiago, rock guitarist (Pixies)
1969 Dan Lavery, rock bassist (Tonic)
1969 Peter Dinklage, actor (The Station Agent)
1969 Steven Drozd, rock drummer (The Flaming Lips)
1970 Brock Marion, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins)
1978 Joshua Jackson, actor (Dawson’s Creek, Mighty Ducks series)
1983 Jose Reyes, MLB shortstop (NY Mets)
1986 Shia LaBeouf, actor (Holes, Disturbia)

Today's Deaths in History

1796 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/politician (Whitbread Ale) dies at 75
1936 Robert E. Howard, author (Conan the Barbarian) dies at 30
1941 Daniel Carter Beard, founder (Boy Scouts of America) dies at 90
1979 John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison), actor, dies at 72
1993 Ray Sharkey, actor (The Idolmaker) dies of AIDS at 40
1999 DeForest Kelley, actor (Star Trek) dies at 79
2001 Timothy McVeigh, mass murderer (Oklahoma City bombing) is executed at 33
2003 David Brinkley, broadcast news pioneer, dies at 82

Today in History

1184 BC - Troy was sacked and burned during the Trojan War.
1509 England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon.
1776 The Continental Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence.
1793 The first patent for a stove was issued to Robert Haeterick.
1912 Silas Christoferson became the first airplane pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.
1919 Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown.
1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gave the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.
1942 The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
1962 Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin became the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two blacks to enroll at the school.
1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1966 Janis Joplin made her first onstage appearance at the age of 23, performing at the Avalon ballroom in San Francisco with Big Brother and the Holding Company.
1972 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied the National League record for the most grand-slam home runs in a career, with 14.
1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
1981 The first baseball player’s strike in major-league history began during mid-season after Seattle defeated Baltimore 8-2 at the Kingdome in Seattle.
1982 The movie E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial opened.
1985 Von Hayes of the Philadelphia Phillies became the 21st player in major-league baseball history to hit a pair of home runs in one inning as he led the Phillies to a 26-7 win over the New York Mets.
1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31.
1986 A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
1987 Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
1990 The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
1992 The Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra punishment.
1993 Jurassic Park opened in theaters across the country.
1996 Republican Senator Bob Dole ended his Senate career (to make a run for the U.S. Presidency) with an emotional farewell speech before a packed Senate chamber.
1998 Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition.
1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me premiered at theatres across the U.S.
2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2002 Rock musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle.
2004 The nation bade farewell to former President Ronald Reagan at a stately funeral in Washington, D.C.

Chart Toppers

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

1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely - Johnnie & Jack

1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty

1978
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Georgia on My Mind - Willie Nelson

1986
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap

Quote of the Day

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings, Poet (1894 - 1962)

where's your birthday, old man? why isn't it highlighted? huh huh huh?

They're waiting for the carbon dating to come back so they can place him in the right geological era. Until then, he can't list it in green.

It's in there -- I just didn't see the need to highlight it.


Oh, and Kusand? I resisted the tempatation to list is as "B.C."

i see a need to highlight it. so we can all say "YOU'RE OLD!"

happy birthday, giac

Shit, you don't need a birthday to have a reason to say that.....

Today in History - June 12th

Today's Birthdays

1916 Irwin Allen, producer/director (The Towering Inferno) died Nov 2, 1991
1919 Uta (Thyra) Hagen, actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) died Jan 14, 2004
1924 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st U.S. President
1928 Vic Damone (Vito Rocco Farinola), singer (An Affair to Remember)
1929 Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist/Holocaust victim, died March 1945
1930 Jim Nabors, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., The Andy Griffith Show)
1941 Marv Albert (Marv Philip Aufrichtig), sportscaster (NBC-TV)
1941 Chick (Armando) Corea, jazz composer/musician
1945 Reg Presley, singer (The Troggs)
1949 John Wetton, rock bassist/guitarist (Asia)
1951 Bun E. Carlos (Brad Carlson), drummer (Cheap Trick)
1951 Brad Delp, guitarist/singer (Boston) died March 9, 2007
1952 Pete Farndon, rock bassist (The Pretenders)
1957 Timothy Busfield, actor (Field of Dreams, Revenge of the Nerds, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1958 Meredith Brooks, singer (Bitch)
1958 Rebecca Holden, actress (Knight Rider)
1959 John Linnell, singer/songwriter (They Might Be Giants)
1964 Paula Marshall, actress (The Wonder Years, Snoops)
1967 Frances O'Connor, actress (Windtalkers)
1968 Bobby Sheehan, rock bassist (Blues Traveler) died Aug 20, 1999 of a drug overdose
1974 Hideki Matsui, MLB left fielder (NY Yankees)
1974 Jason Mewes, actor (Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
1977 Kenny Wayne Shepherd, blues/rock guitarist
1979 Dallas Clark, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1981 Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel (Victoria's Secret)
1985 Kendra Wilkinson, playmate (one of three of Hef's girlfriends)

Today's Deaths in History

1957 Jimmy Dorsey, jazz clarinetist/band leader, dies at 53
1963 Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist, is shot and killed at 37
1994 Ronald Goldman, actor/model, is murdered at 25
1994 Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, is murdered at 35
1994 Christopher Collins, actor (GI Joe, Transformers) dies at 44
2002 Bill Blass, fashion designer, dies at 79
2003 Gregory Peck, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) dies at 87

Today in History

1665 England installed a municipal government in New Amsterdam (New York City).
1776 Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
1838 The Iowa Territory was organized.
1839 According to legend, Abner Doubleday created the game we know as baseball.
1880 Baseball’s first perfect game was recorded when Lee Richmond of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Ruby Legs pitched a 1-0 shutout of the Cleveland Spiders in a National League game.
1922 St.Louis Browns pitcher Hub Pruett struck out Babe Ruth three consecutive times.
1937 The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders during a purge under Josef Stalin.
1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame was formally dedicated at Cooperstown, NY.
1942 Future essayist Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday.
1948 Ben Hogan won his first U.S. Open golf classic.
1957 Stan ‘The Man’ Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals set a National-League baseball record by appearing in his 823rd consecutive game.
1963 Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.
1965 The Queen of England announced that The Beatles would receive the coveted MBE Award.
1967 The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1978 David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that had terrified New Yorkers.
1985 The National Hockey League Celebration of Excellence recognized ‘The Great One,’ Wayne Gretzky, by awarding him his sixth Hart Trophy.
1987 President Ronald Reagan delivered a now-famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
1994 The gruesomely-murdered bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were discovered outside Nicole’s Brentwood, California condominium.
1997 Major league baseball began interleague play.
1997 The United States Department of the Treasury unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
1999 Thousands of NATO peacekeeping troops poured into Kosovo by air and by land; in a surprising move, a Russian armored column entered Pristina before dawn to a hero's welcome from Serb residents.
2006 Al-Qaida in Iraq named a successor to slain leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, identified by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Muhajer.

Chart Toppers

1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Sugar Moon - Bob Wills

1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963
It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins

1971
Want Ads - The Honey Cone
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
You’re My Man - Lynn Anderson

1979
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers

1987
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Will Be There - 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)

Today in History - June 13th

Today's Birthdays

1786 Winfield Scott, U.S. General (Grand Old Man of the Army; served 50 years) died May 29, 1866
1865 William Butler Yeats, poet/dramatist (Nobel Prize 1923) died Jan 28, 1939
1892 (Philip St. John) Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes) died July 21, 1967
1903 Red (Harold) Grange, Pro and College Football Hall of Famer (‘The Galloping Ghost’) died Jan 28, 1991
1910 Mary (Isabelle) Wickes (Wickenhauser), stage and screen actress (Oklahoma!; Sister Act) died Oct 22, 1995
1912 Samuel A. (Albert) Taylor, playwright (Sabrina, Vertigo) died May 26, 2000
1913 Ralph Edwards, actor/TV host (Truth or Consequences, This is Your Life) died Nov 16, 2005
1918 Ben Johnson, actor (Angels in the Outfield, The Last Picture Show) died Apr 8, 1996
1926 Paul Lynde, comedian/actor (Hollywood Squares, Love American Style, Bewitched) died Jan 10, 1982
1939 Siegfried, magician (Siegfried & Roy)
1943 Malcolm McDowell, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Blue Thunder, Caligula)
1944 Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General
1948 Dennis Locorriere, guitarist/singer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show)
1951 Howard Leese, guitarist/keyboardist (Heart)
1951 Richard Thomas, actor (The Waltons)
1951 Stellan Skarsgard, actor (Wind, The Hunt for Red October)
1953 Tim Allen (Timothy Allen Dick), comedian/actor (Home Improvement, The Santa Clause series, Toy Story series, Galaxy Quest)
1962 Ally Sheedy, actress (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire)
1962 Hannah Storm, TV host (The Early Show)
1963 Paul deLisle, rock bassist (Smash Mouth)
1963 Robbie Merrill, rock bassist (Godsmack)
1968 David Gray, singer/pianist
1969 James Walters, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1969 Laura Kightlinger, comedian/actress
1970 Rivers Cuomo, rock singer/guitarist (Weezer)
1973 Leeann Tweeden, model/TV personality (The Best Damn Sports Show Period)
1974 Steve-O, television personality (Jackass)
1974 Brande Roderick, playmate/actress (April 2000, PMOY 2001, Baywatch)
1977 Andy from the LES, board moderator
1978 Ethan Embry, actor (Empire Rcords, Can't Hardly Wait)
1980 Rochelle Davis, actress (The Crow)
1981 Chris Evans, actor (Fantastic Four series)
1986 Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, actresses (Full House)
1986 Kat Dennings, actress (The 40-Year Old Virgin)

Today's Deaths in History

1784 Henry Middleton, President of the Continental Congress, dies at 67
1972 Clyde McPhatter, R&B singer (A Lover's Question) dies at 39
1977 Matthew Garber, child actor (Mary Poppins) dies at 21
1982 King Khalid of Saudi Arabia dies at 70
1986 Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader, dies at 77
1987 Geraldine Page, actress (The Trip to Bountiful) dies at 62
1993 Deke Slayton, NASA astronaut (Mercury Seven astronaut) dies at 69
2005 Jonathan Adams, actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) dies at 74
2005 Walter Lane Smith, actor (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) dies at 69

Today in History

1774 Rhode Island became the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1789 Mrs. Alexander Hamilton served a new dessert treat for General George Washington: ice cream.
1888 Congress created the Department of Labor.
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted.
1920 The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.
1921 Babe Ruth connected for a 460-foot home run deep into the center-field bleachers at the Polo Grounds in New York City, the longest homer of his career.
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1934 Adolf Hitler and Mussolini met in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later described the German dictator as "a silly little monkey."
1940 The Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs were the first two major-league baseball teams to play at Doubleday Field at Cooperstown, NY in the Hall of Fame Game.
1944 The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.
1948 Uniform #3, belonging to Babe Ruth, was retired at farewell ceremonies at Yankee Stadium, just two months before his death.
1966 The Miranda Decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
1971 The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1981 A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during a parade in London.
1983 The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
1985 A Doonesbury cartoon strip took a shot at Frank Sinatra by portraying the ‘Chairman of the Board’ as a friend of organized crime; several of the more than 800 newspapers that carried the strip by cartoonist Garry Trudeau carried the comic strip panel with a disclaimer.
1987 Garrison Keilor, host and storyteller on the award-winning National Public Radio series, A Prairie Home Companion, left the program for Denmark after 13 years on the air.
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1995 French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
1996 An 81-day standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
1997 A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000 President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea met Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2004 Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday (June 12th) with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
2005 A jury in Santa Maria, Calif., acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.

Chart Toppers

1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold

1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - Elvis Presley
Crazy Arms - Ray Price

1964
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
Together Again - Buck Owens

1972
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo

1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap

1988
One More Try - George Michael
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Everything Your Heart Desires - Daryl Hall John Oates
I Told You So - Randy Travis

Quote of the Day

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)

Doesn't that make today some kind of orthodox nerd holiday - The Feast of Pinkerton or something?

This is the one I found most odd today.....



Okay, Parcel Post is out......I wonder if you can send them Priority Mail?

Today in History - June 14th


Flag Day

Today's Birthdays

1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) died July 1, 1896
1820 John Bartlett, compiler/editor (Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations) died in 1905
1864 Dr. Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist/pathologist (discovered Alzheimer's disease) died Dec 19, 1915
1901 Hap (Clarence) Day, Hockey Hall-of-Famer (Toronto St. Patricks, Toronto Maple Leafs) died Feb 17, 1990
1906 Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (first woman photojournalist attached to US Armed Forces in WWII) died Aug 27, 1971
1909 Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) Ives, singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) died Apr 14, 1995
1917 Lash LaRue, actor (Westerns) died May 21, 1996
1925 Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary (under President John F. Kennedy)
1926 Don (Donald) ‘Newk’ Newcombe, MLB pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians)
1928 Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary, died Oct 9, 1967
1931 Marla Gibbs, actress (The Jeffersons)
1931 Junior Walker, saxophonist/singer (Jr. Walker & the All Stars)
1936 Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) died July 1, 2005
1945 Rod Argent, keyboardist (Argent, The Zombies)
1946 Donald Trump, real estate mogul, world comb-over champion
1947 Barry Melton, rock guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 Alan White, drummer (Yes)
1952 Jim Lea, bassist/songwriter (Slade)
1956 King Diamond, rock singer (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)
1958 Eric Heiden, Olympic Gold Medal speed skater
1958 Carina Persson, playmate (August 1983)
1959 Marcus Miller, R&B/Jazz bassist
1961 Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd), singer (Culture Club)
1962 Kim Lankford, actress/widow of Warren Zevon
1963 Chris DeGarmo, rock guitarist (Queensryche)
1966 Traylor Howard, actress (Boston Common, Monk)
1968 Yasmine Bleeth, actress (Nash Bridges, Baywatch)
1969 Steffi (Stephanie) Graf, tennis champ
1969 Éric Desjardins, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers)
1970 Simone Eden, playmate (February 1989) first playmate to be the daughter of a former playmate (Carol Eden)
1973 Gay-Yee Westerhoff, classical/rock cellist (Bond)

Today's Deaths in History

1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies at 60
1908 Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley, instituter of the Stanley Cup, dies at 67
1967 Eddie Eagan, Summer/Winter Olympic medalist (boxing, bobsled) dies at 70
1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway composer/lyricist, dies at 67
1991 Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A Passage to India) dies at 83
1994 Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther) dies at 70
1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist/composer, dies at 47
1997 Richard Jaeckel, actor (Sands of Iwo Jima) dies at 70
2007 Kurt Waldheim, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, dies at 88

Today in History

1648 Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
1775 The U.S. Army was established by a Congressional Resolution.
1777 Flag Day was born when John Adams, at a meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, PA, said, "Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation."
1789 Bounty mutiny survivors, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reach Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat.
1789 Whisky distilled from maize was first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig; it was named Bourbon because Rev. Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1834 Isaac Fischer, Jr. of Springfield, Vermont patented sandpaper.
1846 A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
1881 The player piano was patented by John McTammany, Jr. of Cambridge, MA.
1900 Hawaii became a United States territory.
1901 The first professional open championship to utilize rules of the U.S. Golf Association was held at Hamilton, MA.
1922 A U.S. President was heard on the radio for the first time as President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial.
1937 Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to observe Flag Day as a legal holiday.
1938 Action Comics issued the first Superman comic.
1940 German troops entered Paris during World War II.
1940 The Nazis opened a concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.
1943 The Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs.
1951 Univac 1 was unveiled in Washington, D.C.; billed as the world’s first commercial computer, Univac was designed for the U.S. Census Bureau, and was 8 feet high, 7-1/2 feet wide and 14-1/2 feet long.
1952 The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1953 Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, TN.
1953 Seven former Southern Conference university sports teams established a new alliance: The Atlantic Coast Conference.
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1962 Anna Slesers became the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler.
1976 The Beatles were awarded a gold record for the compilation album of past hits titled Rock ’n’ Roll Music.
1982 The large Argentine garrison in Port Stanley (capital and only town in the Falkland Islands) was overrun by British troops, effectively ending the Falklands War.
1985 Earl Weaver returned to manage the American League Baltimore Orioles, after a 2-1/2 year retirement.
1985 A 17-day hijack ordeal began when a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized TWA Flight 847 shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
1993 A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurred as customers throughout the USA discovered syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.
1994 The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup, their first in 54 years. (Thanks, checky!)
2002 American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.

Chart Toppers

1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold

1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenager’s Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold

1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me) - Johnny Rodriguez

1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
What are We Doin’ in Love - Dottie West with Kenny Rogers

1989
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
Better Man - Clint Black

Quote of the Day

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein, US author in France (1874 - 1946)