Today in History - Sept 5th
Today's Birthdays
1638 Louis XIV, King of France, died Sep 1, 1715
1847 Jesse James, outlaw, died Apr 3, 1882
1897 Arthur Charles Nielsen, market researcher/founder (A.C. Nielsen Co.) died June 1, 1981
1902 Darryl F. (Francis) Zanuck, film producer (The Jazz Singer, The Grapes of Wrath, cofounder of 20th Century Studios) died Dec 22, 1979
1921 Jack Valenti, movie executive (Motion Picture Association of America) died April 26, 2007
1929 Bob Newhart, actor/comedian (The Bob Newhart Show)
1932 Carol Lawrence (Laraia), singer/actress (West Side Story, General Hospital)
1939 Billy Kilmer, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1939 John Stewart, singer (Gold)
1940 William Devane, actor (Knots Landing, Payback)
1940 Raquel Welch (Jo Raquel Tejada), model/actress (Mother Jugs and Speed, Fantastic Voyage)
1945 Al Stewart, singer/songwriter (Time Passages, Year of the Cat)
1946 Freddie Mercury (Bulsara), singer (Queen) died Nov 24, 1991
1946 George Lazenby, actor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1946 Loudon Wainwright III, songwriter/singer (Dead Skunk)
1950 Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist (Cathy)
1951 Michael Keaton, actor (Batman, Mr Mom)
1966 Terry Ellis, R&B singer (En Vogue)
1968 Brad Wilk, drummer (Audioslave)
1969 Dweezil Zappa, guitarist/son of musician Frank Zappa
1973 Rose McGowan, actress (Bio-Dome, Scream, Charmed)
Today's Deaths in History
1877 Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux chief, is stabbed to death at 37
1997 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) dies at 87
1999 Allen Funt, radio/television personality (Candid Camera) dies at 84
Today in History
1698 Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
1774 The first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.
1793 The Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counterrevolutionary activities.
1836 Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1877 Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse was bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1881 The first disaster relief provided by the American Red Cross benefited thousands of fire victims left destituteby the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
1882 The first Labor Day holiday parade was held in New York City.
1885 Jake Gumper of Ft. Wayne, IN bought the first gasoline pump produced in the United States.
1901 The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues was formed in Chicago, the first professional baseball league in America.
1906 Bradbury Robinson executed the first legal forward pass in football, throwing the ball to Jack Schneider of St. Louis University in a game against Carroll College.
1914 The First Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1939 The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose," was arrested in Yokohama.
1956 Johnny Cash first hit the record charts with "I Walk the Line," which climbed to #17 on the pop music charts.
1957 On the Road by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published.
1958 "The Betty Feezor Show," the first color videotaped program, aired on WBTV-TV in Charlotte, NC.
1958 Doctor Zhivago, by Russian author Boris Pasternak, was published in the United States.
1960 Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.
1964 The Animals’ "House of the Rising Sun" made it to #1.
1969 U.S. Army Lt. William Calley was charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1971 J.R. Richard of the Houston Astros tied Karl Spooner’s record by striking out 15 batters in his major-league baseball debut.
1972 Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists entered the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, killing 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team.,
1972 Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway received a gold record for their duet, "Where is the Love."
1975 President Gerald R. Ford escaped an attempt on his life in Sacramento, Calif., by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson.
1977 The United States launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft two weeks after launching its twin, Voyager 2.
1980 Switzerland’s St. Gotthard Auto Tunnel, the longest underground motorway in the world, opened.
1983 Sports Illustrated became the first national weekly magazine to use four-color process illustrations on every page.
1983 The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS became the first hourlong network news show.
1984 Mortimer Zuckerman, a real estate magnate, spent $163 million on the newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report.
1997 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) died of a heart attack at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta, India.
1998 Aerosmith’s "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" debuted at #1 on U.S. music charts.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
2006 Felipe Calderon was declared Mexico's president-elect after two months of uncertainty over a disputed election.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
My Boyfriend’s Back - The Angels
Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! - Allan Sherman
Blowin’ in the Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1971
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney
Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
Don’t Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
Heartbreak Hotel - Willie Nelson & Leon Russell
1987
La Bamba - Los Lobos
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Only in My Dreams - Debbie Gibson
She’s Too Good to Be True - Exile
Quote of the Day
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
Full Version: Today in History
Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas.
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Today in History - Sept 6th
Today's Birthdays
1757 Marquis de Lafayette, Revolutionary War French-American General, died May 20, 1834
1888 Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (father of John, Ted and Bobby Kennedy) died Nov 18, 1969
1912 Vince (Vincent Paul) DiMaggio, baseball player/older brother of Joe and Dom DiMaggio, died Oct 3, 1986
1937 Jo Anne Worley, comedienne (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares)
1942 Carol Wayne, actress (Scavenger Hunt, Heartbreakers) died Jan 13, 1985
1943 Roger Waters, bassist/songwriter (Pink Floyd)
1944 Swoosie Kurtz, actress (The World According to Garp, Dangerous Liaisons)
1947 Jane Curtin, comedienne/actress (Kate and Allie, Saturday Night Live)
1948 Claydes (Charles) Smith, guitarist (Kool & The Gang)
1954 Banner Thomas, bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1958 Jeff Foxworthy. comedian (You Might be a Redneck)
1958 Michael Winslow, actor/comedian (Police Academy movies)
1961 Paul Waaktaar, guitarist/singer (a-ha)
1961 Scott Travis, drummer (Judas Priest)
1962 Kevin Miller, drummer (Fuel)
1967 Rosie Perez, actress (Fearless)
1970 Macy Gray, R&B singer
1971 Dolores O'Riordan, singer (The Cranberries)
1974 Justin Whalin, actor (The Dead Pool, Dungeons & Dragons)
1974 Nina Persson, singer (The Cardigans)
Today's Deaths in History
1984 Ernest Tubb, country music star, dies at 70
1990 Tom Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) dies at 48
1998 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director (Rashomon) dies at 88
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
Today in History
1620 The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1628 Puritans settled Salem, which would later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1819 Thomas Blanchard of Springfield, MA patented the lathe.
1847 Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming became the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1901 President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.
1909 American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1920 The first prizefight broadcast on radio featured Jack Dempsey knocking out Billy Miske in the third round of a bout in Benton Harbor, MI.
1937 Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "Sugar Foot Stomp" on Victor Records.
1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
1958 Actor Steve McQueen starred on the CBS-TV series, Wanted: Dead or Alive.
1958 Georgia Gibbs sang "The Hula-Hoop Song" on The Ed Sullivan Show, the first national exposure for the Hula-Hoop craze.
1959 The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation.
1961 Bob Dylan gave one of his first performances at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village.
1969 Singer/songwriter David Bowie debuted on U.K. charts with "Space Oddity."
1970 Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
1972 Rick DeMont lost the gold medal he received in a 400-meter swimming event because a banned drug was found in his system during routine drug testing.
1975 Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1975 Glen Campbell hit #1 on the Billboard pop music chart with "Rhinestone Cowboy."
1976 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were reunited by Frank Sinatra, 20 years after going their separate ways.
1980 Miss Oklahoma, Susan Powell, was crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ, in the first time in 25 years that Bert Parks had not served as master of ceremonies for the show.
1982 Willie Stargell's #8 uniform was retired by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1983 The Soviet Union admitted to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1986 Bananarama hit the top spot on the pop music charts with "Venus."
1991 Petrograd, Russia, reverted to its original name: St. Petersburg.
1992 A man who had received a transplanted baboon liver 10 weeks earlier died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
1995 Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record.
1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.
1997 The funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales, was held at Westminster Abbey.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season (he finished the year with a record 73 homers).
2002 Meeting outside Washington D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.
2003 Mahmoud Abbas resigned as Palestinian prime minister.
2004 Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery during a four-hour procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
2005 The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill).
2006 President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Tonight You Belong to Me - Patience & Prudence
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Because - The Dave Clark Five
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
I’m Still in Love with You - Al Green
Woman (Sensuous Woman) - Don Gibson
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Monkey - George Michael
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
I Couldn’t Leave You if I Tried - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Today's Birthdays
1757 Marquis de Lafayette, Revolutionary War French-American General, died May 20, 1834
1888 Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (father of John, Ted and Bobby Kennedy) died Nov 18, 1969
1912 Vince (Vincent Paul) DiMaggio, baseball player/older brother of Joe and Dom DiMaggio, died Oct 3, 1986
1937 Jo Anne Worley, comedienne (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares)
1942 Carol Wayne, actress (Scavenger Hunt, Heartbreakers) died Jan 13, 1985
1943 Roger Waters, bassist/songwriter (Pink Floyd)
1944 Swoosie Kurtz, actress (The World According to Garp, Dangerous Liaisons)
1947 Jane Curtin, comedienne/actress (Kate and Allie, Saturday Night Live)
1948 Claydes (Charles) Smith, guitarist (Kool & The Gang)
1954 Banner Thomas, bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1958 Jeff Foxworthy. comedian (You Might be a Redneck)
1958 Michael Winslow, actor/comedian (Police Academy movies)
1961 Paul Waaktaar, guitarist/singer (a-ha)
1961 Scott Travis, drummer (Judas Priest)
1962 Kevin Miller, drummer (Fuel)
1967 Rosie Perez, actress (Fearless)
1970 Macy Gray, R&B singer
1971 Dolores O'Riordan, singer (The Cranberries)
1974 Justin Whalin, actor (The Dead Pool, Dungeons & Dragons)
1974 Nina Persson, singer (The Cardigans)
Today's Deaths in History
1984 Ernest Tubb, country music star, dies at 70
1990 Tom Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) dies at 48
1998 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director (Rashomon) dies at 88
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
Today in History
1620 The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1628 Puritans settled Salem, which would later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1819 Thomas Blanchard of Springfield, MA patented the lathe.
1847 Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming became the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1901 President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.
1909 American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1920 The first prizefight broadcast on radio featured Jack Dempsey knocking out Billy Miske in the third round of a bout in Benton Harbor, MI.
1937 Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "Sugar Foot Stomp" on Victor Records.
1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
1958 Actor Steve McQueen starred on the CBS-TV series, Wanted: Dead or Alive.
1958 Georgia Gibbs sang "The Hula-Hoop Song" on The Ed Sullivan Show, the first national exposure for the Hula-Hoop craze.
1959 The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation.
1961 Bob Dylan gave one of his first performances at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village.
1969 Singer/songwriter David Bowie debuted on U.K. charts with "Space Oddity."
1970 Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
1972 Rick DeMont lost the gold medal he received in a 400-meter swimming event because a banned drug was found in his system during routine drug testing.
1975 Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1975 Glen Campbell hit #1 on the Billboard pop music chart with "Rhinestone Cowboy."
1976 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were reunited by Frank Sinatra, 20 years after going their separate ways.
1980 Miss Oklahoma, Susan Powell, was crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ, in the first time in 25 years that Bert Parks had not served as master of ceremonies for the show.
1982 Willie Stargell's #8 uniform was retired by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1983 The Soviet Union admitted to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1986 Bananarama hit the top spot on the pop music charts with "Venus."
1991 Petrograd, Russia, reverted to its original name: St. Petersburg.
1992 A man who had received a transplanted baboon liver 10 weeks earlier died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
1995 Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record.
1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.
1997 The funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales, was held at Westminster Abbey.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season (he finished the year with a record 73 homers).
2002 Meeting outside Washington D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.
2003 Mahmoud Abbas resigned as Palestinian prime minister.
2004 Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery during a four-hour procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
2005 The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger later vetoed the bill).
2006 President George W. Bush acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects had been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Tonight You Belong to Me - Patience & Prudence
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Because - The Dave Clark Five
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
I’m Still in Love with You - Al Green
Woman (Sensuous Woman) - Don Gibson
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Monkey - George Michael
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
I Couldn’t Leave You if I Tried - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Today in History - Sept 7th
Today's Birthdays
1533 Elizabeth I, Queen of England/daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, died Mar 24, 1603
1819 Thomas Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States, died in office Nov 25, 1885
1860 Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson), artist (The Quilting Bee) died Dec 13, 1961
1867 J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan Jr., financier, died Mar 13, 1943
1908 Paul Brown, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Cleveland Browns) died Aug 5, 1991
1908 Dr. Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon
1909 Elia Kazan (Kazanjoglous), director (On the Waterfront, East of Eden, A Streetcar Named Desire) died Sep 28, 2003
1913 Sir (John) Anthony Quayle, actor (The Eagle Has Landed, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone) died Oct 20, 1989
1923 Peter (Sidney Ernest Aylen) Lawford, actor/Rat Pack member (Ocean’s 11, The Longest Day) died Dec 24, 1984
1924 Daniel Inouye, U.S. Senator (D-HI)/Medal of Honor recipient (World War II)
1928 Al McGuire, Basketball Hall of Famer (New York Knicks) died Jan 26, 2001
1930 Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist
1936 Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley), singer (That’ll Be the Day, Oh, Boy, Peggy Sue) killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959
1945 Jacques Lemaire, NHL player/coach (Montreal Canadiens; Minnesota Wild)
1946 Alfa Anderson, singer (Chic)
1949 Gloria Gaynor, singer (I Will Survive)
1951 Chrissie Hynde, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Pretenders)
1951 Julie Kavner, actor/voice actress (Rhoda, The Simpsons)
1954 Corbin Bernsen, actor (L.A. Law, Major League series)
1954 Benmont Tench, keyboards (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
1954 Michael Emerson, actor (Lost)
1957 Jermaine Stewart, pop singer (Shalamar)
1961 Leroi Moore, saxophonist (The Dave Matthews Band)
1963 W. Earl Brown, actor (Deadwood)
1963 Eazy-E, rapper (N.W.A.) died Mar 26, 1995
1969 Angie Everhart, model/actress (Undercover, Executive Target)
1970 Tom Everett Scott, actor (That Thing You Do!, An American Werewolf in Paris)
1972 Jason Isringhausen, MLB relief pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1973 Shannon Elizabeth, actress (American Pie series)
1978 Devon Sawa, actor (Casper, Slackers)
1980 Mark Prior, MLB pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1987 Evan Rachael Wood, actress (Practical Magic, Once and Again)
Today's Deaths in History
1943 J. P. Morgan, Jr., financier, dies on his 76th birthday
1954 Bud Fisher, cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff) dies at 69
1955 Ham Fisher, cartoonist (Joe Palooka) dies at 54
1962 Isak Dinesen, Danish author (Babette's Feast) dies at 77
1969 Everett M. Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, dies at 73
1978 Keith Moon, drummer (The Who) dies at 32
1994 James Clavell, author (The Great Escape) dies at 69
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, former dictator of Zaire, died in exile at 66
2003 Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter (Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London) dies at 56
Today in History
1776 In the world's first submarine attack, the American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
1888 Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator, which, at the time, was called a hatching cradle.
1892 The first world heavyweight title fight to use the Marquis of Queensberry Rules (including boxing gloves and three-minute rounds) was held in New Orleans, LA: James Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan in round 21.
1901 The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1914 The New York Post Office Building opened its doors to the public.
1915 Johnny Gruelle was given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
1916 The New York Giants won the first of 26 consecutive baseball games.
1921 The first Miss America Pageant was held at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1930 Dagwood and Blondie made their first appearance in the Blondie comic strip, created by Chic Young.
1940 The German air force began its blitz on London during World War II.
1945 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrendered to U.S. Marines.
1950 The game show Truth or Consequences debuts on television.
1956 The Bell X-2 experimental aircraft, piloted by Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, climbed to an altitude of 126,000 feet, a world record.
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.
1966 The final episode of the original The Dick Van Dyke Show was seen on CBS-TV.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus recorded its first episode.
1970 Jockey Willie Shoemaker became the winningest horse-racing jockey by collecting win #6,033.
1971 After nine years and 216 shows, The Beverly Hillbillies was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1972 Curtis Mayfield earned a gold record for his Superfly album.
1977 The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the United States to turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington.
1977 Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released after serving more than four years in prison.
1979 ESPN (the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) made its cable TV debut.
1984 American Express Co. issued the first of its Platinum charge cards; customers paid $250 a year and were able to charge $10,000 or more.
1986 Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins threw his 100th career touchdown pass, in only his 44th pro game, setting an NFL record.
1986 Desmond Tutu was installed as the first black to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
1990 Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Fla., came forward to identify herself as the young woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late dentist; Bergalis died the following year.
1996 Rappers Tupac Shakur and Marion ‘Suge’ Knight were shot after leaving the Tyson/Seldon prizefight; Tupac was hit 4 times (he died 6 days later), while Suge escaped with minor injuries.
1997 The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor took place.
1998 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire equaled Roger Maris' single-season home run record as he hit No. 61 in a game against the Chicago Cubs.
1998 Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were students at Stanford University.
2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave in to a fierce revolt in his Labour Party and reluctantly promised to quit within a year.
2006 Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, saying he didn't realize Plame's job was covert.
Chart Toppers
1949
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
That’ll Be the Day - The Crickets
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
It’s the Same Old Song - Four Tops
The Bridge Washed Out - Warner Mack
1973
Brother Louie - Stories
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
Everybody’s Had the Blues - Merle Haggard
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me - Ronnie Milsap
1989
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Don’t Wanna Lose You - Gloria Estefan
I’m Still Crazy - Vern Gosdin
Quote of the Day
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne, English author (1882 - 1956)
Today's Birthdays
1533 Elizabeth I, Queen of England/daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, died Mar 24, 1603
1819 Thomas Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States, died in office Nov 25, 1885
1860 Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson), artist (The Quilting Bee) died Dec 13, 1961
1867 J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan Jr., financier, died Mar 13, 1943
1908 Paul Brown, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Cleveland Browns) died Aug 5, 1991
1908 Dr. Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon
1909 Elia Kazan (Kazanjoglous), director (On the Waterfront, East of Eden, A Streetcar Named Desire) died Sep 28, 2003
1913 Sir (John) Anthony Quayle, actor (The Eagle Has Landed, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone) died Oct 20, 1989
1923 Peter (Sidney Ernest Aylen) Lawford, actor/Rat Pack member (Ocean’s 11, The Longest Day) died Dec 24, 1984
1924 Daniel Inouye, U.S. Senator (D-HI)/Medal of Honor recipient (World War II)
1928 Al McGuire, Basketball Hall of Famer (New York Knicks) died Jan 26, 2001
1930 Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist
1936 Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley), singer (That’ll Be the Day, Oh, Boy, Peggy Sue) killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959
1945 Jacques Lemaire, NHL player/coach (Montreal Canadiens; Minnesota Wild)
1946 Alfa Anderson, singer (Chic)
1949 Gloria Gaynor, singer (I Will Survive)
1951 Chrissie Hynde, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Pretenders)
1951 Julie Kavner, actor/voice actress (Rhoda, The Simpsons)
1954 Corbin Bernsen, actor (L.A. Law, Major League series)
1954 Benmont Tench, keyboards (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
1954 Michael Emerson, actor (Lost)
1957 Jermaine Stewart, pop singer (Shalamar)
1961 Leroi Moore, saxophonist (The Dave Matthews Band)
1963 W. Earl Brown, actor (Deadwood)
1963 Eazy-E, rapper (N.W.A.) died Mar 26, 1995
1969 Angie Everhart, model/actress (Undercover, Executive Target)
1970 Tom Everett Scott, actor (That Thing You Do!, An American Werewolf in Paris)
1972 Jason Isringhausen, MLB relief pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1973 Shannon Elizabeth, actress (American Pie series)
1978 Devon Sawa, actor (Casper, Slackers)
1980 Mark Prior, MLB pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1987 Evan Rachael Wood, actress (Practical Magic, Once and Again)
Today's Deaths in History
1943 J. P. Morgan, Jr., financier, dies on his 76th birthday
1954 Bud Fisher, cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff) dies at 69
1955 Ham Fisher, cartoonist (Joe Palooka) dies at 54
1962 Isak Dinesen, Danish author (Babette's Feast) dies at 77
1969 Everett M. Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, dies at 73
1978 Keith Moon, drummer (The Who) dies at 32
1994 James Clavell, author (The Great Escape) dies at 69
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, former dictator of Zaire, died in exile at 66
2003 Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter (Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London) dies at 56
Today in History
1776 In the world's first submarine attack, the American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
1888 Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator, which, at the time, was called a hatching cradle.
1892 The first world heavyweight title fight to use the Marquis of Queensberry Rules (including boxing gloves and three-minute rounds) was held in New Orleans, LA: James Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan in round 21.
1901 The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1914 The New York Post Office Building opened its doors to the public.
1915 Johnny Gruelle was given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
1916 The New York Giants won the first of 26 consecutive baseball games.
1921 The first Miss America Pageant was held at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1930 Dagwood and Blondie made their first appearance in the Blondie comic strip, created by Chic Young.
1940 The German air force began its blitz on London during World War II.
1945 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrendered to U.S. Marines.
1950 The game show Truth or Consequences debuts on television.
1956 The Bell X-2 experimental aircraft, piloted by Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, climbed to an altitude of 126,000 feet, a world record.
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.
1966 The final episode of the original The Dick Van Dyke Show was seen on CBS-TV.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus recorded its first episode.
1970 Jockey Willie Shoemaker became the winningest horse-racing jockey by collecting win #6,033.
1971 After nine years and 216 shows, The Beverly Hillbillies was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1972 Curtis Mayfield earned a gold record for his Superfly album.
1977 The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the United States to turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington.
1977 Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released after serving more than four years in prison.
1979 ESPN (the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) made its cable TV debut.
1984 American Express Co. issued the first of its Platinum charge cards; customers paid $250 a year and were able to charge $10,000 or more.
1986 Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins threw his 100th career touchdown pass, in only his 44th pro game, setting an NFL record.
1986 Desmond Tutu was installed as the first black to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
1990 Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Fla., came forward to identify herself as the young woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late dentist; Bergalis died the following year.
1996 Rappers Tupac Shakur and Marion ‘Suge’ Knight were shot after leaving the Tyson/Seldon prizefight; Tupac was hit 4 times (he died 6 days later), while Suge escaped with minor injuries.
1997 The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor took place.
1998 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire equaled Roger Maris' single-season home run record as he hit No. 61 in a game against the Chicago Cubs.
1998 Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were students at Stanford University.
2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave in to a fierce revolt in his Labour Party and reluctantly promised to quit within a year.
2006 Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, saying he didn't realize Plame's job was covert.
Chart Toppers
1949
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
That’ll Be the Day - The Crickets
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
It’s the Same Old Song - Four Tops
The Bridge Washed Out - Warner Mack
1973
Brother Louie - Stories
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
Everybody’s Had the Blues - Merle Haggard
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me - Ronnie Milsap
1989
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Don’t Wanna Lose You - Gloria Estefan
I’m Still Crazy - Vern Gosdin
Quote of the Day
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne, English author (1882 - 1956)
Today in History - Sept 8th
Today's Birthdays
1157 Richard the Lionheart, King of England, died Apr 6, 1199
1841 Antonin Dvorak, composer (Gypsy Melodies) died May 1, 1904
1897 Jimmie (James Charles) Rodgers, Country Music Hall of Famer, died May 26, 1933
1922 Sid Caesar, actor/comedian (Your Show of Shows)
1925 Peter (Richard Henry) Sellers, comedian/actor (The Pink Panther series, Dr. Strangelove, Being There) died July 24, 1980
1932 Patsy Cline (Virginia Petterson Hensley), Country Music Hall of Famer, killed in plane crash Mar 5, 1963
1942 Brian Cole, bassost/singer (The Association) died Aug 2, 1972
1945 ‘Rogie’ Rogatien Vachon, NHL goaltender (Montreal Canadiens, LA Kings, Boston Bruins)
1945 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, keyboardist/singer (The Grateful Dead) died March 8, 1973
1946 L.C. Greenwood, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1947 Benjamin Orr, bassist/singer (The Cars) died Oct 1, 2000
1957 Heather Thomas, actress (Zapped!, The Fall Guy)
1958 Michael Lardie, keyboardist (Great White)
1960 David Steele, keyboards/bass (Fine Young Cannibals)
1960 Aimee Mann, singer ('Til Tuesday)
197 Brooke Burke, model/TV Host (Rock Star)
1971 David Arquette, actor (Scream series)
1971 Henry Thomas, actor (ET)
1971 Martin Freeman, actor (The Office)
1972 Lisa Kennedy, television personality (MTV VJ)
1974 Amani Toomer, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1975 Larenz Tate, actor (Menace II Society)
1979 Pink, R&B/Pop singer
1981 Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor (Home Improvement)
1983 Wali Lundy, NFL running back (Houston Texans)
Today's Deaths in History
1888 Annie Chapman, second victim of Jack the Ripper, dies at 47
1965 Dorothy Dandridge, actress/performer, dies at 42
1977 Zero Mostel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof) dies at 62
2003 Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (Triumph of the Will) dies at 101
2004 Frank Thomas, animator (Walt Disnet Studios) dies at 92
Today in History
1504 Michelangelo's David was unveiled in Florence.
1565 A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla.
1664 The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York.
1866 James and Jennie Bushnell became the proud parents of sextuplets in Chicago, IL, teh first recorded sextuplet births.
1888 In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, was found.
1892 "The Pledge of Allegiance" to the United States of America was written by a former Baptist preacher, Francis Bellamy.
1900 Galveston, Texas was struck by the worst hurricane (and deadliest natural disaster) in American history, taking 6,000 lives.
1914 Private Thomas Highgate became the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during World War I.
1921 Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.
1930 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1935 The Hoboken Four, featuring Frank Sinatra as lead singer, appeared on Major Bowes Amateur Hour on WOR radio.
1935 Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot at the state capital building in Baton Rouge; he died two days later.
1941 A 900-day siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II.
1943 New York Giants player Ace Adams pitched his 62nd game, setting a major-league baseball record for number of games worked by a pitcher in a single season.
1945 A bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time, in Washington, DC.
1952 The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, was published.
1955 The Brooklyn Dodgers won the National League pennant, the earliest a team had done so.
1958 Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates tied a major-league baseball record by hitting three triples.
1965 Bert Campaneris of the Kansas City Athletics played all nine positions as the Athletics lost to the California Angels, 5-3 in 13 innings.
1966 The first episode of Star Trek, titled "The Man Trap," was seen on NBC-TV.
1971 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1974 President Gerald R. Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Richard M. Nixon.
1974 Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, failed after a parachute prematurely deployed on his "sky cycle."
1975 Boston's public schools began a court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1975 US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual;" he was later given a general discharge.
1984 Some 6,000 of the Notre Dame student body (total: 7,300) assembled in what may have been the longest bus caravan ever, traveling from South Bend to Indianapolis, IN, in 147 buses to see the sold-out Notre Dame-Purdue football game.
1986 Herschel Walker made his start in the National Football League, leading the Dallas Cowboys to a 31-28 win over the New York Giants.
1990 Jon Bon Jovi’s "Blaze of Glory" hit number one on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 singles list.
1994 USAir flight 427 crashed as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport; all 132 people on board the Boeing 737 were killed.
1997 America Online acquired CompuServe, the oldest U.S. on-line computer service.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 62nd home run of the season, breaking Roger Maris' record of 61.
1999 US Attorney General Janet Reno named former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas.
2000 The head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs apologized for the federal agency's "legacy of racism and inhumanity" that included massacres, forced relocations of tribes and attempts to wipe out Indian cultures.
2003 The Recording Industry Association of America filed 261 copyright lawsuits against Internet users for trading songs online.
2004 60 Minutes Wednesday aired a report questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service; CBS News later apologized for a "mistake in judgment" after memos featured in the report were challenged as forgeries.
2006 A Senate report faulted intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, and said Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, contradicting assertions President Bush had used to build support for the war.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
Patricia - Perez Prado
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
See You in September - The Happenings
You Can’t Hurry Love - The Supremes
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends - Ronnie Milsap
1982
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers
1990
Blaze of Glory - Jon Bon Jovi
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
Do Me! - Bell Biv DeVoe
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower
Today's Birthdays
1157 Richard the Lionheart, King of England, died Apr 6, 1199
1841 Antonin Dvorak, composer (Gypsy Melodies) died May 1, 1904
1897 Jimmie (James Charles) Rodgers, Country Music Hall of Famer, died May 26, 1933
1922 Sid Caesar, actor/comedian (Your Show of Shows)
1925 Peter (Richard Henry) Sellers, comedian/actor (The Pink Panther series, Dr. Strangelove, Being There) died July 24, 1980
1932 Patsy Cline (Virginia Petterson Hensley), Country Music Hall of Famer, killed in plane crash Mar 5, 1963
1942 Brian Cole, bassost/singer (The Association) died Aug 2, 1972
1945 ‘Rogie’ Rogatien Vachon, NHL goaltender (Montreal Canadiens, LA Kings, Boston Bruins)
1945 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, keyboardist/singer (The Grateful Dead) died March 8, 1973
1946 L.C. Greenwood, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1947 Benjamin Orr, bassist/singer (The Cars) died Oct 1, 2000
1957 Heather Thomas, actress (Zapped!, The Fall Guy)
1958 Michael Lardie, keyboardist (Great White)
1960 David Steele, keyboards/bass (Fine Young Cannibals)
1960 Aimee Mann, singer ('Til Tuesday)
197 Brooke Burke, model/TV Host (Rock Star)
1971 David Arquette, actor (Scream series)
1971 Henry Thomas, actor (ET)
1971 Martin Freeman, actor (The Office)
1972 Lisa Kennedy, television personality (MTV VJ)
1974 Amani Toomer, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1975 Larenz Tate, actor (Menace II Society)
1979 Pink, R&B/Pop singer
1981 Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor (Home Improvement)
1983 Wali Lundy, NFL running back (Houston Texans)
Today's Deaths in History
1888 Annie Chapman, second victim of Jack the Ripper, dies at 47
1965 Dorothy Dandridge, actress/performer, dies at 42
1977 Zero Mostel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof) dies at 62
2003 Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (Triumph of the Will) dies at 101
2004 Frank Thomas, animator (Walt Disnet Studios) dies at 92
Today in History
1504 Michelangelo's David was unveiled in Florence.
1565 A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla.
1664 The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York.
1866 James and Jennie Bushnell became the proud parents of sextuplets in Chicago, IL, teh first recorded sextuplet births.
1888 In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, was found.
1892 "The Pledge of Allegiance" to the United States of America was written by a former Baptist preacher, Francis Bellamy.
1900 Galveston, Texas was struck by the worst hurricane (and deadliest natural disaster) in American history, taking 6,000 lives.
1914 Private Thomas Highgate became the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during World War I.
1921 Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.
1930 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1935 The Hoboken Four, featuring Frank Sinatra as lead singer, appeared on Major Bowes Amateur Hour on WOR radio.
1935 Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot at the state capital building in Baton Rouge; he died two days later.
1941 A 900-day siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II.
1943 New York Giants player Ace Adams pitched his 62nd game, setting a major-league baseball record for number of games worked by a pitcher in a single season.
1945 A bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time, in Washington, DC.
1952 The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, was published.
1955 The Brooklyn Dodgers won the National League pennant, the earliest a team had done so.
1958 Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates tied a major-league baseball record by hitting three triples.
1965 Bert Campaneris of the Kansas City Athletics played all nine positions as the Athletics lost to the California Angels, 5-3 in 13 innings.
1966 The first episode of Star Trek, titled "The Man Trap," was seen on NBC-TV.
1971 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1974 President Gerald R. Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Richard M. Nixon.
1974 Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, failed after a parachute prematurely deployed on his "sky cycle."
1975 Boston's public schools began a court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1975 US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual;" he was later given a general discharge.
1984 Some 6,000 of the Notre Dame student body (total: 7,300) assembled in what may have been the longest bus caravan ever, traveling from South Bend to Indianapolis, IN, in 147 buses to see the sold-out Notre Dame-Purdue football game.
1986 Herschel Walker made his start in the National Football League, leading the Dallas Cowboys to a 31-28 win over the New York Giants.
1990 Jon Bon Jovi’s "Blaze of Glory" hit number one on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 singles list.
1994 USAir flight 427 crashed as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport; all 132 people on board the Boeing 737 were killed.
1997 America Online acquired CompuServe, the oldest U.S. on-line computer service.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 62nd home run of the season, breaking Roger Maris' record of 61.
1999 US Attorney General Janet Reno named former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas.
2000 The head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs apologized for the federal agency's "legacy of racism and inhumanity" that included massacres, forced relocations of tribes and attempts to wipe out Indian cultures.
2003 The Recording Industry Association of America filed 261 copyright lawsuits against Internet users for trading songs online.
2004 60 Minutes Wednesday aired a report questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service; CBS News later apologized for a "mistake in judgment" after memos featured in the report were challenged as forgeries.
2006 A Senate report faulted intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, and said Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, contradicting assertions President Bush had used to build support for the war.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
Patricia - Perez Prado
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
See You in September - The Happenings
You Can’t Hurry Love - The Supremes
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends - Ronnie Milsap
1982
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers
1990
Blaze of Glory - Jon Bon Jovi
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
Do Me! - Bell Biv DeVoe
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower
QUOTE(Dunc @ Sep 5 2007, 02:31 PM) 
Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas.
Love these things, btw.
Love these things, btw.
Interestingly enough, he took his stage name after reading an article on Diane Keaton...who was born Diane Hall...who was the inspiration for Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."
Today in History - Sept 9th
Today's Birthdays
1754 William Bligh, British naval officer (Mutiny on the Bounty) died Dec 7, 1817
1877 Frank (Leroy) Chance, Baseball Hall of Famer (Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double play) died Sep 15, 1924
1890 Colonel Harland Sanders, restaurateur (Kentucky Fried Chicken) died Dec 16, 1980
1893 Esther Cleveland, first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House, died June 25, 1980
1898 Frankie (Francis) Frisch, ‘The Fordham Flash,’ Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Giants) died Mar 12, 1973
1899 Waite (Charles) Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (NY Giants, Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees) died Aug 25, 1984
1905 Joseph E. Levine, movie producer (The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter) died July 31, 1987
1923 Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder (Demetrios Georgios Synodinos), oddsmaker/broadcaster (The NFL Today) died Apr 21, 1996
1925 Cliff Robertson, actor (PT 109, The Devil’s Brigade, Midway)
1941 Otis Redding, singer (Sittin’ on Tte Dock of the Bay) killed in plane crash Dec 10, 1967
1942 Luther Simmons, singer (Main Ingredient)
1946 Doug Ingle, keyboards/singer (Iron Butterfly)
1946 Billy Preston, musician/songwriter/singer (unofficial 5th Beatle) died June 6, 2006
1947 Freddy Weller, guitarist (Paul Revere and The Raiders)
1949 Joe Theismann, NFL quarterback/broadcaster (Washington Redskins)
1951 Tom Wopat, actor (The Dukes of Hazzard)
1952 Angela Cartwright, actress (Lost in Space)
1952 David Stewart, guitarist/keyboards (Eurythmics)
1960 Hugh Grant, actor (Sense and Sensibility, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes)
1966 Adam Sandler, comedian/actor (Happy Gilmore, Airheads, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy)
1967 Chris Caffery, guitarist/singer (Savarage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
1969 Rachel Hunter, supermodel
1972 Goran Visnjic, actor (ER)
1974 Das Has, board member
1975 Michael Bublé, singer
1980 Michelle Williams, actress (Dawson’s Creek)
19?? NYRangers, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1915 Albert Spalding, baseball player/sporting goods manufacturer, dies at 65
1976 Mao Zedong, Communist Chinese leader, dies in Beijing at 82
1978 Jack Warner, film studio founder (Warner Bros) dies at 86
1996 Bill Monroe, bluegrass singer/composer, dies at 84
1997 Burgess Meredith, actor (Batman) dies at 88
1999 Jim "Catfish" Hunter, MLB pitcher, dies at 53
2003 Larry Hovis, actor (Hogan's Heroes) dies at 67
Today in History
1776 The second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."
1836 Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
1850 California became the 31st of the United States of America.
1926 The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was organized as a broadcasting service of the Radio Corporation of America.
1947 The first actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1950 Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout; only four other pitchers in the National League had accomplished this feat.
1956 54,000,000 viewers (82.6 percent of the U.S. television audience) turned their TV dials to CBS to see and hear 21-year-old singer Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1965 Los Angeles Dodgers player Sandy Koufax pitched the eighth perfect game in major-league baseball history, leading the Dodgers over the Chicago Cubs 1-0.
1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
1971 Hockey legend Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League.
1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1979 Tracy Austin became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title, at 16 years old.
1984 Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record by reaching 15,517 yards.
1986 Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films, Yankee Doodle Dandy, on his superstation WTBS in Atlanta, GA.
1990 The Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, closed to public tours in 1984, was reopened following a $160 million restoration.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
1998 Four tourists paid $32,500 each to be taken in a 23-foot submersible to view the wreckage of the Titanic two and a-half miles below the ocean surface off Newfoundland.
2001 Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price
Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee
Your Tender Loving Care - Buck Owens
1975
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - James Taylor
Feelins’ - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynne
1983
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Puttin’ on the Ritz - Taco
I Fire I Can’t Put Out - George Strait
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
The Promise of a New Day - Paula Abdul
Motownphilly - Boys II Men
Brand New Man - Brooks & Dunn
Quote of the Day
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
Today's Birthdays
1754 William Bligh, British naval officer (Mutiny on the Bounty) died Dec 7, 1817
1877 Frank (Leroy) Chance, Baseball Hall of Famer (Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double play) died Sep 15, 1924
1890 Colonel Harland Sanders, restaurateur (Kentucky Fried Chicken) died Dec 16, 1980
1893 Esther Cleveland, first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House, died June 25, 1980
1898 Frankie (Francis) Frisch, ‘The Fordham Flash,’ Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Giants) died Mar 12, 1973
1899 Waite (Charles) Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (NY Giants, Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees) died Aug 25, 1984
1905 Joseph E. Levine, movie producer (The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter) died July 31, 1987
1923 Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder (Demetrios Georgios Synodinos), oddsmaker/broadcaster (The NFL Today) died Apr 21, 1996
1925 Cliff Robertson, actor (PT 109, The Devil’s Brigade, Midway)
1941 Otis Redding, singer (Sittin’ on Tte Dock of the Bay) killed in plane crash Dec 10, 1967
1942 Luther Simmons, singer (Main Ingredient)
1946 Doug Ingle, keyboards/singer (Iron Butterfly)
1946 Billy Preston, musician/songwriter/singer (unofficial 5th Beatle) died June 6, 2006
1947 Freddy Weller, guitarist (Paul Revere and The Raiders)
1949 Joe Theismann, NFL quarterback/broadcaster (Washington Redskins)
1951 Tom Wopat, actor (The Dukes of Hazzard)
1952 Angela Cartwright, actress (Lost in Space)
1952 David Stewart, guitarist/keyboards (Eurythmics)
1960 Hugh Grant, actor (Sense and Sensibility, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes)
1966 Adam Sandler, comedian/actor (Happy Gilmore, Airheads, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy)
1967 Chris Caffery, guitarist/singer (Savarage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
1969 Rachel Hunter, supermodel
1972 Goran Visnjic, actor (ER)
1974 Das Has, board member
1975 Michael Bublé, singer
1980 Michelle Williams, actress (Dawson’s Creek)
19?? NYRangers, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1915 Albert Spalding, baseball player/sporting goods manufacturer, dies at 65
1976 Mao Zedong, Communist Chinese leader, dies in Beijing at 82
1978 Jack Warner, film studio founder (Warner Bros) dies at 86
1996 Bill Monroe, bluegrass singer/composer, dies at 84
1997 Burgess Meredith, actor (Batman) dies at 88
1999 Jim "Catfish" Hunter, MLB pitcher, dies at 53
2003 Larry Hovis, actor (Hogan's Heroes) dies at 67
Today in History
1776 The second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."
1836 Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
1850 California became the 31st of the United States of America.
1926 The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was organized as a broadcasting service of the Radio Corporation of America.
1947 The first actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1950 Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout; only four other pitchers in the National League had accomplished this feat.
1956 54,000,000 viewers (82.6 percent of the U.S. television audience) turned their TV dials to CBS to see and hear 21-year-old singer Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1965 Los Angeles Dodgers player Sandy Koufax pitched the eighth perfect game in major-league baseball history, leading the Dodgers over the Chicago Cubs 1-0.
1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
1971 Hockey legend Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League.
1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1979 Tracy Austin became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title, at 16 years old.
1984 Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record by reaching 15,517 yards.
1986 Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films, Yankee Doodle Dandy, on his superstation WTBS in Atlanta, GA.
1990 The Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, closed to public tours in 1984, was reopened following a $160 million restoration.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
1998 Four tourists paid $32,500 each to be taken in a 23-foot submersible to view the wreckage of the Titanic two and a-half miles below the ocean surface off Newfoundland.
2001 Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price
Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee
Your Tender Loving Care - Buck Owens
1975
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - James Taylor
Feelins’ - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynne
1983
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Puttin’ on the Ritz - Taco
I Fire I Can’t Put Out - George Strait
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
The Promise of a New Day - Paula Abdul
Motownphilly - Boys II Men
Brand New Man - Brooks & Dunn
Quote of the Day
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
Today in History - Sept 10th
Today's Birthdays
1839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, publisher (Funk of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary) died Apr 4, 1912
1914 Robert Wise, director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Andromeda Strain) died Sep 14, 2005
1915 Edmond O’Brien, actor (The Barefoot Contessa, Birdman of Alcatraz, Fantastic Voyage) died May 9, 1985
1927 Yma Sumac (Zoila Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo), Peruvian singer (4-octave range)
1929 Arnold Palmer, golf champion (first $1 million winner)
1934 Charles Kuralt, journalist (CBS News, On the Road with Charles Kuralt) died July 4, 1997
1934 Roger (Eugene) Maris (Maras), Hall of Fame outfielder (NY Yankees) died Dec 14, 1985
1938 Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1942 Danny Hutton, singer (Three Dog Night)
1945 Jose Feliciano, singer (Light My Fire)
1948 Judy Geeson, actress (To Sir with Love)
1948 Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer (Detroit Pistons)
1948 Margaret Trudeau (Sinclair), former Canadian First Lady
1949 Bill O'Reilly, journalist/commentator (Fox News)
1950 Joe Perry, guitarist (Aerosmith)
1950 Don Powell, drummer (Slade)
1953 Amy Irving, actress (Yentl, Crossing Delancy, The Competition)
1955 Pat Mastelotto, drummer (Mr. Mister)
1956 Johnnie Fingers (Moylett), keyboardist/singer (The Boomtown Rats)
1957 Carol Decker, singer (T'Pau)
1958 Chris Columbus, director (Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone series, Adventures in Babysitting)
1960 Siobhan Fahey, singer (Bananarama, Shakespear's Sister)
1960 Colin Firth, actor (Pride and Prejudice, Circle of Friends, The Secret Garden)
1960 David Lowery, guitarist/singer (Camper van Beethoven, Cracker)
1963 Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson, MLB pitcher
1963 Bill Stevenson, producer/punk drummer (Descendents, Black Flag)
1965 Robin Goodridge, drummer (Bush)
1966 Miles Zuniga, guitarist/singer (Fastball)
1968 Big Daddy Kane, rapper/songwriter
1968 Guy Ritchie, director/Mr Madonna
1969 Jonathon Schaech, actor (That Thing You Do)
1974 Ryan Phillippe, actor (Flags of Our Fathers)
1980 Mikey Way, bassist (My Chemical Romance)
Today's Deaths in History
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (mother of Mary Shelley) dies at 38
1935 Huey "Kingfish" Long, politician, dies at 42
1961 Leo Carrillo, actor (Cisco Kid) dies at 81
2005 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 81
2006 Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, dies at 20
2007 Jane Wyman, actress (Falcon Crest) dies at 93
Today in History
1608 John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
1813 Oliver H. Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846 Elias Howe patented the lock stitch sewing machine.
1919 New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the U.S. 1st Division during World War I.
1935 Popeye was heard for the first time on NBC radio.
1939 Canada declared war on Germany during World War II.
1948 American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.
1951 Florence Chadwick of San Diego, CA, became the first American woman to swim the English Channel from both coasts.
1955 Bert Parks began a 25-year career as host of the Miss America Pageant on NBC.
1955 Gunsmoke debuted on CBS-TV and went on to become the longest-running (20 years) series on television.
1961 Mickey Mantle tied a major-league baseball record for home runs by hammering his 400th.
1961 At the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash on the 2nd lap of the race caused the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1963 Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace, who resisted integration.
1964 Rod Stewart recorded his first tune, titled "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", for Decca.
1972 Gayle Sayers of the Chicago Bears retired from pro football.
1974 Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Maury Wills’ 1962 major-league record for stolen bases in a season; stealing his 105th base on his way to a career total of 938.
1977 Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.
1980 Bill Gullickson of the Montreal Expos struck out 18 batters, setting a major-league record for a rookie pitcher in a single game.
1982 Pete Rose played in his 3,077th baseball game, breaking Hank Aarons’s record for the most games played in the National League.
1984 The Federal Communications Commission changed the rules, allowing broadcasters to own 12 AM and 12 FM radio stations.
1988 Steffi Graf of West Germany achieved tennis' Grand Slam - winning all four major tournaments in a calendar year - by taking the U.S. Open women's title.
1989 Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.
1995 Cyndi Lauper won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance as Mary Ann in Mad About You.
1998 President Bill Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize and ask forgiveness in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
2000 NBC's The West Wing won a record nine Emmy awards, including best drama series.
2002 Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the next day.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Soldier’s Last Letter - Ernest Tubb
1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Volare - Bobby Rydell
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
You’ll Never Find Another Love like Mine - Lou Rawls
Let ’Em In - Wings
(I’m A) Stand by My Woman Man - Ronnie Milsap
1984
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Missing You - John Waite
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
Tennessee Homesick Blues - Dolly Parton
Quote of the Day
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 - 1881)
Today's Birthdays
1839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, publisher (Funk of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary) died Apr 4, 1912
1914 Robert Wise, director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Andromeda Strain) died Sep 14, 2005
1915 Edmond O’Brien, actor (The Barefoot Contessa, Birdman of Alcatraz, Fantastic Voyage) died May 9, 1985
1927 Yma Sumac (Zoila Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo), Peruvian singer (4-octave range)
1929 Arnold Palmer, golf champion (first $1 million winner)
1934 Charles Kuralt, journalist (CBS News, On the Road with Charles Kuralt) died July 4, 1997
1934 Roger (Eugene) Maris (Maras), Hall of Fame outfielder (NY Yankees) died Dec 14, 1985
1938 Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1942 Danny Hutton, singer (Three Dog Night)
1945 Jose Feliciano, singer (Light My Fire)
1948 Judy Geeson, actress (To Sir with Love)
1948 Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer (Detroit Pistons)
1948 Margaret Trudeau (Sinclair), former Canadian First Lady
1949 Bill O'Reilly, journalist/commentator (Fox News)
1950 Joe Perry, guitarist (Aerosmith)
1950 Don Powell, drummer (Slade)
1953 Amy Irving, actress (Yentl, Crossing Delancy, The Competition)
1955 Pat Mastelotto, drummer (Mr. Mister)
1956 Johnnie Fingers (Moylett), keyboardist/singer (The Boomtown Rats)
1957 Carol Decker, singer (T'Pau)
1958 Chris Columbus, director (Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone series, Adventures in Babysitting)
1960 Siobhan Fahey, singer (Bananarama, Shakespear's Sister)
1960 Colin Firth, actor (Pride and Prejudice, Circle of Friends, The Secret Garden)
1960 David Lowery, guitarist/singer (Camper van Beethoven, Cracker)
1963 Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson, MLB pitcher
1963 Bill Stevenson, producer/punk drummer (Descendents, Black Flag)
1965 Robin Goodridge, drummer (Bush)
1966 Miles Zuniga, guitarist/singer (Fastball)
1968 Big Daddy Kane, rapper/songwriter
1968 Guy Ritchie, director/Mr Madonna
1969 Jonathon Schaech, actor (That Thing You Do)
1974 Ryan Phillippe, actor (Flags of Our Fathers)
1980 Mikey Way, bassist (My Chemical Romance)
Today's Deaths in History
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (mother of Mary Shelley) dies at 38
1935 Huey "Kingfish" Long, politician, dies at 42
1961 Leo Carrillo, actor (Cisco Kid) dies at 81
2005 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 81
2006 Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, dies at 20
2007 Jane Wyman, actress (Falcon Crest) dies at 93
Today in History
1608 John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
1813 Oliver H. Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846 Elias Howe patented the lock stitch sewing machine.
1919 New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the U.S. 1st Division during World War I.
1935 Popeye was heard for the first time on NBC radio.
1939 Canada declared war on Germany during World War II.
1948 American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.
1951 Florence Chadwick of San Diego, CA, became the first American woman to swim the English Channel from both coasts.
1955 Bert Parks began a 25-year career as host of the Miss America Pageant on NBC.
1955 Gunsmoke debuted on CBS-TV and went on to become the longest-running (20 years) series on television.
1961 Mickey Mantle tied a major-league baseball record for home runs by hammering his 400th.
1961 At the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, a horrific crash on the 2nd lap of the race caused the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1963 Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace, who resisted integration.
1964 Rod Stewart recorded his first tune, titled "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", for Decca.
1972 Gayle Sayers of the Chicago Bears retired from pro football.
1974 Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Maury Wills’ 1962 major-league record for stolen bases in a season; stealing his 105th base on his way to a career total of 938.
1977 Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.
1980 Bill Gullickson of the Montreal Expos struck out 18 batters, setting a major-league record for a rookie pitcher in a single game.
1982 Pete Rose played in his 3,077th baseball game, breaking Hank Aarons’s record for the most games played in the National League.
1984 The Federal Communications Commission changed the rules, allowing broadcasters to own 12 AM and 12 FM radio stations.
1988 Steffi Graf of West Germany achieved tennis' Grand Slam - winning all four major tournaments in a calendar year - by taking the U.S. Open women's title.
1989 Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.
1995 Cyndi Lauper won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance as Mary Ann in Mad About You.
1998 President Bill Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize and ask forgiveness in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
2000 NBC's The West Wing won a record nine Emmy awards, including best drama series.
2002 Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the next day.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Soldier’s Last Letter - Ernest Tubb
1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Volare - Bobby Rydell
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
You’ll Never Find Another Love like Mine - Lou Rawls
Let ’Em In - Wings
(I’m A) Stand by My Woman Man - Ronnie Milsap
1984
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Missing You - John Waite
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
Tennessee Homesick Blues - Dolly Parton
Quote of the Day
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 - 1881)
1968 Guy Ritchie, director/Mr Madonna
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1968 Guy Ritchie, director/Mr Madonna
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Today is 9/11, Remeber Always Remember
Today in History - Sept 11th
Patriots Day
Today's Birthdays
1862 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), author (Gift of the Magi) died June 5, 1910
1885 D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, writer (Lady Chatterly’s Lover) died in Mar 2, 1930
1913 Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, football coach (University of Alabama) died Jan 26, 1983
1917 Ferdinand (Edralin) Marcos, President of the Philippines, died Sep 28, 1989
1924 Tom Landry, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Dallas Cowboys) died Feb 12, 2000
1924 Daniel Akaka, U.S. Senator (D-Hawaii)
1928 (Henry) Earl Holliman, actor (Forbidden Planet, Police Woman)
1940 Brian (Russell) De Palma, director (Carrie, The Untouchables, Body Double, Scarface, Wise Guys)
1942 Lola Falana, singer/actress
1943 Mickey Hart, drummer/songwriter (Grateful Dead)
1950 Amy Madigan, actress (Streets of Fire, Uncle Buck, Field of Dreams)
1953 Tommy Shaw, guitarist (Styx)
1957 Jon Moss, drummer (Culture Club)
1958 Roxann Dawson, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
1959 Mick Talbot, keyboardist (The Style Council)
1962 Kristy McNichol, actress (Family, Empty Nest, Apple’s Way)
1962 Elizabeth Daily, actress (Valley Girl, Streets of Fire)
1963 Virginia Madsen, actress (The Prophecy, Candyman, Slamdance)
1965 Moby, pop/rock keyboardist/composer
1967 Harry Connick Jr., pianist/singer
1967 Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist (CNBC)
1971 Richard Ashcroft, British singer (The Verve)
1977 Ludacris, rapper
1977 Jon Buckland, guitarist (Coldplay)
1979 Ariana Richards, actress (Jurassic Park series)
1980 Mike Comrie, NHL center (NY Islanders)
1981 Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School murderer, died Apr 20, 1999
1986 Dwayne Jarrett, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1987 Tyler Hoechlin, actor (Road to Perdition)
Today's Deaths in History
1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Former Soviet leader, dies at 77
1978 Janet Parker, medical photographer (the final victim of smallpox) dies at 40
1987 Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) dies at 72
1987 Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician/singer, is murdered at 43
1994 Jessica Tandy, actress (Cocoon, *batteries not included) dies at 85
1997 Camille "The Eel" Henry, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 64
1998 Dane Clark, actor (Twilight Zone, Perry Mason) dies at 76
2001 More than 3,000 people are killed when 19 Muslim extremist hijackers flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania
2002 Johnny Unitas, Football Hall of Fame quarterback, dies at 69
2002 Kim Hunter, actress (Planet of the Apes) dies at 79
2003 John Ritter, actor (Skin Deep, Three's Company, 8 Simple Rules) dies at 54
2005 Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (ABC Sports) dies at 82
Today in History
1609 Henry Hudson landed on Manhattan island.
1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of the treasury.
1814 An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
1847 Stephen Foster performed his "Oh! Susanna" for the very first time.
1850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," sang in her first American performance, at the Castle Garden Theatre in New York City.
1875 Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm appeared in the New York Daily Graphics newspaper, the first comic strip to appear in a newspaper.
1877 The first comic-character timepiece was patented by the Waterbury Clock Company, 56 years before the same company produced the first Mickey Mouse watch.
1883 The mail chute was patented by James G. Cutler, a former Mayor of Rochester, NY.
1918 The Boston Red Sox won their last World Series (until 2004), starting the "Curse of the Bambino."
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator.
1941 Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
1954 The Miss America Pageant was televised live coast-to-coast for the first time.
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald was discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
1962 Ringo Starr joined John, Paul and George and Andy White to record "Love Me Do" at Abbey Road, London, England (White was the session drummer on that song, while Ringo played the tambourine).
1964 The last of the Friday Night Fights was seen on free, home TV.
1970 The last episode of the Get Smart series aired on CBS-TV.
1970 The Ford Pinto was introduced.
1985 Pete Rose broke the major-league record for hits, connecting for hit #4,192 against Eric Show of San Diego.
1987 CBS went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of The CBS Evening News because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime.
1990 U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivered a nationally-televised speech in which he threatened the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.
1992 Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastated the State of Hawaii, especially the islands of Kaua'i and O'ahu.
1997 The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."
1997 Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
1998 Congress released Kenneth Starr's report, which offered graphic details of President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice.
1999 Serena Williams won the U.S. Open women’s title at age 17 in only her second year as a pro.
2001 At 8:48 a.m. EDT a passenger jet crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Flames and smoke At 9:06 a.m. nother plane hit the WTC’s South Tower. At 9:43 a.m. the Pentagon in Washington DC was hit by another jet airliner. A few minutes later, a fourth jet airliner crashed in a field in Shanksville, PA, some 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Terrorists had again struck on U.S. soil. Air traffic to and from U.S. airports was halted.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died from stab wounds inflicted when she was attacked in a Stockholm department store a day earlier.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
If I Loved You - Perry Como
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
No Other Love - Perry Como
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Michael - The Highwaymen
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
My True Story - The Jive Five
Tender Years - George Jones
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Handy Man - James Taylor
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
1985
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) - Tina Turner
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me - Rosanne Cash
Quote of the Day
Let's roll.
Todd Beamer, passenger aboard Flight 93
Patriots Day
Today's Birthdays
1862 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), author (Gift of the Magi) died June 5, 1910
1885 D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, writer (Lady Chatterly’s Lover) died in Mar 2, 1930
1913 Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, football coach (University of Alabama) died Jan 26, 1983
1917 Ferdinand (Edralin) Marcos, President of the Philippines, died Sep 28, 1989
1924 Tom Landry, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Dallas Cowboys) died Feb 12, 2000
1924 Daniel Akaka, U.S. Senator (D-Hawaii)
1928 (Henry) Earl Holliman, actor (Forbidden Planet, Police Woman)
1940 Brian (Russell) De Palma, director (Carrie, The Untouchables, Body Double, Scarface, Wise Guys)
1942 Lola Falana, singer/actress
1943 Mickey Hart, drummer/songwriter (Grateful Dead)
1950 Amy Madigan, actress (Streets of Fire, Uncle Buck, Field of Dreams)
1953 Tommy Shaw, guitarist (Styx)
1957 Jon Moss, drummer (Culture Club)
1958 Roxann Dawson, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
1959 Mick Talbot, keyboardist (The Style Council)
1962 Kristy McNichol, actress (Family, Empty Nest, Apple’s Way)
1962 Elizabeth Daily, actress (Valley Girl, Streets of Fire)
1963 Virginia Madsen, actress (The Prophecy, Candyman, Slamdance)
1965 Moby, pop/rock keyboardist/composer
1967 Harry Connick Jr., pianist/singer
1967 Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist (CNBC)
1971 Richard Ashcroft, British singer (The Verve)
1977 Ludacris, rapper
1977 Jon Buckland, guitarist (Coldplay)
1979 Ariana Richards, actress (Jurassic Park series)
1980 Mike Comrie, NHL center (NY Islanders)
1981 Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School murderer, died Apr 20, 1999
1986 Dwayne Jarrett, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1987 Tyler Hoechlin, actor (Road to Perdition)
Today's Deaths in History
1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Former Soviet leader, dies at 77
1978 Janet Parker, medical photographer (the final victim of smallpox) dies at 40
1987 Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) dies at 72
1987 Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician/singer, is murdered at 43
1994 Jessica Tandy, actress (Cocoon, *batteries not included) dies at 85
1997 Camille "The Eel" Henry, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 64
1998 Dane Clark, actor (Twilight Zone, Perry Mason) dies at 76
2001 More than 3,000 people are killed when 19 Muslim extremist hijackers flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania
2002 Johnny Unitas, Football Hall of Fame quarterback, dies at 69
2002 Kim Hunter, actress (Planet of the Apes) dies at 79
2003 John Ritter, actor (Skin Deep, Three's Company, 8 Simple Rules) dies at 54
2005 Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (ABC Sports) dies at 82
Today in History
1609 Henry Hudson landed on Manhattan island.
1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of the treasury.
1814 An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
1847 Stephen Foster performed his "Oh! Susanna" for the very first time.
1850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," sang in her first American performance, at the Castle Garden Theatre in New York City.
1875 Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm appeared in the New York Daily Graphics newspaper, the first comic strip to appear in a newspaper.
1877 The first comic-character timepiece was patented by the Waterbury Clock Company, 56 years before the same company produced the first Mickey Mouse watch.
1883 The mail chute was patented by James G. Cutler, a former Mayor of Rochester, NY.
1918 The Boston Red Sox won their last World Series (until 2004), starting the "Curse of the Bambino."
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator.
1941 Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
1954 The Miss America Pageant was televised live coast-to-coast for the first time.
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald was discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
1962 Ringo Starr joined John, Paul and George and Andy White to record "Love Me Do" at Abbey Road, London, England (White was the session drummer on that song, while Ringo played the tambourine).
1964 The last of the Friday Night Fights was seen on free, home TV.
1970 The last episode of the Get Smart series aired on CBS-TV.
1970 The Ford Pinto was introduced.
1985 Pete Rose broke the major-league record for hits, connecting for hit #4,192 against Eric Show of San Diego.
1987 CBS went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of The CBS Evening News because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime.
1990 U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivered a nationally-televised speech in which he threatened the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.
1992 Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastated the State of Hawaii, especially the islands of Kaua'i and O'ahu.
1997 The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."
1997 Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
1998 Congress released Kenneth Starr's report, which offered graphic details of President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice.
1999 Serena Williams won the U.S. Open women’s title at age 17 in only her second year as a pro.
2001 At 8:48 a.m. EDT a passenger jet crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Flames and smoke At 9:06 a.m. nother plane hit the WTC’s South Tower. At 9:43 a.m. the Pentagon in Washington DC was hit by another jet airliner. A few minutes later, a fourth jet airliner crashed in a field in Shanksville, PA, some 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Terrorists had again struck on U.S. soil. Air traffic to and from U.S. airports was halted.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died from stab wounds inflicted when she was attacked in a Stockholm department store a day earlier.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
If I Loved You - Perry Como
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
No Other Love - Perry Como
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Michael - The Highwaymen
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
My True Story - The Jive Five
Tender Years - George Jones
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Handy Man - James Taylor
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
1985
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) - Tina Turner
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me - Rosanne Cash
Quote of the Day
Let's roll.
Todd Beamer, passenger aboard Flight 93
QUOTE
2001 At 8:48 a.m. EDT a passenger jet crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Flames and smoke At 9:06 a.m. nother plane hit the WTC’s South Tower. At 9:43 a.m. the Pentagon in Washington DC was hit by another jet airliner. A few minutes later, a fourth jet airliner crashed in a field in Shanksville, PA, some 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. For the first time, terrorists had struck on U.S. soil. Air traffic to and from U.S. airports was halted.
Incorrect sir. Not to demean the event or anything like that, but if we're nothing if we don't get the facts right. Where do you get the info for the "Today in History" stuff. They need to be alerted of their mistake.
QUOTE(Alitaki @ Sep 11 2007, 09:26 AM)
Incorrect sir. Not to demean the event or anything like that, but if we're nothing if we don't get the facts right. Where do you get the info for the "Today in History" stuff. They need to be alerted of their mistake.
You make an excellent point, 'Taki -- I didn't do a good enough job of checking that when I posted it. Terrorists had already struck at the World Trade Center before.
I don't remember if that statement came from the AP's Today in History page, or one of the other ones I use, but you're right and they (and I) were wrong. I'll have to go back and check that and let them know.
Thank you for pointing out such a glaring error -- I'll certainly try not to make the same kind of mistake again.
I've fixed today's entry to reflect your correction, 'Taki. Thank you for pointing that out.
Today in History - Sept 12th
Today's Birthdays
1818 Richard Gatling, inventor (Gatling gun) died Feb 26, 1903
1880 H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, newspaper journalist/critic (Baltimore Sun) died January 29, 1956
1888 Maurice (Auguste) Chevalier, actor/singer (Gigi) died Jan 1, 1972
1892 Alfred A. Knopf, publisher, died Aug 11, 1984
1913 Jessie (James Cleveland) Owens, National Track & Field Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer (1936 Berlin Games) died Mar 31, 1980
1916 Tony (Melvin) Bettenhausen, International Motorsports Hall of Famer, killed while test driving a racecar at Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 12, 1961
1918 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel, died Apr 17, 1997
1925 Dickie (John) Moore, actor (Our Gang series)
1931 George Jones, country singer (He Stopped Loving Her Today)
1931 Ian Holm, actor (The Sweet Hereafter, The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings trilogy)
1940 Linda Gray, actress (Dallas, Melrose Place)
1943 Maria Muldaur (d’Amato), singer (Midnight at the Oasis)
1944 Barry White, singer (I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby, Never Gonna Give You Up) died July 4, 2003
1952 Gerry Beckley, singer (America)
1952 Neil Peart, drummer/lyricist (Rush)
1954 Joe Pantoliano, actor (The Fugitive, Midnight Run, La Bamba, Empire of the Sun, Risky Business, Eddie and the Cruisers)
1954 Peter Scolari, actor (Bosom Buddies)
1956 Barry Andrews, keyboards (XTC)
1956 Ricky Rudd, NASCAR driver
1956 Brian Robertson, guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1957 Rachel (Claire) Ward, actress (The Thorn Birds, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Against All Odds)
1957 Hans Zimmer, composer (The Lion King, Moonlighting, Wild Horses, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy)
1962 Amy Yasbeck, actress (Wings)
1966 Darren E. Burrows, actor (Northern Exposure, Cry-Baby)
1966 Ben Folds, singer/musician (Ben Folds Five)
1968 Larry LaLonde, guitarist (Primus)
1972 Jason Statham, actor (Transporter series)
1973 Martin Lapointe, NHL right wing (Detroit Red Wings)
1973 Paul Walker, actor (The Fast and the Furious, Pleasantville)
1978 Ruben Studdard, R&B singer (American Idol)
1978 Benjamin McKenzie, actor (The O.C.)
1980 Yao Ming, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1981 Jennifer Hudson singer/actress (American Idol, Dreamgirls)
1986 Emmy Rossum, actress (Phantom of the Opera)
Today's Deaths in History
1972 William Boyd, actor (Hopalong Cassidy) dies at 77
1977 Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies at 30
1992 Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho) dies at 60
1993 Raymond Burr, actor (Ironside, Perry Mason) dies at 76
1993 Willie Mosconi, billiards champion, dies at 80
1994 Tom Ewell, actor (Seven Year Itch) dies at 85
2000 Stanley Turrentine, jazz saxophonist, dies at 66
2003 Johnny Cash, country music legend, dies at 71
Today in History
1609 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.
1846 Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning.
1866 The first burlesque show opened in New York City.
1873 The first practical typewriter was sold to customers.
1918 U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launched an attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France, during World War I.
1928 Actress Katharine Hepburn made her stage debut in The Czarina.
1938 H.V. Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in Czechoslovakia for CBS radio; he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing updates.
1938 In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1943 German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1944 U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1953 24-year-old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier wed 36-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and future U.S. President.
1953 Nikita Khrushchev was elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1954 Lassie was seen on CBS-TV for the first time.
1959 Bonanza premiered, the first regularly-scheduled TV program to be presented in color.
1966 The Beatles received a gold record for Yellow Submarine.
1966 The Monkees debuted on NBC-TV.
1970 James Taylor’s first single, "Fire and Rain," was released.
1974 Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1977 South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.
1979 Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits and 400 career home runs as the Red Sox downed the New York Yankees 9-2 at Fenway Park in Boston.
1980 An in-depth report on the death of Elvis Presley aired on ABC-TV’s 20/20, raising so many unanswered questions that the official case concerning Elvis’ death was reopened.
1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen, 14 years after emigrating from Austria.
1984 Michael Jordan signed a seven-year contract to play basketball with the Chicago Bulls.
1984 Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record by fanning his 251st batter of the season.
1986 Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped; he was released in December 1991.
1992 Police in Peru captured the founder of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, Abimael Guzman.
1992 NASA launched Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-47) which marked the 50th shuttle mission; on board was Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
1994 Mosaic Communications announced its first products: a network browser called Mosaic Netscape, and a server line called Mosaic Netsite.
1995 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's All Star Team beat the Harlem Globetrotters 91-85, ending the Globetrotters' 24-year, 8,829-game winning streak.
1996 Barbra Streisand, the Eagles, Chicago and the Neville Brothers performed at a Los Angeles fundraiser for U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the fourth player in major-league baseball history to reach 60 homers in a single season.
2000 Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
2001 President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
2002 President George W. Bush told skeptical world leaders at the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or to stand aside as the United States acted.
2002 Three former Tyco International Ltd. executives were charged with looting the conglomerate of hundreds of millions of dollars (former CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and CFO Mark Swartz were later convicted; lawyer Mark Belnick was acquitted).
2003 The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
2006 Syrian guards foiled an attempt by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Damascus.
2006 In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world (the pontiff later said he regretted that Muslims were offended).
2007 Shinzo Abe resigned as Prime Minister of Japan.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
Surrender - Perry Como
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
The High and the Mighty - Victor Young
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
War - Edwin Starr
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
All for the Love of Sunshine - Hank Williams, Jr.
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Venus - Bananarama
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Desperado Love - Conway Twitty
Quote of the Day
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US Jurist (1841 - 1935)
Today's Birthdays
1818 Richard Gatling, inventor (Gatling gun) died Feb 26, 1903
1880 H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, newspaper journalist/critic (Baltimore Sun) died January 29, 1956
1888 Maurice (Auguste) Chevalier, actor/singer (Gigi) died Jan 1, 1972
1892 Alfred A. Knopf, publisher, died Aug 11, 1984
1913 Jessie (James Cleveland) Owens, National Track & Field Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer (1936 Berlin Games) died Mar 31, 1980
1916 Tony (Melvin) Bettenhausen, International Motorsports Hall of Famer, killed while test driving a racecar at Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 12, 1961
1918 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel, died Apr 17, 1997
1925 Dickie (John) Moore, actor (Our Gang series)
1931 George Jones, country singer (He Stopped Loving Her Today)
1931 Ian Holm, actor (The Sweet Hereafter, The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings trilogy)
1940 Linda Gray, actress (Dallas, Melrose Place)
1943 Maria Muldaur (d’Amato), singer (Midnight at the Oasis)
1944 Barry White, singer (I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby, Never Gonna Give You Up) died July 4, 2003
1952 Gerry Beckley, singer (America)
1952 Neil Peart, drummer/lyricist (Rush)
1954 Joe Pantoliano, actor (The Fugitive, Midnight Run, La Bamba, Empire of the Sun, Risky Business, Eddie and the Cruisers)
1954 Peter Scolari, actor (Bosom Buddies)
1956 Barry Andrews, keyboards (XTC)
1956 Ricky Rudd, NASCAR driver
1956 Brian Robertson, guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1957 Rachel (Claire) Ward, actress (The Thorn Birds, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Against All Odds)
1957 Hans Zimmer, composer (The Lion King, Moonlighting, Wild Horses, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy)
1962 Amy Yasbeck, actress (Wings)
1966 Darren E. Burrows, actor (Northern Exposure, Cry-Baby)
1966 Ben Folds, singer/musician (Ben Folds Five)
1968 Larry LaLonde, guitarist (Primus)
1972 Jason Statham, actor (Transporter series)
1973 Martin Lapointe, NHL right wing (Detroit Red Wings)
1973 Paul Walker, actor (The Fast and the Furious, Pleasantville)
1978 Ruben Studdard, R&B singer (American Idol)
1978 Benjamin McKenzie, actor (The O.C.)
1980 Yao Ming, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1981 Jennifer Hudson singer/actress (American Idol, Dreamgirls)
1986 Emmy Rossum, actress (Phantom of the Opera)
Today's Deaths in History
1972 William Boyd, actor (Hopalong Cassidy) dies at 77
1977 Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies at 30
1992 Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho) dies at 60
1993 Raymond Burr, actor (Ironside, Perry Mason) dies at 76
1993 Willie Mosconi, billiards champion, dies at 80
1994 Tom Ewell, actor (Seven Year Itch) dies at 85
2000 Stanley Turrentine, jazz saxophonist, dies at 66
2003 Johnny Cash, country music legend, dies at 71
Today in History
1609 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.
1846 Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning.
1866 The first burlesque show opened in New York City.
1873 The first practical typewriter was sold to customers.
1918 U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launched an attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France, during World War I.
1928 Actress Katharine Hepburn made her stage debut in The Czarina.
1938 H.V. Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in Czechoslovakia for CBS radio; he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing updates.
1938 In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1943 German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1944 U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1953 24-year-old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier wed 36-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and future U.S. President.
1953 Nikita Khrushchev was elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1954 Lassie was seen on CBS-TV for the first time.
1959 Bonanza premiered, the first regularly-scheduled TV program to be presented in color.
1966 The Beatles received a gold record for Yellow Submarine.
1966 The Monkees debuted on NBC-TV.
1970 James Taylor’s first single, "Fire and Rain," was released.
1974 Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1977 South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.
1979 Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits and 400 career home runs as the Red Sox downed the New York Yankees 9-2 at Fenway Park in Boston.
1980 An in-depth report on the death of Elvis Presley aired on ABC-TV’s 20/20, raising so many unanswered questions that the official case concerning Elvis’ death was reopened.
1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen, 14 years after emigrating from Austria.
1984 Michael Jordan signed a seven-year contract to play basketball with the Chicago Bulls.
1984 Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record by fanning his 251st batter of the season.
1986 Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped; he was released in December 1991.
1992 Police in Peru captured the founder of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, Abimael Guzman.
1992 NASA launched Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-47) which marked the 50th shuttle mission; on board was Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
1994 Mosaic Communications announced its first products: a network browser called Mosaic Netscape, and a server line called Mosaic Netsite.
1995 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's All Star Team beat the Harlem Globetrotters 91-85, ending the Globetrotters' 24-year, 8,829-game winning streak.
1996 Barbra Streisand, the Eagles, Chicago and the Neville Brothers performed at a Los Angeles fundraiser for U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the fourth player in major-league baseball history to reach 60 homers in a single season.
2000 Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
2001 President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
2002 President George W. Bush told skeptical world leaders at the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or to stand aside as the United States acted.
2002 Three former Tyco International Ltd. executives were charged with looting the conglomerate of hundreds of millions of dollars (former CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and CFO Mark Swartz were later convicted; lawyer Mark Belnick was acquitted).
2003 The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
2006 Syrian guards foiled an attempt by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Damascus.
2006 In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world (the pontiff later said he regretted that Muslims were offended).
2007 Shinzo Abe resigned as Prime Minister of Japan.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
Surrender - Perry Como
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
The High and the Mighty - Victor Young
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
War - Edwin Starr
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
All for the Love of Sunshine - Hank Williams, Jr.
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Venus - Bananarama
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Desperado Love - Conway Twitty
Quote of the Day
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US Jurist (1841 - 1935)
Today in History - Sept 13th
Today's Birthdays
1851 Dr. Walter Reed, army doctor/medical pioneer (yellow fever research) died Nov 23, 1902
1857 Milton S. Hershey, founder (Hershey's Chocolate Company)
1860 John (Joseph) Pershing, U.S. General, died July 15, 1948
1903 Claudette Colbert (Lily Claudette Chauchoin), actress (It Happened One Night, Drums Along the Mohawk) died July 30, 1996
1911 Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, Country Music Hall of Famer, died Sep 9, 1996
1916 Roald Dahl, writer (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) died Nov 23, 1990
1925 Mel Torme, ‘The Velvet Fog,’ singer/songwriter (The Christmas Song) died June 5, 1999
1926 Emile Francis, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1931 Barbara Bain (Millie Fogel), actress (Mission Impossible, Space 1999)
1937 Fred Silverman, TV executive (NBC, ABC)
1938 Judith Martin (Judith Sylvia Perlman), columnist (Miss Manners)
1939 Richard Kiel, actor (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Silver Streak, Happy Gilmore, The Longest Yard)
1941 David Clayton-Thomas, singer (Blood Sweat and Tears)
1944 Peter Cetera, bassist/singer (Chicago)
1944 Jacqueline Bisset, actress (The Deep, Airport, Bullitt)
1948 Nell Carter, actress (Gimme a Break, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper) died Jan 23, 2003
1949 Rick (John Rikard) Dempsey, MLB catcher (NY Yankees)
1952 Randy Jones, singer (The Village People)
1956 Joni Sledge, singer (Sister Sledge)
1956 Geri Jewell, actress/comedian (Deadwood)
1957 Vinny Appice, drummer (Black Sabbath, Dio)
1959 Jean Smart, actress (Designing Women)
1961 Dave Mustaine, singer/musician (Megadeth)
1965 Zak Starkey, rock drummer/son of Ringo Starr
1967 Steve Perkins, drummer (Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction)
1969 Tyler Perry, actor/director (Madea's Family Reunion)
1970 Louise Lombard, actress (CSI)
1971 Stella McCartney, English fashion designer/Paul's daughter
1971 Goran Ivanisevic, tennis champion
1976 José Théodore, NHL goaltender (Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche)
1977 Fiona Apple, singer/songwriter (Criminal)
1977 Alitaki, board moderator, mad Greek
1980 Daisuke Matsuzaka, MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1980 Ben Savage, actor (Boy Meets World)
Today's Deaths in History
1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (The Divine Comedy) dies at 56
1881 Ambrose Burnside, Civil War general (sideburns named for him) dies at 57
1996 Tupac Shakur, rapper, dies six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting at 25
1998 George C. Wallace, Former Alabama Gov. dies at 79
2001 Dorothy McGuire, actress (Our Town) dies at 85
2006 Ann Richards, Former Texas Gov., dies at 73
Today in History
1788 The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1898 Reverend Hannibal Williston Goodwin of Newark, NJ patented celluloid photographic film.
1899 Henry M. Bliss became the first known automobile fatality; as he stepped off a streetcar at Central Park West and 74th Street, he was hit by a car driven by Arthur Smith.
1922 The mercury climbed to 136 degrees (Fahrenheit) in El Azizia, Libya, the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
1932 Joe McCarthy became the first manager to win both the American and National league pennants.
1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
1948 Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1949 The Ladies Professional Golf Association was formed in New York City.
1956 IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1960 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned payola.
1968 Clarence Carter received a gold record for his million-selling hit "Slip Away."
1969 John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, presented the Plastic Ono Band in concert for the first time.
1971 The World Hockey Association was formed.
1971 A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.
1985 Super Mario Bros., the best selling video game of all time, was released.
1986 Captain EO, a 17-minute, three-dimensional, musical, science-fiction flick starring Michael Jackson, made its gala premiere at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA and at Disney’s Epcot Center in Orlando, FL.
1990 Law & Order premiered on NBC.
1992 The Buffalo Bills (quarterback Jim Kelly: 403 yards and three TDs) and San Francisco 49ers (QB Steve Young: 449 yards and three touchdowns) combined for 1,086 yards of total offense without punting the ball once, in the NFL's first puntless game.
1993 PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin came together in Washington, DC to sign an agreement to make peace.
1997 Oscar De La Hoya was awarded a unanimous decision after 12 rounds against Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho in Las Vegas.
1998 NBC's Frasier won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.
1999 An explosion devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 118 people.
2000 Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, N.M., to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets; Lee, who had been held in solitary confinement for nine months, was set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker.
2001 Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.
2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumed in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
My Boyfriend’s Back - The Angels
Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! - Allan Sherman
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
I May Never Get to Heaven - Conway Twitty
1987
La Bamba - Los Lobos
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Make No Mistake, She’s Mine - Ronnie Milsap & Kenny Rogers
Quote of the Day
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
Today's Birthdays
1851 Dr. Walter Reed, army doctor/medical pioneer (yellow fever research) died Nov 23, 1902
1857 Milton S. Hershey, founder (Hershey's Chocolate Company)
1860 John (Joseph) Pershing, U.S. General, died July 15, 1948
1903 Claudette Colbert (Lily Claudette Chauchoin), actress (It Happened One Night, Drums Along the Mohawk) died July 30, 1996
1911 Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, Country Music Hall of Famer, died Sep 9, 1996
1916 Roald Dahl, writer (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) died Nov 23, 1990
1925 Mel Torme, ‘The Velvet Fog,’ singer/songwriter (The Christmas Song) died June 5, 1999
1926 Emile Francis, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1931 Barbara Bain (Millie Fogel), actress (Mission Impossible, Space 1999)
1937 Fred Silverman, TV executive (NBC, ABC)
1938 Judith Martin (Judith Sylvia Perlman), columnist (Miss Manners)
1939 Richard Kiel, actor (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Silver Streak, Happy Gilmore, The Longest Yard)
1941 David Clayton-Thomas, singer (Blood Sweat and Tears)
1944 Peter Cetera, bassist/singer (Chicago)
1944 Jacqueline Bisset, actress (The Deep, Airport, Bullitt)
1948 Nell Carter, actress (Gimme a Break, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper) died Jan 23, 2003
1949 Rick (John Rikard) Dempsey, MLB catcher (NY Yankees)
1952 Randy Jones, singer (The Village People)
1956 Joni Sledge, singer (Sister Sledge)
1956 Geri Jewell, actress/comedian (Deadwood)
1957 Vinny Appice, drummer (Black Sabbath, Dio)
1959 Jean Smart, actress (Designing Women)
1961 Dave Mustaine, singer/musician (Megadeth)
1965 Zak Starkey, rock drummer/son of Ringo Starr
1967 Steve Perkins, drummer (Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction)
1969 Tyler Perry, actor/director (Madea's Family Reunion)
1970 Louise Lombard, actress (CSI)
1971 Stella McCartney, English fashion designer/Paul's daughter
1971 Goran Ivanisevic, tennis champion
1976 José Théodore, NHL goaltender (Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche)
1977 Fiona Apple, singer/songwriter (Criminal)
1977 Alitaki, board moderator, mad Greek
1980 Daisuke Matsuzaka, MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1980 Ben Savage, actor (Boy Meets World)
Today's Deaths in History
1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (The Divine Comedy) dies at 56
1881 Ambrose Burnside, Civil War general (sideburns named for him) dies at 57
1996 Tupac Shakur, rapper, dies six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting at 25
1998 George C. Wallace, Former Alabama Gov. dies at 79
2001 Dorothy McGuire, actress (Our Town) dies at 85
2006 Ann Richards, Former Texas Gov., dies at 73
Today in History
1788 The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1898 Reverend Hannibal Williston Goodwin of Newark, NJ patented celluloid photographic film.
1899 Henry M. Bliss became the first known automobile fatality; as he stepped off a streetcar at Central Park West and 74th Street, he was hit by a car driven by Arthur Smith.
1922 The mercury climbed to 136 degrees (Fahrenheit) in El Azizia, Libya, the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
1932 Joe McCarthy became the first manager to win both the American and National league pennants.
1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
1948 Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1949 The Ladies Professional Golf Association was formed in New York City.
1956 IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1960 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned payola.
1968 Clarence Carter received a gold record for his million-selling hit "Slip Away."
1969 John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, presented the Plastic Ono Band in concert for the first time.
1971 The World Hockey Association was formed.
1971 A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.
1985 Super Mario Bros., the best selling video game of all time, was released.
1986 Captain EO, a 17-minute, three-dimensional, musical, science-fiction flick starring Michael Jackson, made its gala premiere at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA and at Disney’s Epcot Center in Orlando, FL.
1990 Law & Order premiered on NBC.
1992 The Buffalo Bills (quarterback Jim Kelly: 403 yards and three TDs) and San Francisco 49ers (QB Steve Young: 449 yards and three touchdowns) combined for 1,086 yards of total offense without punting the ball once, in the NFL's first puntless game.
1993 PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin came together in Washington, DC to sign an agreement to make peace.
1997 Oscar De La Hoya was awarded a unanimous decision after 12 rounds against Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho in Las Vegas.
1998 NBC's Frasier won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.
1999 An explosion devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 118 people.
2000 Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, N.M., to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets; Lee, who had been held in solitary confinement for nine months, was set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker.
2001 Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.
2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumed in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
My Boyfriend’s Back - The Angels
Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! - Allan Sherman
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
I May Never Get to Heaven - Conway Twitty
1987
La Bamba - Los Lobos
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Make No Mistake, She’s Mine - Ronnie Milsap & Kenny Rogers
Quote of the Day
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
Today's Birthdays - Sept 14th
Today's Birthdays
1849 Ivan Pavlov, physiologist (Pavlov’s Theory) died Feb 27, 1936
1867 Charles Gibson, artist (The Gibson Girl) died in 1944
1879 Margaret Sanger, nurse/feminist (first president of International Planned Parenthood) died Sep 6, 1966
1910 Jack (John Edward) Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia) died July 18, 1973
1914 Clayton Moore, actor (The Lone Ranger) died Dec 28, 1999
1936 Walter Koenig, actor (Star Trek)
1938 Nicol Williamson, actor (Excalibur)
1944 Joey (Davenie) Heatherton, actress (Cry-Baby)
1946 Pete Agnew, bassist/singer (Nazareth)
1947 Jon ‘Bowzer’ Bauman, singer (Sha Na Na)
1947 Sam Neill, actor (In the Mouth of Madness, The Piano, Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October)
1949 Steve Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) died Oct 20, 1977
1949 Ed King, guitarist (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1950 Paul Kossoff, guitar (Free)
1950 Michael Nifong, North Carolina district attorney
1959 Mary (Frances) Crosby, actress (Dallas)
1959 Morten Harket, singer (a-ha)
1964 Faith Ford, actress (Murphy Brown)
1970 Craig Montoya, bassist (Everclear)
1971 Kimberly Williams, actress (Father of the Bride series)
1978 DanTRQ, board member
1983 Amy Winehouse, R&B singer
1989 Jesse James, actor (Pearl Harbor, As Good As It Gets)
Today's Deaths in History
1836 Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, dies at 80
1851 James Fenimore Cooper, author (Last of the Mohicans) dies at 61
1898 William Seward Burroughs, inventor (calculating machine) dies at 43
1901 William B. McKinley, U.S. President, dies at 58 of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier
1927 Isadora Duncan, modern dance pioneer, dies at 50 when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of her sports car
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, dies at 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash
1996 Juliet Prowse, British actress/dancer (Can-Can) dies at 59
2006 Mickey Hargitay, actor/bodybuilder (father of actress Mariska Hargitay) dies at 80
Today in History
1741 George Frederick Handel completed The Messiah.
1814 Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.
1847 U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.
1886 George K. Anderson of Memphis, TN patented the typewriter ribbon.
1901 President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier.
1916 Baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson won the last pitching assignment of his major-league career with 373 wins, 188 losses and 83 shutouts in 636 games.
1927 Gene Austin recorded "My Blue Heaven" for Victor Records.
1940 Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1944 United States Marines landed on the island of Peleliu.
1948 Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.
1957 The CBS-TV series Have Gun Will Travel, strring Richard Boone, debuted.
1959 The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1972 The Waltons debuted on CBS-TV.
1973 Donny Osmond received a gold record for his hit single, "The Twelfth of Never."
1975 Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1978 The first show of the TV series Mork & Mindy aired on ABC-TV.
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco died from injuries suffered when her car plunged off a mountain road.
1984 Dustin Hoffman brought the show Death of a Salesman back to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1984 Joe Kittinger became the first person to fly a hot air balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1990 Ken Griffey and his son Ken Jr. became the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs.
1994 Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.
1995 The London auction house, Sotheby’s, autioned Paul McCartney’s hand-written lyrics for the Beatles’ "Getting Better," from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, for £161,000 ($257,600).
1998 WorldCom completed its $40-billion merger with MCI.
2000 Microsoft Windows Me (Millennium Edition) was released.
2001 The FBI released the names of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; President George W. Bush toured the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers over a bullhorn.
2005 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2005 A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.
2006 An outbreak of E. coli illnesses in 26 states was traced to bagged spinach.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Because - The Dave Clark Five
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Woman (Sensuous Woman) - Don Gibson
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Fame - Irene Cara
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Perfect World - Huey Lewis & The News
(Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes - Highway 101
Quote of the Day
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux, French diplomat, dramatist, & novelist (1882 - 1944)
Today's Birthdays
1849 Ivan Pavlov, physiologist (Pavlov’s Theory) died Feb 27, 1936
1867 Charles Gibson, artist (The Gibson Girl) died in 1944
1879 Margaret Sanger, nurse/feminist (first president of International Planned Parenthood) died Sep 6, 1966
1910 Jack (John Edward) Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia) died July 18, 1973
1914 Clayton Moore, actor (The Lone Ranger) died Dec 28, 1999
1936 Walter Koenig, actor (Star Trek)
1938 Nicol Williamson, actor (Excalibur)
1944 Joey (Davenie) Heatherton, actress (Cry-Baby)
1946 Pete Agnew, bassist/singer (Nazareth)
1947 Jon ‘Bowzer’ Bauman, singer (Sha Na Na)
1947 Sam Neill, actor (In the Mouth of Madness, The Piano, Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October)
1949 Steve Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) died Oct 20, 1977
1949 Ed King, guitarist (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1950 Paul Kossoff, guitar (Free)
1950 Michael Nifong, North Carolina district attorney
1959 Mary (Frances) Crosby, actress (Dallas)
1959 Morten Harket, singer (a-ha)
1964 Faith Ford, actress (Murphy Brown)
1970 Craig Montoya, bassist (Everclear)
1971 Kimberly Williams, actress (Father of the Bride series)
1978 DanTRQ, board member
1983 Amy Winehouse, R&B singer
1989 Jesse James, actor (Pearl Harbor, As Good As It Gets)
Today's Deaths in History
1836 Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, dies at 80
1851 James Fenimore Cooper, author (Last of the Mohicans) dies at 61
1898 William Seward Burroughs, inventor (calculating machine) dies at 43
1901 William B. McKinley, U.S. President, dies at 58 of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier
1927 Isadora Duncan, modern dance pioneer, dies at 50 when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of her sports car
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, dies at 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash
1996 Juliet Prowse, British actress/dancer (Can-Can) dies at 59
2006 Mickey Hargitay, actor/bodybuilder (father of actress Mariska Hargitay) dies at 80
Today in History
1741 George Frederick Handel completed The Messiah.
1814 Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.
1847 U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.
1886 George K. Anderson of Memphis, TN patented the typewriter ribbon.
1901 President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier.
1916 Baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson won the last pitching assignment of his major-league career with 373 wins, 188 losses and 83 shutouts in 636 games.
1927 Gene Austin recorded "My Blue Heaven" for Victor Records.
1940 Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1944 United States Marines landed on the island of Peleliu.
1948 Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.
1957 The CBS-TV series Have Gun Will Travel, strring Richard Boone, debuted.
1959 The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1972 The Waltons debuted on CBS-TV.
1973 Donny Osmond received a gold record for his hit single, "The Twelfth of Never."
1975 Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1978 The first show of the TV series Mork & Mindy aired on ABC-TV.
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco died from injuries suffered when her car plunged off a mountain road.
1984 Dustin Hoffman brought the show Death of a Salesman back to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1984 Joe Kittinger became the first person to fly a hot air balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1990 Ken Griffey and his son Ken Jr. became the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs.
1994 Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.
1995 The London auction house, Sotheby’s, autioned Paul McCartney’s hand-written lyrics for the Beatles’ "Getting Better," from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, for £161,000 ($257,600).
1998 WorldCom completed its $40-billion merger with MCI.
2000 Microsoft Windows Me (Millennium Edition) was released.
2001 The FBI released the names of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; President George W. Bush toured the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers over a bullhorn.
2005 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2005 A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.
2006 An outbreak of E. coli illnesses in 26 states was traced to bagged spinach.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Because - The Dave Clark Five
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Woman (Sensuous Woman) - Don Gibson
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Fame - Irene Cara
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Perfect World - Huey Lewis & The News
(Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes - Highway 101
Quote of the Day
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux, French diplomat, dramatist, & novelist (1882 - 1944)
Today's Birthdays - Sept 15th
Today's Birthdays
1254 Marco Polo, Italian explorer, died Jan 9, 1324
1857 William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President, died Mar 8, 1930
1890 Agatha (Marie Clarissa) Christie (Miller), writer (Murder on the Orient Express) died Jan 12, 1976
1903 Roy Acuff, ‘The King of Country Music,’ Country Music Hall of Famer, died Nov 23, 1992
1907 Fay Wray, actress (King Kong) died Aug 8, 2004
1916 Margaret Lockwood (Day), actress (The Lady Vanishes) died July 15, 1990
1918 Nipsey Russell, comedian, died Oct 2, 2005
1922 Jackie Cooper (John Cooperman Jr.), actor (Superman series, Little Rascals)
1928 Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderly, alto/soprano saxophone, died Aug 8, 1975
1938 Gaylord (Jackson) Perry, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (SF Giants)
1940 Jimmy Gilmer, singer (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs)
1940 Merlin Olsen, Pro Football Hall of Famer/actor (Father Murphy, Little House on the Prairie)
1946 Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, The Client, Natural Born Killers, JFK, Coalminer’s Daughter, Batman Forever, Volcano, U.S. Marshals)
1946 Oliver Stone, director (Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers)
1951 Pete Carroll, football coach (NY Jets, New England Patriots, USC)
1958 Wendie Jo Sperber, actress (Bachelor Party) died Nov 29, 2005
1960 Mitch Dorge, drummer (Crash Test Dummies)
1961 Dan Marino, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1968 Danny Nucci, actor (Crimson Tide)
1971 Josh Charles, actor (Dead Poets Scociety, Sports Night)
1976 Paul Thomson, drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1979 Amy Davidson, actress (8 Simple Rules)
1979 LordPerth, board member
1979 Patrick Marleau, NHL center (San Jose Sharks)
1984 Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David)
1987 beezy43, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1750 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, baroque composer (Canon in D) dies at 59
1835 Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis, dies at 21
1885 Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant, is hit by a train and killed at 24
1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer, dies at 80
1980 Bill Evans, jazz pianist, dies at 51
1989 Robert Penn Warren, writer (All the King's Men) dies at 84
2004 Johnny Ramone, punk guitarist (The Ramones) dies at 55 of prostate cancer
Today in History
1776 British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
1789 The United States Department of State was established (it was formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador became independent frm Spain.
1851 Saint Joseph's University was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1857 Timothy Alden of New York City earned a patent for the typesetting machine.
1917 The first issue of Forbes magazine published.
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1930 Hoagy Carmichael recorded "Georgia on My Mind" on the Victor label.
1935 The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1940 The Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses on the Luftwaffe as the tide turned in the Battle of Britain during World War II.
1947 The U.S. Air Force was separated from the US Army to become a separate branch.
1950 United States Marines land at Incheon, Korea.
1953 The National Boxing Association adopted the 10-point ‘must’ scoring system for all of its matches.
1955 Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in Paris by Olympia Press.
1959 Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1962 Bill Fischer of the Kansas City Athletics set a major-league baseball record by not issuing a base on balls for 69-1/3 innings.
1963 Four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era.
1963 Matty, Felipe and Jesus Alou, the famed Alou Brothers of baseball, took to the outfield and played together for the first time, for the San Francisco Giants.
1965 Green Acres made its TV debut on CBS.
1969 St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Steve Carlton set a record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a single game.
1971 Twelve members of the Don’t Make a Wave Committee founded Greenpeace, the environmental organization committed to a green and peaceful world.
1975 Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here.
1979 Bob Watson of the Boston Red Sox became the first player in the major leagues to hit for the cycle in both leagues.
1980 The Elephant Man made its debut on Broadway with rock singer David Bowie in his acting debut.
1981 The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1982 USA Today, a publication of the Gannett Media empire, was published for the first time.
1984 Princess Diana and Prince Charles celebrated the birth of their second child, Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David).
1997 The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern Ireland's peace talks for the first time.
1997 Elton John’s "Candle in the Wind 1997" sold more than 600,000 copies in its first day in British stores.
1998 WorldCom and MCI Communications finished their landmark merger, forming MCI WorldCom, which would later be renamed WorldCom and become the largest bankruptcy in United States history.
2001 President George W. Bush identified Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and told Americans to prepare for a long, difficult war against terrorism.
2003 The WUSA, a women's professional soccer league, shut down after three seasons.
2004 NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2005 President George W. Bush, addressing the nation from storm-ravaged New Orleans, acknowledged the government failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina and urged Congress to approve a massive reconstruction program.
2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Chart Toppers
1949
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Maybe It’s Because - Dick Haymes
Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me - Wayne Raney
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Fraulein - Bobby Helms
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose - Tony Orlando & Dawn
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before - Conway Twitty
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Older Women - Ronnie McDowell
1989
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Don’t Wanna Lose You - Gloria Estefan
Heaven - Warrant
I Wonder Do You Think of Me - Keith Whitley
Quote of the Day
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809 - 1865)
Today's Birthdays
1254 Marco Polo, Italian explorer, died Jan 9, 1324
1857 William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President, died Mar 8, 1930
1890 Agatha (Marie Clarissa) Christie (Miller), writer (Murder on the Orient Express) died Jan 12, 1976
1903 Roy Acuff, ‘The King of Country Music,’ Country Music Hall of Famer, died Nov 23, 1992
1907 Fay Wray, actress (King Kong) died Aug 8, 2004
1916 Margaret Lockwood (Day), actress (The Lady Vanishes) died July 15, 1990
1918 Nipsey Russell, comedian, died Oct 2, 2005
1922 Jackie Cooper (John Cooperman Jr.), actor (Superman series, Little Rascals)
1928 Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderly, alto/soprano saxophone, died Aug 8, 1975
1938 Gaylord (Jackson) Perry, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (SF Giants)
1940 Jimmy Gilmer, singer (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs)
1940 Merlin Olsen, Pro Football Hall of Famer/actor (Father Murphy, Little House on the Prairie)
1946 Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, The Client, Natural Born Killers, JFK, Coalminer’s Daughter, Batman Forever, Volcano, U.S. Marshals)
1946 Oliver Stone, director (Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers)
1951 Pete Carroll, football coach (NY Jets, New England Patriots, USC)
1958 Wendie Jo Sperber, actress (Bachelor Party) died Nov 29, 2005
1960 Mitch Dorge, drummer (Crash Test Dummies)
1961 Dan Marino, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1968 Danny Nucci, actor (Crimson Tide)
1971 Josh Charles, actor (Dead Poets Scociety, Sports Night)
1976 Paul Thomson, drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1979 Amy Davidson, actress (8 Simple Rules)
1979 LordPerth, board member
1979 Patrick Marleau, NHL center (San Jose Sharks)
1984 Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David)
1987 beezy43, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1750 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, baroque composer (Canon in D) dies at 59
1835 Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis, dies at 21
1885 Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant, is hit by a train and killed at 24
1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer, dies at 80
1980 Bill Evans, jazz pianist, dies at 51
1989 Robert Penn Warren, writer (All the King's Men) dies at 84
2004 Johnny Ramone, punk guitarist (The Ramones) dies at 55 of prostate cancer
Today in History
1776 British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
1789 The United States Department of State was established (it was formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador became independent frm Spain.
1851 Saint Joseph's University was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1857 Timothy Alden of New York City earned a patent for the typesetting machine.
1917 The first issue of Forbes magazine published.
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1930 Hoagy Carmichael recorded "Georgia on My Mind" on the Victor label.
1935 The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1940 The Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses on the Luftwaffe as the tide turned in the Battle of Britain during World War II.
1947 The U.S. Air Force was separated from the US Army to become a separate branch.
1950 United States Marines land at Incheon, Korea.
1953 The National Boxing Association adopted the 10-point ‘must’ scoring system for all of its matches.
1955 Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in Paris by Olympia Press.
1959 Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1962 Bill Fischer of the Kansas City Athletics set a major-league baseball record by not issuing a base on balls for 69-1/3 innings.
1963 Four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era.
1963 Matty, Felipe and Jesus Alou, the famed Alou Brothers of baseball, took to the outfield and played together for the first time, for the San Francisco Giants.
1965 Green Acres made its TV debut on CBS.
1969 St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Steve Carlton set a record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a single game.
1971 Twelve members of the Don’t Make a Wave Committee founded Greenpeace, the environmental organization committed to a green and peaceful world.
1975 Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here.
1979 Bob Watson of the Boston Red Sox became the first player in the major leagues to hit for the cycle in both leagues.
1980 The Elephant Man made its debut on Broadway with rock singer David Bowie in his acting debut.
1981 The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1982 USA Today, a publication of the Gannett Media empire, was published for the first time.
1984 Princess Diana and Prince Charles celebrated the birth of their second child, Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David).
1997 The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern Ireland's peace talks for the first time.
1997 Elton John’s "Candle in the Wind 1997" sold more than 600,000 copies in its first day in British stores.
1998 WorldCom and MCI Communications finished their landmark merger, forming MCI WorldCom, which would later be renamed WorldCom and become the largest bankruptcy in United States history.
2001 President George W. Bush identified Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and told Americans to prepare for a long, difficult war against terrorism.
2003 The WUSA, a women's professional soccer league, shut down after three seasons.
2004 NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2005 President George W. Bush, addressing the nation from storm-ravaged New Orleans, acknowledged the government failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina and urged Congress to approve a massive reconstruction program.
2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Chart Toppers
1949
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Maybe It’s Because - Dick Haymes
Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me - Wayne Raney
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Fraulein - Bobby Helms
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose - Tony Orlando & Dawn
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before - Conway Twitty
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Older Women - Ronnie McDowell
1989
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Don’t Wanna Lose You - Gloria Estefan
Heaven - Warrant
I Wonder Do You Think of Me - Keith Whitley
Quote of the Day
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (1809 - 1865)
Today in History - Sept 16th
Today's Birthdays
1387 King Henry V of England, died Aug 31, 1422
1875 J.C. (James Cash) Penney, founder (J.C. Penney Co.) died Feb 12, 1971
1890 George Whitney Calhoun, sportswriter/cofounder (Green Bay Packers)
1914 Allen Funt, radio/TV producer/host (Candid Microphone, Candid Camera) died Sep 5, 1999
1919 Marvin Middlemark, inventor (rabbit ears TV antenna) died in 1989
1924 Lauren Bacall (Betty Perske), actress/Mrs Humphrey Bogart (Key Largo, How to Marry a Millionaire, To Have and Have Not)
1925 Charlie Byrd, guitarist (Meditation, Desafinado) died Nov 30, 1999
1925 B.B. (Riley B.) King, blues guitarist/singer (The Thrill Is Gone)
1927 Peter Falk, actor (Columbo, Murder by Death, The Great Race, The In-Laws, The Princess Bride)
1927 Jack Kelly, actor (Maverick, Get Christie Love) died Nov 7, 1992
1930 Anne Francis, actress (Funny Girl, Blackboard Jungle, Bad Day at Black Rock)
1934 Elgin Baylor, NBA forward (LA Lakers)
1934 George Chakiris, actor/dancer (West Side Story)
1942 Bernie Calvert, bassist (The Hollies)
1944 Linda Henning, actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Betty Kelly, singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1948 Kenny Jones, drummer (Small Faces, Faces)
1948 Ron Blair, bassist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
1949 Ed Begley Jr., actor (St. Elsewhere, Parenthood, The Accidental Tourist)
1950 David Bellamy, singer (The Bellamy Brothers)
1950 Susan Ruttan, actress (L.A. Law)
1954 Earl Klugh, jazz guitarist
1954 Frank Reed, R&B singer (Chi-Lites)
1955 Robin ® Yount, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1956 David Copperfield (Kotkin), magician/illusionist
1956 Mickey Rourke, actor (Body Heat, Diner, 9-1/2 Weeks, Black Orchid)
1958 Orel (Leonard Quinton) Hershiser, MLB pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1961 Jennifer Tilly, actress (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Stuart Little, Bullets Over Broadway)
1963 Richard Marx, singer/songwriter (Right Here Waiting)
1964 Molly Shannon, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live)
1968 Marc Anthony, singer/Mr. Jennifer Lopez
1971 Amy Poehler, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1981 Alexis Bledel, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1985 Madeline Zima, actress (Californication)
Today's Deaths in History
1736 Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (Fahrenheit scale) dies at 50
1977 Marc Bolan, English musician (T Rex) dies at 29
1977 Maria Callas, Greek-American operatic soprano, dies at 53
1996 Gene Nelson, actor (Oklahoma) dies at 76
2003 Sheb Wooley, singer/actor (Purple People Eater) dies at 82
2005 Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser, dies at 85
Today in History
1620 102 passengers and crew set sail on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England, for the New World.
1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1887 The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois.
1908 General Motors was founded.
1920 Enrico Caruso made his last recording for Victor Records in Camden, NJ.
1924 Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Cardinals set a major-league baseball record by knocking in 12 runs in a single game.
1940 Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; he served as Speaker for 17 years.
1949 The first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon, Fast and Furry-ous, was aired.
1953 The St. Louis Browns of the American League were given the OK to move to Baltimore, MD, where they became the Baltimore Orioles.
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg announced his retirement from football coaching; he was 98 years old.
1963 "She Loves You," by The Beatles, was released in the U.S.
1964 Shindig premiered on ABC-TV.
1965 San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral became the site of the first concert of sacred music presented by Duke Ellington.
1965 The Dean Martin Show debuted on NBC-TV.
1966 The Metropolitan Opera House opened at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
1968 The Andy Griffith Show was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1978 Boston’s album Don’t Look Back ascended to number one on U.S. charts.
1981 Boxer ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard knocked out Thomas ‘The Hit Man’ Hearns to win the welterweight boxing championship and the richest payday in boxing history.
1988 Tom Browning made it into the history books of major league baseball when he pitched the 12th perfect game in history.
1991 The trial of Manuel Noriega began in the United States.
1999 Hurricane Floyd stormed ashore, pounding North Carolina with 110 mph winds, dumping more than a foot of rain, damaging 12,000 homes and claiming more than 50 lives.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - The Weavers
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
You Can’t Hurry Love - The Supremes
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I’m Leavin It (All) Up to You - Donny & Marie Osmond
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends - Ronnie Milsap
1982
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed
1990
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
Do Me! - Bell Biv DeVoe
Have You Seen Her - M.C. Hammer
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 - 1945)
Today's Birthdays
1387 King Henry V of England, died Aug 31, 1422
1875 J.C. (James Cash) Penney, founder (J.C. Penney Co.) died Feb 12, 1971
1890 George Whitney Calhoun, sportswriter/cofounder (Green Bay Packers)
1914 Allen Funt, radio/TV producer/host (Candid Microphone, Candid Camera) died Sep 5, 1999
1919 Marvin Middlemark, inventor (rabbit ears TV antenna) died in 1989
1924 Lauren Bacall (Betty Perske), actress/Mrs Humphrey Bogart (Key Largo, How to Marry a Millionaire, To Have and Have Not)
1925 Charlie Byrd, guitarist (Meditation, Desafinado) died Nov 30, 1999
1925 B.B. (Riley B.) King, blues guitarist/singer (The Thrill Is Gone)
1927 Peter Falk, actor (Columbo, Murder by Death, The Great Race, The In-Laws, The Princess Bride)
1927 Jack Kelly, actor (Maverick, Get Christie Love) died Nov 7, 1992
1930 Anne Francis, actress (Funny Girl, Blackboard Jungle, Bad Day at Black Rock)
1934 Elgin Baylor, NBA forward (LA Lakers)
1934 George Chakiris, actor/dancer (West Side Story)
1942 Bernie Calvert, bassist (The Hollies)
1944 Linda Henning, actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Betty Kelly, singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1948 Kenny Jones, drummer (Small Faces, Faces)
1948 Ron Blair, bassist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
1949 Ed Begley Jr., actor (St. Elsewhere, Parenthood, The Accidental Tourist)
1950 David Bellamy, singer (The Bellamy Brothers)
1950 Susan Ruttan, actress (L.A. Law)
1954 Earl Klugh, jazz guitarist
1954 Frank Reed, R&B singer (Chi-Lites)
1955 Robin ® Yount, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1956 David Copperfield (Kotkin), magician/illusionist
1956 Mickey Rourke, actor (Body Heat, Diner, 9-1/2 Weeks, Black Orchid)
1958 Orel (Leonard Quinton) Hershiser, MLB pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1961 Jennifer Tilly, actress (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Stuart Little, Bullets Over Broadway)
1963 Richard Marx, singer/songwriter (Right Here Waiting)
1964 Molly Shannon, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live)
1968 Marc Anthony, singer/Mr. Jennifer Lopez
1971 Amy Poehler, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1981 Alexis Bledel, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1985 Madeline Zima, actress (Californication)
Today's Deaths in History
1736 Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (Fahrenheit scale) dies at 50
1977 Marc Bolan, English musician (T Rex) dies at 29
1977 Maria Callas, Greek-American operatic soprano, dies at 53
1996 Gene Nelson, actor (Oklahoma) dies at 76
2003 Sheb Wooley, singer/actor (Purple People Eater) dies at 82
2005 Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser, dies at 85
Today in History
1620 102 passengers and crew set sail on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England, for the New World.
1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1887 The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois.
1908 General Motors was founded.
1920 Enrico Caruso made his last recording for Victor Records in Camden, NJ.
1924 Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Cardinals set a major-league baseball record by knocking in 12 runs in a single game.
1940 Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; he served as Speaker for 17 years.
1949 The first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon, Fast and Furry-ous, was aired.
1953 The St. Louis Browns of the American League were given the OK to move to Baltimore, MD, where they became the Baltimore Orioles.
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg announced his retirement from football coaching; he was 98 years old.
1963 "She Loves You," by The Beatles, was released in the U.S.
1964 Shindig premiered on ABC-TV.
1965 San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral became the site of the first concert of sacred music presented by Duke Ellington.
1965 The Dean Martin Show debuted on NBC-TV.
1966 The Metropolitan Opera House opened at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
1968 The Andy Griffith Show was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1978 Boston’s album Don’t Look Back ascended to number one on U.S. charts.
1981 Boxer ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard knocked out Thomas ‘The Hit Man’ Hearns to win the welterweight boxing championship and the richest payday in boxing history.
1988 Tom Browning made it into the history books of major league baseball when he pitched the 12th perfect game in history.
1991 The trial of Manuel Noriega began in the United States.
1999 Hurricane Floyd stormed ashore, pounding North Carolina with 110 mph winds, dumping more than a foot of rain, damaging 12,000 homes and claiming more than 50 lives.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - The Weavers
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
You Can’t Hurry Love - The Supremes
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I’m Leavin It (All) Up to You - Donny & Marie Osmond
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends - Ronnie Milsap
1982
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed
1990
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
Do Me! - Bell Biv DeVoe
Have You Seen Her - M.C. Hammer
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 - 1945)
Today in History - Sept 17th
Today's Birthdays
1900 J.W. (John Willard) Marriott, hotel magnate, died Aug 13, 1985
1907 Warren (Earl) Burger, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died June 25, 1995
1923 Hank (Hiram) Williams Sr., songwriter/singer (I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive) died Jan 1, 1953
1927 George Blanda, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback/kicker (Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers, LA Raiders)
1928 Roddy (Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude) McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes series, How Green was My Valley) died Oct 3, 1998
1931 Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Louisa Italiano), actress/Mrs Mel Brooks (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate) died June 6, 2005
1935 Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) died Nov 10, 2001
1937 Orlando (Manuel) Cepeda, Baseball Hall of Famer (SF Giants)
1938 LeeRoy Yarborough, NASCAR driver, died Dec 7, 1984
1939 David H. Souter, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
1940 LaMont McLemore, singer (The 5th Dimension)
1945 Phil Jackson, LA Lakers head coach
1947 Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist (Shoe) died June 8, 2000
1948 John Ritter, actor (Three’s Company, 8 Simple Rules) died Sep 11, 2003
1949 Cassandra Peterson, TV hostess (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
1950 Fee Waybill (John Waldo), singer (The Tubes)
1955 Rita Rudner, comedienne/actress
1961 Ty Tabor, guitarist/singer (King's X)
1962 Baz Luhrmann, director (Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge)
1962 Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese-American actor (21 Jump Street)
1965 Kyle Chandler, actor (Pure Country, Friday Night Lights)
1966 Doug E. Fresh, rapper/record producer
1967 Malik Yoba, actor (Cool Runnings)
1970 Mark Brunell, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1973 Anastacia, singer
1974 Nona Gaye, actress/singer (Matrix films)
1975 Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR driver
1975 Constantine Maroulis, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1982 Garth Murray, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1985 Alexander Ovechkin, NHL forward (Washington Capitals)
Today's Deaths in History
1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, industrialist (Pillsbury Company) dies at 56
1996 Spiro T. Agnew, former Vice President, dies at 77
1997 Red Skelton, actor/comedian, dies at 84
Today in History
1787 The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by delegates from twelve states at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
1862 Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War battle of Antietam; with 23,100 killed, wounded or captured, it remains the bloodiest day in U.S. military history.
1872 Phillip W. Pratt of Abington, MA patented an automatic sprinkler system for putting out fires.
1908 The Wright Flyer, flown by Orville Wright with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge; he becomes the first airplane fatality.
1911 The first transcontinental airplane flight, from New York City to Pasadena, CA, was accomplished (it took 82 hours).
1920 The National Football League was formed in Canton, Ohio.
1931 RCA Victor began demonstrating a very early version of the long-playing (LP), 33-1/3 RPM phonograph record.
1947 James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.
1952 Frank Sinatra sang at his final session with Mitch Miller and Columbia Records.
1953 Ernie Banks became the first black baseball player to wear a Chicago Cubs uniform.
1954 Rocky Marciano retained possession of the world heavyweight boxing title, knocking out Ezzard Charles in the eighth round of their championship bout.
1961 The Minnesota Vikings defeated the Chicago Bears 37-13 in their first game.
1965 Hogan’s Heroes made its debut on CBS-TV.
1965 The Smothers Brothers Show debuted on CBS-TV.
1967 Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show by refusing to edit lyrics to "Light My Fire."
1972 M*A*S*H premiered on CBS-TV.
1976 NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.
1983 Vanessa Williams, Miss New York, was crowned Miss America, the first African-American woman in the 62-year history of the Miss America Pageant to win the coveted title.
1983 The Cincinnati Reds honored Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench as he ended his 16-year career as a catcher.
1983 Slugger Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox broke Hank Aaron’s major-league record for games played, as he played in his 3,299th game.
1984 Seventeen years to the day after his first major-league home run, Reggie Jackson of the California Angels hit his 500th career homer.
1986 The Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States.
1986 The New York Mets clinched their first divisional title since 1973 by defeating the Chicago Cubs 4-2.
1988 Opening ceremony were held for the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.
1991 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) was released to the Internet.
1992 Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his five-and-a-half-year probe of the Iran-Contra scandal.
1994 Heather Whitestone of Alabama was crowned Miss America, the first deaf woman to win the title.
1997 Northern Ireland's main Protestant party joined peace talks, bringing the major players together for first time.
1999 President Bill Clinton lifted restrictions on trade, travel and banking imposed on North Korea a half-century earlier.
2001 Wall Street trading resumed for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - its longest shutdown since the Depression; the Dow lost 684.81 points, its worst-ever one-day point drop.
2001 Pro sporting events resumed after a six-day hiatus following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2003 New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso resigned amid a furor over his $139.5 million pay package.
2004 Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the Sept. 1-3 school siege in Beslan and other terrorist attacks in Russia that claimed more than 430 lives.
2004 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 700th career home run, joining Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755) as the only players to reach the milestone.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
The Loveliest Night of the Year - Mario Lanza
Sweet Violets - Dinah Shore
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price
(’Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston
1975
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
Fame - David Bowie
Feelins’ - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynne
1983
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Night Games - Charley Pride
1991
The Promise of a New Day - Paula Abdul
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Motownphilly - Boys II Men
Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright
Quote of the Day
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot, English novelist (1819 - 1880)
Today's Birthdays
1900 J.W. (John Willard) Marriott, hotel magnate, died Aug 13, 1985
1907 Warren (Earl) Burger, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died June 25, 1995
1923 Hank (Hiram) Williams Sr., songwriter/singer (I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive) died Jan 1, 1953
1927 George Blanda, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback/kicker (Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers, LA Raiders)
1928 Roddy (Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude) McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes series, How Green was My Valley) died Oct 3, 1998
1931 Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Louisa Italiano), actress/Mrs Mel Brooks (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate) died June 6, 2005
1935 Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) died Nov 10, 2001
1937 Orlando (Manuel) Cepeda, Baseball Hall of Famer (SF Giants)
1938 LeeRoy Yarborough, NASCAR driver, died Dec 7, 1984
1939 David H. Souter, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
1940 LaMont McLemore, singer (The 5th Dimension)
1945 Phil Jackson, LA Lakers head coach
1947 Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist (Shoe) died June 8, 2000
1948 John Ritter, actor (Three’s Company, 8 Simple Rules) died Sep 11, 2003
1949 Cassandra Peterson, TV hostess (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
1950 Fee Waybill (John Waldo), singer (The Tubes)
1955 Rita Rudner, comedienne/actress
1961 Ty Tabor, guitarist/singer (King's X)
1962 Baz Luhrmann, director (Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge)
1962 Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese-American actor (21 Jump Street)
1965 Kyle Chandler, actor (Pure Country, Friday Night Lights)
1966 Doug E. Fresh, rapper/record producer
1967 Malik Yoba, actor (Cool Runnings)
1970 Mark Brunell, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1973 Anastacia, singer
1974 Nona Gaye, actress/singer (Matrix films)
1975 Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR driver
1975 Constantine Maroulis, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1982 Garth Murray, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1985 Alexander Ovechkin, NHL forward (Washington Capitals)
Today's Deaths in History
1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, industrialist (Pillsbury Company) dies at 56
1996 Spiro T. Agnew, former Vice President, dies at 77
1997 Red Skelton, actor/comedian, dies at 84
Today in History
1787 The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by delegates from twelve states at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
1862 Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War battle of Antietam; with 23,100 killed, wounded or captured, it remains the bloodiest day in U.S. military history.
1872 Phillip W. Pratt of Abington, MA patented an automatic sprinkler system for putting out fires.
1908 The Wright Flyer, flown by Orville Wright with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge; he becomes the first airplane fatality.
1911 The first transcontinental airplane flight, from New York City to Pasadena, CA, was accomplished (it took 82 hours).
1920 The National Football League was formed in Canton, Ohio.
1931 RCA Victor began demonstrating a very early version of the long-playing (LP), 33-1/3 RPM phonograph record.
1947 James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.
1952 Frank Sinatra sang at his final session with Mitch Miller and Columbia Records.
1953 Ernie Banks became the first black baseball player to wear a Chicago Cubs uniform.
1954 Rocky Marciano retained possession of the world heavyweight boxing title, knocking out Ezzard Charles in the eighth round of their championship bout.
1961 The Minnesota Vikings defeated the Chicago Bears 37-13 in their first game.
1965 Hogan’s Heroes made its debut on CBS-TV.
1965 The Smothers Brothers Show debuted on CBS-TV.
1967 Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show by refusing to edit lyrics to "Light My Fire."
1972 M*A*S*H premiered on CBS-TV.
1976 NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.
1983 Vanessa Williams, Miss New York, was crowned Miss America, the first African-American woman in the 62-year history of the Miss America Pageant to win the coveted title.
1983 The Cincinnati Reds honored Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench as he ended his 16-year career as a catcher.
1983 Slugger Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox broke Hank Aaron’s major-league record for games played, as he played in his 3,299th game.
1984 Seventeen years to the day after his first major-league home run, Reggie Jackson of the California Angels hit his 500th career homer.
1986 The Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States.
1986 The New York Mets clinched their first divisional title since 1973 by defeating the Chicago Cubs 4-2.
1988 Opening ceremony were held for the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.
1991 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) was released to the Internet.
1992 Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his five-and-a-half-year probe of the Iran-Contra scandal.
1994 Heather Whitestone of Alabama was crowned Miss America, the first deaf woman to win the title.
1997 Northern Ireland's main Protestant party joined peace talks, bringing the major players together for first time.
1999 President Bill Clinton lifted restrictions on trade, travel and banking imposed on North Korea a half-century earlier.
2001 Wall Street trading resumed for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - its longest shutdown since the Depression; the Dow lost 684.81 points, its worst-ever one-day point drop.
2001 Pro sporting events resumed after a six-day hiatus following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2003 New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso resigned amid a furor over his $139.5 million pay package.
2004 Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the Sept. 1-3 school siege in Beslan and other terrorist attacks in Russia that claimed more than 430 lives.
2004 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 700th career home run, joining Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755) as the only players to reach the milestone.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
The Loveliest Night of the Year - Mario Lanza
Sweet Violets - Dinah Shore
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price
(’Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston
1975
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
Fame - David Bowie
Feelins’ - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynne
1983
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Night Games - Charley Pride
1991
The Promise of a New Day - Paula Abdul
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Motownphilly - Boys II Men
Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright
Quote of the Day
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot, English novelist (1819 - 1880)
Today in History - Sept 18th
Today's Birthdays
1709 Samuel Johnson, writer (created the first true dictionary of the English language in 1755) died Dec 13, 1784
1779 Joseph Story, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sep 10, 1845
1904 Bun (Frederick) Cook, Hockey Hall of Fame forward (NY Rangers)
1905 Greta (Lovisa) Garbo (Gustafsson), actress (Grand Hotel, Mata Hari) died Apr 15, 1990
1905 Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, actor (Jack Benny Show) died Feb 28, 1977
1920 Jack Warden, actor (Brian’s Song, Used Cars) died July 19, 2006
1933 Robert Blake (Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi), actor (Baretta)
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, singer (Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter than Wine)
1933 Scotty Bowman, NHL coach (Detroit Red Wings)
1939 Fred Willard, comedian/actor (Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind)
1940 Frankie (Frances) Avalon (Avellone), singer/actor (Venus; Back to the Beach)
1949 Kerry Livgren, guitarist/keyboards (Kansas)
1950 Anna Deavere Smith, actress (The American President, The West Wing)
1951 Daryl Stingley, NFL (NE Patriots; paralyzed in a collision with Oakland Raiders’ Jack Tatum) died Apr 5, 2007
1952 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin), drummer (The Ramones) died June 5, 2002
1961 James Gandolfini, actor (Get Shorty, The Sopranos)
1962 Joanne Catherall, singer (Human League)
1964 Holly Robinson Peete, actress (21 Jump Street, Hanging with Mr. Cooper)
1967 Ricky Bell, singer (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1967 Tara Fitzgerald, actress (Brassed Off, Sirens)
1970 Aisha Tyler, actress (Ghost Whisperer, CSI)
1971 Jada Pinkett Smith, actress (The Nutty Professor, A Different World, Menace II Society)
1971 Lance Armstrong, champion Tour de France cyclist
1973 James Marsden, actor (Ally McBeal, X-Men)
1979 Alison Lohman, actress (White Oleander, Matchstick Men)
Today's Deaths in History
1961 Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-General, is killed in a plane crash at 55
1970 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitar legend, dies at 27
1994 Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis champion, dies at 40
1997 Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer, dies at 77
2002 Bob Hayes, NFL wide reciever (Dallas Cowboys) dies at 59
2004 Russ Meyer, film director (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) dies at 82
Today in History
1679 New Hampshire became a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1763 An instrument named the spinet was first mentioned in The Boston Gazette newspaper.
1793 President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1830 Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in America, was pitted against a real horse in a nine-mile course between Riley’s Tavern and Baltimore; Tom Thumb suffered mechanical difficulties including a leaky boiler and lost the race.
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City, New York.
1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1851 The New York Times began publishing “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”
1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian tribe.
1895 Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard in Davenport, Iowa.
1919 Fritz Pollard became the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) went on the air for the first time.
1947 Country singers Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the first country show for the NYC venue.
1947 The U.S. Air Force, an independent military service, was established by the National Security Act.
1948 The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years after the passing of the program’s originator and host, Major Bowes.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeated Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1955 What had been The Toast of the Town on CBS Television since 1948 became The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 The Big Record, hosted by Patti Page, debuted on CBS-TV.
1961 United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1965 Larry Hagman (Captain Tony Nelson) and Barbara Eden (Jeannie) starred in the first episode of I Dream of Jeannie on NBC-TV.
1970 Rock radio mourned the loss of rock music legend, Jimi Hendrix, who died at age 27 of an overdose of sleeping pills.
1975 Publishing heiress Patricia Hearst was rescued/captured by the FBI in San Francisco, CA.
1977 The Voyager I spacecraft (launched on Sep 5, 1977 from cape Canaveral, FL) snapped the first photograph showing the earth and moon together.
1983 Rock band Kiss unmasked for the first time in an appearance on MTV to coincide with the release of new album Lick It Up.
1997 Time Warner vice-chairman Ted Turner pledged one billion dollars for United Nations programs over ten years.
1997 Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.
1998 The House Judiciary Committee voted to release a videotape of President Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony.
1999 Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season twice.
2003 Hurricane Isabel plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100-mph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard; the storm claimed 40 lives.
2004 Pop singer Britney Spears married dancer Kevin Federline (they divorced in 2007).
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
Time Waits for No One - Helen Forrest
Soldier’s Last Letter - Ernest Tubb
1952
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
The Twist - Chubby Checker
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1,2,3, Red Light - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You - Jim Ed Brown/Helen Cornelius
1984
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Missing You - John Waite
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
You’re Getting to Me Again - Jim Glaser
Quote of the Day
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow, US broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965)
Today's Birthdays
1709 Samuel Johnson, writer (created the first true dictionary of the English language in 1755) died Dec 13, 1784
1779 Joseph Story, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sep 10, 1845
1904 Bun (Frederick) Cook, Hockey Hall of Fame forward (NY Rangers)
1905 Greta (Lovisa) Garbo (Gustafsson), actress (Grand Hotel, Mata Hari) died Apr 15, 1990
1905 Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, actor (Jack Benny Show) died Feb 28, 1977
1920 Jack Warden, actor (Brian’s Song, Used Cars) died July 19, 2006
1933 Robert Blake (Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi), actor (Baretta)
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, singer (Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter than Wine)
1933 Scotty Bowman, NHL coach (Detroit Red Wings)
1939 Fred Willard, comedian/actor (Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind)
1940 Frankie (Frances) Avalon (Avellone), singer/actor (Venus; Back to the Beach)
1949 Kerry Livgren, guitarist/keyboards (Kansas)
1950 Anna Deavere Smith, actress (The American President, The West Wing)
1951 Daryl Stingley, NFL (NE Patriots; paralyzed in a collision with Oakland Raiders’ Jack Tatum) died Apr 5, 2007
1952 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin), drummer (The Ramones) died June 5, 2002
1961 James Gandolfini, actor (Get Shorty, The Sopranos)
1962 Joanne Catherall, singer (Human League)
1964 Holly Robinson Peete, actress (21 Jump Street, Hanging with Mr. Cooper)
1967 Ricky Bell, singer (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1967 Tara Fitzgerald, actress (Brassed Off, Sirens)
1970 Aisha Tyler, actress (Ghost Whisperer, CSI)
1971 Jada Pinkett Smith, actress (The Nutty Professor, A Different World, Menace II Society)
1971 Lance Armstrong, champion Tour de France cyclist
1973 James Marsden, actor (Ally McBeal, X-Men)
1979 Alison Lohman, actress (White Oleander, Matchstick Men)
Today's Deaths in History
1961 Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-General, is killed in a plane crash at 55
1970 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitar legend, dies at 27
1994 Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis champion, dies at 40
1997 Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer, dies at 77
2002 Bob Hayes, NFL wide reciever (Dallas Cowboys) dies at 59
2004 Russ Meyer, film director (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) dies at 82
Today in History
1679 New Hampshire became a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1763 An instrument named the spinet was first mentioned in The Boston Gazette newspaper.
1793 President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1830 Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in America, was pitted against a real horse in a nine-mile course between Riley’s Tavern and Baltimore; Tom Thumb suffered mechanical difficulties including a leaky boiler and lost the race.
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City, New York.
1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1851 The New York Times began publishing “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”
1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian tribe.
1895 Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard in Davenport, Iowa.
1919 Fritz Pollard became the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) went on the air for the first time.
1947 Country singers Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the first country show for the NYC venue.
1947 The U.S. Air Force, an independent military service, was established by the National Security Act.
1948 The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years after the passing of the program’s originator and host, Major Bowes.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeated Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1955 What had been The Toast of the Town on CBS Television since 1948 became The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 The Big Record, hosted by Patti Page, debuted on CBS-TV.
1961 United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1965 Larry Hagman (Captain Tony Nelson) and Barbara Eden (Jeannie) starred in the first episode of I Dream of Jeannie on NBC-TV.
1970 Rock radio mourned the loss of rock music legend, Jimi Hendrix, who died at age 27 of an overdose of sleeping pills.
1975 Publishing heiress Patricia Hearst was rescued/captured by the FBI in San Francisco, CA.
1977 The Voyager I spacecraft (launched on Sep 5, 1977 from cape Canaveral, FL) snapped the first photograph showing the earth and moon together.
1983 Rock band Kiss unmasked for the first time in an appearance on MTV to coincide with the release of new album Lick It Up.
1997 Time Warner vice-chairman Ted Turner pledged one billion dollars for United Nations programs over ten years.
1997 Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.
1998 The House Judiciary Committee voted to release a videotape of President Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony.
1999 Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season twice.
2003 Hurricane Isabel plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100-mph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard; the storm claimed 40 lives.
2004 Pop singer Britney Spears married dancer Kevin Federline (they divorced in 2007).
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
Time Waits for No One - Helen Forrest
Soldier’s Last Letter - Ernest Tubb
1952
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
The Twist - Chubby Checker
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1,2,3, Red Light - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You - Jim Ed Brown/Helen Cornelius
1984
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Missing You - John Waite
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
You’re Getting to Me Again - Jim Glaser
Quote of the Day
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow, US broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965)
Today in History - Spet 19th
Today's Birthdays
1778 Henry Brougham, orator (Brougham carriage was named after him) died May 17, 1868
1905 Leon Jaworski, attorney (Watergate special prosecutor) died Dec 9, 1982
1907 Lewis F. Powell Jr., associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Aug 25, 1998
1911 Sir William Golding, Nobel Prize winning author (Lord of the Flies) died June 19, 1993
1928 Adam West, actor (Batman)
1931 Brook Benton (Benjamin Franklin Peay), singer (Rainy Night in Georgia) died Apr 9, 1988
1932 Mike Royko, journalist (Chicago Tribune syndicated column) died Apr 29, 1997
1933 David McCallum, actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS)
1934 Brian Epstein, talent manager (The Beatles) died Aug 26, 1967
1935 Nick Massi (Macioci), bassist/singer (The Four Seasons) died Dec 24, 2000
1940 Bill Medley, singer (Righteous Brothers)
1940 Paul Williams, songwriter/lyricist (The Love Boat, The Muppet Movie)
1941 ‘Mama’ Cass Elliott (Ellen Naomi Cohen), singer (The Mamas & The Papas) died July 29, 1974
1942 Freda Payne, singer (Band of Gold)
1945 Randolph Mantooth, actor (Emergency, Operation Petticoat)
1946 John Coghlan, drummer (Status Quo)
1947 Lol Creme, guitarist/singer (10cc, Goddley & Creme)
1948 Jeremy (John) Irons, actor (Reversal of Fortune, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, M. Butterfly)
1949 Twiggy (Leslie Hornby), fashion model/actress (The Blues Brothers)
1950 Joan Lunden, broadcast journalist/TV host (Good Morning America)
1951 Daniel Lanois, record producer
1952 Nile Rogers, musician (Honeydrippers)
1956 Rex Smith, actor (Pirates of Penzance)
1958 Kevin Hooks, actor (The White Shadow)
1958 Lita Ford, rock singer (The Runaways)
1959 Carolyn McCormick, actress (LAw & Order)
1964 Trisha Yearwood, country singer
1965 Cheri Oteri, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1966 Soledad O’Brien, TV host (MSNBC)
1974 Victoria Silvstedt, playmate (December 1996, PMOY 1997)
1974 Jimmy Fallon, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1976 Carter Oosterhouse, TV personality (Trading Spaces)
1981 Rick Dipietro, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
1982 Nicole Voss, playmate (August 2006)
Today's Deaths in History
1881 James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, dies at 49
1942 Condé Nast, publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue) dies at 69
1968 Chester Carlson, inventor (xerography) dies at 62
1968 Red Foley, country singer, dies at 58
1973 Gram Parsons, rock musician (The Byrds) dies at 26
1995 Orville Redenbacher, botanist/businessman (popcorn) dies at 88
2006 Elizabeth Allen, actress (Donovan's Reef) dies at 77
Today in History
1777 American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.
1778 The Continental Congress passed the first budget of the United States.
1796 President George Washington's farewell address was published; in it, he advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
1819 John Keats inked one of the best-loved English poems, Ode to Autumn.
1876 Melville R. Bissell of Grand Rapids, MI patented the carpet sweeper.
1881 President James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin more than two months earlier.
1900 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid committed their first robbery together.
1906 Addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said there were "only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here."
1934 Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1936 The classic, "Indian Love Call," was recorded by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, on Victor Records.
1945 Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, was sentenced to death by a British court.
1953 Gisele MacKenzie took over as host on NBC-TV’s Your Hit Parade.
1955 President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the military.
1957 The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert.
1970 The Mary Tyler Moore Show was seen for the first time on CBS-TV.
1974 Eric Clapton received a gold record for "I Shot the Sheriff."
1981 For their first concert in years, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a free concert to benefit New York City parks; the concert attracted a crowd of 500,000 people in Central Park and was broadcast to a TV audience in the millions.
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives formed the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testified at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.
1988 U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
1991 Ötzi, the Iceman, was found by German tourist Helmut Simon on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border.
1994 U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto.
1998 Cal Ripken Jr voluntarily took himself out of the Baltimore Orioles lineup to end his ML Record of consecutive games played.
2001 The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2002 President George W. Bush asked Congress for authority to "use all means," including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction.
2004 Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post.
2005 Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski was sentenced in New York to up to 25 years in prison for looting the company of hundreds of millions of dollars; Tyco's former finance chief, Mark Swartz, received the same sentence.
2005 Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 people.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
If I Loved You - Perry Como
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
My True Story - The Jive Five
(Marie’s the Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
I’ll Never Fall in Love Again - Tom Jones
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
Float On - The Floaters
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
1985
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) - Tina Turner
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Modern Day Romance - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Quote of the Day
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)
Today's Birthdays
1778 Henry Brougham, orator (Brougham carriage was named after him) died May 17, 1868
1905 Leon Jaworski, attorney (Watergate special prosecutor) died Dec 9, 1982
1907 Lewis F. Powell Jr., associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Aug 25, 1998
1911 Sir William Golding, Nobel Prize winning author (Lord of the Flies) died June 19, 1993
1928 Adam West, actor (Batman)
1931 Brook Benton (Benjamin Franklin Peay), singer (Rainy Night in Georgia) died Apr 9, 1988
1932 Mike Royko, journalist (Chicago Tribune syndicated column) died Apr 29, 1997
1933 David McCallum, actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS)
1934 Brian Epstein, talent manager (The Beatles) died Aug 26, 1967
1935 Nick Massi (Macioci), bassist/singer (The Four Seasons) died Dec 24, 2000
1940 Bill Medley, singer (Righteous Brothers)
1940 Paul Williams, songwriter/lyricist (The Love Boat, The Muppet Movie)
1941 ‘Mama’ Cass Elliott (Ellen Naomi Cohen), singer (The Mamas & The Papas) died July 29, 1974
1942 Freda Payne, singer (Band of Gold)
1945 Randolph Mantooth, actor (Emergency, Operation Petticoat)
1946 John Coghlan, drummer (Status Quo)
1947 Lol Creme, guitarist/singer (10cc, Goddley & Creme)
1948 Jeremy (John) Irons, actor (Reversal of Fortune, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, M. Butterfly)
1949 Twiggy (Leslie Hornby), fashion model/actress (The Blues Brothers)
1950 Joan Lunden, broadcast journalist/TV host (Good Morning America)
1951 Daniel Lanois, record producer
1952 Nile Rogers, musician (Honeydrippers)
1956 Rex Smith, actor (Pirates of Penzance)
1958 Kevin Hooks, actor (The White Shadow)
1958 Lita Ford, rock singer (The Runaways)
1959 Carolyn McCormick, actress (LAw & Order)
1964 Trisha Yearwood, country singer
1965 Cheri Oteri, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1966 Soledad O’Brien, TV host (MSNBC)
1974 Victoria Silvstedt, playmate (December 1996, PMOY 1997)
1974 Jimmy Fallon, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1976 Carter Oosterhouse, TV personality (Trading Spaces)
1981 Rick Dipietro, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
1982 Nicole Voss, playmate (August 2006)
Today's Deaths in History
1881 James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, dies at 49
1942 Condé Nast, publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue) dies at 69
1968 Chester Carlson, inventor (xerography) dies at 62
1968 Red Foley, country singer, dies at 58
1973 Gram Parsons, rock musician (The Byrds) dies at 26
1995 Orville Redenbacher, botanist/businessman (popcorn) dies at 88
2006 Elizabeth Allen, actress (Donovan's Reef) dies at 77
Today in History
1777 American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.
1778 The Continental Congress passed the first budget of the United States.
1796 President George Washington's farewell address was published; in it, he advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
1819 John Keats inked one of the best-loved English poems, Ode to Autumn.
1876 Melville R. Bissell of Grand Rapids, MI patented the carpet sweeper.
1881 President James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin more than two months earlier.
1900 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid committed their first robbery together.
1906 Addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, Mark Twain said there were "only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here."
1934 Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1936 The classic, "Indian Love Call," was recorded by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, on Victor Records.
1945 Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, was sentenced to death by a British court.
1953 Gisele MacKenzie took over as host on NBC-TV’s Your Hit Parade.
1955 President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the military.
1957 The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert.
1970 The Mary Tyler Moore Show was seen for the first time on CBS-TV.
1974 Eric Clapton received a gold record for "I Shot the Sheriff."
1981 For their first concert in years, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a free concert to benefit New York City parks; the concert attracted a crowd of 500,000 people in Central Park and was broadcast to a TV audience in the millions.
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives formed the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testified at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.
1988 U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
1991 Ötzi, the Iceman, was found by German tourist Helmut Simon on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border.
1994 U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto.
1998 Cal Ripken Jr voluntarily took himself out of the Baltimore Orioles lineup to end his ML Record of consecutive games played.
2001 The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2002 President George W. Bush asked Congress for authority to "use all means," including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction.
2004 Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post.
2005 Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski was sentenced in New York to up to 25 years in prison for looting the company of hundreds of millions of dollars; Tyco's former finance chief, Mark Swartz, received the same sentence.
2005 Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 people.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
If I Loved You - Perry Como
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
My True Story - The Jive Five
(Marie’s the Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
I’ll Never Fall in Love Again - Tom Jones
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
Float On - The Floaters
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
1985
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) - Tina Turner
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Modern Day Romance - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Quote of the Day
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)
Today in History - Sept 20th
Today's Birthdays
1878 Upton Sinclair, author (The Jungle) died Nov 25, 1968
1911 Frank DeVol, bandleader/songwriter (The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, The Love Boat) died Oct 27, 1999
1917 Red (Arnold) Auerbach, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Boston Celtics)
1925 Bobby Nunn, singer (The Coasters) died Nov 5, 1986
1927 Rachel Roberts, actress (Murder on the Orient Express) died Nov 26, 1980
1929 Anne Meara, comedienne/actress (Fame, All in the Family, Rhoda)
1934 Sophia Loren (Sofia Scicolone), actress (Black Orchid, El Cid, Man of La Mancha, Grumpier Old Men)
1935 Jim Taylor, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Green Bay Packers)
1948 Chuck Panozzo, bassist (Styx)
1948 John Panozzo, drummer (Styx) died July 16, 1996
1951 Guy Lafleur, Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (NY Rangers)
1956 Debbi Morgan, actress (Boston Public, Roots: The Next Generations)
1956 Gary Cole, actor (Dodgeball, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
1966 Nuno Bettencourt, rock guitarist (Extreme)
1967 Kristen Johnston, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
1967 Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, rock singers (Nelson)
1969 Victoria Dillard, actress (Spin City)
1975 Asia Argento, actress (Phantom of the Opera, B. Monkey)
1975 Juan Pablo Montoya, race driver (Formula 1, NASCAR)
1979 Rick Woolstenhulme, rock drummer (Lifehouse)
Today's Deaths in History
1863 Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (Brothers Grimm) dies at 78
1947 Fiorello LaGuardia, Former New York City Mayor, dies at 64
1973 Jim Croce, singer/songwriter, dies at 30 in a plane crash
1984 Steve Goodman, folk singer/songwriter (City of New Orleans) dies at 36
2005 Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, dies at 96
Today in History
1519 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
1633 Galileo Galilei was tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1873 Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
1881 Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
1884 The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, California; the party nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood as their U.S. presidential candidate and Marietta Snow as Lockwood’s running mate.
1921 KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily radio newscasts in the country.
1953 Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC.
1962 James Meredith, a black man, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross R. Barnett.
1969 "Sugar, Sugar," by The Archies, hit number one in Billboard.
1973 The Roxy Theatre opened in La, with Elton John, Carole King and Jackson Browne performing.
1973 Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the televised Battle of the Sexes at the Houston Astrodome, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
1973 Singer Jim Croce, his lead guitarist, Maury Muehleisen, and four others died when their plane crashed into a tree at Natchitoches, LA while taking off for a concert in Sherman, Texas.
1977 The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrived in San Francisco under a U.S. resettlement program.
1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was admitted to the United Nations.
1984 A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.
1984 NBC-TV debuted The Cosby Show.
1992 Raymond Floyd won the Senior PGA Tour GTE North Classic at at Indianapolis, Indiana, becoming the first player to win tournaments on the regular and Senior PGA Tours in the same year.
1995 AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies: AT&T (communication services); Lucent Technologies (systems and technology communications products); and NCR Corp. (computer business).
1999 Lawrence Russell Brewer was convicted in the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, Texas.
1999 International peacekeepers landed in East Timor.
2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President Bill Clinton or his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2001 President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress regarding the terrorist attacks and named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to head the new Office of Homeland Security.
2004 CBS News apologized for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report.
2006 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez repeatedly referred to President Bush as "the devil" during a speech to the United Nations.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
Surrender - Perry Como
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Skokiaan - The Four Lads
The High and the Mighty - Les Baxter
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Patches - Clarence Carter
For the Good Times - Ray Price
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Got My Heart Set on You - John Conlee
Quote of the Day
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )
Today's Birthdays
1878 Upton Sinclair, author (The Jungle) died Nov 25, 1968
1911 Frank DeVol, bandleader/songwriter (The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, The Love Boat) died Oct 27, 1999
1917 Red (Arnold) Auerbach, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Boston Celtics)
1925 Bobby Nunn, singer (The Coasters) died Nov 5, 1986
1927 Rachel Roberts, actress (Murder on the Orient Express) died Nov 26, 1980
1929 Anne Meara, comedienne/actress (Fame, All in the Family, Rhoda)
1934 Sophia Loren (Sofia Scicolone), actress (Black Orchid, El Cid, Man of La Mancha, Grumpier Old Men)
1935 Jim Taylor, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Green Bay Packers)
1948 Chuck Panozzo, bassist (Styx)
1948 John Panozzo, drummer (Styx) died July 16, 1996
1951 Guy Lafleur, Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (NY Rangers)
1956 Debbi Morgan, actress (Boston Public, Roots: The Next Generations)
1956 Gary Cole, actor (Dodgeball, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
1966 Nuno Bettencourt, rock guitarist (Extreme)
1967 Kristen Johnston, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
1967 Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, rock singers (Nelson)
1969 Victoria Dillard, actress (Spin City)
1975 Asia Argento, actress (Phantom of the Opera, B. Monkey)
1975 Juan Pablo Montoya, race driver (Formula 1, NASCAR)
1979 Rick Woolstenhulme, rock drummer (Lifehouse)
Today's Deaths in History
1863 Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (Brothers Grimm) dies at 78
1947 Fiorello LaGuardia, Former New York City Mayor, dies at 64
1973 Jim Croce, singer/songwriter, dies at 30 in a plane crash
1984 Steve Goodman, folk singer/songwriter (City of New Orleans) dies at 36
2005 Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, dies at 96
Today in History
1519 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
1633 Galileo Galilei was tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1873 Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
1881 Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
1884 The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, California; the party nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood as their U.S. presidential candidate and Marietta Snow as Lockwood’s running mate.
1921 KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily radio newscasts in the country.
1953 Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC.
1962 James Meredith, a black man, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross R. Barnett.
1969 "Sugar, Sugar," by The Archies, hit number one in Billboard.
1973 The Roxy Theatre opened in La, with Elton John, Carole King and Jackson Browne performing.
1973 Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the televised Battle of the Sexes at the Houston Astrodome, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
1973 Singer Jim Croce, his lead guitarist, Maury Muehleisen, and four others died when their plane crashed into a tree at Natchitoches, LA while taking off for a concert in Sherman, Texas.
1977 The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrived in San Francisco under a U.S. resettlement program.
1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was admitted to the United Nations.
1984 A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.
1984 NBC-TV debuted The Cosby Show.
1992 Raymond Floyd won the Senior PGA Tour GTE North Classic at at Indianapolis, Indiana, becoming the first player to win tournaments on the regular and Senior PGA Tours in the same year.
1995 AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies: AT&T (communication services); Lucent Technologies (systems and technology communications products); and NCR Corp. (computer business).
1999 Lawrence Russell Brewer was convicted in the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, Texas.
1999 International peacekeepers landed in East Timor.
2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President Bill Clinton or his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2001 President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress regarding the terrorist attacks and named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to head the new Office of Homeland Security.
2004 CBS News apologized for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report.
2006 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez repeatedly referred to President Bush as "the devil" during a speech to the United Nations.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
Surrender - Perry Como
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Skokiaan - The Four Lads
The High and the Mighty - Les Baxter
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Patches - Clarence Carter
For the Good Times - Ray Price
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Got My Heart Set on You - John Conlee
Quote of the Day
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke, English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )
Today in History - Sept 21st
Today's Birthdays
1788 Margaret Taylor (Smith), First Lady of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor, died in 1852
1866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, writer (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man) died Aug 13, 1946
1874 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) died May 25, 1934
1912 Chuck Jones, cartoonist (The Road Runner, Pepe Le Pew, Wiley Coyote) died Feb 22, 2002
1931 Larry Hagman, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1934 Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter (Everybody Knows, Take This Waltz)
1935 Henry Gibson (Bateman), comedian (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
1945 Richard Childress, NASCAR racer/NASCAR team owner
1947 Don Felder, guitarist/singer (The Eagles)
1947 Stephen King, author (Pet Sematary, Christine, The Stand, Carrie, The Shining)
1947 Jerry Bruckheimer, producer (CSI)
1950 Bill Murray, comedian/writer/actor (Saturday Night Live, Stripes, Ghostbusters series, Groundhog Day)
1953 Arie Luyendyk, Indycar driver
1953 Kenny Starr, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Blind Man in the Bleachers)
1954 Philthy Animal (Philip Taylor), drummer (Motorhead)
1957 Ethan Coen, film director (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski)
1959 Dave Coulier, actor (Full House)
1959 Corinne Drewery, singer (Swing Out Sister)
1960 David James Elliott, actor (JAG)
1961 Nancy Travis, actress (Three Men and a Baby, So I Married an Axe Murderer)
1962 Rob Morrow, actor (Numb3rs, Northern Exposure, Quiz Show)
1965 Cheryl Hines, actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1967 Faith Hill, country singer
1968 Ricki Lake, TV talk show host/actress (Hairspray)
1971 Alfonso Ribeiro, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1971 Luke Wilson, actor (Bottle Rocket, Old School, Idiocracy)
1971 James Lesure, actor (Las Vegas)
1972 Liam Gallagher, singer (Oasis)
1972 Jon Kitna, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1972 David Silveria, drummer (KoЯn)
1978 Paulo Costanzo, actor (Joey, Road Trip)
1981 Nicole Richie, TV personality (The Simple Life)
1983 Joseph Mazzello, actor (Jurassic Park, Simon Birch)
1983 Maggie Grace, actress (Lost)
Today's Deaths in History
1904 Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader ("I will fight no more forever") dies at 64
1974 Walter Brennan, actor (The Real McCoys) dies at 80
1974 Jacqueline Susann, novelist (Valley of the Dolls) dies at 56
1987 Jaco Pastorius, jazz bassist (Weather Report) dies at 35
1998 Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic track star, dies at 38
2002 Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler, dies in prison at 67
2006 Boz Burrell, rock bassist (King Crimson, Bad Company) dies at 60
Today in History
1784 America’s first daily paper, The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, was published in Philadelphia.
1792 The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1827 According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
1897 New York Sun Editor Frank Church wrote his famous “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" response to a letter written by an eight-year old girl.
1937 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
1938 A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.
1948 Milton Berle was made the permanent host of The Texaco Star Theater on NBC-TV.
1949 The People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.
1957 Famed trial lawyer Perry Mason came to CBS-TV.
1961 Antonio Abertondo swam the channel both ways, doing it nonstop in 24 hours and 25 minutes.
1970 ABC-TV debuted Monday Night Football, with Howard Cosell, ‘Dandy’ Don Meredith and Keith Jackson.
1973 The Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State.
1977 President Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, resigned amid controversy over past business and banking practices.
1982 National Football League players began a 57-day strike.
1983 In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Interior Secretary James G. Watt described a special advisory panel as consisting of "a black ... a woman, two Jews and a cripple;" Watt later apologized and resigned.
1989 Hurricane Hugo tore into Charleston, South Carolina, leaving a trail of destruction calculated at over eight billion dollars.
1996 John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.
1996 The board of Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1998 President Bill Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast; in it, Clinton sparred with prosecutors about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, at one point answering a question by saying, "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
1998 Olympic gold medal track star Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, died in her sleep after suffering an epilectic seizure.
1999 A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing at least 2,400 people.
2001 Congress approved $15 billion to help an airline industry reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2002 Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler whose killings of young women terrorized Los Angeles in the 1970s, died in prison at age 67.
2003 NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, bringing a fiery conclusion to a 14-year exploration of the solar system's largest planet and its moons.
2006 The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
You’re My Jamaica - Charley Pride
1987
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
This Crazy Love - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today's Birthdays
1788 Margaret Taylor (Smith), First Lady of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor, died in 1852
1866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, writer (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man) died Aug 13, 1946
1874 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) died May 25, 1934
1912 Chuck Jones, cartoonist (The Road Runner, Pepe Le Pew, Wiley Coyote) died Feb 22, 2002
1931 Larry Hagman, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1934 Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter (Everybody Knows, Take This Waltz)
1935 Henry Gibson (Bateman), comedian (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
1945 Richard Childress, NASCAR racer/NASCAR team owner
1947 Don Felder, guitarist/singer (The Eagles)
1947 Stephen King, author (Pet Sematary, Christine, The Stand, Carrie, The Shining)
1947 Jerry Bruckheimer, producer (CSI)
1950 Bill Murray, comedian/writer/actor (Saturday Night Live, Stripes, Ghostbusters series, Groundhog Day)
1953 Arie Luyendyk, Indycar driver
1953 Kenny Starr, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Blind Man in the Bleachers)
1954 Philthy Animal (Philip Taylor), drummer (Motorhead)
1957 Ethan Coen, film director (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski)
1959 Dave Coulier, actor (Full House)
1959 Corinne Drewery, singer (Swing Out Sister)
1960 David James Elliott, actor (JAG)
1961 Nancy Travis, actress (Three Men and a Baby, So I Married an Axe Murderer)
1962 Rob Morrow, actor (Numb3rs, Northern Exposure, Quiz Show)
1965 Cheryl Hines, actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1967 Faith Hill, country singer
1968 Ricki Lake, TV talk show host/actress (Hairspray)
1971 Alfonso Ribeiro, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1971 Luke Wilson, actor (Bottle Rocket, Old School, Idiocracy)
1971 James Lesure, actor (Las Vegas)
1972 Liam Gallagher, singer (Oasis)
1972 Jon Kitna, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1972 David Silveria, drummer (KoЯn)
1978 Paulo Costanzo, actor (Joey, Road Trip)
1981 Nicole Richie, TV personality (The Simple Life)
1983 Joseph Mazzello, actor (Jurassic Park, Simon Birch)
1983 Maggie Grace, actress (Lost)
Today's Deaths in History
1904 Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader ("I will fight no more forever") dies at 64
1974 Walter Brennan, actor (The Real McCoys) dies at 80
1974 Jacqueline Susann, novelist (Valley of the Dolls) dies at 56
1987 Jaco Pastorius, jazz bassist (Weather Report) dies at 35
1998 Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic track star, dies at 38
2002 Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler, dies in prison at 67
2006 Boz Burrell, rock bassist (King Crimson, Bad Company) dies at 60
Today in History
1784 America’s first daily paper, The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, was published in Philadelphia.
1792 The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1827 According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
1897 New York Sun Editor Frank Church wrote his famous “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" response to a letter written by an eight-year old girl.
1937 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
1938 A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.
1948 Milton Berle was made the permanent host of The Texaco Star Theater on NBC-TV.
1949 The People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.
1957 Famed trial lawyer Perry Mason came to CBS-TV.
1961 Antonio Abertondo swam the channel both ways, doing it nonstop in 24 hours and 25 minutes.
1970 ABC-TV debuted Monday Night Football, with Howard Cosell, ‘Dandy’ Don Meredith and Keith Jackson.
1973 The Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State.
1977 President Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, resigned amid controversy over past business and banking practices.
1982 National Football League players began a 57-day strike.
1983 In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Interior Secretary James G. Watt described a special advisory panel as consisting of "a black ... a woman, two Jews and a cripple;" Watt later apologized and resigned.
1989 Hurricane Hugo tore into Charleston, South Carolina, leaving a trail of destruction calculated at over eight billion dollars.
1996 John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.
1996 The board of Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1998 President Bill Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast; in it, Clinton sparred with prosecutors about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, at one point answering a question by saying, "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
1998 Olympic gold medal track star Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, died in her sleep after suffering an epilectic seizure.
1999 A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing at least 2,400 people.
2001 Congress approved $15 billion to help an airline industry reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2002 Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler whose killings of young women terrorized Los Angeles in the 1970s, died in prison at age 67.
2003 NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, bringing a fiery conclusion to a 14-year exploration of the solar system's largest planet and its moons.
2006 The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
You’re My Jamaica - Charley Pride
1987
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
This Crazy Love - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
QUOTE(Giac @ Sep 21 2007, 01:15 PM)
1961 Antonio Abertondo swam the channel both ways, doing it nonstop in 24 hours and 25 minutes.
I can surf through all the channels in 24 seconds.
Or did they mean the English channel? (they have crappier television you know)
Today in History - Sept 22nd
Today's Birthdays
1515 Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England, died July 16, 1557
1885 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (Sunset Boulevard) died May 12, 1957
1895 Paul Muni (Frederich Weisenfreund), actor (Angel on My Shoulder) died Aug 25, 1967
1902 John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann), actor (The Paper Chase, Three Days of the Condor) died Oct 31, 1988
1909 Allan ‘Rocky’ Lane (Harry Albershart), voice actor (Mister Ed) died Oct 27, 1973
1914 Martha Scott, actress (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments) died May 28, 2003
1920 Bob Lemon, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Cleveland Indians) died Jan 11, 2000
1927 Tom (Thomas Charles) Lasorda, Baseball Hall of Famer manager (LA Dodgers)
1943 Toni Basil, choreographer/singer (Mickey)
1946 Paul Le Mat, actor (The Burning Bed, American Graffiti)
1951 David Coverdale, singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
1954 Shari Belafonte, singer/actress (Hotel)
1956 Debby Boone, singer (You Light Up My Life)
1957 Johnette Napolitano, rock singer (Concrete Blond)
1958 Neil Cavuto, television commentator (Fox)
1958 Joan Jett, guitarist/singer (The Runaways, The Blackhearts)
1958 Andrea Bocelli, Italian opera singer
1961 Scott Baio, actor (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge)
1961 Catherine Oxenberg, actress (Dynasty, Acapulco H.E.A.T.)
1964 Bonnie Hunt, actress (The Green Mile, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire)
1966 Mike Richter, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1969 Matt Sharp, bassist (Weezer)
1976 Ronaldo, Brazilian futbol (soccer) player
1980 Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1981 Adam Lazzara, singer (Taking Back Sunday)
Today's Deaths in History
1692 Martha Corey, last person hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials, dies at 60
1776 Nathan Hale, patriot, is hanged by the British as a spy at 21
1987 Dan Rowan, actor/comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) dies at 65
1989 Irving Berlin, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 Dorothy Lamour, actress ("Road..." movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) dies at 81
1999 George C. Scott, actor (Patton) dies at 71
2001 Isaac Stern, violinst, dies at 81
2003 Gordon Jump, television actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, Maytag Commercials) dies at 71
2006 Edward Albert, Jr., actor (Butterflies Are Free) dies at 55
Today in History
1776 Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
1789 Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.
1792 The French Republic was proclaimed.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1896 Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1927 Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the "long-count" fight in Chicago.
1943 Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal; for 13 continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39 million dollars in bond pledges.
1949 The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1951 The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, was televised on NBC.
1955 Commercial television began to homes in Great Britain (the rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted).
1962 Bob Dylan made his first appearance at Carnegie Hall.
1964 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. debuted on NBC-TV.
1964 Zero Mostel began the first of 3,242 performances of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway.
1969 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th career home run during a game in San Diego.
1973 Henry Kissinger took the oath as U.S. Secretary of State, the first time a naturalized citizen had held that office.
1975 Sara Jane Moore failed in an attempt to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.
1980 John Lennon signed with Geffen Records, less than three months before his assassination.
1985 The Farm Aid concert raised ten million dollars to help the financially troubled farmers of Middle America.
1988 The government of Canada apologized for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians and promised compensation.
1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls were made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
1995 The Turner Broadcasting System agreed to merge with the Time Warner media conglomerate for $7.5 billion.
1997 The Atlanta Braves won an unprecedented sixth straight division title.
2003 David Hempleman-Adams became the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
2004 CBS-owned stations were fined $550,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for showing Janet Jackson's exposed right breast during the Super Bowl halftime show.
2005 John Roberts' nomination as chief justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13-5 vote.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Black & White - Three Dog Night
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
When the Snow is on the Roses - Sonny James
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Joe Knows How to Live - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike, US author (1932 - )
Today's Birthdays
1515 Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England, died July 16, 1557
1885 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (Sunset Boulevard) died May 12, 1957
1895 Paul Muni (Frederich Weisenfreund), actor (Angel on My Shoulder) died Aug 25, 1967
1902 John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann), actor (The Paper Chase, Three Days of the Condor) died Oct 31, 1988
1909 Allan ‘Rocky’ Lane (Harry Albershart), voice actor (Mister Ed) died Oct 27, 1973
1914 Martha Scott, actress (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments) died May 28, 2003
1920 Bob Lemon, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Cleveland Indians) died Jan 11, 2000
1927 Tom (Thomas Charles) Lasorda, Baseball Hall of Famer manager (LA Dodgers)
1943 Toni Basil, choreographer/singer (Mickey)
1946 Paul Le Mat, actor (The Burning Bed, American Graffiti)
1951 David Coverdale, singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
1954 Shari Belafonte, singer/actress (Hotel)
1956 Debby Boone, singer (You Light Up My Life)
1957 Johnette Napolitano, rock singer (Concrete Blond)
1958 Neil Cavuto, television commentator (Fox)
1958 Joan Jett, guitarist/singer (The Runaways, The Blackhearts)
1958 Andrea Bocelli, Italian opera singer
1961 Scott Baio, actor (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge)
1961 Catherine Oxenberg, actress (Dynasty, Acapulco H.E.A.T.)
1964 Bonnie Hunt, actress (The Green Mile, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire)
1966 Mike Richter, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1969 Matt Sharp, bassist (Weezer)
1976 Ronaldo, Brazilian futbol (soccer) player
1980 Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1981 Adam Lazzara, singer (Taking Back Sunday)
Today's Deaths in History
1692 Martha Corey, last person hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials, dies at 60
1776 Nathan Hale, patriot, is hanged by the British as a spy at 21
1987 Dan Rowan, actor/comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) dies at 65
1989 Irving Berlin, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 Dorothy Lamour, actress ("Road..." movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) dies at 81
1999 George C. Scott, actor (Patton) dies at 71
2001 Isaac Stern, violinst, dies at 81
2003 Gordon Jump, television actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, Maytag Commercials) dies at 71
2006 Edward Albert, Jr., actor (Butterflies Are Free) dies at 55
Today in History
1776 Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
1789 Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.
1792 The French Republic was proclaimed.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1896 Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1927 Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the "long-count" fight in Chicago.
1943 Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal; for 13 continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39 million dollars in bond pledges.
1949 The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1951 The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, was televised on NBC.
1955 Commercial television began to homes in Great Britain (the rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted).
1962 Bob Dylan made his first appearance at Carnegie Hall.
1964 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. debuted on NBC-TV.
1964 Zero Mostel began the first of 3,242 performances of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway.
1969 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th career home run during a game in San Diego.
1973 Henry Kissinger took the oath as U.S. Secretary of State, the first time a naturalized citizen had held that office.
1975 Sara Jane Moore failed in an attempt to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.
1980 John Lennon signed with Geffen Records, less than three months before his assassination.
1985 The Farm Aid concert raised ten million dollars to help the financially troubled farmers of Middle America.
1988 The government of Canada apologized for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians and promised compensation.
1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls were made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
1995 The Turner Broadcasting System agreed to merge with the Time Warner media conglomerate for $7.5 billion.
1997 The Atlanta Braves won an unprecedented sixth straight division title.
2003 David Hempleman-Adams became the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
2004 CBS-owned stations were fined $550,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for showing Janet Jackson's exposed right breast during the Super Bowl halftime show.
2005 John Roberts' nomination as chief justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13-5 vote.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Black & White - Three Dog Night
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
When the Snow is on the Roses - Sonny James
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Joe Knows How to Live - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike, US author (1932 - )
Today in History - Sept 23rd
Today's Birthdays
0480 BC Euripides, Greek playwright, died 406 BC
1897 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Mrs. Miniver, How Green was My Valley, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) died Sep 25, 1984
1920 Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.), actor (Boy’s Town, Captains Courageous, The Black Stallion, Andy Hardy series)
1923 Margaret Pellegrini, actress (The Wizard of Oz)
1926 John (William) Coltrane, jazz composer/tenor & soprano sax, died July 17, 1967
1930 Ray Charles (Robinson), singer/pianist (Georgia on My Mind) died June 10, 2004
1938 Romy Schneider (Rosemarie Magdelena Albach-Retty), actress (What’s New Pussycat?) died May 29, 1982
1943 Steve Boone, bassist/singer (The Lovin’ Spoonful)
1943 Julio Iglesias, singer (To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before)
1945 Ronald Bushy, drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1947 Mary Kay Place, actress (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Big Chill)
1947 Jerry Corbetta, singer/musician (Sugarloaf)
1947 Neal Smith, drummer (Alice Cooper)
1949 Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Boss,’ singer/guitarist (Born in the U.S.A., Born to Run)
1957 Rosalind Chao, actress (M*A*S*H)
1958 Marvin Lewis, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
1959 Jason Alexander, actor (Seinfeld, Pretty Woman)
1959 Lita Ford, guitarist/singer (The Runaways)
1961 Elizabeth Peña, actress (La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Times Square)
1961 Chi McBride, actor (Gone in 60 Seconds, Undercover Brother, Boston Public)
1969 Michelle Thomas, actress (Family Matters) dies Dec 23, 1998
1970 Ani DiFranco, singer/guitarist/songwriter
1975 Jaime Bergman, playmate/actress (January 1999; Son of the Beach)
Today's Deaths in History
1939 Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, dies at 83
1973 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet/Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 69
1987 Bob Fosse, Choreographer/director, dies at 60
2006 Etta Baker, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 93
Today in History
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.
1779 John Paul Jones, captain of the Bonhomme Richard, uttered his now-famous words, “I have not yet begun to fight.”
1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, was founded in New York.
1846 The planet Neptune was first observed by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1930 Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier of Athegnenber, Germany.
1848 The first commercial production of chewing gum was made by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.'
1875 William Bonney, "Billy the Kid," was arrested for the first time.
1889 Nintendo Koppai (later the Nintendo Company, Limited) was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game "Hanafuda."
1952 Rocky Marciano became the world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round in Philadelphia PA. Pay Television for sporting events began with this fight, coast to coast, in 49 theatres in 31 cities.
1952 Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on TV to deliver what came to be known as the "Checkers" speech as he refuted allegations of improper campaign financing.
1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
1962 The Jetsons aired for the first time on ABC-TV.
1967 The Box Tops hit #1 with "The Letter."
1972 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announced over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
1986 NBC-TV won the ratings race for the 52-week season (1985-1986), with The Cosby Show and [/i]Family Ties[/i] rated #1 and #2 respectively that year.
1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait.
1999 The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet.
2002 A 24-count indictment charging conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud was filed against the founding family and two executives of bankrupt cable company Adelphia Communications Corp.
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") was released.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk - Perry Como
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before - Conway Twitty
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
You Don’t Know Me - Mickey Gilley
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Above and Beyond - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy, 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)
Today's Birthdays
0480 BC Euripides, Greek playwright, died 406 BC
1897 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Mrs. Miniver, How Green was My Valley, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) died Sep 25, 1984
1920 Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.), actor (Boy’s Town, Captains Courageous, The Black Stallion, Andy Hardy series)
1923 Margaret Pellegrini, actress (The Wizard of Oz)
1926 John (William) Coltrane, jazz composer/tenor & soprano sax, died July 17, 1967
1930 Ray Charles (Robinson), singer/pianist (Georgia on My Mind) died June 10, 2004
1938 Romy Schneider (Rosemarie Magdelena Albach-Retty), actress (What’s New Pussycat?) died May 29, 1982
1943 Steve Boone, bassist/singer (The Lovin’ Spoonful)
1943 Julio Iglesias, singer (To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before)
1945 Ronald Bushy, drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1947 Mary Kay Place, actress (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Big Chill)
1947 Jerry Corbetta, singer/musician (Sugarloaf)
1947 Neal Smith, drummer (Alice Cooper)
1949 Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Boss,’ singer/guitarist (Born in the U.S.A., Born to Run)
1957 Rosalind Chao, actress (M*A*S*H)
1958 Marvin Lewis, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
1959 Jason Alexander, actor (Seinfeld, Pretty Woman)
1959 Lita Ford, guitarist/singer (The Runaways)
1961 Elizabeth Peña, actress (La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Times Square)
1961 Chi McBride, actor (Gone in 60 Seconds, Undercover Brother, Boston Public)
1969 Michelle Thomas, actress (Family Matters) dies Dec 23, 1998
1970 Ani DiFranco, singer/guitarist/songwriter
1975 Jaime Bergman, playmate/actress (January 1999; Son of the Beach)
Today's Deaths in History
1939 Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, dies at 83
1973 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet/Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 69
1987 Bob Fosse, Choreographer/director, dies at 60
2006 Etta Baker, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 93
Today in History
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.
1779 John Paul Jones, captain of the Bonhomme Richard, uttered his now-famous words, “I have not yet begun to fight.”
1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, was founded in New York.
1846 The planet Neptune was first observed by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1930 Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier of Athegnenber, Germany.
1848 The first commercial production of chewing gum was made by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.'
1875 William Bonney, "Billy the Kid," was arrested for the first time.
1889 Nintendo Koppai (later the Nintendo Company, Limited) was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game "Hanafuda."
1952 Rocky Marciano became the world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round in Philadelphia PA. Pay Television for sporting events began with this fight, coast to coast, in 49 theatres in 31 cities.
1952 Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on TV to deliver what came to be known as the "Checkers" speech as he refuted allegations of improper campaign financing.
1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
1962 The Jetsons aired for the first time on ABC-TV.
1967 The Box Tops hit #1 with "The Letter."
1972 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announced over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
1986 NBC-TV won the ratings race for the 52-week season (1985-1986), with The Cosby Show and [/i]Family Ties[/i] rated #1 and #2 respectively that year.
1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait.
1999 The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet.
2002 A 24-count indictment charging conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud was filed against the founding family and two executives of bankrupt cable company Adelphia Communications Corp.
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") was released.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk - Perry Como
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before - Conway Twitty
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
You Don’t Know Me - Mickey Gilley
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Above and Beyond - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy, 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)
QUOTE(Giac @ Sep 23 2007, 01:20 PM)
1926 John (William) Coltrane, jazz composer/tenor & soprano sax, died July 17, 1967
For anyone interested, WKCR in NY is doing their annual birthday broadcast through tomorrow morning. You can stream it online.
Obviously, I'm a fan. It just amazes me that someone could create so much influential music in such a short time. 9-10 years, really, from 1957 or thereabouts through 1967.
Today in History - Sept 24th
Today's Birthdays
1755 John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died July 6, 1835
1896 F. (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald, writer (The Great Gatsby) died Dec 21, 1940
1921 Jim McKay (McManus), sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1924 Sheila MacRae (Stephens), comedienne/actress (The Honeymooners)
1936 Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show) died May 16, 1990
1941 Linda McCartney (Eastman), photographer/singer (Wings) died Apr 17, 1998
1942 Gerry Marsden, singer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1946 ‘Mean’ Joe (Charles) Greene, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1948 Phil Hartman, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio) shot to death by his wife May 28, 1998
1958 Kevin Sorbo, actor (Hercules)
1959 Steve Whitmire, voice actor (Kermit the Frog)
1962 Nia Vardalos, writer/actress (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1965 Sean McNabb, bassist (Quiet Riot)
1966 Stacy Galina, actress (Knot's Landing)
1969 Shawn "Clown" Crahan, percussionist (Slipknot)
19?? jburns, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1981 Patsy Kelly, actress (The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Wild Wild West) dies at 71
1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel, children's author (Dr. Seuss) dies at 87
2002 Mike Webster, NFL center (Pitytsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs) dies at 50
2005 Tommy Bond, actor (Our Gang, Superman) dies at 79
Today in History
1789 Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
1869 Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.
1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
1934 Babe Ruth bid farewell to the New York Yankees, playing his last game in Yankee Stadium and for the team.
1938 Tennis champion Don Budge won the U.S. Tennis Open at Forest Hills, NY., making him the first player to win all four major titles.
1942 Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS radio as he prepared for military service in World War II.
1948 The Honda Motor Company was founded.
1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.
1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1960 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
1961 Bullwinkle J. Moose and his friend, Rocket J. (Rocky) Squirrel, were seen in prime time for the first time on NBC-TV.
1968 60 Minutes, the longest-running newsmagazine on television began, on CBS-TV.
1969 A trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
1977 The Love Boat set sail on ABC-TV.
1988 The Rev. Barbara C. Harris of Philadelphia became the first woman to be elected a bishop of the Episcopal Church.
1988 Guns N’Roses' Appetite for Destruction reached #1 on the Billboard album chart.
1996 The world's major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 Redesigned $20 bills meant to be harder to counterfeit went into circulation.
2001 President George W. Bush froze the assests of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2002 British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a special session of Parliament that Iraq had a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them.
2005 Hurricane Rita struck eastern Texas and the Louisiana coast, causing more flooding in New Orleans.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
Bus Stop - The Hollies
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
I Wouldn’t Want to Live if You Didn’t Love Me - Don Williams
1982
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed
1990
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S Truman, 33rd President of US (1884 - 1972)
Today's Birthdays
1755 John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died July 6, 1835
1896 F. (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald, writer (The Great Gatsby) died Dec 21, 1940
1921 Jim McKay (McManus), sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1924 Sheila MacRae (Stephens), comedienne/actress (The Honeymooners)
1936 Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show) died May 16, 1990
1941 Linda McCartney (Eastman), photographer/singer (Wings) died Apr 17, 1998
1942 Gerry Marsden, singer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1946 ‘Mean’ Joe (Charles) Greene, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1948 Phil Hartman, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio) shot to death by his wife May 28, 1998
1958 Kevin Sorbo, actor (Hercules)
1959 Steve Whitmire, voice actor (Kermit the Frog)
1962 Nia Vardalos, writer/actress (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1965 Sean McNabb, bassist (Quiet Riot)
1966 Stacy Galina, actress (Knot's Landing)
1969 Shawn "Clown" Crahan, percussionist (Slipknot)
19?? jburns, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1981 Patsy Kelly, actress (The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Wild Wild West) dies at 71
1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel, children's author (Dr. Seuss) dies at 87
2002 Mike Webster, NFL center (Pitytsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs) dies at 50
2005 Tommy Bond, actor (Our Gang, Superman) dies at 79
Today in History
1789 Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
1869 Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.
1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
1934 Babe Ruth bid farewell to the New York Yankees, playing his last game in Yankee Stadium and for the team.
1938 Tennis champion Don Budge won the U.S. Tennis Open at Forest Hills, NY., making him the first player to win all four major titles.
1942 Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS radio as he prepared for military service in World War II.
1948 The Honda Motor Company was founded.
1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.
1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1960 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
1961 Bullwinkle J. Moose and his friend, Rocket J. (Rocky) Squirrel, were seen in prime time for the first time on NBC-TV.
1968 60 Minutes, the longest-running newsmagazine on television began, on CBS-TV.
1969 A trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
1977 The Love Boat set sail on ABC-TV.
1988 The Rev. Barbara C. Harris of Philadelphia became the first woman to be elected a bishop of the Episcopal Church.
1988 Guns N’Roses' Appetite for Destruction reached #1 on the Billboard album chart.
1996 The world's major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 Redesigned $20 bills meant to be harder to counterfeit went into circulation.
2001 President George W. Bush froze the assests of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2002 British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a special session of Parliament that Iraq had a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them.
2005 Hurricane Rita struck eastern Texas and the Louisiana coast, causing more flooding in New Orleans.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
Bus Stop - The Hollies
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
I Wouldn’t Want to Live if You Didn’t Love Me - Don Williams
1982
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed
1990
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S Truman, 33rd President of US (1884 - 1972)
Today in History - Sept 25th
Today's Birthdays
1897 William (Cuthbert) Faulkner, writer (As I Lay Dying, The Big Sleep) died July 6, 1962
1905 Red (Walter) Smith, sportswriter (New York Times) died Jan 15, 1982
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich, composer (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) died Aug 9, 1975
1917 Phil (Philip Francis) Rizzuto, Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop/sportscaster (NY Yankees) died Aug 14, 2007
1926 Aldo Ray (DaRe), actor (Battle Cry, The Green Berets) died Mar 27, 1991
1930 Shel Silverstein, humorist/author, died May 10, 1999
1931 Barbara Walters, TV newswoman/talk show host (The View)
1932 Glenn (Herbert) Gould, pianist/composer (Spheres, Slaughterhouse-Five) died Oct 4, 1982
1936 Juliet Prowse, dancer/actress (Can-Can, G.I. Blues) died Sep 14, 1996
1943 Gary Alexander, guitarist/singer (The Association)
1943 Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
1944 Michael Douglas, actor (Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct)
1945 Onnie McIntyre, guitarist (Average White Band)
1947 Cheryl Tiegs, supermodel
1949 Anson Williams (Heimlick), actor (Happy Days)
1949 Mimi Kennedy, actress (Drew Carey Show)
1951 Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) died Oct 10, 2004
1955 Steve Severin (Bailey), bassist (Siouxsie & The Banshees)
1958 Michael Madsen, actor (WarGames, The Natural, Fatal Instinct, Free Willy)
1961 Heather Locklear, actress (Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker)
1962 Aida Turturro, actress (The Sopranos)
1963 Tate Donovan, actor (Love Potion #9, Memphis Belle)
1965 Scottie Pippen, NBA player (Chicago Bulls)
1966 Jason Flemyng, actor (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
1968 Will Smith, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Men in Black series, I Robot)
1969 Hal Sparks, actor (Queer as Folk)
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (Zorro series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Entrapment)
1971 John Lynch, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos)
1973 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, actress (Billy Madison, Mortal Kombat)
1975 Matt Hasselbeck, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1977 Clea DuVall, actress (The Laramie Project, Heroes)
1980 Chris Owen, actor (American Pie series)
Today's Deaths in History
1933 Ring Lardner, writer (The Sporting News) dies at 48
1960 Emily Post, author/etiquette expert, dies at 86
1980 John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) dies at 32
1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (How Green Was My Valley) dies at 87
1987 Mary Astor, actress (The Maltese Falcon) dies at 81
2003 George Plimpton, Author/journalist/editor, dies at 76
2005 Don Adams, actor/comedian (Get Smart) dies at 82
Today in History
1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first Eurpoean to see the Pacific Ocean.
1690 Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick became the first newspaper published in America.
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification (10 of the amendments became the Bill of Rights).
1890 Sequoia National Park was established in Central California.
1890 Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.
1911 Ground was broken for Fenway Park in Boston.
1912 Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism was founded in New York City.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1933 Tom Mix was heard for the first time on NBC radio.
1953 Liberace made his debut at Carnegie Hall.
1957 Nine black children who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
1965 Willie Mays hit his fiftieth home run of the baseball season, making him the oldest player to accomplish this (he was 34).
1976 U2 was formed at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.
1981 Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to sit on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1986 An 1884-S Barber Head dime, one of only a dozen in existence, brought $83,000 in a California coin auction.
1992 A Florida judge ruled that it was legal for a child to divorce biological parents.
1998 Hurricane Georges crossed the Florida Straits, passed over Key West and took aim on the northern Gulf coast.
2001 Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
2001 Michael Jordan announced he was returning to basketball with the NBA's Washington Wizards.
2003 France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from the summer heat wave.
2003 A magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2006 The Louisiana Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for a New Orleans Saints game.
2007 Jim Nabors (aka "Gomer Pyle") is given a promotion to "Honorary Corporal" by the Marine Corps in a ceremony in Waikiki, Hawaii.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
(’Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston
1975
Fame - David Bowie
I’m Sorry - John Denver
Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Daydreams About Night Things - Ronnie Milsap
1983
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Baby, What About You - Crystal Gayle
1991
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright
Quote of the Day
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J.R.R. Tolkien, British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)
Today's Birthdays
1897 William (Cuthbert) Faulkner, writer (As I Lay Dying, The Big Sleep) died July 6, 1962
1905 Red (Walter) Smith, sportswriter (New York Times) died Jan 15, 1982
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich, composer (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) died Aug 9, 1975
1917 Phil (Philip Francis) Rizzuto, Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop/sportscaster (NY Yankees) died Aug 14, 2007
1926 Aldo Ray (DaRe), actor (Battle Cry, The Green Berets) died Mar 27, 1991
1930 Shel Silverstein, humorist/author, died May 10, 1999
1931 Barbara Walters, TV newswoman/talk show host (The View)
1932 Glenn (Herbert) Gould, pianist/composer (Spheres, Slaughterhouse-Five) died Oct 4, 1982
1936 Juliet Prowse, dancer/actress (Can-Can, G.I. Blues) died Sep 14, 1996
1943 Gary Alexander, guitarist/singer (The Association)
1943 Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
1944 Michael Douglas, actor (Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct)
1945 Onnie McIntyre, guitarist (Average White Band)
1947 Cheryl Tiegs, supermodel
1949 Anson Williams (Heimlick), actor (Happy Days)
1949 Mimi Kennedy, actress (Drew Carey Show)
1951 Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) died Oct 10, 2004
1955 Steve Severin (Bailey), bassist (Siouxsie & The Banshees)
1958 Michael Madsen, actor (WarGames, The Natural, Fatal Instinct, Free Willy)
1961 Heather Locklear, actress (Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker)
1962 Aida Turturro, actress (The Sopranos)
1963 Tate Donovan, actor (Love Potion #9, Memphis Belle)
1965 Scottie Pippen, NBA player (Chicago Bulls)
1966 Jason Flemyng, actor (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
1968 Will Smith, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Men in Black series, I Robot)
1969 Hal Sparks, actor (Queer as Folk)
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (Zorro series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Entrapment)
1971 John Lynch, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos)
1973 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, actress (Billy Madison, Mortal Kombat)
1975 Matt Hasselbeck, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1977 Clea DuVall, actress (The Laramie Project, Heroes)
1980 Chris Owen, actor (American Pie series)
Today's Deaths in History
1933 Ring Lardner, writer (The Sporting News) dies at 48
1960 Emily Post, author/etiquette expert, dies at 86
1980 John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) dies at 32
1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (How Green Was My Valley) dies at 87
1987 Mary Astor, actress (The Maltese Falcon) dies at 81
2003 George Plimpton, Author/journalist/editor, dies at 76
2005 Don Adams, actor/comedian (Get Smart) dies at 82
Today in History
1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first Eurpoean to see the Pacific Ocean.
1690 Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick became the first newspaper published in America.
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification (10 of the amendments became the Bill of Rights).
1890 Sequoia National Park was established in Central California.
1890 Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.
1911 Ground was broken for Fenway Park in Boston.
1912 Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism was founded in New York City.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1933 Tom Mix was heard for the first time on NBC radio.
1953 Liberace made his debut at Carnegie Hall.
1957 Nine black children who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
1965 Willie Mays hit his fiftieth home run of the baseball season, making him the oldest player to accomplish this (he was 34).
1976 U2 was formed at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.
1981 Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to sit on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1986 An 1884-S Barber Head dime, one of only a dozen in existence, brought $83,000 in a California coin auction.
1992 A Florida judge ruled that it was legal for a child to divorce biological parents.
1998 Hurricane Georges crossed the Florida Straits, passed over Key West and took aim on the northern Gulf coast.
2001 Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
2001 Michael Jordan announced he was returning to basketball with the NBA's Washington Wizards.
2003 France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from the summer heat wave.
2003 A magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2006 The Louisiana Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for a New Orleans Saints game.
2007 Jim Nabors (aka "Gomer Pyle") is given a promotion to "Honorary Corporal" by the Marine Corps in a ceremony in Waikiki, Hawaii.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
(’Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston
1975
Fame - David Bowie
I’m Sorry - John Denver
Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Daydreams About Night Things - Ronnie Milsap
1983
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Baby, What About You - Crystal Gayle
1991
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright
Quote of the Day
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J.R.R. Tolkien, British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)
Today in History - Sept 26th
Today's Birthdays
1181 Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order, died Oct 3, 1226
1774 Johnny Appleseed (Chapman), nurseryman, died Mar 18, 1845
1888 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, poet (The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) died Jan 4, 1965
1895 George Raft (Ranft), actor (Some Like It Hot, Casino Royale) died Nov 24, 1980
1897 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), 262nd Pope, died Aug 6, 1978
1898 George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin), composer (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy & Bess) died July 11, 1937
1914 Jack LaLanne, fitness guru
1925 Marty Robbins (Robertson), Country Music Hall of Famer (El Paso) died Dec 8, 1982
1926 Julie London (Peck), singer/actress (Emergency) died Oct 18, 2000
1931 George Chambers, bassist/singer (The Chambers Brothers)
1933 Donna Douglas, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1936 Winnie Mandela, political activist
1941 Joe Bauer, drummer (The Youngbloods)
1942 Kent McCord (McWhirter), actor (Adam 12, Battlestar Gallactica)
1945 Bryan Ferry, singer (Roxy Music)
1948 Mary Beth Hurt, actress (The World According to Garp)
1948 Olivia Newton-John, singer/actress (Let Me Be There, I Honestly Love You)
1954 Craig Chaquico, guitarist/singer (Jefferson Starship)
1956 Linda Hamilton, actress (Terminator series, Beauty and the Beast)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn, singer (Everything But The Girl)
1965 Cindy Herron, R&B singer (En Vogue)
1966 Jillian Barberie, actress/television hostess (Fox NFL Sunday)
1967 Shannon Hoon, singer (Blind Melon) died Oct 21, 1995
1968 James (Jim) Caviezel, actor (Frequency, The Passion of the Christ)
1972 Shawn Stockman, R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1981 Christina Milian, R&B singer/actress (Be Cool)
1981 Serena Williams, tennis champion
1985 Shamu, the first killer whale to be born in an captivity and survive
Today's Deaths in History
1820 Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies at 85
1902 Levi Strauss, clothing manufacturer, dies at 73
1945 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
1952 George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, dies at 86
2000 Richard Mulligan, actor (Soap) dies at 67
2003 Robert Palmer, British singer (Addicted to Love) dies at 54
2006 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, "Tokyo Rose," dies in Chicago at 90
2006 Byron Nelson, golf champion, dies at 94
Today in History
1777 British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice.
1892 John Philip Sousa and his band made their public debut, playing the "Liberty Bell March" in Plainfield, New Jersey.
1908 An ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
1914 The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1937 The Shadow radio serial, starring orson Welles, made its debut.
1950 United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.
1957 West Side Story opened in New York.
1960 The first of the presidential debates between hopefuls Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place.
1962 The Beverly Hillbillies aired for the first time on CBS-TV.
1964 Gilligan’s Island began its 98-show run on CBS.
1966 The first Chevrolet Camaro rolled off the assemply line.
1969 The Beatles' Abbey Road was released in London.
1980 The Cuban government closed Mariel Harbor, ending the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1984 Liz Taylor starred in the season opener of the TV soap, Hotel.
1986 Dallas, on CBS-TV, had Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) returning from the dead.
1986 William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice.
1990 The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, designed to bar moviegoers under age 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old X rating.
1991 A group of scientists, four men and four women, began a two-year stay inside Biosphere 2, a sealed structure in Oracle, AZ.
1996 Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, Calif.
2000 Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.
2004 Pakistani forces killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal (she was later sentenced to three years in prison).
2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists.
2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time - Willie Nelson
1984
Missing You - John Waite
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
Let’s Chase Each Other Around the Room - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes, US art collector, author, & publisher (1919 - 1990)
Today's Birthdays
1181 Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order, died Oct 3, 1226
1774 Johnny Appleseed (Chapman), nurseryman, died Mar 18, 1845
1888 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, poet (The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) died Jan 4, 1965
1895 George Raft (Ranft), actor (Some Like It Hot, Casino Royale) died Nov 24, 1980
1897 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), 262nd Pope, died Aug 6, 1978
1898 George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin), composer (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy & Bess) died July 11, 1937
1914 Jack LaLanne, fitness guru
1925 Marty Robbins (Robertson), Country Music Hall of Famer (El Paso) died Dec 8, 1982
1926 Julie London (Peck), singer/actress (Emergency) died Oct 18, 2000
1931 George Chambers, bassist/singer (The Chambers Brothers)
1933 Donna Douglas, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1936 Winnie Mandela, political activist
1941 Joe Bauer, drummer (The Youngbloods)
1942 Kent McCord (McWhirter), actor (Adam 12, Battlestar Gallactica)
1945 Bryan Ferry, singer (Roxy Music)
1948 Mary Beth Hurt, actress (The World According to Garp)
1948 Olivia Newton-John, singer/actress (Let Me Be There, I Honestly Love You)
1954 Craig Chaquico, guitarist/singer (Jefferson Starship)
1956 Linda Hamilton, actress (Terminator series, Beauty and the Beast)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn, singer (Everything But The Girl)
1965 Cindy Herron, R&B singer (En Vogue)
1966 Jillian Barberie, actress/television hostess (Fox NFL Sunday)
1967 Shannon Hoon, singer (Blind Melon) died Oct 21, 1995
1968 James (Jim) Caviezel, actor (Frequency, The Passion of the Christ)
1972 Shawn Stockman, R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1981 Christina Milian, R&B singer/actress (Be Cool)
1981 Serena Williams, tennis champion
1985 Shamu, the first killer whale to be born in an captivity and survive
Today's Deaths in History
1820 Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies at 85
1902 Levi Strauss, clothing manufacturer, dies at 73
1945 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
1952 George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, dies at 86
2000 Richard Mulligan, actor (Soap) dies at 67
2003 Robert Palmer, British singer (Addicted to Love) dies at 54
2006 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, "Tokyo Rose," dies in Chicago at 90
2006 Byron Nelson, golf champion, dies at 94
Today in History
1777 British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice.
1892 John Philip Sousa and his band made their public debut, playing the "Liberty Bell March" in Plainfield, New Jersey.
1908 An ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
1914 The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1937 The Shadow radio serial, starring orson Welles, made its debut.
1950 United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.
1957 West Side Story opened in New York.
1960 The first of the presidential debates between hopefuls Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place.
1962 The Beverly Hillbillies aired for the first time on CBS-TV.
1964 Gilligan’s Island began its 98-show run on CBS.
1966 The first Chevrolet Camaro rolled off the assemply line.
1969 The Beatles' Abbey Road was released in London.
1980 The Cuban government closed Mariel Harbor, ending the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1984 Liz Taylor starred in the season opener of the TV soap, Hotel.
1986 Dallas, on CBS-TV, had Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) returning from the dead.
1986 William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice.
1990 The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, designed to bar moviegoers under age 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old X rating.
1991 A group of scientists, four men and four women, began a two-year stay inside Biosphere 2, a sealed structure in Oracle, AZ.
1996 Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, Calif.
2000 Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.
2004 Pakistani forces killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal (she was later sentenced to three years in prison).
2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists.
2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time - Willie Nelson
1984
Missing You - John Waite
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
Let’s Chase Each Other Around the Room - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes, US art collector, author, & publisher (1919 - 1990)
Today in History - Sept 27th
Today's Birthdays
1722 Samuel Adams, Revolutionary War leader/governor of Massachusetts, died Oct 2, 1803
1792 George Cruikshank, caricaturist/illustrator (Charles Dickens’ books) died in 1878
1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist (father of American political cartooning) died Dec 7, 1902
1920 William Conrad (Cann), actor (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman) died Feb 11, 1994
1920 Jayne Meadows (Cotter), actress (City Slickers, Murder by Numbers)
1922 Arthur Penn, director (Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man)
1933 Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible, Vega$) died Aug 27, 1996
1933 Will Sampson, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) died June 3, 1987
1934 Wilford Brimley, actor (Cocoon, The Natural, The Firm)
1934 Dick Schaap, sports reporter, died Dec 21, 2001
1936 Don Cornelius, producer (Soul Train)
1941 Don Nix, baritone sax (The Mar-Keys, Booker T and the M.G.’s)
1943 Randy Bachman, guitarist/singer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1947 Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), actor/singer (Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, Paradise by the Dashboard Light)
1949 Mike (Michael Jack) Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1950 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor (The Last Emperor, Rising Sun, Balls of Fury)
1953 Greg Ham, saxophonist/flautist/keyboardist (Men at Work)
1958 Shaun Cassidy, singer/actor
1964 Stephan Jenkins, singer (Third Eye Blind)
1969 Patrick Muldoon, actor (Melrose Place, Starship Troopers)
1971 Amanda Detmer, actress (Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Majestic)
1972 Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (Shakespeare in Love)
1978 Brad Arnold, singer (3 Doors Down)
1982 Darrent Williams, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos) shot to death Jan 1, 2007
1984 Avril Lavigne, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1590 Pope Urban VII dies at 69
1700 Pope Innocent XII dies at 85
1917 Edgar Degas, French painter, dies at 83
1956 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete, dies at 45
1965 Clara Bow, actress (The "It" Girl) dies at 60
1981 Robert Montgomery, actor (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) dies at 77
1986 Cliff Burton, bassist (Metallica) dies at 24
1993 Jimmy Doolittle, American general (WWII) dies at 96
2003 Donald O'Connor, actor/dancer (Singin' in the Rain) dies at 78
Today in History
1590 Pope Urban VII died 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1787 The United States Constitution was delivered to the states for ratification.
1829 A locomotive belonging to England’s Stockton and Darlington line pulled a passenger train down the tracks, the first time an engine -- not a horse -- had accomplished this feat.
1894 Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York.
1928 The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
1938 "Thanks for the Memory" was heard for the first time on The Bob Hope Show, on the NBC Red radio network.
1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1942 Just after leaving CBS radio, Glenn Miller led his civilian band for the last time at the Central Theatre in Passaic, NJ, just prior to entering military service.
1954 The Tonight show debuted on NBC-TV with host Steve Allen.
1959 A typhoon battered the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people.
1962 After a concert that featured folk music at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times gave a glowing review in a story about “Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk Song Stylist.”
1964 The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
1970 After 22 years on television, the curtain closed on The Original Amateur Hour on CBS.
1979 The United States Department of Education received final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1983 Richard Stallman announced the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1989 The first two people to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell about it did so, to show kids there are better things to do than drugs.
1990 The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Supreme Court nomination of David H. Souter.
1991 The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
1994 More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the U.S. House.
1995 Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin announced that the U.S. would issue a $100 note that had been redesigned to incorporate numerous security features.
1996 The Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
1998 Google was launched.
1998 Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor of Germany, ending 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his record-setting 69th and 70th home runs in the last game of the season.
1999 Tiger Stadium closed after 87 years as home of baseball's Detroit Tigers.
2001 An armed man went on a shooting rampage in the local parliament in Zug, Switzerland, killing 14 people before taking his own life.
2001 President George W. Bush announced plans to bolster airline security in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
2005 Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2006 A gunman took six girls hostage at a high school in Bailey, Colo.; he molested them and killed one girl before committing suicide.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night
Tall Dark Stranger - Buck Owens
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
I’ve Already Loved You in My Mind - Conway Twitty
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Freedom - Wham!
I Fell in Love Again Last Night - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson, US comedian & television host (1925 - 2005)
Today's Birthdays
1722 Samuel Adams, Revolutionary War leader/governor of Massachusetts, died Oct 2, 1803
1792 George Cruikshank, caricaturist/illustrator (Charles Dickens’ books) died in 1878
1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist (father of American political cartooning) died Dec 7, 1902
1920 William Conrad (Cann), actor (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman) died Feb 11, 1994
1920 Jayne Meadows (Cotter), actress (City Slickers, Murder by Numbers)
1922 Arthur Penn, director (Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man)
1933 Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible, Vega$) died Aug 27, 1996
1933 Will Sampson, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) died June 3, 1987
1934 Wilford Brimley, actor (Cocoon, The Natural, The Firm)
1934 Dick Schaap, sports reporter, died Dec 21, 2001
1936 Don Cornelius, producer (Soul Train)
1941 Don Nix, baritone sax (The Mar-Keys, Booker T and the M.G.’s)
1943 Randy Bachman, guitarist/singer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1947 Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), actor/singer (Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, Paradise by the Dashboard Light)
1949 Mike (Michael Jack) Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1950 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor (The Last Emperor, Rising Sun, Balls of Fury)
1953 Greg Ham, saxophonist/flautist/keyboardist (Men at Work)
1958 Shaun Cassidy, singer/actor
1964 Stephan Jenkins, singer (Third Eye Blind)
1969 Patrick Muldoon, actor (Melrose Place, Starship Troopers)
1971 Amanda Detmer, actress (Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Majestic)
1972 Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (Shakespeare in Love)
1978 Brad Arnold, singer (3 Doors Down)
1982 Darrent Williams, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos) shot to death Jan 1, 2007
1984 Avril Lavigne, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1590 Pope Urban VII dies at 69
1700 Pope Innocent XII dies at 85
1917 Edgar Degas, French painter, dies at 83
1956 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete, dies at 45
1965 Clara Bow, actress (The "It" Girl) dies at 60
1981 Robert Montgomery, actor (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) dies at 77
1986 Cliff Burton, bassist (Metallica) dies at 24
1993 Jimmy Doolittle, American general (WWII) dies at 96
2003 Donald O'Connor, actor/dancer (Singin' in the Rain) dies at 78
Today in History
1590 Pope Urban VII died 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1787 The United States Constitution was delivered to the states for ratification.
1829 A locomotive belonging to England’s Stockton and Darlington line pulled a passenger train down the tracks, the first time an engine -- not a horse -- had accomplished this feat.
1894 Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York.
1928 The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
1938 "Thanks for the Memory" was heard for the first time on The Bob Hope Show, on the NBC Red radio network.
1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1942 Just after leaving CBS radio, Glenn Miller led his civilian band for the last time at the Central Theatre in Passaic, NJ, just prior to entering military service.
1954 The Tonight show debuted on NBC-TV with host Steve Allen.
1959 A typhoon battered the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people.
1962 After a concert that featured folk music at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times gave a glowing review in a story about “Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk Song Stylist.”
1964 The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
1970 After 22 years on television, the curtain closed on The Original Amateur Hour on CBS.
1979 The United States Department of Education received final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1983 Richard Stallman announced the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1989 The first two people to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell about it did so, to show kids there are better things to do than drugs.
1990 The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Supreme Court nomination of David H. Souter.
1991 The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
1994 More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the U.S. House.
1995 Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin announced that the U.S. would issue a $100 note that had been redesigned to incorporate numerous security features.
1996 The Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
1998 Google was launched.
1998 Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor of Germany, ending 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his record-setting 69th and 70th home runs in the last game of the season.
1999 Tiger Stadium closed after 87 years as home of baseball's Detroit Tigers.
2001 An armed man went on a shooting rampage in the local parliament in Zug, Switzerland, killing 14 people before taking his own life.
2001 President George W. Bush announced plans to bolster airline security in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
2005 Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2006 A gunman took six girls hostage at a high school in Bailey, Colo.; he molested them and killed one girl before committing suicide.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night
Tall Dark Stranger - Buck Owens
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
I’ve Already Loved You in My Mind - Conway Twitty
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Freedom - Wham!
I Fell in Love Again Last Night - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson, US comedian & television host (1925 - 2005)
Today in History - Sept 28th
Today's Birthdays
0551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher, died 0479 BC
1836 Thomas Crapper, English inventor (flush toilet) died Jan 27, 1910
1856 Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) died Aug 24, 1923
1901 William S. Paley, Television Hall of Famer (founder/owner of CBS) died Oct 26, 1990
1902 Ed (Edward Vincent) Sullivan, newspaper columnist/TV host (The Ed Sullivan Show) died Oct 13, 1974
1905 Max (Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried) Schmeling, International Boxing Hall of Famer, died Feb 2, 2005
1909 Al Capp, cartoonist (Li'l Abner) died Nov 5, 1979
1916 Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch), actor (Network) died Jan 14, 1977
1923 William Windom, actor (My World and Welcome to It, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni), actor (White Nights, La Dolce Vita) died Dec 19, 1996
1934 Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), actress (And God Created Woman)
1937 Rod Roddy, television announcer (The Price is Right) died Oct 27, 2003
1938 Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson), singer/songwriter (The Drifters; Stand By Me)
1943 J.T. Walsh, actor (Breakdown, A Few Good Men, Pleasantville) died Feb 27, 1998
1943 Nick St. Nicholas, bassist (Steppenwolf)
1947 Jeffrey Jones, actor (Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Amadeus)
1952 Sylvia Kristel, actress (Emmanuelle series)
1954 Steve Largent, Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1954 George Lynch, rock guitarist (Dokken)
1961 Quentin Kawananakoa, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii/state legislator
1962 Grant Fuhr, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (St Louis Blues)
1964 Janeane Garofalo, comic/actress (The Truth About Cats & Dogs, The Laramie Project, Mystery Men)
1967 Mira Sorvino, actress (Mighty Aphrodite, The Replacement Killers, Beautiful Girls)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa, actress/daughter of singer Frank Zappa
1968 Naomi Watts, actress (Mulholland Drive, The Ring, King Kong)
1968 Sean Levert, R&B singer (Levert)
1968 Carré Otis, model/actress (Wild Orchid)
1972 Dita Von Teese, burlesque artist/former Mrs. Marilyn Manson
1973 Brian Rafalski, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils)
1977 Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer (LPGA)
1984 Melody Thornton, singer/dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1987 Hilary Duff singer/actress (Lizzie McGuire)
Today's Deaths in History
1891 Herman Melville, novelist (Moby Dick) dies at 72
1895 Louis Pasteur, French scientist (pasteurization process/microbiology) dies at 72
1914 Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) dies at 50
1935 W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (motion picture camera) dies at 75
1953 Edwin Hubble, astronomer, dies at 63
1956 William Edward Boeing, aviation pioneer, dies at 74
1964 Harpo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) dies at 75
1978 Pope John Paul I dies at 65
1988 Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family) dies at 76
1989 Ferdinand E. Marcos, deposed Philippine President, dies in exile in Hawaii at 72
1991 Miles Davis, Jazz musician, dies at 65
2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80
2002 Patsy T. Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (D-HI) dies at 74
2002 Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman/sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 95
2003 Althea Gibson, tennis player (fisrt African-American tennis champion) dies at 76
2003 Elia Kazan, Greek-born film director (On the Waterfront) dies at 94
2004 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer, dies at 80
2004 Scott Muni, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame disc jockey, dies at 74
Today in History
1066 William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.
1542 Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed his ship at what we now call San Diego Bay.
1781 American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., during the Revolutionary War.
1850 Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
1892 A football game between Mansfield State Normal School and Wyoming Seminary became the first in the U.S. to be played at night.
1924 Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.
1939 During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.
1939 The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour, starring Rudy Valee, was heard on radio.
1944 WABD in New York City telecast the first full-length musical written for TV, The Boys from Boise.
1955 The World Series was seen in color for the first time, on NBC.
1961 Dr. Kildare began a five-year run on NBC.
1961 Hazel premiered on NBC-TV.
1968 The Beatles' "Hey Jude" began a nine week-run at the top of the charts.
1972 Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland.
1976 R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
1982 The first of seven deaths was reported in the Chicago area from Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.
1987 The first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation airs.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
2000 Capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.
2000 Ariel Sharon, leader of Israel's hard-line opposition, sparked new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount.
2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws (the charge was later thrown out. Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering charges).
2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Julie, Do Ya Love Me - Bobby Sherman
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & the News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
In Love - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather, former newscaster (1931 - )
Today's Birthdays
0551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher, died 0479 BC
1836 Thomas Crapper, English inventor (flush toilet) died Jan 27, 1910
1856 Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) died Aug 24, 1923
1901 William S. Paley, Television Hall of Famer (founder/owner of CBS) died Oct 26, 1990
1902 Ed (Edward Vincent) Sullivan, newspaper columnist/TV host (The Ed Sullivan Show) died Oct 13, 1974
1905 Max (Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried) Schmeling, International Boxing Hall of Famer, died Feb 2, 2005
1909 Al Capp, cartoonist (Li'l Abner) died Nov 5, 1979
1916 Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch), actor (Network) died Jan 14, 1977
1923 William Windom, actor (My World and Welcome to It, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni), actor (White Nights, La Dolce Vita) died Dec 19, 1996
1934 Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), actress (And God Created Woman)
1937 Rod Roddy, television announcer (The Price is Right) died Oct 27, 2003
1938 Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson), singer/songwriter (The Drifters; Stand By Me)
1943 J.T. Walsh, actor (Breakdown, A Few Good Men, Pleasantville) died Feb 27, 1998
1943 Nick St. Nicholas, bassist (Steppenwolf)
1947 Jeffrey Jones, actor (Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Amadeus)
1952 Sylvia Kristel, actress (Emmanuelle series)
1954 Steve Largent, Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1954 George Lynch, rock guitarist (Dokken)
1961 Quentin Kawananakoa, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii/state legislator
1962 Grant Fuhr, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (St Louis Blues)
1964 Janeane Garofalo, comic/actress (The Truth About Cats & Dogs, The Laramie Project, Mystery Men)
1967 Mira Sorvino, actress (Mighty Aphrodite, The Replacement Killers, Beautiful Girls)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa, actress/daughter of singer Frank Zappa
1968 Naomi Watts, actress (Mulholland Drive, The Ring, King Kong)
1968 Sean Levert, R&B singer (Levert)
1968 Carré Otis, model/actress (Wild Orchid)
1972 Dita Von Teese, burlesque artist/former Mrs. Marilyn Manson
1973 Brian Rafalski, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils)
1977 Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer (LPGA)
1984 Melody Thornton, singer/dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1987 Hilary Duff singer/actress (Lizzie McGuire)
Today's Deaths in History
1891 Herman Melville, novelist (Moby Dick) dies at 72
1895 Louis Pasteur, French scientist (pasteurization process/microbiology) dies at 72
1914 Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) dies at 50
1935 W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (motion picture camera) dies at 75
1953 Edwin Hubble, astronomer, dies at 63
1956 William Edward Boeing, aviation pioneer, dies at 74
1964 Harpo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) dies at 75
1978 Pope John Paul I dies at 65
1988 Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family) dies at 76
1989 Ferdinand E. Marcos, deposed Philippine President, dies in exile in Hawaii at 72
1991 Miles Davis, Jazz musician, dies at 65
2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80
2002 Patsy T. Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (D-HI) dies at 74
2002 Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman/sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 95
2003 Althea Gibson, tennis player (fisrt African-American tennis champion) dies at 76
2003 Elia Kazan, Greek-born film director (On the Waterfront) dies at 94
2004 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer, dies at 80
2004 Scott Muni, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame disc jockey, dies at 74
Today in History
1066 William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.
1542 Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed his ship at what we now call San Diego Bay.
1781 American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., during the Revolutionary War.
1850 Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
1892 A football game between Mansfield State Normal School and Wyoming Seminary became the first in the U.S. to be played at night.
1924 Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.
1939 During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.
1939 The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour, starring Rudy Valee, was heard on radio.
1944 WABD in New York City telecast the first full-length musical written for TV, The Boys from Boise.
1955 The World Series was seen in color for the first time, on NBC.
1961 Dr. Kildare began a five-year run on NBC.
1961 Hazel premiered on NBC-TV.
1968 The Beatles' "Hey Jude" began a nine week-run at the top of the charts.
1972 Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland.
1976 R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
1982 The first of seven deaths was reported in the Chicago area from Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.
1987 The first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation airs.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
2000 Capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.
2000 Ariel Sharon, leader of Israel's hard-line opposition, sparked new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount.
2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws (the charge was later thrown out. Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering charges).
2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Julie, Do Ya Love Me - Bobby Sherman
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & the News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
In Love - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather, former newscaster (1931 - )
Today in History - Sept 29th
Today's Birthdays
1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author (Don Quixote) died Apr 23, 1616
1758 Horatio Nelson, British Naval hero, killed during the Battle of Trafalgar Oct 23, 1805
1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (nuclear energy) died Nov 28, 1954
1904 Greer Garson, actress (Mrs. Miniver, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Goodbye Mr. Chips) died Apr 6, 1996
1907 (Orvon) Gene Autry, singer/actor (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) died Oct 2, 1998
1913 Trevor (Wallace) Howard, actor (Superman: The Movie, Gandhi) died Jan 7, 1988
1913 Stanley Kramer, director (The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind) died Feb 19, 2001
1923 Bum Phillips, NFL coach (Houston Oilers)
1923 Stan Berenstain, children's author (Berenstain Bears) died Nov 26, 2005
1924 Steve Forrest, actor (SWAT)
1931 Anita Ekberg, actress (La Dolce Vita, War and Peace)
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On, Great Balls of Fire)
1939 Larry Linville, actor (M*A*S*H) died Apr 10, 2000
1942 Madeline Kahn, actress (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) died Dec 3, 1999
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1942 Ian McShane, actor (Deadwood)
1943 Lech Walesa, labor leader (founder of Polish solidarity)
1944 Mike Post, composer/arranger/musician (Classical Gas, The Rockford Files, The Theme From Hill Street Blues)
1948 Mark Farner, guitarist/singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 Bryant Gumble, TV host (Today, Real Sports)
1957 Andrew Dice Clay, comedian/actor (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Pretty in Pink, Casual Sex)
1958 John Payne, singer (Asia)
1961 Tom Sizemore, actor (Pearl Harbor, Striking Distance, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down)
1962 Al Pitrelli, guitarist (Megadeath, Savatage)
1963 Les Claypool, singer/guitarist (Primus)
1966 Jill Whelan, actress (The Love Boat)
1968 Brad Smith, bassist (Blind Melon)
1969 Erika Eleniak, actress/playmate (July 1989; Under Siege)
1970 Emily Lloyd, actress (Under the Hula Moon, A River Runs Through It, In Country)
1970 Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (High Fidelity, ER)
Today's Deaths in History
1833 King Ferdinand VII of Spain dies at 48
1902 Émile Zola, French writer, dies at 62
1967 Carson McCullers, author (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) dies at 50
1975 Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Yankees, NY Mets) dies at 85
1989 Gussie Busch, brewing magnate, dies at 90
1997 Roy Lichtenstein, artist (pop art) dies at 73
1998 Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, dies at 80
Today in History
1650 Henry Robinson opened his Office of Addresses and Encounters, the first historically documented dating service, in Threadneedle Street, London.
1789 The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1829 London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
1930 Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio.
1940 Double or Nothing, a radio quiz show, was first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.
1946 The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on CBS radio.
1947 Dizzy Gillespie presented his first Carnegie Hall concert in New York.
1951 The University of California defeated the University of Pennsylvania 35-0 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia in the first football game to be televised via network in color, on CBS.
1953 Make Room for Daddy, starring Danny Thomas, debuted on ABC-TV.
1954 New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the World Series, widely considered to be the greatest catch ever made.
1957 Baseball's New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds before moving to San Francisco for the next season.
1960 My Three Sons premiered on ABC-TV.
1962 My Fair Lady closed after a run of 6½ years on Broadway.
1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, became the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1977 In the most-watched prize fight in history, Muhammad Ali beat Ernie Shavers (in a decision) to claim the heavyweight championship boxing crown at Madison Square Garden.
1978 Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 264,000 bottles of Tylenol were recalled after a California man was poisoned by a strychnine-laced capsule; seven people died of cyanide poisoning when they unknowingly ingested Tylenol that had been deliberately tampered with.
1983 A Chorus Line became the longest-running show on Broadway, with performance number 3,389.
1984 Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic and overcoming a nagging weight problem, was voted as the world’s most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll.
1986 Mary Lou Retton, who stunned audiences with perfect 10 scores in the Olympics of 1984, called it quits from the wide world of gymnastics.
1988 The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
1989 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled her over.
1995 The United States Navy disestablished Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
1996 The Nintendo 64 video game system, known as the first ‘true’ 64-bit system, hit North American shelves.
2000 Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2005 John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation's 17th Chief Justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
2006 Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.
Chart Toppers
1947
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Tina Marie - Perry Como
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Rise - Herb Alpert
It Must Be Love - Don Williams
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Three Time Loser - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
Scott Adams, US cartoonist (1957 - )
Today's Birthdays
1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author (Don Quixote) died Apr 23, 1616
1758 Horatio Nelson, British Naval hero, killed during the Battle of Trafalgar Oct 23, 1805
1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (nuclear energy) died Nov 28, 1954
1904 Greer Garson, actress (Mrs. Miniver, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Goodbye Mr. Chips) died Apr 6, 1996
1907 (Orvon) Gene Autry, singer/actor (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) died Oct 2, 1998
1913 Trevor (Wallace) Howard, actor (Superman: The Movie, Gandhi) died Jan 7, 1988
1913 Stanley Kramer, director (The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind) died Feb 19, 2001
1923 Bum Phillips, NFL coach (Houston Oilers)
1923 Stan Berenstain, children's author (Berenstain Bears) died Nov 26, 2005
1924 Steve Forrest, actor (SWAT)
1931 Anita Ekberg, actress (La Dolce Vita, War and Peace)
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On, Great Balls of Fire)
1939 Larry Linville, actor (M*A*S*H) died Apr 10, 2000
1942 Madeline Kahn, actress (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) died Dec 3, 1999
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1942 Ian McShane, actor (Deadwood)
1943 Lech Walesa, labor leader (founder of Polish solidarity)
1944 Mike Post, composer/arranger/musician (Classical Gas, The Rockford Files, The Theme From Hill Street Blues)
1948 Mark Farner, guitarist/singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 Bryant Gumble, TV host (Today, Real Sports)
1957 Andrew Dice Clay, comedian/actor (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Pretty in Pink, Casual Sex)
1958 John Payne, singer (Asia)
1961 Tom Sizemore, actor (Pearl Harbor, Striking Distance, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down)
1962 Al Pitrelli, guitarist (Megadeath, Savatage)
1963 Les Claypool, singer/guitarist (Primus)
1966 Jill Whelan, actress (The Love Boat)
1968 Brad Smith, bassist (Blind Melon)
1969 Erika Eleniak, actress/playmate (July 1989; Under Siege)
1970 Emily Lloyd, actress (Under the Hula Moon, A River Runs Through It, In Country)
1970 Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (High Fidelity, ER)
Today's Deaths in History
1833 King Ferdinand VII of Spain dies at 48
1902 Émile Zola, French writer, dies at 62
1967 Carson McCullers, author (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) dies at 50
1975 Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Yankees, NY Mets) dies at 85
1989 Gussie Busch, brewing magnate, dies at 90
1997 Roy Lichtenstein, artist (pop art) dies at 73
1998 Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, dies at 80
Today in History
1650 Henry Robinson opened his Office of Addresses and Encounters, the first historically documented dating service, in Threadneedle Street, London.
1789 The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1829 London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
1930 Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio.
1940 Double or Nothing, a radio quiz show, was first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.
1946 The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on CBS radio.
1947 Dizzy Gillespie presented his first Carnegie Hall concert in New York.
1951 The University of California defeated the University of Pennsylvania 35-0 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia in the first football game to be televised via network in color, on CBS.
1953 Make Room for Daddy, starring Danny Thomas, debuted on ABC-TV.
1954 New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the World Series, widely considered to be the greatest catch ever made.
1957 Baseball's New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds before moving to San Francisco for the next season.
1960 My Three Sons premiered on ABC-TV.
1962 My Fair Lady closed after a run of 6½ years on Broadway.
1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, became the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1977 In the most-watched prize fight in history, Muhammad Ali beat Ernie Shavers (in a decision) to claim the heavyweight championship boxing crown at Madison Square Garden.
1978 Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 264,000 bottles of Tylenol were recalled after a California man was poisoned by a strychnine-laced capsule; seven people died of cyanide poisoning when they unknowingly ingested Tylenol that had been deliberately tampered with.
1983 A Chorus Line became the longest-running show on Broadway, with performance number 3,389.
1984 Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic and overcoming a nagging weight problem, was voted as the world’s most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll.
1986 Mary Lou Retton, who stunned audiences with perfect 10 scores in the Olympics of 1984, called it quits from the wide world of gymnastics.
1988 The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
1989 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled her over.
1995 The United States Navy disestablished Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
1996 The Nintendo 64 video game system, known as the first ‘true’ 64-bit system, hit North American shelves.
2000 Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2005 John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation's 17th Chief Justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
2006 Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.
Chart Toppers
1947
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Tina Marie - Perry Como
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Rise - Herb Alpert
It Must Be Love - Don Williams
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Three Time Loser - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
Scott Adams, US cartoonist (1957 - )
Today in History - Sept 30th
Today's Birthdays
1861 William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon, died Jan 26, 1932
1917 Buddy Rich, drummer, died Apr 2, 1987
1921 Deborah Kerr (Trimmer), actress (The King and I, From Here to Eternity, An Affair to Remember)
1924 Truman (Streckfus) Capote (Persons), writer (In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died Aug 25, 1984
1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor/author
1931 Angie Dickinson (Brown), actress (Police Woman, Dressed to Kill)
1935 Johnny Mathis, singer (Wonderful Wonderful, It’s Not for Me to Say, Chances Are, Misty)
1942 Dewey Martin, drummer/singer (Buffalo Springfield)
1942 Frankie Lymon, singer (Why Do Fools Fall in Love) died Feb 27, 1968
1943 Marilyn McCoo (Davis), singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1946 Sylvia Peterson, singer (The Chiffons)
1947 Marc Bolan, British singer/songwriter (T Rex) died Sept 16, 1977
1953 Victoria Tennant, actress (Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story)
1954 Barry Williams (Blenkhorn), actor (The Brady Bunch)
1954 Patrice Rushen, R&B singer (Forget Me Nots)
1956 Vondie Curtis-Hall, actor/director (Crooklyn)
1957 Fran Drescher, actress (The Nanny)
1961 Eric Stoltz, actor (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pulp Fiction)
1961 Crystal Bernard, actress (Wings)
1964 Robby Takac, bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1964 Trey Anastasio, singer/guitarist/songwriter (Phish)
1967 Andrea Roth, actress (Rescue Me)
1968 Monica Bellucci, actress (Matrix movies)
1971 Jenna Elfman, actress (Dharma and Greg)
1977 Maia Brewton, actress (Adventures in Babysitting)
1980 Martina Hingis, tennis champion
1982 Kieran Culkin, actor (The Mighty, The Secret Lives of Altar Boys)
1982 Lacey Chabert, actress (Mean Girls, Party of Five, Daddy Day Care)
Today's Deaths in History
1955 James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause) is killed in a car accident at 24
1977 Mary Ford, singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) dies at 53
1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) dies at 75
1998 Dan Quisenberry, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals) dies at 45
Today in History
1788 The Pennsylvania Legislature elected the first two memebers of the U.S. Senate: William Maclay of Harrisburg and Robert Morris of Philadelphia.
1791 Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1846 Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, at the office of Boston dentist William Morton.
1888 Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner.
1927 A record for the most home runs in a season, 60, was set by Babe Ruth.
1930 Death Valley Days, which became one of radio’s biggest hits, first aired on the NBC Red radio network.
1935 The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.
1935 Porgy and Bess was presented for the first time at the Colonial Theatre in Boston.
1938 British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1939 Captain Midnight was heard on radio for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.
1946 An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 The World Series came to television for the first time, as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3.
1949 The Berlin airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.
1951 The Red Skelton Show debuted on NBC-TV.
1954 The U.S. Navy commissioned the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus.
1955 James Dean died from injuries suffered in a car crash at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, CA.
1960 The Flintstones made their debut in primetime.
1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founded the United Farm Workers.
1962 Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
1966 Nazi war criminals Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were freed from Spandau Prison after serving 20 years.
1971 A nine-member citizens committee was organized to investigate the Attica, New York prison riot earlier in the month.
1982 Cheers made its television debut on NBC.
1984 Mike Witt became the 11th major-league baseball pitcher in 104 years to pitch a perfect game.
1984 Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau’s comic strip, returned after a 20-month hiatus.
1989 NBC airs its final edition of the Major League Baseball Game of the Week.
1991 The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.
1992 George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the California Angels.
1993 MS-DOS v6.2 was released by Microsoft.
1993 More than 10,000 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck southern India.
1997 France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
1998 A U.S. General Accounting Office audit of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his predecessor, Robert Fiske, showed they had spent more than $40 million investigating President Bill Clinton.
2002 Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., ended his scandal-tainted re-election campaign just five weeks before the election.
2003 The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.
2004 Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis drug, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
2005 Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
G.T.O. - Ronny & The Daytonas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You - Dolly Parton
1988
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
I’ll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Addicted - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today's Birthdays
1861 William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon, died Jan 26, 1932
1917 Buddy Rich, drummer, died Apr 2, 1987
1921 Deborah Kerr (Trimmer), actress (The King and I, From Here to Eternity, An Affair to Remember)
1924 Truman (Streckfus) Capote (Persons), writer (In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died Aug 25, 1984
1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor/author
1931 Angie Dickinson (Brown), actress (Police Woman, Dressed to Kill)
1935 Johnny Mathis, singer (Wonderful Wonderful, It’s Not for Me to Say, Chances Are, Misty)
1942 Dewey Martin, drummer/singer (Buffalo Springfield)
1942 Frankie Lymon, singer (Why Do Fools Fall in Love) died Feb 27, 1968
1943 Marilyn McCoo (Davis), singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1946 Sylvia Peterson, singer (The Chiffons)
1947 Marc Bolan, British singer/songwriter (T Rex) died Sept 16, 1977
1953 Victoria Tennant, actress (Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story)
1954 Barry Williams (Blenkhorn), actor (The Brady Bunch)
1954 Patrice Rushen, R&B singer (Forget Me Nots)
1956 Vondie Curtis-Hall, actor/director (Crooklyn)
1957 Fran Drescher, actress (The Nanny)
1961 Eric Stoltz, actor (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pulp Fiction)
1961 Crystal Bernard, actress (Wings)
1964 Robby Takac, bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1964 Trey Anastasio, singer/guitarist/songwriter (Phish)
1967 Andrea Roth, actress (Rescue Me)
1968 Monica Bellucci, actress (Matrix movies)
1971 Jenna Elfman, actress (Dharma and Greg)
1977 Maia Brewton, actress (Adventures in Babysitting)
1980 Martina Hingis, tennis champion
1982 Kieran Culkin, actor (The Mighty, The Secret Lives of Altar Boys)
1982 Lacey Chabert, actress (Mean Girls, Party of Five, Daddy Day Care)
Today's Deaths in History
1955 James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause) is killed in a car accident at 24
1977 Mary Ford, singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) dies at 53
1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) dies at 75
1998 Dan Quisenberry, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals) dies at 45
Today in History
1788 The Pennsylvania Legislature elected the first two memebers of the U.S. Senate: William Maclay of Harrisburg and Robert Morris of Philadelphia.
1791 Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1846 Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, at the office of Boston dentist William Morton.
1888 Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner.
1927 A record for the most home runs in a season, 60, was set by Babe Ruth.
1930 Death Valley Days, which became one of radio’s biggest hits, first aired on the NBC Red radio network.
1935 The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.
1935 Porgy and Bess was presented for the first time at the Colonial Theatre in Boston.
1938 British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1939 Captain Midnight was heard on radio for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.
1946 An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 The World Series came to television for the first time, as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3.
1949 The Berlin airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.
1951 The Red Skelton Show debuted on NBC-TV.
1954 The U.S. Navy commissioned the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus.
1955 James Dean died from injuries suffered in a car crash at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, CA.
1960 The Flintstones made their debut in primetime.
1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founded the United Farm Workers.
1962 Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
1966 Nazi war criminals Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were freed from Spandau Prison after serving 20 years.
1971 A nine-member citizens committee was organized to investigate the Attica, New York prison riot earlier in the month.
1982 Cheers made its television debut on NBC.
1984 Mike Witt became the 11th major-league baseball pitcher in 104 years to pitch a perfect game.
1984 Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau’s comic strip, returned after a 20-month hiatus.
1989 NBC airs its final edition of the Major League Baseball Game of the Week.
1991 The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.
1992 George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the California Angels.
1993 MS-DOS v6.2 was released by Microsoft.
1993 More than 10,000 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck southern India.
1997 France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
1998 A U.S. General Accounting Office audit of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his predecessor, Robert Fiske, showed they had spent more than $40 million investigating President Bill Clinton.
2002 Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., ended his scandal-tainted re-election campaign just five weeks before the election.
2003 The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.
2004 Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis drug, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
2005 Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
G.T.O. - Ronny & The Daytonas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You - Dolly Parton
1988
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
I’ll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Addicted - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today in History - Oct 1st
Today's Birthdays
1903 Vladimir Horowitz, paino virtuoso, died died Nov 5, 1989
1909 Everett Sloane, actor (Citizen Kane, Marjorie Morningstar) died Aug 6, 1965
1920 Walter Matthau, actor (The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men series) died July 1, 2000
1921 James Whitmore, actor (Give ’Em Hell Harry, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!)
1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President
1924 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Sept. 3, 2005
1925 Roger Williams (Louis Weertz), pianist (Born Free, The Impossible Dream)
1927 Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1928 George Peppard, actor (The A-Team, Banacek, The Blue Max, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died May 8, 1994
1932 Albert Collins, blues guitarist/songwriter (Ice Pickin’) died Nov 24, 1993
1933 Richard Harris, actor (Camelot, The Guns of Navarone, Mutiny on the Bounty, Harry Potter series) died Oct 25, 2002
1935 Julie Andrews (Julia Wells), singer/actress (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria)
1936 Stella Stevens (Eggleston), actress (The Poseidon Adventure, Li’l Abner, The Nutty Professor)
1942 Herb Fame (Feemster), R&B singer (Peaches & Herb)
1944 Scott McKenzie (Phillip Blondheim), singer (San Francisco: Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
1945 Rod (Rodney Cline) Carew, Baseball Hall of Famer (Minnesota Twins, California Angels)
1945 Donny Hathaway, singer (Where is the Love) died Jan 13, 1979
1947 Stephen Collins, actor (Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brewster’s Millions)
1948 Cub Koda, singer (Brownsville Station) died July 1, 2000
1950 Randy Quaid, actor (The Last Picture Show, Days of Thunder, The Paper, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1950 Jeane Manson, playmate (August 1974)
1957 Yvette Freeman, actress (ER)
1962 Esai Morales, actor (La Bamba, Resurrection Boulevard)
1963 Mark McGwire, MLB slugger (Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals)
1964 Christopher Titus, actor/comedian (Big Shots)
1968 Cindy Margolis, model/actress (Most Downloaded Woman on the Internet: Guiness Book of World Records)
1968 Kevin Griffin, singer/songwriter (Bettre Than Ezra)
1979 Rudi Johnson, NFL running back (Cincinnati Bengals)
Today's Deaths in History
1955 Charles Christie, film studio owner (Christie Films) dies at 75
1975 Al Jackson, drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) dies at 40
1985 E. B. White, author (Charlotte's Web) dies at 86
2004 Richard Avedon, fashion/glamour photographer, dies at 81
2004 Bruce Palmer, bassist (Buffalo Springfield) dies at 58
Today in History
1880 John Philip Sousa became the 17th director of the United States Marine Corps Band.
1890 The Yosemite National Park was established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 Stanford University opened its doors.
1896 The U.S. Post Office established Rural Free Delivery.
1903 Cy Young played in the first World Series baseball game.
1907 New York's Plaza Hotel opened to the public.
1908 The new Model T was introduced by Henry Ford at a price of $825.
1910 A large bomb destroyed the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opened.
1936 General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.
1939 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opened to traffic.
1946 The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played, pitting the St. Louis Cardinals against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1957 "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. paper currency.
1957 U.S. B-52 bombers in the Strategic Air Command went on 24-hour alert status because of the perceived threat of an attack from the Soviet Union.
1961 Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927.
1962 Ed McMahon introduced Johnny Carson as the host of NBC’s Tonight Show for the first time.
1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
1971 Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.
1977 Soccer star Pele played in the last game of his career at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
1980 Robert Redford became the first man to appear alone on the cover of the Ladies’ Home Journal.
1982 EPCOT Center opened at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.
1983 Bonnie Tyler’s "Total Eclipse of the Heart" began a four-week run as the number one single in the U.S.
1987 An earthquake in Los Angeles killed eight people and injured 200.
1989 Thousands of East Germans received a triumphal welcome after the communist government agreed to let them flee to West Germany.
1993 Polly Klaas, 12, was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home during a slumber party and murdered; her case inspired California's three-strikes law.
1994 National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
1994 Eric Clapton’s album From the Cradle hit number one in the U.S.
1996 Theodore "Unabomber" Kaczynski was charged by a U.S. federal grand jury with mailing a bomb that killed advertising executive Thomas Mosser in 1994.
2001 The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
2001 A Pakistan-based militant group attacked the state legislature in Indian-ruled Kashmir, killing 38 people.
2004 Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki connedcted for his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2006 The Israeli army completed its withdrawal from Lebanon, clearing the way for a U.N. peacekeeping force.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Maybe It’s Because - Dick Haymes
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Blood Red and Goin’ Down - Tanya Tucker
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
Tight Fittin’ Jeans - Conway Twitty
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Let Me Tell You About Love - The Judds
Quote of the Day
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)
Today's Birthdays
1903 Vladimir Horowitz, paino virtuoso, died died Nov 5, 1989
1909 Everett Sloane, actor (Citizen Kane, Marjorie Morningstar) died Aug 6, 1965
1920 Walter Matthau, actor (The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men series) died July 1, 2000
1921 James Whitmore, actor (Give ’Em Hell Harry, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!)
1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President
1924 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Sept. 3, 2005
1925 Roger Williams (Louis Weertz), pianist (Born Free, The Impossible Dream)
1927 Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1928 George Peppard, actor (The A-Team, Banacek, The Blue Max, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died May 8, 1994
1932 Albert Collins, blues guitarist/songwriter (Ice Pickin’) died Nov 24, 1993
1933 Richard Harris, actor (Camelot, The Guns of Navarone, Mutiny on the Bounty, Harry Potter series) died Oct 25, 2002
1935 Julie Andrews (Julia Wells), singer/actress (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria)
1936 Stella Stevens (Eggleston), actress (The Poseidon Adventure, Li’l Abner, The Nutty Professor)
1942 Herb Fame (Feemster), R&B singer (Peaches & Herb)
1944 Scott McKenzie (Phillip Blondheim), singer (San Francisco: Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
1945 Rod (Rodney Cline) Carew, Baseball Hall of Famer (Minnesota Twins, California Angels)
1945 Donny Hathaway, singer (Where is the Love) died Jan 13, 1979
1947 Stephen Collins, actor (Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brewster’s Millions)
1948 Cub Koda, singer (Brownsville Station) died July 1, 2000
1950 Randy Quaid, actor (The Last Picture Show, Days of Thunder, The Paper, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1950 Jeane Manson, playmate (August 1974)
1957 Yvette Freeman, actress (ER)
1962 Esai Morales, actor (La Bamba, Resurrection Boulevard)
1963 Mark McGwire, MLB slugger (Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals)
1964 Christopher Titus, actor/comedian (Big Shots)
1968 Cindy Margolis, model/actress (Most Downloaded Woman on the Internet: Guiness Book of World Records)
1968 Kevin Griffin, singer/songwriter (Bettre Than Ezra)
1979 Rudi Johnson, NFL running back (Cincinnati Bengals)
Today's Deaths in History
1955 Charles Christie, film studio owner (Christie Films) dies at 75
1975 Al Jackson, drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) dies at 40
1985 E. B. White, author (Charlotte's Web) dies at 86
2004 Richard Avedon, fashion/glamour photographer, dies at 81
2004 Bruce Palmer, bassist (Buffalo Springfield) dies at 58
Today in History
1880 John Philip Sousa became the 17th director of the United States Marine Corps Band.
1890 The Yosemite National Park was established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 Stanford University opened its doors.
1896 The U.S. Post Office established Rural Free Delivery.
1903 Cy Young played in the first World Series baseball game.
1907 New York's Plaza Hotel opened to the public.
1908 The new Model T was introduced by Henry Ford at a price of $825.
1910 A large bomb destroyed the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opened.
1936 General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.
1939 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opened to traffic.
1946 The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played, pitting the St. Louis Cardinals against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1957 "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. paper currency.
1957 U.S. B-52 bombers in the Strategic Air Command went on 24-hour alert status because of the perceived threat of an attack from the Soviet Union.
1961 Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927.
1962 Ed McMahon introduced Johnny Carson as the host of NBC’s Tonight Show for the first time.
1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
1971 Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.
1977 Soccer star Pele played in the last game of his career at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
1980 Robert Redford became the first man to appear alone on the cover of the Ladies’ Home Journal.
1982 EPCOT Center opened at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.
1983 Bonnie Tyler’s "Total Eclipse of the Heart" began a four-week run as the number one single in the U.S.
1987 An earthquake in Los Angeles killed eight people and injured 200.
1989 Thousands of East Germans received a triumphal welcome after the communist government agreed to let them flee to West Germany.
1993 Polly Klaas, 12, was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home during a slumber party and murdered; her case inspired California's three-strikes law.
1994 National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
1994 Eric Clapton’s album From the Cradle hit number one in the U.S.
1996 Theodore "Unabomber" Kaczynski was charged by a U.S. federal grand jury with mailing a bomb that killed advertising executive Thomas Mosser in 1994.
2001 The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
2001 A Pakistan-based militant group attacked the state legislature in Indian-ruled Kashmir, killing 38 people.
2004 Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki connedcted for his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2006 The Israeli army completed its withdrawal from Lebanon, clearing the way for a U.N. peacekeeping force.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Maybe It’s Because - Dick Haymes
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Blood Red and Goin’ Down - Tanya Tucker
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
Tight Fittin’ Jeans - Conway Twitty
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Let Me Tell You About Love - The Judds
Quote of the Day
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)
Today in History - Oct 2nd
Today's Birthdays
1800 Nat Turner, slave uprising leader, died Nov 11, 1831
1869 Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader, died Jan 30, 1948
1871 Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, died July 23, 1955
1890 Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx, cominc/actor/TV host (You Bet Your Life, Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business) died Aug 19, 1977
1896 (William Alexander) Bud Abbott, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) died Apr 24, 1974
1904 (Henry) Graham Greene, author (The Third Man, The Power and the Glory) died Apr 3, 1991
1928 (George Emmett) ‘Spanky’ McFarland, actor (Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies) died June 30, 1993
1929 Moses Gunn, actor (Ragtime, Othello) died Dec 16, 1993
1932 Maury (Maurice Morning) Wills, MLB shortstop (LA Dodgers)
1937 Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., attorney (OJ murder trial) died March 29, 2005
1938 Rex Reed, movie critic
1945 Don McLean, songwriter/singer (American Pie, Vincent)
1948 Chris LeDoux, country musician/rodeo performer, died Mar 9, 2005
1948 Avery Brooks, actor (Spenser: For Hire, A Man Called Hawk, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1948 Donna Karan (Faske), fashion designer
1949 Richard Hell (Myers), bassist (Television)
1949 Annie Leibovitz, celebrity photographer
1950 Michael Rutherford, guitarist (Genesis, Mike + the Mechanics)
1950 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) died Aug 18, 1998
1951 Sting (Gordon Sumner), bassist/singer (The Police)
1954 Lorraine Bracco, actress (The Sopranos)
1955 Philip Oakey, singer (The Human League)
1956 Freddie Jackson, R&B singer/songwriter (You Are My Lady)
1960 Glenn Anderson, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1960 Robbie Nevil, singer/songwriter (C'est la Vie)
1967 Bud Gaugh, drummer (Sublime)
1970 Kelly Ripa, actress/talk show host (Live with Regis and Kelly)
1971 Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch), singer (I Think We’re Alone Now)
1971 James Root, guitarist (Slipknot)
1973 Lene Nystrom, singer (Aqua)
1973 Proof, rapper (D12) shot and killed April 11, 2006
1986 Camilla Belle, actress (When a Stranger Calls)
Today's Deaths in History
1803 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader/brewer, dies at 81
1973 Paul Hartman, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 69
1985 Rock Hudson, actor, dies at 59 of AIDS
1994 Harriet Hilliard Nelson, actress/Mrs Ozzie Nelson, dies at 85
1998 Gene Autry,singing cowboy, dies at 91
2005 August Wilson, playwright, dies at 60
2005 Nipsey Russell, comedian (Match Game) dies at 87
2006 Tamara Dobson, actress (Cleopatra Jones) dies at 59
Today in History
1835 The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.
1908 Cleveland pitcher Addie Joss threw the fourth perfect game against Chicago, leading Cleveland to a 1-0 win.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
1920 The only triple-header in baseball history was played, as the Cincinnati Reds took two out of three games from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1928 Three songs were issued from Victor Records Studios in Nashville, TN, marking the first studio recording sessions in the place now known as Music City, USA.
1929 The National Farm and Home Hour, which gave rural Americans information about farm products, growing crops, farm animal care and useful household tips, debuted on NBC radio.
1937 Ronald Reagan, just 26 years old, made his acting debut with the Warner Brothers release of Love is in the Air.
1939 "Flying Home" was recorded by Benny Goodman and his six-man-band for Columbia Records.
1941 German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow.
1944 Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which 250,000 people were killed.
1949 The popular radio program The Aldrich Family became one of TV’s first hits, as the longtime radio show appeared on NBC-TV for the first time.
1950 The Peanuts comic strip began syndication in seven US newspaper.
1953 Edward R. Murrow, with lit cigarette in hand, premiered the popular Person to Person interview program on CBS which would establish him as a TV icon.
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents made its debut on CBS.
1958 The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.
1959 Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone made its debut on CBS.
1963 Pitcher Sandy Koufax struck out New York Yankee Harry Bright, his 15th strikepit that game, to end Game 1 of the World Series, breaking the World Series single game record of 14 strikeouts set by Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine against the Yankees in 1953.
1965 The McCoys’ "Hang on Sloopy" hit #1 in the U.S.
1966 Sandy Koufax, in great pain from an arthritic elbow, won 27 games and, for the third time in four years, led the Los Angeles Dodgers to the National League pennant.
1967 Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators and supporters crashed in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1971 Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story album hit number one in both the U.S. and the U.K.
1980 Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, D-Pa., convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's ABSCAM sting operation, was expelled from the House.
1988 The games of the XXIV Olympiad closed at Seoul, Korea.
1990 The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter.
1996 Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that he had used a racial slur.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments were signed by President Bill Clinton.
2002 A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2005 The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2005 The NFL played its first regular season game outside United States, as the Arizona Cardinals defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico.
2006 An man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five and wounding five others before committing suicide.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
All My Love - Patti Page
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tears on My Pillow - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Beauty is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
Black is Black - Los Bravos
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
I’m a Ramblin’ Man - Waylon Jennings
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Somebody’s Baby - Jackson Browne
Put Your Dreams Away - Mickey Gilley
1990
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Today's Birthdays
1800 Nat Turner, slave uprising leader, died Nov 11, 1831
1869 Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader, died Jan 30, 1948
1871 Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, died July 23, 1955
1890 Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx, cominc/actor/TV host (You Bet Your Life, Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business) died Aug 19, 1977
1896 (William Alexander) Bud Abbott, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) died Apr 24, 1974
1904 (Henry) Graham Greene, author (The Third Man, The Power and the Glory) died Apr 3, 1991
1928 (George Emmett) ‘Spanky’ McFarland, actor (Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies) died June 30, 1993
1929 Moses Gunn, actor (Ragtime, Othello) died Dec 16, 1993
1932 Maury (Maurice Morning) Wills, MLB shortstop (LA Dodgers)
1937 Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., attorney (OJ murder trial) died March 29, 2005
1938 Rex Reed, movie critic
1945 Don McLean, songwriter/singer (American Pie, Vincent)
1948 Chris LeDoux, country musician/rodeo performer, died Mar 9, 2005
1948 Avery Brooks, actor (Spenser: For Hire, A Man Called Hawk, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1948 Donna Karan (Faske), fashion designer
1949 Richard Hell (Myers), bassist (Television)
1949 Annie Leibovitz, celebrity photographer
1950 Michael Rutherford, guitarist (Genesis, Mike + the Mechanics)
1950 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) died Aug 18, 1998
1951 Sting (Gordon Sumner), bassist/singer (The Police)
1954 Lorraine Bracco, actress (The Sopranos)
1955 Philip Oakey, singer (The Human League)
1956 Freddie Jackson, R&B singer/songwriter (You Are My Lady)
1960 Glenn Anderson, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1960 Robbie Nevil, singer/songwriter (C'est la Vie)
1967 Bud Gaugh, drummer (Sublime)
1970 Kelly Ripa, actress/talk show host (Live with Regis and Kelly)
1971 Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch), singer (I Think We’re Alone Now)
1971 James Root, guitarist (Slipknot)
1973 Lene Nystrom, singer (Aqua)
1973 Proof, rapper (D12) shot and killed April 11, 2006
1986 Camilla Belle, actress (When a Stranger Calls)
Today's Deaths in History
1803 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader/brewer, dies at 81
1973 Paul Hartman, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 69
1985 Rock Hudson, actor, dies at 59 of AIDS
1994 Harriet Hilliard Nelson, actress/Mrs Ozzie Nelson, dies at 85
1998 Gene Autry,singing cowboy, dies at 91
2005 August Wilson, playwright, dies at 60
2005 Nipsey Russell, comedian (Match Game) dies at 87
2006 Tamara Dobson, actress (Cleopatra Jones) dies at 59
Today in History
1835 The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.
1908 Cleveland pitcher Addie Joss threw the fourth perfect game against Chicago, leading Cleveland to a 1-0 win.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
1920 The only triple-header in baseball history was played, as the Cincinnati Reds took two out of three games from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1928 Three songs were issued from Victor Records Studios in Nashville, TN, marking the first studio recording sessions in the place now known as Music City, USA.
1929 The National Farm and Home Hour, which gave rural Americans information about farm products, growing crops, farm animal care and useful household tips, debuted on NBC radio.
1937 Ronald Reagan, just 26 years old, made his acting debut with the Warner Brothers release of Love is in the Air.
1939 "Flying Home" was recorded by Benny Goodman and his six-man-band for Columbia Records.
1941 German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow.
1944 Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which 250,000 people were killed.
1949 The popular radio program The Aldrich Family became one of TV’s first hits, as the longtime radio show appeared on NBC-TV for the first time.
1950 The Peanuts comic strip began syndication in seven US newspaper.
1953 Edward R. Murrow, with lit cigarette in hand, premiered the popular Person to Person interview program on CBS which would establish him as a TV icon.
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents made its debut on CBS.
1958 The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.
1959 Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone made its debut on CBS.
1963 Pitcher Sandy Koufax struck out New York Yankee Harry Bright, his 15th strikepit that game, to end Game 1 of the World Series, breaking the World Series single game record of 14 strikeouts set by Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine against the Yankees in 1953.
1965 The McCoys’ "Hang on Sloopy" hit #1 in the U.S.
1966 Sandy Koufax, in great pain from an arthritic elbow, won 27 games and, for the third time in four years, led the Los Angeles Dodgers to the National League pennant.
1967 Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators and supporters crashed in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1971 Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story album hit number one in both the U.S. and the U.K.
1980 Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, D-Pa., convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's ABSCAM sting operation, was expelled from the House.
1988 The games of the XXIV Olympiad closed at Seoul, Korea.
1990 The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter.
1996 Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that he had used a racial slur.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments were signed by President Bill Clinton.
2002 A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2005 The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2005 The NFL played its first regular season game outside United States, as the Arizona Cardinals defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico.
2006 An man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five and wounding five others before committing suicide.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
All My Love - Patti Page
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tears on My Pillow - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Beauty is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
Black is Black - Los Bravos
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
I’m a Ramblin’ Man - Waylon Jennings
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Somebody’s Baby - Jackson Browne
Put Your Dreams Away - Mickey Gilley
1990
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Today in History - Oct 3rd
Today's Birthdays
1900 Thomas Wolfe, author (You Can’t Go Home Again) died Sep 15, 1938
1916 James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), veterinarian/author (All Creatures Great and Small) died Feb 23, 1995
1924 Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist/founder (Mad magazine) died Feb 21, 1993
1925 Gore Vidal, writer/actor (Myra Breckenridge)
1929 Andy Hebenton, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1931 Glenn Hall, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks)
1938 Eddie (Ray Edward) Cochran, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer (Summertime Blues) killed in car crash Apr 17, 1960
1940 Alan O’Day, singer/songwriter (Undercover Angel)
1940 Jean Ratelle, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1941 Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans), singer (The Twist)
1944 Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, illusionist (Siegfried & Roy)
1945 Kay Baxter, pioneer women's bodybuilder, died May 16, 1988
1949 Lindsey Buckingham, guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 Ronnie Laws, Jazz saxophonist
1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist (Pride and Joy) killed in helicopter crash Aug 27, 1990
1954 Rev. Al Sharpton, activist
1959 Fred Couples, golf champion
1959 Jack Wagner, singer/actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place)
1962 Tommy Lee (Bass), drummer (Motley Crue)
1964 Clive Owen, actor (Closer, Inside Man, Children of Men)
1966 Frank Hannon, guitarist (Tesla)
1969 Gwen Stefani, singer (No Doubt)
1969 Janel Moloney, actress (The West Wing)
1973 Neve Campbell, actress (Party of Five, Scream series, Wild Things)
1975 India.Arie, R&B singer
1976 Seann William Scott, actor (American Pie series)
1978 Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
1978 Shannyn Sossamon, actress (A Knight's Tale, 40 Days and 40 Nights)
1984 Ashlee Simpson, actress/singer
Today's Deaths in History
1226 St. Francis of Assisi dies at 45
1656 Myles Standish, English-born soldier (Plymouth colony) dies at 72
1867 Elias Howe, sewing machine pioneer, dies at 48
1936 John Heisman, football coach, dies at 66
1967 Woody Guthrie, Folk singer-songwriter, die at 55
1969 Skip James, blues musician, dies at 67
1994 Dub Taylor, actor (Major Dundee) dies at 87
1998 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes) dies at 70
2000 Benjamin Orr, bassist/singer (The Cars) dies at 53
2002 Bruce Paltrow, television/film producer/father of Gwyneth Paltrow, dies at 58
2004 Janet Leigh, actress/Jamie Lee Curtis' mom (Psycho) dies at 77
Today in History
1849 Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death.
1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1893 The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman of St. Louis, MO.
1901 The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated.
1906 W.T. Grant, retail pioneer, opened a 25-cent department store.
1908 The Pravda newspaper was founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1922 Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman member of the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941 Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1951 New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the deciding game of a three-game playoff series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, sending the Giants into the World Series.
1951 CBS-TV presented the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight, pitting Dave Sands against Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson from Soldier Field, Chicago.
1952 The United Kingdom successfully tested a nuclear weapon.
1954 Father Knows Best began its long run on CBS-TV.
1955 Captain Kangaroo premiered on CBS-TV.
1955 Walt Disney premiered The Mickey Mouse Club on ABC-TV.
1960 The Andy Griffith Show premiered on CBS-TV.
1961 The Dick Van Dyke Show debuted on CBS-TV.
1974 Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1981 Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1990 West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
1991 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1993 In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis were killed in heavy fighting.
1994 Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation because of questions about gifts he had received.
1995 O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the June 12, 1994 stabbing deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter, Ronald Goldman.
1997 Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
2001 The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2002 Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period, and authorities began to search for the "Beltway Sniper."
2003 A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo Siegfried & Roy during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court (she withdrew three weeks later after criticism over her lack of judicial experience and Republican concerns about her conservatism).
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got) - Leon Ashley
1975
I’m Sorry - John Denver
Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Run Joey Run - David Geddes
Daydreams About Night Things - Ronnie Milsap
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
(She’s) Sexy + 17 - Stray Cats
New Looks from an Old Lover - B.J. Thomas
1991
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Where Are You Now - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann, US (Hungarian-born) computer scientist, mathematician (1903 - 1957)
Today's Birthdays
1900 Thomas Wolfe, author (You Can’t Go Home Again) died Sep 15, 1938
1916 James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), veterinarian/author (All Creatures Great and Small) died Feb 23, 1995
1924 Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist/founder (Mad magazine) died Feb 21, 1993
1925 Gore Vidal, writer/actor (Myra Breckenridge)
1929 Andy Hebenton, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1931 Glenn Hall, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks)
1938 Eddie (Ray Edward) Cochran, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer (Summertime Blues) killed in car crash Apr 17, 1960
1940 Alan O’Day, singer/songwriter (Undercover Angel)
1940 Jean Ratelle, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1941 Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans), singer (The Twist)
1944 Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, illusionist (Siegfried & Roy)
1945 Kay Baxter, pioneer women's bodybuilder, died May 16, 1988
1949 Lindsey Buckingham, guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 Ronnie Laws, Jazz saxophonist
1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist (Pride and Joy) killed in helicopter crash Aug 27, 1990
1954 Rev. Al Sharpton, activist
1959 Fred Couples, golf champion
1959 Jack Wagner, singer/actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place)
1962 Tommy Lee (Bass), drummer (Motley Crue)
1964 Clive Owen, actor (Closer, Inside Man, Children of Men)
1966 Frank Hannon, guitarist (Tesla)
1969 Gwen Stefani, singer (No Doubt)
1969 Janel Moloney, actress (The West Wing)
1973 Neve Campbell, actress (Party of Five, Scream series, Wild Things)
1975 India.Arie, R&B singer
1976 Seann William Scott, actor (American Pie series)
1978 Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
1978 Shannyn Sossamon, actress (A Knight's Tale, 40 Days and 40 Nights)
1984 Ashlee Simpson, actress/singer
Today's Deaths in History
1226 St. Francis of Assisi dies at 45
1656 Myles Standish, English-born soldier (Plymouth colony) dies at 72
1867 Elias Howe, sewing machine pioneer, dies at 48
1936 John Heisman, football coach, dies at 66
1967 Woody Guthrie, Folk singer-songwriter, die at 55
1969 Skip James, blues musician, dies at 67
1994 Dub Taylor, actor (Major Dundee) dies at 87
1998 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes) dies at 70
2000 Benjamin Orr, bassist/singer (The Cars) dies at 53
2002 Bruce Paltrow, television/film producer/father of Gwyneth Paltrow, dies at 58
2004 Janet Leigh, actress/Jamie Lee Curtis' mom (Psycho) dies at 77
Today in History
1849 Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death.
1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1893 The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman of St. Louis, MO.
1901 The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated.
1906 W.T. Grant, retail pioneer, opened a 25-cent department store.
1908 The Pravda newspaper was founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1922 Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman member of the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941 Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1951 New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the deciding game of a three-game playoff series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, sending the Giants into the World Series.
1951 CBS-TV presented the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight, pitting Dave Sands against Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson from Soldier Field, Chicago.
1952 The United Kingdom successfully tested a nuclear weapon.
1954 Father Knows Best began its long run on CBS-TV.
1955 Captain Kangaroo premiered on CBS-TV.
1955 Walt Disney premiered The Mickey Mouse Club on ABC-TV.
1960 The Andy Griffith Show premiered on CBS-TV.
1961 The Dick Van Dyke Show debuted on CBS-TV.
1974 Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1981 Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1990 West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
1991 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1993 In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis were killed in heavy fighting.
1994 Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation because of questions about gifts he had received.
1995 O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the June 12, 1994 stabbing deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter, Ronald Goldman.
1997 Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
2001 The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2002 Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period, and authorities began to search for the "Beltway Sniper."
2003 A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo Siegfried & Roy during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court (she withdrew three weeks later after criticism over her lack of judicial experience and Republican concerns about her conservatism).
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got) - Leon Ashley
1975
I’m Sorry - John Denver
Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Run Joey Run - David Geddes
Daydreams About Night Things - Ronnie Milsap
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
(She’s) Sexy + 17 - Stray Cats
New Looks from an Old Lover - B.J. Thomas
1991
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Where Are You Now - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann, US (Hungarian-born) computer scientist, mathematician (1903 - 1957)
Today in History - Oct 4th
Today's Birthdays
1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President, died Jan 17, 1893
1861 Frederic Remington, artist (American West) died Dec 26, 1909
1862 Laura Lee Hope (Edward L. Stratemeyer) author (The Bobbsey Twins) died May 10, 1930
1895 Buster (Joseph Frank) Keaton (VI), actor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) died Feb 1, 1966
1924 Charlton Heston (John Charlton Carter), actor (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes)
1929 Scotty Beckett, child actor (Our Gang series) died May 10, 1968
1941 Jackie Collins, author (Hollywood Wives)
1941 Anne Rice (Howard O’Brien Rice), author (Interview with a Vampire)
1941 Lori Saunders (Hines), actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Tony La Russa, MLBl manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1945 Clifton Davis, actor (That’s My Mama)
1946 Susan Sarandon (Tomaling), actress (Dead Man Walking, Atlantic City, Thelma and Louise, Bull Durham)
1947 Jim Fielder, bassist (Buffalo Springfield; Mothers of Invention; Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1948 Duke Robillard, blues guitarist (Roomful of Blues)
1949 Armand Assante, actor (Mambo Kings, Fatal Instinct, Judge Dredd)
1950 Alan Rosenberg, actor (The Last Temptation of Christ, L.A. Law, Cybill, Chicago Hope)
1959 Chris Lowe, keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 Liev Schreiber, actor (Jakob the Liar, Ransom, Scream series)
1960 Afrika Bambaataa, R&B musician (Planet Rock)
1961 Jon Secada, singer (Do You Believe in Love)
1961 David W. Harper, actor (The Waltons)
1969 Abraham Benrubi, actor (ER)
1976 Alicia Silverstone, actress (Clueless, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Past)
1979 Rachael Leigh Cook, actress (Josie & the Pussycats, She's All That)
1980 Jimmy Workman, actor (Addams Family series)
1982 Jered Weaver, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels)
1982 Tony Gwynn Jr., MLB outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
Today's Deaths in History
1669 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (Artemisia) dies at 63
1951 Willie Moretti, gangster (Genovese crime family) dies at 67
1970 Janis Joplin, singer (Big Brother & the Holding Company) dies of a drug overdose at 27
1982 Glenn Gould, pianist, dies at 50
1989 Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python) dies at 48
1989 Secretariat, Triple Crown winning racehorse, dies at 19
1994 Danny Gatton, guitar virtuoso, commits suicide at 49
1999 Art Farmer, jazz trumpeter, dies at 71
2004 Gordon Cooper, astronaut (Mercury, Gemini) dies at 77
Today in History
1537 The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) was printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1777 George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Penn., resulting in heavy American casualties.
1824 Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a federal republic.
1854 Abe Lincoln made his first great political speech while attending the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
1881 The player piano was invented by Edward Leveaux of Sussex, England.
1895 The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
1931 Dick Tracy debuted in The Detroit Mirror.
1933 Esquire magazine was published for the first time.
1948 Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of radio classic The Railroad Hour as it debuted on ABC radio.
1950 Snoopy made his first appearance ion the Peanuts comic strip.
1957 Sputnik I, the first earth satellite, was launched into space by the Soviet Union.
1957 Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1957 Leave It to Beaver premiered on CBS-TV.
1958 The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corp. with flights between London and New York.
1965 Pope Paul VI became the first reigning pontiff to travel to North America when he flew to New York and addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
1970 Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose at 27.
1976 Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the ABC Evening News for the first time.
1985 Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley.
1986 Dan Rather, of The CBS Evening News, was mugged in New York City.
1988 U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker was indicted for fraud.
1990 German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country's parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin.
1992 Miami Dolphin safety Louis Oliver returned an interception 103-yards for a touchdown, tying the NFL’s all-time longest interception return record, held by San Diego’s Vencie Glenn.
1993 Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
1996 That Thing You Do! was released by 20th Century Fox.
1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.
2001 Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run in a game against the Houston Astros to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record (Bonds finished the season with 73 homers).
2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.
2002 John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va.
2002 Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2003 A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It Had to Be You - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Here’s Some Love - Tanya Tucker
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Turning Away - Crystal Gayle
Quote of the Day
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 - 1915)
Today's Birthdays
1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President, died Jan 17, 1893
1861 Frederic Remington, artist (American West) died Dec 26, 1909
1862 Laura Lee Hope (Edward L. Stratemeyer) author (The Bobbsey Twins) died May 10, 1930
1895 Buster (Joseph Frank) Keaton (VI), actor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) died Feb 1, 1966
1924 Charlton Heston (John Charlton Carter), actor (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes)
1929 Scotty Beckett, child actor (Our Gang series) died May 10, 1968
1941 Jackie Collins, author (Hollywood Wives)
1941 Anne Rice (Howard O’Brien Rice), author (Interview with a Vampire)
1941 Lori Saunders (Hines), actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Tony La Russa, MLBl manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1945 Clifton Davis, actor (That’s My Mama)
1946 Susan Sarandon (Tomaling), actress (Dead Man Walking, Atlantic City, Thelma and Louise, Bull Durham)
1947 Jim Fielder, bassist (Buffalo Springfield; Mothers of Invention; Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1948 Duke Robillard, blues guitarist (Roomful of Blues)
1949 Armand Assante, actor (Mambo Kings, Fatal Instinct, Judge Dredd)
1950 Alan Rosenberg, actor (The Last Temptation of Christ, L.A. Law, Cybill, Chicago Hope)
1959 Chris Lowe, keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 Liev Schreiber, actor (Jakob the Liar, Ransom, Scream series)
1960 Afrika Bambaataa, R&B musician (Planet Rock)
1961 Jon Secada, singer (Do You Believe in Love)
1961 David W. Harper, actor (The Waltons)
1969 Abraham Benrubi, actor (ER)
1976 Alicia Silverstone, actress (Clueless, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Past)
1979 Rachael Leigh Cook, actress (Josie & the Pussycats, She's All That)
1980 Jimmy Workman, actor (Addams Family series)
1982 Jered Weaver, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels)
1982 Tony Gwynn Jr., MLB outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
Today's Deaths in History
1669 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (Artemisia) dies at 63
1951 Willie Moretti, gangster (Genovese crime family) dies at 67
1970 Janis Joplin, singer (Big Brother & the Holding Company) dies of a drug overdose at 27
1982 Glenn Gould, pianist, dies at 50
1989 Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python) dies at 48
1989 Secretariat, Triple Crown winning racehorse, dies at 19
1994 Danny Gatton, guitar virtuoso, commits suicide at 49
1999 Art Farmer, jazz trumpeter, dies at 71
2004 Gordon Cooper, astronaut (Mercury, Gemini) dies at 77
Today in History
1537 The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) was printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1777 George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Penn., resulting in heavy American casualties.
1824 Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a federal republic.
1854 Abe Lincoln made his first great political speech while attending the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
1881 The player piano was invented by Edward Leveaux of Sussex, England.
1895 The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
1931 Dick Tracy debuted in The Detroit Mirror.
1933 Esquire magazine was published for the first time.
1948 Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of radio classic The Railroad Hour as it debuted on ABC radio.
1950 Snoopy made his first appearance ion the Peanuts comic strip.
1957 Sputnik I, the first earth satellite, was launched into space by the Soviet Union.
1957 Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1957 Leave It to Beaver premiered on CBS-TV.
1958 The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corp. with flights between London and New York.
1965 Pope Paul VI became the first reigning pontiff to travel to North America when he flew to New York and addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
1970 Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose at 27.
1976 Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the ABC Evening News for the first time.
1985 Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley.
1986 Dan Rather, of The CBS Evening News, was mugged in New York City.
1988 U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker was indicted for fraud.
1990 German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country's parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin.
1992 Miami Dolphin safety Louis Oliver returned an interception 103-yards for a touchdown, tying the NFL’s all-time longest interception return record, held by San Diego’s Vencie Glenn.
1993 Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
1996 That Thing You Do! was released by 20th Century Fox.
1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.
2001 Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run in a game against the Houston Astros to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record (Bonds finished the season with 73 homers).
2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.
2002 John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va.
2002 Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2003 A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It Had to Be You - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Here’s Some Love - Tanya Tucker
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Turning Away - Crystal Gayle
Quote of the Day
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard, US author (1856 - 1915)
Today in History - Oct 5th
Today's Birthdays
1829 Chester A. (Alan) Arthur, 21st U.S. President, died Nov 18, 1886
1864 Louis Lumière, French film pioneer, died June 6, 1948
1882 Robert (Hutchings) Goddard, ‘father of the Space Age,’ died Aug 10, 1945
1902 Ray Kroc, entrepreneur (founder of McDonald’s) died Jan 14, 1984
1902 Larry Fine, actor/comedian (Three Stooges) died Jan 4, 1975
1908 Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III), producer/director/writer (Ensign Pulver) died July 12, 1988
1918 Allen Ludden (Ellsworth), TV host (Password, The G.E. College Bowl) died June 9, 1981
1919 Donald Pleasance, actor (You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage) died Feb 2, 1995
1922 Bil Keane, cartoonist (Family Circus)
1923 Glynis Johns, actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref)
1925 Bob Thaves, cartoonist (Frank & Ernest) died Aug 1, 2006
1929 Richard Gordon Jr., NASA astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12)
1937 Barry Switzer, former NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1938 Carlo Mastrangelo, singer (Dion and The Belmonts)
1943 Steve Miller, singer/songwriter/guitarist (The Steve Miller Band)
1947 Brian Johnson, singer (AC/DC)
1949 Brian Connolly, singer (The Sweet) died Feb 10, 1997
1949 B.W. Stevenson, singer/songwriter (My Maria) died Apr 28, 1988
1950 Eddie Clarke, guitarist (Motorhead)
1950 Jeff Conaway, actor (Taxi)
1951 Karen Allen, actress (Raiders of the Lost Ark, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Starman)
1951 Bob Geldof, singer/songwriter (Boomtown Rats)
1952 Clive Barker, author (Hellraiser)
1957 Bernie Mac, actor/comedian (Guess Who)
1960 Daniel Baldwin, actor (Homicide: Life on the Street)
1962 Michael Andretti, Indy car racer
1965 Mario Lemieux, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1965 Patrick Roy, NHL goaltender (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 Guy Pearce, actor (Memento, LA Confidential)
1970 Josie Bissett, actress (Melrose Place)
1974 Colin Meloy, singer (The Decemberists)
1975 Parminder Nagra, actress (Bend It Like Beckham, ER)
1975 Kate Winslet, actress (Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1978 James Valentine, guitarist (Maroon 5)
1980 Paul Thomas, bassist (Good Charlotte)
1983 Nicky Hilton, celebrity/heiress
1985 Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
Today's Deaths in History
1813 Tecumseh, Shawnee leader, dies at 45
1933 Renée Adorée, French actress (The Big Parade) dies at 35
1941 Louis D. Brandeis, first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, dies at 84
1981 Gloria Grahame, actress (The Big Heat) dies at 57
1983 Earl Tupper, inventor (Tupperware) dies at 76
1986 Hal B. Wallis, film producer (Casablanca) dies at 87
1992 Eddie Kendricks, singer (The Temptations) dies at 52
1995 Linda Gary, voice actress (Duck Tales) dies at 50
1996 Seymour Cray, computer pioneer, dies at 71
2002 Chuck Rayner, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (NY Rangers) dies at 82
2003 Dan Snyder, NHL center (Atlanta Thrashers) dies at 25 in a car crash
2004 Rodney Dangerfield, comedian/actor (Caddyshack, Back to School) dies at 82
Today in History
1877 Chief Joseph said, “From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever,” and the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Cavalry at Bear’s Paw, Chinook, Montana.
1921 The World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time.
1930 Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on the CBS radio network.
1936 Coaxial cable strung between New York City and Philadelphia made it possible for the first intercity telecast.
1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 Harry Truman became the first U.S. president to make use of television to address the nation from the White House.
1952 After an 11-year run on ABC radio, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery series, was heard for the final time.
1953 Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1958 The Kingston Trio scored the first folk hit on the pop charts with "Tom Dooley."
1962 The Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," was released in the United Kingdom.
1965 Henry Mancini received a gold record for the soundtrack LP from the movie The Pink Panther.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus made its debut on BBC Television.
1974 The Beach Boys’ Endless Summer was the #1 album in the U.S.
1983 Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986 American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the Contra supply plane he was riding in was shot down over southern Nicaragua.
1988 Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent efforts to free his homeland from China.
1989 Former evengelist Jim Bakker was convicted by a jury in Norfolk, VA of bilking 116,000 Praise the Lord TV show followers out of $158 million.
1990 A jury in Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, was released.
1991 Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg) & the Funky Bunch hit number one in the U.S. with "Good Vibrations."
2001 Robert Stevens died of inhaled anthrax in Boca Raton, Fla.
2001 Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2003 Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria.
2005 Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
I’m Gonna Love That Guy - The Benny Goodman Orchestra (vocal: Dottie
Reid)
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Daytime Friends - Kenny Rogers
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1829 Chester A. (Alan) Arthur, 21st U.S. President, died Nov 18, 1886
1864 Louis Lumière, French film pioneer, died June 6, 1948
1882 Robert (Hutchings) Goddard, ‘father of the Space Age,’ died Aug 10, 1945
1902 Ray Kroc, entrepreneur (founder of McDonald’s) died Jan 14, 1984
1902 Larry Fine, actor/comedian (Three Stooges) died Jan 4, 1975
1908 Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III), producer/director/writer (Ensign Pulver) died July 12, 1988
1918 Allen Ludden (Ellsworth), TV host (Password, The G.E. College Bowl) died June 9, 1981
1919 Donald Pleasance, actor (You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage) died Feb 2, 1995
1922 Bil Keane, cartoonist (Family Circus)
1923 Glynis Johns, actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref)
1925 Bob Thaves, cartoonist (Frank & Ernest) died Aug 1, 2006
1929 Richard Gordon Jr., NASA astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12)
1937 Barry Switzer, former NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1938 Carlo Mastrangelo, singer (Dion and The Belmonts)
1943 Steve Miller, singer/songwriter/guitarist (The Steve Miller Band)
1947 Brian Johnson, singer (AC/DC)
1949 Brian Connolly, singer (The Sweet) died Feb 10, 1997
1949 B.W. Stevenson, singer/songwriter (My Maria) died Apr 28, 1988
1950 Eddie Clarke, guitarist (Motorhead)
1950 Jeff Conaway, actor (Taxi)
1951 Karen Allen, actress (Raiders of the Lost Ark, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Starman)
1951 Bob Geldof, singer/songwriter (Boomtown Rats)
1952 Clive Barker, author (Hellraiser)
1957 Bernie Mac, actor/comedian (Guess Who)
1960 Daniel Baldwin, actor (Homicide: Life on the Street)
1962 Michael Andretti, Indy car racer
1965 Mario Lemieux, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1965 Patrick Roy, NHL goaltender (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 Guy Pearce, actor (Memento, LA Confidential)
1970 Josie Bissett, actress (Melrose Place)
1974 Colin Meloy, singer (The Decemberists)
1975 Parminder Nagra, actress (Bend It Like Beckham, ER)
1975 Kate Winslet, actress (Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1978 James Valentine, guitarist (Maroon 5)
1980 Paul Thomas, bassist (Good Charlotte)
1983 Nicky Hilton, celebrity/heiress
1985 Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
Today's Deaths in History
1813 Tecumseh, Shawnee leader, dies at 45
1933 Renée Adorée, French actress (The Big Parade) dies at 35
1941 Louis D. Brandeis, first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, dies at 84
1981 Gloria Grahame, actress (The Big Heat) dies at 57
1983 Earl Tupper, inventor (Tupperware) dies at 76
1986 Hal B. Wallis, film producer (Casablanca) dies at 87
1992 Eddie Kendricks, singer (The Temptations) dies at 52
1995 Linda Gary, voice actress (Duck Tales) dies at 50
1996 Seymour Cray, computer pioneer, dies at 71
2002 Chuck Rayner, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (NY Rangers) dies at 82
2003 Dan Snyder, NHL center (Atlanta Thrashers) dies at 25 in a car crash
2004 Rodney Dangerfield, comedian/actor (Caddyshack, Back to School) dies at 82
Today in History
1877 Chief Joseph said, “From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever,” and the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Cavalry at Bear’s Paw, Chinook, Montana.
1921 The World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time.
1930 Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on the CBS radio network.
1936 Coaxial cable strung between New York City and Philadelphia made it possible for the first intercity telecast.
1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 Harry Truman became the first U.S. president to make use of television to address the nation from the White House.
1952 After an 11-year run on ABC radio, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery series, was heard for the final time.
1953 Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1958 The Kingston Trio scored the first folk hit on the pop charts with "Tom Dooley."
1962 The Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," was released in the United Kingdom.
1965 Henry Mancini received a gold record for the soundtrack LP from the movie The Pink Panther.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus made its debut on BBC Television.
1974 The Beach Boys’ Endless Summer was the #1 album in the U.S.
1983 Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986 American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the Contra supply plane he was riding in was shot down over southern Nicaragua.
1988 Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent efforts to free his homeland from China.
1989 Former evengelist Jim Bakker was convicted by a jury in Norfolk, VA of bilking 116,000 Praise the Lord TV show followers out of $158 million.
1990 A jury in Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, was released.
1991 Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg) & the Funky Bunch hit number one in the U.S. with "Good Vibrations."
2001 Robert Stevens died of inhaled anthrax in Boca Raton, Fla.
2001 Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2003 Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria.
2005 Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
I’m Gonna Love That Guy - The Benny Goodman Orchestra (vocal: Dottie
Reid)
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Daytime Friends - Kenny Rogers
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles, Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC)
Today in History - Oct 6th
Today's Birthdays
1820 Jenny (Johanna) Lind, singer (‘The Swedish Nightingale’) died Nov 2, 1887
1846 George Westinghouse, inventor/founder (Westinghouse Electric Company) died March 12, 1914
1897 Jerome Cowan, actor (The Maltese Falcon) died Jan 24, 1972
1905 Helen Wills Moody, International Tennis Hall of Famer, died Jan 1, 1998
1906 Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor), actress (A Star is Born) died Sep 14, 1984
1908 Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters), actress/wife of actor Clark Gable (My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) killed in plane crash Jan 16, 1942
1914 Thor Heyerdahl, explorer/author (Kon Tiki) died Apr 17, 2002
1925 Shana Alexander (Ager), journalist (60 Minutes) died June 23, 2005
1942 Britt Ekland, actress (The Man with the Golden Gun)
1947 Steve (Steven Jack) Kline, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
1949 Bobby Farrell, singer (Boney M)
1950 Thomas McClary, guitarist (The Commodores)
1951 Kevin Cronin, singer (REO Speedwagon)
1955 Tony Dungy, NFL head coach (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 Elisabeth Shue, actress (Leaving Las Vegas, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future: Part 2 and Part 3, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid)
1964 Matthew Sweet, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Girlfriend)
1970 Amy Jo Johnson, actress/singer (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
1973 Ioan Gruffudd, actor (Fantastic Four series, Horatio Hornblower)
1974 Jeremy Sisto, actor (Six Feet Under)
Today's Deaths in History
1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (Idylls of the King) dies at 83
1951 Will Keith Kellogg, food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) dies at 91
1981 Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, is assassinated at 62
1985 Nelson Riddle, bandleader, dies at 64
1989 Bette Davis, actress (Of Human Bondage) dies at 81
1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Trading Places) dies at 70
1998 Mark Belanger, MLB shortstop (Baltimore Orioles) dies at 54
2000 Richard Farnsworth, actor (The Straight Story, Misery) dies at 80
2006 Buck O'Neil, first African-American coach in MLB, dies at 94
Today in History
1683 Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown.
1857 The first major chess tournament was sponsored in New York by the New York Chess Club.
1863 The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY.
1884 The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
1889 The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.
1889 Thomas Edison showed his first motion picture.
1927 The Jazz Singer, the first full-length "talking picture," made its debt in New York City.
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek became Chairman of the Republic of China.
1945 Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
1949 American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.
1962 Robert Goulet stepped out of the role of Sir Lancelot in Camelot after singing/acting the part since 1960.
1966 The Baltimore Oriole’s Jim Palmer became the youngest pitcher (20 years, 11 months) to win a complete-game, World-Series shutout.
1966 LSD was declared illegal in the United States.
1973 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
1976 New Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ended the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1979 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
1981 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Anwar el-Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists.
1987 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
1991 Elizabeth Taylor was married -- for the 8th time -- to construction worker Larry Fortensky.
1991 University of Oklahoma professor Anita F. Hill, former aide to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, testified before a Senate committee that Thomas sexually harassed her.
2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
Let’s Dance - Chris Montez
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Candida - Dawn
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John & Cast
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Always Have Always Will - Janie Frickie
Quote of the Day
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
Today's Birthdays
1820 Jenny (Johanna) Lind, singer (‘The Swedish Nightingale’) died Nov 2, 1887
1846 George Westinghouse, inventor/founder (Westinghouse Electric Company) died March 12, 1914
1897 Jerome Cowan, actor (The Maltese Falcon) died Jan 24, 1972
1905 Helen Wills Moody, International Tennis Hall of Famer, died Jan 1, 1998
1906 Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor), actress (A Star is Born) died Sep 14, 1984
1908 Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters), actress/wife of actor Clark Gable (My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) killed in plane crash Jan 16, 1942
1914 Thor Heyerdahl, explorer/author (Kon Tiki) died Apr 17, 2002
1925 Shana Alexander (Ager), journalist (60 Minutes) died June 23, 2005
1942 Britt Ekland, actress (The Man with the Golden Gun)
1947 Steve (Steven Jack) Kline, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
1949 Bobby Farrell, singer (Boney M)
1950 Thomas McClary, guitarist (The Commodores)
1951 Kevin Cronin, singer (REO Speedwagon)
1955 Tony Dungy, NFL head coach (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 Elisabeth Shue, actress (Leaving Las Vegas, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future: Part 2 and Part 3, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid)
1964 Matthew Sweet, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Girlfriend)
1970 Amy Jo Johnson, actress/singer (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
1973 Ioan Gruffudd, actor (Fantastic Four series, Horatio Hornblower)
1974 Jeremy Sisto, actor (Six Feet Under)
Today's Deaths in History
1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (Idylls of the King) dies at 83
1951 Will Keith Kellogg, food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) dies at 91
1981 Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, is assassinated at 62
1985 Nelson Riddle, bandleader, dies at 64
1989 Bette Davis, actress (Of Human Bondage) dies at 81
1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Trading Places) dies at 70
1998 Mark Belanger, MLB shortstop (Baltimore Orioles) dies at 54
2000 Richard Farnsworth, actor (The Straight Story, Misery) dies at 80
2006 Buck O'Neil, first African-American coach in MLB, dies at 94
Today in History
1683 Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown.
1857 The first major chess tournament was sponsored in New York by the New York Chess Club.
1863 The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY.
1884 The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
1889 The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.
1889 Thomas Edison showed his first motion picture.
1927 The Jazz Singer, the first full-length "talking picture," made its debt in New York City.
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek became Chairman of the Republic of China.
1945 Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
1949 American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.
1962 Robert Goulet stepped out of the role of Sir Lancelot in Camelot after singing/acting the part since 1960.
1966 The Baltimore Oriole’s Jim Palmer became the youngest pitcher (20 years, 11 months) to win a complete-game, World-Series shutout.
1966 LSD was declared illegal in the United States.
1973 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
1976 New Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ended the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1979 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
1981 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Anwar el-Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists.
1987 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
1991 Elizabeth Taylor was married -- for the 8th time -- to construction worker Larry Fortensky.
1991 University of Oklahoma professor Anita F. Hill, former aide to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, testified before a Senate committee that Thomas sexually harassed her.
2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
Let’s Dance - Chris Montez
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Candida - Dawn
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John & Cast
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Always Have Always Will - Janie Frickie
Quote of the Day
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
Today in History - Oct 7th
Today's Birthdays
1849 James Whitcomb Riley, poet (When the Frost is on the Punkin’) died July 22, 1916
1888 Henry Wallace, 33rd Vice President of U.S., died Nov 18, 1965
1905 Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz), actor (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Badge of Courage) died Feb 18, 1977
1911 ‘Papa’ Jo (Jonathan) Jones, drummer (Count Basie, Bennie Goodman) died Sep 3, 1985
1917 June Allyson (Ella Geisman), actress (Strategic Air Command) died July 8, 2006
1926 Diana Lynn (Dolores ‘Dolly’ Loehr), actress (Bedtime for Bonzo, My Friend Irma) died Dec 18, 1971
1931 Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1943 Oliver North, former Marine/TV personality
1945 Kevin Godley, drummer/singer (10cc, Godley & Creme)
1949 David Hope, bassist (Kansas)
1951 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer/guitarist (Jack and Diane, Pink Houses, Hurts So Good)
1952 Mary Badham, actress (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1952 Vladimir Putin, Russian President
1953 Tico Torres, drummer (Bon Jovi)
1955 Yo-Yo Ma, cello virtuoso
1959 Dylan Baker, actor (Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
1959 Simon Cowell, TV personality (American Idol)
1967 Toni Braxton, singer (Another Sad Love Song, Breathe Again, Un-Break My Heart)
1968 Thom Yorke, singer/musician (Radiohead)
1974 Hoser, board member
1976 Taylor Hicks, singer (American Idol)
1976 Rachel McAdams, actress (Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, author (The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart) dies at 40
1925 Christy Mathewson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 45
1956 Clarence Birdseye, inventor (frozen foods) dies at 69
1991 Leo Durocher, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers) dies at 86
2001 Herblock, cartoonist, dies at 91
2005 Charles Rocket, comic/actor (Saturday Night Live) commits suicide at 56
Today in History
1765 The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
1806 Carbon paper was patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
1868 Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.
1916 In one of the most lopsided wins in football history, Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jackets trounced Cumberland College 222-0.
1922 The first radio network, just two stations, WJZ in Newark, NJ and WGY in Schenectady, NY, debuted.
1950 The Frank Sinatra Show debuted on TV.
1950 United States forces crossed the 38th parallel in the Korean War.
1952 American Bandstand makes its debut on a local Philadelphia station.
1954 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1959 A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1965 Robert Mitera’s tee shot, aided by a 50-m.p.h. tailwind, traveled 447 yards to the pin, and dropped in for the longest hole-in-one in golf history; it happened on the 10th hole of the Miracle Hills Country Club, Omaha, Nebraska.
1968 The Motion Picture Association of America adopted a film-rating system.
1969 The Youngbloods hit "Get Together" passed the million-selling mark to achieve gold record status.
1973 40,000 football fans failed to use their pro-football tickets, opting instead to watch games on TV since legislation was signed lifting blackout rules of games.
1975 Gerald R. Ford signed legislation allowing women to apply for admission to the U.S. military academies, effective in 1976.
1981 Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1982 Cats opened on Broadway.
1985 Terrorists hijacked an Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro, demanding the release of prisoners held by Israel; of the four hundred people on board, only Leon Klinghoffer, wheelchairbound, was shot to death.
1988 New York City radio station WNBC went off the air on AM 660, and was replaced by sports station WFAN which was on 1050 AM before the switch.
1993 Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the first African-American woman to received the award.
1995 A crowd of over 100,000 people flocked to Central Park to see Pope John Paul II.
1995 Alanis Morrissette’s Jagged Little Pill made it to number one on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
1996 Fox News Channel made its debut.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside Laramie, Wyo.; he died five days later.
1999 American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems.
2000 Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.
2001 The United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants wrapped up his record-breaking season with his 73rd homer, while San Diego's Rickey Henderson became the 25th player with 3,000 hits.
2002 The Washington-area sniper struck again, shooting and critically wounding a 13-year-old boy in Bowie, Md.
2003 California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.
2004 Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated because of poor health.
2006 Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death in Moscow.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
Superstar - Carpenters
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
1979
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Sail On - Commodores
The Cheater’s Waltz - T.G. Sheppard
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
You Again - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
Today's Birthdays
1849 James Whitcomb Riley, poet (When the Frost is on the Punkin’) died July 22, 1916
1888 Henry Wallace, 33rd Vice President of U.S., died Nov 18, 1965
1905 Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz), actor (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Badge of Courage) died Feb 18, 1977
1911 ‘Papa’ Jo (Jonathan) Jones, drummer (Count Basie, Bennie Goodman) died Sep 3, 1985
1917 June Allyson (Ella Geisman), actress (Strategic Air Command) died July 8, 2006
1926 Diana Lynn (Dolores ‘Dolly’ Loehr), actress (Bedtime for Bonzo, My Friend Irma) died Dec 18, 1971
1931 Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1943 Oliver North, former Marine/TV personality
1945 Kevin Godley, drummer/singer (10cc, Godley & Creme)
1949 David Hope, bassist (Kansas)
1951 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer/guitarist (Jack and Diane, Pink Houses, Hurts So Good)
1952 Mary Badham, actress (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1952 Vladimir Putin, Russian President
1953 Tico Torres, drummer (Bon Jovi)
1955 Yo-Yo Ma, cello virtuoso
1959 Dylan Baker, actor (Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
1959 Simon Cowell, TV personality (American Idol)
1967 Toni Braxton, singer (Another Sad Love Song, Breathe Again, Un-Break My Heart)
1968 Thom Yorke, singer/musician (Radiohead)
1974 Hoser, board member
1976 Taylor Hicks, singer (American Idol)
1976 Rachel McAdams, actress (Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, author (The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart) dies at 40
1925 Christy Mathewson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 45
1956 Clarence Birdseye, inventor (frozen foods) dies at 69
1991 Leo Durocher, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers) dies at 86
2001 Herblock, cartoonist, dies at 91
2005 Charles Rocket, comic/actor (Saturday Night Live) commits suicide at 56
Today in History
1765 The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
1806 Carbon paper was patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
1868 Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.
1916 In one of the most lopsided wins in football history, Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jackets trounced Cumberland College 222-0.
1922 The first radio network, just two stations, WJZ in Newark, NJ and WGY in Schenectady, NY, debuted.
1950 The Frank Sinatra Show debuted on TV.
1950 United States forces crossed the 38th parallel in the Korean War.
1952 American Bandstand makes its debut on a local Philadelphia station.
1954 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1959 A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1965 Robert Mitera’s tee shot, aided by a 50-m.p.h. tailwind, traveled 447 yards to the pin, and dropped in for the longest hole-in-one in golf history; it happened on the 10th hole of the Miracle Hills Country Club, Omaha, Nebraska.
1968 The Motion Picture Association of America adopted a film-rating system.
1969 The Youngbloods hit "Get Together" passed the million-selling mark to achieve gold record status.
1973 40,000 football fans failed to use their pro-football tickets, opting instead to watch games on TV since legislation was signed lifting blackout rules of games.
1975 Gerald R. Ford signed legislation allowing women to apply for admission to the U.S. military academies, effective in 1976.
1981 Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1982 Cats opened on Broadway.
1985 Terrorists hijacked an Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro, demanding the release of prisoners held by Israel; of the four hundred people on board, only Leon Klinghoffer, wheelchairbound, was shot to death.
1988 New York City radio station WNBC went off the air on AM 660, and was replaced by sports station WFAN which was on 1050 AM before the switch.
1993 Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the first African-American woman to received the award.
1995 A crowd of over 100,000 people flocked to Central Park to see Pope John Paul II.
1995 Alanis Morrissette’s Jagged Little Pill made it to number one on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
1996 Fox News Channel made its debut.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside Laramie, Wyo.; he died five days later.
1999 American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems.
2000 Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.
2001 The United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants wrapped up his record-breaking season with his 73rd homer, while San Diego's Rickey Henderson became the 25th player with 3,000 hits.
2002 The Washington-area sniper struck again, shooting and critically wounding a 13-year-old boy in Bowie, Md.
2003 California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.
2004 Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated because of poor health.
2006 Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death in Moscow.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
Superstar - Carpenters
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
1979
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Sail On - Commodores
The Cheater’s Waltz - T.G. Sheppard
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
You Again - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
Today in History - Oct 8th
Today's Birthdays
1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator/World War I hero, died July 23, 1973
1895 Juan (Domingo) Peron, President of Argentina, died July 1, 1974
1936 Rona Barrett (Burstein), gossip columnist
1939 Paul Hogan, actor (Crocodile Dundee series)
1941 George Bellamy, guitarist (The Tornados)
1941 Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader
1943 Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase), comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1943 R. L. Stine, author (Goosebumps)
1947 Tony Wilson, bassist/singer (Hot Chocolate)
1948 Sarah Purcell, TV reporter (Real People)
1948 Johnny Ramone (Cummings), guitarist/singer (The Ramones) died Sep 15, 2004
1949 Hamish Stuart, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 Sigourney (Susan) Weaver, actress (Gorillas in the Mist, Alien series, Working Girl, Dave, Ghostbusters series)
1950 Robert ‘Kool’ Bell, bassist/singer (Kool and the Gang)
1954 Michael Dudikoff, actor (American Ninja series, Bachelor Party)
1955 Darrell Hammond, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1955 Bill Elliott, NASCAR driver
1956 Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele)
1963 Steve Perry, singer (Cherry Poppin' Daddies)
1964 Ian Hart, actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
1965 C.J. Ramone, bassist (The Ramones)
1968 Emily Procter, actress (The West Wing, CSI: Miami)
1970 Matt Damon, actor (Saving Private Ryan, Courage Under Fire, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven series)
1970 Soon-Yi Previn, Korean-American actress/Mrs Woody Allen
1979 Kristanna Loken, actress (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
1980 Nick Cannon, actor (Drumline)
1993 Angus T. Jones, actor (Two and a Half Men)
Today's Deaths in History
1793 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 56
1869 Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64
1982 Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor, dies at 67
1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Support Your Local Sheriff) dies at 69
1990 B.J. Wilson, drummer (Procol Harum) dies at 43
1992 Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, dies at 78
Today in History
1871 Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire, scorching almost four square miles, killing about 300 people and leaving a path of destruction valued at more than $200,000,000.
1895 The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia.
1918 Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
1927 In Game 4 of the 1927 Stanley Cup, Boston Bruins defenseman Billy Coutu started a brawl, and punched referee Jerry LaFlamme; as a result, Coutu becomes the first player to be suspended for life from the NHL.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1935 Bandleader Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet Hilliard were married.
1938 The cover of The Saturday Evening Post portrayed Norman Rockwell trying to come up with a cover concept and to complete the assignment before the magazine’s deadline.
1944 The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was heard on the CBS radio network.
1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1952 The Complete Book of Etiquette was first published.
1956 Don Larson pitched the only perfect game in World Series history.
1957 Walter O'Malley announced that the Dodgers were going to move from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California,
1961 New York Yankees’ pitcher Whitey Ford set the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings, while extending his streak to 32 in a 7-0 shutout of the Cincinnati Reds in Game 4.
1961 Green Bay Packers’ running back/kicker Paul Hornung set a Packer records for points scored in a game: 33 (4 touchdowns, 6 extra points and 1 field goal).
1970 Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in literature.
1984 Anne Murray won the Country Music Association’s Album of the Year Award this day for A Little Good News; she became the first woman to win this award.
1991 A U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Alaska, approved a $900-million settlement with Exxon Shipping Company for the Valdez oil spill.
2001 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.
2002 A federal judge approved President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, ending a caustic 10-day labor lockout.
2004 Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison in West Virginia to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale.
2005 A major earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Ben - Michael Jackson
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Give Me the Night - George Benson
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
Do You Wanna Go to Heaven - T.G. Sheppard
1988
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Red Red Wine - UB40
Don’t Be Cruel - Cheap Trick
Honky Tonk Moon - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today's Birthdays
1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator/World War I hero, died July 23, 1973
1895 Juan (Domingo) Peron, President of Argentina, died July 1, 1974
1936 Rona Barrett (Burstein), gossip columnist
1939 Paul Hogan, actor (Crocodile Dundee series)
1941 George Bellamy, guitarist (The Tornados)
1941 Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader
1943 Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase), comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1943 R. L. Stine, author (Goosebumps)
1947 Tony Wilson, bassist/singer (Hot Chocolate)
1948 Sarah Purcell, TV reporter (Real People)
1948 Johnny Ramone (Cummings), guitarist/singer (The Ramones) died Sep 15, 2004
1949 Hamish Stuart, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 Sigourney (Susan) Weaver, actress (Gorillas in the Mist, Alien series, Working Girl, Dave, Ghostbusters series)
1950 Robert ‘Kool’ Bell, bassist/singer (Kool and the Gang)
1954 Michael Dudikoff, actor (American Ninja series, Bachelor Party)
1955 Darrell Hammond, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1955 Bill Elliott, NASCAR driver
1956 Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele)
1963 Steve Perry, singer (Cherry Poppin' Daddies)
1964 Ian Hart, actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
1965 C.J. Ramone, bassist (The Ramones)
1968 Emily Procter, actress (The West Wing, CSI: Miami)
1970 Matt Damon, actor (Saving Private Ryan, Courage Under Fire, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven series)
1970 Soon-Yi Previn, Korean-American actress/Mrs Woody Allen
1979 Kristanna Loken, actress (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
1980 Nick Cannon, actor (Drumline)
1993 Angus T. Jones, actor (Two and a Half Men)
Today's Deaths in History
1793 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 56
1869 Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64
1982 Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor, dies at 67
1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Support Your Local Sheriff) dies at 69
1990 B.J. Wilson, drummer (Procol Harum) dies at 43
1992 Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, dies at 78
Today in History
1871 Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire, scorching almost four square miles, killing about 300 people and leaving a path of destruction valued at more than $200,000,000.
1895 The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia.
1918 Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
1927 In Game 4 of the 1927 Stanley Cup, Boston Bruins defenseman Billy Coutu started a brawl, and punched referee Jerry LaFlamme; as a result, Coutu becomes the first player to be suspended for life from the NHL.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1935 Bandleader Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet Hilliard were married.
1938 The cover of The Saturday Evening Post portrayed Norman Rockwell trying to come up with a cover concept and to complete the assignment before the magazine’s deadline.
1944 The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was heard on the CBS radio network.
1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1952 The Complete Book of Etiquette was first published.
1956 Don Larson pitched the only perfect game in World Series history.
1957 Walter O'Malley announced that the Dodgers were going to move from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California,
1961 New York Yankees’ pitcher Whitey Ford set the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings, while extending his streak to 32 in a 7-0 shutout of the Cincinnati Reds in Game 4.
1961 Green Bay Packers’ running back/kicker Paul Hornung set a Packer records for points scored in a game: 33 (4 touchdowns, 6 extra points and 1 field goal).
1970 Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in literature.
1984 Anne Murray won the Country Music Association’s Album of the Year Award this day for A Little Good News; she became the first woman to win this award.
1991 A U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Alaska, approved a $900-million settlement with Exxon Shipping Company for the Valdez oil spill.
2001 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.
2002 A federal judge approved President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, ending a caustic 10-day labor lockout.
2004 Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison in West Virginia to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale.
2005 A major earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Ben - Michael Jackson
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Give Me the Night - George Benson
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
Do You Wanna Go to Heaven - T.G. Sheppard
1988
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Red Red Wine - UB40
Don’t Be Cruel - Cheap Trick
Honky Tonk Moon - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today in History - Oct 9th
Today's Birthdays
1873 Charles Walgreen, entrepreneur (Walgreen's Drug Stores) died Dec 11, 1939
1900 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Scrooge)
1903 Walter O’Malley, baseball owner (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers) died Aug 9, 1979
1914 Edward Andrews, actor (Sixteen Candles) died Mar 8, 1985
1923 Fyvush Finkel, actor (Boston Public)
1940 John Lennon, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Beatles) shot and killed December 8, 1980
1944 John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) died June 27, 2002
1944 Peter Tosh (Winston McIntosh), reggae singer
1944 Nona Hendryx, R&B singer (LaBelle)
1948 Jackson Browne, songwriter/singer (Doctor My Eyes, Running on Empty, The Pretender)
1951 Robert Wuhl, writer/actor (Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance)
1952 Sharon Osbourne, TV personality/Mrs Ozzy Osbourne (America's Got Talent)
1953 Tony Shalhoub, actor (Wings, Big Night, The Siege, Monk)
1954 Scott Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, Necessary Roughness, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1954 John O'Hurley, actor (Seinfeld)
1954 James Fearnley, accordion player (The Pogues)
1958 Michael Paré, actor (The Philadelphia Experience, Streets of Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers series)
1958 Al Jourgensen, singer/musician (Ministry)
1958 Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1961 Kurt Neumann, singer/guitarist (BoDeans)
1964 Guillermo del Toro, director (Pan's Labyrinth)
1964 Bobby Flay, celebrity chef/restaurateur
1969 P.J. Harvey, singer
1970 Annika Sorenstam, LPGA golf champion
1973 Terry Balsamo, guitarist (Evanescence)
1975 Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1979 Brandon Routh, actor (Superman Returns)
1980 Henrik Zetterberg, NHL forweard (Detroit Red Wings)
1981 Zachery Ty Bryan, actor (Home Improvement)
Today's Deaths in History
1967 Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary/guerilla leader, is executed at 39
1972 Miriam Hopkins, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) dies at 69
1974 Oskar Schindler, German businessman (saved >1,000 Jews during Holocaust) dies at 66
1999 Milt Jackson, jazz vibraphonist, dies at 76
2000 David Dukes, actor (Dawson's Creek) dies at 55
2001 Herbert Ross, film director/producer (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) dies at 74
2005 Louis Nye, comedian/actor (Cannonball Run II ) dies at 92
Today in History
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut, later known as Yale University, was chartered in New Haven.
1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1855 The sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer.
1855 Joshua C. Stoddard was awarded a patent for the calliope.
1858 Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco and St. Louis was started.
1872 Mr. Aaron Montgomery Ward sent out his first mail-order catalog.
1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1935 Cavalcade of America was first broadcast on CBS radio.
1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1943 ABC Radio presented Land of the Lost for the first time.
1946 The first electric blanket went on sale for $39.50 in Petersburg, VA.
1967 Doc Severinsen replaced Skitch Henderson as musical director of The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson.
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.
1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard was called in for crowd control as demonstrations continued in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight."
1973 Priscilla Presley was divorced from Elvis in Santa Monica, CA.
1973 Paul Simon got a gold record this day for his hit "Loves Me like a Rock."
1975 Sean Ono Lennon was born on his father, John Lennon's, 35th birthday.
1975 Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985 A 2½-acre garden memorial named Strawberry Fields was dedicated to John Lennon by his widow, Yoko Ono, in New York City’s Central Park.
1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 The Phantom of the Opera had its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1990 David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite landed in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
1997 After 36 seasons, Dean Smith announced his retirement as basketball coach at the University of North Carolina.
2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
2002 A man was gunned down moments after filling his tank at a gas station near Manassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in the Washington D.C. area.
2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.
2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
The “In” Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
Behind the Tear - Sonny James
1973
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Ray Price
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Who’s Crying Now - Journey
Midnight Hauler - Razzy Bailey
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Cherish - Madonna
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
I Got Dreams - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1873 Charles Walgreen, entrepreneur (Walgreen's Drug Stores) died Dec 11, 1939
1900 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Scrooge)
1903 Walter O’Malley, baseball owner (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers) died Aug 9, 1979
1914 Edward Andrews, actor (Sixteen Candles) died Mar 8, 1985
1923 Fyvush Finkel, actor (Boston Public)
1940 John Lennon, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Beatles) shot and killed December 8, 1980
1944 John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) died June 27, 2002
1944 Peter Tosh (Winston McIntosh), reggae singer
1944 Nona Hendryx, R&B singer (LaBelle)
1948 Jackson Browne, songwriter/singer (Doctor My Eyes, Running on Empty, The Pretender)
1951 Robert Wuhl, writer/actor (Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance)
1952 Sharon Osbourne, TV personality/Mrs Ozzy Osbourne (America's Got Talent)
1953 Tony Shalhoub, actor (Wings, Big Night, The Siege, Monk)
1954 Scott Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, Necessary Roughness, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1954 John O'Hurley, actor (Seinfeld)
1954 James Fearnley, accordion player (The Pogues)
1958 Michael Paré, actor (The Philadelphia Experience, Streets of Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers series)
1958 Al Jourgensen, singer/musician (Ministry)
1958 Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1961 Kurt Neumann, singer/guitarist (BoDeans)
1964 Guillermo del Toro, director (Pan's Labyrinth)
1964 Bobby Flay, celebrity chef/restaurateur
1969 P.J. Harvey, singer
1970 Annika Sorenstam, LPGA golf champion
1973 Terry Balsamo, guitarist (Evanescence)
1975 Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1979 Brandon Routh, actor (Superman Returns)
1980 Henrik Zetterberg, NHL forweard (Detroit Red Wings)
1981 Zachery Ty Bryan, actor (Home Improvement)
Today's Deaths in History
1967 Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary/guerilla leader, is executed at 39
1972 Miriam Hopkins, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) dies at 69
1974 Oskar Schindler, German businessman (saved >1,000 Jews during Holocaust) dies at 66
1999 Milt Jackson, jazz vibraphonist, dies at 76
2000 David Dukes, actor (Dawson's Creek) dies at 55
2001 Herbert Ross, film director/producer (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) dies at 74
2005 Louis Nye, comedian/actor (Cannonball Run II ) dies at 92
Today in History
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut, later known as Yale University, was chartered in New Haven.
1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1855 The sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer.
1855 Joshua C. Stoddard was awarded a patent for the calliope.
1858 Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco and St. Louis was started.
1872 Mr. Aaron Montgomery Ward sent out his first mail-order catalog.
1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1935 Cavalcade of America was first broadcast on CBS radio.
1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1943 ABC Radio presented Land of the Lost for the first time.
1946 The first electric blanket went on sale for $39.50 in Petersburg, VA.
1967 Doc Severinsen replaced Skitch Henderson as musical director of The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson.
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.
1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard was called in for crowd control as demonstrations continued in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight."
1973 Priscilla Presley was divorced from Elvis in Santa Monica, CA.
1973 Paul Simon got a gold record this day for his hit "Loves Me like a Rock."
1975 Sean Ono Lennon was born on his father, John Lennon's, 35th birthday.
1975 Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985 A 2½-acre garden memorial named Strawberry Fields was dedicated to John Lennon by his widow, Yoko Ono, in New York City’s Central Park.
1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 The Phantom of the Opera had its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1990 David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite landed in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
1997 After 36 seasons, Dean Smith announced his retirement as basketball coach at the University of North Carolina.
2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
2002 A man was gunned down moments after filling his tank at a gas station near Manassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in the Washington D.C. area.
2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.
2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
The “In” Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
Behind the Tear - Sonny James
1973
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Ray Price
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Who’s Crying Now - Journey
Midnight Hauler - Razzy Bailey
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Cherish - Madonna
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
I Got Dreams - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Today in History - Oct 10th
Today's Birthdays
1813 Guiseppe Verdi, composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida) died Jan 27, 1901
1900 Helen Hayes, actress (A Farewell to Arms, Anastasia) died March 17, 1993
1908 Johnny Green, songwriter (Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris) died May 15, 1989
1917 Thelonious (Sphere) Monk, composer/jazz pianist (Round Midnight, Blue Monk) died Feb 17, 1982
1924 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-pan) died Sep 7, 1994
1924 Ed Wood, filmmaker (Plan 9 from Outer Space) died Dec 10, 1978
1926 Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, Sands of Iwo Jima) died June 14, 1997
1930 Harold Pinter, playwright (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
1941 Dallas Smith, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1941 Peter Coyote, actor (The Legend of Billy Jean, Erin Brockovich)
1946 Charles Dance, actor (Last Action Hero, The Phantom of the Opera, White Mischief)
1946 John Prine, singer/songwriter (Sam Stone, Illegal Smile, Please Don't Bury Me)
1946 Pete Mahovlich, NHL forward/coach (Detroit Red Wings)
1946 Ben Vereen, singer/dancer/actor (All that Jazz)
1953 Midge (James) Ure, singer/songwriter (Ultravox)
1954 David Lee Roth, singer (Van Halen)
1958 Tanya Tucker, country singer (Delta Dawn)
1959 Bradley Whitford, actor (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1959 Julia Sweeney, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1959 Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter (They Don't Know) died Dec 18, 2000
1960 Eric Martin, singer (Mr. Big)
1961 Jodi Benson, voice actress (The Little Mermaid)
1961 Martin Kemp, bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1963 Jim Glennie, bassist (James)
1963 Daniel Pearl, journalist, killed in Pakistan February 1, 2002
1965 Chris Penn, actor (Footloose, At Close Range) died Jan 24, 2006
1967 Mike Malinin, drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
1969 Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers)
1969 Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress (Reno 911!)
1970 Bai Ling, Chinese-American actress (The Crow, Lost)
1973 Mario López, actor (Saved by the Bell)
1974 Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR driver
1974 Chris Pronger, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Ducks)
1978 Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, actress (Nash Bridges, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later)
1979 Mya (Marie Harrison), singer (Fear of Flying)
1989 Aimee Teegarden, actress (Friday Night Lights)
Today's Deaths in History
1872 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (Alaska purchase) dies at 71
1913 Adolphus Busch, brewer (Anheuser-Busch) dies at 74
1964 Eddie Cantor, singer/vaudeville performer, dies at 74
1985 Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (The King and I) dies at 65
1985 Orson Welles, actor/director (Citizen Kane) dies at 70
2004 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) dies at 52
Today in History
1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
1865 The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
1886 Griswold Lorillard wore a tailless dress coat to the country club at Tuxedo Park, New York; thereafter it became known as the tuxedo.
1911 Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
1932 Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger’s Coffee, and Betty and Bob, sponsored by General Mills, went on the air as some of radio's first soap operas.
1933 Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.
1933 A United Airlines Boeing 247 was destroyed by sabotage, the first such case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway.
1937 The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in Hollywood.
1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1951 Hank Bauer’s bases-loaded triple in Game 6 propelled the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win and their third straight world championship; it was also Joe DiMaggio’s 51st World series appearance and his final game.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
1964 The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
1965 The Red Baron made his first appearance in the Peanuts comic strip.
1969 King Crimson released their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, considered by many to be the first progressive rock album.
1970 Neil Diamond reached the #1 spot on the pop music charts for the first time with "Cracklin’ Rosie."
1971 Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned.
1977 Joe Namath ended his playing career on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
1979 Fleetwood Mac received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1979 Wayne Gretzky played his first National Hockey League game and scored the first of his NHL-record 1,962 assists for the visiting Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks.
1985 U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.
1987 Whitesnake’s "Here I Go Again" was the #1 single in the U.S.
1995 Gary Kasparov retained his Professional Chess Association title by defeating Indian superstar Viswanathan Anand.
2002 The House of Representatives voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq.
2003 Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.
2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany's chancellor.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
Bonaparte’s Retreat - Kay Starr
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tea for Two Cha-Cha - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & The Spinners
I Love My Friend - Charlie Rich
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
Yesterday’s Wine - Merle Haggard/George Jones
1990
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven - Phil Collins
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, US cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
Today's Birthdays
1813 Guiseppe Verdi, composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida) died Jan 27, 1901
1900 Helen Hayes, actress (A Farewell to Arms, Anastasia) died March 17, 1993
1908 Johnny Green, songwriter (Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris) died May 15, 1989
1917 Thelonious (Sphere) Monk, composer/jazz pianist (Round Midnight, Blue Monk) died Feb 17, 1982
1924 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-pan) died Sep 7, 1994
1924 Ed Wood, filmmaker (Plan 9 from Outer Space) died Dec 10, 1978
1926 Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, Sands of Iwo Jima) died June 14, 1997
1930 Harold Pinter, playwright (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
1941 Dallas Smith, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1941 Peter Coyote, actor (The Legend of Billy Jean, Erin Brockovich)
1946 Charles Dance, actor (Last Action Hero, The Phantom of the Opera, White Mischief)
1946 John Prine, singer/songwriter (Sam Stone, Illegal Smile, Please Don't Bury Me)
1946 Pete Mahovlich, NHL forward/coach (Detroit Red Wings)
1946 Ben Vereen, singer/dancer/actor (All that Jazz)
1953 Midge (James) Ure, singer/songwriter (Ultravox)
1954 David Lee Roth, singer (Van Halen)
1958 Tanya Tucker, country singer (Delta Dawn)
1959 Bradley Whitford, actor (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1959 Julia Sweeney, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1959 Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter (They Don't Know) died Dec 18, 2000
1960 Eric Martin, singer (Mr. Big)
1961 Jodi Benson, voice actress (The Little Mermaid)
1961 Martin Kemp, bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1963 Jim Glennie, bassist (James)
1963 Daniel Pearl, journalist, killed in Pakistan February 1, 2002
1965 Chris Penn, actor (Footloose, At Close Range) died Jan 24, 2006
1967 Mike Malinin, drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
1969 Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers)
1969 Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress (Reno 911!)
1970 Bai Ling, Chinese-American actress (The Crow, Lost)
1973 Mario López, actor (Saved by the Bell)
1974 Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR driver
1974 Chris Pronger, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Ducks)
1978 Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, actress (Nash Bridges, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later)
1979 Mya (Marie Harrison), singer (Fear of Flying)
1989 Aimee Teegarden, actress (Friday Night Lights)
Today's Deaths in History
1872 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (Alaska purchase) dies at 71
1913 Adolphus Busch, brewer (Anheuser-Busch) dies at 74
1964 Eddie Cantor, singer/vaudeville performer, dies at 74
1985 Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (The King and I) dies at 65
1985 Orson Welles, actor/director (Citizen Kane) dies at 70
2004 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) dies at 52
Today in History
1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
1865 The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
1886 Griswold Lorillard wore a tailless dress coat to the country club at Tuxedo Park, New York; thereafter it became known as the tuxedo.
1911 Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
1932 Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger’s Coffee, and Betty and Bob, sponsored by General Mills, went on the air as some of radio's first soap operas.
1933 Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.
1933 A United Airlines Boeing 247 was destroyed by sabotage, the first such case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway.
1937 The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in Hollywood.
1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1951 Hank Bauer’s bases-loaded triple in Game 6 propelled the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win and their third straight world championship; it was also Joe DiMaggio’s 51st World series appearance and his final game.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
1964 The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
1965 The Red Baron made his first appearance in the Peanuts comic strip.
1969 King Crimson released their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, considered by many to be the first progressive rock album.
1970 Neil Diamond reached the #1 spot on the pop music charts for the first time with "Cracklin’ Rosie."
1971 Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned.
1977 Joe Namath ended his playing career on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
1979 Fleetwood Mac received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1979 Wayne Gretzky played his first National Hockey League game and scored the first of his NHL-record 1,962 assists for the visiting Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks.
1985 U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.
1987 Whitesnake’s "Here I Go Again" was the #1 single in the U.S.
1995 Gary Kasparov retained his Professional Chess Association title by defeating Indian superstar Viswanathan Anand.
2002 The House of Representatives voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq.
2003 Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.
2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany's chancellor.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
Bonaparte’s Retreat - Kay Starr
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tea for Two Cha-Cha - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & The Spinners
I Love My Friend - Charlie Rich
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
Yesterday’s Wine - Merle Haggard/George Jones
1990
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven - Phil Collins
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, US cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
Today in History - Oct 11th
Today's Birthdays
1844 H.J. (Henry John) Heinz, food mogul (Heinz 57 Varieties) died May 14, 1919
1872 Harlan (Fiske) Stone, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Apr 22, 1946
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died Nov 7, 1962
1906 Charles Revson, cosmetic mogul (Revlon Co.) died Aug 24, 1975
1918 Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz), director (West Side Story) died July 29, 1998
1919 Art Blakey, jazz drummer/bandleader, died Oct 16, 1990
1921 ‘Knobby’ Grant Warwick, NHL right wing (NY Rangers) died Sept 27, 1999
1925 Elmore Leonard, author (Get Shorty, Bandits, Maximum Bob, Out of Sight)
1932 Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh), country singer (Here Comes My Baby) died Sep 4, 1991
1946 Daryl Hall (Hohl), singer (Hall & Oates)
1946 Gary Mallaber, percussionist (The Steve Miller Band)
1950 Andrew Woolfolk, reeds (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1953 David Morse, actor (St. Elsewhere, Hack, House M.D.)
1961 Steve Young, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1962 Joan Cusack, actress (Addams Family Values, Broadcast News, Married to the Mob, Sixteen Candles, Working Girl)
1962 Scott Johnson, guitarist (Gin Blossoms)
1962 Nicola Bryant, actress (Dr. Who)
1964 Michael J. Nelson, TV writer/host (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1965 Luke Perry, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1965 Sean Patrick Flanery, actor (Boondock Saints)
1968 Jane Krakowski, actress (Ally McBeal, 30 Rock)
1968 TopNYRfaninTX, board member/Thin Lizzy fan
1972 Claudia Black, actress (Farscape, Stargate SG-1)
1976 Emily Deschanel, actress (Bones)
1985 Michelle Trachtenberg, actress (inspector Gadget, Ice Princess)
1989 Michelle Wie, golfer
Today's Deaths in History
1809 Meriwether Lewis, explorer, dies at 35
1961 Chico Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers) dies at 74
1963 Jean Cocteau, French writer (Beauty and the Beast) dies at 74
1963 Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (La Vie en Rose) dies at 47
1971 Gen. Louis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history, dies at 73
1991 Redd Foxx, comic/actor, dies at 68
1998 Richard Denning, actor (An Affair to Remember) dies at 84
2006 Cory Lidle, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees) dies at 34 in a plane crash
Today in History
1776 The first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought during the American Revolution.
1811 The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1881 Roll film for cameras was patented by D.H. Houston of Cambria, Wisconsin.
1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.
1929 JC Penney opened store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1936 Professor Quiz, the first national quiz show on radio, aired for the first time.
1939 "Body and Soul," by jazz great Coleman Hawkins, was waxed on Bluebird Records.
1940 Glenn Miller recorded "Make Believe Ballroom Time" for Bluebird Records at the Victor studios in New York City.
1948 One of radio’s last soap operas, The Brighter Day, premiered.
1950 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA would successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
1958 Spencer Tracy’s classic movie The Old Man and the Sea was released.
1958 The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1962 Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II.
1968 The U.S. launched Apollo 7.
1971 Hugh Downs left the Today show and Concentration.
1975 Late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live made its debut with George Carlin as the first guest host.
1975 William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham tied the knot in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1984 Space-shuttle Challenger astronaut Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to perform an EVA (extra-vehicular activity, or space-walk).
1986 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1991 Actor/comedian Redd Foxx, star of TV’s Sanford and Son, suffered a fatal heart attack on the set of his new sitcom, The Royal Family.
1991 Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1998 Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
2001 The Polaroid Corporation filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 The Senate joined the House in approving 77-23 the use of America's military might against Iraq.
2002 A man filling up his car at a gas station near Fredericksburg, Va., was shot to death in the eighth slaying linked by authorities to the Washington-area sniper.
2002 Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2006 A plane carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and flight instructor Tyler Stanger crashed into a high-rise apartment building in New York City, killing both men.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
Teen Beat - Sandy Nelson
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) - Bill Cosby
Turn the World Around - Eddy Arnold
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Mr. Jaws - Dickie Goodman
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
King of Pain - The Police
Don’t You Know How Much I Love You - Ronnie Milsap
1991
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Where Are You Now - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch, French general (1851 - 1929)
Today's Birthdays
1844 H.J. (Henry John) Heinz, food mogul (Heinz 57 Varieties) died May 14, 1919
1872 Harlan (Fiske) Stone, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Apr 22, 1946
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died Nov 7, 1962
1906 Charles Revson, cosmetic mogul (Revlon Co.) died Aug 24, 1975
1918 Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz), director (West Side Story) died July 29, 1998
1919 Art Blakey, jazz drummer/bandleader, died Oct 16, 1990
1921 ‘Knobby’ Grant Warwick, NHL right wing (NY Rangers) died Sept 27, 1999
1925 Elmore Leonard, author (Get Shorty, Bandits, Maximum Bob, Out of Sight)
1932 Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh), country singer (Here Comes My Baby) died Sep 4, 1991
1946 Daryl Hall (Hohl), singer (Hall & Oates)
1946 Gary Mallaber, percussionist (The Steve Miller Band)
1950 Andrew Woolfolk, reeds (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1953 David Morse, actor (St. Elsewhere, Hack, House M.D.)
1961 Steve Young, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1962 Joan Cusack, actress (Addams Family Values, Broadcast News, Married to the Mob, Sixteen Candles, Working Girl)
1962 Scott Johnson, guitarist (Gin Blossoms)
1962 Nicola Bryant, actress (Dr. Who)
1964 Michael J. Nelson, TV writer/host (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1965 Luke Perry, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1965 Sean Patrick Flanery, actor (Boondock Saints)
1968 Jane Krakowski, actress (Ally McBeal, 30 Rock)
1968 TopNYRfaninTX, board member/Thin Lizzy fan
1972 Claudia Black, actress (Farscape, Stargate SG-1)
1976 Emily Deschanel, actress (Bones)
1985 Michelle Trachtenberg, actress (inspector Gadget, Ice Princess)
1989 Michelle Wie, golfer
Today's Deaths in History
1809 Meriwether Lewis, explorer, dies at 35
1961 Chico Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers) dies at 74
1963 Jean Cocteau, French writer (Beauty and the Beast) dies at 74
1963 Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (La Vie en Rose) dies at 47
1971 Gen. Louis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history, dies at 73
1991 Redd Foxx, comic/actor, dies at 68
1998 Richard Denning, actor (An Affair to Remember) dies at 84
2006 Cory Lidle, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees) dies at 34 in a plane crash
Today in History
1776 The first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought during the American Revolution.
1811 The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1881 Roll film for cameras was patented by D.H. Houston of Cambria, Wisconsin.
1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.
1929 JC Penney opened store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1936 Professor Quiz, the first national quiz show on radio, aired for the first time.
1939 "Body and Soul," by jazz great Coleman Hawkins, was waxed on Bluebird Records.
1940 Glenn Miller recorded "Make Believe Ballroom Time" for Bluebird Records at the Victor studios in New York City.
1948 One of radio’s last soap operas, The Brighter Day, premiered.
1950 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA would successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
1958 Spencer Tracy’s classic movie The Old Man and the Sea was released.
1958 The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1962 Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II.
1968 The U.S. launched Apollo 7.
1971 Hugh Downs left the Today show and Concentration.
1975 Late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live made its debut with George Carlin as the first guest host.
1975 William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham tied the knot in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1984 Space-shuttle Challenger astronaut Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to perform an EVA (extra-vehicular activity, or space-walk).
1986 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1991 Actor/comedian Redd Foxx, star of TV’s Sanford and Son, suffered a fatal heart attack on the set of his new sitcom, The Royal Family.
1991 Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1998 Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
2001 The Polaroid Corporation filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 The Senate joined the House in approving 77-23 the use of America's military might against Iraq.
2002 A man filling up his car at a gas station near Fredericksburg, Va., was shot to death in the eighth slaying linked by authorities to the Washington-area sniper.
2002 Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2006 A plane carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and flight instructor Tyler Stanger crashed into a high-rise apartment building in New York City, killing both men.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
Teen Beat - Sandy Nelson
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) - Bill Cosby
Turn the World Around - Eddy Arnold
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Mr. Jaws - Dickie Goodman
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
King of Pain - The Police
Don’t You Know How Much I Love You - Ronnie Milsap
1991
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Where Are You Now - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch, French general (1851 - 1929)
Today in History - Oct 12th
Today's Birthdays
1860 Elmer A. (Ambrose) Sperry, inventor/founder (Sperry-Rand Corp.) died in 1930
1910 Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees announcer
1932 Dick Gregory, comedian/civil rights activist
1932 Ned Jarrett, NASCAR driver
1935 Tony (Anthony Christopher) Kubek, MLB ouielder/shortstop (NY Yankees)
1935 Samuel Moore, singer (Sam & Dave)
1935 Luciano Pavarotti, opera star, died Sep 6, 2007
1942 Melvin Franklin, R&B singer (The Temptations) died Feb 23, 1995
1947 Chris Wallace, broadcast journalist (Fox News Sunday)
1948 Rick Parfitt, singer/guitarist (Satus Quo)
1950 Susan Anton, singer/atress (Cannonball Run 2, Baywatch)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut (first American woman in space)
1955 Pat DiNizio, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Smithereens)
1955 Jane Siberry, singer/musician (Calling All Angels)
1956 Dave Vanian (Letts), singer (The Damned)
1962 Carlos Bernard, actor (24)
1962 Deborah Foreman, actress (Valley Girl, My Chauffeur)
1968 Hugh Jackman, actor (X-Men series, Kate & Leopold)
1968 Adam Rich, actor (Eight is Enough, The Devil & Max Devlin)
1970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Gowing Pains)
1970 Charlie Ward, Florida State quarterback (Heisman Trophy winner)
1977 Bode Miller, alpine ski-racer
1979 Jordan Pundik, singer (New Found Glory)
1981 Tom Guiry, actor (The Sandlot)
Today's Deaths in History
1864 Roger Taney, Supreme Court Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision) dies at 87
1870 Gen. Robert E. Lee dies at 63
1940 Tom Mix, western actor, dies at 60
1969 Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater, dies at 57
1971 Gene Vincent, rock'n'roll pioneer (Be-Bop-a-Lula) dies at 36
1978 Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, is stabbed to death at 20
1985 Johnny Olson, game show announcer (The Price is Right) dies at 75
1985 Ricky Wilson, guitarist (The B-52's) dies at 32 of an AIDS-related illness
1989 Jay Ward, animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle) dies at 69
1996 René Lacoste, French tennis player, dies at 92
1997 John Denver, singer/songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 53
1998 Mathew Shepard, Wyoming student, dies at 21 after being beaten, robbed and left tied to a fencepost
1999 Wilt Chamberlain, NBA Hall of famer (LA Lakers) dies at 63
2002 Ray Conniff, bandleader/musician, dies at 85
2003 Joan Kroc, American philanthropist, dies at 75
2003 Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72
Today in History
1492 On his first trip to the New World, Christopher Columbus landed on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas.
1773 America's first insane asylum opened for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1792 The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD.
1892 The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
1895 The first amateur golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the "Executive Mansion" the White House.
1920 Construction began on the Holland Tunnel, between Twelfth Street in Jersey City, NJ, and Canal Street in New York City.
1923 The largest crowd to attend a World Series game to date (more than 62,000) saw Casey Stengel hit the winning home run as the New York Giants beat the Yankees 1-0.
1942 During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1944 Frank Sinatra made his triumphant return to the famed Paramount Theatre in New York.
1950 The Kefauver Crime Commission convened in New York to investigate interstate organized crime.
1950 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show made its debut on CBS-TV.
1953 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial opened at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
1960 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.
1961 The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made as CBS presented a three-hour discussion with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1968 Cheap Thrills, by Big Brother and the Holding Company, started an eight-week run as number one in the U.S.
1968 The games of the XIX Olympiad were opened in Mexico City by Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.
1971 Jesus Christ Superstar premiered on Broadway.
1972 En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors broke out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.
1973 President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1981 Barbara Mandrell walked away with the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year honor for the second year in a row.
1986 Superpower talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate, with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States.
1992 An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit Dahshur, near Cairo, Egypt; more than 500 people were killed and another 6500 were injured.
1997 Singer/songwriter John Denver, piloting an experimental, amateur-built Long-EZ airplane, crashed into Monterey Bay, California.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 Two suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat rammed into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors.
2001 NBC News said an assistant to anchorman Tom Brokaw had tested positive for skin anthrax after opening a letter addressed to Brokaw.
2002 A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists; Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida were blamed.
2006 An enormous lake effect snow storm dropped about 2 feet of heavy, water-laden snow on Western New York, knocking out power for up to 10 days and destroying or damaging tens of thousands of trees.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Together - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Jo Stafford
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
The Games That Daddies Play - Conway Twitty
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
Everyday - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith, US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - 2006)
Today's Birthdays
1860 Elmer A. (Ambrose) Sperry, inventor/founder (Sperry-Rand Corp.) died in 1930
1910 Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees announcer
1932 Dick Gregory, comedian/civil rights activist
1932 Ned Jarrett, NASCAR driver
1935 Tony (Anthony Christopher) Kubek, MLB ouielder/shortstop (NY Yankees)
1935 Samuel Moore, singer (Sam & Dave)
1935 Luciano Pavarotti, opera star, died Sep 6, 2007
1942 Melvin Franklin, R&B singer (The Temptations) died Feb 23, 1995
1947 Chris Wallace, broadcast journalist (Fox News Sunday)
1948 Rick Parfitt, singer/guitarist (Satus Quo)
1950 Susan Anton, singer/atress (Cannonball Run 2, Baywatch)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut (first American woman in space)
1955 Pat DiNizio, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Smithereens)
1955 Jane Siberry, singer/musician (Calling All Angels)
1956 Dave Vanian (Letts), singer (The Damned)
1962 Carlos Bernard, actor (24)
1962 Deborah Foreman, actress (Valley Girl, My Chauffeur)
1968 Hugh Jackman, actor (X-Men series, Kate & Leopold)
1968 Adam Rich, actor (Eight is Enough, The Devil & Max Devlin)
1970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Gowing Pains)
1970 Charlie Ward, Florida State quarterback (Heisman Trophy winner)
1977 Bode Miller, alpine ski-racer
1979 Jordan Pundik, singer (New Found Glory)
1981 Tom Guiry, actor (The Sandlot)
Today's Deaths in History
1864 Roger Taney, Supreme Court Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision) dies at 87
1870 Gen. Robert E. Lee dies at 63
1940 Tom Mix, western actor, dies at 60
1969 Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater, dies at 57
1971 Gene Vincent, rock'n'roll pioneer (Be-Bop-a-Lula) dies at 36
1978 Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, is stabbed to death at 20
1985 Johnny Olson, game show announcer (The Price is Right) dies at 75
1985 Ricky Wilson, guitarist (The B-52's) dies at 32 of an AIDS-related illness
1989 Jay Ward, animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle) dies at 69
1996 René Lacoste, French tennis player, dies at 92
1997 John Denver, singer/songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 53
1998 Mathew Shepard, Wyoming student, dies at 21 after being beaten, robbed and left tied to a fencepost
1999 Wilt Chamberlain, NBA Hall of famer (LA Lakers) dies at 63
2002 Ray Conniff, bandleader/musician, dies at 85
2003 Joan Kroc, American philanthropist, dies at 75
2003 Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72
Today in History
1492 On his first trip to the New World, Christopher Columbus landed on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas.
1773 America's first insane asylum opened for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1792 The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD.
1892 The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
1895 The first amateur golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the "Executive Mansion" the White House.
1920 Construction began on the Holland Tunnel, between Twelfth Street in Jersey City, NJ, and Canal Street in New York City.
1923 The largest crowd to attend a World Series game to date (more than 62,000) saw Casey Stengel hit the winning home run as the New York Giants beat the Yankees 1-0.
1942 During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1944 Frank Sinatra made his triumphant return to the famed Paramount Theatre in New York.
1950 The Kefauver Crime Commission convened in New York to investigate interstate organized crime.
1950 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show made its debut on CBS-TV.
1953 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial opened at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
1960 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.
1961 The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made as CBS presented a three-hour discussion with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1968 Cheap Thrills, by Big Brother and the Holding Company, started an eight-week run as number one in the U.S.
1968 The games of the XIX Olympiad were opened in Mexico City by Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.
1971 Jesus Christ Superstar premiered on Broadway.
1972 En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors broke out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.
1973 President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1981 Barbara Mandrell walked away with the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year honor for the second year in a row.
1986 Superpower talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate, with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States.
1992 An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit Dahshur, near Cairo, Egypt; more than 500 people were killed and another 6500 were injured.
1997 Singer/songwriter John Denver, piloting an experimental, amateur-built Long-EZ airplane, crashed into Monterey Bay, California.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 Two suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat rammed into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors.
2001 NBC News said an assistant to anchorman Tom Brokaw had tested positive for skin anthrax after opening a letter addressed to Brokaw.
2002 A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists; Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida were blamed.
2006 An enormous lake effect snow storm dropped about 2 feet of heavy, water-laden snow on Western New York, knocking out power for up to 10 days and destroying or damaging tens of thousands of trees.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Together - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Jo Stafford
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
The Games That Daddies Play - Conway Twitty
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
Everyday - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith, US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - 2006)
Today in History - Oct 13th
Today's Birthdays
1754 Molly Pitcher (Molly Hayes), Revolutionary War patriot, died July 22, 1832
1902 Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer, died Oct. 30, 1954
1909 Herblock (Herbert Block), editorial cartoonist, died Oct 7, 2001
1917 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) died Dec 6, 1985
1918 Robert Walker, actor (Bataan, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo) died Aug 28, 1951
1921 Yves Montand (Yvo Livi), actor (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) died Nov 9, 1991
1924 Nipsey Russell, actor/comedian (Barefoot in the Park) died Oct 2, 2005
1925 Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), comedian, died Aug 3, 1966
1925 Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts), former Prime Minister of Great Britain
1939 Melinda Dillon, actress (The Prince of Tides, Absence of Malice, Slap Shot, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
1941 Paul Simon, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter/singer/guitarist (Simon and Garfunkel)
1942 Jerry Jones, NFL team owner (Dallas Cowboys)
1944 Robert Lamm, songwriter/singer/keyboardist (Chicago)
1946 Demond Wilson, actor (Sanford and Son)
1947 Sammy Hagar, singer/guitarist (I Can't Drive 55)
1948 Lacy J. Dalton (Jill Byrem), country songwriter/singer
1951 John Ford Coley, singer (England Dan and John Ford Coley)
1952 John Lone, actor (The Last Emperor, M Butterfly)
1959 Marie (Olive) Osmond, TV host/singer (Paper Roses, Who’s Sorry Now)
1960 Joey Belladonna, singer (Anthrax)
1960 Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
1962 Kelly Preston, actress (The Experts, Only You)
1962 Jerry Rice, NFL wide reciever (San Francisco ’49ers)
1967 Kate Walsh, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice)
1968 Tisha Campbell, actress (House Party series, Boomerang)
1969 Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic ice skater
1971 Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Borat, Talladega Nights)
1977 Kiele Sanchez, actress (Lost)
1980 Ashanti, R&B singer
1982 Ian Thorpe, Australian Olympic swimmer (The Thorpedo)
Today's Deaths in History
1890 Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, dies at 74
1938 E.C. Segar, cartoonist (Popeye) dies at 43
1945 Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon, dies at 88
1966 Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, The Razor's Edge) dies at 76
1968 Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction, The Flintstones) dies at 62
1971 Stafford Smythe, National Hockey League president (Maple Leaf Gardens) dies at 50
1974 Ed Sullivan, TV host, dies at 72
1990 Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general/politician/Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies at 78
2001 Peter Doyle, pop singer (The New Seekers) dies at 52
2002 Stephen Ambrose, historian/biographer, dies at 66
Today in History
1307 Hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to later be tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1775 The 2nd Continental Congress gave approval to acquire ships and form what is now the United States Navy.
1792 The cornerstone of what was termed the President’s House (now the White House) was laid by George Washington in Washington, DC.
1843 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
1845 Texas ratified a state constitution.
1903 The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.
1943 Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
1951 A football with a rubber covering was used for the first time, as Georgia Tech whipped Louisiana State 25-7.
1953 An ultrasonic burglar alarm was patented by New Yorker Samuel Bagno.
1957 Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra joined forces in an hourlong special to introduce the Edsel on ABC-TV.
1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
1960 The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.
1961 Howard K. Smith parted ways with CBS News over "a difference in interpretation of network news policy."
1962 34-year-old Edward Albee brought his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf to the stage in New York.
1963 The Beatles made their first appearance on a major TV show for the BBC.
1971 Donny Osmond received a gold record for his rendition of the Steve Lawrence hit, "Go Away Little Girl."
1973 The Rolling Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup was number one album in the U.S.
1981 Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1994 Netscape Communications Corporation announced that it was offering its new Netscape Navigator free to users via the Internet.
1998 The National Basketball Association canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
1999 The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.
2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, pleaded guilty in an influence-peddling investigation of Congress.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Along the Navajo Trail - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Crying - Roy Orbison
Runaround Sue - Dion
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Meet Me in Montana - Marie Osmond with Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Today's Birthdays
1754 Molly Pitcher (Molly Hayes), Revolutionary War patriot, died July 22, 1832
1902 Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer, died Oct. 30, 1954
1909 Herblock (Herbert Block), editorial cartoonist, died Oct 7, 2001
1917 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) died Dec 6, 1985
1918 Robert Walker, actor (Bataan, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo) died Aug 28, 1951
1921 Yves Montand (Yvo Livi), actor (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) died Nov 9, 1991
1924 Nipsey Russell, actor/comedian (Barefoot in the Park) died Oct 2, 2005
1925 Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), comedian, died Aug 3, 1966
1925 Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts), former Prime Minister of Great Britain
1939 Melinda Dillon, actress (The Prince of Tides, Absence of Malice, Slap Shot, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
1941 Paul Simon, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter/singer/guitarist (Simon and Garfunkel)
1942 Jerry Jones, NFL team owner (Dallas Cowboys)
1944 Robert Lamm, songwriter/singer/keyboardist (Chicago)
1946 Demond Wilson, actor (Sanford and Son)
1947 Sammy Hagar, singer/guitarist (I Can't Drive 55)
1948 Lacy J. Dalton (Jill Byrem), country songwriter/singer
1951 John Ford Coley, singer (England Dan and John Ford Coley)
1952 John Lone, actor (The Last Emperor, M Butterfly)
1959 Marie (Olive) Osmond, TV host/singer (Paper Roses, Who’s Sorry Now)
1960 Joey Belladonna, singer (Anthrax)
1960 Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
1962 Kelly Preston, actress (The Experts, Only You)
1962 Jerry Rice, NFL wide reciever (San Francisco ’49ers)
1967 Kate Walsh, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice)
1968 Tisha Campbell, actress (House Party series, Boomerang)
1969 Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic ice skater
1971 Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Borat, Talladega Nights)
1977 Kiele Sanchez, actress (Lost)
1980 Ashanti, R&B singer
1982 Ian Thorpe, Australian Olympic swimmer (The Thorpedo)
Today's Deaths in History
1890 Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, dies at 74
1938 E.C. Segar, cartoonist (Popeye) dies at 43
1945 Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon, dies at 88
1966 Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, The Razor's Edge) dies at 76
1968 Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction, The Flintstones) dies at 62
1971 Stafford Smythe, National Hockey League president (Maple Leaf Gardens) dies at 50
1974 Ed Sullivan, TV host, dies at 72
1990 Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general/politician/Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies at 78
2001 Peter Doyle, pop singer (The New Seekers) dies at 52
2002 Stephen Ambrose, historian/biographer, dies at 66
Today in History
1307 Hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to later be tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1775 The 2nd Continental Congress gave approval to acquire ships and form what is now the United States Navy.
1792 The cornerstone of what was termed the President’s House (now the White House) was laid by George Washington in Washington, DC.
1843 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
1845 Texas ratified a state constitution.
1903 The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.
1943 Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
1951 A football with a rubber covering was used for the first time, as Georgia Tech whipped Louisiana State 25-7.
1953 An ultrasonic burglar alarm was patented by New Yorker Samuel Bagno.
1957 Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra joined forces in an hourlong special to introduce the Edsel on ABC-TV.
1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
1960 The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.
1961 Howard K. Smith parted ways with CBS News over "a difference in interpretation of network news policy."
1962 34-year-old Edward Albee brought his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf to the stage in New York.
1963 The Beatles made their first appearance on a major TV show for the BBC.
1971 Donny Osmond received a gold record for his rendition of the Steve Lawrence hit, "Go Away Little Girl."
1973 The Rolling Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup was number one album in the U.S.
1981 Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1994 Netscape Communications Corporation announced that it was offering its new Netscape Navigator free to users via the Internet.
1998 The National Basketball Association canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
1999 The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.
2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, pleaded guilty in an influence-peddling investigation of Congress.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Along the Navajo Trail - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Crying - Roy Orbison
Runaround Sue - Dion
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Meet Me in Montana - Marie Osmond with Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Today in History - Oct 14th
Today's Birthdays
1644 William Penn, colonist (Pennsylvania) died July 30, 1718
1890 Dwight David Eisenhower, 5-star U.S. army general/34th U.S. President, died Mar 28, 1969
1893 Lillian Gish (de Guiche), actress (Birth of a Nation, The Whales of August) died Feb 27, 1993
1894 e e cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), poet/playwright, died Sep 3, 1962
1910 John Wooden, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (UCLA Bruins)
1916 C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General
1924 Robert Webber, actor (Revenge of the Pink Panther, Twelve Angry Men) died May 19, 1989
1927 Sir Roger (George) Moore, actor (The Saint, James Bond fims)
1939 Ralph Lauren (Lifshitz), fashion designer
1940 Cliff Richard (Harry Webb), singer (Devil Woman, Dreaming)
1942 Billy Harrison, guitarist (Them)
1945 Colin Hodgkinson, bassist (Whitesnake)
1946 Dan McCafferty, lead singer (Nazareth)
1946 Justin Hayward, guitarist/singer (The Moody Blues)
1948 Marcia Barrett, singer (Boney M)
1952 Harry Anderson, comic/actor (Night Court, Dave’s World)
1953 Greg Evigan, actor (B.J. and the Bear, My Two Dads)
1958 Thomas Dolby, singer/musician (She Blinded Me With Science)
1961 Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
1965 Trevor Goddard, actor (JAG, Mortal Kombat) died June 7, 2003
1965 Karyn White, R&B singer
1967 Sylvain Lefebvre, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1970 Jon Seda, actor (Twelve Monkeys, Primal Fear)
1970 Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
1974 Natalie Maines, singer (Dixie Chicks)
1978 Usher, R&B singer/actor
Today's Deaths in History
1944 Erwin Rommel, German field marshall, commits suicide at 52
1959 Errol Flynn, actor, dies at 50
1977 Bing Crosby, singer/actor, dies at 73
1986 Keenan Wynn, actor (The Absent-Mionded Professor) dies at 70
1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor, dies at 72
1997 Harold Robbins, novelist, dies at 81
2006 Freddy Fender, singer (Before the Next Teardrop Falls) dies at 69
2006 Jared Anderson, bassist (Morbid Angel) dies at 30
Today in History
1834 Henry Blair became the first African American to obtain a US patent, for a corn planter.
1884 George Eastman patented paper-strip photographic film.
1912 Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee.
1926 A.A. Milne's classic book Winnie the Pooh was first published.
1928 James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison tied the knot as the first (experimental) televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL.
1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 U.S. Air Force Captain Charles Yeager rode the X-1, attached to the belly of a B-29 bomber, to an altitude of 25,000 ft. over dry Rogers Lake in California; after releasing from the B-29, he rocketed to an altitude of 40,000 ft. and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1954 The C.B. DeMille epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt.
1960 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1961 The Broadway production How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying opened on Broadway.
1962 A U-2 flight over Cuba took photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 Leonid Brezhnev became general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
1968 The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on The Dick Cavett Show on ABC.
1973 Scottish racecar driver Jackie Stewart announced his retirement from auto racing.
1977 Crooner Bing Crosby suffered a fatal heart attack while playing golf at a course near Madrid, Spain.
1979 Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
1984 George ‘Sparky’ Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers, became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues.
1987 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell 22 feet into an abandoned well in her backyard in Midland, Texas; the rescue effort created a media frenzy.
1991 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar), won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.”
1996 Singer/entertainer Madonna gave birth to her daughter, Lourdes Maria, in Los Angeles, California.
1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2001 Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.
2002 An FBI analyst was killed in a mall parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in a shooting linked to the Washington-area sniper.
2003 John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case (he was later convicted and sentenced to death).
2004 A suicide bomber killed four Americans in the U.S.-guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
2006 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
I Remember You - Frank Ifield
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Cracklin’ Rosie - Neil Diamond
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
All Right Now - Free
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) - Glass Tiger
Two of Hearts - Stacey Q
Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers) - Eddie Rabbitt & Juice Newton
Quote of the Day
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe, actress/singer (1926 - 1962)
Today's Birthdays
1644 William Penn, colonist (Pennsylvania) died July 30, 1718
1890 Dwight David Eisenhower, 5-star U.S. army general/34th U.S. President, died Mar 28, 1969
1893 Lillian Gish (de Guiche), actress (Birth of a Nation, The Whales of August) died Feb 27, 1993
1894 e e cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), poet/playwright, died Sep 3, 1962
1910 John Wooden, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (UCLA Bruins)
1916 C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General
1924 Robert Webber, actor (Revenge of the Pink Panther, Twelve Angry Men) died May 19, 1989
1927 Sir Roger (George) Moore, actor (The Saint, James Bond fims)
1939 Ralph Lauren (Lifshitz), fashion designer
1940 Cliff Richard (Harry Webb), singer (Devil Woman, Dreaming)
1942 Billy Harrison, guitarist (Them)
1945 Colin Hodgkinson, bassist (Whitesnake)
1946 Dan McCafferty, lead singer (Nazareth)
1946 Justin Hayward, guitarist/singer (The Moody Blues)
1948 Marcia Barrett, singer (Boney M)
1952 Harry Anderson, comic/actor (Night Court, Dave’s World)
1953 Greg Evigan, actor (B.J. and the Bear, My Two Dads)
1958 Thomas Dolby, singer/musician (She Blinded Me With Science)
1961 Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
1965 Trevor Goddard, actor (JAG, Mortal Kombat) died June 7, 2003
1965 Karyn White, R&B singer
1967 Sylvain Lefebvre, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1970 Jon Seda, actor (Twelve Monkeys, Primal Fear)
1970 Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
1974 Natalie Maines, singer (Dixie Chicks)
1978 Usher, R&B singer/actor
Today's Deaths in History
1944 Erwin Rommel, German field marshall, commits suicide at 52
1959 Errol Flynn, actor, dies at 50
1977 Bing Crosby, singer/actor, dies at 73
1986 Keenan Wynn, actor (The Absent-Mionded Professor) dies at 70
1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor, dies at 72
1997 Harold Robbins, novelist, dies at 81
2006 Freddy Fender, singer (Before the Next Teardrop Falls) dies at 69
2006 Jared Anderson, bassist (Morbid Angel) dies at 30
Today in History
1834 Henry Blair became the first African American to obtain a US patent, for a corn planter.
1884 George Eastman patented paper-strip photographic film.
1912 Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee.
1926 A.A. Milne's classic book Winnie the Pooh was first published.
1928 James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison tied the knot as the first (experimental) televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL.
1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 U.S. Air Force Captain Charles Yeager rode the X-1, attached to the belly of a B-29 bomber, to an altitude of 25,000 ft. over dry Rogers Lake in California; after releasing from the B-29, he rocketed to an altitude of 40,000 ft. and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1954 The C.B. DeMille epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt.
1960 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1961 The Broadway production How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying opened on Broadway.
1962 A U-2 flight over Cuba took photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 Leonid Brezhnev became general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
1968 The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on The Dick Cavett Show on ABC.
1973 Scottish racecar driver Jackie Stewart announced his retirement from auto racing.
1977 Crooner Bing Crosby suffered a fatal heart attack while playing golf at a course near Madrid, Spain.
1979 Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
1984 George ‘Sparky’ Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers, became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues.
1987 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell 22 feet into an abandoned well in her backyard in Midland, Texas; the rescue effort created a media frenzy.
1991 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar), won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.”
1996 Singer/entertainer Madonna gave birth to her daughter, Lourdes Maria, in Los Angeles, California.
1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2001 Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.
2002 An FBI analyst was killed in a mall parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in a shooting linked to the Washington-area sniper.
2003 John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case (he was later convicted and sentenced to death).
2004 A suicide bomber killed four Americans in the U.S.-guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
2006 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
I Remember You - Frank Ifield
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Cracklin’ Rosie - Neil Diamond
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
All Right Now - Free
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) - Glass Tiger
Two of Hearts - Stacey Q
Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers) - Eddie Rabbitt & Juice Newton
Quote of the Day
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe, actress/singer (1926 - 1962)
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