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, Tex
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, Tex