Today in History - Aug 15th
Today's Birthdays
1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, died May 5, 1821
1771 Sir Walter Scott, writer (Ivanhoe) died Sep 21, 1832
1859 Charles Comiskey, baseball owner (Chicago White Sox) died Oct 26, 1931
1879 Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Mae Blythe), actress (None But the Lonely Heart) died June 18, 1959
1885 Edna Ferber, novelist (Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant) died Apr 16, 1968
1912 Julia Child (McWilliams), Culinary Institute of America Hall of Fame chef/author/TV host (Dinner with Julia) died Aug 12, 2004
1912 Dame Wendy Hiller, actress (Murder on the Orient Express, The Elephant Man) died May 14, 2003
1923 Rose Marie (Mazetta), comedienne/actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
1925 Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian), actor (Mannix)
1925 Bill Pinkney, bassist (The Drifters) died July 4, 2007
1933 Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock) died June 19, 1997
1936 Pat Priest, actress (The Munsters)
1938 Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Justice
1942 Peter York, drummer (Spencer Davis Group)
1946 Jimmy Webb, songwriter (Up, Up and Away, MacArthur Park, Wichita Lineman)
1950 Princess Anne (Mountbatten), daughter of Philip Mountbatten and Queen Elizabeth II, sister of Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward
1958 Craig MacTavish, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1961 Matt Johnson, guitarist/singer (The The)
1963 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director (Babel)
1964 Debi Mazar, actress (So I Married an Axe Murderer, Bullets Over Broadway, Entourage)
1968 Debra Messing, actress (Will & Grace, The Mothman Prophecies)
1970 Anthony Anderson, actor (Barbershop, Transformers)
1972 Ben Affleck, actor (Pearl Harbor, Good Will Hunting, Armageddon)
1974 Natasha Henstridge, actress (Species, The Whole Nine Yards series)
1978 Kerri Walsh, beach volleyball champion
1989 Joe Jonas, singer (Jonas Brothers)
Today's Deaths in History
1935 Wiley Post, pilot/inventor (pressure suit) dies in an airplane crash at 36
1935 Will Rogers, humorist/actor, dies in an airplane crash at 55
1959 Blind Willie McTell, blues singer, dies at 61
1975 Clay Shaw, John F. Kennedy assassination investigator, dies at 61
1995 John Cameron Swayze, journalist/spokesperson (Timex watches) dies at 89
2007 John Gofman, Manhattan Project scientist, dies at 88
Today in History
1057 Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan.
1248 The foundation stone of the Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, was laid; construction eventually completed in 1880.
1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii was dedicated; now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1914 The Panama Canal opened to traffic.
1935 Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
1939 The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1944 Allied forces landed in southern France during World War II.
1945 The Allies proclaimed V-J Day, one day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
1947 India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.
1948 The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed.
1965 The Beatles played to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City.
1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
1974 The First Lady of South Korea, Yuk Young-soo, was killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
1995 Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet to attend The Citadel, but dropped out in less than a week.
1998 A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370 in the single deadliest act of violence in 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
1998 A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370. It was the single deadliest act of violence in 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
2000 A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.
2001 Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own - two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
2005 Iraqi leaders failed to meet a key deadline for finishing a new constitution.
2006 Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon.
2007 A magnitude-8 earthquake in Peru's southern desert killed at least 540 people.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
I Wanna Be Loved - The Andrews Sisters
Sam’s Song - Bing & Gary Crosby
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
My True Love - Jack Scott
Alone with You - Faron Young
1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Feel like Makin’ Love - Roberta Flack
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins
Rub It In - Billy "Crash" Craddock
1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home - David Frizzell
1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
The Power - Snap!
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation
Quote of the Day
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Peter Drucker, management writer (1909 - 2005)
Full Version: Today in History
Today in History - Aug 16th
Today's Birthdays
1888 T.E. Lawrence, British soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) died May 19, 1935
1894 George Meany, labor leader (American Federation of Labor) died Jan 10, 1980
1913 Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, died Mar 9, 1992
1924 Fess Parker, singer/actor (Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett)
1930 Robert Culp, actor (I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice)
1930 Frank Gifford, College/Pro Football Hall of Famer/sportscaster (New York Giants)
1932 Eydie Gorme (Edith Gormezano), singer (Blame it on the Bossa Nova)
1935 Julie Newmar (Newmeyer), actress (Batman)
1942 Robert Lester, R&B singer (The Chi-Lites)
1945 Bob Balaban, actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghost World)
1946 Lesley Ann Warren, actress (Portrait of a Showgirl, Portrait of a Stripper)
1949 Scott Asheton, drummer (The Stooges)
1951 Richard Hunt, muppeteer (Janice, Beaker, Statler) died Jan 7, 1992
1952 Reginald VelJohnson, actor (Die Hard series, Family Matters)
1953 Kathie Lee Gifford (Kathryn Lee Epstein), talk show host (Live with Regis and Kathie Lee)
1953 James ‘J.T.’ Taylor, singer (Kool and the Gang)
1954 James Cameron, director (The Terminator series, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies)
1955 Jeff Perry, actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1957 Tim Farriss, guitarist (INXS)
1958 Angela Bassett, actress (Waiting to Exhale, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Contact)
1958 Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone), singer (Material Girl)
1959 Laura Innes, actress (ER, Wings)
1960 Timothy Hutton, actor (Taps, Ordinary People, Falcon and the Snowman)
1963 Steve Carell, actor (The Office, Anchorman, The 40-Year Old Virgin)
1968 Andy Milder, actor (Weeds)
1970 Bonnie Bernstein, sportscaster (ESPN)
1980 Vanessa Carlton, singer (1000 Miles)
1980 Robert Hardy, bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
1988 Rumer Willis, actress/daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
Today's Deaths in History
1705 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician/scientist (Bernoulli numbers) dies at 50
1888 John Pemberton, druggist/inventor (Coca-Cola) dies at 57
1899 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (Bunsen Burner) dies at 88
1938 Robert Johnson, blues singer/guitarist/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Crossroads) dies at 27
1948 Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 53
1949 Margaret Mitchell, novelist (Gone with the Wind) dies at 48
1956 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (Dracula) dies at 73
1977 Elvis Presley, 'The King of Rock and Roll,' dies at 42
1989 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke) dies at 60
1993 Stewart Granger, British film actor (The Hound of the Baskervilles) dies at 80
2002 Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist (Fatah) is killed at 65
2003 Idi Amin, former dictator (Uganda) dies at 77
2005 Joe Ranft, animator (Pixar) dies at 45
2007 Max Roach, jazz percussionist/drummer/composer, dies at 83
Today in History
1777 American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vt.
1812 Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
1829 Chang and Eng, a pair of conjoined twins from Siam, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world; the term Siamese twins became a common phrase for conjoined twins.
1858 A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and died early the next day.
1930 Fiddlesticks, the first color sound cartoon, was made by Ub Iwerks.
1954 Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.
1956 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1960 Britain granted independence to Cyprus.
1960 Joseph Kittinger parachuted from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
1962 Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr as drummer for The Beatles.
1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from a Detroit airport, killing 156 people; the sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl.
1987 Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket.
1989 A solar flare from the Sun created a geomagnetic storm that affected micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
2000 Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
2002 Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
2003 A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a rural road in South Dakota and collided with a motorcyclist, who died in the accident; Janklow was later convicted of manslaughter and resigned from Congress.
2003 Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Saudi Arabia.
2006 John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; his confession was later discredited.
2007 Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3-1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks.
2007 A cave-in killed three rescuers in the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah; the search for six trapped miners was later abandoned.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
My Truly, Truly Fair - Guy Mitchell
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
1959
A Big Hunk o’ Love - Elvis Presley
My Heart is an Open Book - Carl Dobkins, Jr.
There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson
1967
Light My Fire - The Doors
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James
1975
Jive Talkin’ - Bee Gees
One of These Nights - Eagles
Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender
1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
He’s a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen) - Janie Fricke
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
P.A.S.S.I.O.N. - Rythm Syndicate
Every Heartbeat - Amy Grant
She’s in Love with the Boy - Trisha Yearwood
Quote of the Day
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando, actor (1924 - 2004)
Today's Birthdays
1888 T.E. Lawrence, British soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) died May 19, 1935
1894 George Meany, labor leader (American Federation of Labor) died Jan 10, 1980
1913 Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, died Mar 9, 1992
1924 Fess Parker, singer/actor (Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett)
1930 Robert Culp, actor (I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice)
1930 Frank Gifford, College/Pro Football Hall of Famer/sportscaster (New York Giants)
1932 Eydie Gorme (Edith Gormezano), singer (Blame it on the Bossa Nova)
1935 Julie Newmar (Newmeyer), actress (Batman)
1942 Robert Lester, R&B singer (The Chi-Lites)
1945 Bob Balaban, actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ghost World)
1946 Lesley Ann Warren, actress (Portrait of a Showgirl, Portrait of a Stripper)
1949 Scott Asheton, drummer (The Stooges)
1951 Richard Hunt, muppeteer (Janice, Beaker, Statler) died Jan 7, 1992
1952 Reginald VelJohnson, actor (Die Hard series, Family Matters)
1953 Kathie Lee Gifford (Kathryn Lee Epstein), talk show host (Live with Regis and Kathie Lee)
1953 James ‘J.T.’ Taylor, singer (Kool and the Gang)
1954 James Cameron, director (The Terminator series, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies)
1955 Jeff Perry, actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1957 Tim Farriss, guitarist (INXS)
1958 Angela Bassett, actress (Waiting to Exhale, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Contact)
1958 Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone), singer (Material Girl)
1959 Laura Innes, actress (ER, Wings)
1960 Timothy Hutton, actor (Taps, Ordinary People, Falcon and the Snowman)
1963 Steve Carell, actor (The Office, Anchorman, The 40-Year Old Virgin)
1968 Andy Milder, actor (Weeds)
1970 Bonnie Bernstein, sportscaster (ESPN)
1980 Vanessa Carlton, singer (1000 Miles)
1980 Robert Hardy, bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
1988 Rumer Willis, actress/daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
Today's Deaths in History
1705 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician/scientist (Bernoulli numbers) dies at 50
1888 John Pemberton, druggist/inventor (Coca-Cola) dies at 57
1899 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (Bunsen Burner) dies at 88
1938 Robert Johnson, blues singer/guitarist/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Crossroads) dies at 27
1948 Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 53
1949 Margaret Mitchell, novelist (Gone with the Wind) dies at 48
1956 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (Dracula) dies at 73
1977 Elvis Presley, 'The King of Rock and Roll,' dies at 42
1989 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke) dies at 60
1993 Stewart Granger, British film actor (The Hound of the Baskervilles) dies at 80
2002 Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist (Fatah) is killed at 65
2003 Idi Amin, former dictator (Uganda) dies at 77
2005 Joe Ranft, animator (Pixar) dies at 45
2007 Max Roach, jazz percussionist/drummer/composer, dies at 83
Today in History
1777 American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vt.
1812 Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
1829 Chang and Eng, a pair of conjoined twins from Siam, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world; the term Siamese twins became a common phrase for conjoined twins.
1858 A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and died early the next day.
1930 Fiddlesticks, the first color sound cartoon, was made by Ub Iwerks.
1954 Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.
1956 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1960 Britain granted independence to Cyprus.
1960 Joseph Kittinger parachuted from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
1962 Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr as drummer for The Beatles.
1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from a Detroit airport, killing 156 people; the sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl.
1987 Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket.
1989 A solar flare from the Sun created a geomagnetic storm that affected micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
2000 Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
2002 Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
2003 A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a rural road in South Dakota and collided with a motorcyclist, who died in the accident; Janklow was later convicted of manslaughter and resigned from Congress.
2003 Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Saudi Arabia.
2006 John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; his confession was later discredited.
2007 Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3-1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks.
2007 A cave-in killed three rescuers in the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah; the search for six trapped miners was later abandoned.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
My Truly, Truly Fair - Guy Mitchell
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
1959
A Big Hunk o’ Love - Elvis Presley
My Heart is an Open Book - Carl Dobkins, Jr.
There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson
1967
Light My Fire - The Doors
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James
1975
Jive Talkin’ - Bee Gees
One of These Nights - Eagles
Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender
1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
He’s a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen) - Janie Fricke
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
P.A.S.S.I.O.N. - Rythm Syndicate
Every Heartbeat - Amy Grant
She’s in Love with the Boy - Trisha Yearwood
Quote of the Day
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando, actor (1924 - 2004)
Today in History - Aug 17th
Today's Birthdays
1786 Davy Crockett, frontiersman/soldier, killed Mar 6, 1836 at the Alamo
1882 Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), movie pioneer/producer (MGM) died Jan 31, 1974
1893 Mae (Mary Jane) West, actress (Go West Young Man, I’m No Angel, Diamond Lil) died Nov 22, 1980
1920 Maureen O’Hara (FitzSimons), actress (Miracle on 34th Street, How Green was My Valley, The Quiet Man)
1929 Francis Gary Powers, spy plane pilot (U-2) killed in helicopter crash Aug 1, 1977
1933 Mark Dinning, singer (Teen Angel) died Mar 22, 1986
1939 Luther Allison, blues guitarist, died Aug 12, 1997
1943 Robert DeNiro, actor/director (Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, The Untouchables, Taxi Driver, A Bronx Tale)
1947 Gary Talley, guitarist (The Box Tops)
1949 Sib Hashian, drummer (Boston)
1953 Kevin Rowland, guitarist/singer (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
1955 Colin Moulding, songwriter/singer/bassist (XTC)
1958 Belinda Carlisle, guitarist/singer (The Go-Go’s)
1959 David Koresh, cult leader (Branch Davidians) died Apr 19, 1993 in a fire in Waco, Texas
1960 Sean Penn, actor (Mystic River, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Casualties of War, Colors, Dead Man Walking)
1962 Gilby Clarke, guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1963 Jon Gruden, NFL head coach (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1964 Maria McKee, singer (Lone Justice)
1965 Steve Gorman, drummer (The Black Crowes)
1966 Jill Cunniff, bassist/singer (Luscious Jackson)
1969 Donnie Wahlberg, singer/actor (New Kids on the Block; Kill Point)
1970 Jim Courier, Tennis Hall of Famer
1974 Tony Hajjar, drummer (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1980 Shannon Lucio, actress (The O.C.)
Today's Deaths in History
1896 Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality, dies at 44
1940 Billy Fiske, Olympic bobsledder/pilot, is killed at 29 in the Battle of Britain
1962 Peter Fechter, killed at 18 trying to cross the Berlin Wall
1973 Paul Williams, R&B singer (The Temptations) dies at 34
1979 Vivian Vance, actress (I Love Lucy) dies at 70
1983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist (Porgy and Bess) dies at 86
1987 Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy, dies in Spandau Prison at 93
1990 Pearl Bailey, singer/actress, dies at 72
1995 Howard Koch, screenwriter (Casablanca) dies at 92
2007 Eddie Griffin, NBA forward/center (Minnesota Timberwolves) dies in a car crash at 25
Today in History
1807 Robert Fulton's first American steamboat left New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1896 A prospecting party discovered gold in Alaska, a finding that touched off the Klondike gold rush.
1907 Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
1915 A mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment.
1942 U.S. Marines raided the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari) in the first offensive action of WWII for the U.S.
1943 The Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina.
1945 Indonesian nationalists declared independence from the Netherlands.
1945 George Orwell's Animal Farm was first published.
1948 Former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee in New York; Hiss repeated his denial that he'd ever been a Communist agent.
1962 East German border guards shot and mortally wounded 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross over the Berlin Wall into the western sector.
1969 Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.
1982 The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany.
1987 Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at Spandau prison in West Berlin at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord; Hess had been the only inmate at Spandau for 21 years.
1992 Actor-director Woody Allen admitted being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his longtime companion, actress Mia Farrow.
1998 President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; on the same day he admitted before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1998 Russia devalued the ruble.
2000 The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman for vice president.
2002 Pope John Paul II arrived in Krakow, Poland, for the ninth and final visit to his native country during his papacy.
2005 Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of Jews from four settlements in the Gaza Strip.
2008 Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, surpassing Mark Spitz for the most gold medals in a single olympics.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Amor - Bing Crosby
Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet - Ella Mae Morse
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan
1952
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
A Full Time Job - Eddy Arnold
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
Walking to New Orleans - Fats Domino
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Heaven Says Hello - Sonny James
1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In -Wings
Say It Again - Don Williams
1984
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
State of Shock - Jacksons
That’s the Thing About Love - Don Williams
Quote of the Day
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe, author & journalist (1931 - )
Today's Birthdays
1786 Davy Crockett, frontiersman/soldier, killed Mar 6, 1836 at the Alamo
1882 Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), movie pioneer/producer (MGM) died Jan 31, 1974
1893 Mae (Mary Jane) West, actress (Go West Young Man, I’m No Angel, Diamond Lil) died Nov 22, 1980
1920 Maureen O’Hara (FitzSimons), actress (Miracle on 34th Street, How Green was My Valley, The Quiet Man)
1929 Francis Gary Powers, spy plane pilot (U-2) killed in helicopter crash Aug 1, 1977
1933 Mark Dinning, singer (Teen Angel) died Mar 22, 1986
1939 Luther Allison, blues guitarist, died Aug 12, 1997
1943 Robert DeNiro, actor/director (Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, The Untouchables, Taxi Driver, A Bronx Tale)
1947 Gary Talley, guitarist (The Box Tops)
1949 Sib Hashian, drummer (Boston)
1953 Kevin Rowland, guitarist/singer (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
1955 Colin Moulding, songwriter/singer/bassist (XTC)
1958 Belinda Carlisle, guitarist/singer (The Go-Go’s)
1959 David Koresh, cult leader (Branch Davidians) died Apr 19, 1993 in a fire in Waco, Texas
1960 Sean Penn, actor (Mystic River, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Casualties of War, Colors, Dead Man Walking)
1962 Gilby Clarke, guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1963 Jon Gruden, NFL head coach (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1964 Maria McKee, singer (Lone Justice)
1965 Steve Gorman, drummer (The Black Crowes)
1966 Jill Cunniff, bassist/singer (Luscious Jackson)
1969 Donnie Wahlberg, singer/actor (New Kids on the Block; Kill Point)
1970 Jim Courier, Tennis Hall of Famer
1974 Tony Hajjar, drummer (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1980 Shannon Lucio, actress (The O.C.)
Today's Deaths in History
1896 Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality, dies at 44
1940 Billy Fiske, Olympic bobsledder/pilot, is killed at 29 in the Battle of Britain
1962 Peter Fechter, killed at 18 trying to cross the Berlin Wall
1973 Paul Williams, R&B singer (The Temptations) dies at 34
1979 Vivian Vance, actress (I Love Lucy) dies at 70
1983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist (Porgy and Bess) dies at 86
1987 Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy, dies in Spandau Prison at 93
1990 Pearl Bailey, singer/actress, dies at 72
1995 Howard Koch, screenwriter (Casablanca) dies at 92
2007 Eddie Griffin, NBA forward/center (Minnesota Timberwolves) dies in a car crash at 25
Today in History
1807 Robert Fulton's first American steamboat left New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1896 A prospecting party discovered gold in Alaska, a finding that touched off the Klondike gold rush.
1907 Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle.
1915 A mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment.
1942 U.S. Marines raided the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari) in the first offensive action of WWII for the U.S.
1943 The Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina.
1945 Indonesian nationalists declared independence from the Netherlands.
1945 George Orwell's Animal Farm was first published.
1948 Former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee in New York; Hiss repeated his denial that he'd ever been a Communist agent.
1962 East German border guards shot and mortally wounded 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross over the Berlin Wall into the western sector.
1969 Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.
1982 The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany.
1987 Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at Spandau prison in West Berlin at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord; Hess had been the only inmate at Spandau for 21 years.
1992 Actor-director Woody Allen admitted being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his longtime companion, actress Mia Farrow.
1998 President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; on the same day he admitted before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1998 Russia devalued the ruble.
2000 The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman for vice president.
2002 Pope John Paul II arrived in Krakow, Poland, for the ninth and final visit to his native country during his papacy.
2005 Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of Jews from four settlements in the Gaza Strip.
2008 Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, surpassing Mark Spitz for the most gold medals in a single olympics.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Amor - Bing Crosby
Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet - Ella Mae Morse
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan
1952
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
A Full Time Job - Eddy Arnold
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
Walking to New Orleans - Fats Domino
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Heaven Says Hello - Sonny James
1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In -Wings
Say It Again - Don Williams
1984
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
State of Shock - Jacksons
That’s the Thing About Love - Don Williams
Quote of the Day
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe, author & journalist (1931 - )
Today in History - Aug 18th
Today's Birthdays
1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, died May 7, 1825
1774 Meriwether Lewis, explorer (Lewis and Clark) died of gunshot wounds Oct 11, 1809
1904 Max Factor Jr., cosmetics mogul, died June 7, 1996
1917 Caspar W. Weinberger, 15th U.S. Secretary of Defense, died Mar 28, 2006
1920 Shelley Winters (Schrift), actress (Patch of Blue, The Poseidon Adventure, A Place in the Sun) died Jan 14, 2006
1927 Rosalynn Carter (Smith), former First Lady (wife of 39th President, Jimmy Carter)
1933 Roman Polanski, director (Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, MacBeth)
1934 Roberto Clemente (Walker), Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder (Pittsburgh Pirates) killed in plane crash Dec 31, 1972
1937 Robert Redford, actor/director (All the President’s Men, Quiz Show, The Sting, Sneakers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Natural)
1939 Johnny Preston, singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1943 Martin Mull, comedian/actor (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Mr. Mom)
1950 Dennis Elliott, drummer (Foreigner)
1952 Patrick Swayze, dancer/actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Red Dawn, Point Break, Roadhouse)
1957 Ron Strykert, guitarist (Men at Work)
1957 Denis Leary, actor/comedian (The Ref, Rescue Me)
1958 Madeleine Stowe, actress (Unlawful Entry, The Last of the Mohicans)
1961 Bob Woodruff, broadcast journalist (ABC World News Tonight)
1964 Craig Bierko, actor (Cinderella Man)
1969 Edward Norton, actor (Fight Club, American History X, Keeping the Faith, Primal Fear)
1969 Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Interview with the Vampire)
1969 Everlast, hip-hop artist
1970 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor (The Cosby Show, The Tuskegee Airmen)
1975 Kaitlin Olson, actress (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1976 Dirk Lance, bassist (Incubus)
1978 Andy Samberg, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1987 Mika Boorem, actress (Blue Crush, Dawson's Creek)
Today's Deaths in History
1227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conquerer, dies at around 65
1919 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (Seagram's) dies at 78
1940 Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive, dies at 65
1981 Anita Loos, screenwriter (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) dies at 93
1990 B.F. Skinner, psychological theorist, dies at 86
1998 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) dies at 47
2003 Tony Jackson, bassist (The Searchers) dies at 65
2004 Elmer Bernstein, film score composer (Stripes, National Lampoon's Animal House) dies at 82
Today in History
1587 Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C.
1846 U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, N.M.
1894 Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.
1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.
1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
1941 Adolf Hitler ordered a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests.
1954 Assistant Secretary of Labor James E. Wilkins became the first African-American to attend a meeting of a president's Cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.
1958 The novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons, almost three years after the book was originally published in Paris.
1963 James Meredith became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair near Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
1983 Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion damage.
1988 Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H.W. Bush's running mate during the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.
1991 Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea.
1997 Beth Ann Hogan became the first coed in the Virginia Military Institute's 158-year history.
2005 A judge in Wichita, Kan., sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI began his first foreign trip as pontiff in low-key style, returning to his German homeland.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
I Wish I Knew - Dick Haymes
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie
1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Rub-A-Dub-Dub - Hank Thompson
1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner
Last Night - Mar-Keys
I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
1969
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Workin’ Man Blues - Merle Haggard
1977
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
I’m in You - Peter Frampton
Best of My Love - Emotions
Rollin’ with the Flow - Charlie Rich
1985
Shout - Tears For Fears
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Highwayman - Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash/Kris Kristofferson
Quote of the Day
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
William Ralph Inge, author & Anglican prelate (1860 - 1954)
Today's Birthdays
1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, died May 7, 1825
1774 Meriwether Lewis, explorer (Lewis and Clark) died of gunshot wounds Oct 11, 1809
1904 Max Factor Jr., cosmetics mogul, died June 7, 1996
1917 Caspar W. Weinberger, 15th U.S. Secretary of Defense, died Mar 28, 2006
1920 Shelley Winters (Schrift), actress (Patch of Blue, The Poseidon Adventure, A Place in the Sun) died Jan 14, 2006
1927 Rosalynn Carter (Smith), former First Lady (wife of 39th President, Jimmy Carter)
1933 Roman Polanski, director (Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, MacBeth)
1934 Roberto Clemente (Walker), Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder (Pittsburgh Pirates) killed in plane crash Dec 31, 1972
1937 Robert Redford, actor/director (All the President’s Men, Quiz Show, The Sting, Sneakers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Natural)
1939 Johnny Preston, singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1943 Martin Mull, comedian/actor (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Mr. Mom)
1950 Dennis Elliott, drummer (Foreigner)
1952 Patrick Swayze, dancer/actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Red Dawn, Point Break, Roadhouse)
1957 Ron Strykert, guitarist (Men at Work)
1957 Denis Leary, actor/comedian (The Ref, Rescue Me)
1958 Madeleine Stowe, actress (Unlawful Entry, The Last of the Mohicans)
1961 Bob Woodruff, broadcast journalist (ABC World News Tonight)
1964 Craig Bierko, actor (Cinderella Man)
1969 Edward Norton, actor (Fight Club, American History X, Keeping the Faith, Primal Fear)
1969 Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Interview with the Vampire)
1969 Everlast, hip-hop artist
1970 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor (The Cosby Show, The Tuskegee Airmen)
1975 Kaitlin Olson, actress (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1976 Dirk Lance, bassist (Incubus)
1978 Andy Samberg, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1987 Mika Boorem, actress (Blue Crush, Dawson's Creek)
Today's Deaths in History
1227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conquerer, dies at around 65
1919 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (Seagram's) dies at 78
1940 Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive, dies at 65
1981 Anita Loos, screenwriter (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) dies at 93
1990 B.F. Skinner, psychological theorist, dies at 86
1998 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) dies at 47
2003 Tony Jackson, bassist (The Searchers) dies at 65
2004 Elmer Bernstein, film score composer (Stripes, National Lampoon's Animal House) dies at 82
Today in History
1587 Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C.
1846 U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, N.M.
1894 Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.
1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.
1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
1941 Adolf Hitler ordered a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests.
1954 Assistant Secretary of Labor James E. Wilkins became the first African-American to attend a meeting of a president's Cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.
1958 The novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons, almost three years after the book was originally published in Paris.
1963 James Meredith became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair near Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.
1983 Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion damage.
1988 Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H.W. Bush's running mate during the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.
1991 Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea.
1997 Beth Ann Hogan became the first coed in the Virginia Military Institute's 158-year history.
2005 A judge in Wichita, Kan., sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI began his first foreign trip as pontiff in low-key style, returning to his German homeland.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
I Wish I Knew - Dick Haymes
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie
1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Rub-A-Dub-Dub - Hank Thompson
1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner
Last Night - Mar-Keys
I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
1969
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Workin’ Man Blues - Merle Haggard
1977
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
I’m in You - Peter Frampton
Best of My Love - Emotions
Rollin’ with the Flow - Charlie Rich
1985
Shout - Tears For Fears
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Highwayman - Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash/Kris Kristofferson
Quote of the Day
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
William Ralph Inge, author & Anglican prelate (1860 - 1954)
Today in History - Aug 19th
Today's Birthdays
1871 Orville Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) died Jan 30, 1948
1883 Coco (Gabriel Bonheur) Chanel, fashion designer/perfume creator (Chanel #5) died Jan 10, 1971
1902 Ogden Nash, poet (nonsense rhymes) died May 19, 1971
1903 Claude (Legrand) Dauphin (Franc-Nohain), actor (Les Miserables) died Nov 16, 1978
1906 Philo Farnsworth, inventor (all-electronic television) died March 11, 1971
1915 Ring Lardner Jr. (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.), screenwriter (M*A*S*H, Semi-Tough) died Oct 31, 2000
1919 Malcolm Forbes Sr., publishing magnate (Forbes magazine) died Feb 24, 1990
1921 Gene (Eugene Wesley) Roddenberry, creator/producer (Star Trek) died Oct 24, 1991
1931 Willie Shoemaker, jockey (record for most wins in a career: 8,833) died Oct 12, 2003
1935 Bobby (Robert Clinton) Richardson, MLB 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1938 Diana Muldaur, actress: (Star Trek: The Next Generation, L.A. Law)
1939 Ginger (Peter) Baker, drummer (Cream)
1940 Johnny Nash, singer (I Can See Clearly Now, Stir It Up)
1940 Jill St. John (Oppenheim), actress (Diamonds are Forever)
1942 Fred Thompson, actor/US Senator/Presidential candidate
1945 Ian Gillan, singer (Deep Purple)
1946 William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd U.S. President
1947 Gerald McRaney, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1948 Tipper (Mary) Gore (Aitcheson), wife of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
1951 John Deacon, bassist (Queen)
1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1955 Peter Gallagher, actor (Sex Lies and Videotape, The Hudsucker Proxy, American Beauty)
1957 Adam Arkin, actor (Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure)
1957 Martin Donovan, actor (Weeds, The Sentinel)
1963 John Stamos (Stamotopoulos), actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1963 Joey Tempest, singer (Europe)
1965 Kevin Dillon, actor (Platoon, A Midnight Clear, Entourage)
1965 Kyra Sedgwick, actress (Phenomenon, Something to Talk About, Heart & Souls, The Closer)
1966 Lee Ann Womack, country singer
1967 Tabitha Soren, MTV reporter
1969 Matthew Perry, actor (Friends, Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1973 Callum Blue, actor (Dead Like Me, The Tudors)
1975 Tracie Thoms, actress (Cold Case)
1980 Michael Todd, bassist (Coheed and Cambria)
1982 Erika Christensen, actress (Traffic, Swimfan)
Today's Deaths in History
1895 John Wesley Hardin, gunfighter, shot in the back and killed by lawman John Seldon at 42
1976 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor/rector of Edinburgh University (Scrooge) dies at 75
1977 Groucho Marx, comedia/actor/TV host (Marx Brothers, You Bet Your LIfe) dies at 86
1979 Dorsey Burnette, rockabilly singer (The Rock and Roll Trio) dies at 46
1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel chemist (chemical bonds) dies at 93
2001 Betty Everett, singer/pianist (The Shoop Shoop Song-It's in His Kiss) dies at 61
Today in History
1812 The USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
1919 Afghanistan gained full independence from the United Kingdom.
1929 The comedy Amos 'n' Andy made its network radio debut on NBC.
1934 A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.
1934 The first All-American Soap Box Derby was held in Dayton, Ohio.
1942 About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering about 50 percent casualties.
1953 The CIA helped to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstated the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 Severe flooding in the Northeast caused by the remnants of Hurricane Diane claimed some 200 lives.
1960 A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.
1969 Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis began three days of recording sessions that yielded the album Bitches Brew.
1974 U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.
1976 President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's national convention in Kansas City.
1994 President Bill Clinton halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.
1996 A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes.
2003 A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
2004 Internet search engine Google went public.
2005 A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who'd taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx, awarding his widow $253.4 million in damages; the award was reduced to about $26 million by state caps on punitive damages.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
I Don’t Know Enough About You - The Mills Brothers
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crewcuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Breaking Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King
1970
(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters
Make It with You - Bread
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James
1978
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Grease - Frankie Valli
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Talking in Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle
1986
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Your the Last Thing I Needed Tonight - John Schneider
Quote of the Day
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)
Today's Birthdays
1871 Orville Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) died Jan 30, 1948
1883 Coco (Gabriel Bonheur) Chanel, fashion designer/perfume creator (Chanel #5) died Jan 10, 1971
1902 Ogden Nash, poet (nonsense rhymes) died May 19, 1971
1903 Claude (Legrand) Dauphin (Franc-Nohain), actor (Les Miserables) died Nov 16, 1978
1906 Philo Farnsworth, inventor (all-electronic television) died March 11, 1971
1915 Ring Lardner Jr. (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.), screenwriter (M*A*S*H, Semi-Tough) died Oct 31, 2000
1919 Malcolm Forbes Sr., publishing magnate (Forbes magazine) died Feb 24, 1990
1921 Gene (Eugene Wesley) Roddenberry, creator/producer (Star Trek) died Oct 24, 1991
1931 Willie Shoemaker, jockey (record for most wins in a career: 8,833) died Oct 12, 2003
1935 Bobby (Robert Clinton) Richardson, MLB 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1938 Diana Muldaur, actress: (Star Trek: The Next Generation, L.A. Law)
1939 Ginger (Peter) Baker, drummer (Cream)
1940 Johnny Nash, singer (I Can See Clearly Now, Stir It Up)
1940 Jill St. John (Oppenheim), actress (Diamonds are Forever)
1942 Fred Thompson, actor/US Senator/Presidential candidate
1945 Ian Gillan, singer (Deep Purple)
1946 William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd U.S. President
1947 Gerald McRaney, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1948 Tipper (Mary) Gore (Aitcheson), wife of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
1951 John Deacon, bassist (Queen)
1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1955 Peter Gallagher, actor (Sex Lies and Videotape, The Hudsucker Proxy, American Beauty)
1957 Adam Arkin, actor (Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure)
1957 Martin Donovan, actor (Weeds, The Sentinel)
1963 John Stamos (Stamotopoulos), actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1963 Joey Tempest, singer (Europe)
1965 Kevin Dillon, actor (Platoon, A Midnight Clear, Entourage)
1965 Kyra Sedgwick, actress (Phenomenon, Something to Talk About, Heart & Souls, The Closer)
1966 Lee Ann Womack, country singer
1967 Tabitha Soren, MTV reporter
1969 Matthew Perry, actor (Friends, Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1973 Callum Blue, actor (Dead Like Me, The Tudors)
1975 Tracie Thoms, actress (Cold Case)
1980 Michael Todd, bassist (Coheed and Cambria)
1982 Erika Christensen, actress (Traffic, Swimfan)
Today's Deaths in History
1895 John Wesley Hardin, gunfighter, shot in the back and killed by lawman John Seldon at 42
1976 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor/rector of Edinburgh University (Scrooge) dies at 75
1977 Groucho Marx, comedia/actor/TV host (Marx Brothers, You Bet Your LIfe) dies at 86
1979 Dorsey Burnette, rockabilly singer (The Rock and Roll Trio) dies at 46
1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel chemist (chemical bonds) dies at 93
2001 Betty Everett, singer/pianist (The Shoop Shoop Song-It's in His Kiss) dies at 61
Today in History
1812 The USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
1919 Afghanistan gained full independence from the United Kingdom.
1929 The comedy Amos 'n' Andy made its network radio debut on NBC.
1934 A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.
1934 The first All-American Soap Box Derby was held in Dayton, Ohio.
1942 About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering about 50 percent casualties.
1953 The CIA helped to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstated the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 Severe flooding in the Northeast caused by the remnants of Hurricane Diane claimed some 200 lives.
1960 A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.
1969 Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis began three days of recording sessions that yielded the album Bitches Brew.
1974 U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.
1976 President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's national convention in Kansas City.
1994 President Bill Clinton halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.
1996 A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes.
2003 A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
2004 Internet search engine Google went public.
2005 A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who'd taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx, awarding his widow $253.4 million in damages; the award was reduced to about $26 million by state caps on punitive damages.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
I Don’t Know Enough About You - The Mills Brothers
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crewcuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Breaking Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King
1970
(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters
Make It with You - Bread
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James
1978
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Grease - Frankie Valli
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Talking in Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle
1986
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Your the Last Thing I Needed Tonight - John Schneider
Quote of the Day
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)
Today in History - Aug 20th
Today's Birthdays
1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President, died Mar 13, 1901
1890 H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft, horror/sci-fi auithor (Call of Cthulhu) died Mar 15, 1937
1918 Jacqueline Susann, author (The Valley of the Dolls) died Sep 21, 1974
1923 ‘Gentleman’ Jim (James Travis) Reeves, singer (I Guess I’m Crazy, Four Walls) killed in plane crash near Nashville July 31, 1964
1941 Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia, died March 11, 2006
1942 Isaac Hayes, singer/songwriter/voice actor (Theme from Shaft; South Park) died August 10, 2008
1942 Anthony Earl Numkena, actor (Wagon Train, A Man Called Horse)
1944 Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated May 21, 1991
1946 Connie Chung (Yu-Hwa), broadcast journalist (CBS Evening News)
1947 Jim Pankow, trombonist/songwriter (Chicago)
1948 Robert Plant, singer (Led Zeppelin, Honeydrippers)
1949 Phil Lynott, Irish guitarist (Thin LIzzy) died Jan 4, 1986
1952 Doug Fieger, guitarist/singer (The Knack)
1953 Peter Horton, actor (Thirtysomething)
1954 Al Roker, TV weatherman (The Today Show)
1956 Joan Allen, actress (Searching for Bobby Fischer, Peggy Sue Got Married, Pleasantville)
1962 Geoffrey Blake, actor (The Last Starfighter, Young Guns, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13)
1962 James Marsters, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel)
1966 Dimebag Darrell, guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) shot and killed onstage December 8, 2004
1970 Fred Durst, singer (Limp Bizkit)
1971 Jonathan Ke Quan, actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
1974 Amy Adams, actress (Drop Dead Gorgeous, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
1975 Monique Powell, singer (Save Ferris)
1976 Chris Drury, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1981 Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
Today's Deaths in History
1912 William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army, dies
1959 William "Bull" Halsey, Jr, WWII Admiral, dies at 76
2001 Kim Stanley, actress (Bus Stop, The Right Stuff) dies at 76
2006 Joe Rosenthal, former Associated Press photographer (Iwo Jima flag-raising) dies at 94
2007 Leona Helmsley, hotel operator/real estate investor/jailbird, dies at 87
Today in History
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition suffered its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
1858 Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the American Civil War over.
1914 German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
1918 Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.
1926 Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK), was established.
1938 Lou Gehrig hit his record 23rd career grand slam.
1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
1968 The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1977 The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1986 In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill gunned down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1991 More than 100,000 people rallied outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1992 The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
1998 Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.
2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.
2006 Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who had taken the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died at age 94.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Across the Alley from the Alamo - The Mills Brothers
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Hard to Get - Gisele MacKenzie
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Blowin’ in the Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary
Judy’s Turn to Cry - Lesley Gore
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1971
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
I’m Just Me - Charley Pride
1979
Good Times - Chic
My Sharona - The Knack
The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
Coca Cola Cowboy - Mel Tillis
1987
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
Who’s That Girl - Madonna
Luka - Suzanne Vega
A Long Line of Love - Michael Martin Murphy
Quote of the Day
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett, author
Today's Birthdays
1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President, died Mar 13, 1901
1890 H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft, horror/sci-fi auithor (Call of Cthulhu) died Mar 15, 1937
1918 Jacqueline Susann, author (The Valley of the Dolls) died Sep 21, 1974
1923 ‘Gentleman’ Jim (James Travis) Reeves, singer (I Guess I’m Crazy, Four Walls) killed in plane crash near Nashville July 31, 1964
1941 Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia, died March 11, 2006
1942 Isaac Hayes, singer/songwriter/voice actor (Theme from Shaft; South Park) died August 10, 2008
1942 Anthony Earl Numkena, actor (Wagon Train, A Man Called Horse)
1944 Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated May 21, 1991
1946 Connie Chung (Yu-Hwa), broadcast journalist (CBS Evening News)
1947 Jim Pankow, trombonist/songwriter (Chicago)
1948 Robert Plant, singer (Led Zeppelin, Honeydrippers)
1949 Phil Lynott, Irish guitarist (Thin LIzzy) died Jan 4, 1986
1952 Doug Fieger, guitarist/singer (The Knack)
1953 Peter Horton, actor (Thirtysomething)
1954 Al Roker, TV weatherman (The Today Show)
1956 Joan Allen, actress (Searching for Bobby Fischer, Peggy Sue Got Married, Pleasantville)
1962 Geoffrey Blake, actor (The Last Starfighter, Young Guns, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13)
1962 James Marsters, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel)
1966 Dimebag Darrell, guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) shot and killed onstage December 8, 2004
1970 Fred Durst, singer (Limp Bizkit)
1971 Jonathan Ke Quan, actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
1974 Amy Adams, actress (Drop Dead Gorgeous, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
1975 Monique Powell, singer (Save Ferris)
1976 Chris Drury, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1981 Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
Today's Deaths in History
1912 William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army, dies
1959 William "Bull" Halsey, Jr, WWII Admiral, dies at 76
2001 Kim Stanley, actress (Bus Stop, The Right Stuff) dies at 76
2006 Joe Rosenthal, former Associated Press photographer (Iwo Jima flag-raising) dies at 94
2007 Leona Helmsley, hotel operator/real estate investor/jailbird, dies at 87
Today in History
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition suffered its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
1858 Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the American Civil War over.
1914 German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
1918 Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.
1926 Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK), was established.
1938 Lou Gehrig hit his record 23rd career grand slam.
1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
1968 The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1977 The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1986 In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill gunned down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1991 More than 100,000 people rallied outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1992 The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
1998 Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.
2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.
2006 Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who had taken the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died at age 94.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Across the Alley from the Alamo - The Mills Brothers
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Hard to Get - Gisele MacKenzie
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Blowin’ in the Wind - Peter, Paul & Mary
Judy’s Turn to Cry - Lesley Gore
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1971
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
I’m Just Me - Charley Pride
1979
Good Times - Chic
My Sharona - The Knack
The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
Coca Cola Cowboy - Mel Tillis
1987
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
Who’s That Girl - Madonna
Luka - Suzanne Vega
A Long Line of Love - Michael Martin Murphy
Quote of the Day
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett, author
Today in History - Aug 21st
Hawaii Statehood Day
Today's Birthdays
1904 (William Allen) Count Basie, bandleader/composer (One O’Clock Jump, Jumpin’ at the Woodside) died Apr 26, 1984
1906 Friz Freleng, movie animator (Lonney Tunes, Merrie Melodies) died May 26, 1995
1912 Toe Blake, NHL left wing/coach (Montreal Canadiens) died May 17, 1995
1920 Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, died April 20, 1996
1923 Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (CBS Sports, ABC Sports) died Sep 11, 2005
1924 Jack Buck, sportscaster (St. Luois Cardinals) died June 18, 2002
1930 Princess Margaret Rose, sister of England’s Queen Elizabeth II, died Feb 9, 2002
1932 Melvin Van Peebles, screenwriter/actor (Terminal Velocity, Boomerang)
1936 Wilt (Wilton) Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer (Philadelphia 76ers) died Oct 12, 1999
1938 Kenny (Kenneth Donald) Rogers, singer (Coward of the County, The Gambler)
1939 Clarence Williams III, actor (The Mod Squad, Purple Rain)
1944 Jackie DeShannon (Sharon Myers), songwriter/singer (What the World Needs Now is Love, Put a Little Love in Your Heart)
1944 Peter Weir, director (Dead Poets Society, Witness, The Truman Show)
1945 Basil Poledouris, film score composer (Hunt for Red October) died Nov. 8, 2006
1947 Carl Giammarese, guitarist (The Buckinghams)
1951 Harry Smith, TV host (CBS This Morning, A&E: Biography)
1952 Joe Strummer (John Mellors), guitarist/singer (The Clash, The Mescaleros) died Dec 22, 2002
1952 Glenn Hughes, singer (Deep Purple)
1956 Kim Cattrall, actress (Police Academy, Mannequin, Sex & the City)
1957 Kim Sledge, singer (Sister Sledge)
1967 Serj Tankian, singer (System of a Down)
1970 Carrie-Anne Moss, actress (Matrix series, Chocolat, Disturbia)
1971 Liam Howlett, keyboardist (Prodigy)
1973 Steve McKenna, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1973 Sergey Brin, co-founder (Google)
1975 Alicia Witt, actress (Cybill, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Four Rooms, Ally McBeal)
1986 Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton, died March 20, 1991
1988 Paris Bennett, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1989 Hayden Panettiere, actress (Remember the Titans, Heroes)
Today's Deaths in History
1814 Benjamin Thompson, physicist/inventor (drip coffee pot, kitchen range, double boiler) dies at 61
1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, is assassinated at 60
1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer, dies at 65
1983 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader, assassinated at 50
2005 Robert Moog, electronic music pioneer (Moog synthesizer) dies at 71
2008 Gene Upshaw, NFL Player, NFLPA Presdient, dies at 63
Today in History
1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe, N.M., after driving out the Spanish.
1770 James Cook formally claimed eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1831 Nat Turner launched a short-lived, violent slave rebellion in Virginia.
1858 The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was held in Ottawa, Ill.
1878 The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.
1888 The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1911 The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee.
1940 Exiled Russian Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1945 President Harry S. Truman ended the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion in aid to America's allies during World War II.
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
1968 James Anderson, Jr. posthumously received the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African-American U.S. Marine.
1983 Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport.
1987 Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB.
1991 A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
1993 NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1997 Hudson Foods Co. closed a plant in Nebraska, agreeing to destroy some 25 million pounds of hamburger after the largest meat recall in U.S. history.
1998 Samuel Bowers, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Miss., of ordering a 1966 firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer.
2000 Rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announcing none of the 118 sailors had survived.
2002 A jury in San Diego convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping 7-year-old Danielle van Dam from her home and killing her; he was later sentenced to death.
2006 British prosecutors announced that 11 people had been charged in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners bound for the United States.
2007 Hurricane Dean made its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph, the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
My Happiness - Jon & Sandra Steele
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Haywood
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
Rag Doll - The 4 Seasons
Dang Me - Roger Miller
1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
Bless Your Heart - Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats
1980
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Tennessee River - Alabama
1988
Roll with It - Steve Winwood
Monkey - George Michael
1-2-3 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Bluest Eyes in Texas - Restless Heart
Quote of the Day
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)
Hawaii Statehood Day
Today's Birthdays
1904 (William Allen) Count Basie, bandleader/composer (One O’Clock Jump, Jumpin’ at the Woodside) died Apr 26, 1984
1906 Friz Freleng, movie animator (Lonney Tunes, Merrie Melodies) died May 26, 1995
1912 Toe Blake, NHL left wing/coach (Montreal Canadiens) died May 17, 1995
1920 Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, died April 20, 1996
1923 Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (CBS Sports, ABC Sports) died Sep 11, 2005
1924 Jack Buck, sportscaster (St. Luois Cardinals) died June 18, 2002
1930 Princess Margaret Rose, sister of England’s Queen Elizabeth II, died Feb 9, 2002
1932 Melvin Van Peebles, screenwriter/actor (Terminal Velocity, Boomerang)
1936 Wilt (Wilton) Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer (Philadelphia 76ers) died Oct 12, 1999
1938 Kenny (Kenneth Donald) Rogers, singer (Coward of the County, The Gambler)
1939 Clarence Williams III, actor (The Mod Squad, Purple Rain)
1944 Jackie DeShannon (Sharon Myers), songwriter/singer (What the World Needs Now is Love, Put a Little Love in Your Heart)
1944 Peter Weir, director (Dead Poets Society, Witness, The Truman Show)
1945 Basil Poledouris, film score composer (Hunt for Red October) died Nov. 8, 2006
1947 Carl Giammarese, guitarist (The Buckinghams)
1951 Harry Smith, TV host (CBS This Morning, A&E: Biography)
1952 Joe Strummer (John Mellors), guitarist/singer (The Clash, The Mescaleros) died Dec 22, 2002
1952 Glenn Hughes, singer (Deep Purple)
1956 Kim Cattrall, actress (Police Academy, Mannequin, Sex & the City)
1957 Kim Sledge, singer (Sister Sledge)
1967 Serj Tankian, singer (System of a Down)
1970 Carrie-Anne Moss, actress (Matrix series, Chocolat, Disturbia)
1971 Liam Howlett, keyboardist (Prodigy)
1973 Steve McKenna, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1973 Sergey Brin, co-founder (Google)
1975 Alicia Witt, actress (Cybill, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Four Rooms, Ally McBeal)
1986 Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton, died March 20, 1991
1988 Paris Bennett, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1989 Hayden Panettiere, actress (Remember the Titans, Heroes)
Today's Deaths in History
1814 Benjamin Thompson, physicist/inventor (drip coffee pot, kitchen range, double boiler) dies at 61
1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, is assassinated at 60
1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer, dies at 65
1983 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader, assassinated at 50
2005 Robert Moog, electronic music pioneer (Moog synthesizer) dies at 71
2008 Gene Upshaw, NFL Player, NFLPA Presdient, dies at 63
Today in History
1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fe, N.M., after driving out the Spanish.
1770 James Cook formally claimed eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1831 Nat Turner launched a short-lived, violent slave rebellion in Virginia.
1858 The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was held in Ottawa, Ill.
1878 The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.
1888 The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1911 The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee.
1940 Exiled Russian Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1945 President Harry S. Truman ended the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion in aid to America's allies during World War II.
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
1968 James Anderson, Jr. posthumously received the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African-American U.S. Marine.
1983 Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport.
1987 Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB.
1991 A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
1993 NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1997 Hudson Foods Co. closed a plant in Nebraska, agreeing to destroy some 25 million pounds of hamburger after the largest meat recall in U.S. history.
1998 Samuel Bowers, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Miss., of ordering a 1966 firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer.
2000 Rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announcing none of the 118 sailors had survived.
2002 A jury in San Diego convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping 7-year-old Danielle van Dam from her home and killing her; he was later sentenced to death.
2006 British prosecutors announced that 11 people had been charged in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners bound for the United States.
2007 Hurricane Dean made its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph, the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
My Happiness - Jon & Sandra Steele
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Haywood
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
Rag Doll - The 4 Seasons
Dang Me - Roger Miller
1972
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
Bless Your Heart - Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats
1980
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Tennessee River - Alabama
1988
Roll with It - Steve Winwood
Monkey - George Michael
1-2-3 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Bluest Eyes in Texas - Restless Heart
Quote of the Day
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)
QUOTE(Giac @ Aug 21 2008, 02:06 PM) 
Quote of the Day
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)
Thus forming the basis for most of my humor.
Today in History - Aug 22nd
Today's Birthdays
1822 Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe, died Jan 30, 1947
1834 Samuel Langley, aviation pioneer (Langley Air Force Base) died in 1906
1862 Claude Debussy, composer (Clair de Lune, Nocturnes) died Mar 25, 1918
1880 George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) died Apr 25, 1944
1902 Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (Triumph des Willens) died Sept 8, 2003
1904 Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China, died Feb 19, 1997
1917 John Lee Hooker, blues singer (Boom Boom, One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer) died June 21, 2001
1920 Ray Bradbury, author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles)
1934 H. Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army General (Operation Desert Storm)
1935 E. Annie Proulx, author (The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain)
1938 Paul Maguire, football commentator (ESPN)
1939 Carl (Michael) Yastrzemski, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1940 Valerie Harper, actress (Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1941 Bill (Duane) Parcells, NFL head coach (NY Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys)
1945 Steve Kroft, broadcast journalist (60 Minutes)
1947 Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne & Shirley, American Graffiti)
1958 Vernon Reid, guitarist (Living Colour)
1960 Debbi Peterson, drummer/singer (Bangles)
1961 Roland Orzabal, singer/guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1962 Gary Lee Connor, guitarist (Screaming Trees)
1963 Tori Amos, singer/songwriter
1964 Mats Wilander, tennis champion
1967 Layne Staley, singer (Alice in Chains) died April 5, 2002
1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, actor (Lost)
1970 Giada De Laurentiis, chef/television host (Food Network)
1971 Rick Yune, actor (The Fast and the Furious)
1972 Paul Doucette, drummer/rhythm guitarist (Matchbox 20)
1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor (Lost, The 300)
Today's Deaths in History
1922 Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary, killed in an ambush at 31
1940 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (pioneer in wireless telegraphy) dies at 89
1965 Ellen Church, first American airline stewardess, dies at 60
1977 Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (Family Affair) dies at 59
1989 Huey P. Newton, activist (Black Panthers) is shot to death at 47
1991 Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Anne of Green Gables) dies at 67
2006 Bruce Gary, drummer/producer (The Knack) dies at 55
Today in History
0565 St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
1762 Ann Franklin became the first woman to hold the title of newspaper editor, assuming those duties at The Newport Mercury in Newport, RI.
1775 England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.
1831 Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commenced just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African-Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 The United States annexed New Mexico.
1851 The Hundred Guinea Cup, a silver trophy, was presented by the Royal Yacht Squadron to the U.S. schooner America, the winner of an international race around the Isle of Wight (the trophy later became the America's Cup)
1865 William Sheppard of New York City patented liquid soap.
1901 Cadillac Motor Company was founded.
1902 Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1906 The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey began to manufacture the Victrola (record player).
1932 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began its first experimental TV broadcast in England.
1938 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared, dancing, on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1938 Count Basie recorded the classic swing tune, "Jumpin’ at the Woodside," for Decca Records.
1950 Althea Gibson became the first black competitor in international tennis.
1951 The largest crowd to see a basketball game to that time, 75,052, looked on as the Harlem Globetrotters performed before a non-paying crowd in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
1968 Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1972 The Republican party re-nominated Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew in Miami, FL.
1984 The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in Westmoreland, PA (it was brought back in 2006).
1986 Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1989 Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers fanned Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics to become the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters.
1990 Scores of angry smokers blocked a street near Moscow's Red Square for hours in protest of the summer-long cigarette shortage.
1992 FBI Hostage Rescue Team sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1996 President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 Versions of The Scream and [/i]Madonna,[/i] two paintings by Edvard Munch, were stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2005 The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.
Chart Toppers
1949
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Whispering Bells - The Dell-Vikings
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
1965
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
Save Your Heart for Me - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Help! - The Beatles
Yes, Mr. Peters - Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell
1973
Touch Me in the Morning - Diana Ross
Live and Let Die - Wings
Brother Louie - Stories
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
I Don’t Need You - Kenny Rogers
1989
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
On Our Own - Bobby Brown
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Sunday in the South - Shenandoah
Quote of the Day
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977)
Today's Birthdays
1822 Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe, died Jan 30, 1947
1834 Samuel Langley, aviation pioneer (Langley Air Force Base) died in 1906
1862 Claude Debussy, composer (Clair de Lune, Nocturnes) died Mar 25, 1918
1880 George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) died Apr 25, 1944
1902 Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (Triumph des Willens) died Sept 8, 2003
1904 Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China, died Feb 19, 1997
1917 John Lee Hooker, blues singer (Boom Boom, One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer) died June 21, 2001
1920 Ray Bradbury, author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles)
1934 H. Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army General (Operation Desert Storm)
1935 E. Annie Proulx, author (The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain)
1938 Paul Maguire, football commentator (ESPN)
1939 Carl (Michael) Yastrzemski, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1940 Valerie Harper, actress (Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1941 Bill (Duane) Parcells, NFL head coach (NY Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys)
1945 Steve Kroft, broadcast journalist (60 Minutes)
1947 Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne & Shirley, American Graffiti)
1958 Vernon Reid, guitarist (Living Colour)
1960 Debbi Peterson, drummer/singer (Bangles)
1961 Roland Orzabal, singer/guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1962 Gary Lee Connor, guitarist (Screaming Trees)
1963 Tori Amos, singer/songwriter
1964 Mats Wilander, tennis champion
1967 Layne Staley, singer (Alice in Chains) died April 5, 2002
1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, actor (Lost)
1970 Giada De Laurentiis, chef/television host (Food Network)
1971 Rick Yune, actor (The Fast and the Furious)
1972 Paul Doucette, drummer/rhythm guitarist (Matchbox 20)
1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor (Lost, The 300)
Today's Deaths in History
1922 Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary, killed in an ambush at 31
1940 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (pioneer in wireless telegraphy) dies at 89
1965 Ellen Church, first American airline stewardess, dies at 60
1977 Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (Family Affair) dies at 59
1989 Huey P. Newton, activist (Black Panthers) is shot to death at 47
1991 Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Anne of Green Gables) dies at 67
2006 Bruce Gary, drummer/producer (The Knack) dies at 55
Today in History
0565 St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
1762 Ann Franklin became the first woman to hold the title of newspaper editor, assuming those duties at The Newport Mercury in Newport, RI.
1775 England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.
1831 Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commenced just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African-Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 The United States annexed New Mexico.
1851 The Hundred Guinea Cup, a silver trophy, was presented by the Royal Yacht Squadron to the U.S. schooner America, the winner of an international race around the Isle of Wight (the trophy later became the America's Cup)
1865 William Sheppard of New York City patented liquid soap.
1901 Cadillac Motor Company was founded.
1902 Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1906 The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey began to manufacture the Victrola (record player).
1932 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began its first experimental TV broadcast in England.
1938 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared, dancing, on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1938 Count Basie recorded the classic swing tune, "Jumpin’ at the Woodside," for Decca Records.
1950 Althea Gibson became the first black competitor in international tennis.
1951 The largest crowd to see a basketball game to that time, 75,052, looked on as the Harlem Globetrotters performed before a non-paying crowd in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
1968 Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1972 The Republican party re-nominated Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew in Miami, FL.
1984 The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in Westmoreland, PA (it was brought back in 2006).
1986 Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1989 Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers fanned Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics to become the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters.
1990 Scores of angry smokers blocked a street near Moscow's Red Square for hours in protest of the summer-long cigarette shortage.
1992 FBI Hostage Rescue Team sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1996 President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 Versions of The Scream and [/i]Madonna,[/i] two paintings by Edvard Munch, were stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2005 The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel's turbulent occupation.
Chart Toppers
1949
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Whispering Bells - The Dell-Vikings
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
1965
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
Save Your Heart for Me - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Help! - The Beatles
Yes, Mr. Peters - Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell
1973
Touch Me in the Morning - Diana Ross
Live and Let Die - Wings
Brother Louie - Stories
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
I Don’t Need You - Kenny Rogers
1989
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
On Our Own - Bobby Brown
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Sunday in the South - Shenandoah
Quote of the Day
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977)
Today in History - Aug 23rd
Today's Birthdays
1754 Louis XVI, last King of France, executed Jan 21, 1793
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval officer (“We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”) died Aug 23, 1819
1912 Gene (Eugene Curran) Kelly, director/dancer/singer/actor (Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh, The Three Musketeers) died Feb 2, 1996
1922 Jean Darling (LeVake), actress (March of the Wooden Soldiers, Little Rascals)
1925 Robert Mulligan, director (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1929 Vera Miles (Vera June Ralston), actress (Psycho, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
1932 Mark Russell (Ruslander), political satirist/comedian (Real People)
1934 Barbara Eden (Barbara Jean Moorhead), actress (I Dream of Jeannie)
1936 Rudy Lewis, singer (Drifters)
1936 Henry Lee Lucas, serial killer, executed March 13, 2001
1940 Richard Sanders, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1946 Keith Moon, singer/drummer (The Who) died Sep 7, 1978
1948 Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, University of Notre Dame football legend
1949 Shelley Long, actress (Cheers, Night Shift, The Brady Bunch Movie)
1949 Rick Springfield, singer/actor (Jessie’s Girl; General Hospital)
1951 Lisa Najeeb Halaby (Queen Noor), widow of Jordan’s King Hussein
1951 Mark Hudson, singer (The Hudson Brothers)
1951 Jimi Jamison, singer (Survivor)
1961 Dean DeLeo, guitarist (Stone Temple Pilots)
1962 Shaun Ryder, singer (Happy Mondays)
1970 River (Jude) Phoenix, actor (Stand by Me, Sneakers, Little Nikita) died Oct 31, 1993
1970 Jay Mohr, comedian/actor (Jerry McGuire)
1976 Scott Caan, actor (Varsity Blues, Gone in 60 Seconds)
1978 Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1978 Julian Casablancas, singer (The Strokes)
Today's Deaths in History
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval officer, dies on his 34th birthday
1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent film star, dies at 31
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1966 Francis X. Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur) dies at 83
1990 David Rose, composer/orchestra leader (The Stripper) dies at 80
1995 Dwayne Goettel, punk keyboardist (Skinny Puppy) dies at 31
1999 Norman Wexler, screenwriter (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico) dies at 73
2002 Hoyt Wilhelm, MLB pitcher/knuckleballer (NY Giants) dies at 79
2003 Bobby Bonds, MLB player/manager (SF Giants) dies at 57
2005 Brock Peters, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) dies at 78
2006 Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter/bandleader, dies at 78
2007 Robert Symonds, actor (The Exorcist, Primary Colors, Catch Me If You Can) dies at 80
Today in History
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, was executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1754 France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.
1775 Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of "open and avowed rebellion."
1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declared itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1864 The Union Navy captured Fort Morgan, Alabama, breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1904 The automobile tire chain was patented.
1914 Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
1927 Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.
1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1954 The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, still in use today, made its first flight.
1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.
1989 Yusuf Hawkins, an African-American teenager, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
1990 Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1996 Osama bin Laden issued a message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 An estimated 51 million viewers watched the first season finale of the reality show Survivor" on CBS, on which contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.
2003 Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, was killed by another inmate in a Massachusetts prison.
2005 Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
I Wanna Be Loved - The Andrews Sisters
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
My True Love - Jack Scott
Alone with You - Faron Young
1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
See You in September - The Happenings
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Nobody - Sylvia
1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Come Back to Me - Janet Jackson
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation
Next to You, Next to Me - Shenandoah
Quote of the Day
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian & television actor (1954 - )
Today's Birthdays
1754 Louis XVI, last King of France, executed Jan 21, 1793
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval officer (“We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”) died Aug 23, 1819
1912 Gene (Eugene Curran) Kelly, director/dancer/singer/actor (Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh, The Three Musketeers) died Feb 2, 1996
1922 Jean Darling (LeVake), actress (March of the Wooden Soldiers, Little Rascals)
1925 Robert Mulligan, director (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1929 Vera Miles (Vera June Ralston), actress (Psycho, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
1932 Mark Russell (Ruslander), political satirist/comedian (Real People)
1934 Barbara Eden (Barbara Jean Moorhead), actress (I Dream of Jeannie)
1936 Rudy Lewis, singer (Drifters)
1936 Henry Lee Lucas, serial killer, executed March 13, 2001
1940 Richard Sanders, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1946 Keith Moon, singer/drummer (The Who) died Sep 7, 1978
1948 Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, University of Notre Dame football legend
1949 Shelley Long, actress (Cheers, Night Shift, The Brady Bunch Movie)
1949 Rick Springfield, singer/actor (Jessie’s Girl; General Hospital)
1951 Lisa Najeeb Halaby (Queen Noor), widow of Jordan’s King Hussein
1951 Mark Hudson, singer (The Hudson Brothers)
1951 Jimi Jamison, singer (Survivor)
1961 Dean DeLeo, guitarist (Stone Temple Pilots)
1962 Shaun Ryder, singer (Happy Mondays)
1970 River (Jude) Phoenix, actor (Stand by Me, Sneakers, Little Nikita) died Oct 31, 1993
1970 Jay Mohr, comedian/actor (Jerry McGuire)
1976 Scott Caan, actor (Varsity Blues, Gone in 60 Seconds)
1978 Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1978 Julian Casablancas, singer (The Strokes)
Today's Deaths in History
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval officer, dies on his 34th birthday
1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent film star, dies at 31
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1966 Francis X. Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur) dies at 83
1990 David Rose, composer/orchestra leader (The Stripper) dies at 80
1995 Dwayne Goettel, punk keyboardist (Skinny Puppy) dies at 31
1999 Norman Wexler, screenwriter (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico) dies at 73
2002 Hoyt Wilhelm, MLB pitcher/knuckleballer (NY Giants) dies at 79
2003 Bobby Bonds, MLB player/manager (SF Giants) dies at 57
2005 Brock Peters, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) dies at 78
2006 Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter/bandleader, dies at 78
2007 Robert Symonds, actor (The Exorcist, Primary Colors, Catch Me If You Can) dies at 80
Today in History
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, was executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1754 France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.
1775 Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of "open and avowed rebellion."
1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declared itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1864 The Union Navy captured Fort Morgan, Alabama, breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1904 The automobile tire chain was patented.
1914 Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
1927 Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.
1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1954 The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, still in use today, made its first flight.
1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.
1989 Yusuf Hawkins, an African-American teenager, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
1990 Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1996 Osama bin Laden issued a message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 An estimated 51 million viewers watched the first season finale of the reality show Survivor" on CBS, on which contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.
2003 Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, was killed by another inmate in a Massachusetts prison.
2005 Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
I Wanna Be Loved - The Andrews Sisters
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
My True Love - Jack Scott
Alone with You - Faron Young
1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
See You in September - The Happenings
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Nobody - Sylvia
1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Come Back to Me - Janet Jackson
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation
Next to You, Next to Me - Shenandoah
Quote of the Day
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian & television actor (1954 - )
Today in History - Aug 24th
Today's Birthdays
1890 Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic swimmer/father of modern surfing, died Jan 22, 1968
1916 Hal Smith, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) died Jan 28, 1994
1917 Dennis James (Demie James Sposa), TV host (Chance of a Lifetime) died June 3, 1997
1929 Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, died Nov 11, 2004
1934 Kenny Baker, actor (Star Wars)
1938 David Freiberg, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
1938 Mason Williams, guitarist (Classical Gas)
1943 John Cipollina, guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) died May 29, 1989
1944 Bill Goldsworthy, NHL right wing (NY Rangers) died Mar 29, 1996
1945 Ken Hensley, guitarist/keyboards/composer (Uriah Heep)
1945 Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1947 Anne Archer, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1948 Jean-Michel Jarre, French composer/musician
1949 Charles Rocket, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Dumb & Dumber) died Oct 7, 2005
1952 Mike Shanahan, NFL coach (Denver Broncos)
1955 Jeffrey Daniel, R&B singer (Shalamar)
1955 Mike Huckabee, Arkansas Governor/Presidential candidate
1958 Steve Guttenberg, actor (Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy series)
1960 Cal (Calvin Edwin) Ripken Jr., MLB shortstop (Baltimore Orioles)
1961 Mark Bedford, bassist (Madness)
1962 David Koechner, actor (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
1962 Craig Kilborn, TV host (Late Late Show, The Daily Show)
1963 John Bush, singer (Anthrax)
1965 Marlee Matlin, actress (Children of a Lesser God, The West Wing)
1965 Reggie Miller, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1968 Andreas Kisser, guitarist (Sepultura)
1973 Dave Chappelle, actor/comedian (Chappelle's Show, Undercover Brother)
1973 Carmine Giovinazzo, actor (CSI: NY)
1974 Jennifer Lien, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
1988 Rupert Grint, actor (Harry Potter series)
Today's Deaths in History
0079 Pliny the Elder, Roman writer/naturalist, dies at 56
1946 James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dies at 94
1967 Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (shipbuilder) dies at 85
1977 Buddy O'Connor, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 61
1978 Louis Prima, swing band leader/singer (I Wanna Be Like You) dies at 67
1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer (V-J Day in Times Square) dies at 96
1998 E.G. Marshall, actor (12 Angry Men) dies at 84
1999 Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist, dies at 70
2001 Jane Greer, actress (Prisoner of Zenda) dies at 76
2004 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist (On Death and Dying) dies at 78
2007 Aaron Russo, film producer/director (The Rose) dies at 64
Today in History
0079 Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash; an estimated 20,000 people died.
1349 Six thousand Jews were killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.
1572 The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.
1682 William Penn received the area that is now the state of Delaware, and added it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1814 British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1857 The New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. failed, sparking the Panic of 1857.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel.
1891 Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera.
1912 Alaska became a United States territory.
1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours.
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
1950 Edith Sampson became the first black U.S. delegate to the U.N.
1954 The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1959 Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator, while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.
1967 Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupted trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scrambled to grab them up.
1968 France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
1970 A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.
1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
1989 Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Pete Rose from the game for gambling.
1990 A judge ruled that Judas Priest were not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.
1991 Ukraine declared itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm.
2004 Chechen separatists set off bombs aboard two Russian airliners that crashed after taking off from the same Moscow airport, killing 90 people.
2006 The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."
2007 A judge in Inverness, Fla., sentenced John Evander Couey to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive.
2007 James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi.
2007 The NFL indefinitely suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick without pay for his involvement in dogfighting.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Because of You - Tony Bennett
My Truly, Truly Fair - Guy Mitchell
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
1959
The Three Bells - The Browns
Sea of Love - Phil Phillips
Lavender-Blue - Sammy Turner
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson
1967
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James
1975
Fallin’ in Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
One of These Nights - Eagles
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
Love Song - The Oak Ridge Boys
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over - Lanny Kravitz
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) - Roxette
You Know Me Better Than That - George Strait
Quote of the Day
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov, actor & author (1921 - 2004)
Today's Birthdays
1890 Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic swimmer/father of modern surfing, died Jan 22, 1968
1916 Hal Smith, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) died Jan 28, 1994
1917 Dennis James (Demie James Sposa), TV host (Chance of a Lifetime) died June 3, 1997
1929 Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, died Nov 11, 2004
1934 Kenny Baker, actor (Star Wars)
1938 David Freiberg, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
1938 Mason Williams, guitarist (Classical Gas)
1943 John Cipollina, guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) died May 29, 1989
1944 Bill Goldsworthy, NHL right wing (NY Rangers) died Mar 29, 1996
1945 Ken Hensley, guitarist/keyboards/composer (Uriah Heep)
1945 Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1947 Anne Archer, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1948 Jean-Michel Jarre, French composer/musician
1949 Charles Rocket, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Dumb & Dumber) died Oct 7, 2005
1952 Mike Shanahan, NFL coach (Denver Broncos)
1955 Jeffrey Daniel, R&B singer (Shalamar)
1955 Mike Huckabee, Arkansas Governor/Presidential candidate
1958 Steve Guttenberg, actor (Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy series)
1960 Cal (Calvin Edwin) Ripken Jr., MLB shortstop (Baltimore Orioles)
1961 Mark Bedford, bassist (Madness)
1962 David Koechner, actor (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
1962 Craig Kilborn, TV host (Late Late Show, The Daily Show)
1963 John Bush, singer (Anthrax)
1965 Marlee Matlin, actress (Children of a Lesser God, The West Wing)
1965 Reggie Miller, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1968 Andreas Kisser, guitarist (Sepultura)
1973 Dave Chappelle, actor/comedian (Chappelle's Show, Undercover Brother)
1973 Carmine Giovinazzo, actor (CSI: NY)
1974 Jennifer Lien, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
1988 Rupert Grint, actor (Harry Potter series)
Today's Deaths in History
0079 Pliny the Elder, Roman writer/naturalist, dies at 56
1946 James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dies at 94
1967 Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (shipbuilder) dies at 85
1977 Buddy O'Connor, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 61
1978 Louis Prima, swing band leader/singer (I Wanna Be Like You) dies at 67
1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer (V-J Day in Times Square) dies at 96
1998 E.G. Marshall, actor (12 Angry Men) dies at 84
1999 Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist, dies at 70
2001 Jane Greer, actress (Prisoner of Zenda) dies at 76
2004 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist (On Death and Dying) dies at 78
2007 Aaron Russo, film producer/director (The Rose) dies at 64
Today in History
0079 Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash; an estimated 20,000 people died.
1349 Six thousand Jews were killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.
1572 The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.
1682 William Penn received the area that is now the state of Delaware, and added it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1814 British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1857 The New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. failed, sparking the Panic of 1857.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel.
1891 Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera.
1912 Alaska became a United States territory.
1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours.
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
1950 Edith Sampson became the first black U.S. delegate to the U.N.
1954 The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1959 Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator, while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.
1967 Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupted trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scrambled to grab them up.
1968 France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
1970 A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.
1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
1989 Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Pete Rose from the game for gambling.
1990 A judge ruled that Judas Priest were not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.
1991 Ukraine declared itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm.
2004 Chechen separatists set off bombs aboard two Russian airliners that crashed after taking off from the same Moscow airport, killing 90 people.
2006 The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."
2007 A judge in Inverness, Fla., sentenced John Evander Couey to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive.
2007 James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi.
2007 The NFL indefinitely suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick without pay for his involvement in dogfighting.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Because of You - Tony Bennett
My Truly, Truly Fair - Guy Mitchell
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
1959
The Three Bells - The Browns
Sea of Love - Phil Phillips
Lavender-Blue - Sammy Turner
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson
1967
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James
1975
Fallin’ in Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
One of These Nights - Eagles
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer
Love Song - The Oak Ridge Boys
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over - Lanny Kravitz
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) - Roxette
You Know Me Better Than That - George Strait
Quote of the Day
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov, actor & author (1921 - 2004)
Today in History - Aug 25th
Today's Birthdays
1819 Allan Pinkerton, created first private detective agency, died July 1, 1884
1909 Ruby (Ethel Hilda) Keeler, dancer/actress (42nd Street, No No Nanette) died Feb 28, 1993
1909 Michael Rennie, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, The Day the Earth Stood Still) died June 10, 1971
1913 Walt Kelly, cartoonist/animator (Pogo) died Oct 19, 1973
1916 (Charles) Van Johnson, actor (Brigadoon, The Caine Mutiny)
1917 Mel Ferrer, actor (The Sun Also Rises, War and Peace) died June 2, 2008
1918 Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor (New York Philharmonic Orchestra) died Oct 14, 1990
1919 George Wallace, Governor of Alabama/segregationist, died Sep 13, 1998
1921 Monty Hall (Halparin), TV host (Let’s Make a Deal)
1927 Althea Gibson, tennis champion, died Sep 28, 2003
1930 Sir Sean Connery, actor (The Untouchables, The Rock, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Rising Sun, Outland, The Longest Day, Dragonheart, Entrapment, James Bond films)
1931 Regis (Francis Xavier) Philbin, TV host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly)
1933 Tom Skerritt, actor (Picket Fences, Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It, M*A*S*H, The Turning Point, Top Gun, Alien)
1936 Gordon Johncock, Indy car driver
1942 Walter Williams, singer (The O’Jays)
1944 Anthony Heald, actor (The Client, Boston Public, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Silence of the Lambs)
1949 John Savage, actor (The Godfather Part 3, The Onion Fields, Hair, The Deer Hunter)
1949 Gene Simmons, bassist (Kiss)
1951 Rob Halford, singer (Judas Priest)
1952 Geoff Downes, pop/rock musician (The Buggles, Asia)
1954 Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick McManus), singer/songwriter (Watching the Detectives, Oliver’s Army, Every Day I Write the Book)
1958 Tim Burton, director (Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!)
1960 Ashley Crow, actress (Heroes)
1961 Ally Walker, actress (Happy Texas, Universal Soldier)
1961 Billy Ray Cyrus, singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1962 Vivian Campbell, guitarist (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
1964 Blair Underwood, actor (L.A. Law)
1964 Joanne Whalley, actress (Trial by Jury, The Singing Detective)
1965 Mia Zapata, punk singer (The Gits) murdered July 7, 1993
1967 Jeff Tweedy, singer (Wilco)
1968 Rachael Ray, TV chef
1968 Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer/songwriter (Belle & Sebastian)
1970 Jo Dee Messina, country singer
1970 Claudia Schiffer, supermodel/actress
1970 Robert Horry, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1972 Marvin Harrison, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Eric Millegan, actor (Bones)
1978 Kel Mitchell, actor (Kenan & Kel)
1981 Rachel Bilson, actress (The O.C.)
1987 Blake Lively, actress (Accepted, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series)
Today's Deaths in History
1867 Michael Faraday, English scientist (electromagnetism and electrochemistry) dies at 75
1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, dies at 55
1939 Babe Siebert, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 35
1945 John Birch, intelligence officer/missionary, is killed by supports of the Communist Party of China at 27
1956 Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher/biologist (The Kinsey Report) dies at 62
1965 Moonlight Graham, baseball player (New York Giants) dies at 87
1967 Paul Muni, actor (The Story of Louis Pasteur) dies at 71
1979 Stan Kenton, jazz bandleader, dies at 67
1984 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood) dies at 59
1985 Samantha Smith, social activist, dies in a plane crash at 13
1998 Lewis F. Powell, Former Supreme Court Justice, dies at 90
1999 Rob Fisher, keyboardist/songwriter (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher) dies at 42
2000 Carl Barks, Disney cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck) dies at 99
2001 Aaliyah, R&B singer/actress, dies in a plane crash at 22
Today in History
1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was formed.
1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.
1814 British forces burned Washington, D.C. and destroyed the White House during the War of 1812.
1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
1894 Shibasaburo Kitasato discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and published his findings in The Lancet.
1916 The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
1921 The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
1943 U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
1944 Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1948 The House Un-American Activities Committee held the first-ever televised congressional hearing.
1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1975 Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run was released.
1981 The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet.
1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the communist country, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.
1991 Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
2003 Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York.
Chart Toppers
1944
Amor - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Time Waits for No One - Helen Forest
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan
1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Already It’s Heaven - David Houston
1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In - Wings
Bring It on Home to Me - Mickey Gilley
1984
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream) - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Quote of the Day
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith, administrator & economist (1908 - 2006)
Today's Birthdays
1819 Allan Pinkerton, created first private detective agency, died July 1, 1884
1909 Ruby (Ethel Hilda) Keeler, dancer/actress (42nd Street, No No Nanette) died Feb 28, 1993
1909 Michael Rennie, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, The Day the Earth Stood Still) died June 10, 1971
1913 Walt Kelly, cartoonist/animator (Pogo) died Oct 19, 1973
1916 (Charles) Van Johnson, actor (Brigadoon, The Caine Mutiny)
1917 Mel Ferrer, actor (The Sun Also Rises, War and Peace) died June 2, 2008
1918 Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor (New York Philharmonic Orchestra) died Oct 14, 1990
1919 George Wallace, Governor of Alabama/segregationist, died Sep 13, 1998
1921 Monty Hall (Halparin), TV host (Let’s Make a Deal)
1927 Althea Gibson, tennis champion, died Sep 28, 2003
1930 Sir Sean Connery, actor (The Untouchables, The Rock, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Rising Sun, Outland, The Longest Day, Dragonheart, Entrapment, James Bond films)
1931 Regis (Francis Xavier) Philbin, TV host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly)
1933 Tom Skerritt, actor (Picket Fences, Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It, M*A*S*H, The Turning Point, Top Gun, Alien)
1936 Gordon Johncock, Indy car driver
1942 Walter Williams, singer (The O’Jays)
1944 Anthony Heald, actor (The Client, Boston Public, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Silence of the Lambs)
1949 John Savage, actor (The Godfather Part 3, The Onion Fields, Hair, The Deer Hunter)
1949 Gene Simmons, bassist (Kiss)
1951 Rob Halford, singer (Judas Priest)
1952 Geoff Downes, pop/rock musician (The Buggles, Asia)
1954 Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick McManus), singer/songwriter (Watching the Detectives, Oliver’s Army, Every Day I Write the Book)
1958 Tim Burton, director (Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!)
1960 Ashley Crow, actress (Heroes)
1961 Ally Walker, actress (Happy Texas, Universal Soldier)
1961 Billy Ray Cyrus, singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1962 Vivian Campbell, guitarist (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
1964 Blair Underwood, actor (L.A. Law)
1964 Joanne Whalley, actress (Trial by Jury, The Singing Detective)
1965 Mia Zapata, punk singer (The Gits) murdered July 7, 1993
1967 Jeff Tweedy, singer (Wilco)
1968 Rachael Ray, TV chef
1968 Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer/songwriter (Belle & Sebastian)
1970 Jo Dee Messina, country singer
1970 Claudia Schiffer, supermodel/actress
1970 Robert Horry, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1972 Marvin Harrison, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Eric Millegan, actor (Bones)
1978 Kel Mitchell, actor (Kenan & Kel)
1981 Rachel Bilson, actress (The O.C.)
1987 Blake Lively, actress (Accepted, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series)
Today's Deaths in History
1867 Michael Faraday, English scientist (electromagnetism and electrochemistry) dies at 75
1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, dies at 55
1939 Babe Siebert, NHL forward (NY Rangers) dies at 35
1945 John Birch, intelligence officer/missionary, is killed by supports of the Communist Party of China at 27
1956 Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher/biologist (The Kinsey Report) dies at 62
1965 Moonlight Graham, baseball player (New York Giants) dies at 87
1967 Paul Muni, actor (The Story of Louis Pasteur) dies at 71
1979 Stan Kenton, jazz bandleader, dies at 67
1984 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood) dies at 59
1985 Samantha Smith, social activist, dies in a plane crash at 13
1998 Lewis F. Powell, Former Supreme Court Justice, dies at 90
1999 Rob Fisher, keyboardist/songwriter (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher) dies at 42
2000 Carl Barks, Disney cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck) dies at 99
2001 Aaliyah, R&B singer/actress, dies in a plane crash at 22
Today in History
1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was formed.
1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.
1814 British forces burned Washington, D.C. and destroyed the White House during the War of 1812.
1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
1894 Shibasaburo Kitasato discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and published his findings in The Lancet.
1916 The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
1921 The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
1943 U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
1944 Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1948 The House Un-American Activities Committee held the first-ever televised congressional hearing.
1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1975 Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run was released.
1981 The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet.
1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the communist country, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.
1991 Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
2003 Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York.
Chart Toppers
1944
Amor - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Time Waits for No One - Helen Forest
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan
1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Already It’s Heaven - David Houston
1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In - Wings
Bring It on Home to Me - Mickey Gilley
1984
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream) - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Quote of the Day
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith, administrator & economist (1908 - 2006)
Today in History - Aug 26th
Today's Birthdays
1740 Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (hot air balloon) died June 26, 1810
1873 Lee DeForest, inventor/‘Father of Radio’ (the triode tube) died June 30, 1961
1906 Albert Sabin, polio researcher (Sabin oral polio vaccine) died Mar 03, 1993
1910 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Roman Catholic nun, died Sept 5, 1997
1920 Brant Parker, cartoonist (The Wizard of Id) died April 15, 2007
1921 Ben (Benjamin C.) Bradlee, executive editor/VP-at-large (The Washington Post)
1922 Irving R. Levine, broadcast journalist/author (Main Street U.S.S.R.)
1935 Geraldine Ferraro, first woman to be nominated for Vice President of the U.S.
1940 Don LaFontaine, voice actor (movie trailers)
1941 Chris Curtis, singer/drummer (The Searchers) died February 28, 2005
1942 Vic Dana, singer (Red Roses for a Blue Lady)
1944 Maureen Tucker, drummer (The Velvet Underground)
1945 Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1946 Swede Savage, Indy car driver, killed in crash during the 1973 Indianapolis 500
1946 Valerie Simpson, R&B singer (Ashford and Simpson)
1952 Michael Jeter, actor (Waterworld, Sister Act 2, The Fisher King, The Green Mile) died Mar 30, 2003
1952 Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor
1957 John O’Neill, guitarist (That Petrol Emotion, The Undertones)
1958 Jet Black (Brian Duffy), drummer (The Stranglers)
1960 Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist/bandleader
1965 Chris Burke, actor (Life Goes On)
1966 Dan Vickrey, guitarist (Counting Crows)
1966 Shirley Manson, singer (Garbage)
1969 Adrian Young, drummer (No Doubt)
1970 Melissa McCarthy, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1979 Jamal Lewis, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1980 Macaulay Culkin, actor (Home Alone series, The Good Son, My Girl, Uncle Buck)
1980 Chris Pine, actor (Just My Luck, Star Trek)
1986 Cassie, R&B singer
Today's Deaths in History
1930 Lon Chaney, Sr., actor (The Man of a Thousand Faces) dies at 47
1968 Kay Francis, actress (The Cocoanuts) dies at 63
1974 Charles Lindbergh, aviation pioneer, dies at 72
1978 Charles Boyer, French actor (The Garden of Allah) dies at 78
1980 Tex Avery, cartoonist (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny) dies at 72
1986 Ted Knight, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack) dies at 62
1992 Arthur Leigh Allen, suspected Zodiac serial killer, dies at 58
1995 Ronald White, singer/songwriter (The Miracles) dies at 56
2004 Laura Branigan, singer (Gloria) dies at 47
2005 Denis D'Amour, guitarist (Voivod) dies at 45
Today in History
1498 Michelangelo was commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1839 The slave ship Amistad was captured off Long Island.
1847 Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1920 The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect.
1939 Major league baseball was televised for the first time when experimental station W2XBS broadcast a doubleheader between the visiting Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
1957 The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1961 The International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I.
1987 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1996 Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, representing major shift in U.S. welfare policy.
1999 Michael Johnson broke the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2003 Investigators concluded that NASA's overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Hey Joe! - Carl Smith
1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
Michael - The Highwaymen
Tender Years - George Jones
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Put a Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Easy - Commodores
Way Down - Elvis Presley
1985
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Real Love - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
Quote of the Day
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Today's Birthdays
1740 Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (hot air balloon) died June 26, 1810
1873 Lee DeForest, inventor/‘Father of Radio’ (the triode tube) died June 30, 1961
1906 Albert Sabin, polio researcher (Sabin oral polio vaccine) died Mar 03, 1993
1910 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Roman Catholic nun, died Sept 5, 1997
1920 Brant Parker, cartoonist (The Wizard of Id) died April 15, 2007
1921 Ben (Benjamin C.) Bradlee, executive editor/VP-at-large (The Washington Post)
1922 Irving R. Levine, broadcast journalist/author (Main Street U.S.S.R.)
1935 Geraldine Ferraro, first woman to be nominated for Vice President of the U.S.
1940 Don LaFontaine, voice actor (movie trailers)
1941 Chris Curtis, singer/drummer (The Searchers) died February 28, 2005
1942 Vic Dana, singer (Red Roses for a Blue Lady)
1944 Maureen Tucker, drummer (The Velvet Underground)
1945 Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1946 Swede Savage, Indy car driver, killed in crash during the 1973 Indianapolis 500
1946 Valerie Simpson, R&B singer (Ashford and Simpson)
1952 Michael Jeter, actor (Waterworld, Sister Act 2, The Fisher King, The Green Mile) died Mar 30, 2003
1952 Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor
1957 John O’Neill, guitarist (That Petrol Emotion, The Undertones)
1958 Jet Black (Brian Duffy), drummer (The Stranglers)
1960 Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist/bandleader
1965 Chris Burke, actor (Life Goes On)
1966 Dan Vickrey, guitarist (Counting Crows)
1966 Shirley Manson, singer (Garbage)
1969 Adrian Young, drummer (No Doubt)
1970 Melissa McCarthy, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1979 Jamal Lewis, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1980 Macaulay Culkin, actor (Home Alone series, The Good Son, My Girl, Uncle Buck)
1980 Chris Pine, actor (Just My Luck, Star Trek)
1986 Cassie, R&B singer
Today's Deaths in History
1930 Lon Chaney, Sr., actor (The Man of a Thousand Faces) dies at 47
1968 Kay Francis, actress (The Cocoanuts) dies at 63
1974 Charles Lindbergh, aviation pioneer, dies at 72
1978 Charles Boyer, French actor (The Garden of Allah) dies at 78
1980 Tex Avery, cartoonist (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny) dies at 72
1986 Ted Knight, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack) dies at 62
1992 Arthur Leigh Allen, suspected Zodiac serial killer, dies at 58
1995 Ronald White, singer/songwriter (The Miracles) dies at 56
2004 Laura Branigan, singer (Gloria) dies at 47
2005 Denis D'Amour, guitarist (Voivod) dies at 45
Today in History
1498 Michelangelo was commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1839 The slave ship Amistad was captured off Long Island.
1847 Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1920 The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect.
1939 Major league baseball was televised for the first time when experimental station W2XBS broadcast a doubleheader between the visiting Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
1957 The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1961 The International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I.
1987 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1996 Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, representing major shift in U.S. welfare policy.
1999 Michael Johnson broke the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2003 Investigators concluded that NASA's overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Hey Joe! - Carl Smith
1961
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
Michael - The Highwaymen
Tender Years - George Jones
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Put a Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Easy - Commodores
Way Down - Elvis Presley
1985
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Real Love - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
Quote of the Day
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Today in History - Aug 27th
Today's Birthdays
0551 B.C. Confucius (K’ung Fu-tzu), philosopher, died in 479 B.C.
1809 Hannibal Hamlin, 15th U.S. Vice President, died July 4, 1891
1865 Charles Dawes, 30th U.S. Vice President, died Apr 23, 1951
1899 C.S. Forester, British author (The African Queen, Horatio Hornblower series) died Apr 2, 1966
1908 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th U.S. President, died Jan 22, 1973
1916 Martha Raye (Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed), comedienne/actress (McMillan and Wife, Airport ’79) died Oct 19, 1994
1937 Tommy (Adrian) Sands, singer (Teen-Age Crush, Goin’ Steady)
1942 Daryl Dragon, keyboardist/songwriter (The Captain & Tennille)
1943 Tuesday Weld (Susan Kerr), actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Falling Down)
1944 Tim Bogert, bassist (Vanilla Fudge)
1947 Barbara Bach (Goldbach), actress (Caveman, The Spy Who Loved Me)
1948 Sgt. Slaughter, wrestler
1949 Jeff Cook, singer/guitarist (Alabama)
1952 Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), comedian/actor (Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Big Top Pee Wee)
1953 Alex Lifeson, guitarist (Rush)
1953 Peter Stormare, actor (Fargo, Armageddon, The Big Lebowski)
1955 Diana Scarwid, actress (Mommy Dearest)
1956 Glen Matlock, bassist (The Sex Pistols)
1963 Downtown Julie Brown, former MTV VJ
1969 Chandra Wilson, actress (Grey's Anatomy)
1970 Tony Kanal, bassist (No Doubt)
1975 Sarah Chalke, actress (Scrubs)
1979 Jon Siebels, guitarist (Eve 6)
1979 Sarah Neufeld, violinist (Arcade Fire)
1980 Rhino, board member
1988 Alexa Vega, actress (Spy Kids films)
Today's Deaths in History
1948 Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dies at 86
1963 Garrett Morgan, inventor (respiratory protective hood: predecessor to the gas mask) dies at 86
1963 W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights activist and scholar, dies at 95
1964 Gracie Allen, actress/comedienne/Mrs George Burns, dies at 69
1967 Brian Epstein, Beatles manager, dies at 32
1971 Bennett Cerf, publisher/television personality (Random House) dies at 73
1971 Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (Fortune magazine) dies at 67
1975 Haile Selassie, Ethiopian monarch, dies at 83
1979 Lord Louis Mountbatten, British war hero, is killed at 79
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist (Pride and Joy) is killed in a helicopter crash at 35
1996 Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible) dies at 62
2006 Jesse Pintado, guitarist (Napalm Death) dies at 37
Today in History
1660 John Milton’s books were burned in London, because of the author’s attacks on King Charles II.
1858 The first cabled news dispatch was sent to and published by The New York Sun newspaper.
1883 The island volcano Krakatoa erupted; the resulting tidal waves claimed some 36,000 lives on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.
1889 Boxer Jack Dempsey was defeated for the first time in his career as George LaBlanche used the pivot punch to knock Dempsey out.
1892 Fire seriously damaged New York City's original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street.
1912 Tarzan of the Apes was published by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs.
1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
1939 The Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft, made its first flight.
1945 American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1962 The United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
1970 Elton John’s first concert in America was held at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA.
1981 Divers probing the wreckage of the luxury cruise ship Andrea Doria recovered two safes from the purser’s office; the safes contained about $1 million in cash and jewelry.
1984 Diane Sawyer became the fifth reporter on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes.
1990 The British Broadcasting Corporation launched BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming.
1993 The Florida Department of Transportation decided to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it could make use of federal funds for those signs.
1993 The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, was completed.
2001 Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows and killed senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.
2003 A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery.
2003 Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Surrender - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
Things - Bobby Darin
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King
1970
Make It with You - Bread
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
War - Edwin Starr
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James
1978
Grease - Frankie Valli
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Talking in Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle
1986
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Strong Heart - T.G. Sheppard
Quote of the Day
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
Today's Birthdays
0551 B.C. Confucius (K’ung Fu-tzu), philosopher, died in 479 B.C.
1809 Hannibal Hamlin, 15th U.S. Vice President, died July 4, 1891
1865 Charles Dawes, 30th U.S. Vice President, died Apr 23, 1951
1899 C.S. Forester, British author (The African Queen, Horatio Hornblower series) died Apr 2, 1966
1908 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th U.S. President, died Jan 22, 1973
1916 Martha Raye (Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed), comedienne/actress (McMillan and Wife, Airport ’79) died Oct 19, 1994
1937 Tommy (Adrian) Sands, singer (Teen-Age Crush, Goin’ Steady)
1942 Daryl Dragon, keyboardist/songwriter (The Captain & Tennille)
1943 Tuesday Weld (Susan Kerr), actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Falling Down)
1944 Tim Bogert, bassist (Vanilla Fudge)
1947 Barbara Bach (Goldbach), actress (Caveman, The Spy Who Loved Me)
1948 Sgt. Slaughter, wrestler
1949 Jeff Cook, singer/guitarist (Alabama)
1952 Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), comedian/actor (Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Big Top Pee Wee)
1953 Alex Lifeson, guitarist (Rush)
1953 Peter Stormare, actor (Fargo, Armageddon, The Big Lebowski)
1955 Diana Scarwid, actress (Mommy Dearest)
1956 Glen Matlock, bassist (The Sex Pistols)
1963 Downtown Julie Brown, former MTV VJ
1969 Chandra Wilson, actress (Grey's Anatomy)
1970 Tony Kanal, bassist (No Doubt)
1975 Sarah Chalke, actress (Scrubs)
1979 Jon Siebels, guitarist (Eve 6)
1979 Sarah Neufeld, violinist (Arcade Fire)
1980 Rhino, board member
1988 Alexa Vega, actress (Spy Kids films)
Today's Deaths in History
1948 Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice, dies at 86
1963 Garrett Morgan, inventor (respiratory protective hood: predecessor to the gas mask) dies at 86
1963 W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights activist and scholar, dies at 95
1964 Gracie Allen, actress/comedienne/Mrs George Burns, dies at 69
1967 Brian Epstein, Beatles manager, dies at 32
1971 Bennett Cerf, publisher/television personality (Random House) dies at 73
1971 Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (Fortune magazine) dies at 67
1975 Haile Selassie, Ethiopian monarch, dies at 83
1979 Lord Louis Mountbatten, British war hero, is killed at 79
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist (Pride and Joy) is killed in a helicopter crash at 35
1996 Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible) dies at 62
2006 Jesse Pintado, guitarist (Napalm Death) dies at 37
Today in History
1660 John Milton’s books were burned in London, because of the author’s attacks on King Charles II.
1858 The first cabled news dispatch was sent to and published by The New York Sun newspaper.
1883 The island volcano Krakatoa erupted; the resulting tidal waves claimed some 36,000 lives on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.
1889 Boxer Jack Dempsey was defeated for the first time in his career as George LaBlanche used the pivot punch to knock Dempsey out.
1892 Fire seriously damaged New York City's original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street.
1912 Tarzan of the Apes was published by writer Edgar Rice Burroughs.
1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
1939 The Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft, made its first flight.
1945 American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1962 The United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
1970 Elton John’s first concert in America was held at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA.
1981 Divers probing the wreckage of the luxury cruise ship Andrea Doria recovered two safes from the purser’s office; the safes contained about $1 million in cash and jewelry.
1984 Diane Sawyer became the fifth reporter on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes.
1990 The British Broadcasting Corporation launched BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming.
1993 The Florida Department of Transportation decided to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it could make use of federal funds for those signs.
1993 The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, was completed.
2001 Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows and killed senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.
2003 A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery.
2003 Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Surrender - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts
The Little Shoemaker - The Gaylords
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
Things - Bobby Darin
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King
1970
Make It with You - Bread
Spill the Wine - Eric Burdon & War
War - Edwin Starr
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James
1978
Grease - Frankie Valli
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Talking in Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle
1986
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Strong Heart - T.G. Sheppard
Quote of the Day
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
Today in History - Aug 28th
Today's Birthdays
1632 John Locke, English philosopher, died October 28, 1704
1749 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, writer (Faust) died Mar 22, 1832
1774 Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint, died Jan 4, 1821
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (War and Peace) died Nov 7, 1910
1897 Charles Boyer, actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Barefoot in the Park, Casino Royale) died Aug 26, 1978
1917 Jack Kirby, comic book artist (Fantastic Four, X-Men, Hulk, Captain America) died Feb 6, 1994
1921 Nancy Kulp, actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) died Feb 3, 1991
1924 Peggy Ryan, actress (Hawaii Five-O) died Oct 30, 2004
1925 Donald (David Dixon) O’Connor, dancer/singer/actor (Singin’ in the Rain, Toys, Out to Sea) died Sep 27, 2003
1929 Roxie Roker, actress (The Jeffersons) died Dec 2, 1995
1930 Ben (Biagio Anthony) Gazzara, actor (Run for Your Life, Arrest and Trial, Anatomy of a Murder, Roadhouse)
1932 Andy Bathgate, Hockey Hall of Fame center (New York Rangers)
1940 Richard Sanders, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1942 Sterling Morrison, guitarist (The Velvet Underground) died Aug 30, 1995
1943 David Soul (Solberg), actor/singer (Starsky and Hutch, Salem’s Lot)
1948 Daniel Seraphine, drummer (Chicago)
1951 Wayne Osmond, singer (The Osmond Brothers)
1957 Rick Rossovich, actor (ER, Roxanne, Top Gun, The Lords of Discipline)
1957 Daniel Stern, actor (City Slickers series, Home Alone series, Diner, Breaking Away)
1958 Scott Hamilton, Olympic Hall of Fame figure skater
1960 Emma Samms (Samuelson), actress (Dynasty, General Hospital)
1963 Jennifer Coolidge, actress (American Pie series, Legally Blonde, Best in Show)
1965 Amanda Tapping, actress (Stargate: Atlantis)
1965 Shania Twain (Eilleen Regina Edwards), singer (I Feel Like a Woman)
1968 Billy Boyd, actor (Lord of the Rings series)
1969 Jason Priestley, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Tombstone)
1969 Jack Black, actor (School of Rock, Nacho Libre)
1978 Max Collins, bassist/lead singer (Eve 6)
1980 Carly Pope, actress (Orange County)
1982 LeeAnn Rimes, country singer (Blue, Can’t Fight the Moonlight)
Today's Deaths in History
1820 Andrew Ellicott, surveyor (Washington D.C.) dies at 66
1955 Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon, is killed at 14
1976 Anissa Jones, actress (Family Affair) dies at 18
1978 Robert Shaw, actor (Jaws) dies at 51
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress/writer (Adam's Rib) dies at 88
1987 John Huston, movie director (Treasure of the Sierra Madre) dies at 81
2007 Arthur Jones, inventor (Nautilus exercise machines) dies at 80
2007 Hilly Kristal, club founder (CBGB) dies at 75
2007 Miyoshi Umeki, actress (Flower Drum Song, The Courtship of Eddie's Father) dies at 78
Today in History
1609 Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1845 Scientific American magazine published its first issue.
1898 Caleb Bradham renamed his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola."
1907 UPS was founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1917 Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.
1922 The first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. It was a 10-minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid $100.
1947 Legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day.
1953 Nippon Television broadcasted Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he was accused of whistling at a white woman; he was found murdered three days later.
1961 Motown released what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman," by The Marvelettes.
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
1981 John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1981 The National Centers for Disease Control announced a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men; these would be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder called AIDS.
1986 U.S. Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988 Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided; the wreckage fell into the crowd, killing 75 seriously wounding 346.
1990 Iraq declared Kuwait to be its newest province.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.
1996 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana were divorced after 15 years of marriage.
2002 Prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse; both later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.
2005 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Ask Anyone Who Knows - The Ink Spots
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Seventeen - Boyd Bennett & His Rockets
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! - Allan Sherman
Candy Girl - Four Seasons
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1971
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Good Lovin’ (Makes It Right) - Tammy Wynette
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
1987
Who’s That Girl - Madonna
La Bamba - Los Lobos
Luka - Suzanne Vega
Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right) - Restless Heart
Quote of the Day
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster, diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852)
Today's Birthdays
1632 John Locke, English philosopher, died October 28, 1704
1749 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, writer (Faust) died Mar 22, 1832
1774 Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint, died Jan 4, 1821
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (War and Peace) died Nov 7, 1910
1897 Charles Boyer, actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Barefoot in the Park, Casino Royale) died Aug 26, 1978
1917 Jack Kirby, comic book artist (Fantastic Four, X-Men, Hulk, Captain America) died Feb 6, 1994
1921 Nancy Kulp, actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) died Feb 3, 1991
1924 Peggy Ryan, actress (Hawaii Five-O) died Oct 30, 2004
1925 Donald (David Dixon) O’Connor, dancer/singer/actor (Singin’ in the Rain, Toys, Out to Sea) died Sep 27, 2003
1929 Roxie Roker, actress (The Jeffersons) died Dec 2, 1995
1930 Ben (Biagio Anthony) Gazzara, actor (Run for Your Life, Arrest and Trial, Anatomy of a Murder, Roadhouse)
1932 Andy Bathgate, Hockey Hall of Fame center (New York Rangers)
1940 Richard Sanders, actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1942 Sterling Morrison, guitarist (The Velvet Underground) died Aug 30, 1995
1943 David Soul (Solberg), actor/singer (Starsky and Hutch, Salem’s Lot)
1948 Daniel Seraphine, drummer (Chicago)
1951 Wayne Osmond, singer (The Osmond Brothers)
1957 Rick Rossovich, actor (ER, Roxanne, Top Gun, The Lords of Discipline)
1957 Daniel Stern, actor (City Slickers series, Home Alone series, Diner, Breaking Away)
1958 Scott Hamilton, Olympic Hall of Fame figure skater
1960 Emma Samms (Samuelson), actress (Dynasty, General Hospital)
1963 Jennifer Coolidge, actress (American Pie series, Legally Blonde, Best in Show)
1965 Amanda Tapping, actress (Stargate: Atlantis)
1965 Shania Twain (Eilleen Regina Edwards), singer (I Feel Like a Woman)
1968 Billy Boyd, actor (Lord of the Rings series)
1969 Jason Priestley, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Tombstone)
1969 Jack Black, actor (School of Rock, Nacho Libre)
1978 Max Collins, bassist/lead singer (Eve 6)
1980 Carly Pope, actress (Orange County)
1982 LeeAnn Rimes, country singer (Blue, Can’t Fight the Moonlight)
Today's Deaths in History
1820 Andrew Ellicott, surveyor (Washington D.C.) dies at 66
1955 Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon, is killed at 14
1976 Anissa Jones, actress (Family Affair) dies at 18
1978 Robert Shaw, actor (Jaws) dies at 51
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress/writer (Adam's Rib) dies at 88
1987 John Huston, movie director (Treasure of the Sierra Madre) dies at 81
2007 Arthur Jones, inventor (Nautilus exercise machines) dies at 80
2007 Hilly Kristal, club founder (CBGB) dies at 75
2007 Miyoshi Umeki, actress (Flower Drum Song, The Courtship of Eddie's Father) dies at 78
Today in History
1609 Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1845 Scientific American magazine published its first issue.
1898 Caleb Bradham renamed his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola."
1907 UPS was founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1917 Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.
1922 The first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. It was a 10-minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid $100.
1947 Legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day.
1953 Nippon Television broadcasted Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he was accused of whistling at a white woman; he was found murdered three days later.
1961 Motown released what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman," by The Marvelettes.
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
1981 John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1981 The National Centers for Disease Control announced a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men; these would be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder called AIDS.
1986 U.S. Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988 Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided; the wreckage fell into the crowd, killing 75 seriously wounding 346.
1990 Iraq declared Kuwait to be its newest province.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.
1996 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana were divorced after 15 years of marriage.
2002 Prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse; both later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.
2005 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Ask Anyone Who Knows - The Ink Spots
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Seventeen - Boyd Bennett & His Rockets
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Fingertips - Pt 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! - Allan Sherman
Candy Girl - Four Seasons
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
1971
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Good Lovin’ (Makes It Right) - Tammy Wynette
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
The Main Event/Fight - Barbra Streisand
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
1987
Who’s That Girl - Madonna
La Bamba - Los Lobos
Luka - Suzanne Vega
Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right) - Restless Heart
Quote of the Day
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster, diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852)
Today in History - Aug 29th
Today's Birthdays
1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician/author/poet (Old Ironsides) died Oct 7, 1894
1876 Charles F. Kettering, inventor (automotive electric systems/starters) died Nov 24, 1958
1912 (Patrick) Barry Sullivan, actor (The Bad and the Beautiful, Oh, God!) died June 6, 1994
1915 Ingrid Bergman, actress (Gaslight, Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express, Casablanca) died Aug 29, 1982
1917 Isabel Sanford, actress (The Jeffersons) died July 9, 2004
1920 Charlie (Charles Christopher) "The Bird" Parker, Jr., jazz saxophonist, died Mar 12, 1955
1923 Sir Richard Attenborough, actor/director (Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape)
1924 Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones), singer (What A Diff’rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You) died Dec 14, 1963
1928 Charles Gray, English actor (Diamonds are Forever, Rocky Horror Picture Show) died Mar 7, 2000
1935 William Friedkin, director (The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band)
1936 Sen. John McCain, presidential hopeful (R-Ariz)
1938 Elliott Gould (Goldstein), actor (Bob & Carol Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H)
1939 Joel Schumacher, film director (The Lost Boys, Batman Forever)
1940 James Brady, White House Press Secretary to Ronald Reagan
1941 Robin Leach, TV host (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous)
1945 G.W. Bailey, actor (Police Academy series, Mannequin)
1952 Dave Malone, guitarist (The Radiators)
1958 Michael (Joe) Jackson, ‘King of Pop,’ R&B singer/alleged pedophile
1962 Rebecca De Mornay (Rebecca George), actress (Risky Business, The Three Musketeers)
1969 Me'Shell Ndegé Ocello, singer (John Mellencamp)
1971 Carla Gugino, actress (Spy Kids, Karen Sisco, Spin City)
1975 Kyle Cook, guitarist (Matchbox 20)
1977 John Hensley, actor (Nip/Tuck)
Today's Deaths in History
1877 Brigham Young, Mormon leader/settler, dies at 76
1931 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, dies at 64
1976 Jimmy Reed, blues singer, dies at 50
1981 Lowell Thomas, writer/broadcaster (made Lawrence of Arabia famous) dies at 88
1982 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Casablanca) dies on her 67th birthday
1987 Lee Marvin, actor (The Dirty Dozen) dies at 63
2002 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (The Avengers) dies at 82
2007 Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, dies at 44
Today in History
1533 The last Incan king, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, began in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1831 Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
1885 Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first motorcycle.
1898 The Goodyear tire company was founded.
1915 US Navy salvage divers raised F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1944 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
1949 The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1957 Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., ended the longest filibuster in Senate history after talking for 24 hours, 18 minutes against a civil rights bill.
1958 The United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1965 Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
1966 The Beatles performed their last concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1996 President Bill Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
2000 Pope John Paul II endorsed organ donation and adult stem cell study but condemned human cloning and embryo experiments.
2002 A judge in Norwalk, Conn., sentenced Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to 20 years to life in prison for bludgeoning his teenage neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing along with nearly 100 worshippers as they left a mosque in Najaf.
2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisana coast, overwhelming the levees protecting New Orleans and causing massive flooding; more than 1,500 people died.
2007 A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident took place as a B-52 flew with nuclear tipped missiles between Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Allegheny Moon - Patti Page
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
C’mon and Swim - Bobby Freeman
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry - Jerry Wallace
1980
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
1988
Monkey - George Michael
I Don’t Wanna to Go on with You like That - Elton John
I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love - Chicago
The Wanderer - Eddie Rabbitt
Quote of the Day
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the U.S. (1884 - 1972)
Today's Birthdays
1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician/author/poet (Old Ironsides) died Oct 7, 1894
1876 Charles F. Kettering, inventor (automotive electric systems/starters) died Nov 24, 1958
1912 (Patrick) Barry Sullivan, actor (The Bad and the Beautiful, Oh, God!) died June 6, 1994
1915 Ingrid Bergman, actress (Gaslight, Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express, Casablanca) died Aug 29, 1982
1917 Isabel Sanford, actress (The Jeffersons) died July 9, 2004
1920 Charlie (Charles Christopher) "The Bird" Parker, Jr., jazz saxophonist, died Mar 12, 1955
1923 Sir Richard Attenborough, actor/director (Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape)
1924 Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones), singer (What A Diff’rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You) died Dec 14, 1963
1928 Charles Gray, English actor (Diamonds are Forever, Rocky Horror Picture Show) died Mar 7, 2000
1935 William Friedkin, director (The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band)
1936 Sen. John McCain, presidential hopeful (R-Ariz)
1938 Elliott Gould (Goldstein), actor (Bob & Carol Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H)
1939 Joel Schumacher, film director (The Lost Boys, Batman Forever)
1940 James Brady, White House Press Secretary to Ronald Reagan
1941 Robin Leach, TV host (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous)
1945 G.W. Bailey, actor (Police Academy series, Mannequin)
1952 Dave Malone, guitarist (The Radiators)
1958 Michael (Joe) Jackson, ‘King of Pop,’ R&B singer/alleged pedophile
1962 Rebecca De Mornay (Rebecca George), actress (Risky Business, The Three Musketeers)
1969 Me'Shell Ndegé Ocello, singer (John Mellencamp)
1971 Carla Gugino, actress (Spy Kids, Karen Sisco, Spin City)
1975 Kyle Cook, guitarist (Matchbox 20)
1977 John Hensley, actor (Nip/Tuck)
Today's Deaths in History
1877 Brigham Young, Mormon leader/settler, dies at 76
1931 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, dies at 64
1976 Jimmy Reed, blues singer, dies at 50
1981 Lowell Thomas, writer/broadcaster (made Lawrence of Arabia famous) dies at 88
1982 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Casablanca) dies on her 67th birthday
1987 Lee Marvin, actor (The Dirty Dozen) dies at 63
2002 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (The Avengers) dies at 82
2007 Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, dies at 44
Today in History
1533 The last Incan king, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, began in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1831 Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
1885 Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first motorcycle.
1898 The Goodyear tire company was founded.
1915 US Navy salvage divers raised F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1944 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
1949 The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1957 Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., ended the longest filibuster in Senate history after talking for 24 hours, 18 minutes against a civil rights bill.
1958 The United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1965 Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
1966 The Beatles performed their last concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1996 President Bill Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
2000 Pope John Paul II endorsed organ donation and adult stem cell study but condemned human cloning and embryo experiments.
2002 A judge in Norwalk, Conn., sentenced Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to 20 years to life in prison for bludgeoning his teenage neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing along with nearly 100 worshippers as they left a mosque in Najaf.
2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Louisana coast, overwhelming the levees protecting New Orleans and causing massive flooding; more than 1,500 people died.
2007 A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident took place as a B-52 flew with nuclear tipped missiles between Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold
1956
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Allegheny Moon - Patti Page
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1964
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
C’mon and Swim - Bobby Freeman
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry - Jerry Wallace
1980
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
1988
Monkey - George Michael
I Don’t Wanna to Go on with You like That - Elton John
I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love - Chicago
The Wanderer - Eddie Rabbitt
Quote of the Day
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the U.S. (1884 - 1972)
Today in History - Aug 30th
Today's Birthdays
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author/wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (Frankenstein) died Feb 1, 1851
1896 Raymond (Hart) Massey, actor (Battle Cry, East of Eden, Dr. Kildare) died July 29, 1983
1898 Shirley Booth (Thelma Booth Ford), actress (Come Back Little Sheba, The Matchmaker, Hazel) died Oct 16, 1992
1908 Fred (Fredrick Martin) MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons, The Caine Mutiny, The Apartment, The Absent-Minded Professor) died Nov 5, 1991
1918 Ted (Theodore Samuel) Williams, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder/US Marine fighter pilot (Boston Red Sox)
1919 Kitty Wells (Muriel Ellen Deason), The Queen of Country Music
1927 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer, died September 28, 2004
1927 Bill Daily, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show)
1931 John "Jack" Swigert Jr., NASA astronaut (Apollo 13) died Dec 27, 1982
1935 John Phillips, singer (The Mamas & The Papas) died Mar 18, 2001
1943 Jean-Claude Killy, Olympic Gold Medal skier
1943 Robert Crumb, cartoonist (Fritz the Cat)
1944 Tug (Frank Edwin) McGraw, MLB pitcher (NY Mets) died Jan 5, 2004
1947 Peggy Lipton, actress (Twin Peaks, The Mod Squad)
1948 Lewis Black, comedian/actor (Accepted)
1951 Timothy Bottoms, actor (Last Picture Show, Texasville, East of Eden)
1953 Robert Parish, Basketball Hall of Famer (Boston Celtics)
1953 Horace Panter, bassist (The Specials, General Public)
1953 Robin Harris, comedian/actor (Bébé's Kids) died Mar 18, 1990
1954 David Paymer, actor (Get Shorty, City Slickers series, The American President)
1958 Martin Jackson, drummer (Swing out Sister)
1963 Michael Chiklis, actor (The Shield, Fantastic Four)
1964 Robert Clivilles, music producer (C+C Music Factory)
1966 Michael Michele, actress (ER, Homicide: Life on the Street)
1968 Vladimir Malakhov, NHL player (NY Rangers)
1971 Lars Frederiksen, guitarist (Rancid)
1972 Cameron Diaz, model/actress (There’s Something About Mary, Charlie’s Angels)
1973 Lisa Ling, TV personality (The View)
1974 Aaron Barrett, guitarist/singer (Reel Big Fish)
1977 Elden Henson, actor (The Mighty, Mighty Ducks series)
1978 Matt Taul, musician (Days of the New, Tantric)
1982 Andy Roddick, tennis champion
1986 Ryan Ross, guitarist (Panic! At the Disco)
Today's Deaths in History
1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (Father of Microbiology) dies at 90
1938 Max Factor, make-up artist/cosmetic manufacturer, dies at 61
1961 Charles Coburn, actor (The More the Merrier, The Devil and Miss Jones) dies at 84
1981 Vera-Ellen, actress (White Christmas, On the Town) dies at 60
1993 Richard Jordan, actor (The Hunt for Red October) dies at 56
1995 Sterling Morrison, guitarist (The Velvet Underground) dies at 53
2003 Charles Bronson, actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape) dies at 81
2004 Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (hypothesis of comet composition) dies at 97
2006 Glenn Ford, actor (Blackboard Jungle, The Teahouse of the August Moon) dies at 90
Today in History
1836 The city of Houston was founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
1862 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va.
1905 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1918 Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.
1941 Nazi forces began a siege of Leningrad during World War II that lasted nearly two and a half years.
1945 Hong Kong was liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1963 A hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.
1965 Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited was released.
1967 The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court.
1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first African-American astronaut to travel in space when he blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1989 A federal jury in New York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion.
1990 President George H.W. Bush told a news conference that a "new world order" could emerge from the Persian Gulf crisis.
1993 The Late Show with David Letterman premiered on CBS.
1999 Residents of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored ballot.
2005 One day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floodwaters covered 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
1965
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
Help! - The Beatles
California Girls - The Beach Boys
Yes, Mr. Peters - Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell
1973
Brother Louie - Stories
Live and Let Die - Wings
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Everybody’s Had the Blues - Merle Haggard
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me - Ronnie Milsap
1989
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Are You Ever Gonna Love Me - Holly Dunn
Quote of the Day
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
Today's Birthdays
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author/wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (Frankenstein) died Feb 1, 1851
1896 Raymond (Hart) Massey, actor (Battle Cry, East of Eden, Dr. Kildare) died July 29, 1983
1898 Shirley Booth (Thelma Booth Ford), actress (Come Back Little Sheba, The Matchmaker, Hazel) died Oct 16, 1992
1908 Fred (Fredrick Martin) MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons, The Caine Mutiny, The Apartment, The Absent-Minded Professor) died Nov 5, 1991
1918 Ted (Theodore Samuel) Williams, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder/US Marine fighter pilot (Boston Red Sox)
1919 Kitty Wells (Muriel Ellen Deason), The Queen of Country Music
1927 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer, died September 28, 2004
1927 Bill Daily, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show)
1931 John "Jack" Swigert Jr., NASA astronaut (Apollo 13) died Dec 27, 1982
1935 John Phillips, singer (The Mamas & The Papas) died Mar 18, 2001
1943 Jean-Claude Killy, Olympic Gold Medal skier
1943 Robert Crumb, cartoonist (Fritz the Cat)
1944 Tug (Frank Edwin) McGraw, MLB pitcher (NY Mets) died Jan 5, 2004
1947 Peggy Lipton, actress (Twin Peaks, The Mod Squad)
1948 Lewis Black, comedian/actor (Accepted)
1951 Timothy Bottoms, actor (Last Picture Show, Texasville, East of Eden)
1953 Robert Parish, Basketball Hall of Famer (Boston Celtics)
1953 Horace Panter, bassist (The Specials, General Public)
1953 Robin Harris, comedian/actor (Bébé's Kids) died Mar 18, 1990
1954 David Paymer, actor (Get Shorty, City Slickers series, The American President)
1958 Martin Jackson, drummer (Swing out Sister)
1963 Michael Chiklis, actor (The Shield, Fantastic Four)
1964 Robert Clivilles, music producer (C+C Music Factory)
1966 Michael Michele, actress (ER, Homicide: Life on the Street)
1968 Vladimir Malakhov, NHL player (NY Rangers)
1971 Lars Frederiksen, guitarist (Rancid)
1972 Cameron Diaz, model/actress (There’s Something About Mary, Charlie’s Angels)
1973 Lisa Ling, TV personality (The View)
1974 Aaron Barrett, guitarist/singer (Reel Big Fish)
1977 Elden Henson, actor (The Mighty, Mighty Ducks series)
1978 Matt Taul, musician (Days of the New, Tantric)
1982 Andy Roddick, tennis champion
1986 Ryan Ross, guitarist (Panic! At the Disco)
Today's Deaths in History
1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (Father of Microbiology) dies at 90
1938 Max Factor, make-up artist/cosmetic manufacturer, dies at 61
1961 Charles Coburn, actor (The More the Merrier, The Devil and Miss Jones) dies at 84
1981 Vera-Ellen, actress (White Christmas, On the Town) dies at 60
1993 Richard Jordan, actor (The Hunt for Red October) dies at 56
1995 Sterling Morrison, guitarist (The Velvet Underground) dies at 53
2003 Charles Bronson, actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape) dies at 81
2004 Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (hypothesis of comet composition) dies at 97
2006 Glenn Ford, actor (Blackboard Jungle, The Teahouse of the August Moon) dies at 90
Today in History
1836 The city of Houston was founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
1862 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va.
1905 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1918 Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.
1941 Nazi forces began a siege of Leningrad during World War II that lasted nearly two and a half years.
1945 Hong Kong was liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1963 A hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.
1965 Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited was released.
1967 The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court.
1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first African-American astronaut to travel in space when he blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1989 A federal jury in New York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion.
1990 President George H.W. Bush told a news conference that a "new world order" could emerge from the Persian Gulf crisis.
1993 The Late Show with David Letterman premiered on CBS.
1999 Residents of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored ballot.
2005 One day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floodwaters covered 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Room Full of Roses - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
1965
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
Help! - The Beatles
California Girls - The Beach Boys
Yes, Mr. Peters - Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell
1973
Brother Louie - Stories
Live and Let Die - Wings
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Everybody’s Had the Blues - Merle Haggard
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me - Ronnie Milsap
1989
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Are You Ever Gonna Love Me - Holly Dunn
Quote of the Day
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
Today in History - Aug 31st
Today's Birthdays
0012 Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, died Jan 24, 0041
1870 Maria Montessori, educator (Montessori schools) died May 6, 1952
1897 Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel), actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives) died Apr 14, 1975
1903 Arthur (Morton) Godfrey, ukulele playing/TV & radio entertainer (Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts) died Mar 16, 1983
1908 William Saroyan, playwright (The Time of Your Life) died May 18, 1981
1916 Daniel Schorr, journalist (CBS News, CNN)
1918 Alan Jay Lerner, songwriter/lyricist (Gigi, An American in Paris, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, Camelot, My Fair Lady) died June 14, 1986
1920 G.D. Spradlin, actor (North Dallas Forty, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part 2)
1924 Buddy Hackett (Leonard Hacker), comedian/actor (The Love Bug) died Jun 30, 2003
1928 James Coburn, actor (The Great Escape, Our Man Flint, The Magnificent Seven) died Nov 18, 2002
1935 Eldridge Cleaver, activist (Black Panthers) died May 1, 1998
1935 Frank Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer (Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, LA Dodgers, California Angels, Cleveland Indians)
1939 Jerry Allison, drummer (The Crickets)
1940 Jack Thompson, actor (Breaker Morant, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
1945 Itzhak Perlman, violin virtuoso
1945 Van Morrison, songwriter/singer (Brown Eyed Girl, Domino)
1946 Tom Coughlin, NFL coach (NY Giants)
1949 Richard Gere, actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, American Gigolo)
1952 Rudolph Schenker, guitarist (Scorpions)
1957 Glenn Tilbrook, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Squeeze)
1957 Gina Schock, drummer (The Go-Gos)
1963 Reb Beach, guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1969 Jeff Russo, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Tonic)
1970 Queen Rania, wife of Jordan's King Abdullah II
1970 Deborah (Ann) Gibson, singer (Only in My Dreams)
1970 Greg Richling, bassist (Wallflowers)
1972 Chris Tucker, actor (Rush Hour series, The Fifth Element, Jackie Brown)
1975 Sara Ramirez, actress (Gery's Anatomy, Spamalot)
1983 Larry Fitzgerald, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
Today's Deaths in History
1422 King Henry V of England dies at 34
1888 Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, first victim of Jack the Ripper, is murdered at 43
1948 Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, actor (Our Gang) dies at 16
1969 Rocky Marciano, boxing champion, dies in a plane crash at 45
1973 John Ford, film director (The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath) dies at 79
1979 Sally Rand, dancer/actress (Bolero) dies at 75
1997 Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris at 36
1997 Dodi Al-Fayed, film producer, dies in a car crash in Paris at 42
2000 Patricia Owens, actress (The Fly) dies at 75
2002 Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician and bandleader, dies at 94
2005 Michael Sheard, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back)
Today in History
1864 Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launched an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1886 An earthquake rocked Charleston, S.C., killing up to 110 people.
1888 A prostitute, Mary Ann Nicholls, was found murdered in London's East End; she is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.
1897 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1920 The first radio news program was broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.
1948 Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a Hollywood drug raid; he wwa later found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1954 Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.
1962 The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1963 Walter Cronkite began his stint as anchor of the CBS Evening News.
1978 William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, pleaded guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980 Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.
1985 California's "Night Stalker" killer Richard Ramirez was captured by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood.
1991 Kyrgyzstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that claimed the lives of Weaver's wife and son and a deputy U.S. marshal.
1994 Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century.
1997 Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at 36.
2001 A Bronx, N.Y., team's third-place finish in the Little League World Series was ruled invalid because one player was two years older than the age limit of 12.
2004 A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station, killing 10 people.
2005 Some 1,000 people were killed when a religious procession across a Baghdad bridge was engulfed in panic over rumors of a suicide bomber.
2006 Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium.
2007 Mike Nifong, the former district attorney of Durham County, N.C., was sentenced to a day in jail for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Sam’s Song - Bing & Gary Crosby
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
My True Love - Jack Scott
Blue Blue Day - Don Gibson
1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
See You in September - The Happenings
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
The Grand Tour - George Jones
1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Fool Hearted Memory - George Strait
1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Come Back to Me - Janet Jackson
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation
Next to You, Next to Me - Shenandoah
Quote of the Day
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., jurist (1841 - 1935)
Today's Birthdays
0012 Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, died Jan 24, 0041
1870 Maria Montessori, educator (Montessori schools) died May 6, 1952
1897 Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel), actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives) died Apr 14, 1975
1903 Arthur (Morton) Godfrey, ukulele playing/TV & radio entertainer (Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts) died Mar 16, 1983
1908 William Saroyan, playwright (The Time of Your Life) died May 18, 1981
1916 Daniel Schorr, journalist (CBS News, CNN)
1918 Alan Jay Lerner, songwriter/lyricist (Gigi, An American in Paris, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, Camelot, My Fair Lady) died June 14, 1986
1920 G.D. Spradlin, actor (North Dallas Forty, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part 2)
1924 Buddy Hackett (Leonard Hacker), comedian/actor (The Love Bug) died Jun 30, 2003
1928 James Coburn, actor (The Great Escape, Our Man Flint, The Magnificent Seven) died Nov 18, 2002
1935 Eldridge Cleaver, activist (Black Panthers) died May 1, 1998
1935 Frank Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer (Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, LA Dodgers, California Angels, Cleveland Indians)
1939 Jerry Allison, drummer (The Crickets)
1940 Jack Thompson, actor (Breaker Morant, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
1945 Itzhak Perlman, violin virtuoso
1945 Van Morrison, songwriter/singer (Brown Eyed Girl, Domino)
1946 Tom Coughlin, NFL coach (NY Giants)
1949 Richard Gere, actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, American Gigolo)
1952 Rudolph Schenker, guitarist (Scorpions)
1957 Glenn Tilbrook, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Squeeze)
1957 Gina Schock, drummer (The Go-Gos)
1963 Reb Beach, guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1969 Jeff Russo, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Tonic)
1970 Queen Rania, wife of Jordan's King Abdullah II
1970 Deborah (Ann) Gibson, singer (Only in My Dreams)
1970 Greg Richling, bassist (Wallflowers)
1972 Chris Tucker, actor (Rush Hour series, The Fifth Element, Jackie Brown)
1975 Sara Ramirez, actress (Gery's Anatomy, Spamalot)
1983 Larry Fitzgerald, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
Today's Deaths in History
1422 King Henry V of England dies at 34
1888 Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, first victim of Jack the Ripper, is murdered at 43
1948 Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, actor (Our Gang) dies at 16
1969 Rocky Marciano, boxing champion, dies in a plane crash at 45
1973 John Ford, film director (The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath) dies at 79
1979 Sally Rand, dancer/actress (Bolero) dies at 75
1997 Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris at 36
1997 Dodi Al-Fayed, film producer, dies in a car crash in Paris at 42
2000 Patricia Owens, actress (The Fly) dies at 75
2002 Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician and bandleader, dies at 94
2005 Michael Sheard, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back)
Today in History
1864 Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launched an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1886 An earthquake rocked Charleston, S.C., killing up to 110 people.
1888 A prostitute, Mary Ann Nicholls, was found murdered in London's East End; she is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.
1897 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1920 The first radio news program was broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.
1948 Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a Hollywood drug raid; he wwa later found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1954 Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.
1962 The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1963 Walter Cronkite began his stint as anchor of the CBS Evening News.
1978 William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, pleaded guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980 Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.
1985 California's "Night Stalker" killer Richard Ramirez was captured by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood.
1991 Kyrgyzstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that claimed the lives of Weaver's wife and son and a deputy U.S. marshal.
1994 Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century.
1997 Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at 36.
2001 A Bronx, N.Y., team's third-place finish in the Little League World Series was ruled invalid because one player was two years older than the age limit of 12.
2004 A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station, killing 10 people.
2005 Some 1,000 people were killed when a religious procession across a Baghdad bridge was engulfed in panic over rumors of a suicide bomber.
2006 Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium.
2007 Mike Nifong, the former district attorney of Durham County, N.C., was sentenced to a day in jail for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Sam’s Song - Bing & Gary Crosby
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
Little Star - The Elegants
My True Love - Jack Scott
Blue Blue Day - Don Gibson
1966
Summer in the City - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
See You in September - The Happenings
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
(You’re) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
The Grand Tour - George Jones
1982
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Fool Hearted Memory - George Strait
1990
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
Come Back to Me - Janet Jackson
If Wishes Came True - Sweet Sensation
Next to You, Next to Me - Shenandoah
Quote of the Day
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., jurist (1841 - 1935)
Today in History - Sept 1st
Today's Birthdays
1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer (Canon in D) died Mar 3, 1706
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, opera composer (Hansel and Gretel) died Sep 27, 1921
1866 James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight boxing champion, died Feb 18, 1933
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer (Tarzan of the Apes) died Mar 19, 1950
1907 Walter (Philip) Reuther, labor union leader (United Automobile Workers, CIO) killed in plane crash May 9, 1970
1920 Richard Farnsworth, actor (The Two Jakes, The Natural, The Straight Story) died Oct 6, 2000
1922 Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton), actress (The Munsters) died Jan 8, 2007
1923 Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano), undefeated World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, died Aug 31, 1969
1928 George Maharis (Maharias), actor (Route 66, Rich Man Poor Man, Exodus)
1929 Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama from the Train) died Aug 11, 1988
1931 Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin), ‘The Singing Hobo,’ songwriter/singer, died Apr 12, 1999
1933 Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins), country singer/songwriter (Hello Darlin’) died June 5, 1993
1937 Ron O’Neal, actor (Super Fly, Red Dawn, The Equalizer) died Jan 14, 2004
1939 Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin, comedienne/actress (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The West Wing)
1940 Dave White (Tricker), singer/songwriter (Danny & The Juniors)
1943 Don Stroud, actor (Amityville Horror, The Buddy Holly Story)
1946 Barry Gibb, rhythm guitarist/songwriter/singer (The BeeGees)
1946 Greg Errico, drummer (Sly and The Family Stone)
1950 Phil McGraw, talk show host (Dr. Phil)
1955 Bruce Foxton, bassist (The Jam)
1957 Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo), singer (Queen of Latin Pop)
1961 Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary
1966 Tim Hardaway, NBA point guard (Indiana Pacers)
1971 Ricardo Antonio Chavira, actor (Desperate Housewives)
1975 Scott Speedman, actor (Felicity)
1981 Clinton Portis, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1984 Joe Trohman, guitarist (Fall Out Boy)
1985 Camile Velasco, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
Today's Deaths in History
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada) dies at 65
1715 King Louis XIV of France dies at 76
1947 Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement, dies at 86
1977 Ethel Waters, singer (His Eye is on the Sparrow) dies at 76
1981 Albert Speer, Nazi official, dies at 76
1986 Murray Hamilton, actor (Jaws, Jaws 2) dies at 63
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, Baseball Commissioner, dies at 51
Today in History
1532 Lady Anne Boleyn was made Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1715 King Louis XIV of France died after a reign of 72 years, the longest of any major European monarch.
1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1897 The Boston subway, the first underground rapid transit system in North America, opened.
1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
1923 The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed some 150,000 lives.
1932 New York City Mayor James "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his administration.
1939 World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.
1969 A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
1972 American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
1974 The SR-71 Blackbird set (and still holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1982 The United States Air Force Space Command was founded.
1983 A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.
1985 A joint American-French expedition located the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs of the season, breaking the National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
2004 More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal.
2006 Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
2007 Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, announced that he would resign in the wake of fallout over his guilty plea in a Minnesota airport gay sex sting; he later reversed his decision, saying he would serve out the rest of his term.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
Shangai - Doris Day
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sea of Love - Phil Phillips
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James
1975
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - James Taylor
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Maniac - Michael Sembello
You’re Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation - Ronnie McDowell
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) - Roxette
Wind of Change - Scorpions
You Know Me Better Than That - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 - 1895)
Today's Birthdays
1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer (Canon in D) died Mar 3, 1706
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, opera composer (Hansel and Gretel) died Sep 27, 1921
1866 James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight boxing champion, died Feb 18, 1933
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer (Tarzan of the Apes) died Mar 19, 1950
1907 Walter (Philip) Reuther, labor union leader (United Automobile Workers, CIO) killed in plane crash May 9, 1970
1920 Richard Farnsworth, actor (The Two Jakes, The Natural, The Straight Story) died Oct 6, 2000
1922 Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton), actress (The Munsters) died Jan 8, 2007
1923 Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano), undefeated World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, died Aug 31, 1969
1928 George Maharis (Maharias), actor (Route 66, Rich Man Poor Man, Exodus)
1929 Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama from the Train) died Aug 11, 1988
1931 Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin), ‘The Singing Hobo,’ songwriter/singer, died Apr 12, 1999
1933 Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins), country singer/songwriter (Hello Darlin’) died June 5, 1993
1937 Ron O’Neal, actor (Super Fly, Red Dawn, The Equalizer) died Jan 14, 2004
1939 Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin, comedienne/actress (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The West Wing)
1940 Dave White (Tricker), singer/songwriter (Danny & The Juniors)
1943 Don Stroud, actor (Amityville Horror, The Buddy Holly Story)
1946 Barry Gibb, rhythm guitarist/songwriter/singer (The BeeGees)
1946 Greg Errico, drummer (Sly and The Family Stone)
1950 Phil McGraw, talk show host (Dr. Phil)
1955 Bruce Foxton, bassist (The Jam)
1957 Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo), singer (Queen of Latin Pop)
1961 Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary
1966 Tim Hardaway, NBA point guard (Indiana Pacers)
1971 Ricardo Antonio Chavira, actor (Desperate Housewives)
1975 Scott Speedman, actor (Felicity)
1981 Clinton Portis, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1984 Joe Trohman, guitarist (Fall Out Boy)
1985 Camile Velasco, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
Today's Deaths in History
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada) dies at 65
1715 King Louis XIV of France dies at 76
1947 Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement, dies at 86
1977 Ethel Waters, singer (His Eye is on the Sparrow) dies at 76
1981 Albert Speer, Nazi official, dies at 76
1986 Murray Hamilton, actor (Jaws, Jaws 2) dies at 63
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, Baseball Commissioner, dies at 51
Today in History
1532 Lady Anne Boleyn was made Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1715 King Louis XIV of France died after a reign of 72 years, the longest of any major European monarch.
1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1897 The Boston subway, the first underground rapid transit system in North America, opened.
1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
1923 The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed some 150,000 lives.
1932 New York City Mayor James "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his administration.
1939 World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.
1969 A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
1972 American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
1974 The SR-71 Blackbird set (and still holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1982 The United States Air Force Space Command was founded.
1983 A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.
1985 A joint American-French expedition located the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs of the season, breaking the National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
2004 More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal.
2006 Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
2007 Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, announced that he would resign in the wake of fallout over his guilty plea in a Minnesota airport gay sex sting; he later reversed his decision, saying he would serve out the rest of his term.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
Shangai - Doris Day
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sea of Love - Phil Phillips
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin
I’ll Never Find Another You - Sonny James
1975
Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - James Taylor
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
1983
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Maniac - Michael Sembello
You’re Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation - Ronnie McDowell
1991
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) - Roxette
Wind of Change - Scorpions
You Know Me Better Than That - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 - 1895)
Today in History - Sept 2nd
Today's Birthdays
1838 Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (last monarch of the Hawaiian kingdom) died Nov 11, 1917
1918 Martha Mitchell (Beall), socialite (wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell) died May 31, 1976
1937 Peter Ueberroth, businessman/promoter (1984 Summer Olympics in LA; Major League Baseball Commissioner)
1940 Jimmy Clanton, singer/songwriter (Venus in Blue Jeans)
1943 Rosalind Ashford, singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1943 Glen Sather, hockey executive (NY Rangers)
1946 Marty Grebb, keyboards (The Buckinghams)
1946 Billy Preston, keyboards/composer (the unofficial "fifth Beatle") died Jun 6, 2006
1948 Nate (Nathaniel) ‘Tiny’ Archibald, Basketball Hall of Famer (New York Nets, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 Terry Bradshaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback/sportscaster (Pittsburgh Steelers, Fox Sports)
1948 Christa McAuliffe (Sharon Christa Corrigan), teacher/astronaut, killed in Challenger explosion Jan 28, 1986
1950 Rosanna DeSoto, actress (La Bamba, Stand and Deliver)
1951 Mark Harmon, actor (Navy NCIS, St. Elsewhere, Summer School)
1952 Jimmy Connors, tennis champion
1955 Linda Purl, actress (Happy Days, Matlock)
1957 Steve Porcaro, keyboards/singer (Toto)
1958 Fritz McIntyre, keyboards (Simply Red)
1958 Jerry Augustyniak, drummer (10,000 Maniacs)
1960 Eric Dickerson, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (LA Rams, Indianapolis Colts, LA Raiders, Atlanta Falcons)
1964 Keanu Reeves, actor (Speed, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Parenthood, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons, Matrix series, Point Break)
1965 Lennox Lewis, heavyweight champion boxer
1966 Salma Hayek, actress/producer (From Dusk til Dawn, Desperado, Dogma, Frida, Ugly Betty)
1968 Cynthia Watros, actress (Titus, Lost)
1969 Stéphane Matteau, NHL player (NY Rangers)
1977 Sam Rivers, bassist (Limp Bizkit)
1987 Spencer Smith, drummer (Panic! at the Disco)
Today's Deaths in History
0490 BC Pheidippides, Greek runner (Battle of Marathon) dies at 40
1910 Henri Rousseau, French painter (Post-Impressionist) dies at 66
1964 Alvin York, soldier/Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 72
1969 Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam, dies at 79
1973 J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings) dies at 81
2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (first successful herat transplant) dies at 78
2001 Troy Donahue, actor (Godfather Part II) dies at 65
2005 Bob Denver, actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) dies at 70
2006 Bob Mathias, Olympic athlete/congressman, dies at 75
Today in History
1666 The Great Fire of London broke out and burned for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including St. Paul's Cathedral.
1789 The U.S. Treasury Department was established.
1864 Union Gen. William T. Sherman's forces occupied Atlanta during the Civil War.
1885 In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attacked their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
1935 A hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming 423 lives.
1944 Navy pilot George H.W. Bush was shot down by Japanese forces as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands; the future president was rescued by a U.S. submarine.
1945 Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic.
1945 Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II.
1963 Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
1963 The CBS Evening News was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States was installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1983 Tom Brokaw took over as sole anchor of NBC's Nightly News.
1991 The United States recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1992 The United States and Russia agreed to build a space station.
1998 A Swissair jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard.
2003 A federal appeals court in San Francisco threw out more than 100 death sentences in Arizona, Montana and Idaho because the inmates had been sent to death row by judges instead of juries.
2004 President George W. Bush accepted his party's nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
2005 A National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina. President George W. Bush acknowledged the government's failure to stop lawlessness and help desperate people during a daylong tour of the Gulf Coast.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
It Could Happen to You - Jo Stafford
Soldier’s Last Letter - Ernest Tubb
1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In - Wings
(I’m A) Stand by My Woman Man - Ronnie Milsap
1984
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Missing You - John Waite
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Let’s Fall to Pieces Together - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Today's Birthdays
1838 Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (last monarch of the Hawaiian kingdom) died Nov 11, 1917
1918 Martha Mitchell (Beall), socialite (wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell) died May 31, 1976
1937 Peter Ueberroth, businessman/promoter (1984 Summer Olympics in LA; Major League Baseball Commissioner)
1940 Jimmy Clanton, singer/songwriter (Venus in Blue Jeans)
1943 Rosalind Ashford, singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1943 Glen Sather, hockey executive (NY Rangers)
1946 Marty Grebb, keyboards (The Buckinghams)
1946 Billy Preston, keyboards/composer (the unofficial "fifth Beatle") died Jun 6, 2006
1948 Nate (Nathaniel) ‘Tiny’ Archibald, Basketball Hall of Famer (New York Nets, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 Terry Bradshaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback/sportscaster (Pittsburgh Steelers, Fox Sports)
1948 Christa McAuliffe (Sharon Christa Corrigan), teacher/astronaut, killed in Challenger explosion Jan 28, 1986
1950 Rosanna DeSoto, actress (La Bamba, Stand and Deliver)
1951 Mark Harmon, actor (Navy NCIS, St. Elsewhere, Summer School)
1952 Jimmy Connors, tennis champion
1955 Linda Purl, actress (Happy Days, Matlock)
1957 Steve Porcaro, keyboards/singer (Toto)
1958 Fritz McIntyre, keyboards (Simply Red)
1958 Jerry Augustyniak, drummer (10,000 Maniacs)
1960 Eric Dickerson, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (LA Rams, Indianapolis Colts, LA Raiders, Atlanta Falcons)
1964 Keanu Reeves, actor (Speed, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Parenthood, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons, Matrix series, Point Break)
1965 Lennox Lewis, heavyweight champion boxer
1966 Salma Hayek, actress/producer (From Dusk til Dawn, Desperado, Dogma, Frida, Ugly Betty)
1968 Cynthia Watros, actress (Titus, Lost)
1969 Stéphane Matteau, NHL player (NY Rangers)
1977 Sam Rivers, bassist (Limp Bizkit)
1987 Spencer Smith, drummer (Panic! at the Disco)
Today's Deaths in History
0490 BC Pheidippides, Greek runner (Battle of Marathon) dies at 40
1910 Henri Rousseau, French painter (Post-Impressionist) dies at 66
1964 Alvin York, soldier/Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 72
1969 Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam, dies at 79
1973 J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings) dies at 81
2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (first successful herat transplant) dies at 78
2001 Troy Donahue, actor (Godfather Part II) dies at 65
2005 Bob Denver, actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) dies at 70
2006 Bob Mathias, Olympic athlete/congressman, dies at 75
Today in History
1666 The Great Fire of London broke out and burned for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including St. Paul's Cathedral.
1789 The U.S. Treasury Department was established.
1864 Union Gen. William T. Sherman's forces occupied Atlanta during the Civil War.
1885 In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attacked their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
1935 A hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming 423 lives.
1944 Navy pilot George H.W. Bush was shot down by Japanese forces as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands; the future president was rescued by a U.S. submarine.
1945 Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic.
1945 Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II.
1963 Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.
1963 The CBS Evening News was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States was installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1983 Tom Brokaw took over as sole anchor of NBC's Nightly News.
1991 The United States recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1992 The United States and Russia agreed to build a space station.
1998 A Swissair jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard.
2003 A federal appeals court in San Francisco threw out more than 100 death sentences in Arizona, Montana and Idaho because the inmates had been sent to death row by judges instead of juries.
2004 President George W. Bush accepted his party's nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
2005 A National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina. President George W. Bush acknowledged the government's failure to stop lawlessness and help desperate people during a daylong tour of the Gulf Coast.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
It Could Happen to You - Jo Stafford
Soldier’s Last Letter - Ernest Tubb
1952
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
1960
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Walk--Don’t Run - The Ventures
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Let ’Em In - Wings
(I’m A) Stand by My Woman Man - Ronnie Milsap
1984
What’s Love Got to Do with It - Tina Turner
Missing You - John Waite
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Let’s Fall to Pieces Together - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Today in History - Sept 3rd
Today's Birthdays
1875 Ferdinand Porsche, auto designer, died Jan 30, 1951
1910 Kitty Carlisle (Catherine Conn), actress/TV panelist (A Night at the Opera, To Tell the Truth) died April 17, 2007
1913 Alan (Walbridge) Ladd, actor (Citizen Kane, Shane) died Jan 29, 1964
1923 Mort Walker (Addison), cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois)
1926 Irene Papas, Greek actress (The Guns of navarone, Zorba the Greek)
1931 Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler, died November 25, 1973
1933 Tompall (Tom Paul) Glaser, country singer (The Glaser Brothers)
1935 Eileen Brennan, actress (Private Benjamin, The Last Picture Show, The Sting)
1940 Pauline Collins, actress (Shirley Valentine, City of Joy, Upstairs Downstairs)
1942 Al Jardine, songwriter/singer/bass/guitar (The Beach Boys)
1943 Valerie Perrine, actress (Lenny, Superman)
1945 George Biondo, bassist (Steppenwolf)
1947 Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1948 Donald Brewer, drummer (Grand Funk Railroad, The Silver Bullet Band)
1950 Doug Pinnick, bassist/singer (King's X)
1955 Steve Jones, rock guitarist (The Sex Pistols)
1964 Adam Curry, TV personality (MTV VJ)
1965 Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez), actor (Platoon, Young Guns, Major League series)
1965 Costas Mandylor, actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1969 Dominic West, British actor (The Wire, Rock Star)
1972 Martin Straka, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1978 Michal Rozsival, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1979 Tomo Miličević, guitarist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 Cone McCaslin, bassist (Sum 41)
1980 Jennie Finch, Olympic softball player
1986 Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White, Olympic snowboarder
1987 Knight of Dight, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies at 59
1893 James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (mechanical refrigeration) dies at 77
1962 e. e. cummings, poet, dies at 67
1967 James Dunn, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) dies at 65
1970 "Blind Owl" Wilson, singer/songwriter (Canned Heat) dies at 27
1970 Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach (Green Bay Packers) dies at 57
1991 Frank Capra, film director (It's a Wonderful Life) dies at 94
1994 Major Lance, R&B singer (The Monkey Time) dies at 55
2005 William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 80
2007 Steve Ryan, actor (Arrested Development) dies at 55
Today in History
1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.
1777 The flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County, Delaware.
1783 The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
1929 The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17, it's pre-crash high.
1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reached 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
1944 Diarist Anne Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz.
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1971 Qatar became an independent state.
1976 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
1978 Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1994 China and Russia pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force against each other.
1995 eBay was founded.
1997 Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire; the conviction was overturned in 1999.
2004 A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
2005 President George W. Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his administration intensified efforts to send aid to the hurricane-ravaged region in the face of criticism it did not act quickly enough.
2006 Tennis player Andre Agassi retired after losing his third-round match at the U.S. Open.
2007 Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
Gotta Be This or That - Benny Goodman
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
Michael - The Highwaymen
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got (Until You Lose It) - Ral Donner
Tender Years - George Jones
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Put a Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
1985
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Love is Alive - The Judds
Quote of the Day
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French general & politician (1769 - 1821)
Today's Birthdays
1875 Ferdinand Porsche, auto designer, died Jan 30, 1951
1910 Kitty Carlisle (Catherine Conn), actress/TV panelist (A Night at the Opera, To Tell the Truth) died April 17, 2007
1913 Alan (Walbridge) Ladd, actor (Citizen Kane, Shane) died Jan 29, 1964
1923 Mort Walker (Addison), cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois)
1926 Irene Papas, Greek actress (The Guns of navarone, Zorba the Greek)
1931 Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler, died November 25, 1973
1933 Tompall (Tom Paul) Glaser, country singer (The Glaser Brothers)
1935 Eileen Brennan, actress (Private Benjamin, The Last Picture Show, The Sting)
1940 Pauline Collins, actress (Shirley Valentine, City of Joy, Upstairs Downstairs)
1942 Al Jardine, songwriter/singer/bass/guitar (The Beach Boys)
1943 Valerie Perrine, actress (Lenny, Superman)
1945 George Biondo, bassist (Steppenwolf)
1947 Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1948 Donald Brewer, drummer (Grand Funk Railroad, The Silver Bullet Band)
1950 Doug Pinnick, bassist/singer (King's X)
1955 Steve Jones, rock guitarist (The Sex Pistols)
1964 Adam Curry, TV personality (MTV VJ)
1965 Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez), actor (Platoon, Young Guns, Major League series)
1965 Costas Mandylor, actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1969 Dominic West, British actor (The Wire, Rock Star)
1972 Martin Straka, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1978 Michal Rozsival, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1979 Tomo Miličević, guitarist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 Cone McCaslin, bassist (Sum 41)
1980 Jennie Finch, Olympic softball player
1986 Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White, Olympic snowboarder
1987 Knight of Dight, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies at 59
1893 James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (mechanical refrigeration) dies at 77
1962 e. e. cummings, poet, dies at 67
1967 James Dunn, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) dies at 65
1970 "Blind Owl" Wilson, singer/songwriter (Canned Heat) dies at 27
1970 Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach (Green Bay Packers) dies at 57
1991 Frank Capra, film director (It's a Wonderful Life) dies at 94
1994 Major Lance, R&B singer (The Monkey Time) dies at 55
2005 William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 80
2007 Steve Ryan, actor (Arrested Development) dies at 55
Today in History
1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.
1777 The flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County, Delaware.
1783 The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
1929 The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17, it's pre-crash high.
1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reached 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
1944 Diarist Anne Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz.
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1971 Qatar became an independent state.
1976 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
1978 Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1994 China and Russia pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force against each other.
1995 eBay was founded.
1997 Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire; the conviction was overturned in 1999.
2004 A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
2005 President George W. Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his administration intensified efforts to send aid to the hurricane-ravaged region in the face of criticism it did not act quickly enough.
2006 Tennis player Andre Agassi retired after losing his third-round match at the U.S. Open.
2007 Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
Gotta Be This or That - Benny Goodman
You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
Michael - The Highwaymen
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got (Until You Lose It) - Ral Donner
Tender Years - George Jones
1969
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Put a Little Love in Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
1985
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
Love is Alive - The Judds
Quote of the Day
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French general & politician (1769 - 1821)
Today in History - Sept 4th
Today's Birthdays
1803 Sarah Childress Polk, First, died Aug 14, 1891
1908 Richard Wright, author (Black Boy, The Outsider) died Nov 28, 1960
1913 Mickey Cohen, gangster, died July 29, 1976
1917 Henry Ford II, head of Ford Motor Co., died Sep 29, 1987
1918 Paul Harvey, news commentator (The Rest of the Story)
1919 Howard Morris, comedian/actor/director (Splash, High Anxiety, The Nutty Professor) died May 21, 2005
1928 Dick (Richard Allen) York, actor (Bewitched) died Feb 20, 1992
1931 Mitzi Gaynor, singer/dancer/actress (South Pacific)
1942 Raymond Floyd, golf champion
1942 Merald ‘Bubba’ Knight, singer (Gladys Knight and the Pips)
1945 Gene Parsons, drummer (The Byrds)
1945 Danny Gatton, guitarist, committed suicide October 4, 1994
1946 Gary Duncan (Grubb), guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1946 Greg Elmore, drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1949 Tom Watson, golf champion
1950 Ronald LaPread, bassist (Commodores)
1951 Martin Chambers, drummer (The Pretenders)
1951 Judith Ivey, actress (Designing Women)
1953 Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
1957 Khandi Alexander, actress (CSI: Miami)
1958 David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host
1960 Damon Wayans, actor/comedian (My Wife and Kids)
1960 Kim Thayil, guitarist (Soundgarden)
1963 John Vanbiesbrouck, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1965 Sergio Momesso, NHL left Wing (NY Rangers)
1968 Mike Piazza, MLB catcher/DH (Oakland A's)
1969 Noah Taylor, actor (Shine, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Almost Famous)
1970 Igor Cavalera, drummer (Sepultura)
1971 Ione Skye, actress (Say Anything)
1974 Carmit Bachar, singer/dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1978 Wes Bentley, actor (American Beauty)
1981 Rick91981, board member/computer guru/Mr Fixit!
1981 Beyonce Knowles, singer/dancer/actress
Today's Deaths in History
1907 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt) dies at 64
1965 Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary/Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 90
1990 Irene Dunne, actress (Anna and the King of Siam) dies at 91
1991 Dottie West, country singer, dies at 58
1991 Charlie Barnet, jazz saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 77
1993 Hervé Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island) dies at 50
1995 Chuck Greenberg, jazz musician (Shadowfax) dies at 45
1998 Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer (A Patch of Blue) dies at 86
2001 Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio personality (Howard Stern) dies at 39
2006 Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, dies at 44
Today in History
1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.
1886 After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrendered with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
1888 George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: Kodak.
1894 In New York City, 12,000 tailors struck against sweatshop working conditions.
1917 The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.
1950 The Beetle Bailey comic strip made its first appearance.
1950 The inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race, was held at Darlington Raceway.
1951 In the first live coast-to-coast TV broadcast, President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco.
1956 The IBM RAMAC 305 was introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.
1957 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.
1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
1967 Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam; the comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.
1972 Swimmer Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games when the United States won the 400-meter relay in Munich.
1972 Thieves stole 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.
2002 Singer Kelly Clarkson was voted the first American Idol on the Fox TV series.
2006 "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray's barb pierced his chest.
2007 Toy maker Mattel Inc. recalled 800,000 lead-tainted, Chinese-made toys worldwide, a third major recall in just over a month.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Surrender - Perry Como
Doin’ What Comes Naturally - Dinah Shore
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Skokiaan - Ralph Marterie
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Party Lights - Claudine Clark
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
War - Edwin Starr
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
(If You Let Me Make Love to You) Why Can’t I Touch You? - Ronnie Dyson
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James
1978
Grease - Frankie Valli
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Blue Skies - Willie Nelson
1986
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Heartbeat in the Darkness - Don Williams
Quote of the Day
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
Today's Birthdays
1803 Sarah Childress Polk, First, died Aug 14, 1891
1908 Richard Wright, author (Black Boy, The Outsider) died Nov 28, 1960
1913 Mickey Cohen, gangster, died July 29, 1976
1917 Henry Ford II, head of Ford Motor Co., died Sep 29, 1987
1918 Paul Harvey, news commentator (The Rest of the Story)
1919 Howard Morris, comedian/actor/director (Splash, High Anxiety, The Nutty Professor) died May 21, 2005
1928 Dick (Richard Allen) York, actor (Bewitched) died Feb 20, 1992
1931 Mitzi Gaynor, singer/dancer/actress (South Pacific)
1942 Raymond Floyd, golf champion
1942 Merald ‘Bubba’ Knight, singer (Gladys Knight and the Pips)
1945 Gene Parsons, drummer (The Byrds)
1945 Danny Gatton, guitarist, committed suicide October 4, 1994
1946 Gary Duncan (Grubb), guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1946 Greg Elmore, drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1949 Tom Watson, golf champion
1950 Ronald LaPread, bassist (Commodores)
1951 Martin Chambers, drummer (The Pretenders)
1951 Judith Ivey, actress (Designing Women)
1953 Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
1957 Khandi Alexander, actress (CSI: Miami)
1958 David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host
1960 Damon Wayans, actor/comedian (My Wife and Kids)
1960 Kim Thayil, guitarist (Soundgarden)
1963 John Vanbiesbrouck, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1965 Sergio Momesso, NHL left Wing (NY Rangers)
1968 Mike Piazza, MLB catcher/DH (Oakland A's)
1969 Noah Taylor, actor (Shine, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Almost Famous)
1970 Igor Cavalera, drummer (Sepultura)
1971 Ione Skye, actress (Say Anything)
1974 Carmit Bachar, singer/dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1978 Wes Bentley, actor (American Beauty)
1981 Rick91981, board member/computer guru/Mr Fixit!
1981 Beyonce Knowles, singer/dancer/actress
Today's Deaths in History
1907 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt) dies at 64
1965 Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary/Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 90
1990 Irene Dunne, actress (Anna and the King of Siam) dies at 91
1991 Dottie West, country singer, dies at 58
1991 Charlie Barnet, jazz saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 77
1993 Hervé Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island) dies at 50
1995 Chuck Greenberg, jazz musician (Shadowfax) dies at 45
1998 Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer (A Patch of Blue) dies at 86
2001 Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio personality (Howard Stern) dies at 39
2006 Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, dies at 44
Today in History
1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.
1886 After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrendered with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
1888 George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: Kodak.
1894 In New York City, 12,000 tailors struck against sweatshop working conditions.
1917 The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.
1950 The Beetle Bailey comic strip made its first appearance.
1950 The inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race, was held at Darlington Raceway.
1951 In the first live coast-to-coast TV broadcast, President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco.
1956 The IBM RAMAC 305 was introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.
1957 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.
1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
1967 Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam; the comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.
1972 Swimmer Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games when the United States won the 400-meter relay in Munich.
1972 Thieves stole 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.
2002 Singer Kelly Clarkson was voted the first American Idol on the Fox TV series.
2006 "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray's barb pierced his chest.
2007 Toy maker Mattel Inc. recalled 800,000 lead-tainted, Chinese-made toys worldwide, a third major recall in just over a month.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Surrender - Perry Como
Doin’ What Comes Naturally - Dinah Shore
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Skokiaan - Ralph Marterie
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Party Lights - Claudine Clark
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
War - Edwin Starr
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
(If You Let Me Make Love to You) Why Can’t I Touch You? - Ronnie Dyson
Don’t Keep Me Hangin’ On - Sonny James
1978
Grease - Frankie Valli
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Blue Skies - Willie Nelson
1986
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Venus - Bananarama
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Heartbeat in the Darkness - Don Williams
Quote of the Day
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
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, 1980
1902 Darryl F. (Francis) Zanuck, film producer (The Jazz Singer, The Grapes of Wrath) 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 (The Kingston Trio; 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)
1947 Buddy Miles, drummer (Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys) died February 26, 2008
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 (Scream, Jawbreaker)
Today's Deaths in History
1548 Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII, dies at 36
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.
1882 The nation's first Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
1905 The Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire.
1906 The first legal forward pass in American football was thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22-0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
1914 The First Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1927 The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, was released by Universal Pictures.
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.
1957 On the Road by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published.
1958 Doctor Zhivago, by Russian author Boris Pasternak, was published in the United States.
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.
1972 Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.
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.
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat began the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts for chief justice.
2006 Felipe Calderon was declared Mexico's president-elect after two months of uncertainty over a disputed election.
2007 3 terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and U.S. military installations.
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
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
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, 1980
1902 Darryl F. (Francis) Zanuck, film producer (The Jazz Singer, The Grapes of Wrath) 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 (The Kingston Trio; 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)
1947 Buddy Miles, drummer (Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys) died February 26, 2008
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 (Scream, Jawbreaker)
Today's Deaths in History
1548 Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII, dies at 36
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.
1882 The nation's first Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
1905 The Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire.
1906 The first legal forward pass in American football was thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22-0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
1914 The First Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1927 The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, was released by Universal Pictures.
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.
1957 On the Road by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published.
1958 Doctor Zhivago, by Russian author Boris Pasternak, was published in the United States.
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.
1972 Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.
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.
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat began the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts for chief justice.
2006 Felipe Calderon was declared Mexico's president-elect after two months of uncertainty over a disputed election.
2007 3 terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and U.S. military installations.
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
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
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 Elizabeth Vargas, broadcast journalist (20/20)
1962 Kevin Miller, drummer (Fuel)
1967 Rosie Perez, actress (Fearless)
1970 Macy Gray, R&B singer
1971 Dolores O'Riordan, singer (The Cranberries)
1972 Idris Elba, actor (The Wire)
1972 Anika Noni Rose, actress (Dreamgirls)
1974 Justin Whalin, actor (The Dead Pool, Dungeons & Dragons)
1974 Nina Persson, singer (The Cardigans)
1976 Naomie Harris, actress (Pirates of the Caribbean series)
19?? RedHerring, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1782 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson, dies at 33
1966 Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (Planned Parentgood) dies at 86
1981 Christy Brown, Irish author (My Left Foot) dies at 49
1984 Ernest Tubb, country music star, dies at 70
1985 Johnny Desmond, singer (Just Say I Love Her) dies at 65
1987 Quinn Martin, television producer (The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, Barnaby Jones) dies at 65
1990 Tom Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) dies at 48
1998 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director (Rashomon) dies at 88
2003 Harry Goz, actor (Sealab 2021) dies at 71
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
Today in History
1522 The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
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.
1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
1949 Allied military authorities relinquished control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1949 A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh killed 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
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.
1975 Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1976 Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko landed a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requested political asylum in the United States.
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.
1991 The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 The name Saint Petersburg was restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
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 of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.
1997 Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service 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.
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
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov, English actor & author (1921 - 2004)
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 Elizabeth Vargas, broadcast journalist (20/20)
1962 Kevin Miller, drummer (Fuel)
1967 Rosie Perez, actress (Fearless)
1970 Macy Gray, R&B singer
1971 Dolores O'Riordan, singer (The Cranberries)
1972 Idris Elba, actor (The Wire)
1972 Anika Noni Rose, actress (Dreamgirls)
1974 Justin Whalin, actor (The Dead Pool, Dungeons & Dragons)
1974 Nina Persson, singer (The Cardigans)
1976 Naomie Harris, actress (Pirates of the Caribbean series)
19?? RedHerring, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1782 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson, dies at 33
1966 Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (Planned Parentgood) dies at 86
1981 Christy Brown, Irish author (My Left Foot) dies at 49
1984 Ernest Tubb, country music star, dies at 70
1985 Johnny Desmond, singer (Just Say I Love Her) dies at 65
1987 Quinn Martin, television producer (The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, Barnaby Jones) dies at 65
1990 Tom Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) dies at 48
1998 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director (Rashomon) dies at 88
2003 Harry Goz, actor (Sealab 2021) dies at 71
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
Today in History
1522 The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
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.
1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
1949 Allied military authorities relinquished control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1949 A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh killed 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
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.
1975 Czechoslovakian tennis player Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum.
1976 Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko landed a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requested political asylum in the United States.
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.
1991 The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 The name Saint Petersburg was restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
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 of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
1996 Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers.
1997 Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a funeral service 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.
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
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov, English actor & author (1921 - 2004)
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, died July 11, 2008
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
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) died March 17, 1997
1961 Leroi Moore, saxophonist (The Dave Matthews Band) died August 19, 2008
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)
1976 Oliver Hudson, actor (Rules of Engagement)
1978 Devon Sawa, actor (Casper, Slackers)
1981 Paul McCoy, singer (12 Stones)
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
1994 Terence Young, British film director (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Thunderball) dies at 79
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, former dictator of Zaire, died in exile at 66
2002 Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (Uzi) dies at 78
2003 Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter (Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London) dies at 56
Today in History
1776 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 in the world's first submarine attack.
1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1901 The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania set sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1915 Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle was given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
1921 The first Miss America Pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1927 TV pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using a device called an image dissector.
1940 Nazi Germany's 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.
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
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 made its cable TV debut.
1979 The Chrysler Corporation asked the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
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 Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later at age 25.
1998 Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
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.
1999 A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
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
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain. humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
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, died July 11, 2008
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
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) died March 17, 1997
1961 Leroi Moore, saxophonist (The Dave Matthews Band) died August 19, 2008
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)
1976 Oliver Hudson, actor (Rules of Engagement)
1978 Devon Sawa, actor (Casper, Slackers)
1981 Paul McCoy, singer (12 Stones)
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
1994 Terence Young, British film director (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Thunderball) dies at 79
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, former dictator of Zaire, died in exile at 66
2002 Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (Uzi) dies at 78
2003 Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter (Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London) dies at 56
Today in History
1776 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 in the world's first submarine attack.
1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1901 The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania set sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1915 Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle was given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
1921 The first Miss America Pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1927 TV pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using a device called an image dissector.
1940 Nazi Germany's 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.
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
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 made its cable TV debut.
1979 The Chrysler Corporation asked the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
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 Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later at age 25.
1998 Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
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.
1999 A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
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
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain. humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
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)
1964 Marc Gordon, R&B singer (Levert)
1971 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)
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
1970 Percy Spencer, inventor (microwave oven) dies at 76
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.
1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, was found in London.
1900 Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.
1921 Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.
1930 The comic strip Blondie, created by Chic Young, was first published.
1930 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape.
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.
1952 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway was published.
1966 The TV series Star Trek premiered on NBC.
1968 The Beatles performed their last live TV performance on the David Frost show.
1974 President Gerald R. Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Richard M. Nixon.
1975 Boston's public schools began a court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1975 Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appeared 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.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in a single season, hitting No. 62 off Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.
1999 Attorney General Janet Reno named former 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 George W. 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
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
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)
1964 Marc Gordon, R&B singer (Levert)
1971 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)
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
1970 Percy Spencer, inventor (microwave oven) dies at 76
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.
1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, was found in London.
1900 Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.
1921 Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.
1930 The comic strip Blondie, created by Chic Young, was first published.
1930 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape.
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.
1952 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway was published.
1966 The TV series Star Trek premiered on NBC.
1968 The Beatles performed their last live TV performance on the David Frost show.
1974 President Gerald R. Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Richard M. Nixon.
1975 Boston's public schools began a court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1975 Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appeared 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.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in a single season, hitting No. 62 off Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.
1999 Attorney General Janet Reno named former 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 George W. 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
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 9th
Today's Birthdays
1754 William Bligh, British naval officer (Mutiny on the Bounty) died Dec 7, 1817
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) died November 20, 1910
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 (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
1968 Julia Sawalha, English actress (Chicken Run, Absolutely Fabulous)
1969 Rachel Hunter, supermodel
1971 Henry Thomas, actor (ET)
1972 Goran Visnjic, actor (ER)
1974 Das Hans, board member
1975 Michael Bublé, singer/crooner
1980 Michelle Williams, actress (Dawson’s Creek, Brokeback Mountain)
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
1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, was crowned Queen of Scots in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1776 The second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."
1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, was named as such after President George Washington.
1850 California became the 31st state of the union.
1893 Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.
1926 The National Broadcasting Co. was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1943 Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II.
1947 A moth was found lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer in tyhe first actual case of a computer bug being found.
1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1956 Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1965 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development was established.
1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
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.
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
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk
Today's Birthdays
1754 William Bligh, British naval officer (Mutiny on the Bounty) died Dec 7, 1817
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) died November 20, 1910
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 (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
1968 Julia Sawalha, English actress (Chicken Run, Absolutely Fabulous)
1969 Rachel Hunter, supermodel
1971 Henry Thomas, actor (ET)
1972 Goran Visnjic, actor (ER)
1974 Das Hans, board member
1975 Michael Bublé, singer/crooner
1980 Michelle Williams, actress (Dawson’s Creek, Brokeback Mountain)
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
1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, was crowned Queen of Scots in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1776 The second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."
1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, was named as such after President George Washington.
1850 California became the 31st state of the union.
1893 Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.
1926 The National Broadcasting Co. was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1943 Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II.
1947 A moth was found lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer in tyhe first actual case of a computer bug being found.
1948 The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1956 Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1965 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development was established.
1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
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.
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
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk
Today in History - Sept 10th
Today's Birthdays
1839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, publisher (Funk of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary) died Apr 4, 1912
1896 Adele Astaire, dancer/entertainer (sister and dance partner of Fred Astaire) died January 25, 1981
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
1918 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd actor, died August 10, 1932
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)
1984 Matthew Followill, guitarist (Kings of Leon)
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 of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the 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.
1939 Canada declared war on Germany during World War II.
1945 Vidkun Quisling, who had served in the government of occupied Norway, was sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazis.
1948 American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.
1955 Gunsmoke premiered on CBS; it ran for 20 years, longer than any other network prime-time series.
1963 Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.
1977 Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.
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.
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.
2000 The musical Cats closes on Broadway.
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
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Today's Birthdays
1839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, publisher (Funk of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary) died Apr 4, 1912
1896 Adele Astaire, dancer/entertainer (sister and dance partner of Fred Astaire) died January 25, 1981
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
1918 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd actor, died August 10, 1932
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)
1984 Matthew Followill, guitarist (Kings of Leon)
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 of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the 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.
1939 Canada declared war on Germany during World War II.
1945 Vidkun Quisling, who had served in the government of occupied Norway, was sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazis.
1948 American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.
1955 Gunsmoke premiered on CBS; it ran for 20 years, longer than any other network prime-time series.
1963 Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.
1977 Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.
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.
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.
2000 The musical Cats closes on Broadway.
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
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Today in History – Sept 11th
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)
1981 Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School murderer, died Apr 20, 1999
1987 Tyler Hoechlin, actor (Road to Perdition)
Today's Deaths in History
1851 Sylvester Graham, nutritionist/inventor (Graham Cracker) dies at 57
1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Former Soviet leader, dies at 77
1972 Max Fleischer, animator (Betty Boop) dies at 89
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
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
2006 Pat Corley, actor (Murphy Brown) dies at 76
2007 Joe Zawinul, jazz keyboardist/composer, dies at 75
Today in History
1609 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island and the natives living there.
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's well-known song, "Oh! Susanna," was first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the United States, at Castle Garden in New York.
1857 Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacred 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
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.
1944 The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army crossed the western border of Nazi Germany.
1962 The Beatles recorded their first single, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI studios in London.
1970 The Ford Pinto was introduced.
1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.
1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
1985 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.
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 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 Kauai and Oahu.
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.
2001 Some 3,000 people were killed. when Al Qaida terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse; another hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa.
2002 The Pentagon was rededicated after repairs were completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died from stab wounds inflicted when she was attacked in a Stockholm department store a day earlier.
2005 The State of Israel completed its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2007 China signed an agreement to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the United States.
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
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman, 33rd President (1884 - 1972)
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)
1981 Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School murderer, died Apr 20, 1999
1987 Tyler Hoechlin, actor (Road to Perdition)
Today's Deaths in History
1851 Sylvester Graham, nutritionist/inventor (Graham Cracker) dies at 57
1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Former Soviet leader, dies at 77
1972 Max Fleischer, animator (Betty Boop) dies at 89
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
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
2006 Pat Corley, actor (Murphy Brown) dies at 76
2007 Joe Zawinul, jazz keyboardist/composer, dies at 75
Today in History
1609 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island and the natives living there.
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's well-known song, "Oh! Susanna," was first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the United States, at Castle Garden in New York.
1857 Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacred 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
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.
1944 The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army crossed the western border of Nazi Germany.
1962 The Beatles recorded their first single, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI studios in London.
1970 The Ford Pinto was introduced.
1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.
1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
1985 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.
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 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 Kauai and Oahu.
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.
2001 Some 3,000 people were killed. when Al Qaida terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse; another hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa.
2002 The Pentagon was rededicated after repairs were completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh died from stab wounds inflicted when she was attacked in a Stockholm department store a day earlier.
2005 The State of Israel completed its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2007 China signed an agreement to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the United States.
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
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman, 33rd President (1884 - 1972)
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
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 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 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.
1918 U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launched a successful attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France, during World War I.
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 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
1954 Lassie made its TV debut on CBS.
1958 Jack Kilby demonstrated the first integrated circuit.
1959 Bonanza premiered on NBC.
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.
1986 Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped. (He was held more than five years.)
1992 Police in Peru captured the founder of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, Abimael Guzman.
1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashed a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West Wing and killing himself.
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 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 U.N. Security Council ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya.
2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opened in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
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.
2007 Oil prices briefly topped a record $80 a barrel.
2007 Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign 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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings, poet (1894 - 1962)
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
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 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 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.
1918 U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launched a successful attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France, during World War I.
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 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
1954 Lassie made its TV debut on CBS.
1958 Jack Kilby demonstrated the first integrated circuit.
1959 Bonanza premiered on NBC.
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.
1986 Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped. (He was held more than five years.)
1992 Police in Peru captured the founder of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, Abimael Guzman.
1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashed a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West Wing and killing himself.
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 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 U.N. Security Council ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya.
2005 Hong Kong Disneyland opened in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
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.
2007 Oil prices briefly topped a record $80 a barrel.
2007 Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign 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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings, poet (1894 - 1962)
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, 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
1952 Randy Jones, singer (The Village People)
1952 Don Was, record producer (Was Not Was)
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
1965 Jeffrey Ross, comedian
1966 Louis Mandylor, actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
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
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)
1980 Teppei Teranishi, guitarist (Thrice)
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
1973 Betty Field, actress (Of Mice and Men) dies at 60
1991 Joe Pasternak, film director (Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Courtship of Eddie's Father) dies at 89
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
1503 Michelangelo began work on his statue of David.
1759 During the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.
1788 The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1814 Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."
1898 Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.
1899 Henry Bliss became the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
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 of America was formed in New York City.
1956 IBM introduced the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
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. was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.
1990 Law & Order premiered on NBC.
1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1997 Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.
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.
2007 The NFL fined New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000 for spying on the New York Jets during a game.
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
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
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, 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
1952 Randy Jones, singer (The Village People)
1952 Don Was, record producer (Was Not Was)
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
1965 Jeffrey Ross, comedian
1966 Louis Mandylor, actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
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
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)
1980 Teppei Teranishi, guitarist (Thrice)
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
1973 Betty Field, actress (Of Mice and Men) dies at 60
1991 Joe Pasternak, film director (Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Courtship of Eddie's Father) dies at 89
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
1503 Michelangelo began work on his statue of David.
1759 During the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.
1788 The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1814 Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."
1898 Hannibal Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.
1899 Henry Bliss became the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
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 of America was formed in New York City.
1956 IBM introduced the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
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. was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.
1990 Law & Order premiered on NBC.
1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1997 Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.
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.
2007 The NFL fined New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000 for spying on the New York Jets during a game.
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
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
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 Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist (MC5) died November 4, 1994
1949 Ed King, guitarist (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1950 Paul Kossoff, guitar (Free) died March 19, 1976
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)
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
1974 Warren Hull, actor (Mandrake the Magician) dies at 71
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
2005 Robert Wise, filmmaker (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Run Silent Run Deep, The Andromeda Strain) dies at 91
2006 Mickey Hargitay, actor/bodybuilder (father of actress Mariska Hargitay) dies at 80
Today in History
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.
1901 President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, 42, was sworn in, becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.
1940 Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1948 Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.
1959 The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded.
1975 Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash.
1982 Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
1984 Joe Kittinger became the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone 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.
1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom completed their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
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.
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
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton, English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936)
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 Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist (MC5) died November 4, 1994
1949 Ed King, guitarist (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1950 Paul Kossoff, guitar (Free) died March 19, 1976
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)
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
1974 Warren Hull, actor (Mandrake the Magician) dies at 71
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
2005 Robert Wise, filmmaker (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Run Silent Run Deep, The Andromeda Strain) dies at 91
2006 Mickey Hargitay, actor/bodybuilder (father of actress Mariska Hargitay) dies at 80
Today in History
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.
1901 President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, 42, was sworn in, becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.
1940 Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1948 Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.
1959 The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded.
1975 Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash.
1982 Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
1984 Joe Kittinger became the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone 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.
1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom completed their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
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.
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
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton, English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936)
Today's Birthdays - Sept 15th
Today's Birthdays
1254 Marco Polo, Italian explorer, died Jan 9, 1324
1613 François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (Memoirs, Maximes) died March 17, 1680
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
1958 Dr. Know, guitarist (Bad Brains)
1960 Mitch Dorge, drummer (Crash Test Dummies)
1961 Dan Marino, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1962 Dina Lohan, mother of Lindsay Lohan
1964 Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, guitarist (The Misfits)
1968 Danny Nucci, actor (Crimson Tide)
1969 Allen Shellenberger, drummer (Lit)
1971 Josh Charles, actor (Dead Poets Society, Sports Night)
1976 Paul Thomson, drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1979 Amy Davidson, actress (8 Simple Rules)
1979 Lord Perth, board member
1984 Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David)
1986 Heidi Montag, reality television star (The Hills)
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
2005 Sidney Luft, film director/husbnad of Judy Garland (A Star is Born) dies at 89
2007 Brett Somers, actress/TV personality (Match Game) dies at 83
2008 Richard Wright, keyboardist (Pink Floyd) dies at 65
Today in History
1776 British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
1789 The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.
1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador became independent frm Spain.
1831 The locomotive John Bull operated for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1851 Saint Joseph's University was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1917 Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky, the head of a provisional government.
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. Army Air Corps was separated from the U.S. Army to become a separate branch, the U.S. Air Force.
1950 During the Korean War, United Nations forces landed at Inchon in the south and began their drive toward Seoul.
1959 Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
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.
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1981 The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1981 The John Bull became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operated it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1983 Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigned.
1997 The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern Ireland's peace talks for the first time.
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 National Hockey League owners agreed to lock out the players; the 2004-05 season was eventually canceled.
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
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)
Today's Birthdays
1254 Marco Polo, Italian explorer, died Jan 9, 1324
1613 François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (Memoirs, Maximes) died March 17, 1680
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
1958 Dr. Know, guitarist (Bad Brains)
1960 Mitch Dorge, drummer (Crash Test Dummies)
1961 Dan Marino, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1962 Dina Lohan, mother of Lindsay Lohan
1964 Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, guitarist (The Misfits)
1968 Danny Nucci, actor (Crimson Tide)
1969 Allen Shellenberger, drummer (Lit)
1971 Josh Charles, actor (Dead Poets Society, Sports Night)
1976 Paul Thomson, drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1979 Amy Davidson, actress (8 Simple Rules)
1979 Lord Perth, board member
1984 Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David)
1986 Heidi Montag, reality television star (The Hills)
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
2005 Sidney Luft, film director/husbnad of Judy Garland (A Star is Born) dies at 89
2007 Brett Somers, actress/TV personality (Match Game) dies at 83
2008 Richard Wright, keyboardist (Pink Floyd) dies at 65
Today in History
1776 British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
1789 The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.
1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador became independent frm Spain.
1831 The locomotive John Bull operated for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1851 Saint Joseph's University was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1917 Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky, the head of a provisional government.
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. Army Air Corps was separated from the U.S. Army to become a separate branch, the U.S. Air Force.
1950 During the Korean War, United Nations forces landed at Inchon in the south and began their drive toward Seoul.
1959 Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
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.
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1981 The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1981 The John Bull became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operated it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1983 Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigned.
1997 The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern Ireland's peace talks for the first time.
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 National Hockey League owners agreed to lock out the players; the 2004-05 season was eventually canceled.
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
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell, English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)
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) died in 1963
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 September 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 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 (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)
1953 Alan Barton, singer/guitarist (Smokie) died March 23, 1995
1954 Earl Klugh, jazz guitarist
1954 Frank Reed, R&B singer (Chi-Lites)
1956 David Copperfield (Kotkin), magician/illusionist
1956 Mickey Rourke, actor (Body Heat, Diner, 9-1/2 Weeks, Black Orchid)
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)
1984 Sabrina Bryan, singer/actress (Cheetah Girls)
1985 Madeline Zima, actress (Californication)
1992 Nick Jonas, singer/musician (Jonas Brothers)
Today's Deaths in History
1736 Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (Fahrenheit scale) dies at 50
1782 Farinelli, Italian castrato singer, dies at 77
1977 Marc Bolan, English musician (T Rex) dies at 29
1977 Maria Callas, Greek-American operatic soprano, dies at 53
1992 Millicent Fenwick, politician/writer dies at 82
1996 Gene Nelson, actor (Oklahoma) dies at 76
2002 James Gregory, actor (Barney Miller) dies at 90
2003 Sheb Wooley, singer/actor (Purple People Eater) dies at 82
2005 Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser, dies at 85
2007 Robert Jordan, author (Wheel of Time series) dies at 58
Today in History
1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1810 Mexico began a successful revolt against Spanish rule.
1887 The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois.
1893 Hundreds of thousands of settlers took part in a land run in Oklahoma's "Cherokee Strip."
1908 General Motors was formed in Flint, Mich., by William Durant.
1919 The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
1940 Rep. Samuel T. Rayburn, D-Texas, the longest-serving House speaker in history, was first elected to the post.
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
1966 The Metropolitan Opera opened its new home at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
1972 The Bob Newhart Show premiered on CBS.
1974 President Gerald R. Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft-evaders.
1982 A massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.
1987 Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals.
1988 Tom Browning of the Cincinnati Reds pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2002 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that Iraq had unconditionally accepted the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.
2004 Hurricane Ivan plowed into the Gulf Coast with 130 mph wind and a major storm surge; Ivan was blamed for at least 115 deaths, 43 in the United States.
2006 The Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely" regretted offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text characterizing some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," but the statement stopped short of the apology demanded by Islamic leaders.
2007 A deadly shooting in Baghdad involving the U.S. security firm Blackwater USA left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
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
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash, humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)
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) died in 1963
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 September 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 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 (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)
1953 Alan Barton, singer/guitarist (Smokie) died March 23, 1995
1954 Earl Klugh, jazz guitarist
1954 Frank Reed, R&B singer (Chi-Lites)
1956 David Copperfield (Kotkin), magician/illusionist
1956 Mickey Rourke, actor (Body Heat, Diner, 9-1/2 Weeks, Black Orchid)
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)
1984 Sabrina Bryan, singer/actress (Cheetah Girls)
1985 Madeline Zima, actress (Californication)
1992 Nick Jonas, singer/musician (Jonas Brothers)
Today's Deaths in History
1736 Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (Fahrenheit scale) dies at 50
1782 Farinelli, Italian castrato singer, dies at 77
1977 Marc Bolan, English musician (T Rex) dies at 29
1977 Maria Callas, Greek-American operatic soprano, dies at 53
1992 Millicent Fenwick, politician/writer dies at 82
1996 Gene Nelson, actor (Oklahoma) dies at 76
2002 James Gregory, actor (Barney Miller) dies at 90
2003 Sheb Wooley, singer/actor (Purple People Eater) dies at 82
2005 Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser, dies at 85
2007 Robert Jordan, author (Wheel of Time series) dies at 58
Today in History
1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1810 Mexico began a successful revolt against Spanish rule.
1887 The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois.
1893 Hundreds of thousands of settlers took part in a land run in Oklahoma's "Cherokee Strip."
1908 General Motors was formed in Flint, Mich., by William Durant.
1919 The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
1940 Rep. Samuel T. Rayburn, D-Texas, the longest-serving House speaker in history, was first elected to the post.
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
1966 The Metropolitan Opera opened its new home at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
1972 The Bob Newhart Show premiered on CBS.
1974 President Gerald R. Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft-evaders.
1982 A massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.
1987 Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals.
1988 Tom Browning of the Cincinnati Reds pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2002 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that Iraq had unconditionally accepted the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.
2004 Hurricane Ivan plowed into the Gulf Coast with 130 mph wind and a major storm surge; Ivan was blamed for at least 115 deaths, 43 in the United States.
2006 The Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely" regretted offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text characterizing some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," but the statement stopped short of the apology demanded by Islamic leaders.
2007 A deadly shooting in Baghdad involving the U.S. security firm Blackwater USA left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
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
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash, humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)
Today in History - Sept 17th
Today's Birthdays
1739 John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States, died July 18, 1800
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)
1956 Rita Rudner, comedienne/actress
1960 Kevin Clash, puppeteer (Seasame Street)
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)
1963 Steven Dye, bassist/keyboardist (The Alan Parsons Project)
1965 Kyle Chandler, actor (Pure Country, Friday Night Lights)
1965 Guy Picciotto, guitarist/singer (Fugazi)
1966 Doug E. Fresh, rapper/record producer
1967 Malik Yoba, actor (Cool Runnings)
1969 Matthew Settle, actor (Gossip Girl, Band of Brothers)
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)
1985 Jon Walker, bassist (Panic at the Disco)
Today's Deaths in History
1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, industrialist (Pillsbury Company) dies at 56
1951 Jimmy Yancey, boogie-woogie pianist, dies at 53
1984 Richard Basehart, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) dies at 70
1985 Laura Ashley, Welsh designer, dies at 60
1996 Spiro T. Agnew, former Vice President, dies at 77
1997 Red Skelton, actor/comedian, dies at 84
2000 Paula Yates, music journalist/ex-Mrs Bob Geldof/ex-Mrs Michael Hutchence, dies at 41 of an accidental heroin overdose
2006 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, socialite, dies at 82
Today in History
1787 The U.S. Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
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.
1916 Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 The American Professional Football Association, a precursor of the National Football League, was formed in Canton, Ohio.
1939 The Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II.
1947 James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.
1972 The comedy series M.A.S.H. premiered on CBS.
1976 NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.
1980 Former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay.
1983 Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America.
1986 The Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States.
1991 The first version of the Linux kernel was released.
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 became the first deaf woman to be crowned Miss America.
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.
2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announced plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York City.
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
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)
Today's Birthdays
1739 John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States, died July 18, 1800
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)
1956 Rita Rudner, comedienne/actress
1960 Kevin Clash, puppeteer (Seasame Street)
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)
1963 Steven Dye, bassist/keyboardist (The Alan Parsons Project)
1965 Kyle Chandler, actor (Pure Country, Friday Night Lights)
1965 Guy Picciotto, guitarist/singer (Fugazi)
1966 Doug E. Fresh, rapper/record producer
1967 Malik Yoba, actor (Cool Runnings)
1969 Matthew Settle, actor (Gossip Girl, Band of Brothers)
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)
1985 Jon Walker, bassist (Panic at the Disco)
Today's Deaths in History
1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, industrialist (Pillsbury Company) dies at 56
1951 Jimmy Yancey, boogie-woogie pianist, dies at 53
1984 Richard Basehart, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) dies at 70
1985 Laura Ashley, Welsh designer, dies at 60
1996 Spiro T. Agnew, former Vice President, dies at 77
1997 Red Skelton, actor/comedian, dies at 84
2000 Paula Yates, music journalist/ex-Mrs Bob Geldof/ex-Mrs Michael Hutchence, dies at 41 of an accidental heroin overdose
2006 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, socialite, dies at 82
Today in History
1787 The U.S. Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
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.
1916 Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 The American Professional Football Association, a precursor of the National Football League, was formed in Canton, Ohio.
1939 The Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II.
1947 James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.
1972 The comedy series M.A.S.H. premiered on CBS.
1976 NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.
1980 Former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay.
1983 Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America.
1986 The Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States.
1991 The first version of the Linux kernel was released.
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 became the first deaf woman to be crowned Miss America.
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.
2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announced plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York City.
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
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)
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 Darryl Stingley, NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots), died April 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 series)
1979 Alison Lohman, actress (White Oleander, Matchstick Men)
1984 Anthony Gonzalez, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
Today's Deaths in History
1961 Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-General, is killed in a plane crash at 55
1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (The Shadow of a Gunman) dies at 84
1970 Jimi Hendrix, 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
1759 The French surrendered Quebec to the British.
1793 President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810 Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City; the store was called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium."
1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1851 The first edition of The New York Times was published.
1906 A typhoon and tsunami killed an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1919 Fritz Pollard became the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1927 The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.
1932 Actress Peg Entwistle committed suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
1940 You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe, was published by Harper and Bros.
1947 The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a national military establishment, went into effect.
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.
1961 United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1975 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1997 Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.
1997 Media mogul Ted Turner pledged $1 billion to the United Nations.
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.
2007 Pervez Musharraf announced that he would step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he was re-elected president.
2007 Buddhist monks joined anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
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
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
Ellen DeGeneres, comedian/talk show host
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 Darryl Stingley, NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots), died April 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 series)
1979 Alison Lohman, actress (White Oleander, Matchstick Men)
1984 Anthony Gonzalez, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
Today's Deaths in History
1961 Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-General, is killed in a plane crash at 55
1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (The Shadow of a Gunman) dies at 84
1970 Jimi Hendrix, 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
1759 The French surrendered Quebec to the British.
1793 President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810 Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City; the store was called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium."
1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1851 The first edition of The New York Times was published.
1906 A typhoon and tsunami killed an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1919 Fritz Pollard became the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1927 The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.
1932 Actress Peg Entwistle committed suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
1940 You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe, was published by Harper and Bros.
1947 The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a national military establishment, went into effect.
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.
1961 United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1975 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1997 Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.
1997 Media mogul Ted Turner pledged $1 billion to the United Nations.
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.
2007 Pervez Musharraf announced that he would step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he was re-elected president.
2007 Buddhist monks joined anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
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
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
Ellen DeGeneres, comedian/talk show host
Today in History - Sept 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
1926 James Lipton, TV host (Inside the Actor's Studio)
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)
1971 Sanaa Lathan. actress (Love & Basketball, Alien vs. Predator)
1974 Jimmy Fallon, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1976 Jan Hlavac, NHL Left Wing (NY Rangers)
1976 Carter Oosterhouse, TV personality (Trading Spaces)
1976 Alison Sweeney, TV host (The Biggest Loser)
1977 Ryan Dusick, drummer (Maroon 5)
1981 Rick Dipietro, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
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
2004 Eddie Adams, photographer (Vietnam) dies at 71
2004 Skeeter Davis, singer (The End of the World) dies at 72
2004 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., jazz musician/activist, dies at 96
2006 Elizabeth Allen, actress (Donovan's Reef) dies at 77
Today in History
1676 Jamestown was burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
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, America's first chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
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.
1945 Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, was sentenced to death by a British court.
1952 The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
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.
1959 Nikita Khrushchev was barred from visiting Disneyland.
1961 Betty and Barney Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire claimed that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1970 The Mary Tyler Moore Show debuted on CBS.
1982 Emoticons were born when Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed punctuating humorous or sarcastic computer messages with a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal "smiley face." :-)
1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.
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.
1988 Greg Louganis suffered a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics.
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.
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
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra, NY Yankee great
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
1926 James Lipton, TV host (Inside the Actor's Studio)
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)
1971 Sanaa Lathan. actress (Love & Basketball, Alien vs. Predator)
1974 Jimmy Fallon, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1976 Jan Hlavac, NHL Left Wing (NY Rangers)
1976 Carter Oosterhouse, TV personality (Trading Spaces)
1976 Alison Sweeney, TV host (The Biggest Loser)
1977 Ryan Dusick, drummer (Maroon 5)
1981 Rick Dipietro, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
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
2004 Eddie Adams, photographer (Vietnam) dies at 71
2004 Skeeter Davis, singer (The End of the World) dies at 72
2004 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., jazz musician/activist, dies at 96
2006 Elizabeth Allen, actress (Donovan's Reef) dies at 77
Today in History
1676 Jamestown was burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
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, America's first chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
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.
1945 Nazi propagandist William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, was sentenced to death by a British court.
1952 The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
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.
1959 Nikita Khrushchev was barred from visiting Disneyland.
1961 Betty and Barney Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire claimed that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1970 The Mary Tyler Moore Show debuted on CBS.
1982 Emoticons were born when Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed punctuating humorous or sarcastic computer messages with a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal "smiley face." :-)
1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.
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.
1988 Greg Louganis suffered a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics.
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.
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
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra, NY Yankee great
Today in History - Sept 20th
Today's Birthdays
1878 Upton Sinclair, author (The Jungle) died Nov 25, 1968
1885 Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist/bandleader/composer, died July 10, 1941
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) died October 28, 2006
1920 Jay Ward, animated cartoonist (Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman) died October 12, 1989
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 (Office Space, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
1957 Alannah Currie, percussionist/singer (Thompson Twins)
1964 Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress (The Soong Sisters)
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)
1968 Ben Shepherd, bassist (Soundgarden)
1969 Victoria Dillard, actress (Spin City)
1975 Asia Argento, actress (Phantom of the Opera, B. Monkey)
1970 Moon Bloodgood, actress/model (Day Break, Terminator: Salvation)
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
1987 Michael Stewart, playwright (Hello Dolly! Bye Bye Birdie, 42nd Street) dies at 63
1994 Jule Styne, songwriter (Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, The Party's Over, Make Someone Happy) dies at 88
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.
1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
1870 Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.
1873 Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
1881 Chester A. Arthur was inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
1891 The first gasoline-powered car debuted in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival was held.
1962 James Meredith, a black man, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross R. Barnett.
1967 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
1973 Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1973 Singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash in Louisiana.
1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was admitted to the United Nations.
1982 National Football League players began a 57-day strike.
1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacked the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1998 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Cal Ripken, Jr. chose to sit out the Orioles' game against the New York Yankees, ending his record streak for consecutive Major League Baseball games played at 2,632.
1999 Lawrence Russell Brewer was convicted in the dragging death of an African-American man, James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, Texas.
2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation; no charges were filed against President Bill Clinton or first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People, President George W. Bush declared "war on terror."
2001 President George W. Bush named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to head the new Office of Homeland Security.
2004 CBS News apologized for a story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
Surrender - Perry Como
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Skokiaan - The Four Lads
The High and the Mighty - Les Baxter
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Patches - Clarence Carter
For the Good Times - Ray Price
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Got My Heart Set on You - John Conlee
Quote of the Day
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov, English actor & author (1921 - 2004)
Today's Birthdays
1878 Upton Sinclair, author (The Jungle) died Nov 25, 1968
1885 Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist/bandleader/composer, died July 10, 1941
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) died October 28, 2006
1920 Jay Ward, animated cartoonist (Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman) died October 12, 1989
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 (Office Space, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby)
1957 Alannah Currie, percussionist/singer (Thompson Twins)
1964 Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress (The Soong Sisters)
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)
1968 Ben Shepherd, bassist (Soundgarden)
1969 Victoria Dillard, actress (Spin City)
1975 Asia Argento, actress (Phantom of the Opera, B. Monkey)
1970 Moon Bloodgood, actress/model (Day Break, Terminator: Salvation)
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
1987 Michael Stewart, playwright (Hello Dolly! Bye Bye Birdie, 42nd Street) dies at 63
1994 Jule Styne, songwriter (Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, The Party's Over, Make Someone Happy) dies at 88
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.
1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
1870 Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.
1873 Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.
1881 Chester A. Arthur was inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
1891 The first gasoline-powered car debuted in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival was held.
1962 James Meredith, a black man, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross R. Barnett.
1967 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
1973 Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1973 Singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash in Louisiana.
1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was admitted to the United Nations.
1982 National Football League players began a 57-day strike.
1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacked the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1998 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Cal Ripken, Jr. chose to sit out the Orioles' game against the New York Yankees, ending his record streak for consecutive Major League Baseball games played at 2,632.
1999 Lawrence Russell Brewer was convicted in the dragging death of an African-American man, James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, Texas.
2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation; no charges were filed against President Bill Clinton or first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People, President George W. Bush declared "war on terror."
2001 President George W. Bush named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to head the new Office of Homeland Security.
2004 CBS News apologized for a story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
Surrender - Perry Como
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Skokiaan - The Four Lads
The High and the Mighty - Les Baxter
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Patches - Clarence Carter
For the Good Times - Ray Price
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Hot Blooded - Foreigner
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Got My Heart Set on You - John Conlee
Quote of the Day
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov, English actor & author (1921 - 2004)
Today in History - Sept 21st
Today's Birthdays
1788 Margaret Taylor (Smith), First Lady of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor, died in 1852
1866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, writer (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man) died Aug 13, 1946
1874 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) died May 25, 1934
1912 Chuck Jones, cartoonist (The Road Runner, Pepe Le Pew, Wiley Coyote) died Feb 22, 2002
1931 Larry Hagman, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1934 Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter (Everybody Knows, Take This Waltz)
1935 Henry Gibson (Bateman), comedian (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
1947 Don Felder, guitarist/singer (The Eagles)
1947 Stephen King, author (Pet Sematary, Christine, The Stand, Carrie, The Shining)
1947 Jerry Bruckheimer, producer (CSI)
1950 Bill Murray, comedian/writer/actor (Saturday Night Live, Stripes, Ghostbusters series, Groundhog Day)
1953 Kenny Starr, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Blind Man in the Bleachers)
1954 Philthy Animal (Philip Taylor), drummer (Motorhead)
1957 Ethan Coen, film director (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski)
1959 Dave Coulier, actor (Full House)
1959 Corinne Drewery, singer (Swing Out Sister)
1960 David James Elliott, actor (JAG)
1961 Nancy Travis, actress (Three Men and a Baby, So I Married an Axe Murderer)
1962 Rob Morrow, actor (Numb3rs, Northern Exposure, Quiz Show)
1965 Cheryl Hines, actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1967 Faith Hill, country singer
1967 Tyler Stewart, drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1968 Ricki Lake, TV talk show host/actress (Hairspray)
1970 Bridget Moynahan, model/actress (Coyote Ugly, I Robot)
1971 Alfonso Ribeiro, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1971 Luke Wilson, actor (Bottle Rocket, Old School, Idiocracy)
1971 James Lesure, actor (Las Vegas)
1972 Liam Gallagher, singer (Oasis)
1972 Jon Kitna, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1972 David Silveria, drummer (KoЯn)
1978 Paulo Costanzo, actor (Joey, Road Trip)
1981 Nicole Richie, TV personality (The Simple Life)
1983 Joseph Mazzello, actor (Jurassic Park, Simon Birch)
1983 Maggie Grace, actress (Lost)
Today's Deaths in History
0019 (BC) Virgil, Roman poet (Aeneid) dies at 51
1832 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy) dies at 61
1904 Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader ("I will fight no more forever") dies at 64
1974 Walter Brennan, actor (The Real McCoys) dies at 80
1974 Jacqueline Susann, novelist (Valley of the Dolls) dies at 56
1987 Jaco Pastorius, jazz bassist (Weather Report) dies at 35
1998 Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic track star, dies at 38
2000 Bryan Smith, the man who ran over Stephen King, dies at 43 of an accidental overdose
2002 ., the Hillside Strangler, dies in prison at 67
2006 Boz Burrell, rock bassist (King Crimson, Bad Company) dies at 60
2007 Alice Ghostley, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women) dies at 84
2007 Rex Humbard, television evangelist, dies at 77
Today in History
1792 The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1897 The New York Sun ran an editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon: "Is there a Santa Claus?"
1931 Britain went off the gold standard.
1937 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
1938 A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.
1948 Milton Berle debuted as permanent host of The Texaco Star Theater on NBC.
1949 The People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.
1957 Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr, premiered on CBS.
1964 Malta gained independence from Britain.
1970 NFL Monday Night Football debuted on ABC.
1970 The New York Times started the first modern op-ed page.
1977 President Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, resigned amid controversy over past business and banking practices.
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice.
1983 In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Interior Secretary James G. Watt described a special advisory panel as consisting of "a black ... a woman, two Jews and a cripple;" Watt later apologized and resigned.
1996 John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.
1996 The board of Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1998 President Bill Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast; in it, Clinton sparred with prosecutors about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, at one point answering a question by saying, "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
1998 Olympic gold medal track star Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, died in her sleep after suffering an epilectic seizure.
1999 A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing at least 2,400 people.
2001 Congress approved $15 billion to help an airline industry reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2003 NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, bringing a fiery conclusion to a 14-year exploration of the solar system's largest planet and its moons.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
You’re My Jamaica - Charley Pride
1987
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
This Crazy Love - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
Today's Birthdays
1788 Margaret Taylor (Smith), First Lady of 12th U.S. President Zachary Taylor, died in 1852
1866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, writer (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man) died Aug 13, 1946
1874 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) died May 25, 1934
1912 Chuck Jones, cartoonist (The Road Runner, Pepe Le Pew, Wiley Coyote) died Feb 22, 2002
1931 Larry Hagman, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1934 Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter (Everybody Knows, Take This Waltz)
1935 Henry Gibson (Bateman), comedian (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
1947 Don Felder, guitarist/singer (The Eagles)
1947 Stephen King, author (Pet Sematary, Christine, The Stand, Carrie, The Shining)
1947 Jerry Bruckheimer, producer (CSI)
1950 Bill Murray, comedian/writer/actor (Saturday Night Live, Stripes, Ghostbusters series, Groundhog Day)
1953 Kenny Starr, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Blind Man in the Bleachers)
1954 Philthy Animal (Philip Taylor), drummer (Motorhead)
1957 Ethan Coen, film director (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski)
1959 Dave Coulier, actor (Full House)
1959 Corinne Drewery, singer (Swing Out Sister)
1960 David James Elliott, actor (JAG)
1961 Nancy Travis, actress (Three Men and a Baby, So I Married an Axe Murderer)
1962 Rob Morrow, actor (Numb3rs, Northern Exposure, Quiz Show)
1965 Cheryl Hines, actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1967 Faith Hill, country singer
1967 Tyler Stewart, drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1968 Ricki Lake, TV talk show host/actress (Hairspray)
1970 Bridget Moynahan, model/actress (Coyote Ugly, I Robot)
1971 Alfonso Ribeiro, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1971 Luke Wilson, actor (Bottle Rocket, Old School, Idiocracy)
1971 James Lesure, actor (Las Vegas)
1972 Liam Gallagher, singer (Oasis)
1972 Jon Kitna, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1972 David Silveria, drummer (KoЯn)
1978 Paulo Costanzo, actor (Joey, Road Trip)
1981 Nicole Richie, TV personality (The Simple Life)
1983 Joseph Mazzello, actor (Jurassic Park, Simon Birch)
1983 Maggie Grace, actress (Lost)
Today's Deaths in History
0019 (BC) Virgil, Roman poet (Aeneid) dies at 51
1832 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy) dies at 61
1904 Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader ("I will fight no more forever") dies at 64
1974 Walter Brennan, actor (The Real McCoys) dies at 80
1974 Jacqueline Susann, novelist (Valley of the Dolls) dies at 56
1987 Jaco Pastorius, jazz bassist (Weather Report) dies at 35
1998 Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic track star, dies at 38
2000 Bryan Smith, the man who ran over Stephen King, dies at 43 of an accidental overdose
2002 ., the Hillside Strangler, dies in prison at 67
2006 Boz Burrell, rock bassist (King Crimson, Bad Company) dies at 60
2007 Alice Ghostley, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women) dies at 84
2007 Rex Humbard, television evangelist, dies at 77
Today in History
1792 The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1897 The New York Sun ran an editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon: "Is there a Santa Claus?"
1931 Britain went off the gold standard.
1937 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
1938 A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.
1948 Milton Berle debuted as permanent host of The Texaco Star Theater on NBC.
1949 The People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.
1957 Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr, premiered on CBS.
1964 Malta gained independence from Britain.
1970 NFL Monday Night Football debuted on ABC.
1970 The New York Times started the first modern op-ed page.
1977 President Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, resigned amid controversy over past business and banking practices.
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice.
1983 In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Interior Secretary James G. Watt described a special advisory panel as consisting of "a black ... a woman, two Jews and a cripple;" Watt later apologized and resigned.
1996 John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.
1996 The board of Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1998 President Bill Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast; in it, Clinton sparred with prosecutors about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, at one point answering a question by saying, "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
1998 Olympic gold medal track star Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, died in her sleep after suffering an epilectic seizure.
1999 A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing at least 2,400 people.
2001 Congress approved $15 billion to help an airline industry reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2003 NASA's Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, bringing a fiery conclusion to a 14-year exploration of the solar system's largest planet and its moons.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
After the Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band
You’re My Jamaica - Charley Pride
1987
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
This Crazy Love - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
Today in History - Sept 22nd
Today's Birthdays
1515 Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England, died July 16, 1557
1885 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (Sunset Boulevard) died May 12, 1957
1895 Paul Muni (Frederich Weisenfreund), actor (Angel on My Shoulder) died Aug 25, 1967
1902 John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann), actor (The Paper Chase, Three Days of the Condor) died Oct 31, 1988
1909 Allan ‘Rocky’ Lane (Harry Albershart), voice actor (Mister Ed) died Oct 27, 1973
1914 Martha Scott, actress (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments) died May 28, 2003
1920 Bob Lemon, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Cleveland Indians) died Jan 11, 2000
1927 Tom (Thomas Charles) Lasorda, Baseball Hall of Famer manager (LA Dodgers)
1943 Toni Basil, choreographer/singer (Mickey)
1946 Paul Le Mat, actor (The Burning Bed, American Graffiti)
1951 David Coverdale, singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
1954 Shari Belafonte, singer/actress (Hotel)
1956 Debby Boone, singer (You Light Up My Life)
1957 Johnette Napolitano, rock singer (Concrete Blond)
1958 Neil Cavuto, television commentator (Fox)
1958 Joan Jett, guitarist/singer (The Runaways, The Blackhearts)
1958 Andrea Bocelli, Italian opera singer
1961 Scott Baio, actor (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge)
1961 Catherine Oxenberg, actress (Dynasty, Acapulco H.E.A.T.)
1964 Bonnie Hunt, actress (The Green Mile, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire)
1966 Mike Richter, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1969 Matt Sharp, bassist (Weezer)
1970 Dave Hernandez, bassist (The Shins)
1976 Ronaldo, Brazilian futbol (soccer) player
1980 Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1981 Adam Lazzara, singer (Taking Back Sunday)
Today's Deaths in History
1692 Martha Corey, last person hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials, dies at 60
1776 Nathan Hale, patriot, is hanged by the British as a spy at 21
1987 Dan Rowan, actor/comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) dies at 65
1989 Irving Berlin, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 Dorothy Lamour, actress ("Road..." movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) dies at 81
1999 George C. Scott, actor (Patton) dies at 71
2001 Isaac Stern, violinst, dies at 81
2003 Gordon Jump, television actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, Maytag Commercials) dies at 71
2006 Edward Albert, Jr., actor (Butterflies Are Free) dies at 55
2007 Marcel Marceau, mime master, dies at 84
Today in History
1776 Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
1792 The French Republic was proclaimed.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1927 Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the "long-count" fight in Chicago.
1949 The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1964 The musical Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
1969 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th career home run during a game in San Diego.
1975 Sara Jane Moore failed in an attempt to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.
1980 The conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
1988 The government of Canada apologized for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians and promised compensation.
1995 Time Warner struck a $7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
2004 CBS-owned TV stations were fined $550,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for showing Janet Jackson's exposed right breast during the Super Bowl halftime show; an appeals court threw out the fine in July 2008.
2005 John Roberts' nomination as chief justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13-5 vote.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Black & White - Three Dog Night
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
When the Snow is on the Roses - Sonny James
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Joe Knows How to Live - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein, physicist (1879 - 1955)
Today's Birthdays
1515 Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England, died July 16, 1557
1885 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (Sunset Boulevard) died May 12, 1957
1895 Paul Muni (Frederich Weisenfreund), actor (Angel on My Shoulder) died Aug 25, 1967
1902 John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann), actor (The Paper Chase, Three Days of the Condor) died Oct 31, 1988
1909 Allan ‘Rocky’ Lane (Harry Albershart), voice actor (Mister Ed) died Oct 27, 1973
1914 Martha Scott, actress (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments) died May 28, 2003
1920 Bob Lemon, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Cleveland Indians) died Jan 11, 2000
1927 Tom (Thomas Charles) Lasorda, Baseball Hall of Famer manager (LA Dodgers)
1943 Toni Basil, choreographer/singer (Mickey)
1946 Paul Le Mat, actor (The Burning Bed, American Graffiti)
1951 David Coverdale, singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
1954 Shari Belafonte, singer/actress (Hotel)
1956 Debby Boone, singer (You Light Up My Life)
1957 Johnette Napolitano, rock singer (Concrete Blond)
1958 Neil Cavuto, television commentator (Fox)
1958 Joan Jett, guitarist/singer (The Runaways, The Blackhearts)
1958 Andrea Bocelli, Italian opera singer
1961 Scott Baio, actor (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge)
1961 Catherine Oxenberg, actress (Dynasty, Acapulco H.E.A.T.)
1964 Bonnie Hunt, actress (The Green Mile, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire)
1966 Mike Richter, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1969 Matt Sharp, bassist (Weezer)
1970 Dave Hernandez, bassist (The Shins)
1976 Ronaldo, Brazilian futbol (soccer) player
1980 Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1981 Adam Lazzara, singer (Taking Back Sunday)
Today's Deaths in History
1692 Martha Corey, last person hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials, dies at 60
1776 Nathan Hale, patriot, is hanged by the British as a spy at 21
1987 Dan Rowan, actor/comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) dies at 65
1989 Irving Berlin, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 Dorothy Lamour, actress ("Road..." movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) dies at 81
1999 George C. Scott, actor (Patton) dies at 71
2001 Isaac Stern, violinst, dies at 81
2003 Gordon Jump, television actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, Maytag Commercials) dies at 71
2006 Edward Albert, Jr., actor (Butterflies Are Free) dies at 55
2007 Marcel Marceau, mime master, dies at 84
Today in History
1776 Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
1792 The French Republic was proclaimed.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1927 Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the "long-count" fight in Chicago.
1949 The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1964 The musical Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
1969 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th career home run during a game in San Diego.
1975 Sara Jane Moore failed in an attempt to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.
1980 The conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
1988 The government of Canada apologized for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians and promised compensation.
1995 Time Warner struck a $7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
2004 CBS-owned TV stations were fined $550,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for showing Janet Jackson's exposed right breast during the Super Bowl halftime show; an appeals court threw out the fine in July 2008.
2005 John Roberts' nomination as chief justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13-5 vote.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Black & White - Three Dog Night
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
When the Snow is on the Roses - Sonny James
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee
1988
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Joe Knows How to Live - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein, physicist (1879 - 1955)
Today in History - Sept 23rd
Today's Birthdays
0480 BC Euripides, Greek playwright, died 406 BC
1869 Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid, died November 11, 1938
1897 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Mrs. Miniver, How Green was My Valley, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) died Sep 25, 1984
1916 Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister, died May 9, 1978
1920 Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.), actor (Boy’s Town, Captains Courageous, The Black Stallion, Andy Hardy series)
1923 Margaret Pellegrini, actress (The Wizard of Oz)
1926 John (William) Coltrane, jazz composer/tenor & soprano sax, died July 17, 1967
1930 Ray Charles (Robinson), singer/pianist (Georgia on My Mind) died June 10, 2004
1938 Romy Schneider (Rosemarie Magdelena Albach-Retty), actress (What’s New Pussycat?) died May 29, 1982
1939 Roy Buchanan, blues guitarist (the Telecaster sound) died August 14, 1988
1943 Steve Boone, bassist/singer (The Lovin’ Spoonful)
1943 Julio Iglesias, singer (To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before)
1945 Ronald Bushy, drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1945 Paul Petersen, actor (The Donna Reed Show)
1947 Mary Kay Place, actress (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Big Chill)
1947 Jerry Corbetta, singer/musician (Sugarloaf)
1947 Neal Smith, drummer (Alice Cooper)
1949 Bruce Springsteen, singer/guitarist (Born in the U.S.A., Born to Run)
1957 Rosalind Chao, actress (M*A*S*H, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1958 Marvin Lewis, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
1959 Jason Alexander, actor (Seinfeld, Pretty Woman)
1959 Lita Ford, guitarist/singer (The Runaways)
1961 Elizabeth Peña, actress (La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Times Square)
1961 Chi McBride, actor (Gone in 60 Seconds, Undercover Brother, Boston Public)
1961 Willie McCool, astronaut (Shuttle Columboa) died February 1, 2003
1964 Erik Todd Dellums, actor (New York Undercover, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire)
1969 Michelle Thomas, actress (Family Matters) dies Dec 23, 1998
1970 Ani DiFranco, singer/guitarist/songwriter
1972 Jermaine Dupri, music producer/rapper
1975 Layzie Bone, rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1976 Faune A. Chambers, actress (Epic Movie, White Chicks)
1976 Kip Pardue, actor (Remember the Titans, Driven)
1980 Aubrey Dollar, actress (Dawson's Creek, Women's Murder Club)
1985 Joba Chamberlain, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
Today's Deaths in History
1939 Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, dies at 83
1973 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet/Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 69
1974 Cliff Arquette, comedian/actor (Charley Weaver) dies at 68
1987 Bob Fosse, Choreographer/director, dies at 60
1998 Mary Frann, actress (Newhart) dies at 58
1999 Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (White Heat, Charlie's Angels) dies at 89
2000 Carl Rowan, journalist/columnist (Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times) dies at 75
2006 Etta Baker, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 93
Today in History
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.
1779 American commander John Paul Jones was said to have declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.
1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, was founded in New York.
1846 The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1905 Norway and Sweden signed the Karlstad treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd was renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1941 The first gas murder experiments were conducted at Auschwitz.
1952 Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on TV to deliver what came to be known as the "Checkers" speech as he refuted allegations of improper campaign financing.
1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
1962 The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opened with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall), home of the New York Philharmonic.
1972 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announced over television and radio the implementation of martial law and signed General Order No. 1, ordering the arrest of opposition leaders, media censorship, banning travel to other countries except for diplomatic missions, abolishing the Philippine Congress, establishing dictatorial government, take-over or sequestering of public and private corporations and suspension of classes for one week.
1973 Former Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power.
1988 José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics became the first member of the 40-40 club.
1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait.
1999 Qantas Flight 1 overran the runway in Bangkok during a storm; while some passengers only received minor injuries, it was still the worst crash in Qantas's history since 1960.
1999 The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet.
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) was released.
2004 At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk - Perry Como
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before - Conway Twitty
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
You Don’t Know Me - Mickey Gilley
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Above and Beyond - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a part of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
George Carlin, comedian and actor (1937 - 2008)
Today's Birthdays
0480 BC Euripides, Greek playwright, died 406 BC
1869 Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid, died November 11, 1938
1897 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Mrs. Miniver, How Green was My Valley, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) died Sep 25, 1984
1916 Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister, died May 9, 1978
1920 Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.), actor (Boy’s Town, Captains Courageous, The Black Stallion, Andy Hardy series)
1923 Margaret Pellegrini, actress (The Wizard of Oz)
1926 John (William) Coltrane, jazz composer/tenor & soprano sax, died July 17, 1967
1930 Ray Charles (Robinson), singer/pianist (Georgia on My Mind) died June 10, 2004
1938 Romy Schneider (Rosemarie Magdelena Albach-Retty), actress (What’s New Pussycat?) died May 29, 1982
1939 Roy Buchanan, blues guitarist (the Telecaster sound) died August 14, 1988
1943 Steve Boone, bassist/singer (The Lovin’ Spoonful)
1943 Julio Iglesias, singer (To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before)
1945 Ronald Bushy, drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1945 Paul Petersen, actor (The Donna Reed Show)
1947 Mary Kay Place, actress (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Big Chill)
1947 Jerry Corbetta, singer/musician (Sugarloaf)
1947 Neal Smith, drummer (Alice Cooper)
1949 Bruce Springsteen, singer/guitarist (Born in the U.S.A., Born to Run)
1957 Rosalind Chao, actress (M*A*S*H, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1958 Marvin Lewis, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
1959 Jason Alexander, actor (Seinfeld, Pretty Woman)
1959 Lita Ford, guitarist/singer (The Runaways)
1961 Elizabeth Peña, actress (La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Times Square)
1961 Chi McBride, actor (Gone in 60 Seconds, Undercover Brother, Boston Public)
1961 Willie McCool, astronaut (Shuttle Columboa) died February 1, 2003
1964 Erik Todd Dellums, actor (New York Undercover, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire)
1969 Michelle Thomas, actress (Family Matters) dies Dec 23, 1998
1970 Ani DiFranco, singer/guitarist/songwriter
1972 Jermaine Dupri, music producer/rapper
1975 Layzie Bone, rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1976 Faune A. Chambers, actress (Epic Movie, White Chicks)
1976 Kip Pardue, actor (Remember the Titans, Driven)
1980 Aubrey Dollar, actress (Dawson's Creek, Women's Murder Club)
1985 Joba Chamberlain, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
Today's Deaths in History
1939 Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, dies at 83
1973 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet/Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 69
1974 Cliff Arquette, comedian/actor (Charley Weaver) dies at 68
1987 Bob Fosse, Choreographer/director, dies at 60
1998 Mary Frann, actress (Newhart) dies at 58
1999 Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (White Heat, Charlie's Angels) dies at 89
2000 Carl Rowan, journalist/columnist (Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times) dies at 75
2006 Etta Baker, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 93
Today in History
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.
1779 American commander John Paul Jones was said to have declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.
1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, was founded in New York.
1846 The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1905 Norway and Sweden signed the Karlstad treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd was renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1941 The first gas murder experiments were conducted at Auschwitz.
1952 Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on TV to deliver what came to be known as the "Checkers" speech as he refuted allegations of improper campaign financing.
1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
1962 The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opened with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall), home of the New York Philharmonic.
1972 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announced over television and radio the implementation of martial law and signed General Order No. 1, ordering the arrest of opposition leaders, media censorship, banning travel to other countries except for diplomatic missions, abolishing the Philippine Congress, establishing dictatorial government, take-over or sequestering of public and private corporations and suspension of classes for one week.
1973 Former Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power.
1988 José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics became the first member of the 40-40 club.
1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait.
1999 Qantas Flight 1 overran the runway in Bangkok during a storm; while some passengers only received minor injuries, it was still the worst crash in Qantas's history since 1960.
1999 The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet.
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) was released.
2004 At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk - Perry Como
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Tammy - Debbie Reynolds
Diana - Paul Anka
Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Help! - The Beatles
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
You’ve Never Been This Far Before - Conway Twitty
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
You Don’t Know Me - Mickey Gilley
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Above and Beyond - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a part of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
George Carlin, comedian and actor (1937 - 2008)
Today in History - Sept 24th
Today's Birthdays
1755 John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died July 6, 1835
1896 F. (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald, writer (The Great Gatsby) died Dec 21, 1940
1921 Jim McKay (McManus), sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) died June 7, 2008
1924 Sheila MacRae (Stephens), comedienne/actress (The Honeymooners)
1936 Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show) died May 16, 1990
1939 Sonny Turner, R&B singer (The Platters)
1941 Linda McCartney (Eastman), photographer/singer (Wings) died Apr 17, 1998
1942 Gerry Marsden, singer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1945 Lou Dobbs, journalist (CNN)
1946 ‘Mean’ Joe (Charles) Greene, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1948 Phil Hartman, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio) shot to death by his wife May 28, 1998
1948 Gordon Clapp, actor (NYPD Blue)
1950 Alan Colmes, talk show host (Fox)
1958 Kevin Sorbo, actor (Hercules)
1959 Steve Whitmire, voice actor (Kermit the Frog)
1962 Nia Vardalos, writer/actress (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1962 Cedric Dent, R&B singer (Take 6)
1965 Sean McNabb, bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White)
1966 Stacy Galina, actress (Knot's Landing)
1969 Shawn "Clown" Crahan, percussionist (Slipknot)
1969 Megan Ward, actress (Summerland, Sports Night, Boomtown)
1971 Peter Salisbury, drummer (The Verve)
1982 Morgan and Paul Hamm, Olympic gymnasts
Today's Deaths in History
1948 Warren William, actor (Cleopatra, The Man in the Iron Mask) dies at 53
1981 Patsy Kelly, actress (The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Wild Wild West) dies at 71
1984 Neil Hamilton, actor (Batman TV series) dies at 85
1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel, children's author (Dr. Seuss) dies at 87
2002 Mike Webster, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs) dies at 50
2003 Lyle Bettger, actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, The Sea Chase) dies at 88
2005 Tommy Bond, actor (Our Gang, Superman) dies at 79
Today in History
1789 Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
1869 Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.
1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced polygamy.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
1948 The Honda Motor Company was founded.
1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.
1960 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
1962 The United States court of appeals ordered the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black man.
1968 60 Minutes premiered on CBS.
1969 A trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
1991 The album Nevermind by Nirvana was released.
1994 The National League for Democracy was formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1996 The world's major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 Redesigned $20 bills meant to be harder to counterfeit went into circulation.
2001 President George W. Bush froze the assests of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2002 British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a special session of Parliament that Iraq had a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them.
2005 Hurricane Rita struck eastern Texas and the Louisiana coast, causing more flooding in New Orleans.
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance at Columbia University in New York.
2007 United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976; a tentative pact ended the walkout two days later.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
Bus Stop - The Hollies
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
I Wouldn’t Want to Live if You Didn’t Love Me - Don Williams
1982
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed
1990
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
Bagdikian's Observation
Today's Birthdays
1755 John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died July 6, 1835
1896 F. (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald, writer (The Great Gatsby) died Dec 21, 1940
1921 Jim McKay (McManus), sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) died June 7, 2008
1924 Sheila MacRae (Stephens), comedienne/actress (The Honeymooners)
1936 Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show) died May 16, 1990
1939 Sonny Turner, R&B singer (The Platters)
1941 Linda McCartney (Eastman), photographer/singer (Wings) died Apr 17, 1998
1942 Gerry Marsden, singer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1945 Lou Dobbs, journalist (CNN)
1946 ‘Mean’ Joe (Charles) Greene, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1948 Phil Hartman, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio) shot to death by his wife May 28, 1998
1948 Gordon Clapp, actor (NYPD Blue)
1950 Alan Colmes, talk show host (Fox)
1958 Kevin Sorbo, actor (Hercules)
1959 Steve Whitmire, voice actor (Kermit the Frog)
1962 Nia Vardalos, writer/actress (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1962 Cedric Dent, R&B singer (Take 6)
1965 Sean McNabb, bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White)
1966 Stacy Galina, actress (Knot's Landing)
1969 Shawn "Clown" Crahan, percussionist (Slipknot)
1969 Megan Ward, actress (Summerland, Sports Night, Boomtown)
1971 Peter Salisbury, drummer (The Verve)
1982 Morgan and Paul Hamm, Olympic gymnasts
Today's Deaths in History
1948 Warren William, actor (Cleopatra, The Man in the Iron Mask) dies at 53
1981 Patsy Kelly, actress (The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Wild Wild West) dies at 71
1984 Neil Hamilton, actor (Batman TV series) dies at 85
1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel, children's author (Dr. Seuss) dies at 87
2002 Mike Webster, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs) dies at 50
2003 Lyle Bettger, actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, The Sea Chase) dies at 88
2005 Tommy Bond, actor (Our Gang, Superman) dies at 79
Today in History
1789 Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
1869 Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.
1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced polygamy.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
1948 The Honda Motor Company was founded.
1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.
1960 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
1962 The United States court of appeals ordered the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black man.
1968 60 Minutes premiered on CBS.
1969 A trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
1991 The album Nevermind by Nirvana was released.
1994 The National League for Democracy was formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1996 The world's major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 Redesigned $20 bills meant to be harder to counterfeit went into circulation.
2001 President George W. Bush froze the assests of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2002 British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a special session of Parliament that Iraq had a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them.
2005 Hurricane Rita struck eastern Texas and the Louisiana coast, causing more flooding in New Orleans.
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance at Columbia University in New York.
2007 United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976; a tentative pact ended the walkout two days later.
Chart Toppers
1950
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
Bus Stop - The Hollies
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
I Wouldn’t Want to Live if You Didn’t Love Me - Don Williams
1982
Hard to Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) - Jerry Reed
1990
Release Me - Wilson Phillips
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
Bagdikian's Observation
Today in History - Sept 25th
Today's Birthdays
1897 William (Cuthbert) Faulkner, writer (As I Lay Dying, The Big Sleep) died July 6, 1962
1905 Red (Walter) Smith, sportswriter (New York Times) died Jan 15, 1982
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich, composer (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) died Aug 9, 1975
1917 Phil (Philip Francis) Rizzuto, Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop/sportscaster (NY Yankees) died Aug 14, 2007
1926 Aldo Ray (DaRe), actor (Battle Cry, The Green Berets) died Mar 27, 1991
1930 Shel Silverstein, humorist/author, died May 10, 1999
1931 Barbara Walters, TV newswoman/talk show host (The View)
1932 Glenn (Herbert) Gould, pianist/composer (Spheres, Slaughterhouse-Five) died Oct 4, 1982
1936 Juliet Prowse, dancer/actress (Can-Can, G.I. Blues) died Sep 14, 1996
1943 Gary Alexander, guitarist/singer (The Association)
1943 John Locke, keyboardist (Spirit, Nazareth) died August 4, 2006
1943 Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
1944 Michael Douglas, actor (Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct)
1945 Onnie McIntyre, guitarist (Average White Band)
1947 Cheryl Tiegs, supermodel
1949 Anson Williams (Heimlick), actor (Happy Days)
1949 Mimi Kennedy, actress (Drew Carey Show)
1951 Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) died Oct 10, 2004
1955 Steve Severin (Bailey), bassist (Siouxsie & The Banshees)
1958 Michael Madsen, actor (The Natural, Fatal Instinct, Free Willy)
1961 Heather Locklear, actress (Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker)
1962 Aida Turturro, actress (The Sopranos)
1963 Tate Donovan, actor (Love Potion #9, Memphis Belle)
1964 Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress/singer (The Tudors)
1965 Scottie Pippen, retired NBA player (Chicago Bulls)
1966 Jason Flemyng, actor (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
1968 Will Smith, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Men in Black series, I Robot)
1969 Hal Sparks, actor (Queer as Folk)
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (Zorro series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Entrapment)
1970 Dean Ween, guitarist (Ween)
1971 Mike Luce, drummer (Drowning Pool)
1973 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, actress (Billy Madison, Mortal Kombat)
1973 Bridget Marquardt, model (The Girls Next Door)
1975 Matt Hasselbeck, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1977 Clea DuVall, actress (The Laramie Project, Heroes)
1980 Chris Owen, actor (American Pie series)
1991 Emmy Clarke, actress (Monk)
Today's Deaths in History
1933 Ring Lardner, writer (The Sporting News) dies at 48
1960 Emily Post, author/etiquette expert, dies at 86
1980 John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) dies at 32
1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (How Green Was My Valley) dies at 87
1987 Mary Astor, actress (The Maltese Falcon) dies at 81
1988 Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter, dies at 51
1991 Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, dies in prison at 77
2003 Herb Gardner, playwright (A Thousand Clowns) dies at 68
2003 George Plimpton, Author/journalist/editor, dies at 76
2005 Don Adams, actor/comedian (Get Smart) dies at 82
2006 John M. Ford, author/poet (Star Trek novels) dies at 49
Today in History
1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean.
1690 Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, was published for the first and only time.
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification; ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1890 Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.
1911 Ground was broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism was founded in New York.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1929 Jimmy Doolittle performed the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing was possible.
1957 Nine black children who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2001 Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
2001 Michael Jordan announced he was returning to basketball with the NBA's Washington Wizards.
2003 France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from a heat wave.
2006 The Louisiana Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for a New Orleans Saints game.
2007 Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group, was convicted in St. George, Utah, of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl; Jeffs was later sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison.
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the United Nations, announced "the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed," and indicated Tehran would disregard Security Council resolutions imposed by what he called "arrogant powers."
2007 Jim Nabors (aka "Gomer Pyle") was given a promotion to "Honorary Corporal" by the Marine Corps in a ceremony in Waikiki, Hawaii.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
(’Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston
1975
Fame - David Bowie
I’m Sorry - John Denver
Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Daydreams About Night Things - Ronnie Milsap
1983
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Baby, What About You - Crystal Gayle
1991
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright
Quote of the Day
You're never too old to become younger.
Mae West, actress (1892 - 1980)
Today's Birthdays
1897 William (Cuthbert) Faulkner, writer (As I Lay Dying, The Big Sleep) died July 6, 1962
1905 Red (Walter) Smith, sportswriter (New York Times) died Jan 15, 1982
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich, composer (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) died Aug 9, 1975
1917 Phil (Philip Francis) Rizzuto, Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop/sportscaster (NY Yankees) died Aug 14, 2007
1926 Aldo Ray (DaRe), actor (Battle Cry, The Green Berets) died Mar 27, 1991
1930 Shel Silverstein, humorist/author, died May 10, 1999
1931 Barbara Walters, TV newswoman/talk show host (The View)
1932 Glenn (Herbert) Gould, pianist/composer (Spheres, Slaughterhouse-Five) died Oct 4, 1982
1936 Juliet Prowse, dancer/actress (Can-Can, G.I. Blues) died Sep 14, 1996
1943 Gary Alexander, guitarist/singer (The Association)
1943 John Locke, keyboardist (Spirit, Nazareth) died August 4, 2006
1943 Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
1944 Michael Douglas, actor (Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct)
1945 Onnie McIntyre, guitarist (Average White Band)
1947 Cheryl Tiegs, supermodel
1949 Anson Williams (Heimlick), actor (Happy Days)
1949 Mimi Kennedy, actress (Drew Carey Show)
1951 Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) died Oct 10, 2004
1955 Steve Severin (Bailey), bassist (Siouxsie & The Banshees)
1958 Michael Madsen, actor (The Natural, Fatal Instinct, Free Willy)
1961 Heather Locklear, actress (Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker)
1962 Aida Turturro, actress (The Sopranos)
1963 Tate Donovan, actor (Love Potion #9, Memphis Belle)
1964 Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress/singer (The Tudors)
1965 Scottie Pippen, retired NBA player (Chicago Bulls)
1966 Jason Flemyng, actor (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
1968 Will Smith, actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Men in Black series, I Robot)
1969 Hal Sparks, actor (Queer as Folk)
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (Zorro series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Entrapment)
1970 Dean Ween, guitarist (Ween)
1971 Mike Luce, drummer (Drowning Pool)
1973 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, actress (Billy Madison, Mortal Kombat)
1973 Bridget Marquardt, model (The Girls Next Door)
1975 Matt Hasselbeck, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1977 Clea DuVall, actress (The Laramie Project, Heroes)
1980 Chris Owen, actor (American Pie series)
1991 Emmy Clarke, actress (Monk)
Today's Deaths in History
1933 Ring Lardner, writer (The Sporting News) dies at 48
1960 Emily Post, author/etiquette expert, dies at 86
1980 John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) dies at 32
1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (How Green Was My Valley) dies at 87
1987 Mary Astor, actress (The Maltese Falcon) dies at 81
1988 Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter, dies at 51
1991 Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, dies in prison at 77
2003 Herb Gardner, playwright (A Thousand Clowns) dies at 68
2003 George Plimpton, Author/journalist/editor, dies at 76
2005 Don Adams, actor/comedian (Get Smart) dies at 82
2006 John M. Ford, author/poet (Star Trek novels) dies at 49
Today in History
1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean.
1690 Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, was published for the first and only time.
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification; ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1890 Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.
1911 Ground was broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism was founded in New York.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1929 Jimmy Doolittle performed the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing was possible.
1957 Nine black children who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2001 Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
2001 Michael Jordan announced he was returning to basketball with the NBA's Washington Wizards.
2003 France reported a staggering death toll of 14,802 from a heat wave.
2006 The Louisiana Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for a New Orleans Saints game.
2007 Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group, was convicted in St. George, Utah, of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl; Jeffs was later sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison.
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the United Nations, announced "the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed," and indicated Tehran would disregard Security Council resolutions imposed by what he called "arrogant powers."
2007 Jim Nabors (aka "Gomer Pyle") was given a promotion to "Honorary Corporal" by the Marine Corps in a ceremony in Waikiki, Hawaii.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Come on-a My House - Rosemary Clooney
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
(’Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston
1975
Fame - David Bowie
I’m Sorry - John Denver
Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Daydreams About Night Things - Ronnie Milsap
1983
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Baby, What About You - Crystal Gayle
1991
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright
Quote of the Day
You're never too old to become younger.
Mae West, actress (1892 - 1980)
Today in History - Sept 26th
Today's Birthdays
1181 Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order, died Oct 3, 1226
1774 Johnny Appleseed (Chapman), nurseryman, died Mar 18, 1845
1888 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, poet (The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) died Jan 4, 1965
1895 George Raft (Ranft), actor (Some Like It Hot, Casino Royale) died Nov 24, 1980
1897 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), 262nd Pope, died Aug 6, 1978
1898 George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin), composer (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy & Bess) died July 11, 1937
1914 Jack LaLanne, fitness guru
1924 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (La dolce vita) died December 19, 1996
1925 Marty Robbins (Robertson), Country Music Hall of Famer (El Paso) died Dec 8, 1982
1926 Julie London (Peck), singer/actress (Emergency) died Oct 18, 2000
1933 Donna Douglas, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1936 Winnie Mandela, political activist
1941 Joe Bauer, drummer (The Youngbloods)
1942 Kent McCord (McWhirter), actor (Adam 12, Battlestar Gallactica)
1945 Bryan Ferry, singer (Roxy Music)
1948 Mary Beth Hurt, actress (The World According to Garp)
1948 Olivia Newton-John, singer/actress (Let Me Be There, I Honestly Love You)
1954 Craig Chaquico, guitarist/singer (Jefferson Starship)
1956 Linda Hamilton, actress (Terminator series, Beauty and the Beast)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn, singer (Everything But The Girl)
1965 Cindy Herron, R&B singer (En Vogue)
1966 Jillian Barberie, actress/television hostess (Fox NFL Sunday)
1967 Shannon Hoon, singer (Blind Melon) died Oct 21, 1995
1968 James (Jim) Caviezel, actor (Frequency, The Passion of the Christ)
1972 Shawn Stockman, R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1977 T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL wide reciever (Cincinnati Bengals)
1980 Henrik and Daniel Sedin, NHL players (Vancouver Canucks)
1981 Christina Milian, R&B singer/actress (Be Cool)
1981 Serena Williams, tennis champion
1984 Keisha Buchanan, singer (Sugababes)
1985 Kalina, the first killer whale to be born in an captivity and survive
Today's Deaths in History
1820 Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies at 85
1902 Levi Strauss, clothing manufacturer, dies at 73
1945 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
1952 George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, dies at 86
1973 Ralph Earnhardt, NASCAR driver (father of Dale Earnhardt) dies at 45
1973 Anna Magnani, Italian actress (The Rose Tattoo) dies at 65
1991 Billy Vaughn, bandleader, dies at 72
2000 Richard Mulligan, actor (Soap) dies at 67
2003 Shawn Lane, guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas) dies at 40
2003 Robert Palmer, British singer (Addicted to Love) dies at 54
2006 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, "Tokyo Rose," dies in Chicago at 90
2006 Byron Nelson, golf champion, dies at 94
2007 Bill Wirtz, NHL team owner (Chicago Blackhawks) dies at 77
Today in History
1687 The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1777 British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice.
1872 The first Shriners Temple was established in New York City.
1914 The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1934 The steamship RMS Queen Mary was launched.
1950 United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.
1957 The musical West Side Story opened on Broadway.
1960 The first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago as Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off.
1969 The album Abbey Road by the Beatles was released.
1973 The Concorde made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1980 The Cuban government closed Mariel Harbor, ending the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981 Nolan Ryan set a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 Australia II, the first non-American winner, won the Americas Cup.
1986 William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice.
1990 The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, designed to bar moviegoers under age 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old X rating.
1991 Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure known as Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Ariz.
1996 Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, Calif.
2000 Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.
2004 Pakistani forces killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists.
2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
2007 Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time - Willie Nelson
1984
Missing You - John Waite
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
Let’s Chase Each Other Around the Room - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner, psychologist (1904 - 1990)
Today's Birthdays
1181 Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order, died Oct 3, 1226
1774 Johnny Appleseed (Chapman), nurseryman, died Mar 18, 1845
1888 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, poet (The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) died Jan 4, 1965
1895 George Raft (Ranft), actor (Some Like It Hot, Casino Royale) died Nov 24, 1980
1897 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini), 262nd Pope, died Aug 6, 1978
1898 George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin), composer (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy & Bess) died July 11, 1937
1914 Jack LaLanne, fitness guru
1924 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (La dolce vita) died December 19, 1996
1925 Marty Robbins (Robertson), Country Music Hall of Famer (El Paso) died Dec 8, 1982
1926 Julie London (Peck), singer/actress (Emergency) died Oct 18, 2000
1933 Donna Douglas, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1936 Winnie Mandela, political activist
1941 Joe Bauer, drummer (The Youngbloods)
1942 Kent McCord (McWhirter), actor (Adam 12, Battlestar Gallactica)
1945 Bryan Ferry, singer (Roxy Music)
1948 Mary Beth Hurt, actress (The World According to Garp)
1948 Olivia Newton-John, singer/actress (Let Me Be There, I Honestly Love You)
1954 Craig Chaquico, guitarist/singer (Jefferson Starship)
1956 Linda Hamilton, actress (Terminator series, Beauty and the Beast)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn, singer (Everything But The Girl)
1965 Cindy Herron, R&B singer (En Vogue)
1966 Jillian Barberie, actress/television hostess (Fox NFL Sunday)
1967 Shannon Hoon, singer (Blind Melon) died Oct 21, 1995
1968 James (Jim) Caviezel, actor (Frequency, The Passion of the Christ)
1972 Shawn Stockman, R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1977 T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL wide reciever (Cincinnati Bengals)
1980 Henrik and Daniel Sedin, NHL players (Vancouver Canucks)
1981 Christina Milian, R&B singer/actress (Be Cool)
1981 Serena Williams, tennis champion
1984 Keisha Buchanan, singer (Sugababes)
1985 Kalina, the first killer whale to be born in an captivity and survive
Today's Deaths in History
1820 Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies at 85
1902 Levi Strauss, clothing manufacturer, dies at 73
1945 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
1952 George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, dies at 86
1973 Ralph Earnhardt, NASCAR driver (father of Dale Earnhardt) dies at 45
1973 Anna Magnani, Italian actress (The Rose Tattoo) dies at 65
1991 Billy Vaughn, bandleader, dies at 72
2000 Richard Mulligan, actor (Soap) dies at 67
2003 Shawn Lane, guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas) dies at 40
2003 Robert Palmer, British singer (Addicted to Love) dies at 54
2006 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, "Tokyo Rose," dies in Chicago at 90
2006 Byron Nelson, golf champion, dies at 94
2007 Bill Wirtz, NHL team owner (Chicago Blackhawks) dies at 77
Today in History
1687 The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1777 British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice.
1872 The first Shriners Temple was established in New York City.
1914 The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1934 The steamship RMS Queen Mary was launched.
1950 United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.
1957 The musical West Side Story opened on Broadway.
1960 The first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago as Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off.
1969 The album Abbey Road by the Beatles was released.
1973 The Concorde made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1980 The Cuban government closed Mariel Harbor, ending the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981 Nolan Ryan set a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 Australia II, the first non-American winner, won the Americas Cup.
1986 William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice.
1990 The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, designed to bar moviegoers under age 17 from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old X rating.
1991 Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure known as Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Ariz.
1996 Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, Calif.
2000 Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.
2004 Pakistani forces killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists.
2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
2007 Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time - Willie Nelson
1984
Missing You - John Waite
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
Let’s Chase Each Other Around the Room - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner, psychologist (1904 - 1990)
Today in History - Sept 27th
Today's Birthdays
1722 Samuel Adams, Revolutionary War leader/governor of Massachusetts, died Oct 2, 1803
1792 George Cruikshank, caricaturist/illustrator (Charles Dickens’ books) died in 1878
1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist (father of American political cartooning) died Dec 7, 1902
1885 Harry Blackstone, Sr., magician, died November 16, 1965
1920 William Conrad (Cann), actor (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman) died Feb 11, 1994
1920 Jayne Meadows (Cotter), actress (City Slickers, Murder by Numbers)
1922 Arthur Penn, director (Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man)
1933 Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible, Vega$) died Aug 27, 1996
1933 Will Sampson, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) died June 3, 1987
1934 Wilford Brimley, actor (Cocoon, The Natural, The Firm)
1934 Dick Schaap, sports reporter, died Dec 21, 2001
1936 Don Cornelius, producer (Soul Train)
1941 Don Nix, baritone sax (The Mar-Keys, Booker T and the M.G.’s)
1943 Randy Bachman, guitarist/singer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1947 Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), actor/singer (Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, Paradise by the Dashboard Light)
1949 Mike (Michael Jack) Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1950 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor (The Last Emperor, Rising Sun, Balls of Fury)
1953 Greg Ham, saxophonist/flautist/keyboardist (Men at Work)
1958 Shaun Cassidy, singer/actor
1964 Stephan Jenkins, singer (Third Eye Blind)
1969 Patrick Muldoon, actor (Melrose Place, Starship Troopers)
1970 Tamara Taylor, actress (Bones)
1971 Amanda Detmer, actress (Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Majestic)
1972 Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (Shakespeare in Love)
1973 Chris Demakes, singer/guitarist (Less Than Jake)
1978 Brad Arnold, singer (3 Doors Down)
1982 Darrent Williams, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos) shot to death Jan 1, 2007
1982 Lil' Wayne, rapper
1984 Avril Lavigne, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1590 Pope Urban VII dies at 69
1700 Pope Innocent XII dies at 85
1917 Edgar Degas, French painter, dies at 83
1956 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete, dies at 45
1965 Clara Bow, actress (The "It" Girl) dies at 60
1981 Robert Montgomery, actor (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) dies at 77
1986 Cliff Burton, bassist (Metallica) dies at 24
1993 Jimmy Doolittle, American general (WWII) dies at 96
2003 Donald O'Connor, actor/dancer (Singin' in the Rain) dies at 78
Today in History
1590 Pope Urban VII died 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1779 John Adams was named to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
1822 Jean-François Champollion announced that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
1905 The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1928 The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
1938 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched in Glasgow.
1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1942 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra performed for the last time before Miller entered the US Army.
1954 Tonight! hosted by Steve Allen, made its debut on NBC-TV.
1956 USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt became the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2.
1959 A typhoon battered the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people.
1964 The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
1979 The United States Department of Education received final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1990 The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Supreme Court nomination of David H. Souter.
1991 The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
1994 More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the U.S. House.
1995 The government unveiled its redesigned $100 bill.
1996 The Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
1997 Communications were suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
1998 Web search engine Google was launched.
1998 Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor of Germany, ending 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his record-setting 69th and 70th home runs in the last game of the season.
1999 Tiger Stadium closed after 87 years as home of baseball's Detroit Tigers.
2001 An armed man went on a shooting rampage in the local parliament in Zug, Switzerland, killing 14 people before taking his own life.
2001 President George W. Bush announced plans to bolster airline security in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
2002 Timor-Leste (East Timor) joined the United Nations.
2005 Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2006 A gunman took six girls hostage at a high school in Bailey, Colo.; he molested them and killed one girl before committing suicide.
2007 Soldiers fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators in Yangon, Myanmar, killing at least nine people.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night
Tall Dark Stranger - Buck Owens
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
I’ve Already Loved You in My Mind - Conway Twitty
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Freedom - Wham!
I Fell in Love Again Last Night - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
Today's Birthdays
1722 Samuel Adams, Revolutionary War leader/governor of Massachusetts, died Oct 2, 1803
1792 George Cruikshank, caricaturist/illustrator (Charles Dickens’ books) died in 1878
1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist (father of American political cartooning) died Dec 7, 1902
1885 Harry Blackstone, Sr., magician, died November 16, 1965
1920 William Conrad (Cann), actor (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman) died Feb 11, 1994
1920 Jayne Meadows (Cotter), actress (City Slickers, Murder by Numbers)
1922 Arthur Penn, director (Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man)
1933 Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible, Vega$) died Aug 27, 1996
1933 Will Sampson, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) died June 3, 1987
1934 Wilford Brimley, actor (Cocoon, The Natural, The Firm)
1934 Dick Schaap, sports reporter, died Dec 21, 2001
1936 Don Cornelius, producer (Soul Train)
1941 Don Nix, baritone sax (The Mar-Keys, Booker T and the M.G.’s)
1943 Randy Bachman, guitarist/singer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1947 Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), actor/singer (Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, Paradise by the Dashboard Light)
1949 Mike (Michael Jack) Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1950 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor (The Last Emperor, Rising Sun, Balls of Fury)
1953 Greg Ham, saxophonist/flautist/keyboardist (Men at Work)
1958 Shaun Cassidy, singer/actor
1964 Stephan Jenkins, singer (Third Eye Blind)
1969 Patrick Muldoon, actor (Melrose Place, Starship Troopers)
1970 Tamara Taylor, actress (Bones)
1971 Amanda Detmer, actress (Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Majestic)
1972 Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (Shakespeare in Love)
1973 Chris Demakes, singer/guitarist (Less Than Jake)
1978 Brad Arnold, singer (3 Doors Down)
1982 Darrent Williams, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos) shot to death Jan 1, 2007
1982 Lil' Wayne, rapper
1984 Avril Lavigne, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1590 Pope Urban VII dies at 69
1700 Pope Innocent XII dies at 85
1917 Edgar Degas, French painter, dies at 83
1956 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete, dies at 45
1965 Clara Bow, actress (The "It" Girl) dies at 60
1981 Robert Montgomery, actor (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) dies at 77
1986 Cliff Burton, bassist (Metallica) dies at 24
1993 Jimmy Doolittle, American general (WWII) dies at 96
2003 Donald O'Connor, actor/dancer (Singin' in the Rain) dies at 78
Today in History
1590 Pope Urban VII died 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1779 John Adams was named to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
1822 Jean-François Champollion announced that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
1905 The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1928 The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
1938 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched in Glasgow.
1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1942 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra performed for the last time before Miller entered the US Army.
1954 Tonight! hosted by Steve Allen, made its debut on NBC-TV.
1956 USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt became the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2.
1959 A typhoon battered the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people.
1964 The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
1979 The United States Department of Education received final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1990 The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Supreme Court nomination of David H. Souter.
1991 The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
1994 More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the U.S. House.
1995 The government unveiled its redesigned $100 bill.
1996 The Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
1997 Communications were suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
1998 Web search engine Google was launched.
1998 Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor of Germany, ending 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his record-setting 69th and 70th home runs in the last game of the season.
1999 Tiger Stadium closed after 87 years as home of baseball's Detroit Tigers.
2001 An armed man went on a shooting rampage in the local parliament in Zug, Switzerland, killing 14 people before taking his own life.
2001 President George W. Bush announced plans to bolster airline security in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
2002 Timor-Leste (East Timor) joined the United Nations.
2005 Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2006 A gunman took six girls hostage at a high school in Bailey, Colo.; he molested them and killed one girl before committing suicide.
2007 Soldiers fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators in Yangon, Myanmar, killing at least nine people.
Chart Toppers
1945
If I Loved You - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Easy to Be Hard - Three Dog Night
Tall Dark Stranger - Buck Owens
1977
Best of My Love - Emotions
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
I’ve Already Loved You in My Mind - Conway Twitty
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Freedom - Wham!
I Fell in Love Again Last Night - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
Today in History - Sept 28th
Today's Birthdays
0551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher, died 0479 BC
1836 Thomas Crapper, English inventor (flush toilet) died Jan 27, 1910
1856 Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) died Aug 24, 1923
1901 William S. Paley, Television Hall of Famer (founder/owner of CBS) died Oct 26, 1990
1902 Ed (Edward Vincent) Sullivan, newspaper columnist/TV host (The Ed Sullivan Show) died Oct 13, 1974
1905 Max (Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried) Schmeling, International Boxing Hall of Famer, died Feb 2, 2005
1909 Al Capp, cartoonist (Li'l Abner) died Nov 5, 1979
1916 Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch), actor (Network) died Jan 14, 1977
1923 William Windom, actor (My World and Welcome to It, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni), actor (White Nights, La Dolce Vita) died Dec 19, 1996
1934 Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), actress (And God Created Woman)
1937 Rod Roddy, television announcer (The Price is Right) died Oct 27, 2003
1938 Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson), singer/songwriter (The Drifters; Stand By Me)
1943 J.T. Walsh, actor (Breakdown, A Few Good Men, Pleasantville) died Feb 27, 1998
1943 Nick St. Nicholas, bassist (Steppenwolf)
1947 Jeffrey Jones, actor (Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Amadeus)
1952 Sylvia Kristel, actress (Emmanuelle series)
1954 Steve Largent, Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1954 George Lynch, rock guitarist (Dokken)
1961 Quentin Kawananakoa, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii/state legislator
1962 Grant Fuhr, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (St Louis Blues)
1964 Janeane Garofalo, comic/actress (The Truth About Cats & Dogs, The Laramie Project, Mystery Men)
1967 Mira Sorvino, actress (Mighty Aphrodite, The Replacement Killers, Beautiful Girls)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa, actress/daughter of singer Frank Zappa
1968 Naomi Watts, actress (Mulholland Drive, The Ring, King Kong)
1968 Sean Levert, R&B singer (Levert)
1968 Carré Otis, model/actress (Wild Orchid)
1972 Dita Von Teese, burlesque artist/former Mrs. Marilyn Manson
1977 Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer (LPGA)
1984 Melody Thornton, singer/dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1987 Hilary Duff singer/actress (Lizzie McGuire)
Today's Deaths in History
1891 Herman Melville, novelist (Moby Dick) dies at 72
1895 Louis Pasteur, French scientist (pasteurization process/microbiology) dies at 72
1914 Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) dies at 50
1935 W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (motion picture camera) dies at 75
1953 Edwin Hubble, astronomer, dies at 63
1956 William Edward Boeing, aviation pioneer, dies at 74
1964 Harpo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) dies at 75
1978 Pope John Paul I dies at 65
1988 Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family) dies at 76
1989 Ferdinand E. Marcos, deposed Philippine President, dies in exile in Hawaii at 72
1991 Miles Davis, jazz musician, dies at 65
2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80
2002 Patsy T. Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (D-HI) dies at 74
2002 Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman/sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 95
2003 Althea Gibson, tennis player (first African-American tennis champion) dies at 76
2003 Elia Kazan, Greek-born film director (On the Waterfront) dies at 94
2004 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer, dies at 80
2004 Scott Muni, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame disc jockey, dies at 74
Today in History
1066 William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.
1542 Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived in present-day San Diego.
1781 American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., during the Revolutionary War,
1787 Congress voted to send the Constitution to state legislatures for their approval.
1850 Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
1867 The United States took control of Midway Island.
1889 The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defined the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1924 Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.
1941 Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox finished the season with a batting average of .406, the last major league player to have a batting average of .400 or better for the season.
1972 Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
2000 Capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.
2000 Ariel Sharon, leader of Israel's hard-line opposition, sparked new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount.
2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws; the charge was later thrown out, and Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering and conspiracy charges.
2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Julie, Do Ya Love Me - Bobby Sherman
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
In Love - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President (1911 - 2004)
Today's Birthdays
0551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher, died 0479 BC
1836 Thomas Crapper, English inventor (flush toilet) died Jan 27, 1910
1856 Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) died Aug 24, 1923
1901 William S. Paley, Television Hall of Famer (founder/owner of CBS) died Oct 26, 1990
1902 Ed (Edward Vincent) Sullivan, newspaper columnist/TV host (The Ed Sullivan Show) died Oct 13, 1974
1905 Max (Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried) Schmeling, International Boxing Hall of Famer, died Feb 2, 2005
1909 Al Capp, cartoonist (Li'l Abner) died Nov 5, 1979
1916 Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch), actor (Network) died Jan 14, 1977
1923 William Windom, actor (My World and Welcome to It, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni), actor (White Nights, La Dolce Vita) died Dec 19, 1996
1934 Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), actress (And God Created Woman)
1937 Rod Roddy, television announcer (The Price is Right) died Oct 27, 2003
1938 Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson), singer/songwriter (The Drifters; Stand By Me)
1943 J.T. Walsh, actor (Breakdown, A Few Good Men, Pleasantville) died Feb 27, 1998
1943 Nick St. Nicholas, bassist (Steppenwolf)
1947 Jeffrey Jones, actor (Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Amadeus)
1952 Sylvia Kristel, actress (Emmanuelle series)
1954 Steve Largent, Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1954 George Lynch, rock guitarist (Dokken)
1961 Quentin Kawananakoa, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii/state legislator
1962 Grant Fuhr, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (St Louis Blues)
1964 Janeane Garofalo, comic/actress (The Truth About Cats & Dogs, The Laramie Project, Mystery Men)
1967 Mira Sorvino, actress (Mighty Aphrodite, The Replacement Killers, Beautiful Girls)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa, actress/daughter of singer Frank Zappa
1968 Naomi Watts, actress (Mulholland Drive, The Ring, King Kong)
1968 Sean Levert, R&B singer (Levert)
1968 Carré Otis, model/actress (Wild Orchid)
1972 Dita Von Teese, burlesque artist/former Mrs. Marilyn Manson
1977 Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer (LPGA)
1984 Melody Thornton, singer/dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1987 Hilary Duff singer/actress (Lizzie McGuire)
Today's Deaths in History
1891 Herman Melville, novelist (Moby Dick) dies at 72
1895 Louis Pasteur, French scientist (pasteurization process/microbiology) dies at 72
1914 Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) dies at 50
1935 W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (motion picture camera) dies at 75
1953 Edwin Hubble, astronomer, dies at 63
1956 William Edward Boeing, aviation pioneer, dies at 74
1964 Harpo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) dies at 75
1978 Pope John Paul I dies at 65
1988 Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family) dies at 76
1989 Ferdinand E. Marcos, deposed Philippine President, dies in exile in Hawaii at 72
1991 Miles Davis, jazz musician, dies at 65
2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80
2002 Patsy T. Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (D-HI) dies at 74
2002 Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman/sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 95
2003 Althea Gibson, tennis player (first African-American tennis champion) dies at 76
2003 Elia Kazan, Greek-born film director (On the Waterfront) dies at 94
2004 Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer, dies at 80
2004 Scott Muni, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame disc jockey, dies at 74
Today in History
1066 William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.
1542 Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived in present-day San Diego.
1781 American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., during the Revolutionary War,
1787 Congress voted to send the Constitution to state legislatures for their approval.
1850 Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
1867 The United States took control of Midway Island.
1889 The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defined the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1924 Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a plan to partition Poland.
1941 Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox finished the season with a batting average of .406, the last major league player to have a batting average of .400 or better for the season.
1972 Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
2000 Capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.
2000 Ariel Sharon, leader of Israel's hard-line opposition, sparked new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount.
2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws; the charge was later thrown out, and Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering and conspiracy charges.
2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sheila - Tommy Roe
Ramblin’ Rose - Nat King Cole
Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Julie, Do Ya Love Me - Bobby Sherman
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
I’ve Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
In Love - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President (1911 - 2004)
Today in History - Sept 29th
Today's Birthdays
1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author (Don Quixote) died Apr 23, 1616
1758 Horatio Nelson, British Naval hero, killed during the Battle of Trafalgar Oct 23, 1805
1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (nuclear energy) died Nov 28, 1954
1904 Greer Garson, actress (Mrs. Miniver, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Goodbye Mr. Chips) died Apr 6, 1996
1907 (Orvon) Gene Autry, singer/actor (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) died Oct 2, 1998
1913 Trevor (Wallace) Howard, actor (Superman: The Movie, Gandhi) died Jan 7, 1988
1913 Stanley Kramer, director (The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind) died Feb 19, 2001
1923 Bum Phillips, NFL coach (Houston Oilers)
1923 Stan Berenstain, children's author (Berenstain Bears) died Nov 26, 2005
1924 Steve Forrest, actor (SWAT)
1931 Anita Ekberg, actress (La Dolce Vita, War and Peace)
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On, Great Balls of Fire)
1939 Larry Linville, actor (M*A*S*H) died Apr 10, 2000
1942 Madeline Kahn, actress (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) died Dec 3, 1999
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1942 Ian McShane, actor (Deadwood)
1943 Lech Walesa, labor leader (founder of Polish solidarity)
1944 Mike Post, composer/arranger/musician (Classical Gas, The Rockford Files, The Theme From Hill Street Blues)
1948 Mark Farner, guitarist/singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 Bryant Gumble, TV host (Today, Real Sports)
1948 Mike Pinera, guitarist (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Alice Cooper)
1957 Andrew Dice Clay, comedian/actor (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Pretty in Pink, Casual Sex)
1958 John Payne, singer (Asia)
1961 Tom Sizemore, actor (Pearl Harbor, Striking Distance, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down)
1962 Al Pitrelli, guitarist (Megadeath, Savatage)
1963 Les Claypool, singer/guitarist (Primus)
1966 Jill Whelan, actress (The Love Boat)
1968 Brad Smith, bassist (Blind Melon)
1969 Erika Eleniak, actress/Playboy Playmate (Under Siege)
1970 Emily Lloyd, actress (Under the Hula Moon, A River Runs Through It, In Country)
1970 Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (High Fidelity, ER)
1971 Rachel Cronin, actress (Ed)
1980 Zachary Levi, actor (Chuck)
Today's Deaths in History
1833 King Ferdinand VII of Spain dies at 48
1902 Émile Zola, French writer, dies at 62
1967 Carson McCullers, author (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) dies at 50
1975 Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Yankees, NY Mets) dies at 85
1989 Gussie Busch, brewing magnate, dies at 90
1997 Roy Lichtenstein, artist (pop art) dies at 73
1998 Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, dies at 80
2001 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam, dies at 78
2006 Michael A. Monsoor, Navy SEAL posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor is killed in Iraq at 25
2007 Lois Maxwell, actress (Miss Moneypenny in James Bond films) dies at 80
Today in History
1650 Henry Robinson opened his Office of Addresses and Encounters, the first historically documented dating service, in Threadneedle Street, London.
1789 The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1829 London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.
1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world opened in Blackpool, England.
1907 The cornerstone was laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1916 John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire.
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough on the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.
1954 New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the World Series.
1957 Baseball's New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds before moving to San Francisco for the next season.
1963 The second session of the Second Vatican Council opened in Rome.
1966 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, was introduced.
1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, became the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1978 Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area; th case remains unsolved.
1988 The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
1989 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled her over.
1990 Washington National Cathedral was finished.
1995 The United States Navy disbanded Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers."
2000 Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2005 John Roberts was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
2006 Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.
2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, was demolished in a controlled explosion.
Chart Toppers
1947
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Tina Marie - Perry Como
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Rise - Herb Alpert
It Must Be Love - Don Williams
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Three Time Loser - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Today's Birthdays
1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author (Don Quixote) died Apr 23, 1616
1758 Horatio Nelson, British Naval hero, killed during the Battle of Trafalgar Oct 23, 1805
1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (nuclear energy) died Nov 28, 1954
1904 Greer Garson, actress (Mrs. Miniver, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Goodbye Mr. Chips) died Apr 6, 1996
1907 (Orvon) Gene Autry, singer/actor (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) died Oct 2, 1998
1913 Trevor (Wallace) Howard, actor (Superman: The Movie, Gandhi) died Jan 7, 1988
1913 Stanley Kramer, director (The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind) died Feb 19, 2001
1923 Bum Phillips, NFL coach (Houston Oilers)
1923 Stan Berenstain, children's author (Berenstain Bears) died Nov 26, 2005
1924 Steve Forrest, actor (SWAT)
1931 Anita Ekberg, actress (La Dolce Vita, War and Peace)
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On, Great Balls of Fire)
1939 Larry Linville, actor (M*A*S*H) died Apr 10, 2000
1942 Madeline Kahn, actress (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) died Dec 3, 1999
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1942 Ian McShane, actor (Deadwood)
1943 Lech Walesa, labor leader (founder of Polish solidarity)
1944 Mike Post, composer/arranger/musician (Classical Gas, The Rockford Files, The Theme From Hill Street Blues)
1948 Mark Farner, guitarist/singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 Bryant Gumble, TV host (Today, Real Sports)
1948 Mike Pinera, guitarist (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Alice Cooper)
1957 Andrew Dice Clay, comedian/actor (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Pretty in Pink, Casual Sex)
1958 John Payne, singer (Asia)
1961 Tom Sizemore, actor (Pearl Harbor, Striking Distance, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down)
1962 Al Pitrelli, guitarist (Megadeath, Savatage)
1963 Les Claypool, singer/guitarist (Primus)
1966 Jill Whelan, actress (The Love Boat)
1968 Brad Smith, bassist (Blind Melon)
1969 Erika Eleniak, actress/Playboy Playmate (Under Siege)
1970 Emily Lloyd, actress (Under the Hula Moon, A River Runs Through It, In Country)
1970 Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (High Fidelity, ER)
1971 Rachel Cronin, actress (Ed)
1980 Zachary Levi, actor (Chuck)
Today's Deaths in History
1833 King Ferdinand VII of Spain dies at 48
1902 Émile Zola, French writer, dies at 62
1967 Carson McCullers, author (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) dies at 50
1975 Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Yankees, NY Mets) dies at 85
1989 Gussie Busch, brewing magnate, dies at 90
1997 Roy Lichtenstein, artist (pop art) dies at 73
1998 Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, dies at 80
2001 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam, dies at 78
2006 Michael A. Monsoor, Navy SEAL posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor is killed in Iraq at 25
2007 Lois Maxwell, actress (Miss Moneypenny in James Bond films) dies at 80
Today in History
1650 Henry Robinson opened his Office of Addresses and Encounters, the first historically documented dating service, in Threadneedle Street, London.
1789 The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1829 London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.
1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world opened in Blackpool, England.
1907 The cornerstone was laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1916 John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire.
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough on the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.
1954 New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the World Series.
1957 Baseball's New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds before moving to San Francisco for the next season.
1963 The second session of the Second Vatican Council opened in Rome.
1966 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, was introduced.
1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, became the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1978 Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area; th case remains unsolved.
1988 The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
1989 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled her over.
1990 Washington National Cathedral was finished.
1995 The United States Navy disbanded Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers."
2000 Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2005 John Roberts was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
2006 Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.
2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, was demolished in a controlled explosion.
Chart Toppers
1947
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Tina Marie - Perry Como
I Don’t Care - Webb Pierce
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Sally, Go ’Round the Roses - The Jaynetts
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall
1979
My Sharona - The Knack
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Rise - Herb Alpert
It Must Be Love - Don Williams
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Three Time Loser - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Today in History - Sept 30th
Today's Birthdays
1861 William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon, died Jan 26, 1932
1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist (Geiger Counter) died September 24, 1945
1917 Buddy Rich, drummer, died Apr 2, 1987
1921 Deborah Kerr (Trimmer), actress (The King and I, From Here to Eternity, An Affair to Remember) died Oct 16, 2007
1924 Truman (Streckfus) Capote (Persons), writer (In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died Aug 25, 1984
1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor/author
1931 Angie Dickinson (Brown), actress (Police Woman, Dressed to Kill)
1935 Johnny Mathis, singer (Wonderful Wonderful, It’s Not for Me to Say, Chances Are, Misty)
1942 Dewey Martin, drummer/singer (Buffalo Springfield)
1942 Frankie Lymon, singer (Why Do Fools Fall in Love) died Feb 27, 1968
1943 Marilyn McCoo (Davis), singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1946 Sylvia Peterson, singer (The Chiffons)
1947 Marc Bolan, British singer/songwriter (T Rex) died Sept 16, 1977
1952 John Lombardo, guitarist/songwriter (10,000 Maniacs)
1952 Jack Wild, British actor (Oliver) died March 2, 2006
1953 Victoria Tennant, actress (Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story)
1954 Barry Williams (Blenkhorn), actor (The Brady Bunch)
1954 Patrice Rushen, R&B singer (Forget Me Nots)
1956 Vondie Curtis-Hall, actor/director (Crooklyn)
1957 Fran Drescher, actress (The Nanny)
1961 Eric Stoltz, actor (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pulp Fiction)
1961 Crystal Bernard, actress (Wings)
1964 Robby Takac, bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1964 Trey Anastasio, singer/guitarist/songwriter (Phish)
1967 Andrea Roth, actress (Rescue Me)
1968 Monica Bellucci, actress (Matrix movies, Tears of the Sun, Shoot 'Em Up)
1971 Jenna Elfman, actress (Dharma and Greg)
1975 Marion Cotillard, actress (La Vie en Rose)
1977 Maia Brewton, actress (Adventures in Babysitting)
1980 Martina Hingis, tennis champion
1981 Dominique Moceanu, Olympic gymnast (1996 Games)
1982 Kieran Culkin, actor (The Mighty, The Secret Lives of Altar Boys)
1982 Lacey Chabert, actress (Mean Girls, Party of Five, Daddy Day Care)
Today's Deaths in History
1913 Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (diesel engine) dies at 55
1955 James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause) is killed in a car accident at 24
1977 Mary Ford, singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) dies at 53
1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) dies at 75
1985 Simone Signoret, French actress (Room at the Top, The Crucible) dies at 64
1998 Dan Quisenberry, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals) dies at 45
2003 Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (OJ Simpson) dies at 59
Today in History
1788 The Pennsylvania Legislature elected the first two members of the U.S. Senate: William Maclay of Harrisburg and Robert Morris of Philadelphia.
1791 Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1846 Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, at the office of Boston dentist William Morton.
1888 Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner.
1927 Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run of the season to break his own major-league record.
1938 British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlawed "intentional bombings of civilian populations.
1946 An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, was televised for the first time.
1949 The Berlin airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.
1954 The U.S. Navy commissioned the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus.
1955 Actor James Dean was killed in a car accident at age 24.
1962 Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founded the United Farm Workers.
1966 The Republic of Botswana declared its independence from Britain.
1982 Cheers premiered on NBC.
1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol killed six people in the Chicago area.
1984 Mike Witt of the California Angels pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Texas Rangers.
1991 The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.
1992 George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the California Angels.
1993 A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern India, killing an estimated 10,000 people.
1997 France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
2002 Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., ended his scandal-tainted re-election campaign just five weeks before the election.
2003 The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.
2004 Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis drug, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat were taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2005 Controversial drawings of Muhammad were printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
G.T.O. - Ronny & The Daytonas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You - Dolly Parton
1988
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
I’ll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Addicted - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 - 1895)
Today's Birthdays
1861 William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon, died Jan 26, 1932
1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist (Geiger Counter) died September 24, 1945
1917 Buddy Rich, drummer, died Apr 2, 1987
1921 Deborah Kerr (Trimmer), actress (The King and I, From Here to Eternity, An Affair to Remember) died Oct 16, 2007
1924 Truman (Streckfus) Capote (Persons), writer (In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died Aug 25, 1984
1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor/author
1931 Angie Dickinson (Brown), actress (Police Woman, Dressed to Kill)
1935 Johnny Mathis, singer (Wonderful Wonderful, It’s Not for Me to Say, Chances Are, Misty)
1942 Dewey Martin, drummer/singer (Buffalo Springfield)
1942 Frankie Lymon, singer (Why Do Fools Fall in Love) died Feb 27, 1968
1943 Marilyn McCoo (Davis), singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1946 Sylvia Peterson, singer (The Chiffons)
1947 Marc Bolan, British singer/songwriter (T Rex) died Sept 16, 1977
1952 John Lombardo, guitarist/songwriter (10,000 Maniacs)
1952 Jack Wild, British actor (Oliver) died March 2, 2006
1953 Victoria Tennant, actress (Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story)
1954 Barry Williams (Blenkhorn), actor (The Brady Bunch)
1954 Patrice Rushen, R&B singer (Forget Me Nots)
1956 Vondie Curtis-Hall, actor/director (Crooklyn)
1957 Fran Drescher, actress (The Nanny)
1961 Eric Stoltz, actor (Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pulp Fiction)
1961 Crystal Bernard, actress (Wings)
1964 Robby Takac, bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1964 Trey Anastasio, singer/guitarist/songwriter (Phish)
1967 Andrea Roth, actress (Rescue Me)
1968 Monica Bellucci, actress (Matrix movies, Tears of the Sun, Shoot 'Em Up)
1971 Jenna Elfman, actress (Dharma and Greg)
1975 Marion Cotillard, actress (La Vie en Rose)
1977 Maia Brewton, actress (Adventures in Babysitting)
1980 Martina Hingis, tennis champion
1981 Dominique Moceanu, Olympic gymnast (1996 Games)
1982 Kieran Culkin, actor (The Mighty, The Secret Lives of Altar Boys)
1982 Lacey Chabert, actress (Mean Girls, Party of Five, Daddy Day Care)
Today's Deaths in History
1913 Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (diesel engine) dies at 55
1955 James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause) is killed in a car accident at 24
1977 Mary Ford, singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) dies at 53
1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) dies at 75
1985 Simone Signoret, French actress (Room at the Top, The Crucible) dies at 64
1998 Dan Quisenberry, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals) dies at 45
2003 Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (OJ Simpson) dies at 59
Today in History
1788 The Pennsylvania Legislature elected the first two members of the U.S. Senate: William Maclay of Harrisburg and Robert Morris of Philadelphia.
1791 Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1846 Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, at the office of Boston dentist William Morton.
1888 Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner.
1927 Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run of the season to break his own major-league record.
1938 British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlawed "intentional bombings of civilian populations.
1946 An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, was televised for the first time.
1949 The Berlin airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.
1954 The U.S. Navy commissioned the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus.
1955 Actor James Dean was killed in a car accident at age 24.
1962 Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founded the United Farm Workers.
1966 The Republic of Botswana declared its independence from Britain.
1982 Cheers premiered on NBC.
1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol killed six people in the Chicago area.
1984 Mike Witt of the California Angels pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Texas Rangers.
1991 The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.
1992 George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000 career hits during a game against the California Angels.
1993 A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern India, killing an estimated 10,000 people.
1997 France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
2002 Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., ended his scandal-tainted re-election campaign just five weeks before the election.
2003 The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.
2004 Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis drug, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat were taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2005 Controversial drawings of Muhammad were printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
G.T.O. - Ronny & The Daytonas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park - Chicago
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Upside Down - Diana Ross
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You - Dolly Parton
1988
Don’t Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
I’ll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Addicted - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist (1825 - 1895)
Today in History - Oct 1st
Today's Birthdays
1881 William Boeing, aviation engineer, died September 27, 1956
1903 Vladimir Horowitz, paino virtuoso, died died Nov 5, 1989
1909 Everett Sloane, actor (Citizen Kane, Marjorie Morningstar) died Aug 6, 1965
1910 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde) died May 23, 1934
1920 Walter Matthau, actor (The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men series) died July 1, 2000
1921 James Whitmore, actor (Give ’Em Hell Harry, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!)
1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President
1924 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Sept. 3, 2005
1925 Roger Williams (Louis Weertz), pianist (Born Free, The Impossible Dream)
1927 Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1928 George Peppard, actor (The A-Team, Banacek, The Blue Max, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died May 8, 1994
1930 Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (Unforgiven, Harry Potter films) died October 25, 2002
1932 Albert Collins, blues guitarist/songwriter (Ice Pickin’) died Nov 24, 1993
1935 Julie Andrews (Julia Wells), singer/actress (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria)
1936 Stella Stevens (Eggleston), actress (The Poseidon Adventure, Li’l Abner, The Nutty Professor)
1942 Herb Fame (Feemster), R&B singer (Peaches & Herb)
1945 Rod (Rodney Cline) Carew, Baseball Hall of Famer (Minnesota Twins, California Angels)
1945 Donny Hathaway, singer (Where is the Love) died Jan 13, 1979
1947 Stephen Collins, actor (Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brewster’s Millions)
1948 Cub Koda, singer (Brownsville Station) died July 1, 2000
1950 Randy Quaid, actor (The Last Picture Show, Days of Thunder, The Paper, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1957 Yvette Freeman, actress (ER)
1962 Esai Morales, actor (La Bamba, Resurrection Boulevard)
1963 Mark McGwire, MLB slugger (Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals)
1964 Christopher Titus, actor/comedian (Big Shots)
1968 Cindy Margolis, model/actress (Most Downloaded Woman on the Internet: Guinness Book of World Records)
1968 Kevin Griffin, singer/songwriter (Better Than Ezra)
1969 Igor Ulanov, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1979 Rudi Johnson, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
Today's Deaths in History
1955 Charles Christie, film studio owner (Christie Films) dies at 75
1975 Al Jackson, drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) dies at 40
1985 E. B. White, author (Charlotte's Web) dies at 86
2004 Richard Avedon, fashion/glamour photographer, dies at 81
2004 Bruce Palmer, bassist (Buffalo Springfield) dies at 58
Today in History
1800 Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrived in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1843 News of the World began publication in London.
1880 John Philip Sousa became leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.
1890 The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park were established by the U.S. Congress.
1896 The U.S. Post Office established Rural Free Delivery.
1903 The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game; the Americans, forerunners of the Red Sox, won the best-of-nine series 5-3.
1908 Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market; each car cost $825.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opened.
1936 General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.
1939 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
1957 "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. paper currency.
1961 Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927.
1962 Johnny Carson debuted as regular host of NBC's Tonight show.
1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
1969 The Concorde supersonic transport plane broke the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla.
1975 Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier for the heavyweight boxing crown in the "Thrilla in Manila."
1979 Pope John Paul II began his first trip to the United States.
1979 The United States returned sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 EPCOT Center opened at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.
1982 Sony launched the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1989 Thousands of East Germans received a triumphal welcome after the communist government agreed to let them flee to West Germany.
1993 Polly Klaas, 12, was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home during a slumber party and murdered. Her case inspired California's three-strikes law.
1994 National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
2001 The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
2001 A Pakistan-based militant group attacked the state legislature in Indian-ruled Kashmir, killing 38 people.
2004 Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki got his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2006 The Israeli army completed its withdrawal from Lebanon, clearing the way for a U.N. peacekeeping force.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Maybe It’s Because - Dick Haymes
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Blood Red and Goin’ Down - Tanya Tucker
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
Tight Fittin’ Jeans - Conway Twitty
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Let Me Tell You About Love - The Judds
Quote of the Day
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander
Today's Birthdays
1881 William Boeing, aviation engineer, died September 27, 1956
1903 Vladimir Horowitz, paino virtuoso, died died Nov 5, 1989
1909 Everett Sloane, actor (Citizen Kane, Marjorie Morningstar) died Aug 6, 1965
1910 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde) died May 23, 1934
1920 Walter Matthau, actor (The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men series) died July 1, 2000
1921 James Whitmore, actor (Give ’Em Hell Harry, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!)
1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President
1924 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Sept. 3, 2005
1925 Roger Williams (Louis Weertz), pianist (Born Free, The Impossible Dream)
1927 Tom Bosley, actor (Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1928 George Peppard, actor (The A-Team, Banacek, The Blue Max, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died May 8, 1994
1930 Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (Unforgiven, Harry Potter films) died October 25, 2002
1932 Albert Collins, blues guitarist/songwriter (Ice Pickin’) died Nov 24, 1993
1935 Julie Andrews (Julia Wells), singer/actress (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria)
1936 Stella Stevens (Eggleston), actress (The Poseidon Adventure, Li’l Abner, The Nutty Professor)
1942 Herb Fame (Feemster), R&B singer (Peaches & Herb)
1945 Rod (Rodney Cline) Carew, Baseball Hall of Famer (Minnesota Twins, California Angels)
1945 Donny Hathaway, singer (Where is the Love) died Jan 13, 1979
1947 Stephen Collins, actor (Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brewster’s Millions)
1948 Cub Koda, singer (Brownsville Station) died July 1, 2000
1950 Randy Quaid, actor (The Last Picture Show, Days of Thunder, The Paper, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1957 Yvette Freeman, actress (ER)
1962 Esai Morales, actor (La Bamba, Resurrection Boulevard)
1963 Mark McGwire, MLB slugger (Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals)
1964 Christopher Titus, actor/comedian (Big Shots)
1968 Cindy Margolis, model/actress (Most Downloaded Woman on the Internet: Guinness Book of World Records)
1968 Kevin Griffin, singer/songwriter (Better Than Ezra)
1969 Igor Ulanov, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1979 Rudi Johnson, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
Today's Deaths in History
1955 Charles Christie, film studio owner (Christie Films) dies at 75
1975 Al Jackson, drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) dies at 40
1985 E. B. White, author (Charlotte's Web) dies at 86
2004 Richard Avedon, fashion/glamour photographer, dies at 81
2004 Bruce Palmer, bassist (Buffalo Springfield) dies at 58
Today in History
1800 Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrived in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1843 News of the World began publication in London.
1880 John Philip Sousa became leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.
1890 The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park were established by the U.S. Congress.
1896 The U.S. Post Office established Rural Free Delivery.
1903 The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game; the Americans, forerunners of the Red Sox, won the best-of-nine series 5-3.
1908 Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market; each car cost $825.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opened.
1936 General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state.
1939 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
1957 "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. paper currency.
1961 Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927.
1962 Johnny Carson debuted as regular host of NBC's Tonight show.
1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
1969 The Concorde supersonic transport plane broke the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla.
1975 Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier for the heavyweight boxing crown in the "Thrilla in Manila."
1979 Pope John Paul II began his first trip to the United States.
1979 The United States returned sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 EPCOT Center opened at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.
1982 Sony launched the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1989 Thousands of East Germans received a triumphal welcome after the communist government agreed to let them flee to West Germany.
1993 Polly Klaas, 12, was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home during a slumber party and murdered. Her case inspired California's three-strikes law.
1994 National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
2001 The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
2001 A Pakistan-based militant group attacked the state legislature in Indian-ruled Kashmir, killing 38 people.
2004 Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki got his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2006 The Israeli army completed its withdrawal from Lebanon, clearing the way for a U.N. peacekeeping force.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Maybe It’s Because - Dick Haymes
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
You Were on My Mind - We Five
Is It Really Over? - Jim Reeves
1973
We’re an American Band - Grand Funk
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Blood Red and Goin’ Down - Tanya Tucker
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers
Tight Fittin’ Jeans - Conway Twitty
1989
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli
Heaven - Warrant
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Let Me Tell You About Love - The Judds
Quote of the Day
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander
Today in History - Oct 2nd
Today's Birthdays
1800 Nat Turner, slave uprising leader, died Nov 11, 1831
1869 Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader, died Jan 30, 1948
1871 Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, died July 23, 1955
1890 Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx, cominc/actor/TV host (You Bet Your Life, Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business) died Aug 19, 1977
1896 (William Alexander) Bud Abbott, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) died Apr 24, 1974
1904 (Henry) Graham Greene, author (The Third Man, The Power and the Glory) died Apr 3, 1991
1928 (George Emmett) ‘Spanky’ McFarland, actor (Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies) died June 30, 1993
1929 Moses Gunn, actor (Ragtime, Othello) died Dec 16, 1993
1932 Maury (Maurice Morning) Wills, MLB shortstop (LA Dodgers)
1937 Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., attorney (OJ murder trial) died March 29, 2005
1938 Rex Reed, movie critic
1945 Don McLean, songwriter/singer (American Pie, Vincent)
1948 Chris LeDoux, country musician/rodeo performer, died Mar 9, 2005
1948 Avery Brooks, actor (Spenser: For Hire, A Man Called Hawk, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1948 Donna Karan (Faske), fashion designer
1949 Richard Hell (Myers), bassist (Television)
1949 Annie Leibovitz, celebrity photographer
1950 Michael Rutherford, guitarist (Genesis, Mike + the Mechanics)
1950 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) died Aug 18, 1998
1951 Sting (Gordon Sumner), bassist/singer (The Police)
1954 Lorraine Bracco, actress (The Sopranos)
1955 Philip Oakey, singer (The Human League)
1956 Freddie Jackson, R&B singer/songwriter (You Are My Lady)
1960 Glenn Anderson, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1960 Robbie Nevil, singer/songwriter (C'est la Vie)
1967 Bud Gaugh, drummer (Sublime)
1970 Kelly Ripa, actress/talk show host (Live with Regis and Kelly)
1971 Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch), singer (I Think We’re Alone Now)
1971 James Root, guitarist (Slipknot)
1973 Lene Nystrom, singer (Aqua)
1973 Proof, rapper (D12) shot and killed April 11, 2006
1986 Camilla Belle, actress (When a Stranger Calls)
Today's Deaths in History
1803 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader/brewer, dies at 81
1973 Paul Hartman, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 69
1985 Rock Hudson, actor, dies at 59
1994 Harriet Hilliard Nelson, actress/Mrs Ozzie Nelson, dies at 85
1998 Gene Autry,singing cowboy, dies at 91
2005 August Wilson, playwright, dies at 60
2005 Nipsey Russell, comedian (Match Game) dies at 87
2006 Tamara Dobson, actress (Cleopatra Jones) dies at 59
Today in History
1835 The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
1925 John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system.
1941 German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow.
1944 Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which 250,000 people were killed.
1950 The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was first published.
1958 The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.
1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first black to serve on the high court.
1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashed in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1980 Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, D-Pa., convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's ABSCAM sting operation, was expelled from the House.
1990 The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter.
1996 Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that he had used a racial slur.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments were signed by President Bill Clinton.
2002 A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2005 The NFL played its first regular season game outside United States; the Arizona Cardinals defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico.
2005 The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 An man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five and wounding five others before committing suicide.
2007 A federal jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive, concluding that she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
All My Love - Patti Page
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tears on My Pillow - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Beauty is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
Black is Black - Los Bravos
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
I’m a Ramblin’ Man - Waylon Jennings
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Somebody’s Baby - Jackson Browne
Put Your Dreams Away - Mickey Gilley
1990
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar, humorist (1899 - 1995)
Today's Birthdays
1800 Nat Turner, slave uprising leader, died Nov 11, 1831
1869 Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader, died Jan 30, 1948
1871 Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, died July 23, 1955
1890 Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx, cominc/actor/TV host (You Bet Your Life, Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business) died Aug 19, 1977
1896 (William Alexander) Bud Abbott, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) died Apr 24, 1974
1904 (Henry) Graham Greene, author (The Third Man, The Power and the Glory) died Apr 3, 1991
1928 (George Emmett) ‘Spanky’ McFarland, actor (Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies) died June 30, 1993
1929 Moses Gunn, actor (Ragtime, Othello) died Dec 16, 1993
1932 Maury (Maurice Morning) Wills, MLB shortstop (LA Dodgers)
1937 Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., attorney (OJ murder trial) died March 29, 2005
1938 Rex Reed, movie critic
1945 Don McLean, songwriter/singer (American Pie, Vincent)
1948 Chris LeDoux, country musician/rodeo performer, died Mar 9, 2005
1948 Avery Brooks, actor (Spenser: For Hire, A Man Called Hawk, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1948 Donna Karan (Faske), fashion designer
1949 Richard Hell (Myers), bassist (Television)
1949 Annie Leibovitz, celebrity photographer
1950 Michael Rutherford, guitarist (Genesis, Mike + the Mechanics)
1950 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) died Aug 18, 1998
1951 Sting (Gordon Sumner), bassist/singer (The Police)
1954 Lorraine Bracco, actress (The Sopranos)
1955 Philip Oakey, singer (The Human League)
1956 Freddie Jackson, R&B singer/songwriter (You Are My Lady)
1960 Glenn Anderson, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1960 Robbie Nevil, singer/songwriter (C'est la Vie)
1967 Bud Gaugh, drummer (Sublime)
1970 Kelly Ripa, actress/talk show host (Live with Regis and Kelly)
1971 Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch), singer (I Think We’re Alone Now)
1971 James Root, guitarist (Slipknot)
1973 Lene Nystrom, singer (Aqua)
1973 Proof, rapper (D12) shot and killed April 11, 2006
1986 Camilla Belle, actress (When a Stranger Calls)
Today's Deaths in History
1803 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader/brewer, dies at 81
1973 Paul Hartman, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 69
1985 Rock Hudson, actor, dies at 59
1994 Harriet Hilliard Nelson, actress/Mrs Ozzie Nelson, dies at 85
1998 Gene Autry,singing cowboy, dies at 91
2005 August Wilson, playwright, dies at 60
2005 Nipsey Russell, comedian (Match Game) dies at 87
2006 Tamara Dobson, actress (Cleopatra Jones) dies at 59
Today in History
1835 The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
1925 John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system.
1941 German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow.
1944 Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which 250,000 people were killed.
1950 The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was first published.
1958 The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.
1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first black to serve on the high court.
1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashed in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1980 Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, D-Pa., convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's ABSCAM sting operation, was expelled from the House.
1990 The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter.
1996 Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that he had used a racial slur.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments were signed by President Bill Clinton.
2002 A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2005 The NFL played its first regular season game outside United States; the Arizona Cardinals defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico.
2005 The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 An man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five and wounding five others before committing suicide.
2007 A federal jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive, concluding that she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
All My Love - Patti Page
Goodnight Irene - Red Foley-Ernest Tubb
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tears on My Pillow - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Beauty is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
Black is Black - Los Bravos
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
I’m a Ramblin’ Man - Waylon Jennings
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Somebody’s Baby - Jackson Browne
Put Your Dreams Away - Mickey Gilley
1990
(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection - Nelson
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Jukebox in My Mind - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar, humorist (1899 - 1995)
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