Today in History - Oct 3rd
Today's Birthdays
1900 Thomas Wolfe, author (You Can’t Go Home Again) died Sep 15, 1938
1916 James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), veterinarian/author (All Creatures Great and Small) died Feb 23, 1995
1924 Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist/founder (Mad magazine) died Feb 21, 1993
1925 Gore Vidal, writer/actor (Myra Breckenridge)
1929 Andy Hebenton, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1931 Glenn Hall, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks)
1938 Eddie (Ray Edward) Cochran, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer (Summertime Blues) killed in car crash Apr 17, 1960
1940 Alan O’Day, singer/songwriter (Undercover Angel)
1940 Jean Ratelle, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1941 Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans), singer (The Twist)
1944 Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, illusionist (Siegfried & Roy)
1945 Kay Baxter, pioneer women's bodybuilder, died May 16, 1988
1949 Lindsey Buckingham, guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 Ronnie Laws, jazz saxophonist
1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist (Pride and Joy) killed in helicopter crash Aug 27, 1990
1954 Rev. Al Sharpton, activist
1959 Fred Couples, golf champion
1959 Jack Wagner, singer/actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place)
1962 Tommy Lee (Bass), drummer (Motley Crue)
1964 Clive Owen, actor (Children of Men, Shoot ‘Em Up)
1966 Frank Hannon, guitarist (Tesla)
1969 Gwen Stefani, singer (No Doubt)
1969 Janel Moloney, actress (The West Wing)
1972 Lajon Witherspoon, singer (Sevendust)
1973 Neve Campbell, actress (Party of Five, Scream series, Wild Things)
1973 Lena Headey, actress (300, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
1975 India.Arie, R&B singer
1976 Seann William Scott, actor (American Pie series)
1978 Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
1978 Shannyn Sossamon, actress (A Knight's Tale, 40 Days and 40 Nights)
1984 Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, actress/singer
Today's Deaths in History
1226 St. Francis of Assisi dies at 45
1656 Myles Standish, English-born soldier (Plymouth colony) dies at 72
1867 Elias Howe, sewing machine pioneer, dies at 48
1936 John Heisman, football coach, dies at 66
1967 Woody Guthrie, folk singer-songwriter, die at 55
1969 Skip James, blues musician, dies at 67
1994 Dub Taylor, actor (Major Dundee) dies at 87
1998 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes) dies at 70
2000 Benjamin Orr, bassist/singer (The Cars) dies at 53
2002 Bruce Paltrow, television/film producer/father of Gwyneth Paltrow, dies at 58
2004 Janet Leigh, actress/Jamie Lee Curtis' mom (Psycho) dies at 77
Today in History
1795 General Napoleon Bonaparte first rose to national prominence as he was named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
1849 Author Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1908 The Pravda newspaper was founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941 Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1951 New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the deciding game of a three-game playoff series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, sending the Giants into the World Series.
1952 The United Kingdom successfully tested a nuclear weapon.
1955 Captain Kangaroo premiered on CBS and The Mickey Mouse Club premiered on ABC.
1964 The first Buffalo Wings were made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
1974 Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1981 Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1990 West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
1993 In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis were killed in heavy fighting.
1995 A jury found ex-football player O.J. Simpson innocent of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
1997 Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
2001 The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2002 Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period, and authorities began to search for the "Beltway Sniper."
2003 A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court; she withdrew three weeks later after criticism over her lack of judicial experience and Republican concerns about her conservatism.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got) - Leon Ashley
1975
I’m Sorry - John Denver
Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Run Joey Run - David Geddes
Daydreams About Night Things - Ronnie Milsap
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
(She’s) Sexy + 17 - Stray Cats
New Looks from an Old Lover - B.J. Thomas
1991
I Adore Mi Amor - Color Me Badd
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Where Are You Now - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm, English author and satirist (1872 - 1956)
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Today in History - Oct 4th
Today's Birthdays
1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President, died Jan 17, 1893
1861 Frederic Remington, artist (American West) died Dec 26, 1909
1862 Laura Lee Hope (Edward L. Stratemeyer) author (The Bobbsey Twins) died May 10, 1930
1880 Damon Runyon, writer (Guys and Dolls) died Dec 10, 1946
1895 Buster (Joseph Frank) Keaton (VI), actor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) died Feb 1, 1966
1924 Charlton Heston (John Charlton Carter), actor (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes) died April 5, 2008
1929 Scotty Beckett, child actor (Our Gang series) died May 10, 1968
1941 Jackie Collins, author (Hollywood Wives)
1941 Anne Rice (Howard O’Brien Rice), author (Interview with a Vampire)
1941 Lori Saunders (Hines), actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Tony La Russa, MLBl manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1945 Clifton Davis, actor (That’s My Mama)
1946 Susan Sarandon (Tomaling), actress (Dead Man Walking, Atlantic City, Thelma and Louise, Bull Durham)
1947 Jim Fielder, bassist (Buffalo Springfield; Mothers of Invention; Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1948 Duke Robillard, blues guitarist (Roomful of Blues)
1949 Armand Assante, actor (Mambo Kings, Fatal Instinct, Judge Dredd)
1950 Alan Rosenberg, actor (The Last Temptation of Christ, L.A. Law, Cybill, Chicago Hope)
1957 Russell Simmons, music producer (Kurtis Blow, Run-DMC, Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z)
1959 Chris Lowe, keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 Liev Schreiber, actor (Jakob the Liar, Ransom, Scream series)
1960 Afrika Bambaataa, R&B musician (Planet Rock)
1961 Jon Secada, singer (Do You Believe in Love)
1961 David W. Harper, actor (The Waltons)
1967 Liev Schreiber, actor (Scream Trilogy, Kate & Leopold, The Omen)
1969 Abraham Benrubi, actor (ER)
1976 Alicia Silverstone, actress (Clueless, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Past)
1978 Phillip Glasser, voice actor (An American Tail series)
1979 Rachael Leigh Cook, actress (Josie & the Pussycats, She's All That)
1980 Jimmy Workman, actor (Addams Family series)
1980 Sarah Fisher, Indy car driver
1982 Jered Weaver, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels)
1982 Tony Gwynn Jr., MLB outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1984 Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1989 Kimmie Meissner, figure skating champion
Today's Deaths in History
1669 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (Artemisia) dies at 63
1890 Catherine Booth, the "Mother of The Salvation Army," dies at 61
1947 Max Planck, German physicist/Nobel laureate (quantum theory) dies at 89
1951 Willie Moretti, gangster (Genovese crime family) dies at 67
1970 Janis Joplin, singer (Big Brother & the Holding Company) dies of a drug overdose at 27
1982 Glenn Gould, pianist, dies at 50
1989 Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python) dies at 48
1989 Secretariat, Triple Crown winning racehorse, dies at 19
1994 Danny Gatton, guitar virtuoso, commits suicide at 49
1999 Art Farmer, jazz trumpeter, dies at 71
2004 Gordon Cooper, astronaut (Mercury, Gemini) dies at 77
Today in History
1537 The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) was printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1777 George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Penn., resulting in heavy American casualties.
1824 Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a federal republic.
1876 Texas A&M University opened as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, the first public institution of higher education in that state.
1895 The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
1927 Gutzon Borglum began sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1931 The Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould made its debut.
1957 Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1957 Leave It to Beaver premiered on CBS.
1957 The Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit.
1958 The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corp. with flights between London and New York.
1965 Pope Paul VI became the first reigning pontiff to travel to North America when he flew to New York and addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
1975 A Cessna 310Q airplane crashed over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion; Ric Flair was one of the survivors.
1985 Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley.
1988 Televangelist Jim Bakker was indicted for fraud.
1990 German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country's parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin.
1993 Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.
2001 Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run in a game against the Houston Astros to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record; Bonds finished the season with 73 homers.
2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.
2002 John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va.
2002 Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2003 A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
2007 Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, defiantly vowed to serve out his term despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It Had to Be You - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Here’s Some Love - Tanya Tucker
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Turning Away - Crystal Gayle
Quote of the Day
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle (1947 - )
Today's Birthdays
1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President, died Jan 17, 1893
1861 Frederic Remington, artist (American West) died Dec 26, 1909
1862 Laura Lee Hope (Edward L. Stratemeyer) author (The Bobbsey Twins) died May 10, 1930
1880 Damon Runyon, writer (Guys and Dolls) died Dec 10, 1946
1895 Buster (Joseph Frank) Keaton (VI), actor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) died Feb 1, 1966
1924 Charlton Heston (John Charlton Carter), actor (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes) died April 5, 2008
1929 Scotty Beckett, child actor (Our Gang series) died May 10, 1968
1941 Jackie Collins, author (Hollywood Wives)
1941 Anne Rice (Howard O’Brien Rice), author (Interview with a Vampire)
1941 Lori Saunders (Hines), actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Tony La Russa, MLBl manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1945 Clifton Davis, actor (That’s My Mama)
1946 Susan Sarandon (Tomaling), actress (Dead Man Walking, Atlantic City, Thelma and Louise, Bull Durham)
1947 Jim Fielder, bassist (Buffalo Springfield; Mothers of Invention; Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1948 Duke Robillard, blues guitarist (Roomful of Blues)
1949 Armand Assante, actor (Mambo Kings, Fatal Instinct, Judge Dredd)
1950 Alan Rosenberg, actor (The Last Temptation of Christ, L.A. Law, Cybill, Chicago Hope)
1957 Russell Simmons, music producer (Kurtis Blow, Run-DMC, Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z)
1959 Chris Lowe, keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 Liev Schreiber, actor (Jakob the Liar, Ransom, Scream series)
1960 Afrika Bambaataa, R&B musician (Planet Rock)
1961 Jon Secada, singer (Do You Believe in Love)
1961 David W. Harper, actor (The Waltons)
1967 Liev Schreiber, actor (Scream Trilogy, Kate & Leopold, The Omen)
1969 Abraham Benrubi, actor (ER)
1976 Alicia Silverstone, actress (Clueless, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Past)
1978 Phillip Glasser, voice actor (An American Tail series)
1979 Rachael Leigh Cook, actress (Josie & the Pussycats, She's All That)
1980 Jimmy Workman, actor (Addams Family series)
1980 Sarah Fisher, Indy car driver
1982 Jered Weaver, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels)
1982 Tony Gwynn Jr., MLB outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1984 Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1989 Kimmie Meissner, figure skating champion
Today's Deaths in History
1669 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (Artemisia) dies at 63
1890 Catherine Booth, the "Mother of The Salvation Army," dies at 61
1947 Max Planck, German physicist/Nobel laureate (quantum theory) dies at 89
1951 Willie Moretti, gangster (Genovese crime family) dies at 67
1970 Janis Joplin, singer (Big Brother & the Holding Company) dies of a drug overdose at 27
1982 Glenn Gould, pianist, dies at 50
1989 Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python) dies at 48
1989 Secretariat, Triple Crown winning racehorse, dies at 19
1994 Danny Gatton, guitar virtuoso, commits suicide at 49
1999 Art Farmer, jazz trumpeter, dies at 71
2004 Gordon Cooper, astronaut (Mercury, Gemini) dies at 77
Today in History
1537 The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) was printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1777 George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Penn., resulting in heavy American casualties.
1824 Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a federal republic.
1876 Texas A&M University opened as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, the first public institution of higher education in that state.
1895 The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
1927 Gutzon Borglum began sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1931 The Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould made its debut.
1957 Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1957 Leave It to Beaver premiered on CBS.
1957 The Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit.
1958 The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corp. with flights between London and New York.
1965 Pope Paul VI became the first reigning pontiff to travel to North America when he flew to New York and addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
1975 A Cessna 310Q airplane crashed over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion; Ric Flair was one of the survivors.
1985 Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley.
1988 Televangelist Jim Bakker was indicted for fraud.
1990 German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country's parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin.
1993 Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.
2001 Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run in a game against the Houston Astros to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record; Bonds finished the season with 73 homers.
2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.
2002 John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va.
2002 Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2003 A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.
2007 Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, defiantly vowed to serve out his term despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It Had to Be You - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Hush - Deep Purple
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Here’s Some Love - Tanya Tucker
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
Drive - The Cars
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Turning Away - Crystal Gayle
Quote of the Day
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle (1947 - )
Today in History - Oct 5th
Today's Birthdays
1829 Chester A. (Alan) Arthur, 21st U.S. President, died Nov 18, 1886
1864 Louis Lumière, French film pioneer, died June 6, 1948
1882 Robert (Hutchings) Goddard, ‘father of the Space Age,’ died Aug 10, 1945
1902 Ray Kroc, entrepreneur (founder of McDonald’s) died Jan 14, 1984
1902 Larry Fine, actor/comedian (Three Stooges) died Jan 4, 1975
1908 Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III), producer/director/writer (Ensign Pulver) died July 12, 1988
1918 Allen Ludden (Ellsworth), TV host (Password, The G.E. College Bowl) died June 9, 1981
1919 Donald Pleasance, actor (You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage) died Feb 2, 1995
1922 Bil Keane, cartoonist (Family Circus)
1923 Glynis Johns, actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref)
1925 Bob Thaves, cartoonist (Frank & Ernest) died Aug 1, 2006
1929 Richard Gordon Jr., NASA astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12)
1937 Barry Switzer, former NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1938 Carlo Mastrangelo, singer (Dion and The Belmonts)
1943 Steve Miller, singer/songwriter/guitarist (The Steve Miller Band)
1947 Brian Johnson, singer (AC/DC)
1949 Brian Connolly, singer (The Sweet) died Feb 10, 1997
1949 B.W. Stevenson, singer/songwriter (My Maria) died Apr 28, 1988
1950 Eddie Clarke, guitarist (Motorhead)
1950 Jeff Conaway, actor (Taxi)
1951 Karen Allen, actress (Raiders of the Lost Ark, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Starman)
1951 Bob Geldof, singer/songwriter (Boomtown Rats)
1952 Clive Barker, author (Hellraiser)
1957 Bernie Mac, actor/comedian (Guess Who) died August 9, 2008
1960 Daniel Baldwin, actor (Homicide: Life on the Street)
1962 Michael Andretti, Indy car racer
1967 Guy Pearce, actor (Memento, LA Confidential)
1970 Josie Bissett, actress (Melrose Place)
1974 Colin Meloy, singer (The Decemberists)
1975 Parminder Nagra, actress (Bend It Like Beckham, ER)
1975 Kate Winslet, actress (Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1975 Brian Mashburn, guitarist/singer (Save Ferris)
1978 James Valentine, guitarist (Maroon 5)
1980 Paul Thomas, bassist (Good Charlotte)
1983 Nicky Hilton, celebrity/heiress
1985 Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
Today's Deaths in History
1813 Tecumseh, Shawnee leader, dies at 45
1933 Renée Adorée, French actress (The Big Parade) dies at 35
1941 Louis D. Brandeis, first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, dies at 84
1981 Gloria Grahame, actress (The Big Heat) dies at 57
1983 Earl Tupper, inventor (Tupperware) dies at 76
1986 Hal B. Wallis, film producer (Casablanca) dies at 87
1992 Eddie Kendricks, singer (The Temptations) dies at 52
1995 Linda Gary, voice actress (Duck Tales) dies at 50
1996 Seymour Cray, computer pioneer, dies at 71
2002 Chuck Rayner, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (NY Rangers) dies at 82
2003 Dan Snyder, NHL center (Atlanta Thrashers) dies at 25 in a car crash
2004 Rodney Dangerfield, comedian/actor (Caddyshack, Back to School) dies at 82
Today in History
1857 The City of Anaheim was founded.
1864 The Indian city of Calcutta was almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 died.
1877 Chief Joseph surrenderd his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles, stating. "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
1921 The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised address from the White House.
1953 Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1962 The Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," was released in the United Kingdom.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus made its debut on BBC Television.
1983 Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984 Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the Contra supply plane he was riding in was shot down over southern Nicaragua.
1988 Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers.
1990 A jury in Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, was released.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants set a new mark for home runs in a season, hitting his 71st and 72nd in a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers to break Mark McGwire's record of 70 set in 1998; Bonds finished the season with 73 homers.
2001 Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2003 Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria.
2005 Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
I’m Gonna Love That Guy - The Benny Goodman Orchestra (vocal: Dottie
Reid)
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Daytime Friends - Kenny Rogers
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
Today's Birthdays
1829 Chester A. (Alan) Arthur, 21st U.S. President, died Nov 18, 1886
1864 Louis Lumière, French film pioneer, died June 6, 1948
1882 Robert (Hutchings) Goddard, ‘father of the Space Age,’ died Aug 10, 1945
1902 Ray Kroc, entrepreneur (founder of McDonald’s) died Jan 14, 1984
1902 Larry Fine, actor/comedian (Three Stooges) died Jan 4, 1975
1908 Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III), producer/director/writer (Ensign Pulver) died July 12, 1988
1918 Allen Ludden (Ellsworth), TV host (Password, The G.E. College Bowl) died June 9, 1981
1919 Donald Pleasance, actor (You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage) died Feb 2, 1995
1922 Bil Keane, cartoonist (Family Circus)
1923 Glynis Johns, actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref)
1925 Bob Thaves, cartoonist (Frank & Ernest) died Aug 1, 2006
1929 Richard Gordon Jr., NASA astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12)
1937 Barry Switzer, former NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1938 Carlo Mastrangelo, singer (Dion and The Belmonts)
1943 Steve Miller, singer/songwriter/guitarist (The Steve Miller Band)
1947 Brian Johnson, singer (AC/DC)
1949 Brian Connolly, singer (The Sweet) died Feb 10, 1997
1949 B.W. Stevenson, singer/songwriter (My Maria) died Apr 28, 1988
1950 Eddie Clarke, guitarist (Motorhead)
1950 Jeff Conaway, actor (Taxi)
1951 Karen Allen, actress (Raiders of the Lost Ark, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Starman)
1951 Bob Geldof, singer/songwriter (Boomtown Rats)
1952 Clive Barker, author (Hellraiser)
1957 Bernie Mac, actor/comedian (Guess Who) died August 9, 2008
1960 Daniel Baldwin, actor (Homicide: Life on the Street)
1962 Michael Andretti, Indy car racer
1967 Guy Pearce, actor (Memento, LA Confidential)
1970 Josie Bissett, actress (Melrose Place)
1974 Colin Meloy, singer (The Decemberists)
1975 Parminder Nagra, actress (Bend It Like Beckham, ER)
1975 Kate Winslet, actress (Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1975 Brian Mashburn, guitarist/singer (Save Ferris)
1978 James Valentine, guitarist (Maroon 5)
1980 Paul Thomas, bassist (Good Charlotte)
1983 Nicky Hilton, celebrity/heiress
1985 Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
Today's Deaths in History
1813 Tecumseh, Shawnee leader, dies at 45
1933 Renée Adorée, French actress (The Big Parade) dies at 35
1941 Louis D. Brandeis, first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, dies at 84
1981 Gloria Grahame, actress (The Big Heat) dies at 57
1983 Earl Tupper, inventor (Tupperware) dies at 76
1986 Hal B. Wallis, film producer (Casablanca) dies at 87
1992 Eddie Kendricks, singer (The Temptations) dies at 52
1995 Linda Gary, voice actress (Duck Tales) dies at 50
1996 Seymour Cray, computer pioneer, dies at 71
2002 Chuck Rayner, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (NY Rangers) dies at 82
2003 Dan Snyder, NHL center (Atlanta Thrashers) dies at 25 in a car crash
2004 Rodney Dangerfield, comedian/actor (Caddyshack, Back to School) dies at 82
Today in History
1857 The City of Anaheim was founded.
1864 The Indian city of Calcutta was almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 died.
1877 Chief Joseph surrenderd his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles, stating. "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
1921 The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised address from the White House.
1953 Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1962 The Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," was released in the United Kingdom.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus made its debut on BBC Television.
1983 Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984 Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 American Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Sandinista soldiers after the Contra supply plane he was riding in was shot down over southern Nicaragua.
1988 Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers.
1990 A jury in Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, was released.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants set a new mark for home runs in a season, hitting his 71st and 72nd in a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers to break Mark McGwire's record of 70 set in 1998; Bonds finished the season with 73 homers.
2001 Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2003 Israel bombed an Islamic Jihad base in Syria.
2005 Defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
I’m Gonna Love That Guy - The Benny Goodman Orchestra (vocal: Dottie
Reid)
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee
The Mountain’s High - Dick & DeeDee
Crying - Roy Orbison
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
Don’t Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Daytime Friends - Kenny Rogers
1985
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
Today in History - Oct 6th
Today's Birthdays
1820 Jenny (Johanna) Lind, singer (‘The Swedish Nightingale’) died Nov 2, 1887
1846 George Westinghouse, inventor/founder (Westinghouse Electric Company) died March 12, 1914
1897 Jerome Cowan, actor (The Maltese Falcon) died Jan 24, 1972
1905 Helen Wills Moody, International Tennis Hall of Famer, died Jan 1, 1998
1906 Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor), actress (A Star is Born) died Sep 14, 1984
1908 Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters), actress/wife of actor Clark Gable (My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) killed in plane crash Jan 16, 1942
1914 Thor Heyerdahl, explorer/author (Kon Tiki) died Apr 17, 2002
1925 Shana Alexander (Ager), journalist (60 Minutes) died June 23, 2005
1942 Britt Ekland, actress (The Man with the Golden Gun)
1947 Steve (Steven Jack) Kline, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
1949 Bobby Farrell, singer (Boney M)
1950 Thomas McClary, guitarist (The Commodores)
1951 Kevin Cronin, singer (REO Speedwagon)
1955 Tony Dungy, NFL head coach (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 Elisabeth Shue, actress (Leaving Las Vegas, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future: Part 2 and Part 3, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid)
1964 Matthew Sweet, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Girlfriend)
1970 Amy Jo Johnson, actress/singer (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
1973 Ioan Gruffudd, actor (Fantastic Four series, Horatio Hornblower)
1974 Jeremy Sisto, actor (Six Feet Under, Law & Order)
Today's Deaths in History
1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (Idylls of the King) dies at 83
1951 Will Keith Kellogg, food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) dies at 91
1981 Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, is assassinated at 62
1985 Nelson Riddle, bandleader, dies at 64
1989 Bette Davis, actress (Of Human Bondage) dies at 81
1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Trading Places) dies at 70
1998 Mark Belanger, MLB shortstop (Baltimore Orioles) dies at 54
2000 Richard Farnsworth, actor (The Straight Story, Misery) dies at 80
2006 Buck O'Neil, first African-American coach in MLB, dies at 94
Today in History
1683 Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown.
1884 The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
1889 The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.
1927 The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek became Chairman of the Republic of China.
1945 Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
1949 American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.
1966 LSD was declared illegal in the United States.
1973 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
1976 In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe;" Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.
1979 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade.
1987 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
2007 Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
Let’s Dance - Chris Montez
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Candida - Dawn
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John & Cast
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Always Have Always Will - Janie Frickie
Quote of the Day
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
Today's Birthdays
1820 Jenny (Johanna) Lind, singer (‘The Swedish Nightingale’) died Nov 2, 1887
1846 George Westinghouse, inventor/founder (Westinghouse Electric Company) died March 12, 1914
1897 Jerome Cowan, actor (The Maltese Falcon) died Jan 24, 1972
1905 Helen Wills Moody, International Tennis Hall of Famer, died Jan 1, 1998
1906 Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor), actress (A Star is Born) died Sep 14, 1984
1908 Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters), actress/wife of actor Clark Gable (My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) killed in plane crash Jan 16, 1942
1914 Thor Heyerdahl, explorer/author (Kon Tiki) died Apr 17, 2002
1925 Shana Alexander (Ager), journalist (60 Minutes) died June 23, 2005
1942 Britt Ekland, actress (The Man with the Golden Gun)
1947 Steve (Steven Jack) Kline, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
1949 Bobby Farrell, singer (Boney M)
1950 Thomas McClary, guitarist (The Commodores)
1951 Kevin Cronin, singer (REO Speedwagon)
1955 Tony Dungy, NFL head coach (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 Elisabeth Shue, actress (Leaving Las Vegas, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future: Part 2 and Part 3, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid)
1964 Matthew Sweet, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Girlfriend)
1970 Amy Jo Johnson, actress/singer (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
1973 Ioan Gruffudd, actor (Fantastic Four series, Horatio Hornblower)
1974 Jeremy Sisto, actor (Six Feet Under, Law & Order)
Today's Deaths in History
1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (Idylls of the King) dies at 83
1951 Will Keith Kellogg, food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) dies at 91
1981 Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, is assassinated at 62
1985 Nelson Riddle, bandleader, dies at 64
1989 Bette Davis, actress (Of Human Bondage) dies at 81
1992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Trading Places) dies at 70
1998 Mark Belanger, MLB shortstop (Baltimore Orioles) dies at 54
2000 Richard Farnsworth, actor (The Straight Story, Misery) dies at 80
2006 Buck O'Neil, first African-American coach in MLB, dies at 94
Today in History
1683 Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown.
1884 The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
1889 The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.
1927 The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek became Chairman of the Republic of China.
1945 Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
1949 American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.
1966 LSD was declared illegal in the United States.
1973 Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
1976 In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe;" Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.
1979 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade.
1987 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
2007 Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Wine, Women and Song - Al Dexter
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
Let’s Dance - Chris Montez
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Lookin’ Out My Back Door/Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Candida - Dawn
There Must Be More to Love Than This - Jerry Lee Lewis
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John
Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John & Cast
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
Stuck with You - Huey Lewis & The News
Friends and Lovers - Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Always Have Always Will - Janie Frickie
Quote of the Day
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
Today in History - Oct 7th
Today's Birthdays
1849 James Whitcomb Riley, poet (When the Frost is on the Punkin’) died July 22, 1916
1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (quantum mechanics) died November 18, 1962
1888 Henry Wallace, 33rd Vice President of U.S., died Nov 18, 1965
1900 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (Schutzstaffel) died May 23, 1945
1905 Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz), actor (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Badge of Courage) died Feb 18, 1977
1911 ‘Papa’ Jo (Jonathan) Jones, drummer (Count Basie, Bennie Goodman) died Sep 3, 1985
1917 June Allyson (Ella Geisman), actress (Strategic Air Command) died July 8, 2006
1926 Diana Lynn (Dolores ‘Dolly’ Loehr), actress (Bedtime for Bonzo, My Friend Irma) died Dec 18, 1971
1931 Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1942 Joy Behar, TV host (The View)
1943 Oliver North, former Marine/TV personality
1945 Kevin Godley, drummer/singer (10cc, Godley & Creme)
1949 David Hope, bassist (Kansas)
1951 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer/guitarist (Jack and Diane, Pink Houses, Hurts So Good)
1952 Mary Badham, actress (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1952 Vladimir Putin, Russian President
1953 Tico Torres, drummer (Bon Jovi)
1955 Yo-Yo Ma, cello virtuoso
1959 Dylan Baker, actor (Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
1959 Simon Cowell, TV personality (American Idol)
1967 Toni Braxton, singer (Another Sad Love Song, Breathe Again, Un-Break My Heart)
1968 Thom Yorke, singer/musician (Radiohead)
1970 Nicole Ari Parker, actress (Soul Food, Remember the Titans)
1974 Hoser, board member
1976 Taylor Hicks, singer (American Idol)
1976 Rachel McAdams, actress (Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, author (The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart) dies at 40
1925 Christy Mathewson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 45
1956 Clarence Birdseye, inventor (frozen foods) dies at 69
1991 Leo Durocher, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers) dies at 86
2001 Herblock, cartoonist, dies at 91
2005 Charles Rocket, comic/actor (Saturday Night Live) commits suicide at 56
Today in History
1765 The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
1868 Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.
1919 KLM airlines was founded.
1949 The Republic of East Germany was formed.
1952 American Bandstand debuted on a local Philadelphia station.
1954 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 The Motion Picture Association of America adopted a film-rating system.
1982 The musical Cats opened on Broadway, beginning its record run of 7,485 performances.
1985 Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard.
1996 Fox News Channel made its debut.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside Laramie, Wyo.; he died five days later. Two men are serving life sentences for Shepard's murder.
1999 American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants wrapped up his record-breaking season with his 73rd homer, while San Diego's Rickey Henderson became the 25th player with 3,000 career hits.
2001 The United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.
2002 The Washington-area sniper struck again, shooting and critically wounding a 13-year-old boy in Bowie, Md.
2003 California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.
2004 Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated because of poor health.
2006 Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death in Moscow.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
Superstar - Carpenters
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
1979
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Sail On - Commodores
The Cheater’s Waltz - T.G. Sheppard
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
You Again - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg, physicist (1933 - )
Today's Birthdays
1849 James Whitcomb Riley, poet (When the Frost is on the Punkin’) died July 22, 1916
1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (quantum mechanics) died November 18, 1962
1888 Henry Wallace, 33rd Vice President of U.S., died Nov 18, 1965
1900 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (Schutzstaffel) died May 23, 1945
1905 Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz), actor (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Badge of Courage) died Feb 18, 1977
1911 ‘Papa’ Jo (Jonathan) Jones, drummer (Count Basie, Bennie Goodman) died Sep 3, 1985
1917 June Allyson (Ella Geisman), actress (Strategic Air Command) died July 8, 2006
1926 Diana Lynn (Dolores ‘Dolly’ Loehr), actress (Bedtime for Bonzo, My Friend Irma) died Dec 18, 1971
1931 Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1942 Joy Behar, TV host (The View)
1943 Oliver North, former Marine/TV personality
1945 Kevin Godley, drummer/singer (10cc, Godley & Creme)
1949 David Hope, bassist (Kansas)
1951 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer/guitarist (Jack and Diane, Pink Houses, Hurts So Good)
1952 Mary Badham, actress (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1952 Vladimir Putin, Russian President
1953 Tico Torres, drummer (Bon Jovi)
1955 Yo-Yo Ma, cello virtuoso
1959 Dylan Baker, actor (Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
1959 Simon Cowell, TV personality (American Idol)
1967 Toni Braxton, singer (Another Sad Love Song, Breathe Again, Un-Break My Heart)
1968 Thom Yorke, singer/musician (Radiohead)
1970 Nicole Ari Parker, actress (Soul Food, Remember the Titans)
1974 Hoser, board member
1976 Taylor Hicks, singer (American Idol)
1976 Rachel McAdams, actress (Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, author (The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart) dies at 40
1925 Christy Mathewson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 45
1956 Clarence Birdseye, inventor (frozen foods) dies at 69
1991 Leo Durocher, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers) dies at 86
2001 Herblock, cartoonist, dies at 91
2005 Charles Rocket, comic/actor (Saturday Night Live) commits suicide at 56
Today in History
1765 The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
1868 Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.
1919 KLM airlines was founded.
1949 The Republic of East Germany was formed.
1952 American Bandstand debuted on a local Philadelphia station.
1954 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 The Motion Picture Association of America adopted a film-rating system.
1982 The musical Cats opened on Broadway, beginning its record run of 7,485 performances.
1985 Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard.
1996 Fox News Channel made its debut.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside Laramie, Wyo.; he died five days later. Two men are serving life sentences for Shepard's murder.
1999 American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems.
2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants wrapped up his record-breaking season with his 73rd homer, while San Diego's Rickey Henderson became the 25th player with 3,000 career hits.
2001 The United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.
2002 The Washington-area sniper struck again, shooting and critically wounding a 13-year-old boy in Bowie, Md.
2003 California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.
2004 Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated because of poor health.
2006 Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death in Moscow.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold
1963
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Abilene - George Hamilton IV
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
Superstar - Carpenters
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
1979
Sad Eyes - Robert John
Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Sail On - Commodores
The Cheater’s Waltz - T.G. Sheppard
1987
Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
You Again - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg, physicist (1933 - )
Today in History - Oct 8th
Today's Birthdays
1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator/World War I hero, died July 23, 1973
1895 Juan (Domingo) Peron, President of Argentina, died July 1, 1974
1936 Rona Barrett (Burstein), gossip columnist
1939 Paul Hogan, actor (Crocodile Dundee series)
1941 George Bellamy, guitarist (The Tornados)
1941 Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader
1943 Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase), comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1943 R. L. Stine, author (Goosebumps)
1947 Tony Wilson, bassist/singer (Hot Chocolate)
1948 Sarah Purcell, TV reporter (Real People)
1948 Johnny Ramone (Cummings), guitarist/singer (The Ramones) died Sep 15, 2004
1949 Hamish Stuart, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 Sigourney (Susan) Weaver, actress (Gorillas in the Mist, Alien series, Working Girl, Dave, Ghostbusters series)
1950 Robert ‘Kool’ Bell, bassist/singer (Kool and the Gang)
1954 Michael Dudikoff, actor (American Ninja series, Bachelor Party)
1955 Darrell Hammond, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1955 Bill Elliott, NASCAR driver
1956 Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele)
1963 Steve Perry, singer (Cherry Poppin' Daddies)
1964 Ian Hart, actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
1965 C.J. Ramone, bassist (The Ramones)
1968 Emily Procter, actress (The West Wing, CSI: Miami)
1968 Leeroy Thornhill, keyboardist (The Prodigy)
1970 Matt Damon, actor (Saving Private Ryan, Courage Under Fire, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven series)
1970 Soon-Yi Previn, Korean-American actress/Mrs Woody Allen
1974 DJ Q-Ball, disc jockey/singer (Bloodhound Gang)
1979 Kristanna Loken, actress (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
1980 Nick Cannon, actor (Drumline, Underclassman)
1993 Angus T. Jones, actor (Two and a Half Men)
Today's Deaths in History
1793 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 56
1869 Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64
1982 Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor, dies at 67
1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Support Your Local Sheriff) dies at 69
1990 B.J. Wilson, drummer (Procol Harum) dies at 43
1992 Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, dies at 78
Today in History
1871 The Great Chicago Fire erupted, destroying four square miles of the city, killing about 250 people and leaving some 90,000 homeless.
1918 Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1944 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet made its debut on CBS Radio.
1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1956 Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5.
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men were captured in Bolivia.
1970 Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
1982 All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.
1985 The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body and wheelchair overboard.
2001 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.
2004 Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale.
2005 A major earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Ben - Michael Jackson
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Give Me the Night - George Benson
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
Do You Wanna Go to Heaven - T.G. Sheppard
1988
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Red Red Wine - UB40
Don’t Be Cruel - Cheap Trick
Honky Tonk Moon - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
John Wayne, actor & director (1907 - 1979)
Today's Birthdays
1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator/World War I hero, died July 23, 1973
1895 Juan (Domingo) Peron, President of Argentina, died July 1, 1974
1936 Rona Barrett (Burstein), gossip columnist
1939 Paul Hogan, actor (Crocodile Dundee series)
1941 George Bellamy, guitarist (The Tornados)
1941 Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader
1943 Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase), comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Vacation series)
1943 R. L. Stine, author (Goosebumps)
1947 Tony Wilson, bassist/singer (Hot Chocolate)
1948 Sarah Purcell, TV reporter (Real People)
1948 Johnny Ramone (Cummings), guitarist/singer (The Ramones) died Sep 15, 2004
1949 Hamish Stuart, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 Sigourney (Susan) Weaver, actress (Gorillas in the Mist, Alien series, Working Girl, Dave, Ghostbusters series)
1950 Robert ‘Kool’ Bell, bassist/singer (Kool and the Gang)
1954 Michael Dudikoff, actor (American Ninja series, Bachelor Party)
1955 Darrell Hammond, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1955 Bill Elliott, NASCAR driver
1956 Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele)
1963 Steve Perry, singer (Cherry Poppin' Daddies)
1964 Ian Hart, actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
1965 C.J. Ramone, bassist (The Ramones)
1968 Emily Procter, actress (The West Wing, CSI: Miami)
1968 Leeroy Thornhill, keyboardist (The Prodigy)
1970 Matt Damon, actor (Saving Private Ryan, Courage Under Fire, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven series)
1970 Soon-Yi Previn, Korean-American actress/Mrs Woody Allen
1974 DJ Q-Ball, disc jockey/singer (Bloodhound Gang)
1979 Kristanna Loken, actress (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
1980 Nick Cannon, actor (Drumline, Underclassman)
1993 Angus T. Jones, actor (Two and a Half Men)
Today's Deaths in History
1793 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 56
1869 Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64
1982 Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor, dies at 67
1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Support Your Local Sheriff) dies at 69
1990 B.J. Wilson, drummer (Procol Harum) dies at 43
1992 Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, dies at 78
Today in History
1871 The Great Chicago Fire erupted, destroying four square miles of the city, killing about 250 people and leaving some 90,000 homeless.
1918 Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1944 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet made its debut on CBS Radio.
1945 President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1956 Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5.
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men were captured in Bolivia.
1970 Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
1982 All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.
1985 The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body and wheelchair overboard.
2001 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.
2004 Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale.
2005 A major earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Ben - Michael Jackson
Back Stabbers - O’Jays
I Ain’t Never - Mel Tillis
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Give Me the Night - George Benson
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
Do You Wanna Go to Heaven - T.G. Sheppard
1988
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Red Red Wine - UB40
Don’t Be Cruel - Cheap Trick
Honky Tonk Moon - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
John Wayne, actor & director (1907 - 1979)
Today in History - Oct 9th
Today's Birthdays
1873 Charles Walgreen, entrepreneur (Walgreen's Drug Stores) died Dec 11, 1939
1900 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Scrooge)
1903 Walter O’Malley, baseball owner (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers) died Aug 9, 1979
1907 Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (Mon Oncle, Playtime) died November 5, 1982
1911 Joe Rosenthal, photographer (Iwo Jima flagraising) died August 20, 2006
1914 Edward Andrews, actor (Sixteen Candles) died Mar 8, 1985
1923 Fyvush Finkel, actor (Boston Public)
1940 John Lennon, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Beatles) shot and killed December 8, 1980
1944 John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) died June 27, 2002
1944 Peter Tosh (Winston McIntosh), reggae singer, died September 11, 1987
1944 Nona Hendryx, R&B singer (LaBelle)
1948 Jackson Browne, songwriter/singer (Doctor My Eyes, Running on Empty, The Pretender)
1951 Robert Wuhl, writer/actor (Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance)
1952 Sharon Osbourne, TV personality/Mrs Ozzy Osbourne (America's Got Talent)
1953 Tony Shalhoub, actor (Wings, Big Night, The Siege, Monk)
1954 Scott Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, Necessary Roughness, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1954 John O'Hurley, actor (Seinfeld)
1954 James Fearnley, accordion player (The Pogues)
1958 Michael Paré, actor (The Philadelphia Experience, Streets of Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers series)
1958 Al Jourgensen, singer/musician (Ministry)
1958 Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1961 Kurt Neumann, singer/guitarist (BoDeans)
1964 Guillermo del Toro, director (Pan's Labyrinth)
1964 Bobby Flay, celebrity chef/restaurateur
1969 P.J. Harvey, singer
1970 Annika Sorenstam, LPGA golf champion
1973 Terry Balsamo, guitarist (Evanescence)
1975 Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1979 Alex Greenwald, singer (Phantom Planet)
1979 Brandon Routh, actor (Superman Returns)
1981 Zachery Ty Bryan, actor (Home Improvement)
Today's Deaths in History
1967 Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary/guerilla leader, is executed at 39
1972 Miriam Hopkins, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) dies at 69
1974 Oskar Schindler, German businessman (saved >1,000 Jews during Holocaust) dies at 66
1987 Clare Boothe Luce, writer/diplomat (Vanity Fair) dies at 84
1999 Milt Jackson, jazz vibraphonist, dies at 76
2000 David Dukes, actor (Dawson's Creek) dies at 55
2001 Herbert Ross, film director/producer (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) dies at 74
2005 Louis Nye, comedian/actor (Cannonball Run II) dies at 92
Today in History
1446 The hangul alphabet was published in Korea.
1635 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut - later Yale University - was chartered in New Haven.
1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1919 The Cincinnati Reds "won" the World Series amidst the Black Sox scandal.
1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1946 The Eugene O'Neill drama The Iceman Cometh opened on Broadway.
1958 Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.
1975 Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1990 David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999 The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane made its last flight.
2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
2002 A man was gunned down moments after filling his tank at a gas station near Manassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in the Washington D.C. area.
2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.
2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
The “In” Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
Behind the Tear - Sonny James
1973
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Ray Price
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Who’s Crying Now - Journey
Midnight Hauler - Razzy Bailey
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Cherish - Madonna
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
I Got Dreams - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)
Today's Birthdays
1873 Charles Walgreen, entrepreneur (Walgreen's Drug Stores) died Dec 11, 1939
1900 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Scrooge)
1903 Walter O’Malley, baseball owner (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers) died Aug 9, 1979
1907 Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (Mon Oncle, Playtime) died November 5, 1982
1911 Joe Rosenthal, photographer (Iwo Jima flagraising) died August 20, 2006
1914 Edward Andrews, actor (Sixteen Candles) died Mar 8, 1985
1923 Fyvush Finkel, actor (Boston Public)
1940 John Lennon, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Beatles) shot and killed December 8, 1980
1944 John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) died June 27, 2002
1944 Peter Tosh (Winston McIntosh), reggae singer, died September 11, 1987
1944 Nona Hendryx, R&B singer (LaBelle)
1948 Jackson Browne, songwriter/singer (Doctor My Eyes, Running on Empty, The Pretender)
1951 Robert Wuhl, writer/actor (Batman, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam, Flashdance)
1952 Sharon Osbourne, TV personality/Mrs Ozzy Osbourne (America's Got Talent)
1953 Tony Shalhoub, actor (Wings, Big Night, The Siege, Monk)
1954 Scott Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, Necessary Roughness, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1954 John O'Hurley, actor (Seinfeld)
1954 James Fearnley, accordion player (The Pogues)
1958 Michael Paré, actor (The Philadelphia Experience, Streets of Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers series)
1958 Al Jourgensen, singer/musician (Ministry)
1958 Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1961 Kurt Neumann, singer/guitarist (BoDeans)
1964 Guillermo del Toro, director (Pan's Labyrinth)
1964 Bobby Flay, celebrity chef/restaurateur
1969 P.J. Harvey, singer
1970 Annika Sorenstam, LPGA golf champion
1973 Terry Balsamo, guitarist (Evanescence)
1975 Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1979 Alex Greenwald, singer (Phantom Planet)
1979 Brandon Routh, actor (Superman Returns)
1981 Zachery Ty Bryan, actor (Home Improvement)
Today's Deaths in History
1967 Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary/guerilla leader, is executed at 39
1972 Miriam Hopkins, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) dies at 69
1974 Oskar Schindler, German businessman (saved >1,000 Jews during Holocaust) dies at 66
1987 Clare Boothe Luce, writer/diplomat (Vanity Fair) dies at 84
1999 Milt Jackson, jazz vibraphonist, dies at 76
2000 David Dukes, actor (Dawson's Creek) dies at 55
2001 Herbert Ross, film director/producer (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) dies at 74
2005 Louis Nye, comedian/actor (Cannonball Run II) dies at 92
Today in History
1446 The hangul alphabet was published in Korea.
1635 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut - later Yale University - was chartered in New Haven.
1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1888 The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1919 The Cincinnati Reds "won" the World Series amidst the Black Sox scandal.
1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1936 The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1946 The Eugene O'Neill drama The Iceman Cometh opened on Broadway.
1958 Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.
1975 Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985 The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1990 David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999 The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane made its last flight.
2001 Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
2002 A man was gunned down moments after filling his tank at a gas station near Manassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in the Washington D.C. area.
2006 North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test, drawing condemnation from around the world.
2006 Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
The “In” Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
Behind the Tear - Sonny James
1973
Half-Breed - Cher
Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Ray Price
1981
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Who’s Crying Now - Journey
Midnight Hauler - Razzy Bailey
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Cherish - Madonna
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
I Got Dreams - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)
Today in History - Oct 10th
Today's Birthdays
1813 Guiseppe Verdi, composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida) died Jan 27, 1901
1900 Helen Hayes, actress (A Farewell to Arms, Anastasia) died March 17, 1993
1908 Johnny Green, songwriter (Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris) died May 15, 1989
1917 Thelonious (Sphere) Monk, composer/jazz pianist (Round Midnight, Blue Monk) died Feb 17, 1982
1924 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-pan) died Sep 7, 1994
1924 Ed Wood, filmmaker (Plan 9 from Outer Space) died Dec 10, 1978
1926 Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, Sands of Iwo Jima) died June 14, 1997
1930 Harold Pinter, playwright (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
1941 Dallas Smith, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1941 Peter Coyote, actor (The Legend of Billy Jean, Erin Brockovich)
1946 Charles Dance, actor (Last Action Hero, The Phantom of the Opera, White Mischief)
1946 John Prine, singer/songwriter (Sam Stone, Illegal Smile, Please Don't Bury Me)
1946 Ben Vereen, singer/dancer/actor (All that Jazz)
1953 Midge (James) Ure, singer/songwriter (Ultravox)
1954 David Lee Roth, singer (Van Halen)
1958 Tanya Tucker, country singer (Delta Dawn)
1959 Bradley Whitford, actor (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1959 Julia Sweeney, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1959 Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter (They Don't Know) died Dec 18, 2000
1960 Eric Martin, singer (Mr. Big)
1961 Jodi Benson, voice actress (The Little Mermaid)
1961 Martin Kemp, bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1963 Jim Glennie, bassist (James)
1963 Daniel Pearl, journalist, killed in Pakistan February 1, 2002
1965 Chris Penn, actor (Footloose, At Close Range) died Jan 24, 2006
1965 Rebecca Pidgeon, actress (The Unit, Redbelt)
1967 Mike Malinin, drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
1969 Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers, NY Jets)
1969 Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress (Reno 911!)
1970 Bai Ling, Chinese-American actress (The Crow, Lost)
1972 Dean Roland, guitarist (Collective Soul)
1973 Mario López, actor (Saved by the Bell)
1974 Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR driver
1978 Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, actress (Nash Bridges, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later)
1979 Mya (Marie Harrison), singer (Fear of Flying)
1989 Aimee Teegarden, actress (Friday Night Lights)
Today's Deaths in History
1872 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (Alaska purchase) dies at 71
1913 Adolphus Busch, brewer (Anheuser-Busch) dies at 74
1963 Édith Piaf, French operatic singer, dies at 47
1964 Eddie Cantor, singer/vaudeville performer, dies at 74
1985 Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (The King and I) dies at 65
1985 Orson Welles, actor/director (Citizen Kane) dies at 70
2004 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) dies at 52
Today in History
1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
1886 The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
1911 Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
1913 President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1935 George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway.
1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
1964 The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
1969 King Crimson released their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, considered by many to be the first progressive rock album.
1970 Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.
1971 The London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, after being sold, dismantled and moved to the United States.
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned.
1979 Wayne Gretzky made his National Hockey League debut as the visiting Edmonton Oilers took on the Chicago Blackhawks.
1985 U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.
2002 The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq; the Senate followed suit the next day.
2003 Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.
2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany's chancellor.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
Bonaparte’s Retreat - Kay Starr
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tea for Two Cha-Cha - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & The Spinners
I Love My Friend - Charlie Rich
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
Yesterday’s Wine - Merle Haggard/George Jones
1990
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven - Phil Collins
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman, educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)
Today's Birthdays
1813 Guiseppe Verdi, composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida) died Jan 27, 1901
1900 Helen Hayes, actress (A Farewell to Arms, Anastasia) died March 17, 1993
1908 Johnny Green, songwriter (Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris) died May 15, 1989
1917 Thelonious (Sphere) Monk, composer/jazz pianist (Round Midnight, Blue Monk) died Feb 17, 1982
1924 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-pan) died Sep 7, 1994
1924 Ed Wood, filmmaker (Plan 9 from Outer Space) died Dec 10, 1978
1926 Richard (Hanley) Jaeckel, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, Sands of Iwo Jima) died June 14, 1997
1930 Harold Pinter, playwright (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
1941 Dallas Smith, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1941 Peter Coyote, actor (The Legend of Billy Jean, Erin Brockovich)
1946 Charles Dance, actor (Last Action Hero, The Phantom of the Opera, White Mischief)
1946 John Prine, singer/songwriter (Sam Stone, Illegal Smile, Please Don't Bury Me)
1946 Ben Vereen, singer/dancer/actor (All that Jazz)
1953 Midge (James) Ure, singer/songwriter (Ultravox)
1954 David Lee Roth, singer (Van Halen)
1958 Tanya Tucker, country singer (Delta Dawn)
1959 Bradley Whitford, actor (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1959 Julia Sweeney, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1959 Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter (They Don't Know) died Dec 18, 2000
1960 Eric Martin, singer (Mr. Big)
1961 Jodi Benson, voice actress (The Little Mermaid)
1961 Martin Kemp, bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1963 Jim Glennie, bassist (James)
1963 Daniel Pearl, journalist, killed in Pakistan February 1, 2002
1965 Chris Penn, actor (Footloose, At Close Range) died Jan 24, 2006
1965 Rebecca Pidgeon, actress (The Unit, Redbelt)
1967 Mike Malinin, drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
1969 Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers, NY Jets)
1969 Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress (Reno 911!)
1970 Bai Ling, Chinese-American actress (The Crow, Lost)
1972 Dean Roland, guitarist (Collective Soul)
1973 Mario López, actor (Saved by the Bell)
1974 Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR driver
1978 Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, actress (Nash Bridges, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later)
1979 Mya (Marie Harrison), singer (Fear of Flying)
1989 Aimee Teegarden, actress (Friday Night Lights)
Today's Deaths in History
1872 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (Alaska purchase) dies at 71
1913 Adolphus Busch, brewer (Anheuser-Busch) dies at 74
1963 Édith Piaf, French operatic singer, dies at 47
1964 Eddie Cantor, singer/vaudeville performer, dies at 74
1985 Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (The King and I) dies at 65
1985 Orson Welles, actor/director (Citizen Kane) dies at 70
2004 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman series, Somewhere in Time) dies at 52
Today in History
1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
1886 The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
1911 Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
1913 President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1935 George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway.
1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
1964 The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
1969 King Crimson released their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, considered by many to be the first progressive rock album.
1970 Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.
1971 The London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, after being sold, dismantled and moved to the United States.
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned.
1979 Wayne Gretzky made his National Hockey League debut as the visiting Edmonton Oilers took on the Chicago Blackhawks.
1985 U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.
2002 The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq; the Senate followed suit the next day.
2003 Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.
2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany's chancellor.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
La Vie En Rose - Tony Martin
Bonaparte’s Retreat - Kay Starr
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tea for Two Cha-Cha - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1966
Cherish - The Association
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Almost Persuaded - David Houston
1974
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & The Spinners
I Love My Friend - Charlie Rich
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
Yesterday’s Wine - Merle Haggard/George Jones
1990
Close to You - Maxi Priest
Praying for Time - George Michael
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven - Phil Collins
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman, educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)
Today in History - Oct 11th
Today's Birthdays
1844 H.J. (Henry John) Heinz, food mogul (Heinz 57 Varieties) died May 14, 1919
1872 Harlan (Fiske) Stone, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Apr 22, 1946
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died Nov 7, 1962
1906 Charles Revson, cosmetic mogul (Revlon Co.) died Aug 24, 1975
1918 Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz), director (West Side Story) died July 29, 1998
1919 Art Blakey, jazz drummer/bandleader, died Oct 16, 1990
1921 ‘Knobby’ Grant Warwick, NHL right wing (NY Rangers) died Sept 27, 1999
1925 Elmore Leonard, author (Get Shorty, Bandits, Maximum Bob, Out of Sight)
1932 Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh), country singer (Here Comes My Baby) died Sep 4, 1991
1946 Daryl Hall (Hohl), singer (Hall & Oates)
1946 Gary Mallaber, percussionist (The Steve Miller Band)
1950 Andrew Woolfolk, reeds (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1953 David Morse, actor (St. Elsewhere, Hack, House M.D.)
1961 Steve Young, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1962 Joan Cusack, actress (Addams Family Values, Broadcast News, Married to the Mob, Sixteen Candles, Working Girl)
1962 Scott Johnson, guitarist (Gin Blossoms)
1962 Nicola Bryant, actress (Dr. Who)
1964 Michael J. Nelson, TV writer/host (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1965 Luke Perry, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1965 Sean Patrick Flanery, actor (Boondock Saints)
1968 Jane Krakowski, actress (Ally McBeal, 30 Rock)
1968 TopNYRfaninTX, board member
1970 U-God, rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
1971 MC Lyte, rapper
1972 Claudia Black, actress (Farscape, Stargate SG-1)
1973 Mike Smith, guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
1976 Emily Deschanel, actress (Bones)
1985 Michelle Trachtenberg, actress (inspector Gadget, Ice Princess)
1989 Michelle Wie, golfer
Today's Deaths in History
1809 Meriwether Lewis, explorer, dies at 35
1961 Chico Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers) dies at 74
1963 Jean Cocteau, French writer (Beauty and the Beast) dies at 74
1971 Gen. Louis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history, dies at 73
1988 Bonita Granville, actress (Little Women, Anne of the Green Gables) dies at 65
1991 Redd Foxx, comic/actor, dies at 68
1998 Richard Denning, actor (An Affair to Remember) dies at 84
2006 Cory Lidle, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees) dies at 34 in a plane crash
2007 Werner von Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers) dies at 91
2007 David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War II fighter ace (1st American Volunteer Group-China/Flying Tigers) dies at 92
Today in History
1776 The first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought during the American Revolution.
1811 The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.
1899 Baseball's Western League was renamed the American League.
1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
1929 JC Penney opened store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1950 CBS's mechanical color system became the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1958 The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1962 Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II.
1968 NASA launched Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1975 The sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live debuted on NBC.
1976 George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 was approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
1984 Space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1986 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1991 Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1998 Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
2000 The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) was flown by Discovery.
2001 The Polaroid Corporation filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 The Senate joined the House in approving 77-23 the use of America's military might against Iraq.
2002 A man filling up his car at a gas station near Fredericksburg, Va., was shot to death in the eighth slaying linked by authorities to the Washington-area sniper.
2002 Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
Teen Beat - Sandy Nelson
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) - Bill Cosby
Turn the World Around - Eddy Arnold
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Mr. Jaws - Dickie Goodman
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
King of Pain - The Police
Don’t You Know How Much I Love You - Ronnie Milsap
1991
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Where Are You Now - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian dramatist, essayist, & poet (1862 - 1949)
Today's Birthdays
1844 H.J. (Henry John) Heinz, food mogul (Heinz 57 Varieties) died May 14, 1919
1872 Harlan (Fiske) Stone, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died Apr 22, 1946
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died Nov 7, 1962
1906 Charles Revson, cosmetic mogul (Revlon Co.) died Aug 24, 1975
1918 Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz), director (West Side Story) died July 29, 1998
1919 Art Blakey, jazz drummer/bandleader, died Oct 16, 1990
1921 ‘Knobby’ Grant Warwick, NHL right wing (NY Rangers) died Sept 27, 1999
1925 Elmore Leonard, author (Get Shorty, Bandits, Maximum Bob, Out of Sight)
1932 Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh), country singer (Here Comes My Baby) died Sep 4, 1991
1946 Daryl Hall (Hohl), singer (Hall & Oates)
1946 Gary Mallaber, percussionist (The Steve Miller Band)
1950 Andrew Woolfolk, reeds (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1953 David Morse, actor (St. Elsewhere, Hack, House M.D.)
1961 Steve Young, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1962 Joan Cusack, actress (Addams Family Values, Broadcast News, Married to the Mob, Sixteen Candles, Working Girl)
1962 Scott Johnson, guitarist (Gin Blossoms)
1962 Nicola Bryant, actress (Dr. Who)
1964 Michael J. Nelson, TV writer/host (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1965 Luke Perry, actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1965 Sean Patrick Flanery, actor (Boondock Saints)
1968 Jane Krakowski, actress (Ally McBeal, 30 Rock)
1968 TopNYRfaninTX, board member
1970 U-God, rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
1971 MC Lyte, rapper
1972 Claudia Black, actress (Farscape, Stargate SG-1)
1973 Mike Smith, guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
1976 Emily Deschanel, actress (Bones)
1985 Michelle Trachtenberg, actress (inspector Gadget, Ice Princess)
1989 Michelle Wie, golfer
Today's Deaths in History
1809 Meriwether Lewis, explorer, dies at 35
1961 Chico Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers) dies at 74
1963 Jean Cocteau, French writer (Beauty and the Beast) dies at 74
1971 Gen. Louis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history, dies at 73
1988 Bonita Granville, actress (Little Women, Anne of the Green Gables) dies at 65
1991 Redd Foxx, comic/actor, dies at 68
1998 Richard Denning, actor (An Affair to Remember) dies at 84
2006 Cory Lidle, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees) dies at 34 in a plane crash
2007 Werner von Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers) dies at 91
2007 David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War II fighter ace (1st American Volunteer Group-China/Flying Tigers) dies at 92
Today in History
1776 The first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought during the American Revolution.
1811 The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.
1899 Baseball's Western League was renamed the American League.
1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
1929 JC Penney opened store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1950 CBS's mechanical color system became the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1958 The lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1962 Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, better known as Vatican II.
1968 NASA launched Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1975 The sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live debuted on NBC.
1976 George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 was approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
1984 Space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1986 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1991 Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching."
1998 Pope John Paul II canonized the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
2000 The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) was flown by Discovery.
2001 The Polaroid Corporation filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 The Senate joined the House in approving 77-23 the use of America's military might against Iraq.
2002 A man filling up his car at a gas station near Fredericksburg, Va., was shot to death in the eighth slaying linked by authorities to the Washington-area sniper.
2002 Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
Teen Beat - Sandy Nelson
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) - Bill Cosby
Turn the World Around - Eddy Arnold
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Mr. Jaws - Dickie Goodman
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
King of Pain - The Police
Don’t You Know How Much I Love You - Ronnie Milsap
1991
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Where Are You Now - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian dramatist, essayist, & poet (1862 - 1949)
Today in History - Oct 12th
Today's Birthdays
1860 Elmer A. (Ambrose) Sperry, inventor/founder (Sperry-Rand Corp.) died in 1930
1910 Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees announcer
1932 Dick Gregory, comedian/civil rights activist
1932 Ned Jarrett, NASCAR driver
1935 Tony (Anthony Christopher) Kubek, MLB ouielder/shortstop (NY Yankees)
1935 Samuel Moore, singer (Sam & Dave)
1935 Luciano Pavarotti, opera star, died Sep 6, 2007
1942 Melvin Franklin, R&B singer (The Temptations) died Feb 23, 1995
1947 Chris Wallace, broadcast journalist (Fox News Sunday)
1948 Rick Parfitt, singer/guitarist (Satus Quo)
1950 Susan Anton, singer/atress (Cannonball Run 2, Baywatch)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut (first American woman in space)
1955 Pat DiNizio, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Smithereens)
1955 Jane Siberry, singer/musician (Calling All Angels)
1956 Dave Vanian (Letts), singer (The Damned)
1962 Carlos Bernard, actor (24)
1962 Chris Botti, jazz trumpeter
1962 Deborah Foreman, actress (Valley Girl, My Chauffeur)
1968 Hugh Jackman, actor (X-Men series, Kate & Leopold)
1968 Adam Rich, actor (Eight is Enough, The Devil & Max Devlin)
1970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Gowing Pains)
1970 Charlie Ward, Florida State quarterback (Heisman Trophy winner)
1977 Bode Miller, alpine ski-racer
1979 Jordan Pundik, singer (New Found Glory)
1981 Tom Guiry, actor (The Sandlot)
Today's Deaths in History
1864 Roger Taney, Supreme Court Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision) dies at 87
1870 Gen. Robert E. Lee dies at 63
1940 Tom Mix, western actor, dies at 60
1969 Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater, dies at 57
1971 Gene Vincent, rock'n'roll pioneer (Be-Bop-a-Lula) dies at 36
1978 Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, is stabbed to death at 20
1985 Johnny Olson, game show announcer (The Price is Right) dies at 75
1985 Ricky Wilson, guitarist (The B-52's) dies at 32 of an AIDS-related illness
1989 Jay Ward, animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle) dies at 69
1996 René Lacoste, French tennis player, dies at 92
1997 John Denver, singer/songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 53
1998 Mathew Shepard, Wyoming student, dies at 21 after being beaten, robbed and left tied to a fencepost
1999 Wilt Chamberlain, NBA Hall of famer (LA Lakers) dies at 63
2002 Ray Conniff, bandleader/musician, dies at 85
2003 Joan Kroc, American philanthropist, dies at 75
2003 Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72
Today in History
1492 Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.
1773 America's first insane asylum opened for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1793 The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, was laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland sold his first raincoat.
1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the Executive Mansion the "White House."
1933 The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island was acquired by the United States Department of Justice.
1942 During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1960 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.
1970 President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would withdraw 40,000 more troops from Vietnam before Christmas.
1971 Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, opened on Broadway.
1973 President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1986 Superpower talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate, with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States.
1994 NASA lost radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descended into the thick atmosphere of Venus.
1997 Singer John Denver, 53, died in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, Calif.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 Two suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat rammed into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors.
2002 A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists; Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida were blamed.
2007 Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Together - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Jo Stafford
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
The Games That Daddies Play - Conway Twitty
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
Everyday - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
Today's Birthdays
1860 Elmer A. (Ambrose) Sperry, inventor/founder (Sperry-Rand Corp.) died in 1930
1910 Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees announcer
1932 Dick Gregory, comedian/civil rights activist
1932 Ned Jarrett, NASCAR driver
1935 Tony (Anthony Christopher) Kubek, MLB ouielder/shortstop (NY Yankees)
1935 Samuel Moore, singer (Sam & Dave)
1935 Luciano Pavarotti, opera star, died Sep 6, 2007
1942 Melvin Franklin, R&B singer (The Temptations) died Feb 23, 1995
1947 Chris Wallace, broadcast journalist (Fox News Sunday)
1948 Rick Parfitt, singer/guitarist (Satus Quo)
1950 Susan Anton, singer/atress (Cannonball Run 2, Baywatch)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut (first American woman in space)
1955 Pat DiNizio, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Smithereens)
1955 Jane Siberry, singer/musician (Calling All Angels)
1956 Dave Vanian (Letts), singer (The Damned)
1962 Carlos Bernard, actor (24)
1962 Chris Botti, jazz trumpeter
1962 Deborah Foreman, actress (Valley Girl, My Chauffeur)
1968 Hugh Jackman, actor (X-Men series, Kate & Leopold)
1968 Adam Rich, actor (Eight is Enough, The Devil & Max Devlin)
1970 Kirk Cameron, actor (Gowing Pains)
1970 Charlie Ward, Florida State quarterback (Heisman Trophy winner)
1977 Bode Miller, alpine ski-racer
1979 Jordan Pundik, singer (New Found Glory)
1981 Tom Guiry, actor (The Sandlot)
Today's Deaths in History
1864 Roger Taney, Supreme Court Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision) dies at 87
1870 Gen. Robert E. Lee dies at 63
1940 Tom Mix, western actor, dies at 60
1969 Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater, dies at 57
1971 Gene Vincent, rock'n'roll pioneer (Be-Bop-a-Lula) dies at 36
1978 Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, is stabbed to death at 20
1985 Johnny Olson, game show announcer (The Price is Right) dies at 75
1985 Ricky Wilson, guitarist (The B-52's) dies at 32 of an AIDS-related illness
1989 Jay Ward, animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle) dies at 69
1996 René Lacoste, French tennis player, dies at 92
1997 John Denver, singer/songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 53
1998 Mathew Shepard, Wyoming student, dies at 21 after being beaten, robbed and left tied to a fencepost
1999 Wilt Chamberlain, NBA Hall of famer (LA Lakers) dies at 63
2002 Ray Conniff, bandleader/musician, dies at 85
2003 Joan Kroc, American philanthropist, dies at 75
2003 Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72
Today in History
1492 Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.
1773 America's first insane asylum opened for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1793 The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, was laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland sold his first raincoat.
1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the Executive Mansion the "White House."
1933 The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island was acquired by the United States Department of Justice.
1942 During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1960 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute.
1970 President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would withdraw 40,000 more troops from Vietnam before Christmas.
1971 Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, opened on Broadway.
1973 President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1986 Superpower talks in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate, with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States.
1994 NASA lost radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descended into the thick atmosphere of Venus.
1997 Singer John Denver, 53, died in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, Calif.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 Two suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat rammed into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors.
2002 A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists; Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida were blamed.
2007 Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Together - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Jo Stafford
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
1976
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
The Games That Daddies Play - Conway Twitty
1984
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
Everyday - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
Today in History - Oct 13th
Today's Birthdays
1754 Molly Pitcher (Molly Hayes), Revolutionary War patriot, died July 22, 1832
1902 Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer, died Oct. 30, 1954
1909 Herblock (Herbert Block), editorial cartoonist, died Oct 7, 2001
1917 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) died Dec 6, 1985
1918 Robert Walker, actor (Bataan, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo) died Aug 28, 1951
1921 Yves Montand (Yvo Livi), actor (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) died Nov 9, 1991
1924 Nipsey Russell, actor/comedian (Barefoot in the Park) died Oct 2, 2005
1925 Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), comedian, died Aug 3, 1966
1925 Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts), former Prime Minister of Great Britain
1939 Melinda Dillon, actress (The Prince of Tides, Absence of Malice, Slap Shot, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
1941 Paul Simon, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter/singer/guitarist (Simon and Garfunkel)
1942 Jerry Jones, NFL team owner (Dallas Cowboys)
1944 Robert Lamm, songwriter/singer/keyboardist (Chicago)
1946 Demond Wilson, actor (Sanford and Son)
1947 Sammy Hagar, singer/guitarist (I Can't Drive 55)
1948 Lacy J. Dalton (Jill Byrem), country songwriter/singer
1951 John Ford Coley, singer (England Dan and John Ford Coley)
1952 John Lone, actor (The Last Emperor, M Butterfly)
1959 Marie (Olive) Osmond, TV host/singer (Paper Roses, Who’s Sorry Now)
1960 Joey Belladonna, singer (Anthrax)
1960 Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
1962 Kelly Preston, actress (The Experts, Only You)
1962 Jerry Rice, NFL wide reciever (San Francisco ’49ers)
1962 T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, actress (In Living Color, That's So Raven, Cosby)
1967 Kate Walsh, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice)
1968 Tisha Campbell, actress (House Party series, Boomerang)
1968 Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo)
1969 Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic ice skater
1971 Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Borat, Talladega Nights)
1974 Joseph Utsler, rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
1977 Kiele Sanchez, actress (Lost)
1980 Ashanti, R&B singer
1982 Ian Thorpe, Australian Olympic swimmer (The Thorpedo)
Today's Deaths in History
1890 Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, dies at 74
1938 E.C. Segar, cartoonist (Popeye) dies at 43
1945 Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon, dies at 88
1966 Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, The Razor's Edge) dies at 76
1968 Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction, The Flintstones) dies at 62
1971 Stafford Smythe, National Hockey League president (Maple Leaf Gardens) dies at 50
1974 Ed Sullivan, TV host, dies at 72
1990 Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general/politician/Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies at 78
2000 Jean Peters, actress (Three Coins in the Fountain, Niagara) dies at 73
2001 Peter Doyle, pop singer (The New Seekers) dies at 52
2002 Stephen Ambrose, historian/biographer, dies at 66
Today in History
1307 Hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1773 The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 The cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
1843 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
1845 Texas ratified a state constitution.
1884 Greenwich was established as universal time meridian of longitude.
1903 The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.
1943 Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
1958 Michael Bond published the first Paddington Bear story.
1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
1960 The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.
1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.
1971 The first night game in World Series history was played at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
1981 Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1998 The National Basketball Association canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
1999 The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.
2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2005 British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature.
2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, pleaded guilty in an influence-peddling investigation of Congress.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Along the Navajo Trail - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Crying - Roy Orbison
Runaround Sue - Dion
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Meet Me in Montana - Marie Osmond with Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Frank Wilczek, physicist (1951 - )
Today's Birthdays
1754 Molly Pitcher (Molly Hayes), Revolutionary War patriot, died July 22, 1832
1902 Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer, died Oct. 30, 1954
1909 Herblock (Herbert Block), editorial cartoonist, died Oct 7, 2001
1917 Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) died Dec 6, 1985
1918 Robert Walker, actor (Bataan, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo) died Aug 28, 1951
1921 Yves Montand (Yvo Livi), actor (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) died Nov 9, 1991
1924 Nipsey Russell, actor/comedian (Barefoot in the Park) died Oct 2, 2005
1925 Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), comedian, died Aug 3, 1966
1925 Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts), former Prime Minister of Great Britain
1939 Melinda Dillon, actress (The Prince of Tides, Absence of Malice, Slap Shot, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
1941 Paul Simon, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter/singer/guitarist (Simon and Garfunkel)
1942 Jerry Jones, NFL team owner (Dallas Cowboys)
1944 Robert Lamm, songwriter/singer/keyboardist (Chicago)
1946 Demond Wilson, actor (Sanford and Son)
1947 Sammy Hagar, singer/guitarist (I Can't Drive 55)
1948 Lacy J. Dalton (Jill Byrem), country songwriter/singer
1951 John Ford Coley, singer (England Dan and John Ford Coley)
1952 John Lone, actor (The Last Emperor, M Butterfly)
1959 Marie (Olive) Osmond, TV host/singer (Paper Roses, Who’s Sorry Now)
1960 Joey Belladonna, singer (Anthrax)
1960 Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
1962 Kelly Preston, actress (The Experts, Only You)
1962 Jerry Rice, NFL wide reciever (San Francisco ’49ers)
1962 T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, actress (In Living Color, That's So Raven, Cosby)
1967 Kate Walsh, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice)
1968 Tisha Campbell, actress (House Party series, Boomerang)
1968 Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo)
1969 Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic ice skater
1971 Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Borat, Talladega Nights)
1974 Joseph Utsler, rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
1977 Kiele Sanchez, actress (Lost)
1980 Ashanti, R&B singer
1982 Ian Thorpe, Australian Olympic swimmer (The Thorpedo)
Today's Deaths in History
1890 Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, dies at 74
1938 E.C. Segar, cartoonist (Popeye) dies at 43
1945 Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon, dies at 88
1966 Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, The Razor's Edge) dies at 76
1968 Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction, The Flintstones) dies at 62
1971 Stafford Smythe, National Hockey League president (Maple Leaf Gardens) dies at 50
1974 Ed Sullivan, TV host, dies at 72
1990 Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general/politician/Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies at 78
2000 Jean Peters, actress (Three Coins in the Fountain, Niagara) dies at 73
2001 Peter Doyle, pop singer (The New Seekers) dies at 52
2002 Stephen Ambrose, historian/biographer, dies at 66
Today in History
1307 Hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1773 The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 The cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
1843 The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City.
1845 Texas ratified a state constitution.
1884 Greenwich was established as universal time meridian of longitude.
1903 The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three.
1943 Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
1958 Michael Bond published the first Paddington Bear story.
1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York.
1960 The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees.
1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee opened on Broadway.
1971 The first night game in World Series history was played at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
1981 Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1998 The National Basketball Association canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout.
1999 The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.
2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
2005 British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature.
2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, pleaded guilty in an influence-peddling investigation of Congress.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Along the Navajo Trail - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Crying - Roy Orbison
Runaround Sue - Dion
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Meet Me in Montana - Marie Osmond with Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Frank Wilczek, physicist (1951 - )
Today in History - Oct 14th
Today's Birthdays
1644 William Penn, colonist (Pennsylvania) died July 30, 1718
1890 Dwight David Eisenhower, 5-star U.S. army general/34th U.S. President, died Mar 28, 1969
1893 Lillian Gish (de Guiche), actress (Birth of a Nation, The Whales of August) died Feb 27, 1993
1894 e e cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), poet/playwright, died Sep 3, 1962
1910 John Wooden, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (UCLA Bruins)
1916 C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General
1924 Robert Webber, actor (Revenge of the Pink Panther, Twelve Angry Men) died May 19, 1989
1927 Sir Roger (George) Moore, actor (The Saint, James Bond fims)
1939 Ralph Lauren (Lifshitz), fashion designer
1940 Cliff Richard (Harry Webb), singer (Devil Woman, Dreaming)
1942 Billy Harrison, guitarist (Them)
1945 Colin Hodgkinson, bassist (Whitesnake)
1946 Dan McCafferty, lead singer (Nazareth)
1946 Justin Hayward, guitarist/singer (The Moody Blues)
1948 Marcia Barrett, singer (Boney M)
1952 Harry Anderson, comic/actor (Night Court, Dave’s World)
1953 Greg Evigan, actor (B.J. and the Bear, My Two Dads)
1958 Thomas Dolby, singer/musician (She Blinded Me With Science)
1961 Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
1961 Joe Girardi, MLB manager (NY Yankees)
1963 Lori Petty, actress (A League of Their Own, Point Break)
1965 Trevor Goddard, actor (JAG, Mortal Kombat) died June 7, 2003
1965 Karyn White, R&B singer
1967 Sylvain Lefebvre, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1970 Jon Seda, actor (Twelve Monkeys, Primal Fear)
1970 Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
1975 Shaznay Lewis, singer (All Saints)
1978 Usher, R&B singer/actor
1978 Javon Walker, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
Today's Deaths in History
1944 Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal, commits suicide at 52
1959 Errol Flynn, actor, dies at 50
1977 Bing Crosby, singer/actor, dies at 73
1986 Keenan Wynn, actor (The Absent-Minded Professor) dies at 70
1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor, dies at 72
1997 Harold Robbins, novelist, dies at 81
1998 Frankie Yankovic, America's Polka King, dies at 83
2006 Freddy Fender, singer (Before the Next Teardrop Falls) dies at 69
2006 Jared Anderson, bassist (Morbid Angel) dies at 30
2007 Big Moe, rapper, dies at 33
Today in History
1066 Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1789 George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving Day.
1884 George Eastman patented paper-strip photographic film.
1912 While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt was shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank; with the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivered his scheduled speech.
1926 The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, was first published.
1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1960 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1964 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1967 Folk singer Joan Baez was arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1979 Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
1982 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a War on Drugs.
1986 Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2002 An FBI analyst was killed in a mall parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in a shooting linked to the Washington-area sniper.
2003 John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2004 A suicide bomber killed four Americans in the U.S.-guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
2006 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
I Remember You - Frank Ifield
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Cracklin’ Rosie - Neil Diamond
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
All Right Now - Free
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) - Glass Tiger
Two of Hearts - Stacey Q
Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers) - Eddie Rabbitt & Juice Newton
Quote of the Day
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa, musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993)
Today's Birthdays
1644 William Penn, colonist (Pennsylvania) died July 30, 1718
1890 Dwight David Eisenhower, 5-star U.S. army general/34th U.S. President, died Mar 28, 1969
1893 Lillian Gish (de Guiche), actress (Birth of a Nation, The Whales of August) died Feb 27, 1993
1894 e e cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), poet/playwright, died Sep 3, 1962
1910 John Wooden, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (UCLA Bruins)
1916 C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General
1924 Robert Webber, actor (Revenge of the Pink Panther, Twelve Angry Men) died May 19, 1989
1927 Sir Roger (George) Moore, actor (The Saint, James Bond fims)
1939 Ralph Lauren (Lifshitz), fashion designer
1940 Cliff Richard (Harry Webb), singer (Devil Woman, Dreaming)
1942 Billy Harrison, guitarist (Them)
1945 Colin Hodgkinson, bassist (Whitesnake)
1946 Dan McCafferty, lead singer (Nazareth)
1946 Justin Hayward, guitarist/singer (The Moody Blues)
1948 Marcia Barrett, singer (Boney M)
1952 Harry Anderson, comic/actor (Night Court, Dave’s World)
1953 Greg Evigan, actor (B.J. and the Bear, My Two Dads)
1958 Thomas Dolby, singer/musician (She Blinded Me With Science)
1961 Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
1961 Joe Girardi, MLB manager (NY Yankees)
1963 Lori Petty, actress (A League of Their Own, Point Break)
1965 Trevor Goddard, actor (JAG, Mortal Kombat) died June 7, 2003
1965 Karyn White, R&B singer
1967 Sylvain Lefebvre, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1970 Jon Seda, actor (Twelve Monkeys, Primal Fear)
1970 Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
1975 Shaznay Lewis, singer (All Saints)
1978 Usher, R&B singer/actor
1978 Javon Walker, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
Today's Deaths in History
1944 Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal, commits suicide at 52
1959 Errol Flynn, actor, dies at 50
1977 Bing Crosby, singer/actor, dies at 73
1986 Keenan Wynn, actor (The Absent-Minded Professor) dies at 70
1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer/conductor, dies at 72
1997 Harold Robbins, novelist, dies at 81
1998 Frankie Yankovic, America's Polka King, dies at 83
2006 Freddy Fender, singer (Before the Next Teardrop Falls) dies at 69
2006 Jared Anderson, bassist (Morbid Angel) dies at 30
2007 Big Moe, rapper, dies at 33
Today in History
1066 Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.
1789 George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving Day.
1884 George Eastman patented paper-strip photographic film.
1912 While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt was shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank; with the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivered his scheduled speech.
1926 The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, was first published.
1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947 Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1960 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan.
1964 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1967 Folk singer Joan Baez was arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1979 Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored the first of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the Vancouver Cancucks.
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
1982 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a War on Drugs.
1986 Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2002 An FBI analyst was killed in a mall parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in a shooting linked to the Washington-area sniper.
2003 John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2004 A suicide bomber killed four Americans in the U.S.-guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
2006 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
Chart Toppers
1946
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
I Remember You - Frank Ifield
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1970
Cracklin’ Rosie - Neil Diamond
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
All Right Now - Free
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
1986
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) - Glass Tiger
Two of Hearts - Stacey Q
Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers) - Eddie Rabbitt & Juice Newton
Quote of the Day
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa, musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993)
Today in History - Oct 15th
Today's Birthdays
0070 B.C. Virgil, poet (The Aeneid) died Sep 21, 0019 B.C.
1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil) died Aug 25, 1900
1858 John L. Sullivan, International Boxing Hall of Famer, died Feb 2, 1918
1881 P.G. (Sir Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, author (Jeeves series) died Feb 14, 1975
1900 Mervyn LeRoy, director (Gypsy, Mister Roberts, Quo Vadis, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo) died Sep 13, 1987
1908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist/author (The Affluent Society) died Apr 29, 2006
1917 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., author/historian (A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House) died Feb 28, 2007
1920 Chris Economaki, sportswriter/broadcaster (ABC Sports)
1921 Mario Puzo, novelist/screenwriter (The Godfather series, Superman series, The Cotton Club) died July 2, 1999
1924 Lee (Lido) Iacocca, engineer/automobile executive (Chrysler Corporation)
1926 Jean Peters, actress (Three Coins in the Fountain) died Oct 13, 2000
1935 Barry McGuire, singer/songwriter (Eve of Destruction)
1935 Willie O'Ree, NHL wing/first black in NHL (Boston Bruins)
1937 Linda Lavin, actress (Alice, Barney Miller)
1942 Penny (Carole) Marshall, actress/director (Laverne & Shirley; A League of Their Own)
1942 Don Stevenson, drummer/singer (Moby Grape)
1945 Jim (James Alvin) Palmer, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1946 Richard Carpenter, musician/composer/singer (Carpenters)
1948 Chris De Burgh (Christopher John Davidson), singer/songwriter (The Lady in Red, Don’t Pay the Ferryman)
1953 Tito (Toriano) Jackson, singer (The Jackson Five)
1955 Tanya Roberts (Leigh), actress (Charlie’s Angels)
1959 Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York
1959 Emeril Lagasse, celebrity chef/TV host
1962 Mark Reznicek, drummer (The Toadies)
1969 Dominic West, actor (The Wire)
1969 Paige Davis, TV host (Trading Spaces)
1969 Vanessa Marcil, actress (Las Vegas)
1979 Chris Olivero, actor (Kyle XY)
1981 Keyshia Cole, R&B singer
1990 Dr D, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy, is executed by firing squad at 41
1946 Hermann Göring, German air force commander, commits suicide at 53
1964 Cole Porter, lyricist/composer, dies at 73
2005 Jason Collier, NBA center (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks) dies at 28
Today in History
1764 Edward Gibbon observed a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspired him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1860 Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
1863 The CSS H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sank during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1878 The Edison Electric Light Company began operation.
1928 The airship Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1934 The Soviet Republic of China collapsed when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircled Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
1945 The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed.
1946 Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
1951 The situation comedy I Love Lucy premiered on CBS.
1964 It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1965 The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of draft cards in the United States, resulting in arrests under a new law.
1966 The Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1969 Peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.
1976 Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in the first debate between vice-presidential nominees.
1981 Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson led what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
1989 Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL career scoring record of 1,850 points.
1990 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which had barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was scrapped.
1991 The Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48.
1993 Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end apartheid in South Africa.
1997 The Cassini probe was launched for Saturn.
2002 ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's insider trading scandal; he was later sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
2003 The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi ran into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2003 China launched its first manned space mission.
2005 Iraqis voted to approve a constitution.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Black Denim Trousers - The Cheers
The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters
Talk Back Trembling Lips - Ernest Ashworth
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Superstar - Carpenters
Yo-Yo - The Osmonds
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson
1979
Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Rise - Herb Alpert
Sail On - Commodores
Last Cheater’s Waltz - T.G. Sheppard
1987
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Carrie - Europe
The Way We Make a Broken Heart - Rosanne Cash
Quote of the Day
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker, columnist & journalist (1925 - )
Today's Birthdays
0070 B.C. Virgil, poet (The Aeneid) died Sep 21, 0019 B.C.
1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil) died Aug 25, 1900
1858 John L. Sullivan, International Boxing Hall of Famer, died Feb 2, 1918
1881 P.G. (Sir Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, author (Jeeves series) died Feb 14, 1975
1900 Mervyn LeRoy, director (Gypsy, Mister Roberts, Quo Vadis, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo) died Sep 13, 1987
1908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist/author (The Affluent Society) died Apr 29, 2006
1917 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., author/historian (A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House) died Feb 28, 2007
1920 Chris Economaki, sportswriter/broadcaster (ABC Sports)
1921 Mario Puzo, novelist/screenwriter (The Godfather series, Superman series, The Cotton Club) died July 2, 1999
1924 Lee (Lido) Iacocca, engineer/automobile executive (Chrysler Corporation)
1926 Jean Peters, actress (Three Coins in the Fountain) died Oct 13, 2000
1935 Barry McGuire, singer/songwriter (Eve of Destruction)
1935 Willie O'Ree, NHL wing/first black in NHL (Boston Bruins)
1937 Linda Lavin, actress (Alice, Barney Miller)
1942 Penny (Carole) Marshall, actress/director (Laverne & Shirley; A League of Their Own)
1942 Don Stevenson, drummer/singer (Moby Grape)
1945 Jim (James Alvin) Palmer, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1946 Richard Carpenter, musician/composer/singer (Carpenters)
1948 Chris De Burgh (Christopher John Davidson), singer/songwriter (The Lady in Red, Don’t Pay the Ferryman)
1953 Tito (Toriano) Jackson, singer (The Jackson Five)
1955 Tanya Roberts (Leigh), actress (Charlie’s Angels)
1959 Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York
1959 Emeril Lagasse, celebrity chef/TV host
1962 Mark Reznicek, drummer (The Toadies)
1969 Dominic West, actor (The Wire)
1969 Paige Davis, TV host (Trading Spaces)
1969 Vanessa Marcil, actress (Las Vegas)
1979 Chris Olivero, actor (Kyle XY)
1981 Keyshia Cole, R&B singer
1990 Dr D, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy, is executed by firing squad at 41
1946 Hermann Göring, German air force commander, commits suicide at 53
1964 Cole Porter, lyricist/composer, dies at 73
2005 Jason Collier, NBA center (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks) dies at 28
Today in History
1764 Edward Gibbon observed a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspired him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1860 Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
1863 The CSS H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sank during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1878 The Edison Electric Light Company began operation.
1928 The airship Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1934 The Soviet Republic of China collapsed when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircled Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
1945 The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed.
1946 Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
1951 The situation comedy I Love Lucy premiered on CBS.
1964 It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1965 The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of draft cards in the United States, resulting in arrests under a new law.
1966 The Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1969 Peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.
1976 Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in the first debate between vice-presidential nominees.
1981 Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson led what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
1989 Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL career scoring record of 1,850 points.
1990 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which had barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was scrapped.
1991 The Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48.
1993 Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end apartheid in South Africa.
1997 The Cassini probe was launched for Saturn.
2002 ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's insider trading scandal; he was later sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
2003 The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi ran into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2003 China launched its first manned space mission.
2005 Iraqis voted to approve a constitution.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Black Denim Trousers - The Cheers
The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters
Talk Back Trembling Lips - Ernest Ashworth
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Superstar - Carpenters
Yo-Yo - The Osmonds
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson
1979
Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Rise - Herb Alpert
Sail On - Commodores
Last Cheater’s Waltz - T.G. Sheppard
1987
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Carrie - Europe
The Way We Make a Broken Heart - Rosanne Cash
Quote of the Day
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker, columnist & journalist (1925 - )
Today in History - Oct 16th
Today's Birthdays
1758 Noah Webster, author/lexicographer (Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language) died May 28, 1843
1854 Oscar (O’Flahertie Fingal Wills) Wilde, playwright (The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray) died Nov 30, 1900
1886 David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, died in Dec 1, 1973
1888 Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill, playwright (The Ice Man Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night) died Nov 27, 1953
1898 William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, died Jan 19, 1980
1900 Goose (Leon Allen) Goslin, Baseball Hall of Famer (Washington Nationals) died May 15, 1971
1925 Angela Lansbury, actress (Mame, Murder She Wrote)
1931 Chuck (Charles) Colson, Watergate co-conspirator
1940 Barry Corbin, actor (Northern Exposure, Urban Cowboy)
1941 Tim (James Timothy) McCarver, MLB catcher/sportscaster (NY Mets)
1943 C.F. (Fred) Turner, bassist/singer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1946 Suzanne Somers (Mahoney), actress (Three’s Company, American Graffiti)
1947 Bob Weir (Hall), guitarist/singer (The Grateful Dead)
1947 David Zucker, director (Airplane!, Naked Gun series)
1952 Boogie Mosson, bassist/guitarist (P Funk)
1953 Tony Carey, keyboards/singer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
1958 Tim Robbins, actor (Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham, Hudsucker Proxy)
1959 Gary Kemp, guitarist (Spandau Ballet)
1960 Bob Mould, guitarist/singer (Husker Du, Sugar)
1961 Randy Vasquez, actor (JAG)
1962 Flea (Michael Balzary), bassist (The Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 Manute Bol, NBA center (Washington Bullets)
1968 Randall Batinkoff, actor (School Ties, Higher Learning)
1969 Wendy Wilson, singer (Wilson Phillips)
1972 Darius Kasparaitis, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1973 Chad Gray, singer (Mudvayne)
1975 Kellie Martin, actress (Matinee, Life Goes On, ER)
1977 John Mayer, singer/songwriter (Waiting on the World to Change)
1980 Jeremy Jackson, actor (Baywatch)
1981 Brea Grant, actress (Heroes)
Today's Deaths in History
1793 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, is beheaded at 37
1966 George O'Hara, actor (The Sea Beast) dies at 67
1972 Leo G. Carroll, actor (Wuthering Heights) dies at 79
1973 Gene Krupa, jazz drummer, dies at 64
1981 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general, dies at 66
1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Romeo and Juliet) dies at 74
1990 Art Blakey, jazz drummer, dies at 71
1992 Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel) dies at 94
1996 Jason Bernard, actor (WarGames, Blue Thunder, Liar Liar) dies at 58
1997 James Michener, author, dies at 90
1997 Audra Lindley, actress (Three's Company) dies at 79
1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/actor (A Christmas Story)
2004 Pierre Salinger, journalist/press secretary, dies at 79
2005 Eugene "Porky" Lee, child actor (Our Gang, Little Rascals) dies at 71
2007 Deborah Kerr, actress (An Affair to Remember, The King and I) dies at 86
Today in History
1793 Marie Antoinette was beheaded during the French Revolution.
1829 The Tremont House opened in Boston, the first modern hotel in America.
1859 Abolitionist John Brown, hoping to start an anti-slavery rebellion, led 21 men in a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry.
1875 Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah.
1916 The first birth control clinic in the United States was opened in Brooklyn by Margaret Sanger, Fania Mindell and Ethel Burne.
1923 The Walt Disney Company was founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1940 Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was named the first African-American general in the United States Army.
1944 The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, was published.
1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1955 Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley as a columnist in 26 newspapers, writing advice for the lovelorn under the name Ann Landers.
1962 The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1964 China detonated its first atomic bomb.
1968 United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos were kicked off the Olympic team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
1969 The New York Mets won their first World Series baseball championship.
1972 Creedence Clearwater Revival disbanded.
1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who negotiated a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.
1976 Memphis, TN disc jockey Rick Dees and his ‘Cast of Idiots’ made it all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Disco Duck (Part 1)."
1976 Stevie Wonder’s album Songs in the Key of Life made it to number one in the U.S.
1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected the 264th Pope, taking the name John Paul II.
1986 Chuck Berry celebrated his 60th birthday with a concert in his home town of St. Louis, Missouri.
1987 Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.
1991 A man crashed a pickup truck into a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
1992 Sinead O’Connor was booed off the stage at a show honoring Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in disapproval of O’Connor’s tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live.
1995 A vast throng of African-American men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.
2000 Missouri Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash south of St. Louis.
2002 President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
2002 The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Just Walking in the Rain - Johnnie Ray
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Ben - Michael Jackson
Use Me - Bill Withers
Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
Funny Face - Donna Fargo
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
Loving Up a Storm - Razzy Bailey
1988
Red Red Wine - UB40
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens
Quote of the Day
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 - 1965)
Today's Birthdays
1758 Noah Webster, author/lexicographer (Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language) died May 28, 1843
1854 Oscar (O’Flahertie Fingal Wills) Wilde, playwright (The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray) died Nov 30, 1900
1886 David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, died in Dec 1, 1973
1888 Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill, playwright (The Ice Man Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night) died Nov 27, 1953
1898 William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, died Jan 19, 1980
1900 Goose (Leon Allen) Goslin, Baseball Hall of Famer (Washington Nationals) died May 15, 1971
1925 Angela Lansbury, actress (Mame, Murder She Wrote)
1931 Chuck (Charles) Colson, Watergate co-conspirator
1940 Barry Corbin, actor (Northern Exposure, Urban Cowboy)
1941 Tim (James Timothy) McCarver, MLB catcher/sportscaster (NY Mets)
1943 C.F. (Fred) Turner, bassist/singer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1946 Suzanne Somers (Mahoney), actress (Three’s Company, American Graffiti)
1947 Bob Weir (Hall), guitarist/singer (The Grateful Dead)
1947 David Zucker, director (Airplane!, Naked Gun series)
1952 Boogie Mosson, bassist/guitarist (P Funk)
1953 Tony Carey, keyboards/singer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
1958 Tim Robbins, actor (Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham, Hudsucker Proxy)
1959 Gary Kemp, guitarist (Spandau Ballet)
1960 Bob Mould, guitarist/singer (Husker Du, Sugar)
1961 Randy Vasquez, actor (JAG)
1962 Flea (Michael Balzary), bassist (The Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 Manute Bol, NBA center (Washington Bullets)
1968 Randall Batinkoff, actor (School Ties, Higher Learning)
1969 Wendy Wilson, singer (Wilson Phillips)
1972 Darius Kasparaitis, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1973 Chad Gray, singer (Mudvayne)
1975 Kellie Martin, actress (Matinee, Life Goes On, ER)
1977 John Mayer, singer/songwriter (Waiting on the World to Change)
1980 Jeremy Jackson, actor (Baywatch)
1981 Brea Grant, actress (Heroes)
Today's Deaths in History
1793 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, is beheaded at 37
1966 George O'Hara, actor (The Sea Beast) dies at 67
1972 Leo G. Carroll, actor (Wuthering Heights) dies at 79
1973 Gene Krupa, jazz drummer, dies at 64
1981 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general, dies at 66
1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Romeo and Juliet) dies at 74
1990 Art Blakey, jazz drummer, dies at 71
1992 Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel) dies at 94
1996 Jason Bernard, actor (WarGames, Blue Thunder, Liar Liar) dies at 58
1997 James Michener, author, dies at 90
1997 Audra Lindley, actress (Three's Company) dies at 79
1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/actor (A Christmas Story)
2004 Pierre Salinger, journalist/press secretary, dies at 79
2005 Eugene "Porky" Lee, child actor (Our Gang, Little Rascals) dies at 71
2007 Deborah Kerr, actress (An Affair to Remember, The King and I) dies at 86
Today in History
1793 Marie Antoinette was beheaded during the French Revolution.
1829 The Tremont House opened in Boston, the first modern hotel in America.
1859 Abolitionist John Brown, hoping to start an anti-slavery rebellion, led 21 men in a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry.
1875 Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah.
1916 The first birth control clinic in the United States was opened in Brooklyn by Margaret Sanger, Fania Mindell and Ethel Burne.
1923 The Walt Disney Company was founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1940 Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was named the first African-American general in the United States Army.
1944 The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, was published.
1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1955 Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley as a columnist in 26 newspapers, writing advice for the lovelorn under the name Ann Landers.
1962 The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1964 China detonated its first atomic bomb.
1968 United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos were kicked off the Olympic team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
1969 The New York Mets won their first World Series baseball championship.
1972 Creedence Clearwater Revival disbanded.
1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who negotiated a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.
1976 Memphis, TN disc jockey Rick Dees and his ‘Cast of Idiots’ made it all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Disco Duck (Part 1)."
1976 Stevie Wonder’s album Songs in the Key of Life made it to number one in the U.S.
1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected the 264th Pope, taking the name John Paul II.
1986 Chuck Berry celebrated his 60th birthday with a concert in his home town of St. Louis, Missouri.
1987 Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.
1991 A man crashed a pickup truck into a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
1992 Sinead O’Connor was booed off the stage at a show honoring Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in disapproval of O’Connor’s tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live.
1995 A vast throng of African-American men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.
2000 Missouri Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash south of St. Louis.
2002 President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
2002 The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Just Walking in the Rain - Johnnie Ray
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves
1972
Ben - Michael Jackson
Use Me - Bill Withers
Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
Funny Face - Donna Fargo
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
Loving Up a Storm - Razzy Bailey
1988
Red Red Wine - UB40
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens
Quote of the Day
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill, British politician (1874 - 1965)
Today in History - Oct 17th
Today's Birthdays
1780 Richard Johnson, 9th U.S. Vice President, died Nov 19, 1850
1893 Spring Byington, actress (Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Angels in the Outfield) died Sep 7, 1971
1900 Jean Arthur (Gladys Georgianna Greene), actress (Shane, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) died June 19, 1991
1902 Irene Ryan (Noblette), actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) died Apr 26, 1973
1909 Cozy (William Randolph) Cole, drummer (Cab Calloway, Louie Armstrong) died Jan 31, 1981
1912 Pope John Paul I (Albino Lucianim), 263rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church, died Sep 28, 1978
1914 Jerry (Jerome) Siegel, cartoonist (Superman) died Jan 28, 1999
1915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Misfits) died Feb 10, 2004
1918 Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino), actress (Pal Joey) died May 14, 1987
1920 (Edward) Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun) died July 23, 1966
1921 Tom Poston, comedian/actor (Mork & Mindy, Newhart) died Apr 30, 2007
1938 Evel Knievel (Robert Craig), motorcycle daredevil, died November 30, 2007
1940 Jimmy Seals, singer/guitarist (Seals and Crofts)
1942 Gary Puckett, singer (The Union Gap)
1946 Jim Tucker, guitarist (The Turtles)
1946 Michael Hossack, drummer (The Doobie Brothers)
1947 Michael McKean, actor (LaVerne & Shirley, This is Spinal Tap, Mystery Alaska)
1948 Margot (Ruth) Kidder, actress (Superman series)
1948 George Wendt, actor (Cheers, Fletch)
1949 Bill Hudson, comedian/singer (The Hudson Brothers)
1950 Howard E. Rollins Jr., actor (In the Heat of the Night, A Soldier’s Story, Ragtime) died Dec 8, 1996
1955 Sam Bottoms, actor (East of Eden, Apocalypse Now, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Last Picture Show)
1958 Alan Jackson, country singer (Don’t Rock the Jukebox)
1960 Rob Marshall, director (Chicago)
1962 Mike Judge, animator (Beavis and Butthead)
1963 Norm Macdonald, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Doctor Dolittle, The Norm Show, Screwed)
1968 Ziggy Marley, reggae musician
1969 Ernie Els (Theodore Ernest Els), golf champ
1971 Chris Kirkpatrick, singer (*N Sync)
1972 Eminem, (Marshall Bruce Mathers III), rapper
1972 Wyclef Jean, singer/producer
1978 Sharon Leal, actress (Boston Public)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician/composer, dies at 39
1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer/abolitionist (The Battle Hymn of the Republic) dies at 91
1967 Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China, dies at 61
1972 Turk Broda, NHL goaltender (Toronto Maple Leafs) dies at 58
1979 S. J. Perelman, screenwriter (Horse Feathers, Monkey Business) dies at 75
1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer/television performer (16 Tons) dies at 82
1993 Criss Oliva, guitarist (Savatage) is killed by a drunk driver at 30
1996 Chris Acland, drummer (Lush) commits suicide at 30
2001 Jay Livingston, songwriter (Buttons & Bows, Silver Bells) dies at 86
2002 Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) dies at 66
2006 Christopher Glenn, newscaster (CBS) dies at 68
2007 Joey Bishop, entertainer/singer (Rat Pack) dies at 89
Today in History
1777 British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1781 General Charles Cornwallis offered his surrender to the American forces at Yorktown, Virginia.
1845 According to a Boston newspaper, the entire audience walked out of a reading of The Raven because of their objection to Edgar Allan Poe, the reader and author.
1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine hit the newsstands.
1888 Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company began the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1919 The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.
1931 Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
1933 Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after arriving in the United States from Germany.
1937 Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appeared in a newspaper comic strip.
1938 NBC moved to the corner of Sunset and Vine, the ‘Crossroads of the World;’ the new Hollywood Radio City drew thousands of visitors.
1945 Actress Ava Gardner married bandleader Artie Shaw.
1945 Col. Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.
1953 The first concert of contemporary Canadian music presented in the U.S. was performed by conductor Leopold Stokowski at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1962 The Beatles made their first appearance on Great Britain’s Granada TV Network.
1965 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closed after a two-year run.
1967 The rock musical Hair opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.
1973 Arab oil-producing nations announced they would cut back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was a total embargo that lasted until March 1974.
1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1978 After losing the first two games to the LA Dodgers, the New York Yankees won the next four games to clinch their 22nd World Series championship.
1979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.
1985 Intel introduced the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
1987 First lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1989 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hit the San Francisco Bay area at 5:04 p.m.
1997 The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
1998 The single, "One Week," by Barenaked Ladies, was number one -- for one week.
2001 The House of Representatives announced plans to close for an anthrax sweep after 31 people at the Capitol tested positive for exposure; New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office was evacuated after anthrax was detected.
2001 Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi, was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians.
2003 The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
2006 The United States population reached 300 million.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Keep a Knockin’ - Little Richard
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Behind the Tear - Sonny James
1973
Half-Breed - Cher
Ramblin’ Man - The Allman Brothers Band
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
Party Time - T.G. Sheppard
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Love Song - The Cure
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
Killin’ Time - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal, author & dramatist (1925 - )
Today's Birthdays
1780 Richard Johnson, 9th U.S. Vice President, died Nov 19, 1850
1893 Spring Byington, actress (Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Angels in the Outfield) died Sep 7, 1971
1900 Jean Arthur (Gladys Georgianna Greene), actress (Shane, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) died June 19, 1991
1902 Irene Ryan (Noblette), actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) died Apr 26, 1973
1909 Cozy (William Randolph) Cole, drummer (Cab Calloway, Louie Armstrong) died Jan 31, 1981
1912 Pope John Paul I (Albino Lucianim), 263rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church, died Sep 28, 1978
1914 Jerry (Jerome) Siegel, cartoonist (Superman) died Jan 28, 1999
1915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Misfits) died Feb 10, 2004
1918 Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino), actress (Pal Joey) died May 14, 1987
1920 (Edward) Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun) died July 23, 1966
1921 Tom Poston, comedian/actor (Mork & Mindy, Newhart) died Apr 30, 2007
1938 Evel Knievel (Robert Craig), motorcycle daredevil, died November 30, 2007
1940 Jimmy Seals, singer/guitarist (Seals and Crofts)
1942 Gary Puckett, singer (The Union Gap)
1946 Jim Tucker, guitarist (The Turtles)
1946 Michael Hossack, drummer (The Doobie Brothers)
1947 Michael McKean, actor (LaVerne & Shirley, This is Spinal Tap, Mystery Alaska)
1948 Margot (Ruth) Kidder, actress (Superman series)
1948 George Wendt, actor (Cheers, Fletch)
1949 Bill Hudson, comedian/singer (The Hudson Brothers)
1950 Howard E. Rollins Jr., actor (In the Heat of the Night, A Soldier’s Story, Ragtime) died Dec 8, 1996
1955 Sam Bottoms, actor (East of Eden, Apocalypse Now, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Last Picture Show)
1958 Alan Jackson, country singer (Don’t Rock the Jukebox)
1960 Rob Marshall, director (Chicago)
1962 Mike Judge, animator (Beavis and Butthead)
1963 Norm Macdonald, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Doctor Dolittle, The Norm Show, Screwed)
1968 Ziggy Marley, reggae musician
1969 Ernie Els (Theodore Ernest Els), golf champ
1971 Chris Kirkpatrick, singer (*N Sync)
1972 Eminem, (Marshall Bruce Mathers III), rapper
1972 Wyclef Jean, singer/producer
1978 Sharon Leal, actress (Boston Public)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician/composer, dies at 39
1910 Julia Ward Howe, composer/abolitionist (The Battle Hymn of the Republic) dies at 91
1967 Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China, dies at 61
1972 Turk Broda, NHL goaltender (Toronto Maple Leafs) dies at 58
1979 S. J. Perelman, screenwriter (Horse Feathers, Monkey Business) dies at 75
1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer/television performer (16 Tons) dies at 82
1993 Criss Oliva, guitarist (Savatage) is killed by a drunk driver at 30
1996 Chris Acland, drummer (Lush) commits suicide at 30
2001 Jay Livingston, songwriter (Buttons & Bows, Silver Bells) dies at 86
2002 Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) dies at 66
2006 Christopher Glenn, newscaster (CBS) dies at 68
2007 Joey Bishop, entertainer/singer (Rat Pack) dies at 89
Today in History
1777 British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1781 General Charles Cornwallis offered his surrender to the American forces at Yorktown, Virginia.
1845 According to a Boston newspaper, the entire audience walked out of a reading of The Raven because of their objection to Edgar Allan Poe, the reader and author.
1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine hit the newsstands.
1888 Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company began the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1919 The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.
1931 Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
1933 Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after arriving in the United States from Germany.
1937 Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appeared in a newspaper comic strip.
1938 NBC moved to the corner of Sunset and Vine, the ‘Crossroads of the World;’ the new Hollywood Radio City drew thousands of visitors.
1945 Actress Ava Gardner married bandleader Artie Shaw.
1945 Col. Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.
1953 The first concert of contemporary Canadian music presented in the U.S. was performed by conductor Leopold Stokowski at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1962 The Beatles made their first appearance on Great Britain’s Granada TV Network.
1965 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closed after a two-year run.
1967 The rock musical Hair opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.
1973 Arab oil-producing nations announced they would cut back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was a total embargo that lasted until March 1974.
1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1978 After losing the first two games to the LA Dodgers, the New York Yankees won the next four games to clinch their 22nd World Series championship.
1979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.
1985 Intel introduced the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
1987 First lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1989 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hit the San Francisco Bay area at 5:04 p.m.
1997 The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
1998 The single, "One Week," by Barenaked Ladies, was number one -- for one week.
2001 The House of Representatives announced plans to close for an anthrax sweep after 31 people at the Capitol tested positive for exposure; New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office was evacuated after anthrax was detected.
2001 Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi, was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians.
2003 The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
2006 The United States population reached 300 million.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Keep a Knockin’ - Little Richard
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Behind the Tear - Sonny James
1973
Half-Breed - Cher
Ramblin’ Man - The Allman Brothers Band
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
Party Time - T.G. Sheppard
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Love Song - The Cure
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
Killin’ Time - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal, author & dramatist (1925 - )
Today in History - Oct 18th
Today's Birthdays
1898 Lotte Lenya (Karoline Blamauer), singer/actress (The Threepenny Opera, From Russia with Love)
1906 James Brooks, artist (235-ft. mural at La Guardia National Airport, NY) died Mar 9, 1992
1918 Bobby Troup, actor (Emergency) died Feb 7, 1999
1919 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, died Sep 28, 2000
1919 Anita O'Day, singer (The Jezebel of Jazz) died Nov 23, 2006
1921 Jesse Helms, senator (North Carolina) died July 4, 2008
1926 Chuck Berry (Charles Edward Anderson Berry), singer/songwriter/guitarist (Maybelline)
1927 George C. (Campbell) Scott, actor (Patton, Taps, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Malice) died Sep 22, 1999
1928 Keith Jackson, American Sportscasters Hall of Famer (ABC Sports, Wide World of Sports)
1934 Inger Stevens (Stensland), actress (The Farmer’s Daughter, Hang ’Em High) died Apr 30, 1970
1935 Peter Boyle, actor (Everybody Loves Raymond, Taxi Driver, Young Frankenstein) died Dec 12, 2006
1938 Dawn Wells, actress (Gilligan's Island)
1939 Mike Ditka, Pro & College Football Hall of Fame player/coach/TV sports analyst
1939 Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, died Nov 24, 1963
1943 Russ Giguere, guitarist/singer (The Association)
1946 Howard Shore, film composer (The Lord of the Rings series, The Silence of the Lambs)
1947 Joe Morton, actor (Speed, Of Mice and Men, Forever Young, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
1947 Laura Nyro, songwriter/singer (Up on the Roof)
1949 Joe Egan, singer/songwriter (Stealers Wheel)
1949 Gary Richrath, guitarist/songwriter (REO Speedwagon)
1951 Pam Dawber, actress (Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam)
1956 Martina Navratilova, tennis champion
1958 Kjell Samuelsson, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1958 Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, boxing champion
1959 Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, sports talk show host (WFAN)
1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme (Varenberg), actor (Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, Hard Target, Timecop)
1961 Wynton Marsalis, jazz/classical trumpeter
1961 Erin Moran, actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi)
1962 Vincent Spano, actor (The Tie That Binds, The Ascent, Oscar, City of Hope, And God Created Woman)
1964 Dan Lilker, bassist (Anthrax)
1965 Curtis Stigers, jazz vocalist/saxophonist
1966 Tim Cross, bassist (Sponge)
1974 Peter Svensson, guitarist (The Cardigans)
1980 Josh Gracin, U.S. Marine/country singer (American Idol)
1982 Ne-Yo, R&B singer
1987 Zac Efron, actor (High School Musical movies)
Today's Deaths in History
1541 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, dies at 51
1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (concept of a programmable computer) dies at 79
1889 Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (voice communication apparatus) dies at 81
1931 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies at 84
1966 Elizabeth Arden, businesswoman (Cosmetics) dies at 91
1982 Bess Truman, former First Lady, dies at 97
2000 Julie London, singer/actress (Emergency) dies at 74
2000 Gwen Verdon, dancer/actress (Damn Yankees) dies at 75
2003 Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, dies at 91
2007 William J. Crowe, admiral/ambassador, dies at 82
2007 Lucky Dube, South African musician, dies at 43
Today in History
1685 King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots.
1767 The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.
1851 Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1867 The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.
1892 The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was opened.
1898 The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the United States.
1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) was founded by a consortium to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1925 The Grand Ole Opry opened in Nashville, Tennessee.
1944 Adolf Hitler ordered the establishment of a German national militia.
1945 The USSR's nuclear program received plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1954 Texas Instruments announced the first transistor radio.
1962 Dr. James D. Watson of the United States, and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1967 The Soviet probe Venera 4 reached Venus and became the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1968 The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.
1969 The federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they cause cancer in laboratory rats.
1977 West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.
1977 Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees became the second player to hit three home runs in a World Series game as he led New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding Game 6.
1989 Erich Honecker was ousted as leader of East Germany after 18 years in power.
2001 Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2006 The Dow Jones in dustrial average passed 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.
2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile; a suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming her killed more than 140 people, but Bhutto escaped unhurt.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
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
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
Blue Side of Lonesome - Jim Reeves
1974
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & Spinners
Please Don’t Stop Loving Me - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
1990
Praying for Time - George Michael
I Don’t Have the Heart - James Ingram
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1898 Lotte Lenya (Karoline Blamauer), singer/actress (The Threepenny Opera, From Russia with Love)
1906 James Brooks, artist (235-ft. mural at La Guardia National Airport, NY) died Mar 9, 1992
1918 Bobby Troup, actor (Emergency) died Feb 7, 1999
1919 Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, died Sep 28, 2000
1919 Anita O'Day, singer (The Jezebel of Jazz) died Nov 23, 2006
1921 Jesse Helms, senator (North Carolina) died July 4, 2008
1926 Chuck Berry (Charles Edward Anderson Berry), singer/songwriter/guitarist (Maybelline)
1927 George C. (Campbell) Scott, actor (Patton, Taps, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Malice) died Sep 22, 1999
1928 Keith Jackson, American Sportscasters Hall of Famer (ABC Sports, Wide World of Sports)
1934 Inger Stevens (Stensland), actress (The Farmer’s Daughter, Hang ’Em High) died Apr 30, 1970
1935 Peter Boyle, actor (Everybody Loves Raymond, Taxi Driver, Young Frankenstein) died Dec 12, 2006
1938 Dawn Wells, actress (Gilligan's Island)
1939 Mike Ditka, Pro & College Football Hall of Fame player/coach/TV sports analyst
1939 Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, died Nov 24, 1963
1943 Russ Giguere, guitarist/singer (The Association)
1946 Howard Shore, film composer (The Lord of the Rings series, The Silence of the Lambs)
1947 Joe Morton, actor (Speed, Of Mice and Men, Forever Young, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
1947 Laura Nyro, songwriter/singer (Up on the Roof)
1949 Joe Egan, singer/songwriter (Stealers Wheel)
1949 Gary Richrath, guitarist/songwriter (REO Speedwagon)
1951 Pam Dawber, actress (Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam)
1956 Martina Navratilova, tennis champion
1958 Kjell Samuelsson, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1958 Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, boxing champion
1959 Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, sports talk show host (WFAN)
1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme (Varenberg), actor (Kickboxer, Universal Soldier, Hard Target, Timecop)
1961 Wynton Marsalis, jazz/classical trumpeter
1961 Erin Moran, actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi)
1962 Vincent Spano, actor (The Tie That Binds, The Ascent, Oscar, City of Hope, And God Created Woman)
1964 Dan Lilker, bassist (Anthrax)
1965 Curtis Stigers, jazz vocalist/saxophonist
1966 Tim Cross, bassist (Sponge)
1974 Peter Svensson, guitarist (The Cardigans)
1980 Josh Gracin, U.S. Marine/country singer (American Idol)
1982 Ne-Yo, R&B singer
1987 Zac Efron, actor (High School Musical movies)
Today's Deaths in History
1541 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, dies at 51
1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (concept of a programmable computer) dies at 79
1889 Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (voice communication apparatus) dies at 81
1931 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies at 84
1966 Elizabeth Arden, businesswoman (Cosmetics) dies at 91
1982 Bess Truman, former First Lady, dies at 97
2000 Julie London, singer/actress (Emergency) dies at 74
2000 Gwen Verdon, dancer/actress (Damn Yankees) dies at 75
2003 Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, dies at 91
2007 William J. Crowe, admiral/ambassador, dies at 82
2007 Lucky Dube, South African musician, dies at 43
Today in History
1685 King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots.
1767 The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.
1851 Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1867 The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.
1892 The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was opened.
1898 The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the United States.
1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) was founded by a consortium to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1925 The Grand Ole Opry opened in Nashville, Tennessee.
1944 Adolf Hitler ordered the establishment of a German national militia.
1945 The USSR's nuclear program received plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1954 Texas Instruments announced the first transistor radio.
1962 Dr. James D. Watson of the United States, and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1967 The Soviet probe Venera 4 reached Venus and became the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1968 The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.
1969 The federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they cause cancer in laboratory rats.
1977 West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.
1977 Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees became the second player to hit three home runs in a World Series game as he led New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding Game 6.
1989 Erich Honecker was ousted as leader of East Germany after 18 years in power.
2001 Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2006 The Dow Jones in dustrial average passed 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.
2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile; a suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming her killed more than 140 people, but Bhutto escaped unhurt.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
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
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
Blue Side of Lonesome - Jim Reeves
1974
I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & Spinners
Please Don’t Stop Loving Me - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
1990
Praying for Time - George Michael
I Don’t Have the Heart - James Ingram
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Today in History - Oct 19th
Today's Birthdays
1748 Martha Jefferson (Wayles), wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, died Sep 6, 1782
1862 Auguste Lumière, French inventor (filmmaker) died April 10, 1954
1885 Charles Merrill, stock company mogul (Merrill-Lynch) died Oct 6, 1956
1903 Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler/actor (Ed Wood films) died May 12, 1971
1920 LaWanda Page, actress (Sanford and Son) died Sep 14, 2002
1922 Jack Anderson, columnist (Washington Merry-Go-Round) died Dec 17, 2005
1931 John Le Carré (David Cornwell), author (The Russia House, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
1932 Robert Reed (John Robert Rietz Jr.), actor (The Brady Bunch) died May 12, 1992
1937 Peter Max (Finkelstein), pop artist
1940 Michael Gambon, actor (Mary Reilly, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale, Toys)
1944 Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician, died Sept 11, 1987
1945 John Lithgow, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, The World According to Garp, Ricochet, Terms of Endearment)
1945 Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), transvestite actor (Lust in the Dust, Pink Flamingos, Polyester) died Mar 7, 1988
1945 Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson), singer (Harper Valley P.T.A.)
1948 Patrick Simmons, guitarist/singer (The Doobie Brothers)
1956 Nino DeFranco, singer (The DeFranco Family)
1957 Karl Wallinger, keyboards/guitarist (World Party)
1960 Jennifer Holliday, singer/actress (Dreamgirls, Touched by an Angel, Ally McBeal)
1962 Evander Holyfield, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1964 Ty Pennington, TV host (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition)
1965 Todd Park Mohr, guitarist/singer (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
1966 Jon Favreau, actor (Swingers, Made, The Big Empty)
1967 Amy Carter, daughter of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter
1969 Trey Parker, TV producer (South Park)
1970 Chris Kattan, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Pras Michel, singer (The Fugees)
1977 Jason Reitman, writer/director (Thank You for Smoking)
Today's Deaths in History
1745 Jonathan Swift, Irish author (Gulliver's Travels) dies at 77
1897 George Pullman, inventor/industrialist (Pullman Railway Cars) dies at 66
1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet (Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare) dies at 58
1973 Walt Kelly, cartoonist (Pogo) dies at 60
1978 Gig Young, actor (Double Indemnity) dies at 65
1988 Son House, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
1994 Martha Raye, comedian/actress (The Bugaloos) dies at 78
1995 Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
1997 Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper) dies at 49
2005 Dallas Cook, trombonist (Suburban Legends)
Today in History
1512 Martin Luther became a doctor of theology.
1765 The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.
1812 French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began a retreat from Moscow.
1917 Love Field in Dallas, Texas was opened.
1935 The League of Nations placed economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 The Navy announced that black women would be allowed into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
1950 United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1951 President Harry S. Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.
1960 The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba.
1969 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1973 President Richard Nixon rejected an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
1987 In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disabled three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
1987 The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent - its biggest one-day percentage drop in history.
2001 Two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2002 A 37-year-old man was seriously wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Va., in the latest attack by the Washington-area sniper.
2003 Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
2004 Insurgents in Iraq abducted Margaret Hassan, the local director of CARE International, from her car in Baghdad; Hassan was later slain by her captors.
2005 A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in Baghdad.
2006 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, ending at 12,011.73.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) - Bill Cosby
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Miracles - Jefferson Starship
Hope You’re Feelin’ Me (Like I’m Feelin’ You) - Charley Pride
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
Paradise Tonight - Charly McClain & Mickey Gilley
1991
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Romantic - Karyn White
Keep It Between the Lines - Ricky Van Shelton
Quote of the Day
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi, poet (1916 - 1986)
Today's Birthdays
1748 Martha Jefferson (Wayles), wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, died Sep 6, 1782
1862 Auguste Lumière, French inventor (filmmaker) died April 10, 1954
1885 Charles Merrill, stock company mogul (Merrill-Lynch) died Oct 6, 1956
1903 Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler/actor (Ed Wood films) died May 12, 1971
1920 LaWanda Page, actress (Sanford and Son) died Sep 14, 2002
1922 Jack Anderson, columnist (Washington Merry-Go-Round) died Dec 17, 2005
1931 John Le Carré (David Cornwell), author (The Russia House, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
1932 Robert Reed (John Robert Rietz Jr.), actor (The Brady Bunch) died May 12, 1992
1937 Peter Max (Finkelstein), pop artist
1940 Michael Gambon, actor (Mary Reilly, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale, Toys)
1944 Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician, died Sept 11, 1987
1945 John Lithgow, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, The World According to Garp, Ricochet, Terms of Endearment)
1945 Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), transvestite actor (Lust in the Dust, Pink Flamingos, Polyester) died Mar 7, 1988
1945 Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson), singer (Harper Valley P.T.A.)
1948 Patrick Simmons, guitarist/singer (The Doobie Brothers)
1956 Nino DeFranco, singer (The DeFranco Family)
1957 Karl Wallinger, keyboards/guitarist (World Party)
1960 Jennifer Holliday, singer/actress (Dreamgirls, Touched by an Angel, Ally McBeal)
1962 Evander Holyfield, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1964 Ty Pennington, TV host (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition)
1965 Todd Park Mohr, guitarist/singer (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
1966 Jon Favreau, actor (Swingers, Made, The Big Empty)
1967 Amy Carter, daughter of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter
1969 Trey Parker, TV producer (South Park)
1970 Chris Kattan, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Pras Michel, singer (The Fugees)
1977 Jason Reitman, writer/director (Thank You for Smoking)
Today's Deaths in History
1745 Jonathan Swift, Irish author (Gulliver's Travels) dies at 77
1897 George Pullman, inventor/industrialist (Pullman Railway Cars) dies at 66
1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet (Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare) dies at 58
1973 Walt Kelly, cartoonist (Pogo) dies at 60
1978 Gig Young, actor (Double Indemnity) dies at 65
1988 Son House, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
1994 Martha Raye, comedian/actress (The Bugaloos) dies at 78
1995 Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
1997 Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper) dies at 49
2005 Dallas Cook, trombonist (Suburban Legends)
Today in History
1512 Martin Luther became a doctor of theology.
1765 The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.
1812 French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began a retreat from Moscow.
1917 Love Field in Dallas, Texas was opened.
1935 The League of Nations placed economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 The Navy announced that black women would be allowed into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
1950 United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1951 President Harry S. Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.
1960 The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba.
1969 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1973 President Richard Nixon rejected an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
1987 In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disabled three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
1987 The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent - its biggest one-day percentage drop in history.
2001 Two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2002 A 37-year-old man was seriously wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Va., in the latest attack by the Washington-area sniper.
2003 Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
2004 Insurgents in Iraq abducted Margaret Hassan, the local director of CARE International, from her car in Baghdad; Hassan was later slain by her captors.
2005 A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in Baghdad.
2006 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, ending at 12,011.73.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
The Letter - The Box Tops
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) - Bill Cosby
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Miracles - Jefferson Starship
Hope You’re Feelin’ Me (Like I’m Feelin’ You) - Charley Pride
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
Paradise Tonight - Charly McClain & Mickey Gilley
1991
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Romantic - Karyn White
Keep It Between the Lines - Ricky Van Shelton
Quote of the Day
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi, poet (1916 - 1986)
Today in History - Oct 20th
Today's Birthdays
1882 Bela Lugosi (Blasko), actor (Dracula, Murders in the Rue Morgue) died Aug 16, 1956
1890 Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist/composer (King Porter Stomp) died July 10, 1941
1905 Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay), author (mystery series) died Sep 9, 1982
1907 Arlene Francis (Kazanjian), actress/TV panelist (What’s My Line) died May 31, 2001
1913 Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones, Country Music Hall of Famer (Hee Haw) died Feb 19, 1998
1919 Tracy Hall, inventor (synthetic diamond) died July 25, 2008
1923 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Peter Gunn, The Jetsons) died May 9, 1986
1925 Art Buchwald, newspaper columnist/author (While Reagan Slept) died Jan 17, 2007
1931 Mickey (Charles) Mantle, Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Yankees) died Aug 13, 1995
1932 William Christopher, actor (M*A*S*H, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.)
1935 Jerry Orbach, actor (Law and Order, Dirty Dancing) died Dec 28, 2004
1936 Bobby Seale, Black Panthers co-founder
1938 Iain Macmillan, photographer (Abbey Road cover) died May 8, 2006
1939 Jay Siegel, singer (The Tokens)
1942 Earl Hindman, actor (Home Improvement) died Dec 29, 2003
1945 Ric Lee, drummer (Ten Years After)
1950 Tom Petty, guitarist/singer (The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)
1951 Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner)
1952 Melanie Mayron, actress (thirtysomething)
1958 Mark King, bassist/singer (Level 42)
1958 Eric Scott, actor (The Waltons)
1958 Viggo Mortensen, actor (GI Jane, Lord of the Rings series)
1964 Jim Sonefeld, drummer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1966 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader, died Jun 7, 2006
1970 Michelle Malkin, political commentator/author
1971 Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus), rapper
1978 Paul Wilson, bassist (Snow Patrol)
1979 John Krasinski, actor (The Office)
1981 Willis McGahee, NFL running back (Baltimore Ravens)
Today's Deaths in History
1936 Anne Sullivan, teacher (Helen Keller) dies at 70
1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, dies at 90
1977 Cassie Gaines, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies at 29 in a plane crash
1977 Steve Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies at 28 in a plane crash
1977 Ronnie Van Zant, singer/songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies at 29 in a plane crash
1989 Anthony Quayle, English actor (The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia) dies at 76
1990 Joel McCrea, actor (Buffalo Bill) dies at 84
1994 Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity) dies at 80
1995 Christopher Stone, actor (The Howling, Cujo) dies at 53
2003 Jack Elam, actor (Rio Lobo, Cannonball Run series) dies at 82
2005 Shirley Horn, jazz singer, dies at 71
2006 Jane Wyatt, actress (Lost Horizon, Father Knows Best, Star Trek) dies at 96
2007 Max McGee, NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers) dies at 75
Today in History
1803 The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1944 Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after he'd said, "I shall return."
1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence in the motion picture industry.
1955 The Return of the King, the last installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was published.
1967 Seven of 18 defendants were convicted in Mississippi of violating the civil rights of three young men who were murdered while trying to help blacks register to vote in 1964.
1968 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973 Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus were fired and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigned in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre.
1977 A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.
1979 The John F Kennedy library was opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
1992 In the first World Series game to be played outside the United States, the host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2.
2000 Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
2004 A U.S. Army staff sergeant, Ivan "Chip" Frederick, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison; he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It Had to Be You - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold
1976
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
If You Leave Me Now -Chicago
You and Me - Tammy Wynette
1984
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
I Don’t Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song) - Conway Twitty
Quote of the Day
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.
Buddha, Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1882 Bela Lugosi (Blasko), actor (Dracula, Murders in the Rue Morgue) died Aug 16, 1956
1890 Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist/composer (King Porter Stomp) died July 10, 1941
1905 Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay), author (mystery series) died Sep 9, 1982
1907 Arlene Francis (Kazanjian), actress/TV panelist (What’s My Line) died May 31, 2001
1913 Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones, Country Music Hall of Famer (Hee Haw) died Feb 19, 1998
1919 Tracy Hall, inventor (synthetic diamond) died July 25, 2008
1923 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Peter Gunn, The Jetsons) died May 9, 1986
1925 Art Buchwald, newspaper columnist/author (While Reagan Slept) died Jan 17, 2007
1931 Mickey (Charles) Mantle, Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Yankees) died Aug 13, 1995
1932 William Christopher, actor (M*A*S*H, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.)
1935 Jerry Orbach, actor (Law and Order, Dirty Dancing) died Dec 28, 2004
1936 Bobby Seale, Black Panthers co-founder
1938 Iain Macmillan, photographer (Abbey Road cover) died May 8, 2006
1939 Jay Siegel, singer (The Tokens)
1942 Earl Hindman, actor (Home Improvement) died Dec 29, 2003
1945 Ric Lee, drummer (Ten Years After)
1950 Tom Petty, guitarist/singer (The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)
1951 Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner)
1952 Melanie Mayron, actress (thirtysomething)
1958 Mark King, bassist/singer (Level 42)
1958 Eric Scott, actor (The Waltons)
1958 Viggo Mortensen, actor (GI Jane, Lord of the Rings series)
1964 Jim Sonefeld, drummer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1966 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader, died Jun 7, 2006
1970 Michelle Malkin, political commentator/author
1971 Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus), rapper
1978 Paul Wilson, bassist (Snow Patrol)
1979 John Krasinski, actor (The Office)
1981 Willis McGahee, NFL running back (Baltimore Ravens)
Today's Deaths in History
1936 Anne Sullivan, teacher (Helen Keller) dies at 70
1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, dies at 90
1977 Cassie Gaines, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies at 29 in a plane crash
1977 Steve Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies at 28 in a plane crash
1977 Ronnie Van Zant, singer/songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies at 29 in a plane crash
1989 Anthony Quayle, English actor (The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia) dies at 76
1990 Joel McCrea, actor (Buffalo Bill) dies at 84
1994 Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity) dies at 80
1995 Christopher Stone, actor (The Howling, Cujo) dies at 53
2003 Jack Elam, actor (Rio Lobo, Cannonball Run series) dies at 82
2005 Shirley Horn, jazz singer, dies at 71
2006 Jane Wyatt, actress (Lost Horizon, Father Knows Best, Star Trek) dies at 96
2007 Max McGee, NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers) dies at 75
Today in History
1803 The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1944 Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after he'd said, "I shall return."
1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence in the motion picture industry.
1955 The Return of the King, the last installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was published.
1967 Seven of 18 defendants were convicted in Mississippi of violating the civil rights of three young men who were murdered while trying to help blacks register to vote in 1964.
1968 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973 Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus were fired and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigned in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre.
1977 A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.
1979 The John F Kennedy library was opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
1992 In the first World Series game to be played outside the United States, the host Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2.
2000 Egyptian-born Ali Mohamed, a U.S. citizen who'd served in the Army, pleaded guilty in New York to helping plan the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
2004 A U.S. Army staff sergeant, Ivan "Chip" Frederick, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison; he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It Had to Be You - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold
1976
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
If You Leave Me Now -Chicago
You and Me - Tammy Wynette
1984
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
I Don’t Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song) - Conway Twitty
Quote of the Day
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.
Buddha, Indian philosopher & religious leader (563 BC - 483 BC)
Today in History - Oct 21st
Today's Birthdays
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan) died July 25, 1834
1833 Alfred Nobel, chemist/philanthropist (invented dynamite) died Dec 10, 1896
1917 Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie, trumpeter/bandleader, died Jan 6, 1993
1928 Whitey (Edward Charles) Ford, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1940 Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz), singer/musician (Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
1941 Steve Cropper, blues guitarist (Blues Brothers, Booker T and The MG’s)
1942 Elvin Bishop, guitarist/singer (Fooled Around and Fell in Love)
1942 Judy Sheindlin, TV personality (Judge Judy)
1943 Brian Piccolo, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) died June 16, 1970
1946 Lee Loughnane, brass musician (Chicago)
1946 Lux Interior, punk singer (The Cramps)
1949 Mike Keenan, NHL coach (NY Rangers)
1950 Ronald E. McNair, physicist/astronaut (Challenger Space Shuttle) died Jan 28, 1986
1952 Brent Mydland, keyboardist (Grateful Dead) died June 26, 1990
1953 Charlotte Caffey, guitarist/singer (The Go-Gos)
1955 Eric Faulkner, guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1956 Carrie Fisher, actress (Star Wars series, The Blues Brothers, When Harry Met Sally)
1957 Julian Cope, bassist/guitarist/singer (World Shut Your Mouth)
1957 Steve Lukather, guitarist (Toto)
1959 Rose McDowall, Scottish singer (Strawberry Switchblade)
1959 Ken Watanabe, actor (The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima)
1964 Jon Carin, producer/session musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1968 Melora Walters, actress (Boogie Nights, Magnolia)
1970 Che Colovita Lemon, bassist (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
1971 Nick Oliveri, bassist (Queens of the Stone Age)
1972 Saffron Burrows, actress (Boston Legal, Deep Blue Sea)
1973 Charlie Lowell, keyboardist (Jars of Clay)
1976 Jeremy Miller, actor (Growing Pains)
1980 Kim Kardashian, celebrity
1981 Willis McGahee, NFL running back (Baltimore Ravens)
Today's Deaths in History
1805 Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) dies at 47
1965 Bill Black, bassist (Elvis Presley) dies at 39
1969 Jack Kerouac, novelist (On the Road) dies at 47
1984 François Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows) dies at 52
1995 Shannon Hoon, singer (Blind Melon) dies of an overdose at 28
2003 Fred Berry, actor (What's Happening!) dies at 52
2003 Elliott Smith, musician/singer (Miss Misery) dies at 34
2005 Tara Correa-McMullen, actress (Judging Amy) is shot and killed at 16
2006 Sandy West, singer/songwriter/drummer (The Runaways) dies at 47
2007 Paul Fox, singer/guitarist (The Ruts) dies at 56
Today in History
1774 The word "Liberty" was first displayed on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor.
1805 A British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson was killed in the battle.
1879 Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.
1917 American soldiers first saw action in World War I on the front lines in France.
1921 President Warren G. Harding delivered the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
1959 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York City.
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1967 Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1973 John Paul Getty III's ear was cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome.
1975 Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk hit a ball that struck the left field foul pole in Boston's Fenway Park for a home run, giving the Red Sox a 7-6 victory in 12 innings over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 of the World Series.
1988 Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on charges of fraud and racketeering.
1994 North Korea and the United States signed an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
2001 Washington postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhaled anthrax.
2002 A car packed with explosives blew up next to a bus in northern Israel during rush hour; 14 people were killed in addition to two suicide attackers.
2003 Invoking a hastily-passed law, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ordered a feeding tube reinserted into Terry Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die battle.
2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris were taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2003 The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel tear down a barrier jutting into the West Bank.
Chart Toppers
1945
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
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
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Runaround Sue - Dion
Bristol Stomp - The Dovells
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
I Can’t Get Next to You - The Temptations
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
That’s Rock ’n’ Roll - Shaun Cassidy
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
You Make Me Want to Make You Mine - Juice Newton
Quote of the Day
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)
Today's Birthdays
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan) died July 25, 1834
1833 Alfred Nobel, chemist/philanthropist (invented dynamite) died Dec 10, 1896
1917 Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie, trumpeter/bandleader, died Jan 6, 1993
1928 Whitey (Edward Charles) Ford, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1940 Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz), singer/musician (Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
1941 Steve Cropper, blues guitarist (Blues Brothers, Booker T and The MG’s)
1942 Elvin Bishop, guitarist/singer (Fooled Around and Fell in Love)
1942 Judy Sheindlin, TV personality (Judge Judy)
1943 Brian Piccolo, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) died June 16, 1970
1946 Lee Loughnane, brass musician (Chicago)
1946 Lux Interior, punk singer (The Cramps)
1949 Mike Keenan, NHL coach (NY Rangers)
1950 Ronald E. McNair, physicist/astronaut (Challenger Space Shuttle) died Jan 28, 1986
1952 Brent Mydland, keyboardist (Grateful Dead) died June 26, 1990
1953 Charlotte Caffey, guitarist/singer (The Go-Gos)
1955 Eric Faulkner, guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1956 Carrie Fisher, actress (Star Wars series, The Blues Brothers, When Harry Met Sally)
1957 Julian Cope, bassist/guitarist/singer (World Shut Your Mouth)
1957 Steve Lukather, guitarist (Toto)
1959 Rose McDowall, Scottish singer (Strawberry Switchblade)
1959 Ken Watanabe, actor (The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima)
1964 Jon Carin, producer/session musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1968 Melora Walters, actress (Boogie Nights, Magnolia)
1970 Che Colovita Lemon, bassist (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)
1971 Nick Oliveri, bassist (Queens of the Stone Age)
1972 Saffron Burrows, actress (Boston Legal, Deep Blue Sea)
1973 Charlie Lowell, keyboardist (Jars of Clay)
1976 Jeremy Miller, actor (Growing Pains)
1980 Kim Kardashian, celebrity
1981 Willis McGahee, NFL running back (Baltimore Ravens)
Today's Deaths in History
1805 Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) dies at 47
1965 Bill Black, bassist (Elvis Presley) dies at 39
1969 Jack Kerouac, novelist (On the Road) dies at 47
1984 François Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows) dies at 52
1995 Shannon Hoon, singer (Blind Melon) dies of an overdose at 28
2003 Fred Berry, actor (What's Happening!) dies at 52
2003 Elliott Smith, musician/singer (Miss Misery) dies at 34
2005 Tara Correa-McMullen, actress (Judging Amy) is shot and killed at 16
2006 Sandy West, singer/songwriter/drummer (The Runaways) dies at 47
2007 Paul Fox, singer/guitarist (The Ruts) dies at 56
Today in History
1774 The word "Liberty" was first displayed on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor.
1805 A British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson was killed in the battle.
1879 Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.
1917 American soldiers first saw action in World War I on the front lines in France.
1921 President Warren G. Harding delivered the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
1959 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York City.
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1967 Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in Washington, D.C.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1973 John Paul Getty III's ear was cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome.
1975 Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk hit a ball that struck the left field foul pole in Boston's Fenway Park for a home run, giving the Red Sox a 7-6 victory in 12 innings over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 of the World Series.
1988 Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on charges of fraud and racketeering.
1994 North Korea and the United States signed an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
2001 Washington postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhaled anthrax.
2002 A car packed with explosives blew up next to a bus in northern Israel during rush hour; 14 people were killed in addition to two suicide attackers.
2003 Invoking a hastily-passed law, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ordered a feeding tube reinserted into Terry Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die battle.
2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris were taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2003 The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel tear down a barrier jutting into the West Bank.
Chart Toppers
1945
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
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
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Runaround Sue - Dion
Bristol Stomp - The Dovells
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
I Can’t Get Next to You - The Temptations
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
That’s Rock ’n’ Roll - Shaun Cassidy
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
You Make Me Want to Make You Mine - Juice Newton
Quote of the Day
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)
Today in History - Oct 22nd
Today's Birthdays
1811 Franz Liszt, composer (The Hungarian Rhapsodies, Faust) died July 31, 1886
1903 Curly Howard, comedian (The Three Stooges) died Jan 18, 1952
1904 Constance Bennett, actress (Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday) died July 24, 1965
1907 Jimmie (Emory) Foxx, Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (Philadelphia Athletics, Philadelphia Blue Jays) died July 21, 1967
1917 Joan Fontaine (de Havilland), actress (Suspicion, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe)
1920 Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno), actress (Little Orphan Annie, Tom Sawyer) died May 24, 1969
1920 Timothy Leary, psychologist/professor/LSD advocate, died May 31, 1996
1938 Derek Jacobi, actor (The Tenth Man, The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File)
1938 Christopher Lloyd, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Angels in the Outfield)
1939 Tony Roberts, actor (Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters)
1942 Annette Funicello, singer/actress (The Mickey Mouse Club, Beach movies)
1942 Bobby Fuller, singer/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four) died July 18, 1966
1943 Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac), actress (Indochine, Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
1945 Leslie West (Weinstein), singer/guitarist (Mountain)
1946 Eddie Brigati, singer (The Rascals)
1948 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, would-be assassin of Gerald Ford
1949 Stiv Bators, punk singer/guitarist (The Dead Boys, Lords of the New Church) died June 2, 1990
1952 Jeff Goldblum, actor (The Fly, The Big Chill, Independence Day, Silverado, Jurassic Park series)
1960 Darryl Jenifer, bassist (Bad Brains)
1960 Cris Kirkwood, bassist (Meat Puppets)
1962 Bob Odenkirk, actor/comedian (Mr. Show)
1963 Brian Boitano, Olympic figure skater
1966 Valeria Golino, actress (Escape from L.A., Leaving Las Vegas, Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee)
1968 Stéphane Quintal, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1968 Shelby Lynne, country singer
1968 Jay Johnston, actor/comedian (Mr. Show)
1969 Spike Jonze, director/producer (Three Kings, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich)
1970 SD Willie, board member
1973 Ichiro Suzuki, MLB outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1976 Jon Foreman, singer/guitarist (Switchfoot)
1985 Zachary Hanson, drummer (Hanson)
1990 Jonathan Lipnicki, actor (Jerry Maguire, Stuart Little)
1992 Sofia Vassilieva, actress (Medium)
Today's Deaths in History
1906 Paul Cezanne, French painter (Post-Impressionist) dies at 67
1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, bank robber, is shot to death at 30
1973 Pablo Casals, cellist/conductor, dies at 96
1992 Cleavon Little, comedian/actor (Blazing Saddles) dies at 53
1995 Mary Wickes, actress (Sisters Act series) dies at 85
2005 Tony Adams, film producer (Pink Panther series) dies at 52
2006 Arthur Hill, actor (The Andromeda Strain, Futureworld) dies at 84
Today in History
1746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
1797 French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
1836 Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1924 Toastmasters International was founded.
1934 Bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio.
1954 West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1962 President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turned down the honor.
1966 The Supremes became the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album, The Supremes A' Go-Go.
1968 Apollo 7, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard, returned to Earth.
1976 Red Dye No. 4 was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it was discovered to cause tumors in the bladders of dogs.
1979 The U.S. government allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment.
1981 The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
2001 Washington postal worker Joseph P. Curseen died of inhaled anthrax.
2002 A bus driver was shot to death in Aspen Hill, Md., in the 13th and final attack by the Washington-area sniper.
2004 In a wrenching videotaped statement, kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, saying these "might be my last hours;" Hassan was later killed by her captors.
2005 Tropical Storm Alpha formed in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2007 China's Communist Party gave President Hu Jintao a second five-year term.
Chart Toppers
1946
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
Do You Love Me - The Contours
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
All Right Now - Free
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Tear Time - Dave & Sugar
1986
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Typical Male - Tina Turner
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Just Another Love - Tanya Tucker
Quote of the Day
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell, essayist & novelist (1879 - 1958)
Today's Birthdays
1811 Franz Liszt, composer (The Hungarian Rhapsodies, Faust) died July 31, 1886
1903 Curly Howard, comedian (The Three Stooges) died Jan 18, 1952
1904 Constance Bennett, actress (Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday) died July 24, 1965
1907 Jimmie (Emory) Foxx, Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (Philadelphia Athletics, Philadelphia Blue Jays) died July 21, 1967
1917 Joan Fontaine (de Havilland), actress (Suspicion, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe)
1920 Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno), actress (Little Orphan Annie, Tom Sawyer) died May 24, 1969
1920 Timothy Leary, psychologist/professor/LSD advocate, died May 31, 1996
1938 Derek Jacobi, actor (The Tenth Man, The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File)
1938 Christopher Lloyd, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Angels in the Outfield)
1939 Tony Roberts, actor (Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters)
1942 Annette Funicello, singer/actress (The Mickey Mouse Club, Beach movies)
1942 Bobby Fuller, singer/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four) died July 18, 1966
1943 Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac), actress (Indochine, Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
1945 Leslie West (Weinstein), singer/guitarist (Mountain)
1946 Eddie Brigati, singer (The Rascals)
1948 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, would-be assassin of Gerald Ford
1949 Stiv Bators, punk singer/guitarist (The Dead Boys, Lords of the New Church) died June 2, 1990
1952 Jeff Goldblum, actor (The Fly, The Big Chill, Independence Day, Silverado, Jurassic Park series)
1960 Darryl Jenifer, bassist (Bad Brains)
1960 Cris Kirkwood, bassist (Meat Puppets)
1962 Bob Odenkirk, actor/comedian (Mr. Show)
1963 Brian Boitano, Olympic figure skater
1966 Valeria Golino, actress (Escape from L.A., Leaving Las Vegas, Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee)
1968 Stéphane Quintal, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1968 Shelby Lynne, country singer
1968 Jay Johnston, actor/comedian (Mr. Show)
1969 Spike Jonze, director/producer (Three Kings, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich)
1970 SD Willie, board member
1973 Ichiro Suzuki, MLB outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1976 Jon Foreman, singer/guitarist (Switchfoot)
1985 Zachary Hanson, drummer (Hanson)
1990 Jonathan Lipnicki, actor (Jerry Maguire, Stuart Little)
1992 Sofia Vassilieva, actress (Medium)
Today's Deaths in History
1906 Paul Cezanne, French painter (Post-Impressionist) dies at 67
1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, bank robber, is shot to death at 30
1973 Pablo Casals, cellist/conductor, dies at 96
1992 Cleavon Little, comedian/actor (Blazing Saddles) dies at 53
1995 Mary Wickes, actress (Sisters Act series) dies at 85
2005 Tony Adams, film producer (Pink Panther series) dies at 52
2006 Arthur Hill, actor (The Andromeda Strain, Futureworld) dies at 84
Today in History
1746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
1797 French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
1836 Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1924 Toastmasters International was founded.
1934 Bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio.
1954 West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1962 President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turned down the honor.
1966 The Supremes became the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album, The Supremes A' Go-Go.
1968 Apollo 7, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard, returned to Earth.
1976 Red Dye No. 4 was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it was discovered to cause tumors in the bladders of dogs.
1979 The U.S. government allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment.
1981 The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
2001 Washington postal worker Joseph P. Curseen died of inhaled anthrax.
2002 A bus driver was shot to death in Aspen Hill, Md., in the 13th and final attack by the Washington-area sniper.
2004 In a wrenching videotaped statement, kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, saying these "might be my last hours;" Hassan was later killed by her captors.
2005 Tropical Storm Alpha formed in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2007 China's Communist Party gave President Hu Jintao a second five-year term.
Chart Toppers
1946
Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
Do You Love Me - The Contours
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
All Right Now - Free
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
1978
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Tear Time - Dave & Sugar
1986
When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Typical Male - Tina Turner
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Just Another Love - Tanya Tucker
Quote of the Day
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell, essayist & novelist (1879 - 1958)
Today in History - Oct 23rd
Today's Birthdays
1752 Nicolas Appert, French chef/inventor (food canning process, bouillon cube) died June 3, 1841
1762 Samuel Morey, inventor (internal coombustion engine) died April 17, 1843
1835 Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the U.S., died June 14, 1914
1869 John Heisman, football player/coach, died Oct 3, 1936
1892 (Milton) ‘Gummo’ Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) died Apr 21, 1977
1918 James Daly, actor (Medical Center, Planet of the Apes) died July 3, 1978
1922 Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) died June 28, 1974
1925 Johnny Carson, comedian/TV host (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) died Jan 23, 2005
1935 Juan ‘Chi-Chi’ Rodriguez, World Golf Hall of Famer
1936 Philip Kaufman, director (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1940 (Eleanor) Ellie Greenwich (Ellie Gay, Ellie Gee), songwriter (Be My Baby, Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me)
1940 Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento), Brazilian soccer star
1942 Michael Crichton, author (Jurassic Park series)
1947 Greg Ridley, bassist/singer (Spooky Tooth, Humble Pie, Small Faces)
1949 Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, guitarist (Motörhead)
1954 Ang Lee, director (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain)
1956 Dwight Yoakam, country songwriter/singer
1958 Nancy Grace, former prosecutor/TV host (CNN)
1959 ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, singer/comedian
1960 Randy Pausch, computer science professor/author (The Last Lecture) died July 25, 2008
1962 Doug Flutie, former NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers)
1962 Mike Tomczak, former NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers; Chicago Bears)
1959 Sam Raimi, director (Evil Dead series, Spiderman series)
1964 Robert Trujillo, bassist (Metallica)
1974 Eric Bass, bassist/pianist (Shinedown)
1976 Ryan Reynolds, actor (Van Wilder, Waiting)
1978 John Lackey, MLB pitcher (LA Angels)
1986 Jessica Stroup, actress (90210)
Today's Deaths in History
1921 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (Dunlop Tires) dies at 81
1939 Zane Grey, author (westerns) dies at 67
1950 Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), singer/actor (The Jazz Singer) dies at 64
1957 Christian Dior, French fashion designer, dies at 52
1978 Maybelle Carter, country guitarist/musical innovator, dies at 69
1983 Jessica Savitch, journalist (NBC News) dies at 36 in an automobile accident
1984 Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold) dies at 61
2002 Adolph Green, lyricist/playwright (Singin' in the Rain) dies at 87
2003 Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) dies in New York at 105
2004 Robert Merrill, baritone (National ANthem at Yankees games) dies at 87
2005 William Hootkins, actor (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman) dies at 57
Today in History
1707 The first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held its first meeting.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1911 An Italian pilot took off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War in the first use of aircraft in war.
1915 Some 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote.
1930 The first miniature golf tournament was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1942 Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt during World War II.
1944 The largest naval battle in history began in Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
1946 The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time.
1956 An anti-Stalinist revolt began in Hungary.
1958 The Smurfs, blue dwarves later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appeared for the first time in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
1973 President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
1973 A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ended the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
1983 A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.
1987 The U.S. Senate rejected the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork, 58-42.
1989 A white man, Charles Stuart, claimed that he and his pregnant wife had been shot by a black robber in Boston; Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died (Charles Stuart was later implicated in the shootings and apparently committed suicide).
1993 Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter became the second player to end a World Series with a home run, a three-run shot that gave Toronto an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6.
1998 Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed abortions, was killed at his home in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., when a sniper fired through his kitchen window; James Kopp was convicted of murder and is serving 25 years to life in prison.
1998 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a land-for-peace agreement at the White House, following nine days of talks at Wye River, Md.
2001 Apple released the iPod.
2002 Gunmen seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage and threatening to kill them unless the Russian army pulled out of Chechnya.
2004 A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2006 Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 24 years, four months for his role in the company's collapse.
Chart Toppers
1947
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
The Shifting, Whispering Sands - Rusty Draper
Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Busted - Ray Charles
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson
1979
Rise - Herb Alpert
Pop Muzik - M
I’ll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick
All the Gold in California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
1987
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
U Got the Look - Prince
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Fishin’ in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Quote of the Day
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Today's Birthdays
1752 Nicolas Appert, French chef/inventor (food canning process, bouillon cube) died June 3, 1841
1762 Samuel Morey, inventor (internal coombustion engine) died April 17, 1843
1835 Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the U.S., died June 14, 1914
1869 John Heisman, football player/coach, died Oct 3, 1936
1892 (Milton) ‘Gummo’ Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) died Apr 21, 1977
1918 James Daly, actor (Medical Center, Planet of the Apes) died July 3, 1978
1922 Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) died June 28, 1974
1925 Johnny Carson, comedian/TV host (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) died Jan 23, 2005
1935 Juan ‘Chi-Chi’ Rodriguez, World Golf Hall of Famer
1936 Philip Kaufman, director (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1940 (Eleanor) Ellie Greenwich (Ellie Gay, Ellie Gee), songwriter (Be My Baby, Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me)
1940 Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento), Brazilian soccer star
1942 Michael Crichton, author (Jurassic Park series)
1947 Greg Ridley, bassist/singer (Spooky Tooth, Humble Pie, Small Faces)
1949 Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, guitarist (Motörhead)
1954 Ang Lee, director (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain)
1956 Dwight Yoakam, country songwriter/singer
1958 Nancy Grace, former prosecutor/TV host (CNN)
1959 ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, singer/comedian
1960 Randy Pausch, computer science professor/author (The Last Lecture) died July 25, 2008
1962 Doug Flutie, former NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers)
1962 Mike Tomczak, former NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers; Chicago Bears)
1959 Sam Raimi, director (Evil Dead series, Spiderman series)
1964 Robert Trujillo, bassist (Metallica)
1974 Eric Bass, bassist/pianist (Shinedown)
1976 Ryan Reynolds, actor (Van Wilder, Waiting)
1978 John Lackey, MLB pitcher (LA Angels)
1986 Jessica Stroup, actress (90210)
Today's Deaths in History
1921 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (Dunlop Tires) dies at 81
1939 Zane Grey, author (westerns) dies at 67
1950 Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), singer/actor (The Jazz Singer) dies at 64
1957 Christian Dior, French fashion designer, dies at 52
1978 Maybelle Carter, country guitarist/musical innovator, dies at 69
1983 Jessica Savitch, journalist (NBC News) dies at 36 in an automobile accident
1984 Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold) dies at 61
2002 Adolph Green, lyricist/playwright (Singin' in the Rain) dies at 87
2003 Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) dies in New York at 105
2004 Robert Merrill, baritone (National ANthem at Yankees games) dies at 87
2005 William Hootkins, actor (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman) dies at 57
Today in History
1707 The first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held its first meeting.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1911 An Italian pilot took off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War in the first use of aircraft in war.
1915 Some 25,000 women marched in New York City demanding the right to vote.
1930 The first miniature golf tournament was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1942 Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt during World War II.
1944 The largest naval battle in history began in Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
1946 The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time.
1956 An anti-Stalinist revolt began in Hungary.
1958 The Smurfs, blue dwarves later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appeared for the first time in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
1973 President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
1973 A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ended the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
1983 A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.
1987 The U.S. Senate rejected the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork, 58-42.
1989 A white man, Charles Stuart, claimed that he and his pregnant wife had been shot by a black robber in Boston; Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died (Charles Stuart was later implicated in the shootings and apparently committed suicide).
1993 Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter became the second player to end a World Series with a home run, a three-run shot that gave Toronto an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6.
1998 Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed abortions, was killed at his home in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., when a sniper fired through his kitchen window; James Kopp was convicted of murder and is serving 25 years to life in prison.
1998 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a land-for-peace agreement at the White House, following nine days of talks at Wye River, Md.
2001 Apple released the iPod.
2002 Gunmen seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage and threatening to kill them unless the Russian army pulled out of Chechnya.
2004 A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2006 Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 24 years, four months for his role in the company's collapse.
Chart Toppers
1947
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
The Shifting, Whispering Sands - Rusty Draper
Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Busted - Ray Charles
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson
1979
Rise - Herb Alpert
Pop Muzik - M
I’ll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick
All the Gold in California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
1987
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
U Got the Look - Prince
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Fishin’ in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Quote of the Day
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Today in History - Oct 24th
Today's Birthdays
1788 Sarah Hale, poet (Mary Had a Little Lamb) died Apr 30, 1879
1830 Belva Lockwood, attorney/first woman formally nominated to run for President, died May 19, 1917
1855 James Sherman, 27th U.S. Vice President, died Oct 30, 1912
1904 Moss Hart, director (My Fair Lady) died Dec 20, 1961
1911 Sonny Terry, blues musician, died March 11, 1986
1915 Bob Kane, cartoonist (Batman) died Nov 3, 1998
1926 Y.A. (Yelberton Abraham) Tittle, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (NY Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts)
1930 J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson, "The Big Bopper," singer/songwriter (Chantilly Lace) killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959
1936 David Nelson, actor (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Peyton Place)
1936 Bill Wyman, bassist (The Rolling Stones)
1939 F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus, Last Action Hero, Scarface, Serpico, All the President’s Men)
1946 Jerry Edmonton, drummer (Steppenwolf) killed in car crash Nov 28, 1993
1947 Kevin Kline, actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, Silverado, Grand Canyon, Dave, The Big Chill, Sophie’s Choice)
1960 B.D. (Bradley Darryl) Wong, actor (Seven Years in Tibet, Father of the Bride series, Jurassic Park, M. Butterfly)
1961 Mary Bono, politician/widow of Sonny Bono (U.S. House of Representatives)
1967 Jacqueline McKenzie, actress (Deep Blue Sea, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants)
1971 Caprice Bourret, lingerie model/actress
1972 Scott Peterson, murderer
1979 Ben Gillies, drummer (Silverchair)
1980 Monica, R&B singer/actress
1981 Tila Tequila (Tila Nguyen), model/TV personality (A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila)
1983 Keyshia Cole, R&B singer
1989 Shenae Grimes, actress (90210)
Today's Deaths in History
1537 Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England, dies of complications from childbirth at 30
1601 Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, dies at 54
1852 Daniel Webster, lawyer/politician, dies at 70
1922 George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer, dies at 83
1957 Christian Dior, French fashion designer, dies at 52
1972 Jackie Robinson, Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman/first black player in MLB, dies at 53
1972 Claire Windsor, actress (silent films) dies at 75
1991 Gene Roddenberry, television producer (Star Trek) dies at 70
1997 Don Messick, voice actor (Sccoby-Doo, Boo-Boo Bear, Astro) dies at 71
1999 Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.) dies at 77
2004 Randy Dorton, NASCAR crew member, dies in a plance crash at 50
2004 Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR team owner, dies in a plance crash at 24
2005 Rosa Parks, Civil rights activist, dies at 92
Today in History
1648 The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War and, effectively, the Holy Roman Empire.
1861 The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from California to President Abraham Lincoln.
1901 Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1911 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1926 Harry Houdini gave his last performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1931 The George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, was dedicated; it opened to traffic the next day.
1940 The 40-hour work week went into effect in the United States.
1945 The United Nations charter took effect.
1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket took the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 Walt Disney testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believed to be communists.
1952 Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, "I shall go to Korea" as he promised to end the conflict.
1960 An R-16 ballistic missile exploded on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing more than 100.
1962 The U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis began under a proclamation signed by President John F. Kennedy.
1977 Veterans Day was observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time before reverting back to Nov 11th.
1987 Thirty years after it was expelled for refusing to answer allegations of corruption, the Teamsters union was welcomed back into the AFL-CIO.
1992 The Toronto Blue Jays became the first team outside the United States to win a World Series as they defeated the Atlanta Braves 4-3 in Game 6.
2001 The House passed a $100 billion economic stimulus package in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2002 Authorities arrested Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo in connection with the Washington-area sniper attacks; Muhammad was later sentenced to death, Malvo to life in prison.
2003 The era of supersonic jet travel came to an end as three British Airways Concordes landed at London's Heathrow Airport.
2004 Ten people, including four family members of Rick Hendrick, were killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway.
2007 Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.
Chart Toppers
1948
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
We’ll Sing in the Sunshine - Gale Garnett
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens
1972
My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Funny Face - Donna Fargo
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
He’s So Shy - Pointer Sisters
I Believe in You - Don Williams
1988
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
Gonna Take a Lot of River - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)
Today's Birthdays
1788 Sarah Hale, poet (Mary Had a Little Lamb) died Apr 30, 1879
1830 Belva Lockwood, attorney/first woman formally nominated to run for President, died May 19, 1917
1855 James Sherman, 27th U.S. Vice President, died Oct 30, 1912
1904 Moss Hart, director (My Fair Lady) died Dec 20, 1961
1911 Sonny Terry, blues musician, died March 11, 1986
1915 Bob Kane, cartoonist (Batman) died Nov 3, 1998
1926 Y.A. (Yelberton Abraham) Tittle, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (NY Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts)
1930 J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson, "The Big Bopper," singer/songwriter (Chantilly Lace) killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959
1936 David Nelson, actor (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Peyton Place)
1936 Bill Wyman, bassist (The Rolling Stones)
1939 F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus, Last Action Hero, Scarface, Serpico, All the President’s Men)
1946 Jerry Edmonton, drummer (Steppenwolf) killed in car crash Nov 28, 1993
1947 Kevin Kline, actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, Silverado, Grand Canyon, Dave, The Big Chill, Sophie’s Choice)
1960 B.D. (Bradley Darryl) Wong, actor (Seven Years in Tibet, Father of the Bride series, Jurassic Park, M. Butterfly)
1961 Mary Bono, politician/widow of Sonny Bono (U.S. House of Representatives)
1967 Jacqueline McKenzie, actress (Deep Blue Sea, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants)
1971 Caprice Bourret, lingerie model/actress
1972 Scott Peterson, murderer
1979 Ben Gillies, drummer (Silverchair)
1980 Monica, R&B singer/actress
1981 Tila Tequila (Tila Nguyen), model/TV personality (A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila)
1983 Keyshia Cole, R&B singer
1989 Shenae Grimes, actress (90210)
Today's Deaths in History
1537 Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England, dies of complications from childbirth at 30
1601 Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, dies at 54
1852 Daniel Webster, lawyer/politician, dies at 70
1922 George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer, dies at 83
1957 Christian Dior, French fashion designer, dies at 52
1972 Jackie Robinson, Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman/first black player in MLB, dies at 53
1972 Claire Windsor, actress (silent films) dies at 75
1991 Gene Roddenberry, television producer (Star Trek) dies at 70
1997 Don Messick, voice actor (Sccoby-Doo, Boo-Boo Bear, Astro) dies at 71
1999 Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.) dies at 77
2004 Randy Dorton, NASCAR crew member, dies in a plance crash at 50
2004 Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR team owner, dies in a plance crash at 24
2005 Rosa Parks, Civil rights activist, dies at 92
Today in History
1648 The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War and, effectively, the Holy Roman Empire.
1861 The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from California to President Abraham Lincoln.
1901 Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1911 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1926 Harry Houdini gave his last performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1931 The George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, was dedicated; it opened to traffic the next day.
1940 The 40-hour work week went into effect in the United States.
1945 The United Nations charter took effect.
1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket took the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 Walt Disney testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believed to be communists.
1952 Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, "I shall go to Korea" as he promised to end the conflict.
1960 An R-16 ballistic missile exploded on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing more than 100.
1962 The U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis began under a proclamation signed by President John F. Kennedy.
1977 Veterans Day was observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time before reverting back to Nov 11th.
1987 Thirty years after it was expelled for refusing to answer allegations of corruption, the Teamsters union was welcomed back into the AFL-CIO.
1992 The Toronto Blue Jays became the first team outside the United States to win a World Series as they defeated the Atlanta Braves 4-3 in Game 6.
2001 The House passed a $100 billion economic stimulus package in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2002 Authorities arrested Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo in connection with the Washington-area sniper attacks; Muhammad was later sentenced to death, Malvo to life in prison.
2003 The era of supersonic jet travel came to an end as three British Airways Concordes landed at London's Heathrow Airport.
2004 Ten people, including four family members of Rick Hendrick, were killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway.
2007 Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.
Chart Toppers
1948
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
We’ll Sing in the Sunshine - Gale Garnett
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens
1972
My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Funny Face - Donna Fargo
1980
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
He’s So Shy - Pointer Sisters
I Believe in You - Don Williams
1988
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
Gonna Take a Lot of River - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)
Today in History - Oct 25th
Today's Birthdays
1825 Johann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King,’ composer (On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz) died June 3, 1899
1838 Georges Bizet, composer (Carmen) died June 3, 1875
1864 John Francis Dodge, automobile pioneer, died January 14, 1920
1881 Pablo Picasso, artist (Guernica, Ma Jolie) died Apr 8, 1973
1886 Leo G. Carroll, actor (The Parent Trap, North by Northwest, Father of the Bride) died Oct 16, 1972
1888 Richard E. (Evelyn) Byrd, polar explorer (first to North Pole) died Mar 11, 1957
1912 Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley), comedienne/CMA Hall of Famer (Grand Ole Opry) died Mar 4, 1996
1913 Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (The Butcher of Lyon) died September 25, 1991
1924 Billy Barty, comedian/actor (Willow, Roustabout, Day of the Locust) died Dec 23, 2000
1928 Tony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo), actor (Death Wish 2, The Drowning Pool, Matt Helm) died Jan 19, 2006
1928 Marion Ross, actress (Happy Days)
1933 Eugene "Porky" Lee, child actor (Our Gang, Little Rascals) died October 16, 2005
1934 Earl Ingarfield, Sr., NHL center (NY Rangers)
1940 Bobby Knight, Basketball Hall of Fame coach
1941 Helen Reddy, singer (Delta Dawn, I Am Woman)
1944 Jon Anderson, singer (Yes)
1944 Taffy Danoff (Nivert), singer (Starland Vocal Band)
1948 Glenn Tipton, guitarist (Judas Priest)
1949 Brian Kerwin, actor (Lobo, Murphy’s Romance)
1951 Richard Lloyd, guitarist (Television)
1954 Mike Eruzione, hockey player (1980 Miracle on Ice)
1956 Mathias Jabs, guitarist (Scorpions)
1957 Nancy Cartwright, voice actress (The Simpsons)
1961 Chad Smith, drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 Tracy Nelson, actress (Square Pegs, Glitter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills)
1964 Michael Boatman, actor (Spin City)
1970 Ed Robertson, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 Adam Goldberg, actor (Saving Private Ryan)
1970 Chely Wrighht, country singer (The Bumper of My SUV)
1971 Midori (Goto), violinist
1971 Craig Robinson, actor (The Office)
1971 Pedro Martinez, MLB pitcher (NY Mets)
1979 Sarah Thompson, actress (Angel, 7th Heaven)
1984 Katy Perry, sniger/songwriter (I Kissed a Girl)
1985 Ciara, R&B singer
Today's Deaths in History
1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, poet (Canterbury Tales) dies in London at around 60 (actual date of birth unknown)
1921 Bat Masterson, journalist/lawman, dies at 67
1986 Forrest Tucker, actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, F Troop) dies at 67
1991 Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies at 60
1992 Roger Miller, singer/composer (King of the Road) dies at 56
1993 Vincent Price, actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum) dies at 82
1994 Mildred Natwick, actress (Dangerous Liaisons) dies at 89
1995 Bobby Riggs, tennis player (Battle of the Sexes) dies at 77
1999 Payne Stewart, golfer, dies at 42 in a aircraft accident
2002 Richard Harris, Irish actor (A Man Called Horse, Harry Potter series) dies at 72
2004 John Peel, British disc jockey (BBC) dies at 65
2005 Wellington Mara, NFL team owner (NY Giants) dies at 89
Today in History
1760 Britain's King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II.
1812 The U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian during the War of 1812.
1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charged the Russian army in the Battle of Balaclava and suffered heavy losses.
1918 The Canadian steamship Princess Sophia foundered off the coast of Alaska; nearly 400 people died.
1936 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini created the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1938 The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounced Swing music as "a degenerated musical system...turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell."
1945 The Republic of China took over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending the Korean War resumed in Panmunjom.
1962 U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council.
1962 Author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1970 The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship at war, was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old.
1971 The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1972 The Washington Post reported that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign.
1983 A U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.
1986 The Boston Red Sox lost Game 6 of the World Series to the New York Mets when a routine ground ball went through Boston first baseman Bill Buckner's legs, allowing the winning run to score in the 10th inning.
1994 Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. She later confessed to drowning the children and was convicted of murder.
1999 Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota.
1999 Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan bolted the GOP to mount a bid for the Reform Party nomination.
2001 Windows XP first became available.
2003 Florida State's Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory as the Seminoles beat Wake Forest 48-24.
2005 U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Hula Love - Buddy Knox
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright
1973
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt
Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Love Song - The Cure
Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears
Living Proof - Ricky Van Shelton
Quote of the Day
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)
Today's Birthdays
1825 Johann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King,’ composer (On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz) died June 3, 1899
1838 Georges Bizet, composer (Carmen) died June 3, 1875
1864 John Francis Dodge, automobile pioneer, died January 14, 1920
1881 Pablo Picasso, artist (Guernica, Ma Jolie) died Apr 8, 1973
1886 Leo G. Carroll, actor (The Parent Trap, North by Northwest, Father of the Bride) died Oct 16, 1972
1888 Richard E. (Evelyn) Byrd, polar explorer (first to North Pole) died Mar 11, 1957
1912 Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley), comedienne/CMA Hall of Famer (Grand Ole Opry) died Mar 4, 1996
1913 Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (The Butcher of Lyon) died September 25, 1991
1924 Billy Barty, comedian/actor (Willow, Roustabout, Day of the Locust) died Dec 23, 2000
1928 Tony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo), actor (Death Wish 2, The Drowning Pool, Matt Helm) died Jan 19, 2006
1928 Marion Ross, actress (Happy Days)
1933 Eugene "Porky" Lee, child actor (Our Gang, Little Rascals) died October 16, 2005
1934 Earl Ingarfield, Sr., NHL center (NY Rangers)
1940 Bobby Knight, Basketball Hall of Fame coach
1941 Helen Reddy, singer (Delta Dawn, I Am Woman)
1944 Jon Anderson, singer (Yes)
1944 Taffy Danoff (Nivert), singer (Starland Vocal Band)
1948 Glenn Tipton, guitarist (Judas Priest)
1949 Brian Kerwin, actor (Lobo, Murphy’s Romance)
1951 Richard Lloyd, guitarist (Television)
1954 Mike Eruzione, hockey player (1980 Miracle on Ice)
1956 Mathias Jabs, guitarist (Scorpions)
1957 Nancy Cartwright, voice actress (The Simpsons)
1961 Chad Smith, drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 Tracy Nelson, actress (Square Pegs, Glitter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills)
1964 Michael Boatman, actor (Spin City)
1970 Ed Robertson, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 Adam Goldberg, actor (Saving Private Ryan)
1970 Chely Wrighht, country singer (The Bumper of My SUV)
1971 Midori (Goto), violinist
1971 Craig Robinson, actor (The Office)
1971 Pedro Martinez, MLB pitcher (NY Mets)
1979 Sarah Thompson, actress (Angel, 7th Heaven)
1984 Katy Perry, sniger/songwriter (I Kissed a Girl)
1985 Ciara, R&B singer
Today's Deaths in History
1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, poet (Canterbury Tales) dies in London at around 60 (actual date of birth unknown)
1921 Bat Masterson, journalist/lawman, dies at 67
1986 Forrest Tucker, actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, F Troop) dies at 67
1991 Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies at 60
1992 Roger Miller, singer/composer (King of the Road) dies at 56
1993 Vincent Price, actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum) dies at 82
1994 Mildred Natwick, actress (Dangerous Liaisons) dies at 89
1995 Bobby Riggs, tennis player (Battle of the Sexes) dies at 77
1999 Payne Stewart, golfer, dies at 42 in a aircraft accident
2002 Richard Harris, Irish actor (A Man Called Horse, Harry Potter series) dies at 72
2004 John Peel, British disc jockey (BBC) dies at 65
2005 Wellington Mara, NFL team owner (NY Giants) dies at 89
Today in History
1760 Britain's King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II.
1812 The U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian during the War of 1812.
1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charged the Russian army in the Battle of Balaclava and suffered heavy losses.
1918 The Canadian steamship Princess Sophia foundered off the coast of Alaska; nearly 400 people died.
1936 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini created the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1938 The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounced Swing music as "a degenerated musical system...turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell."
1945 The Republic of China took over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending the Korean War resumed in Panmunjom.
1962 U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council.
1962 Author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1970 The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship at war, was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old.
1971 The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1972 The Washington Post reported that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign.
1983 A U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.
1986 The Boston Red Sox lost Game 6 of the World Series to the New York Mets when a routine ground ball went through Boston first baseman Bill Buckner's legs, allowing the winning run to score in the 10th inning.
1994 Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. She later confessed to drowning the children and was convicted of murder.
1999 Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota.
1999 Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan bolted the GOP to mount a bid for the Reform Party nomination.
2001 Windows XP first became available.
2003 Florida State's Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory as the Seminoles beat Wake Forest 48-24.
2005 U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.
Chart Toppers
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Hula Love - Buddy Knox
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright
1973
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt
Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Love Song - The Cure
Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears
Living Proof - Ricky Van Shelton
Quote of the Day
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)
Today in History - Oct 26th
Today's Birthdays
1803 Joseph Hansom, architect/inventor (the hansom cab) died in 1882
1854 C.W. (Charles William) Post, cereal mogul (Post cereals) died May 9, 1914
1874 Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller, philanthropist (NY Museum of Modern Art) died Apr 5, 1948
1876 H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner, actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) died Dec 21, 1958
1894 John S. (Shively) Knight, reporter/editor/publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper empire) died June 16, 1981
1902 Jack Sharkey, World Heavyweight Champion boxer, died Aug 17, 1994
1911 Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer, died Jan 27, 1972
1914 Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan Jr.), actor (The Kid, The Addams Family) died Mar 1, 1984
1916 Francois Mitterand, President of France, died Jan 8, 1996
1936 Shelley Morrison, actress (Will and Grace)
1942 Bob Hoskins, actor (Hook, Brazil, The Cotton Club, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
1945 Pat Conroy, writer (The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides)
1946 Keith Hopwood, singer/guitarist (Herman’s Hermits)
1946 Pat Sajak, TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
1946 Holly Woodlawn (Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl), actress/Warhol darling (subject of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side")
1947 Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady/U.S. Senator
1947 Jaclyn Smith, actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity)
1950 Chuck Foreman, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1951 Bootsy Collins, bassist/singer (Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band)
1952 James Pickens Jr., actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1953 Keith Strickland, drummer (The B-52s)
1954 Lauren Tewes, actress (The Love Boat)
1958 Rita Wilson, actress/Mrs. Tom Hanks (Sleepless in Seattle, That Thing You Do!)
1961 Dylan McDermott, actor (The Practice, Hamburger Hill, Steel Magnolias, Destiny Turns on the Radio, Big Shots)
1962 Cary Elwes, actor (Twister, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Days of Thunder, Glory, The Princess Bride)
1963 Natalie Merchant, singer (10,000 Maniacs)
1963 Ted Demme, director (The Ref, Beautiful Girls, Blow) died January 13, 2002
1965 Kelly Rowan, actress/producer (The O.C.)
1966 Jeanne Zelasko, sportcaster (Fox)
1967 Keith Urban, country singer
1968 Thomas Cavanagh, actor (Ed)
1973 Seth MacFarlane, animator (Family Guy, American Dad)
1976 Miikka Kiprusoff, NHL goaltender (Calgary Flames)
1977 Jon Heder, actor (Napoleon Dynamite, School for Scoundrels, The Benchwarmers)
1984 Sasha Cohen, Olympic figure skater
Today's Deaths in History
1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist/suffragette, dies at 86
1931 Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (White Sox/Black Sox scandal) dies at 72
1952 Hattie McDaniel, singer/actress (Gone With the Wind) dies at 57
1962 Louise Beavers, actress (Holiday Inn) dies at 60
1972 Igor Sikorsky, inventor (four-engine aircraft, first successful standard helicopter) dies at 83
1979 Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is shot and killed at 61
1994 Wilbert Harrison, singer (Kansas City) dies at 65
1999 Hoyt Axton, singer/songwriter/actor (Never Been to Spain, Joy to the World) dies at 61
2004 Bobby Avila, MLB 2nd baseman (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Braves) dies at 80
Today in History
1774 The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.
1776 Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1825 The Erie Canal opened, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York.
1861 The Pony Express officially ceased operations.
1881 The gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang; three members of Clanton's gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded.
1905 Norway became independent from Sweden.
1936 The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
1951 Boxer Joe Louis came out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano; Marciano won the fight in eight rounds.
1962 In one of the most dramatic verbal confrontations of the Cold War, American U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asked his Soviet counterpart during a Security Council debate whether the USSR had placed missiles in Cuba.
1965 The Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs).
1967 The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1972 National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared "peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
1977 The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia.
1984 A newborn with a severe heart defect was given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, CA; she lived for 21 more days.
1994 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.
1996 Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.
2001 President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
2002 A hostage siege by Chechen rebels at a Moscow theater ended with 129 of the 800-plus captives dead, most from a knockout gas used by Russian special forces who stormed the theater.
2004 Israel's parliament approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
2004 The final vote count in the Afghan presidential election gave a resounding victory to interim leader Hamid Karzai.
2005 The Chicago White Sox won their first World Series since 1917 by defeating the Houston Astros 1-0 in Game 4.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Topsy II - Cozy Cole
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens
1974
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & Spinners
You Haven’t Done Nothin - Stevie Wonder
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
I See the Want to in Your Eyes - Conway Twitty
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
He Got You - Ronnie Milsap
1990
I Don’t Have the Heart - James Ingram
Black Cat - Janet Jackson
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France, French novelist (1844 - 1924)
Today's Birthdays
1803 Joseph Hansom, architect/inventor (the hansom cab) died in 1882
1854 C.W. (Charles William) Post, cereal mogul (Post cereals) died May 9, 1914
1874 Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller, philanthropist (NY Museum of Modern Art) died Apr 5, 1948
1876 H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner, actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) died Dec 21, 1958
1894 John S. (Shively) Knight, reporter/editor/publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper empire) died June 16, 1981
1902 Jack Sharkey, World Heavyweight Champion boxer, died Aug 17, 1994
1911 Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer, died Jan 27, 1972
1914 Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan Jr.), actor (The Kid, The Addams Family) died Mar 1, 1984
1916 Francois Mitterand, President of France, died Jan 8, 1996
1936 Shelley Morrison, actress (Will and Grace)
1942 Bob Hoskins, actor (Hook, Brazil, The Cotton Club, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
1945 Pat Conroy, writer (The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides)
1946 Keith Hopwood, singer/guitarist (Herman’s Hermits)
1946 Pat Sajak, TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
1946 Holly Woodlawn (Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl), actress/Warhol darling (subject of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side")
1947 Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady/U.S. Senator
1947 Jaclyn Smith, actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity)
1950 Chuck Foreman, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1951 Bootsy Collins, bassist/singer (Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band)
1952 James Pickens Jr., actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1953 Keith Strickland, drummer (The B-52s)
1954 Lauren Tewes, actress (The Love Boat)
1958 Rita Wilson, actress/Mrs. Tom Hanks (Sleepless in Seattle, That Thing You Do!)
1961 Dylan McDermott, actor (The Practice, Hamburger Hill, Steel Magnolias, Destiny Turns on the Radio, Big Shots)
1962 Cary Elwes, actor (Twister, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Days of Thunder, Glory, The Princess Bride)
1963 Natalie Merchant, singer (10,000 Maniacs)
1963 Ted Demme, director (The Ref, Beautiful Girls, Blow) died January 13, 2002
1965 Kelly Rowan, actress/producer (The O.C.)
1966 Jeanne Zelasko, sportcaster (Fox)
1967 Keith Urban, country singer
1968 Thomas Cavanagh, actor (Ed)
1973 Seth MacFarlane, animator (Family Guy, American Dad)
1976 Miikka Kiprusoff, NHL goaltender (Calgary Flames)
1977 Jon Heder, actor (Napoleon Dynamite, School for Scoundrels, The Benchwarmers)
1984 Sasha Cohen, Olympic figure skater
Today's Deaths in History
1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist/suffragette, dies at 86
1931 Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (White Sox/Black Sox scandal) dies at 72
1952 Hattie McDaniel, singer/actress (Gone With the Wind) dies at 57
1962 Louise Beavers, actress (Holiday Inn) dies at 60
1972 Igor Sikorsky, inventor (four-engine aircraft, first successful standard helicopter) dies at 83
1979 Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is shot and killed at 61
1994 Wilbert Harrison, singer (Kansas City) dies at 65
1999 Hoyt Axton, singer/songwriter/actor (Never Been to Spain, Joy to the World) dies at 61
2004 Bobby Avila, MLB 2nd baseman (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Braves) dies at 80
Today in History
1774 The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.
1776 Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1825 The Erie Canal opened, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York.
1861 The Pony Express officially ceased operations.
1881 The gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang; three members of Clanton's gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded.
1905 Norway became independent from Sweden.
1936 The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
1951 Boxer Joe Louis came out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano; Marciano won the fight in eight rounds.
1962 In one of the most dramatic verbal confrontations of the Cold War, American U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asked his Soviet counterpart during a Security Council debate whether the USSR had placed missiles in Cuba.
1965 The Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs).
1967 The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1972 National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared "peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
1977 The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia.
1984 A newborn with a severe heart defect was given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, CA; she lived for 21 more days.
1994 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.
1996 Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.
2001 President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
2002 A hostage siege by Chechen rebels at a Moscow theater ended with 129 of the 800-plus captives dead, most from a knockout gas used by Russian special forces who stormed the theater.
2004 Israel's parliament approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
2004 The final vote count in the Afghan presidential election gave a resounding victory to interim leader Hamid Karzai.
2005 The Chicago White Sox won their first World Series since 1917 by defeating the Houston Astros 1-0 in Game 4.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Topsy II - Cozy Cole
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens
1974
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & Spinners
You Haven’t Done Nothin - Stevie Wonder
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
I See the Want to in Your Eyes - Conway Twitty
1982
Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
He Got You - Ronnie Milsap
1990
I Don’t Have the Heart - James Ingram
Black Cat - Janet Jackson
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France, French novelist (1844 - 1924)
Today in History - Oct 27th
Today's Birthdays
1728 James Cook, British sea captain/explorer (Hawaiian Islands) killed by angry natives at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, Feb 14, 1779
1782 Nicolo Paganini, violin virtuoso, died May 27, 1840
1811 Isaac Singer, inventor (sewing machine) died July 23, 1875
1858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President, died Jan 6, 1919
1872 Emily Post (Price), etiquette authority/author/syndicated newspaper columnist, died Sep 25, 1960
1910 Fred De Cordova, producer/director (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Bedtime for Bonzo) died Sep 15, 2001
1911 Leif Erickson (William Anderson), actor (The High Chaparral, On the Waterfront) died Jan 29, 1986
1914 Dylan Thomas, poet/playwright (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog) died Nov 9, 1953
1920 Nanette Fabray (Fabares), actress (One Day at a Time)
1922 Ralph (Mc Pherran) Kiner, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder/broadcaster (NY Mets)
1923 Roy Lichenstein, sculptor/artist, died Sep 29, 1997
1924 Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace), actress (Peyton Place, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun)
1933 Floyd Cramer, singer/pianist (Last Date) died Dec 31, 1997
1939 John Cleese, comedian/actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Monty Python Films, Fawlty Towers)
1940 John Gotti, American gangster, died June 10, 2002
1943 (Melvin) Lee Greenwood, country singer (God Bless the U.S.A)
1946 Ivan Reitman, director (Ghostbusters series, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Meatballs, Stripes)
1946 Carrie Snodgress, actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider) died Apr 1, 2004
1947 Terry Anderson, news correspondent (kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut)
1949 Garry Tallent, bassist (E Street Band)
1950 Fran Lebowitz, writer (Metropolitan Life)
1951 K.K. Downing, guitarist (Judas Priest)
1952 Roberto Benigni, actor/director (Life is Beautiful)
1958 Simon LeBon, singer (Duran Duran)
1963 Marla Maples, actress/former Mrs. Donald Trump
1967 Scott Weiland, singer (Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots)
1976 Sheeri Rappaport, actress (NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
1982 Patrick Fugit, actor (Almost Famous)
1984 Kelly Osbourne, singer/TV personality (The Osbournes)
1984 Brady Quinn, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
Today's Deaths in History
1789 John Cook, Governor of Delaware, dies at 59
1975 Rex Stout, novelist (Nero Wolfe stories) dies at 88
1977 James M. Cain, novelist (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity) dies at 85
1980 Steve Peregrin Took, singer/songwriter (T Rex) dies at 31
1990 Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician, dies at 90
1996 Morey Amsterdam, actor (The Dick van Dyke Show) dies at 87
2003 Rod Roddy, television announcer (The Price is Right) dies at 66
2006 Joe Niekro, MLB pitcher (Houston Astros, NY Yankees) dies at 61
Today in History
1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was founded.
1787 The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.
1810 The United States annexed the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1880 Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.
1904 The first rapid transit subway opened, in New York City.
1936 Mrs. Wallis Simpson filed for divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, forcing his abdication from the throne.
1947 You Bet Your Life, starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio.
1954 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1961 NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1962 Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
1967 Expo '67 closed in Montreal.
1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.
1978 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. was brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1997 The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
2002 Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith broke the NFL career rushing yardage record of 16,726 held by Walter Payton; Smith finished his career with 18,355 yards rushing.
2002 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff, becoming the country's first elected leftist leader.
2004 The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 4.
2005 White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of criticism from fellow conservatives.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
To Sir with Love - Lulu
How Can I Be Sure - The Young Rascals
Expressway to Your Heart - Soul Survivors
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Miracles - Jefferson Starship
San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
Lady Down on Love - Alabama
1991
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Romantic - Karyn White
Anymore - Travis Tritt
Quote of the Day
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Today's Birthdays
1728 James Cook, British sea captain/explorer (Hawaiian Islands) killed by angry natives at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, Feb 14, 1779
1782 Nicolo Paganini, violin virtuoso, died May 27, 1840
1811 Isaac Singer, inventor (sewing machine) died July 23, 1875
1858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President, died Jan 6, 1919
1872 Emily Post (Price), etiquette authority/author/syndicated newspaper columnist, died Sep 25, 1960
1910 Fred De Cordova, producer/director (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Bedtime for Bonzo) died Sep 15, 2001
1911 Leif Erickson (William Anderson), actor (The High Chaparral, On the Waterfront) died Jan 29, 1986
1914 Dylan Thomas, poet/playwright (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog) died Nov 9, 1953
1920 Nanette Fabray (Fabares), actress (One Day at a Time)
1922 Ralph (Mc Pherran) Kiner, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder/broadcaster (NY Mets)
1923 Roy Lichenstein, sculptor/artist, died Sep 29, 1997
1924 Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace), actress (Peyton Place, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun)
1933 Floyd Cramer, singer/pianist (Last Date) died Dec 31, 1997
1939 John Cleese, comedian/actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Monty Python Films, Fawlty Towers)
1940 John Gotti, American gangster, died June 10, 2002
1943 (Melvin) Lee Greenwood, country singer (God Bless the U.S.A)
1946 Ivan Reitman, director (Ghostbusters series, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Meatballs, Stripes)
1946 Carrie Snodgress, actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider) died Apr 1, 2004
1947 Terry Anderson, news correspondent (kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut)
1949 Garry Tallent, bassist (E Street Band)
1950 Fran Lebowitz, writer (Metropolitan Life)
1951 K.K. Downing, guitarist (Judas Priest)
1952 Roberto Benigni, actor/director (Life is Beautiful)
1958 Simon LeBon, singer (Duran Duran)
1963 Marla Maples, actress/former Mrs. Donald Trump
1967 Scott Weiland, singer (Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots)
1976 Sheeri Rappaport, actress (NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
1982 Patrick Fugit, actor (Almost Famous)
1984 Kelly Osbourne, singer/TV personality (The Osbournes)
1984 Brady Quinn, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
Today's Deaths in History
1789 John Cook, Governor of Delaware, dies at 59
1975 Rex Stout, novelist (Nero Wolfe stories) dies at 88
1977 James M. Cain, novelist (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity) dies at 85
1980 Steve Peregrin Took, singer/songwriter (T Rex) dies at 31
1990 Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician, dies at 90
1996 Morey Amsterdam, actor (The Dick van Dyke Show) dies at 87
2003 Rod Roddy, television announcer (The Price is Right) dies at 66
2006 Joe Niekro, MLB pitcher (Houston Astros, NY Yankees) dies at 61
Today in History
1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was founded.
1787 The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.
1810 The United States annexed the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1880 Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.
1904 The first rapid transit subway opened, in New York City.
1936 Mrs. Wallis Simpson filed for divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, forcing his abdication from the throne.
1947 You Bet Your Life, starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio.
1954 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1961 NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1962 Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
1967 Expo '67 closed in Montreal.
1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.
1978 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. was brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1997 The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
2002 Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith broke the NFL career rushing yardage record of 16,726 held by Walter Payton; Smith finished his career with 18,355 yards rushing.
2002 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff, becoming the country's first elected leftist leader.
2004 The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 4.
2005 White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of criticism from fellow conservatives.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
To Sir with Love - Lulu
How Can I Be Sure - The Young Rascals
Expressway to Your Heart - Soul Survivors
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette
1975
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Miracles - Jefferson Starship
San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker
1983
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
Lady Down on Love - Alabama
1991
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Romantic - Karyn White
Anymore - Travis Tritt
Quote of the Day
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Today in History - Oct 28th
Today's Birthdays
1846 Auguste Escoffier, the ‘King of Chefs and Chef of Kings’ (invented Peach Melba) died Feb 12, 1935
1897 Edith Head, costume designer, died Oct 24, 1981
1902 Elsa Lanchester (Elizabeth Sullivan), actress (The Bride of Frankenstein) died Dec 26, 1986
1914 Dr. Jonas Salk, medical researcher (polio vaccine) died June 23, 1995
1915 Dody Goodman, comedienne/actress (Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes) died June 22, 2008
1926 Bowie Kuhn, attorney/baseball commissioner, died March 15, 2007
1929 Joan Plowright, actress (Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April)
1934 Jim Beatty, National Track & Field Hall of Famer (first person to run indoor mile under 4 minutes)
1936 Charlie Daniels, country/rock guitarist/fiddler/singer (Charlie Daniels Band)
1939 Jane Alexander (Quigley), actress (Kramer vs. Kramer, All the President’s Men)
1942 Michael (John) Crichton, writer (Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, Disclosure, Congo)
1944 Dennis Franz (Schlachta), actor (N.Y.P.D. Blue, Hill Street Blues)
1945 Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis), singer (The Mindbenders)
1948 Telma Hopkins, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
1948 Rick Reynolds, guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas)
1949 Bruce (William) Jenner, National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer
1952 Annie Potts, actress (Designing Women, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ghostbusters series)
1955 Bill Gates (William H. Gates), computer software mogul (Microsoft Corporation)
1957 Stephen Morris, drummer/keyboardist (Joy Division, New Order)
1958 William Reid, guitarist (The Jesus & Mary Chain)
1962 Daphne Zuniga, actress (The Sure Thing, Melrose Place, Spaceballs, Gross Anatomy)
1963 Lauren Holly, actress (Dumb & Dumber, Picket Fences, Down Periscope, Any Given Sunday)
1965 Jami Gertz, actress (Square Pegs, The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Twister)
1967 Julia Roberts, actress (Erin Brockovich, Pretty Woman, Steel Magnolias, Ocean’s Eleven series)
1969 Jeremy Davies, actor (Saving Private Ryan)
1974 Joaquin Phoenix, actor (Parenthood, Gladiator, Ladder 49)
1979 Dave Tirio, musician (Plain White T's)
Today's Deaths in History
1704 John Locke, English philosopher (social contract theory) dies at 72
1818 Abigail Adams, First Lady, dies at 73
1939 Alice Brady, actress (MY Man Godfrey) dies at 46
1997 Paul Jarrico, screenwriter (No Time to Marry) dies at 82
2006 Red Auerbach, Hall of Fame basketball coach (Boston Celtics) dies at 89
2006 Trevor Berbick, boxer, is murdered at 51
2007 Porter Wagoner, country singer (Grand Ole Opry) dies at 80
Today in History
1636 Harvard College was founded.
1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, was established.
1793 Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
1886 The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
1919 Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1922 Fascism came to Italy as Benito Mussolini took control of the government.
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1940 Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
1942 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Kraków were deported by Germans to Belzec death camp.
1958 The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope, taking the name John XXIII.
1962 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1965 Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1976 Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions.
1980 Republican nominee Ronald Reagan asked voters during a debate with President Jimmy Carter in Cleveland, "are you better off than you were four years ago?"
2002 American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan.
2004 Insurgents executed 11 Iraqi soldiers and declared on an Islamic militant Web site that Iraqi fighters would avenge "the blood" of women and children killed in U.S. strikes on the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah.
2005 Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, resigned after he was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation; Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison. President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.
2007 Argentina's first lady, Cristina Fernandez, claimed victory in the country's presidential election; she became the first woman elected to the post.
2007 The first NFL game played outside North America was played at London's Wembley Stadium.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
The Trolley Song - Judy Garland
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Devil or Angel - Bobby Vee
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold
1976
If You Leave Me Now -Chicago
Still the One - Orleans
Rock’n Me - Steve Miller
You and Me - Tammy Wynette
1984
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) - Alabama
Quote of the Day
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Today's Birthdays
1846 Auguste Escoffier, the ‘King of Chefs and Chef of Kings’ (invented Peach Melba) died Feb 12, 1935
1897 Edith Head, costume designer, died Oct 24, 1981
1902 Elsa Lanchester (Elizabeth Sullivan), actress (The Bride of Frankenstein) died Dec 26, 1986
1914 Dr. Jonas Salk, medical researcher (polio vaccine) died June 23, 1995
1915 Dody Goodman, comedienne/actress (Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes) died June 22, 2008
1926 Bowie Kuhn, attorney/baseball commissioner, died March 15, 2007
1929 Joan Plowright, actress (Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April)
1934 Jim Beatty, National Track & Field Hall of Famer (first person to run indoor mile under 4 minutes)
1936 Charlie Daniels, country/rock guitarist/fiddler/singer (Charlie Daniels Band)
1939 Jane Alexander (Quigley), actress (Kramer vs. Kramer, All the President’s Men)
1942 Michael (John) Crichton, writer (Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, Disclosure, Congo)
1944 Dennis Franz (Schlachta), actor (N.Y.P.D. Blue, Hill Street Blues)
1945 Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis), singer (The Mindbenders)
1948 Telma Hopkins, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
1948 Rick Reynolds, guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas)
1949 Bruce (William) Jenner, National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer
1952 Annie Potts, actress (Designing Women, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ghostbusters series)
1955 Bill Gates (William H. Gates), computer software mogul (Microsoft Corporation)
1957 Stephen Morris, drummer/keyboardist (Joy Division, New Order)
1958 William Reid, guitarist (The Jesus & Mary Chain)
1962 Daphne Zuniga, actress (The Sure Thing, Melrose Place, Spaceballs, Gross Anatomy)
1963 Lauren Holly, actress (Dumb & Dumber, Picket Fences, Down Periscope, Any Given Sunday)
1965 Jami Gertz, actress (Square Pegs, The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Twister)
1967 Julia Roberts, actress (Erin Brockovich, Pretty Woman, Steel Magnolias, Ocean’s Eleven series)
1969 Jeremy Davies, actor (Saving Private Ryan)
1974 Joaquin Phoenix, actor (Parenthood, Gladiator, Ladder 49)
1979 Dave Tirio, musician (Plain White T's)
Today's Deaths in History
1704 John Locke, English philosopher (social contract theory) dies at 72
1818 Abigail Adams, First Lady, dies at 73
1939 Alice Brady, actress (MY Man Godfrey) dies at 46
1997 Paul Jarrico, screenwriter (No Time to Marry) dies at 82
2006 Red Auerbach, Hall of Fame basketball coach (Boston Celtics) dies at 89
2006 Trevor Berbick, boxer, is murdered at 51
2007 Porter Wagoner, country singer (Grand Ole Opry) dies at 80
Today in History
1636 Harvard College was founded.
1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, was established.
1793 Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
1886 The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
1919 Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1922 Fascism came to Italy as Benito Mussolini took control of the government.
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1940 Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
1942 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Kraków were deported by Germans to Belzec death camp.
1958 The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope, taking the name John XXIII.
1962 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1965 Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1976 Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions.
1980 Republican nominee Ronald Reagan asked voters during a debate with President Jimmy Carter in Cleveland, "are you better off than you were four years ago?"
2002 American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan.
2004 Insurgents executed 11 Iraqi soldiers and declared on an Islamic militant Web site that Iraqi fighters would avenge "the blood" of women and children killed in U.S. strikes on the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah.
2005 Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, resigned after he was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation; Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison. President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.
2007 Argentina's first lady, Cristina Fernandez, claimed victory in the country's presidential election; she became the first woman elected to the post.
2007 The first NFL game played outside North America was played at London's Wembley Stadium.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
The Trolley Song - Judy Garland
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Devil or Angel - Bobby Vee
Alabam - Cowboy Copas
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold
1976
If You Leave Me Now -Chicago
Still the One - Orleans
Rock’n Me - Steve Miller
You and Me - Tammy Wynette
1984
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) - Alabama
Quote of the Day
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Today in History - Oct 29th
Today's Birthdays
1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer (Halley's Comet) died Jan 14, 1742
1815 Daniel Decatur Emmett, composer (Dixie) died June 28, 1904
1891 Fanny Brice (Borach), actress/comedienne (Ziegfeld Follies) died May 29, 1951
1897 Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, died May 1, 1945
1907 (Robert) Douglass Montgomery, actor (Little Women, Harmony Lane) died July 23, 1966
1921 Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist (G.I. Joe and Willie) died Jan 22, 2003
1922 Neal Hefti, TV theme composer (Batman, The Odd Couple) died October 11, 2008
1938 Ralph Bakshi, writer/director/animator (Fritz the Cat, Wizards)
1943 Don Simpson, film producer (Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, The Rock) died Jan 19, 1996
1944 Denny Laine (Brian Hines), guitarist/singer (Moody Blues)
1946 Peter Green, guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 Richard Dreyfuss, actor (The Goodbye Girl, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, American Graffiti)
1948 Kate Jackson, actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Rookies, Scarecrow and Mrs. King)
1953 Denis Potvin, NHL Hall of Fame defenseman (NY Islanders)
1955 Kevin Dubrow, singer (Quiet Riot) November 19, 2007
1955 Roger O'Donnell, keyboardist (Psychedelic Furs, The Cure)
1957 Dan Castellaneta, voice actor (The Simpsons)
1959 Mike Gartner, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1960 Finola Hughes, actress (General Hospital, Aspen Extreme, Staying Alive)
1961 Randy (Steven Randall) Jackson, singer (The Jackson Five)
1965 Peter Timmins, drummer (Cowboy Junkies)
1967 Joely Fisher, actress (The Mask, Inspector Gadget)
1967 Rufus Sewell, actor (Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, Eleventh Hour)
1971 Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz), actress (Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1973 Gabrielle Union, actress (Bring It On, Bad Boys II, City of Angels)
1976 Milena Govich, actress (Law and Order)
1977 Brendan Fehr, actor (CSI: Miami)
1980 Ben Foster, actor (The Laramie Project, X-Men II: The Last Stand, 3:10 to Yuma)
1981 Amanda Beard, Olympic swimmer
1984 Eric Staal, NHL center (Carolina Hurricanes)
Today's Deaths in History
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer, is executed at 66
1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general, dies at 56
1911 Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher, dies at 64
1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, Former first lady, dies at 83
1957 Louis B. Mayer, film producer (MGM) dies at 75
1963 Adolphe Menjou, actor (The Sheik, The Three Musketeers) dies at 73
1971 Duane Allman, musician (The Allman Brothers Band) dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
1987 Woody Herman, jazz great, dies at 74
2002 Glenn McQueen, animator (A Bug's Life, Toy Story series) dies at 41
Today in History
1618 English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh wais beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1682 The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pa.
1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was first performed, in Prague.
1886 The first ticker-tape parade took place in New York City when office workers spontaneously threw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty was dedicated.
1901 President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
1921 The Harvard University football team lost to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak in what is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1923 The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
1929 Stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling, and thousands of investors were wiped out.
1940 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number - 158 - in America's first peacetime military draft.
1956 Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
1956 The Huntley-Brinkley Report premiered as NBC's nightly TV newscast.
1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) won his first professional fight.
1964 Thieves made off with the Star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
1966 The National Organization for Women was founded.
1967 The musical Hair opened off-Broadway.
1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1991 The American Galileo spacecraft made its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1998 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the moon, returned to space 36 years later, at age 77.
1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
2004 Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks.
2004 European Union leaders signed the EU's first constitution.
2006 Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won re-election in a landslide.
Chart Toppers
1945
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - Dick Haymes
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
Oh - Pee Wee Hunt
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Runaround Sue - Dion
Bristol Stomp - The Dovells
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
I Can’t Get Next to You - The Temptations
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
That’s Rock ’n’ Roll - Shaun Cassidy
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Touch a Hand, Make a Friend - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan, astronomer & author (1934 - 1996)
Today's Birthdays
1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer (Halley's Comet) died Jan 14, 1742
1815 Daniel Decatur Emmett, composer (Dixie) died June 28, 1904
1891 Fanny Brice (Borach), actress/comedienne (Ziegfeld Follies) died May 29, 1951
1897 Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, died May 1, 1945
1907 (Robert) Douglass Montgomery, actor (Little Women, Harmony Lane) died July 23, 1966
1921 Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist (G.I. Joe and Willie) died Jan 22, 2003
1922 Neal Hefti, TV theme composer (Batman, The Odd Couple) died October 11, 2008
1938 Ralph Bakshi, writer/director/animator (Fritz the Cat, Wizards)
1943 Don Simpson, film producer (Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, The Rock) died Jan 19, 1996
1944 Denny Laine (Brian Hines), guitarist/singer (Moody Blues)
1946 Peter Green, guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 Richard Dreyfuss, actor (The Goodbye Girl, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, American Graffiti)
1948 Kate Jackson, actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Rookies, Scarecrow and Mrs. King)
1953 Denis Potvin, NHL Hall of Fame defenseman (NY Islanders)
1955 Kevin Dubrow, singer (Quiet Riot) November 19, 2007
1955 Roger O'Donnell, keyboardist (Psychedelic Furs, The Cure)
1957 Dan Castellaneta, voice actor (The Simpsons)
1959 Mike Gartner, NHL right winger (NY Rangers)
1960 Finola Hughes, actress (General Hospital, Aspen Extreme, Staying Alive)
1961 Randy (Steven Randall) Jackson, singer (The Jackson Five)
1965 Peter Timmins, drummer (Cowboy Junkies)
1967 Joely Fisher, actress (The Mask, Inspector Gadget)
1967 Rufus Sewell, actor (Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, Eleventh Hour)
1971 Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz), actress (Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1973 Gabrielle Union, actress (Bring It On, Bad Boys II, City of Angels)
1976 Milena Govich, actress (Law and Order)
1977 Brendan Fehr, actor (CSI: Miami)
1980 Ben Foster, actor (The Laramie Project, X-Men II: The Last Stand, 3:10 to Yuma)
1981 Amanda Beard, Olympic swimmer
1984 Eric Staal, NHL center (Carolina Hurricanes)
Today's Deaths in History
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer, is executed at 66
1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general, dies at 56
1911 Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher, dies at 64
1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, Former first lady, dies at 83
1957 Louis B. Mayer, film producer (MGM) dies at 75
1963 Adolphe Menjou, actor (The Sheik, The Three Musketeers) dies at 73
1971 Duane Allman, musician (The Allman Brothers Band) dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
1987 Woody Herman, jazz great, dies at 74
2002 Glenn McQueen, animator (A Bug's Life, Toy Story series) dies at 41
Today in History
1618 English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh wais beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1682 The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pa.
1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was first performed, in Prague.
1886 The first ticker-tape parade took place in New York City when office workers spontaneously threw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty was dedicated.
1901 President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
1921 The Harvard University football team lost to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak in what is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1923 The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
1929 Stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling, and thousands of investors were wiped out.
1940 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number - 158 - in America's first peacetime military draft.
1956 Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
1956 The Huntley-Brinkley Report premiered as NBC's nightly TV newscast.
1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) won his first professional fight.
1964 Thieves made off with the Star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
1966 The National Organization for Women was founded.
1967 The musical Hair opened off-Broadway.
1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1991 The American Galileo spacecraft made its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1998 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the moon, returned to space 36 years later, at age 77.
1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
2004 Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks.
2004 European Union leaders signed the EU's first constitution.
2006 Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won re-election in a landslide.
Chart Toppers
1945
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - Dick Haymes
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1953
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
Oh - Pee Wee Hunt
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Runaround Sue - Dion
Bristol Stomp - The Dovells
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
I Can’t Get Next to You - The Temptations
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
That’s Rock ’n’ Roll - Shaun Cassidy
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls
1985
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Touch a Hand, Make a Friend - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan, astronomer & author (1934 - 1996)
Today in History - Oct 30th
Today's Birthdays
1735 John Adams, first Vice President/second U.S. President/father of 6th President John Quincy Adams, died July 4, 1826
1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov) died Feb 9, 1881
1839 Alfred Sisley, impressionist artist (The Bridge at Hampton Court) died Jan 29, 1899
1882 William ‘Bull’ (Frederick) Halsey Jr., U.S. Naval Commander/Admiral (WWII) died Aug 16, 1959
1885 Ezra Pound, poet, died Nov 1, 1972
1893 Charles Atlas (Angelo Siciliano), bodybuilder, died Dec 24, 1972
1896 Ruth Gordon (Jones), actress (Rosemary’s Baby, Harold and Maude) died Aug 28, 1985
1912 Gordon Parks, photographer (Vogue, LIFE magazines) died Mar 7, 2006
1914 Ruth Hussey (O’Rourke), actress (Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story, Another Thin Man) died Apr 19, 2005
1915 Fred Friendly, broadcast journalist/TV producer (CBS, PBS) died Mar 3, 1998
1930 Nestor Almendros, cinematographer (Places in the Heart, Sophie’s Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer) died Mar 4, 1992
1932 Louis Malle, director (Pretty Baby, Atlantic City) died Nov 23, 1995
1937 Claude Lelouch, director (A Man and a Woman, Bolero)
1939 Eddie Holland, songwriter (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
1939 Grace Slick (Wing), singer (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship)
1940 Ed Lauter, actor (Youngblood, The Longest Yard)
1941 Otis Williams, singer (The Temptations)
1945 Henry Winkler, actor (Happy Days, Night Shift, The Lords of Flatbush)
1946 Chris Slade, drummer (Asia)
1947 Timothy B. Schmit, bassist/singer (Poco, Eagles)
1951 Harry Hamlin, actor (L.A. Law, Clash of the Titans)
1953 Charles Martin Smith, actor (The Untouchables, Starman, American Graffiti)
1957 Kevin Pollak, actor (A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects)
1963 Michael Beach, actor (ER, A Family Thing, Third Watch)
1966 Scott Innes, voice actor (Scooby-Doo)
1967 Gavin Rossdale, singer/guitarist (Bush)
1970 Nia Long, actress (Big Momma's House, Soul Food, Are We There Yet?)
1975 Maria Thayer, actress (Accepted, Strangers with Candy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
1978 Gael Garcia Bernal, actor (The Motorcycle Diaries)
1980 Sarah Carter, actress (Smallville, Shark)
1981 Ivanka Trump, The Donald's daughter
1983 Trent Edwards, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
Today's Deaths in History
1910 Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, dies at 82
1912 James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States, dies at 57
1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) dies at 75
1979 Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini, dies at 89
1985 Kirby Grant, actor (Sky King) dies at 73
1997 Samuel Fuller, film director (The Big Red One) dies at 85
2000 Steve Allen, comedian/TV host/author/composer, dies at 78
2002 Jam Master Jay, DJ (Run-DMC) is shot and killed at 37
2004 Peggy Ryan, actress (Hawaii Five-O) dies at 80
2007 Robert Goulet, entertainer, dies at 73
2007 John Woodruff, Olympic Gold Medal runner (1936 Berlin Games) dies at 92
Today in History
1831 Escaped slave Nat Turner was captured and arrested in Southampton County, Virginia for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1905 Czar Nicholas II of Russia granted Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1922 Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy.
1938 Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing considrable anxiety in some of the audience.
1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1944 Anne Frank and her sister Margot were deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing.
1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color barrier.
1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approved the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which stated that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
1961 Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts," it was decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1973 The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey was completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
1974 The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman took place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1983 The first democratic elections in Argentina were held after seven years of military rule.
1987 NEC released the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
1988 Philip Morris bought Kraft Foods for $13.1 billion.
1998 In Nicaragua, a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch killed at least 2,000 people on the slopes of the Casitas volcano in Posoltega.
2003 The House approved an $87.5 billion package for Iraq and Afghanistan.
2003 Four construction workers were killed when an Atlantic City, N.J., casino parking garage collapsed.
2007 Democrats Barack Obama and John Edwards sharply challenged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's candor, consistency and judgment in a televised debate in Philadelphia.
Chart Toppers
1946
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Rumors are Flying - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
Smile - Nat King Cole
More and More - Webb Pierce
1962
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Run, Woman, Run - Tammy Wynette
1978
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Let’s Take the Long Way Around the World - Ronnie Milsap
1986
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Typical Male - Tina Turner
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
Cry - Crystal Gayle
Quote of the Day
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today's Birthdays
1735 John Adams, first Vice President/second U.S. President/father of 6th President John Quincy Adams, died July 4, 1826
1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov) died Feb 9, 1881
1839 Alfred Sisley, impressionist artist (The Bridge at Hampton Court) died Jan 29, 1899
1882 William ‘Bull’ (Frederick) Halsey Jr., U.S. Naval Commander/Admiral (WWII) died Aug 16, 1959
1885 Ezra Pound, poet, died Nov 1, 1972
1893 Charles Atlas (Angelo Siciliano), bodybuilder, died Dec 24, 1972
1896 Ruth Gordon (Jones), actress (Rosemary’s Baby, Harold and Maude) died Aug 28, 1985
1912 Gordon Parks, photographer (Vogue, LIFE magazines) died Mar 7, 2006
1914 Ruth Hussey (O’Rourke), actress (Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story, Another Thin Man) died Apr 19, 2005
1915 Fred Friendly, broadcast journalist/TV producer (CBS, PBS) died Mar 3, 1998
1930 Nestor Almendros, cinematographer (Places in the Heart, Sophie’s Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer) died Mar 4, 1992
1932 Louis Malle, director (Pretty Baby, Atlantic City) died Nov 23, 1995
1937 Claude Lelouch, director (A Man and a Woman, Bolero)
1939 Eddie Holland, songwriter (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
1939 Grace Slick (Wing), singer (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship)
1940 Ed Lauter, actor (Youngblood, The Longest Yard)
1941 Otis Williams, singer (The Temptations)
1945 Henry Winkler, actor (Happy Days, Night Shift, The Lords of Flatbush)
1946 Chris Slade, drummer (Asia)
1947 Timothy B. Schmit, bassist/singer (Poco, Eagles)
1951 Harry Hamlin, actor (L.A. Law, Clash of the Titans)
1953 Charles Martin Smith, actor (The Untouchables, Starman, American Graffiti)
1957 Kevin Pollak, actor (A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects)
1963 Michael Beach, actor (ER, A Family Thing, Third Watch)
1966 Scott Innes, voice actor (Scooby-Doo)
1967 Gavin Rossdale, singer/guitarist (Bush)
1970 Nia Long, actress (Big Momma's House, Soul Food, Are We There Yet?)
1975 Maria Thayer, actress (Accepted, Strangers with Candy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
1978 Gael Garcia Bernal, actor (The Motorcycle Diaries)
1980 Sarah Carter, actress (Smallville, Shark)
1981 Ivanka Trump, The Donald's daughter
1983 Trent Edwards, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
Today's Deaths in History
1910 Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, dies at 82
1912 James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States, dies at 57
1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy) dies at 75
1979 Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini, dies at 89
1985 Kirby Grant, actor (Sky King) dies at 73
1997 Samuel Fuller, film director (The Big Red One) dies at 85
2000 Steve Allen, comedian/TV host/author/composer, dies at 78
2002 Jam Master Jay, DJ (Run-DMC) is shot and killed at 37
2004 Peggy Ryan, actress (Hawaii Five-O) dies at 80
2007 Robert Goulet, entertainer, dies at 73
2007 John Woodruff, Olympic Gold Medal runner (1936 Berlin Games) dies at 92
Today in History
1831 Escaped slave Nat Turner was captured and arrested in Southampton County, Virginia for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1905 Czar Nicholas II of Russia granted Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1922 Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy.
1938 Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing considrable anxiety in some of the audience.
1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1944 Anne Frank and her sister Margot were deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing.
1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color barrier.
1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approved the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which stated that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
1961 Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts," it was decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1973 The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey was completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
1974 The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman took place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1983 The first democratic elections in Argentina were held after seven years of military rule.
1987 NEC released the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
1988 Philip Morris bought Kraft Foods for $13.1 billion.
1998 In Nicaragua, a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch killed at least 2,000 people on the slopes of the Casitas volcano in Posoltega.
2003 The House approved an $87.5 billion package for Iraq and Afghanistan.
2003 Four construction workers were killed when an Atlantic City, N.J., casino parking garage collapsed.
2007 Democrats Barack Obama and John Edwards sharply challenged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's candor, consistency and judgment in a televised debate in Philadelphia.
Chart Toppers
1946
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Rumors are Flying - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
Smile - Nat King Cole
More and More - Webb Pierce
1962
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Run, Woman, Run - Tammy Wynette
1978
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Let’s Take the Long Way Around the World - Ronnie Milsap
1986
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Typical Male - Tina Turner
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
Cry - Crystal Gayle
Quote of the Day
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Chris Slade? He played drums with AC/DC for a short time. I even recall him playing with them in 1990, on the Razor's Edge Tour at MSG
And yes, I was at that show.
And yes, I was at that show.
Today in History - Oct 31st
Today's Birthdays
1795 John Keats, poet (“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”) died Feb 23, 1821
1860 Juliette Low, founder (Girl Scouts) died Jan 17, 1927
1887 Chiang Kai-shek, first President of the Republic of China, died Apr 5, 1975
1896 Ethel Waters, actress/singer (Stage Door Canteen) died Sep 1, 1977
1912 Dale Evans (Frances Octavia Smith), actress/singer/songwriter/Mrs Roy Rogers (Happy Trails to You) died Feb 7, 2001
1920 Dick Francis, author (Break-In, Proof, Whip Hand)
1920 Melina Mercour, actress (Never on Sunday, Once is Not Enough) died Mar 6, 1994
1920 Helmut Newton, German photographer, died January 23, 2004
1922 Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (Dallas, Vertigo, I Remember Mama) died Aug 8, 2005
1927 Lee Grant (Lyova Rosenthal), actress (Shampoo, Peyton Place)
1931 Michael Collins, NASA astronaut (Apollo 11 command module pilot)
1931 Dan (Irvin) Rather Jr., news correspondent (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours)
1933 Phil Goyette, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1936 Michael Landon (Eugene Orowitz), director/actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven) died July 1, 1991
1937 Tom Paxton, folk singer/songwriter
1942 David Ogden Stiers, actor (The Accidental Tourist, M*A*S*H, Doc Hollywood)
1943 Brian Piccolo, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) died June 16, 1970
1944 Kinky (Richard) Friedman, singer/bandleader (Let Saigons be Bygones, They Ain’t Making Jews like Jesus Anymore)
1944 Sally Kirkland, actress (Private Benjamin, A Star is Born, The Way We Were, Cinderella Liberty)
1945 Brian Doyle-Murray, comedian/actor (Caddyshack)
1946 Stephen Rea, Irish actor (The Crying Game)
1947 Frank Shorter, National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer
1947 Russ Ballard, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Argent)
1949 Bob Siebenberg, drummer (Supertramp)
1950 John (Franklin) Candy, comedian/actor (Planes Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Splash, Stripes, Uncle Buck) died Mar 4, 1994
1950 Jane Pauley, TV host/news anchor (Dateline)
1952 Bernard Edwards, bassist (Chic) died Apr 18, 1996
1955 Xavier Roberts, toy mogul (Cabbage Patch Dolls)
1956 Tony Bowers, bassist (Simply Red)
1961 Larry Mullen Jr., drummer (U2)
1961 Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director (Lord of the Rings series)
1963 Johnny Marr, guitarist (The Smiths)
1963 Dermot Mulroney, actor (Young Guns, My Best Friend's Wedding)
1963 Rob Schneider, comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, Down Periscope, The Benchwarmers)
1963 Mikkey Dee, drummer (Motörhead)
1964 Colm Ó Cíosóig, drummer (My Bloody Valentine)
1965 Annabella Lwin (Myant Aye), singer (Bow Wow Wow)
1966 Adam Horovitz, guitarist/rapper (The Beastie Boys)
1966 Mike O'Malley, actor (Yes Dear)
1967 Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle), singer/rapper (Ice Ice Baby)
1969 Mike O’Malley, actor (Yes Dear, Deep Impact, Pushing Tin)
1970 Linn Berggren, singer (Ace of Base)
1970 Rogers Stevens, guitarist (Blind Melon)
1976 Piper Perabo, actress (Coyote Ugly, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Cheaper by the Dozen series)
1980 Eddie Kaye Thomas, actor (American Pie movies)
1981 Frank Iero, guitarist/singer (My Chemical Romance)
Today's Deaths in History
1926 Harry Houdini, illusionist/escape artist, dies at 52
1983 George Halas, NFL player/coach/team owner (Chicago Bears) dies at 88
1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, is assassinated at 66
1988 John Houseman, actor/director (War of the Worlds, The Paper Chase) dies at 86
1993 Federico Fellini, film director, dies at 73
1993 River Phoenix, actor (Running on Empty, Sneakers, Stand by Me) dies at 23 of a drug overdose
1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (Go Tell It On the Mountain) dies at 56
2000 Ring Lardner, Jr., screenwriter (Woman of the Year, Laura) dies at 85
2006 P.W. Botha, South African President, dies at 90
Today in History
1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1861 Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigned as Commander of the United States Army.
1864 Nevada became the 36th state.
1913 The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States, was dedicated.
1926 Magician Harry Houdini died of complications from a ruptured appendix.
1938 The day after his War of the Worlds broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed deep regret but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the simulated Martian invasion was real.
1941 After 14 years of work, drilling was completed on Mount Rushmore.
1956 Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards.
1992 It was announced that five American nuns in Liberia had been shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings were blamed on rebels loyal to Charles Taylor.
1997 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, was sentenced to life in prison.
1999 EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.
2001 A 61-year-old New York hospital worker died from inhalation anthrax.
2001 Microsoft and the Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the historic antitrust case against the software giant.
2002 A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
2003 A bankruptcy court approved MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
2007 Three lead defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty of mass murder and other charges, but four other top suspects were convicted on lesser charges and an accused ringleader was completely acquitted in the attacks that killed 191 people.
Chart Toppers
1947
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
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
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Only You - The Platters
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson
1979
Rise - Herb Alpert
Pop Muzik - M
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
All the Gold in California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
1987
Bad - Michael Jackson
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Right from the Start - Earl Thomas Conley
Quote of the Day
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
Today's Birthdays
1795 John Keats, poet (“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”) died Feb 23, 1821
1860 Juliette Low, founder (Girl Scouts) died Jan 17, 1927
1887 Chiang Kai-shek, first President of the Republic of China, died Apr 5, 1975
1896 Ethel Waters, actress/singer (Stage Door Canteen) died Sep 1, 1977
1912 Dale Evans (Frances Octavia Smith), actress/singer/songwriter/Mrs Roy Rogers (Happy Trails to You) died Feb 7, 2001
1920 Dick Francis, author (Break-In, Proof, Whip Hand)
1920 Melina Mercour, actress (Never on Sunday, Once is Not Enough) died Mar 6, 1994
1920 Helmut Newton, German photographer, died January 23, 2004
1922 Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (Dallas, Vertigo, I Remember Mama) died Aug 8, 2005
1927 Lee Grant (Lyova Rosenthal), actress (Shampoo, Peyton Place)
1931 Michael Collins, NASA astronaut (Apollo 11 command module pilot)
1931 Dan (Irvin) Rather Jr., news correspondent (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours)
1933 Phil Goyette, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1936 Michael Landon (Eugene Orowitz), director/actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven) died July 1, 1991
1937 Tom Paxton, folk singer/songwriter
1942 David Ogden Stiers, actor (The Accidental Tourist, M*A*S*H, Doc Hollywood)
1943 Brian Piccolo, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) died June 16, 1970
1944 Kinky (Richard) Friedman, singer/bandleader (Let Saigons be Bygones, They Ain’t Making Jews like Jesus Anymore)
1944 Sally Kirkland, actress (Private Benjamin, A Star is Born, The Way We Were, Cinderella Liberty)
1945 Brian Doyle-Murray, comedian/actor (Caddyshack)
1946 Stephen Rea, Irish actor (The Crying Game)
1947 Frank Shorter, National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer
1947 Russ Ballard, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Argent)
1949 Bob Siebenberg, drummer (Supertramp)
1950 John (Franklin) Candy, comedian/actor (Planes Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Splash, Stripes, Uncle Buck) died Mar 4, 1994
1950 Jane Pauley, TV host/news anchor (Dateline)
1952 Bernard Edwards, bassist (Chic) died Apr 18, 1996
1955 Xavier Roberts, toy mogul (Cabbage Patch Dolls)
1956 Tony Bowers, bassist (Simply Red)
1961 Larry Mullen Jr., drummer (U2)
1961 Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director (Lord of the Rings series)
1963 Johnny Marr, guitarist (The Smiths)
1963 Dermot Mulroney, actor (Young Guns, My Best Friend's Wedding)
1963 Rob Schneider, comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, Down Periscope, The Benchwarmers)
1963 Mikkey Dee, drummer (Motörhead)
1964 Colm Ó Cíosóig, drummer (My Bloody Valentine)
1965 Annabella Lwin (Myant Aye), singer (Bow Wow Wow)
1966 Adam Horovitz, guitarist/rapper (The Beastie Boys)
1966 Mike O'Malley, actor (Yes Dear)
1967 Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle), singer/rapper (Ice Ice Baby)
1969 Mike O’Malley, actor (Yes Dear, Deep Impact, Pushing Tin)
1970 Linn Berggren, singer (Ace of Base)
1970 Rogers Stevens, guitarist (Blind Melon)
1976 Piper Perabo, actress (Coyote Ugly, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Cheaper by the Dozen series)
1980 Eddie Kaye Thomas, actor (American Pie movies)
1981 Frank Iero, guitarist/singer (My Chemical Romance)
Today's Deaths in History
1926 Harry Houdini, illusionist/escape artist, dies at 52
1983 George Halas, NFL player/coach/team owner (Chicago Bears) dies at 88
1984 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, is assassinated at 66
1988 John Houseman, actor/director (War of the Worlds, The Paper Chase) dies at 86
1993 Federico Fellini, film director, dies at 73
1993 River Phoenix, actor (Running on Empty, Sneakers, Stand by Me) dies at 23 of a drug overdose
1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (Go Tell It On the Mountain) dies at 56
2000 Ring Lardner, Jr., screenwriter (Woman of the Year, Laura) dies at 85
2006 P.W. Botha, South African President, dies at 90
Today in History
1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1861 Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigned as Commander of the United States Army.
1864 Nevada became the 36th state.
1913 The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States, was dedicated.
1926 Magician Harry Houdini died of complications from a ruptured appendix.
1938 The day after his War of the Worlds broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed deep regret but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the simulated Martian invasion was real.
1941 After 14 years of work, drilling was completed on Mount Rushmore.
1956 Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards.
1992 It was announced that five American nuns in Liberia had been shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings were blamed on rebels loyal to Charles Taylor.
1997 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, was sentenced to life in prison.
1999 EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.
2001 A 61-year-old New York hospital worker died from inhalation anthrax.
2001 Microsoft and the Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the historic antitrust case against the software giant.
2002 A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
2003 A bankruptcy court approved MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
2005 President George W. Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
2007 Three lead defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty of mass murder and other charges, but four other top suspects were convicted on lesser charges and an accused ringleader was completely acquitted in the attacks that killed 191 people.
Chart Toppers
1947
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
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
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Only You - The Platters
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson
1979
Rise - Herb Alpert
Pop Muzik - M
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
All the Gold in California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
1987
Bad - Michael Jackson
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Right from the Start - Earl Thomas Conley
Quote of the Day
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
I have not read this thread for a couple of days, but Giac, I recommend you check your entry for the birthdays on October 29th, especially for Eric Staal. 
QUOTE(Lester Patrick @ Oct 31 2008, 04:37 PM) 
I have not read this thread for a couple of days, but Giac, I recommend you check your entry for the birthdays on October 29th, especially for Eric Staal.
Thanks for thr assist, LP.
Today in History - Nov 1st
Today's Birthdays
1871 Stephen Crane, novelist (The Red Badge of Courage) died June 5, 1900
1920 James J. Kilpatrick, journalist (60 Minutes: Point-Counterpoint)
1929 Betsy Palmer (Patricia Bromek), actress (Knots Landing, Friday the 13th series)
1935 Gary Player, World Golf Hall of Famer
1939 Barbara Bosson, actress (Hill Street Blues, The Last Starfighter)
1940 Barry Sadler, songwriter/singer (Ballad of the Green Berets) died Nov 5, 1989
1941 Robert Foxworth, actor (Falcon Crest, Ants, Frankenstein)
1942 Larry Flynt, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1942 Marcia Wallace, actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Simpsons)
1944 Chris Morris, guitarist (Paper Lace)
1945 Rick Grech, bassist/violinist (Blind Faith, Traffic, Crickets) died March 17, 1990
1947 Jim Steinman, singer/songwriter (Meat Loaf)
1950 Dan Peek, guitarist/singer (America)
1951 Ronald (Kool) Bell, saxophonist (Kool & The Gang)
1957 Lyle Lovett, singer/songwriter
1958 Rachel Ticotin, actress (Natural Born Killers, Don Juan DeMarco, Total Recall)
1958 Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1959 Eddie MacDonald, bassist (The Alarm)
1960 Fernando (Anguamea) Valenzuela, MLB pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1962 Anthony Kiedis, singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 Rick Allen, drummer (Def Leppard)
1964 Dana Plato, actress (Diff'rent Strokes) died May 8, 1999
1962 Mags Furuholmen, keyboardist/singer (a-ha)
1966 Willie D, hip hop artist (The Geto Boys)
1966 Mary Hansen, guitarist/singer (Stereolab) died Dec 9, 2002
1967 Sophie B. Hawkins, singer (Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover)
1969 Tie Domi, NHL wing (NY Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs)
1971 David Berman, actor (CSI)
1972 Toni Collette, actress (The Sixth Sense, Muriel’s Wedding)
1972 Andrew Gonzales, drummer (Reel Big Fish)
1972 Jenny McCarthy, playmate/actress (Playmate of the Year 1994, Baywatch, Home Improvement, Scream 3)
1973 Aishwarya Rai, actress (Bride and Prejudice)
1975 Nilan666, board member
1975 Bo Bice, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1984 Natalia Tena, English actress (Harry Potter films)
Today's Deaths in History
1894 Tsar Alexander III of Russia dies at 49
1947 Man o' War, thoroughbred racehorse, dies at 30
1955 Dale Carnegie, writer (How to Win Friends and Influence People) dies at 66
1972 Ezra Pound, poet, dies at 87
1979 Mamie Eisenhower, former First Lady, dies at 82
1982 James Broderick, actor (Alice's Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon) dies at 55
1985 Phil Silvers, actor/comedian (Sergeant Bilko) dies at 74
1987 René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec, dies at 65
1994 Noah Beery, Jr., actor (The Rockford Files) dies at 81
1999 Walter Payton, Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears) dies at 45
2004 Terry Knight, music promoter, is murdered at 61
2006 William Styron, author (Sophie's Choice) dies at 81
2006 Adrienne Shelly, actress (The Unbelievable Truth) dies at 40
2007 Paul Tibbets, retired US Air Force Brigadier General/pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" (Hiroshima) dies at 92
Today in History
1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1520 The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was first performed, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest was presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1765 The Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1800 President John Adams became the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion, later renamed the White House.
1848 The first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opened.
1861 Gen. George B. McClellan was made general-in-chief of the Union armies.
1870 The Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) made its first official meteorological forecast.
1896 A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appeared in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1901 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, was established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1915 Parris Island, S.C. was officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1936 Benito Mussolini described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin.
1938 Seabiscuit defeated War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1941 American photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1946 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was ordained as a priest in Poland.
1946 The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game; the Knicks won 68-66.
1950 Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington to assassinate President Harry S. Trumanl one of the assailants was killed.
1951 American soldiers were involuntarily exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada.
1952 The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
1954 The west African nation of Algeria began a rebellion against French rule.
1960 While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announced his idea for the Peace Corps.
1968 The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system was officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1973 Leon Jaworski was appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1982 Honda became the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio.
1991 Clarence Thomas took his place as a justice on the Supreme Court.
1991 Three faculty and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1995 Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Baby Love - The Supremes
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
Let It Be Me - Betty Everett & Jerry Butler
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens
1972
My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Funny Face - Donna Fargo
1980
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
He’s So Shy - Pointer Sisters
Real Love - The Doobie Brothers
Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys) - Waylon Jennings
1988
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
Gonna Take a Lot of River - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
Today's Birthdays
1871 Stephen Crane, novelist (The Red Badge of Courage) died June 5, 1900
1920 James J. Kilpatrick, journalist (60 Minutes: Point-Counterpoint)
1929 Betsy Palmer (Patricia Bromek), actress (Knots Landing, Friday the 13th series)
1935 Gary Player, World Golf Hall of Famer
1939 Barbara Bosson, actress (Hill Street Blues, The Last Starfighter)
1940 Barry Sadler, songwriter/singer (Ballad of the Green Berets) died Nov 5, 1989
1941 Robert Foxworth, actor (Falcon Crest, Ants, Frankenstein)
1942 Larry Flynt, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1942 Marcia Wallace, actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Simpsons)
1944 Chris Morris, guitarist (Paper Lace)
1945 Rick Grech, bassist/violinist (Blind Faith, Traffic, Crickets) died March 17, 1990
1947 Jim Steinman, singer/songwriter (Meat Loaf)
1950 Dan Peek, guitarist/singer (America)
1951 Ronald (Kool) Bell, saxophonist (Kool & The Gang)
1957 Lyle Lovett, singer/songwriter
1958 Rachel Ticotin, actress (Natural Born Killers, Don Juan DeMarco, Total Recall)
1958 Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1959 Eddie MacDonald, bassist (The Alarm)
1960 Fernando (Anguamea) Valenzuela, MLB pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1962 Anthony Kiedis, singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 Rick Allen, drummer (Def Leppard)
1964 Dana Plato, actress (Diff'rent Strokes) died May 8, 1999
1962 Mags Furuholmen, keyboardist/singer (a-ha)
1966 Willie D, hip hop artist (The Geto Boys)
1966 Mary Hansen, guitarist/singer (Stereolab) died Dec 9, 2002
1967 Sophie B. Hawkins, singer (Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover)
1969 Tie Domi, NHL wing (NY Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs)
1971 David Berman, actor (CSI)
1972 Toni Collette, actress (The Sixth Sense, Muriel’s Wedding)
1972 Andrew Gonzales, drummer (Reel Big Fish)
1972 Jenny McCarthy, playmate/actress (Playmate of the Year 1994, Baywatch, Home Improvement, Scream 3)
1973 Aishwarya Rai, actress (Bride and Prejudice)
1975 Nilan666, board member
1975 Bo Bice, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1984 Natalia Tena, English actress (Harry Potter films)
Today's Deaths in History
1894 Tsar Alexander III of Russia dies at 49
1947 Man o' War, thoroughbred racehorse, dies at 30
1955 Dale Carnegie, writer (How to Win Friends and Influence People) dies at 66
1972 Ezra Pound, poet, dies at 87
1979 Mamie Eisenhower, former First Lady, dies at 82
1982 James Broderick, actor (Alice's Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon) dies at 55
1985 Phil Silvers, actor/comedian (Sergeant Bilko) dies at 74
1987 René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec, dies at 65
1994 Noah Beery, Jr., actor (The Rockford Files) dies at 81
1999 Walter Payton, Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears) dies at 45
2004 Terry Knight, music promoter, is murdered at 61
2006 William Styron, author (Sophie's Choice) dies at 81
2006 Adrienne Shelly, actress (The Unbelievable Truth) dies at 40
2007 Paul Tibbets, retired US Air Force Brigadier General/pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" (Hiroshima) dies at 92
Today in History
1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1520 The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello was first performed, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest was presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1765 The Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1800 President John Adams became the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion, later renamed the White House.
1848 The first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opened.
1861 Gen. George B. McClellan was made general-in-chief of the Union armies.
1870 The Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) made its first official meteorological forecast.
1896 A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appeared in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1901 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, was established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1915 Parris Island, S.C. was officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1936 Benito Mussolini described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin.
1938 Seabiscuit defeated War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1941 American photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1946 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was ordained as a priest in Poland.
1946 The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game; the Knicks won 68-66.
1950 Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington to assassinate President Harry S. Trumanl one of the assailants was killed.
1951 American soldiers were involuntarily exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada.
1952 The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
1954 The west African nation of Algeria began a rebellion against French rule.
1960 While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announced his idea for the Peace Corps.
1968 The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system was officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1973 Leon Jaworski was appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1982 Honda became the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio.
1991 Clarence Thomas took his place as a justice on the Supreme Court.
1991 Three faculty and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1995 Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio.
Chart Toppers
1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold
1956
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Baby Love - The Supremes
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
Let It Be Me - Betty Everett & Jerry Butler
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens
1972
My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Funny Face - Donna Fargo
1980
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
He’s So Shy - Pointer Sisters
Real Love - The Doobie Brothers
Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys) - Waylon Jennings
1988
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
Gonna Take a Lot of River - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
Today in History - Nov 2nd
Today's Birthdays
1755 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, lost her head Oct 16, 1793
1795 James (Knox) Polk, 11th U.S. President, died June 15, 1849
1865 Warren G. (Gamaliel) Harding, 29th U.S. President, died Aug 2, 1923
1892 Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning actress (In Old Chicago, My Man Godfrey) died October 28, 1939
1913 Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Atlantic City, Local Hero, Field of Dreams) died Oct 20, 1994
1920 Ann Rutherford, actress (Andy Hardy series) \
1921 Bill Mosienko, NHL winger (scored fastest hat trick in history against the Rangers - 21 seconds) died July 9, 1994
1937 Earl ‘Speedoo’ Carroll, singer (Cadillacs, Coasters)
1938 Jay Black (David Blatt), singer (Jay and The Americans)
1938 Pat Buchanan (Patrick Joseph Buchanan), conservative speechwriter/political advisor
1941 Brian Poole, singer (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1942 Shere Hite (Shirley Gregory), author (Women and Love, Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women)
1942 Stefanie Powers (Stefania Zofia Federkiewcz), actress (Hart to Hart, Herbie Rides Again)
1944 Keith Emerson, keyboardist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1945 J.D. Souther, singer/songwriter (You're Only Lonely)
1952 Maxine Nightingale, singer/actress (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell)
1957 Carter Beauford, drummer/percussionist (Dave Matthews Band)
1961 k.d. (Kathryn Dawn) lang, singer (Constant Craving)
1963 Bobby Dall (Robert Harry Kuykendall), guitarist (Poison)
1966 David Schwimmer, actor (Friends, Band of Brothers)
1969 Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, bassist (KoRn)
1971 John Hampson, singer/guitarist (Nine Days)
1972 Vladimir Vorobiev, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1973 Marisol Nichols, actress (Vegas Vacation, 24)
1974 Timothy Christian Riley, R&B singer (Tony Toni Toné)
1974 Prodigy, rapper (Mobb Deep)
1974 Nelly, R&B singer/rapper
1975 Chris Walla, guitarist (Death Cab for Cutie)
1977 Randy Harrison, actor (Queer as Folk)
Today's Deaths in History
1887 Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (The Swedish Nightingale) dies at 67
1944 Thomas Midgley, chemist/inventor (chlorofluorocarbons) dies at 55
1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author/playwright (Love Among the Artists, Pygmalion) dies at 94
1961 James Thurber, humorist (The New Yorker) dies at 66
1984 Velma Barfield, murderer, is executed at 52
1986 Paul Frees, voice actor (The Absent-Minded Professor, The Shaggy Dog) dies at 66
1991 Irwin Allen, producer (Lost in Space, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno) dies at 75
1992 Hal Roach, director/producer (Our Gang series) dies at 100
2007 Lillian Ellison, wrestler (The Fabulous Moolah) dies at 84
2007 Henry Cele, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) dies at 58
Today in History
1783 Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.
1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1898 Cheerleading began at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine in what became known as the Balfour Declaration.
1920 KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania began broadcasting as the first commercial radio station; the first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election.
1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation initiated the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service.
1947 Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
1948 President Harry S. Truman narrowly won re-election over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
1959 Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he had the questions and answers in advance of his appearances on the TV game show Twenty-One.
1959 After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returned to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
1960 Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1963 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" concluded that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1976 Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
1983 President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 Velma Barfield became the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
2000 The first crew arrived at the International Space Station.
2004 President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as Republicans strengthened their grip on Congress.
2006 The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man said they had had sexual trysts together.
Chart Toppers
1949
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack
Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
Silhouettes - The Rays
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright
1973
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond
We’re Gonna Hold On - George Jones & Tammy Wynette
1981
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears
Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
High Cotton - Alabama
Quote of the Day
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein, physicist (1879 - 1955)
Today's Birthdays
1755 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, lost her head Oct 16, 1793
1795 James (Knox) Polk, 11th U.S. President, died June 15, 1849
1865 Warren G. (Gamaliel) Harding, 29th U.S. President, died Aug 2, 1923
1892 Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning actress (In Old Chicago, My Man Godfrey) died October 28, 1939
1913 Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Atlantic City, Local Hero, Field of Dreams) died Oct 20, 1994
1920 Ann Rutherford, actress (Andy Hardy series) \
1921 Bill Mosienko, NHL winger (scored fastest hat trick in history against the Rangers - 21 seconds) died July 9, 1994
1937 Earl ‘Speedoo’ Carroll, singer (Cadillacs, Coasters)
1938 Jay Black (David Blatt), singer (Jay and The Americans)
1938 Pat Buchanan (Patrick Joseph Buchanan), conservative speechwriter/political advisor
1941 Brian Poole, singer (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1942 Shere Hite (Shirley Gregory), author (Women and Love, Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women)
1942 Stefanie Powers (Stefania Zofia Federkiewcz), actress (Hart to Hart, Herbie Rides Again)
1944 Keith Emerson, keyboardist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1945 J.D. Souther, singer/songwriter (You're Only Lonely)
1952 Maxine Nightingale, singer/actress (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell)
1957 Carter Beauford, drummer/percussionist (Dave Matthews Band)
1961 k.d. (Kathryn Dawn) lang, singer (Constant Craving)
1963 Bobby Dall (Robert Harry Kuykendall), guitarist (Poison)
1966 David Schwimmer, actor (Friends, Band of Brothers)
1969 Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, bassist (KoRn)
1971 John Hampson, singer/guitarist (Nine Days)
1972 Vladimir Vorobiev, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1973 Marisol Nichols, actress (Vegas Vacation, 24)
1974 Timothy Christian Riley, R&B singer (Tony Toni Toné)
1974 Prodigy, rapper (Mobb Deep)
1974 Nelly, R&B singer/rapper
1975 Chris Walla, guitarist (Death Cab for Cutie)
1977 Randy Harrison, actor (Queer as Folk)
Today's Deaths in History
1887 Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (The Swedish Nightingale) dies at 67
1944 Thomas Midgley, chemist/inventor (chlorofluorocarbons) dies at 55
1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author/playwright (Love Among the Artists, Pygmalion) dies at 94
1961 James Thurber, humorist (The New Yorker) dies at 66
1984 Velma Barfield, murderer, is executed at 52
1986 Paul Frees, voice actor (The Absent-Minded Professor, The Shaggy Dog) dies at 66
1991 Irwin Allen, producer (Lost in Space, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno) dies at 75
1992 Hal Roach, director/producer (Our Gang series) dies at 100
2007 Lillian Ellison, wrestler (The Fabulous Moolah) dies at 84
2007 Henry Cele, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) dies at 58
Today in History
1783 Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.
1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1898 Cheerleading began at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine in what became known as the Balfour Declaration.
1920 KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania began broadcasting as the first commercial radio station; the first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election.
1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation initiated the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service.
1947 Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
1948 President Harry S. Truman narrowly won re-election over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
1959 Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he had the questions and answers in advance of his appearances on the TV game show Twenty-One.
1959 After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returned to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
1960 Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1963 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" concluded that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1976 Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
1983 President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 Velma Barfield became the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
2000 The first crew arrived at the International Space Station.
2004 President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as Republicans strengthened their grip on Congress.
2006 The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man said they had had sexual trysts together.
Chart Toppers
1949
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack
Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
Silhouettes - The Rays
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright
1973
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond
We’re Gonna Hold On - George Jones & Tammy Wynette
1981
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears
Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
High Cotton - Alabama
Quote of the Day
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein, physicist (1879 - 1955)
Today in History - Nov 3rd
Today's Birthdays
1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich/inventor (sandwich) died Apr 30, 1792
1793 Stephen Austin, principal founder of Texas, died Dec 27, 1836
1794 William Cullen Bryant, poet/editor (To a Waterfowl) died June 12, 1878
1908 Bronko (Bronislaw) Nagurski, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears) died Jan 7, 1990
1918 Bob Feller, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1921 Charles Bronson (Buchinsky), actor (Death Wish series, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen) died Aug 30, 2003
1933 John Barry, composer (Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa, Dances with Wolves)
1933 Ken Berry, actor (Mayberry RFD, F Troop)
1933 Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts/U.S. Presidential nominee
1947 Mazie Hirono, Congresswoman (D-HI)
1948 Lulu (Marie Lawrie), singer (To Sir with Love)
1949 Mike Evans (Jonas), actor (The Jeffersons, All in the Family) died Dec 14, 2006
1949 Larry Holmes, WBC heavyweight boxing champ
1952 Roseanne (Roseanne Cherrie Barr), actress (Roseanne, She-Devil)
1952 Jim Cummings, voice actor Winnie the Pooh)
1953 Kate Capshaw, actress (How to Make an American Quilt, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
1953 Dennis Miller, writer/comedian/actor (The Dennis Miller Show, Saturday Night Live, The Net, Disclosure)
1953 Kathy Kinney, actress (The Drew Carey Show)
1954 Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard), singer (Goody Two Shoes, Prince Charming, Stand and Deliver)
1956 Phil Simms, NFL quarterback/sportscaster (New York Giants)
1957 Dolph Lundgren, actor (Universal Soldier, Red Scorpion, Rocky 4)
1973 Mick Thomson, guitarist (Slipknot)
1982 Evgeny Plushenko, figure skater
1987 Gemma Ward, Australian model
Today's Deaths in History
1926 Annie Oakley, sharp-shooter, dies at 66
1949 Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector/philanthropist, dies at 88
1954 Henri Matisse, French artist, dies at 84
1990 Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan) dies at 76
1998 Bob Kane, comic artist (Batman co-creator) dies at 83
2002 Lonnie Donegan, musician (skiffle) dies at 71
2002 Jonathan Harris, actor (Lost in Space) dies at 87
2006 Paul Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue) dies at 81
Today in History
1783 John Austin, a highwayman, becomes the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
1783 The American Continental Army was disbanded.
1838 The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded.
1903 With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaimed itself independent from Colombia.
1913 The United States introduced an income tax.
1957 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 with the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1964 Washington D.C. residents were able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
1969 President Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
1973 NASA launched the Mariner 10 toward Mercury; it reached that planet on March 29, 1974.
1986 The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reported that the United States had been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1986 The Federated States of Micronesia gained independence from the United States of America.
2007 Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan, suspending the Constitution, imposing a State of Emergency, and firing the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Topsy II - Cozy Cole
Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens
1974
You Haven’t Done Nothin - Stevie Wonder
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Jazzman - Carole King
I Overlooked an Orchid - Mickey Gilley
1982
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
Close Enough to Perfect - Alabama
1990
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
You Lie - Reba McEntire
Quote of the Day
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey, politician (1911 - 1978)
Today's Birthdays
1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich/inventor (sandwich) died Apr 30, 1792
1793 Stephen Austin, principal founder of Texas, died Dec 27, 1836
1794 William Cullen Bryant, poet/editor (To a Waterfowl) died June 12, 1878
1908 Bronko (Bronislaw) Nagurski, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears) died Jan 7, 1990
1918 Bob Feller, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1921 Charles Bronson (Buchinsky), actor (Death Wish series, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen) died Aug 30, 2003
1933 John Barry, composer (Born Free, The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa, Dances with Wolves)
1933 Ken Berry, actor (Mayberry RFD, F Troop)
1933 Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts/U.S. Presidential nominee
1947 Mazie Hirono, Congresswoman (D-HI)
1948 Lulu (Marie Lawrie), singer (To Sir with Love)
1949 Mike Evans (Jonas), actor (The Jeffersons, All in the Family) died Dec 14, 2006
1949 Larry Holmes, WBC heavyweight boxing champ
1952 Roseanne (Roseanne Cherrie Barr), actress (Roseanne, She-Devil)
1952 Jim Cummings, voice actor Winnie the Pooh)
1953 Kate Capshaw, actress (How to Make an American Quilt, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
1953 Dennis Miller, writer/comedian/actor (The Dennis Miller Show, Saturday Night Live, The Net, Disclosure)
1953 Kathy Kinney, actress (The Drew Carey Show)
1954 Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard), singer (Goody Two Shoes, Prince Charming, Stand and Deliver)
1956 Phil Simms, NFL quarterback/sportscaster (New York Giants)
1957 Dolph Lundgren, actor (Universal Soldier, Red Scorpion, Rocky 4)
1973 Mick Thomson, guitarist (Slipknot)
1982 Evgeny Plushenko, figure skater
1987 Gemma Ward, Australian model
Today's Deaths in History
1926 Annie Oakley, sharp-shooter, dies at 66
1949 Solomon R. Guggenheim, art collector/philanthropist, dies at 88
1954 Henri Matisse, French artist, dies at 84
1990 Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan) dies at 76
1998 Bob Kane, comic artist (Batman co-creator) dies at 83
2002 Lonnie Donegan, musician (skiffle) dies at 71
2002 Jonathan Harris, actor (Lost in Space) dies at 87
2006 Paul Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue) dies at 81
Today in History
1783 John Austin, a highwayman, becomes the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
1783 The American Continental Army was disbanded.
1838 The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded.
1903 With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaimed itself independent from Colombia.
1913 The United States introduced an income tax.
1957 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 with the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1964 Washington D.C. residents were able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
1969 President Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
1973 NASA launched the Mariner 10 toward Mercury; it reached that planet on March 29, 1974.
1986 The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reported that the United States had been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1986 The Federated States of Micronesia gained independence from the United States of America.
2007 Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan, suspending the Constitution, imposing a State of Emergency, and firing the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Chart Toppers
1950
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Topsy II - Cozy Cole
Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens
1974
You Haven’t Done Nothin - Stevie Wonder
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Jazzman - Carole King
I Overlooked an Orchid - Mickey Gilley
1982
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
Close Enough to Perfect - Alabama
1990
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
You Lie - Reba McEntire
Quote of the Day
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey, politician (1911 - 1978)
Today in History - Nov 4th
Today's Birthdays
1879 Will (William Penn Adair) Rogers, entertainer/humorist (Will Rogers Follies) killed in plane crash Aug 15, 1935
1913 Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr), actor (They Shoot Horses Don’t They?) died Oct 19, 1978
1916 Walter Cronkite, news anchor/correspondent (CBS Evening News)
1918 Art (William Matthew) Carney, actor (Harry and Tonto, The Honeymooners) died Nov 9, 2003
1918 Cameron Mitchell (Mitzell), actor (How to Marry a Millionaire, The High Chaparral, Swiss Family Robinson) died July 6, 1994
1919 Martin (Henry) Balsam, actor (A Thousand Clowns, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Twelve Angry Men) died Feb 13, 1996
1923 Alfred Heineken, beer mogul, died Jan 3, 2002
1930 Kate Reid, actress (Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Dallas) died Mar 27, 1993
1930 Doris Roberts, actress (St. Elsewhere, Everybody Loves Raymond)
1937 Loretta Swit, actress (M*A*S*H)
1940 Delbert McClinton, songwriter/singer (Giving It Up for Your Love)
1944 Scherrie Payne, singer (The Supremes)
1944 Linda Gary, voice actress (Scooby-Doo, the Smurfs) died Oct 5, 1995
1946 Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer, died Mar 9, 1989
1946 Laura Bush, First Lady
1950 Markie Post, actress (Night Court, Fall Guy)
1954 Chris Difford, singer/musician (Squeeze)
1955 Steve Mariucci, NFL coach
1956 James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (The Pretenders) died June 16, 1982
1960 Kathy Griffin, actress/comic (Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List)
1961 Ralph Macchio, actor (The Outsiders, Karate Kid series, My Cousin Vinny)
1961 Jeff Probst, TV host (Survivor)
1965 Jeff Scott Soto, singer (Yngwie Malmsteen Band)
1969 Matthew McConaughey, actor (Amistad, The Newton Boys, U-571, A Time to Kill)
1969 Sean "Diddy" Combs, music producer/actor
1974 Cedric Bixler-Zavala, singer (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 Heather Tom, actress (The Bold and the Beautiful)
1982 Devin Hester, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chicago Bears)
Today's Deaths in History
1847 Felix Mendelssohn, German composer, dies at 38
1955 Cy Young, Baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 88
1982 Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist) is strangled by her ex-boyfriend at 22
1994 Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist (MC5) dies at 45
1995 Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister, is shot and killed at 73
2005 Sheree North, actress/singer (Hawaii Five-O, Matlock, Magnum, P.I.) dies at 73
2006 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) dies at 98
Today in History
1825 The Erie Canal was completed.
1842 Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.
1880 The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
1884 Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine.
1922 The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt.
1924 Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor.
1939 The United States modified its neutrality stance in World War II to allow "cash and carry" purchases of arms by belligerents, a policy favoring Britain and France.
1942 During World War II, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1952 Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
1952 The United States government established the National Security Agency.
1956 Soviet troops moved in to crush a revolt in Hungary.
1970 Genie, a 13 year old feral child, was found in Los Angeles, having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1979 The Iranian hostage crisis began as militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1980 Ronald Reagan won the White House, defeating President Jimmy Carter.
1991 Former President Ronald Reagan opened his library in Simi Valley, Calif.
1994 The first conference that focused exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web was held in San Francisco.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally at the Mall in Washington, D.C.
1999 Aaron McKinney, one of two men who beat gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the Wyoming prairie, avoided the death penalty by agreeing to serve life in prison without parole and promising never to appeal his conviction.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Down Yonder - Del Wood
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
You Mean the World to Me - David Houston
1975
Island Girl - Elton John
Lyin’ Eyes - The Eagles
They Just Can’t Stop It (Games People Play) - Spinners
(Turn Out the Lights And) Love Me Tonight - Don Williams
1983
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair) - Sheena Easton
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton
1991
Romantic - Karyn White
Cream - Prince & The N.P.G.
Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
Anymore - Travis Tritt
Quote of the Day
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard, British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )
Today's Birthdays
1879 Will (William Penn Adair) Rogers, entertainer/humorist (Will Rogers Follies) killed in plane crash Aug 15, 1935
1913 Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr), actor (They Shoot Horses Don’t They?) died Oct 19, 1978
1916 Walter Cronkite, news anchor/correspondent (CBS Evening News)
1918 Art (William Matthew) Carney, actor (Harry and Tonto, The Honeymooners) died Nov 9, 2003
1918 Cameron Mitchell (Mitzell), actor (How to Marry a Millionaire, The High Chaparral, Swiss Family Robinson) died July 6, 1994
1919 Martin (Henry) Balsam, actor (A Thousand Clowns, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Twelve Angry Men) died Feb 13, 1996
1923 Alfred Heineken, beer mogul, died Jan 3, 2002
1930 Kate Reid, actress (Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Dallas) died Mar 27, 1993
1930 Doris Roberts, actress (St. Elsewhere, Everybody Loves Raymond)
1937 Loretta Swit, actress (M*A*S*H)
1940 Delbert McClinton, songwriter/singer (Giving It Up for Your Love)
1944 Scherrie Payne, singer (The Supremes)
1944 Linda Gary, voice actress (Scooby-Doo, the Smurfs) died Oct 5, 1995
1946 Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer, died Mar 9, 1989
1946 Laura Bush, First Lady
1950 Markie Post, actress (Night Court, Fall Guy)
1954 Chris Difford, singer/musician (Squeeze)
1955 Steve Mariucci, NFL coach
1956 James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (The Pretenders) died June 16, 1982
1960 Kathy Griffin, actress/comic (Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List)
1961 Ralph Macchio, actor (The Outsiders, Karate Kid series, My Cousin Vinny)
1961 Jeff Probst, TV host (Survivor)
1965 Jeff Scott Soto, singer (Yngwie Malmsteen Band)
1969 Matthew McConaughey, actor (Amistad, The Newton Boys, U-571, A Time to Kill)
1969 Sean "Diddy" Combs, music producer/actor
1974 Cedric Bixler-Zavala, singer (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 Heather Tom, actress (The Bold and the Beautiful)
1982 Devin Hester, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chicago Bears)
Today's Deaths in History
1847 Felix Mendelssohn, German composer, dies at 38
1955 Cy Young, Baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 88
1982 Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist) is strangled by her ex-boyfriend at 22
1994 Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist (MC5) dies at 45
1995 Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister, is shot and killed at 73
2005 Sheree North, actress/singer (Hawaii Five-O, Matlock, Magnum, P.I.) dies at 73
2006 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) dies at 98
Today in History
1825 The Erie Canal was completed.
1842 Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.
1880 The first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
1884 Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine.
1922 The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt.
1924 Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor.
1939 The United States modified its neutrality stance in World War II to allow "cash and carry" purchases of arms by belligerents, a policy favoring Britain and France.
1942 During World War II, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1952 Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
1952 The United States government established the National Security Agency.
1956 Soviet troops moved in to crush a revolt in Hungary.
1970 Genie, a 13 year old feral child, was found in Los Angeles, having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1979 The Iranian hostage crisis began as militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1980 Ronald Reagan won the White House, defeating President Jimmy Carter.
1991 Former President Ronald Reagan opened his library in Simi Valley, Calif.
1994 The first conference that focused exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web was held in San Francisco.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally at the Mall in Washington, D.C.
1999 Aaron McKinney, one of two men who beat gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the Wyoming prairie, avoided the death penalty by agreeing to serve life in prison without parole and promising never to appeal his conviction.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Down Yonder - Del Wood
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
The Three Bells - The Browns
1967
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
You Mean the World to Me - David Houston
1975
Island Girl - Elton John
Lyin’ Eyes - The Eagles
They Just Can’t Stop It (Games People Play) - Spinners
(Turn Out the Lights And) Love Me Tonight - Don Williams
1983
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair) - Sheena Easton
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton
1991
Romantic - Karyn White
Cream - Prince & The N.P.G.
Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
Anymore - Travis Tritt
Quote of the Day
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard, British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )
Today in History - Nov 5th
Today's Birthdays
1857 Ida Tarbell, author (History of the Standard Oil Company) died Jan 6, 1944
1885 Will Durant, historian (The Story of Civilization) died November 7, 1981
1891 Earle ‘Greasy’ Neale, Football Hall of Famer (Philadelphia Eagles) died Nov 2, 1973
1893 Raymond Loewy, inventor/engineer/industrial designer (‘father of streamlining’) died July 14, 1986
1900 Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan’s Island) died Apr 10, 1991
1911 Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye), ‘King of the Cowboys,’ actor/singer (Happy Trails to You) died July 6, 1998
1913 Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley), actress (Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire) died July 7, 1967
1913 John McGiver, actor (Midnight Cowboy, The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died Sep 9, 1975
1931 Ike Turner, pianist/singer (Ike & Tina Turner Revue) died December 12, 2007
1940 Elke Sommer (Schletz), actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Prize)
1941 Art Garfunkel, songwriter/singer (Simon and Garfunkel)
1943 Sam Shepard (Sam Shepard Rogers), playwright/actor (The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, Paris Texas)
1943 Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-born TV chef (Chef Tell) died October 26, 2007
1945 Peter Pace, U.S. Marine General, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1946 Gram Parsons (Cecil Ingram Connors), singer (The Byrds) died Sep 19, 1973
1947 Peter Noone (Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone), guitarist/pianist/singer (Herman of Herman’s Hermits)
1952 Bill Walton, Basketball Hall of Famer (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
1957 Kellen Winslow, Football Hall of Famer (San Diego Chargers)
1958 Robert Patrick, actor (Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Wayne’s World)
1959 Bryan Adams, songwriter/singer (Heaven, Summer of ’69)
1960 Tilda Swinton, actress (Adaptation, Michael Clayton)
1961 Gina Mastrogiacomo, actress (Goodfellas) dies May 2, 2001
1961 David Bryson, guitarist/vocalist (Counting Crows)
1963 Andrea McArdle, actress/singer (Annie)
1963 Tatum O’Neal, actress (Paper Moon, Bad News Bears, Little Darlings)
1964 Tim Blake Nelson, actor (O Brother Where Art Thou?)
1965 Famke Janssen, actress (GoldenEye, The Gingerbread Man, Rounders, X-Men)
1967 Judy Reyes, actress (Scrubs)
1968 Sam Rockwell, actor (The Green Mile, Charlie’s Angels)
1968 Mark Hunter, keyboardist (James)
1971 Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist (Radiohead)
1971 Corin ‘Corky’ Nemec, actor (Operation Dumbo Drop, Stephen King’s The Stand, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose)
1973 Johnny Damon, MLB outfielder (NY Yankees)
1974 Ryan Adams, singer/songwriter
1984 Nick Folk, NFL placekicker (Dallas Cowboys)
1987 Kevin Jonas, guitarist (Jonas Brothers)
Today's Deaths in History
1942 George M. Cohan, songwriter (Yankee Doodle Dandy) dies at 64
1956 Art Tatum, jazz piano virtuoso, dies at 47
1960 Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train) dies at 57
1960 Johnny Horton, country music singer (The Battle of New Orleans) dies at 35
1960 Mack Sennett, producer/director (The Keystone Kops) dies at 80
1974 Stafford Repp, actor (Batman TV series) dies at 56
1977 Guy Lombardo, bandleader (The Royal Canadians) dies at 75
1979 Al Capp, cartoonist (Li'l Abner) dies at 70
1982 Jacques Tati, French actor/director (Mon Oncle) dies at 75
1986 Bobby Nunn, singer (The Coasters) dies at 61
1989 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, dies at 85
1991 Fred MacMurray, actor (The Apartment, The Caine Mutiny, My Three Sons, Doubel Indemnity) dies at 83
1996 Eddie Harris, jazz saxophonist, dies at 62
2002 Billy Guy, singer (The Coasters) dies at 66
2003 Bobby Hatfield, singer (Righteous Brothers) dies at 63
Today in History
1605 Eleven men, led by one Guy Fawkes, came together to find a way to return England to the Catholic faith; the conspirators plotted to kill the King and all members of the Parliament by blowing up the Houses of Parliament (they failed, and they were caught and executed).
1606 The same Parliament Guy Fawkes and his men had attempted to annihilate established a national day of Thanksgiving, now known as Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire Night.
1733 The first issue of the New York Weekly Journal was published by printer/journalist John Peter Zenger.
1831 Nat Turner, American slave leader, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
1872 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election.
1895 George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office, beating Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
1946 John F. Kennedy, age 29, began his political career by getting elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1955 The Vienna State Opera House in Austria formally reopened, celebrating the end of 17 years of foreign occupation.
1956 Nat King Cole became the second African-American (after jazz pianist/singer Hazel Scott in 1950) to host an American television program: The Nat King Cole Show on NBC.
1970 The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reported the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1971 The Los Angeles Lakers began the longest winning streak in the history of pro sports by winning the first of 33 consecutive basketball games.
1974 Ella Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini declared the USA to be "the great Satan."
1984 The Supreme Court ruled that the NFL could not block future franchise moves and had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop a move by the Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles.
1988 The Beach Boys hit #1 in U.S. with "Kokomo."
1994 George Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round in Las Vegas to become the oldest IBF/WBA Heavyweight Champion of the World.
1994 Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1996 U.S. voters reelected President Bill Clinton but gave the Republican party another majority in both houses of Congress, trimming the margin of that majority in the House of Representatives and increasing it slightly in the Senate.
1998 A study showed strong genetic evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave, Sally Hemings.
1999 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, in a ‘finding of fact’, declared Microsoft Corporation a monopoly.
2002 Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt resigned under pressure after a series of political missteps that had embarrassed the White House.
2006 Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
How Many Hearts Have You Broken - The Three Suns
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
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
You Talk Too Much - Joe Jones
Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots
Next in Line - Conway Twitty
1976
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Rock’n Me - Steve Miller
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Among My Souvenirs - Marty Robbins
1984
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
Quote of the Day
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis, English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939)
Today's Birthdays
1857 Ida Tarbell, author (History of the Standard Oil Company) died Jan 6, 1944
1885 Will Durant, historian (The Story of Civilization) died November 7, 1981
1891 Earle ‘Greasy’ Neale, Football Hall of Famer (Philadelphia Eagles) died Nov 2, 1973
1893 Raymond Loewy, inventor/engineer/industrial designer (‘father of streamlining’) died July 14, 1986
1900 Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan’s Island) died Apr 10, 1991
1911 Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye), ‘King of the Cowboys,’ actor/singer (Happy Trails to You) died July 6, 1998
1913 Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley), actress (Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire) died July 7, 1967
1913 John McGiver, actor (Midnight Cowboy, The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died Sep 9, 1975
1931 Ike Turner, pianist/singer (Ike & Tina Turner Revue) died December 12, 2007
1940 Elke Sommer (Schletz), actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Prize)
1941 Art Garfunkel, songwriter/singer (Simon and Garfunkel)
1943 Sam Shepard (Sam Shepard Rogers), playwright/actor (The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, Paris Texas)
1943 Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-born TV chef (Chef Tell) died October 26, 2007
1945 Peter Pace, U.S. Marine General, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1946 Gram Parsons (Cecil Ingram Connors), singer (The Byrds) died Sep 19, 1973
1947 Peter Noone (Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone), guitarist/pianist/singer (Herman of Herman’s Hermits)
1952 Bill Walton, Basketball Hall of Famer (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
1957 Kellen Winslow, Football Hall of Famer (San Diego Chargers)
1958 Robert Patrick, actor (Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Wayne’s World)
1959 Bryan Adams, songwriter/singer (Heaven, Summer of ’69)
1960 Tilda Swinton, actress (Adaptation, Michael Clayton)
1961 Gina Mastrogiacomo, actress (Goodfellas) dies May 2, 2001
1961 David Bryson, guitarist/vocalist (Counting Crows)
1963 Andrea McArdle, actress/singer (Annie)
1963 Tatum O’Neal, actress (Paper Moon, Bad News Bears, Little Darlings)
1964 Tim Blake Nelson, actor (O Brother Where Art Thou?)
1965 Famke Janssen, actress (GoldenEye, The Gingerbread Man, Rounders, X-Men)
1967 Judy Reyes, actress (Scrubs)
1968 Sam Rockwell, actor (The Green Mile, Charlie’s Angels)
1968 Mark Hunter, keyboardist (James)
1971 Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist (Radiohead)
1971 Corin ‘Corky’ Nemec, actor (Operation Dumbo Drop, Stephen King’s The Stand, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose)
1973 Johnny Damon, MLB outfielder (NY Yankees)
1974 Ryan Adams, singer/songwriter
1984 Nick Folk, NFL placekicker (Dallas Cowboys)
1987 Kevin Jonas, guitarist (Jonas Brothers)
Today's Deaths in History
1942 George M. Cohan, songwriter (Yankee Doodle Dandy) dies at 64
1956 Art Tatum, jazz piano virtuoso, dies at 47
1960 Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train) dies at 57
1960 Johnny Horton, country music singer (The Battle of New Orleans) dies at 35
1960 Mack Sennett, producer/director (The Keystone Kops) dies at 80
1974 Stafford Repp, actor (Batman TV series) dies at 56
1977 Guy Lombardo, bandleader (The Royal Canadians) dies at 75
1979 Al Capp, cartoonist (Li'l Abner) dies at 70
1982 Jacques Tati, French actor/director (Mon Oncle) dies at 75
1986 Bobby Nunn, singer (The Coasters) dies at 61
1989 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, dies at 85
1991 Fred MacMurray, actor (The Apartment, The Caine Mutiny, My Three Sons, Doubel Indemnity) dies at 83
1996 Eddie Harris, jazz saxophonist, dies at 62
2002 Billy Guy, singer (The Coasters) dies at 66
2003 Bobby Hatfield, singer (Righteous Brothers) dies at 63
Today in History
1605 Eleven men, led by one Guy Fawkes, came together to find a way to return England to the Catholic faith; the conspirators plotted to kill the King and all members of the Parliament by blowing up the Houses of Parliament (they failed, and they were caught and executed).
1606 The same Parliament Guy Fawkes and his men had attempted to annihilate established a national day of Thanksgiving, now known as Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire Night.
1733 The first issue of the New York Weekly Journal was published by printer/journalist John Peter Zenger.
1831 Nat Turner, American slave leader, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
1872 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election.
1895 George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office, beating Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
1946 John F. Kennedy, age 29, began his political career by getting elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1955 The Vienna State Opera House in Austria formally reopened, celebrating the end of 17 years of foreign occupation.
1956 Nat King Cole became the second African-American (after jazz pianist/singer Hazel Scott in 1950) to host an American television program: The Nat King Cole Show on NBC.
1970 The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reported the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1971 The Los Angeles Lakers began the longest winning streak in the history of pro sports by winning the first of 33 consecutive basketball games.
1974 Ella Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini declared the USA to be "the great Satan."
1984 The Supreme Court ruled that the NFL could not block future franchise moves and had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop a move by the Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles.
1988 The Beach Boys hit #1 in U.S. with "Kokomo."
1994 George Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round in Las Vegas to become the oldest IBF/WBA Heavyweight Champion of the World.
1994 Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1996 U.S. voters reelected President Bill Clinton but gave the Republican party another majority in both houses of Congress, trimming the margin of that majority in the House of Representatives and increasing it slightly in the Senate.
1998 A study showed strong genetic evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave, Sally Hemings.
1999 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, in a ‘finding of fact’, declared Microsoft Corporation a monopoly.
2002 Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt resigned under pressure after a series of political missteps that had embarrassed the White House.
2006 Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
How Many Hearts Have You Broken - The Three Suns
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
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
You Talk Too Much - Joe Jones
Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots
Next in Line - Conway Twitty
1976
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Rock’n Me - Steve Miller
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Among My Souvenirs - Marty Robbins
1984
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
Quote of the Day
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis, English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939)
Today in History - Nov 6th
Today's Birthdays
1814 Adolphe (Antoine-Joseph) Sax, inventor (saxophone) died Feb 4, 1894
1854 John Philip Sousa, ‘The March King,’ composer/U.S. Marine Band leader (Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis, Washington Post March) died Mar 6, 1932
1861 James Naismith, inventor (basketball) died Nov 28, 1939
1893 Edsel Ford, president (Ford Motor Company) died May 26, 1943
1896 Jim Jordan (James Edward Jordan), actor (Fibber McGee and Molly) died Apr 1, 1988
1906 James D. Norris, Hockey Hall of Famer (Chicago Black Hawks) died February 25, 1966
1914 Jonathan Harris, actor (Lost in Space) died Nov 3, 2002
1921 James (Ramon) Jones, novelist (From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line) died May 9, 1977
1931 Michael Igor Peschkowsky, director (The Graduate, The Day of the Dolphin)
1946 Sally Field (Sally Mahoney), actress (Gidget series, Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Smokey and the Bandit series, Forrest Gump)
1947 George Young, guitarist (The Easybeats)
1948 Glenn Frey, guitarist/songwriter/singer (The Eagles)
1949 Brad Davis, actor (Midnight Express) died Sept 8, 1991
1949 Nigel Havers, actor (Empire of the Sun, Chariots of Fire)
1949 Arturo Sandoval, jazz trumpeter
1953 John (Robert) Candelaria, ‘Candy Man,’ MLB pitcher (NY Mets, NY Yankees)
1955 Maria Shriver, news correspondent/Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (NBC)
1957 Lori Singer, actress (Fame, Footloose)
1958 Trace Beaulieu, actor/puppeteer (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1960 Lance Kerwin, actor (James at 15, Salem’s Lot)
1961 Craig Goldy, guitarist (Dio)
1963 Paul Brindley, bassist (The Sundays)
1964 Corey Glover, singer (Living Colour)
1965 Greg Graffin, singer (Bad Religion)
1966 Christian Lorenz, keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 Peter DeLuise, actor (seaQuest DSV, 21 Jump Street, Rescue Me)
1967 Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam) murdered July 18, 1989
1970 Ethan Hawke, actor (A Midnight Clear, Dead Poets Society, Explorers)
1972 Thandie Newton, actress (Mission: Impossible II, Interview with the Vampire)
1972 Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, actress (Just Shoot Me, Dirty Work, Ugly Betty)
1974 Zoe McLellan, actress (Dirty Sexy Money)
1976 Pat Tillman, NFL safety/US Army Ranger (Arizona Cardinals) killed in action in Afghanistan April 22, 2004
1978 Nicole Dubuc, actress (Major Dad)
1978 Taryn Manning, actress (Hustle & Flow, Cold Mountain, 8 Mile)
1988 Emma Stone, actress (Superbad)
Today's Deaths in History
1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer, dies at 53
1965 Clarence Williams, jazz pianist/composer, dies at 67
1968 Charles B. McVay III, former U.S. Navy Captain (USS Indianapolis) commits suicide at 70
1989 Dickie Goodman, novelty record maker (Convention '72, The Flying Saucer) dies at 55
1991 Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) dies at 70
2007 George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch, dies at 90
2007 Hank Thompson, country singer (Honky Tonk Swing) dies at 82
Today in History
1860 Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency.
1861 Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
1865 The CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 Rutgers University defeated Princeton University 6-4 in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1888 Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
1900 President William B. McKinley was returned to office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1928 Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
1934 Memphis, Tennessee became the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1944 Plutonium was first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 Meet The Press made its television debut.
1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term with a victory against Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
1962 The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and called for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agreed to begin an airlift for Cubans who wanted to go to the United States.
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tested the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1985 The American press revealed that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1995 Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move the team to Baltimore.
1997 Former President George H.W. Bush opened his presidential library at Texas A&M University.
2001 Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg was elected New York City mayor.
2005 The Evansville Tornado killed 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - Dick Haymes
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Fool #1 - Brenda Lee
This Time - Troy Shondell
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Baby It’s You - Smith
The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
I’m Just a Country Boy - Don Williams
1985
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Head over Heels - Tears For Fears
Some Fools Never Learn - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Jack Handey (1949 - )
Today's Birthdays
1814 Adolphe (Antoine-Joseph) Sax, inventor (saxophone) died Feb 4, 1894
1854 John Philip Sousa, ‘The March King,’ composer/U.S. Marine Band leader (Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis, Washington Post March) died Mar 6, 1932
1861 James Naismith, inventor (basketball) died Nov 28, 1939
1893 Edsel Ford, president (Ford Motor Company) died May 26, 1943
1896 Jim Jordan (James Edward Jordan), actor (Fibber McGee and Molly) died Apr 1, 1988
1906 James D. Norris, Hockey Hall of Famer (Chicago Black Hawks) died February 25, 1966
1914 Jonathan Harris, actor (Lost in Space) died Nov 3, 2002
1921 James (Ramon) Jones, novelist (From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line) died May 9, 1977
1931 Michael Igor Peschkowsky, director (The Graduate, The Day of the Dolphin)
1946 Sally Field (Sally Mahoney), actress (Gidget series, Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Smokey and the Bandit series, Forrest Gump)
1947 George Young, guitarist (The Easybeats)
1948 Glenn Frey, guitarist/songwriter/singer (The Eagles)
1949 Brad Davis, actor (Midnight Express) died Sept 8, 1991
1949 Nigel Havers, actor (Empire of the Sun, Chariots of Fire)
1949 Arturo Sandoval, jazz trumpeter
1953 John (Robert) Candelaria, ‘Candy Man,’ MLB pitcher (NY Mets, NY Yankees)
1955 Maria Shriver, news correspondent/Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (NBC)
1957 Lori Singer, actress (Fame, Footloose)
1958 Trace Beaulieu, actor/puppeteer (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1960 Lance Kerwin, actor (James at 15, Salem’s Lot)
1961 Craig Goldy, guitarist (Dio)
1963 Paul Brindley, bassist (The Sundays)
1964 Corey Glover, singer (Living Colour)
1965 Greg Graffin, singer (Bad Religion)
1966 Christian Lorenz, keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 Peter DeLuise, actor (seaQuest DSV, 21 Jump Street, Rescue Me)
1967 Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam) murdered July 18, 1989
1970 Ethan Hawke, actor (A Midnight Clear, Dead Poets Society, Explorers)
1972 Thandie Newton, actress (Mission: Impossible II, Interview with the Vampire)
1972 Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, actress (Just Shoot Me, Dirty Work, Ugly Betty)
1974 Zoe McLellan, actress (Dirty Sexy Money)
1976 Pat Tillman, NFL safety/US Army Ranger (Arizona Cardinals) killed in action in Afghanistan April 22, 2004
1978 Nicole Dubuc, actress (Major Dad)
1978 Taryn Manning, actress (Hustle & Flow, Cold Mountain, 8 Mile)
1988 Emma Stone, actress (Superbad)
Today's Deaths in History
1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer, dies at 53
1965 Clarence Williams, jazz pianist/composer, dies at 67
1968 Charles B. McVay III, former U.S. Navy Captain (USS Indianapolis) commits suicide at 70
1989 Dickie Goodman, novelty record maker (Convention '72, The Flying Saucer) dies at 55
1991 Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) dies at 70
2007 George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch, dies at 90
2007 Hank Thompson, country singer (Honky Tonk Swing) dies at 82
Today in History
1860 Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency.
1861 Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
1865 The CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 Rutgers University defeated Princeton University 6-4 in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1888 Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
1900 President William B. McKinley was returned to office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1928 Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
1934 Memphis, Tennessee became the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1944 Plutonium was first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 Meet The Press made its television debut.
1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term with a victory against Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
1962 The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and called for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agreed to begin an airlift for Cubans who wanted to go to the United States.
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tested the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1985 The American press revealed that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1995 Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move the team to Baltimore.
1997 Former President George H.W. Bush opened his presidential library at Texas A&M University.
2001 Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg was elected New York City mayor.
2005 The Evansville Tornado killed 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
Chart Toppers
1945
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - Dick Haymes
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1953
Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters
1961
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Fool #1 - Brenda Lee
This Time - Troy Shondell
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Baby It’s You - Smith
The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
I’m Just a Country Boy - Don Williams
1985
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Head over Heels - Tears For Fears
Some Fools Never Learn - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Jack Handey (1949 - )
Today in History - Nov 7th
Today's Birthdays
1867 Madame Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski), physicist (discovered radium and polonium) died July 4, 1934
1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, died August 21, 1940
1902 Ed (Edward Benton) Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail) died May 27, 1991
1903 (Ira) Dean Jagger, actor (Twelve O’clock High, Bad Day at Black Rock, White Christmas) died Feb 5,1991
1913 Albert Camus, writer (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) died Jan 4, 1960
1918 Billy Graham, evangelist
1922 Al Hirt, trumpeter, died Apr 27, 1999
1937 Mary Travers, folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
1942 Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella), singer (Secret Agent Man, Slow Dancin’, Baby I Need Your Lovin’)
1943 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Anderson), singer/songwriter (Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock)
1944 Joe Niekro, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees) died Oct 27, 2006
1952 Gen. David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command
1957 Christopher Knight, actor (The Brady Bunch)
1964 Dana Plato, actress (Diff’rent Strokes) died May 8, 1999
1968 Greg Tribbett, guitarist (Mudvayne)
1971 Robin Finck, guitarist (Guns 'n Roses)
1972 Jason London, actor (The Man in the Moon, Dazed and Confused)
1972 Jeremy London, actor (I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five, Mallrats)
1973 Yunjin Kim, actress (Lost)
Today's Deaths in History
1962 Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, dies at 78
1978 Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion, dies at 81
1980 Steve McQueen, actor (The Getaway, Papillon, The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape) dies at age 50
1992 Jack Kelly, actor (Maverick) dies at 65
2004 Howard Keel, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) dies at 85
2006 Bryan Pata, college football defensive tackle (University of Miami) is murdered at 22
Today in History
1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, was first published.
1874 The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1893 Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1916 Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917 Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spread to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1929 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened.
1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia was elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1940 The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
1956 Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night opened on Broadway.
1962 Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1967 Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African-American mayor of a major American city.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a president's power to wage war without congressional approval.
1989 L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the nation's first elected African-American governor.
1989 David N. Dinkins was elected New York City's first African-American mayor.
1991 Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1996 NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.
1998 House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12.
2000 Republican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin (the winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida).
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovered one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first first lady to win public office.
2004 The interim government of Iraq called for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces stormed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2006 Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress.
Chart Toppers
1946
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Keep Coming Back like a Song - Dinah Shore
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
This Ole House - Rosemary Clooney
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
More and More - Webb Pierce
1962
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney
All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me - Charley Pride
1978
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Double Vision - Foreigner
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell
1986
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Typical Male - Tina Turner
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
It’ll Be Me - Exile
Quote of the Day
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun, rocket engineer (1912 - 1977)
Today's Birthdays
1867 Madame Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski), physicist (discovered radium and polonium) died July 4, 1934
1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, died August 21, 1940
1902 Ed (Edward Benton) Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail) died May 27, 1991
1903 (Ira) Dean Jagger, actor (Twelve O’clock High, Bad Day at Black Rock, White Christmas) died Feb 5,1991
1913 Albert Camus, writer (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) died Jan 4, 1960
1918 Billy Graham, evangelist
1922 Al Hirt, trumpeter, died Apr 27, 1999
1937 Mary Travers, folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
1942 Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella), singer (Secret Agent Man, Slow Dancin’, Baby I Need Your Lovin’)
1943 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Anderson), singer/songwriter (Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock)
1944 Joe Niekro, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees) died Oct 27, 2006
1952 Gen. David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command
1957 Christopher Knight, actor (The Brady Bunch)
1964 Dana Plato, actress (Diff’rent Strokes) died May 8, 1999
1968 Greg Tribbett, guitarist (Mudvayne)
1971 Robin Finck, guitarist (Guns 'n Roses)
1972 Jason London, actor (The Man in the Moon, Dazed and Confused)
1972 Jeremy London, actor (I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five, Mallrats)
1973 Yunjin Kim, actress (Lost)
Today's Deaths in History
1962 Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, dies at 78
1978 Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion, dies at 81
1980 Steve McQueen, actor (The Getaway, Papillon, The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape) dies at age 50
1992 Jack Kelly, actor (Maverick) dies at 65
2004 Howard Keel, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) dies at 85
2006 Bryan Pata, college football defensive tackle (University of Miami) is murdered at 22
Today in History
1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, was first published.
1874 The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1893 Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1916 Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917 Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spread to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1929 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened.
1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia was elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1940 The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
1956 Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night opened on Broadway.
1962 Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1967 Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African-American mayor of a major American city.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a president's power to wage war without congressional approval.
1989 L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the nation's first elected African-American governor.
1989 David N. Dinkins was elected New York City's first African-American mayor.
1991 Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1996 NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.
1998 House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12.
2000 Republican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin (the winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida).
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovered one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first first lady to win public office.
2004 The interim government of Iraq called for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces stormed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2006 Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress.
Chart Toppers
1946
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Keep Coming Back like a Song - Dinah Shore
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
This Ole House - Rosemary Clooney
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
More and More - Webb Pierce
1962
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney
All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me - Charley Pride
1978
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Double Vision - Foreigner
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell
1986
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Typical Male - Tina Turner
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
It’ll Be Me - Exile
Quote of the Day
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun, rocket engineer (1912 - 1977)
Today in History - Nov 8th
Today's Birthdays
1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer, died Jan 14, 1742
1836 Milton Bradley, game manufacturer, died May 30, 1911
1845 Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died May 19, 1921
1847 Bram (Abraham) Stoker, author (Dracula) died Apr 20, 1912
1900 Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone with the Wind) died Aug 16, 1949
1920 Esther Rolle, actress (Good Times, Maude, Driving Miss Daisy) died Nov 17, 1998
1922 Christiaan Barnard, surgeon/medical pioneer (first heart transplant) died Sep 2, 2001
1924 Joe Flynn, actor (McHale’s Navy, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes) died July 19, 1974
1927 Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler), singer (Tennessee Waltz, Allegheny Moon)
1931 Morley Safer, TV correspondent (60 Minutes)
1931 Darla Hood, actress (Our Gang series) died June 13, 1979
1944 Bonnie Bramlett, songwriter/singer (Delaney and Bonnie and Friends)
1945 Don Murray, drummer (The Turtles)
1946 Roy Wood (Ulysses Adrian Wood), singer/songwriter (Electric Light Orchestra)
1947 Minnie (Julia) Riperton, singer (Lovin’ You) died July 12, 1979
1949 Alan Berger, bassist (Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)
1949 Bonnie Raitt, singer (Something to Talk About, I Can't Make You Love Me)
1950 Mary Hart, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1952 Christie Hefner, magazine executive (Playboy)
1952 Alfre Woodard, actress (St. Elsewhere, Passion Fish, Heart and Souls)
1954 Ricki Lee Jones, singer (Chuck E.’s in Love)
1954 Jeanette McGruder, singer (P Funk)
1957 Porl Thompson, guitarist (The Cure)
1958 Terry Lee Miall, drummer (Adam & the Ants)
1961 Leif Garrett, actor/singer (I Was Made for Dancin’)
1966 Gordon Ramsay, British chef/TV personality (Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares)
1967 Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress (Melrose Place, Summer School, Ally McBeal)
1968 Parker Posey, actress (Party Girl, Scream 3, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman)
1970 Tom Anderson, co-founder (MySpace)
1972 Gretchen Mol, actress (Donnie Brasco, Rounders, Life on Mars)
1975 Tara Reid, actress (The Big Lebowski, American Pie series, Josie and the Pussycats)
1979 Dania Ramirez, actress (Heroes)
1981 Azura Skye, actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1982 Lynndie England, U.S. Army reservist (Abu Ghraib)
1983 Chris Rankin, actor (Harry Potter movies)
1985 Jack Osbourne, TV personality (The Osbournes)
Today's Deaths in History
1674 John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost) dies at 65
1887 Doc Holliday, gambler/gunfighter, dies at 36
1968 Wendell Corey, actor (Sorry Wrong Number, Rear Window) dies at 54
1974 Ivory Joe Hunter, R&B singer/pianist/songwriter, dies at 60
1978 Norman Rockwell, illustrator, dies at 84
1994 Michael O'Donoghue, writer (Saturday Night Live) dies at 54
1999 Lester Bowie, jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
2003 Guy Speranza, singer (Riot) dies at 47
2006 Basil Poledouris, film score composer (The Hunt for Red October, Starship Troopers) dies at 61
Today in History
1793 The French Revolutionary government opened the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1837 Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College.
1889 Montana became the 41st state.
1892 Former President Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only president to win non-consecutive terms in the White House.
1895 While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the X-ray.
1923 Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt to seize power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, that came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch.
1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
1935 A dozen labor leaders came together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.
1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1950 Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
1960 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
1966 Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
1971 The album Led Zeppelin IV, which included the song "Stairway to Heaven," was released.
1973 The right ear of John Paul Getty III was delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay $2.9 million.
1987 A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing 11 people.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
1994 Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years and won a majority in the Senate in midterm elections.
1997 Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
2000 A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in Florida; Vice President Al Gore telephoned Texas Gov. George W. Bush to concede the election, but called back about an hour later to retract his concession.
2000 Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released a report absolving the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.
2002 The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences."
2004 Thousands of U.S. troops attacked strongholds of Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq.
2006 President George W. Bush announced Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation as defense secretary.
Chart Toppers
1947
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
You Do - Dinah Shore
And Mimi - Art Lund
I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold
1955
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm
That Do Make It Nice - Eddy Arnold
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Washington Square - The Village Stompers
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Imagine - John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Here Comes Honey Again - Sonny James
1979
Pop Muzik - M
Heartache Tonight - Eagles
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers
1987
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol
Am I Blue - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )
Today's Birthdays
1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer, died Jan 14, 1742
1836 Milton Bradley, game manufacturer, died May 30, 1911
1845 Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, died May 19, 1921
1847 Bram (Abraham) Stoker, author (Dracula) died Apr 20, 1912
1900 Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone with the Wind) died Aug 16, 1949
1920 Esther Rolle, actress (Good Times, Maude, Driving Miss Daisy) died Nov 17, 1998
1922 Christiaan Barnard, surgeon/medical pioneer (first heart transplant) died Sep 2, 2001
1924 Joe Flynn, actor (McHale’s Navy, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes) died July 19, 1974
1927 Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler), singer (Tennessee Waltz, Allegheny Moon)
1931 Morley Safer, TV correspondent (60 Minutes)
1931 Darla Hood, actress (Our Gang series) died June 13, 1979
1944 Bonnie Bramlett, songwriter/singer (Delaney and Bonnie and Friends)
1945 Don Murray, drummer (The Turtles)
1946 Roy Wood (Ulysses Adrian Wood), singer/songwriter (Electric Light Orchestra)
1947 Minnie (Julia) Riperton, singer (Lovin’ You) died July 12, 1979
1949 Alan Berger, bassist (Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)
1949 Bonnie Raitt, singer (Something to Talk About, I Can't Make You Love Me)
1950 Mary Hart, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1952 Christie Hefner, magazine executive (Playboy)
1952 Alfre Woodard, actress (St. Elsewhere, Passion Fish, Heart and Souls)
1954 Ricki Lee Jones, singer (Chuck E.’s in Love)
1954 Jeanette McGruder, singer (P Funk)
1957 Porl Thompson, guitarist (The Cure)
1958 Terry Lee Miall, drummer (Adam & the Ants)
1961 Leif Garrett, actor/singer (I Was Made for Dancin’)
1966 Gordon Ramsay, British chef/TV personality (Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares)
1967 Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress (Melrose Place, Summer School, Ally McBeal)
1968 Parker Posey, actress (Party Girl, Scream 3, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman)
1970 Tom Anderson, co-founder (MySpace)
1972 Gretchen Mol, actress (Donnie Brasco, Rounders, Life on Mars)
1975 Tara Reid, actress (The Big Lebowski, American Pie series, Josie and the Pussycats)
1979 Dania Ramirez, actress (Heroes)
1981 Azura Skye, actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1982 Lynndie England, U.S. Army reservist (Abu Ghraib)
1983 Chris Rankin, actor (Harry Potter movies)
1985 Jack Osbourne, TV personality (The Osbournes)
Today's Deaths in History
1674 John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost) dies at 65
1887 Doc Holliday, gambler/gunfighter, dies at 36
1968 Wendell Corey, actor (Sorry Wrong Number, Rear Window) dies at 54
1974 Ivory Joe Hunter, R&B singer/pianist/songwriter, dies at 60
1978 Norman Rockwell, illustrator, dies at 84
1994 Michael O'Donoghue, writer (Saturday Night Live) dies at 54
1999 Lester Bowie, jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
2003 Guy Speranza, singer (Riot) dies at 47
2006 Basil Poledouris, film score composer (The Hunt for Red October, Starship Troopers) dies at 61
Today in History
1793 The French Revolutionary government opened the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1837 Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College.
1889 Montana became the 41st state.
1892 Former President Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only president to win non-consecutive terms in the White House.
1895 While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the X-ray.
1923 Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt to seize power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, that came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch.
1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
1935 A dozen labor leaders came together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.
1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1950 Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
1960 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
1966 Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
1971 The album Led Zeppelin IV, which included the song "Stairway to Heaven," was released.
1973 The right ear of John Paul Getty III was delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay $2.9 million.
1987 A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing 11 people.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
1994 Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years and won a majority in the Senate in midterm elections.
1997 Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
2000 A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in Florida; Vice President Al Gore telephoned Texas Gov. George W. Bush to concede the election, but called back about an hour later to retract his concession.
2000 Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released a report absolving the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.
2002 The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences."
2004 Thousands of U.S. troops attacked strongholds of Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq.
2006 President George W. Bush announced Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation as defense secretary.
Chart Toppers
1947
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
You Do - Dinah Shore
And Mimi - Art Lund
I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold
1955
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm
That Do Make It Nice - Eddy Arnold
1963
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Washington Square - The Village Stompers
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Imagine - John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Here Comes Honey Again - Sonny James
1979
Pop Muzik - M
Heartache Tonight - Eagles
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers
1987
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol
Am I Blue - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian science fiction writer (1960 - )
Today in History - Nov 9th
Today's Birthdays
1886 Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold), actor (Mary Poppins, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor) died June 19, 1966
1913 Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler), actress (Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl) died Jan 19, 2000
1918 Spiro T. (Theodore) Agnew, U.S. Vice President, died Sept 17, 1996
1922 Dorothy (Jean) Dandridge, actress (Island in the Sun, Carmen Jones) died Sep 8, 1965
1930 Charlie Jones, sportscaster (NBC Sports) died June 12, 2008
1931 Whitey Herzog, baseball player/manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1934 Carl (Edward) Sagan, author/scientist (Cosmos, Contact) died Dec 20, 1996
1935 Bob (Pack Robert) Gibson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals)
1936 Mary Travers, folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1941 Tom Fogerty, songwriter/singer (Creedence Clearwater Revival) died Sep 6, 1990
1948 Joe Bouchard, bassist/singer (Blue Oyster Cult)
1948 Alan Gratzer, drummer (REO Speedwagon)
1948 Robert David Hall, actor (CSI)
1951 Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilder/actor (The Incredible Hulk)
1954 Dennis Stratton, guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1960 Dee Plakas, drummer (L7)
1961 Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton, singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
1970 Susan Tedeschi, blues singer
1972 Eric Dane, actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1972 Corin Tucker, guitarist (Sleater-Kinney)
1973 Nick Lachey, singer (98 Degrees)
1974 Uncle Kracker, singer/rapper
1978 Sisqo, R&B singer
1980 Vanessa Minillo, television personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1988 Nikki Blonsky, actress (Hairspray)
Today's Deaths in History
1911 Howard Pyle, author (Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates) dies at 58
1924 Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator, dies at 74
1940 Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dies at 71
1953 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet/author, dies at 39
1953 Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia, dies at 73
1970 Charles De Gaulle, former French President, dies at 79
1988 John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General, dies at 75
1991 Yves Montand, French actor (Let's Make Love) dies at 70
2003 Art Carney, actor (The Honeymooners) dies at 85
2004 Iris Chang, author (The Rape of Nanking) dies at 36
2006 Ed Bradley, newscaster (CBS) dies at 65
Today in History
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sighted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1861 The first documented football match in Canada was played at University College, University of Toronto.
1887 The United States received rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (Panama).
1918 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
1921 Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1937 Japanese troops took control of Shanghai, China.
1938 Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria on Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass."
1953 The Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1960 Robert McNamara was named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post.
1965 Several northeastern states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13-1/2 hours.
1967 NASA launched the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.
1970 The Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1976 The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."
1989 Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
1990 Mary Robinson was elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.
1994 The chemical element Darmstadtium was discovered.
2001 The northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the northern alliance in the first major territorial advance for the rebels against the ruling Taliban.
2004 Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young award.
2005 Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and wounding hundreds.
2007 President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day, and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his emergency rule.
2008 The three Bali bombers were executed for killing 202 people, 88 of which were Australian,in the 2002 Bali bombings.
Chart Toppers
1948
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood
One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Jimmy Wakely
1956
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
True Love - Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Baby Love - The Supremes
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens
1972
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Freddie’s Dead (Theme from “Superfly”) - Curtis Mayfield
It’s Not Love (But It’s Not Bad) - Merle Haggard
1980
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
Lady - Kenny Rogers
The Wanderer - Donna Summer
On the Road Again - Willie Nelson
1988
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
The Loco-Motion - Kylie Minogue
Darlene - T. Graham Brown
Quote of the Day
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today's Birthdays
1886 Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold), actor (Mary Poppins, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor) died June 19, 1966
1913 Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler), actress (Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl) died Jan 19, 2000
1918 Spiro T. (Theodore) Agnew, U.S. Vice President, died Sept 17, 1996
1922 Dorothy (Jean) Dandridge, actress (Island in the Sun, Carmen Jones) died Sep 8, 1965
1930 Charlie Jones, sportscaster (NBC Sports) died June 12, 2008
1931 Whitey Herzog, baseball player/manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1934 Carl (Edward) Sagan, author/scientist (Cosmos, Contact) died Dec 20, 1996
1935 Bob (Pack Robert) Gibson, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals)
1936 Mary Travers, folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1941 Tom Fogerty, songwriter/singer (Creedence Clearwater Revival) died Sep 6, 1990
1948 Joe Bouchard, bassist/singer (Blue Oyster Cult)
1948 Alan Gratzer, drummer (REO Speedwagon)
1948 Robert David Hall, actor (CSI)
1951 Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilder/actor (The Incredible Hulk)
1954 Dennis Stratton, guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1960 Dee Plakas, drummer (L7)
1961 Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton, singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
1970 Susan Tedeschi, blues singer
1972 Eric Dane, actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1972 Corin Tucker, guitarist (Sleater-Kinney)
1973 Nick Lachey, singer (98 Degrees)
1974 Uncle Kracker, singer/rapper
1978 Sisqo, R&B singer
1980 Vanessa Minillo, television personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1988 Nikki Blonsky, actress (Hairspray)
Today's Deaths in History
1911 Howard Pyle, author (Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates) dies at 58
1924 Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator, dies at 74
1940 Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dies at 71
1953 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet/author, dies at 39
1953 Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia, dies at 73
1970 Charles De Gaulle, former French President, dies at 79
1988 John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General, dies at 75
1991 Yves Montand, French actor (Let's Make Love) dies at 70
2003 Art Carney, actor (The Honeymooners) dies at 85
2004 Iris Chang, author (The Rape of Nanking) dies at 36
2006 Ed Bradley, newscaster (CBS) dies at 65
Today in History
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sighted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1861 The first documented football match in Canada was played at University College, University of Toronto.
1887 The United States received rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (Panama).
1918 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
1921 Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1937 Japanese troops took control of Shanghai, China.
1938 Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria on Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass."
1953 The Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1960 Robert McNamara was named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post.
1965 Several northeastern states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13-1/2 hours.
1967 NASA launched the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.
1970 The Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1976 The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."
1989 Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
1990 Mary Robinson was elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.
1994 The chemical element Darmstadtium was discovered.
2001 The northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the northern alliance in the first major territorial advance for the rebels against the ruling Taliban.
2004 Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young award.
2005 Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and wounding hundreds.
2007 President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day, and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his emergency rule.
2008 The three Bali bombers were executed for killing 202 people, 88 of which were Australian,in the 2002 Bali bombings.
Chart Toppers
1948
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood
One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Jimmy Wakely
1956
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
True Love - Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
1964
Baby Love - The Supremes
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens
1972
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Freddie’s Dead (Theme from “Superfly”) - Curtis Mayfield
It’s Not Love (But It’s Not Bad) - Merle Haggard
1980
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
Lady - Kenny Rogers
The Wanderer - Donna Summer
On the Road Again - Willie Nelson
1988
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
The Loco-Motion - Kylie Minogue
Darlene - T. Graham Brown
Quote of the Day
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Today in History - Nov 10th
United States Marine Corps' 233rd Birthday
Today's Birthdays
1483 Martin Luther, religious leader (Protestantism) died Feb 18, 1546
1889 Claude Rains, actor (Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia) died May 30, 1967
1916 Billy May, composer/bandleader, died Jan 22, 2004
1919 George Fenneman, announcer (You Bet Your Life) died May 29, 1997
1924 Russell Johnson, actor (Gilligan's Island)
1925 Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.), actor (Camelot, Hamlet, The Longest Day, The Robe) died Aug 5, 1984
1932 Roy Scheider, actor (All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Jaws series, seaQuest DSV) died February 10, 2008
1944 Tim Rice, lyricist (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
1947 Dave Loggins, singer (Please Come to Boston)
1947 Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper) died Oct 19, 1997
1947 Greg Lake, bassist/singer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
1948 Vincent Schiavelli, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Better Off Dead, Amadeus) died Dec 26, 2005
1949 Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughn), singer/songwriter (The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.)
1950 Ronnie Hammond, singer (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1950 Debra Hill, screenwriter/film producer (Halloween, The Fog) died Mar 7, 2005
1954 Mario Cipollina, bassist (Huey Lewis & the News)
1955 Roland Emmerich, director (The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot)
1956 Sinbad (David Adkins), actor/comedian (A Different World, Necessary Roughness)
1956 Matt Craven, actor (Disturbia, Timeline)
1959 (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips, actress (One Day at a Time, American Graffiti)
1959 Linda Cohn, sports reporter/anchor (ESPN)
1959 Nancy Cartwright, voice actress (The Simpsons)
1963 Tommy Davidson, actor/comedian (In Living Color)
1963 Mike McCarthy, NFL head coach (Green Bay Packers)
1966 Vanessa Angel, actress (There's Something About Mary, Kingpin)
1968 Tracy Morgan, comedian/actor (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live)
1969 Ellen Pompeo, actress (Old School, Grey's Anatomy)
1971 Ulfie #4, board member
1975 Jim Adkins, singer/musician (Jimmy Eat World)
1977 Brittany Murphy, actress (Clueless, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl Interrupted)
1978 Eve, rapper/actress (Barbershop series)
1981 Jason L. Dunham, U.S. Marine Corporal/Medal of Honor recipient, died April 22, 2004 when he threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow Marines
1981 Alison Waite, model/playmate (May 2006)
1982 Heather Matarazzo, actress (Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Devil's Advocate)
Today's Deaths in History
1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder/first President of Turkey, dies at 57
1975 Ernest M. McSorley, ship captain (Edmund Fitzgerald) dies at 63
1982 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies at 75
1985 Pelle Lindbergh, NHL goaltender (Philadelphia Flyers) dies at 26
1986 King Clancy, NHL player/coach/referee (Ottawa Senators, Tornoto Maple Leafs) dies at 83
1992 Chuck Connors, actor (Cowboy in Africa, The Rifleman) dies at 71
1994 Carmen McRae, jazz singer, dies at 74
2001 Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) dies at 66
2006 Gerald Levert, R&B singer (Levert) dies at 40
2006 Jack Palance, actor (City Slickers series, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Batman) dies at 87
2007 Norman Mailer, author (The Naked and the Dead) dies at 84
Today in History
1483 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben, Germany.
1775 The U.S. Marines were founded and organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1865 Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1871 Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa and delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis.
1928 Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1928 In the game against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gave what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying, "Win one for the Gipper."
1938 Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1942 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, discussing the recent victory over Rommel at El Alamein, Egypt, said "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
1951 Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J., called his counterpart in Alameda, Calif.
1954 The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, Va.
1958 The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 Sesame Street debuted on PBS.
1975 The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism.
1975 The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm in Lake Superior; all 29 crew members died.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors in Washington, D.C.
1997 A judge in Cambridge, Mass., reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she'd already served in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1997 WorldCom Inc. and MCI Communications Corp. agreed to a $37 billion merger.
2001 The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.
2004 President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general, succeeding John Ashcroft.
2007 Six U.S. troops died in an insurgent ambush, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in Afghanistan since 2001.
Chart Toppers
1949
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack
Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Everybody Loves a Clown - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright
1973
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Heartbeat - It’s a Lovebeat - The DeFranco Family
Photograph - Ringo Starr
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond
1981
Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You - Bob Seger
Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys
1989
Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
Cover Girl - New Kids on the Block
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Ace in the Hole - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester Nimitz, Navy Admiral/Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces (1885-1966) speaking of the Marines' performance in taking Iwo Jima, World War II
United States Marine Corps' 233rd Birthday
Today's Birthdays
1483 Martin Luther, religious leader (Protestantism) died Feb 18, 1546
1889 Claude Rains, actor (Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia) died May 30, 1967
1916 Billy May, composer/bandleader, died Jan 22, 2004
1919 George Fenneman, announcer (You Bet Your Life) died May 29, 1997
1924 Russell Johnson, actor (Gilligan's Island)
1925 Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.), actor (Camelot, Hamlet, The Longest Day, The Robe) died Aug 5, 1984
1932 Roy Scheider, actor (All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Jaws series, seaQuest DSV) died February 10, 2008
1944 Tim Rice, lyricist (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
1947 Dave Loggins, singer (Please Come to Boston)
1947 Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper) died Oct 19, 1997
1947 Greg Lake, bassist/singer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
1948 Vincent Schiavelli, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Better Off Dead, Amadeus) died Dec 26, 2005
1949 Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughn), singer/songwriter (The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.)
1950 Ronnie Hammond, singer (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1950 Debra Hill, screenwriter/film producer (Halloween, The Fog) died Mar 7, 2005
1954 Mario Cipollina, bassist (Huey Lewis & the News)
1955 Roland Emmerich, director (The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot)
1956 Sinbad (David Adkins), actor/comedian (A Different World, Necessary Roughness)
1956 Matt Craven, actor (Disturbia, Timeline)
1959 (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips, actress (One Day at a Time, American Graffiti)
1959 Linda Cohn, sports reporter/anchor (ESPN)
1959 Nancy Cartwright, voice actress (The Simpsons)
1963 Tommy Davidson, actor/comedian (In Living Color)
1963 Mike McCarthy, NFL head coach (Green Bay Packers)
1966 Vanessa Angel, actress (There's Something About Mary, Kingpin)
1968 Tracy Morgan, comedian/actor (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live)
1969 Ellen Pompeo, actress (Old School, Grey's Anatomy)
1971 Ulfie #4, board member
1975 Jim Adkins, singer/musician (Jimmy Eat World)
1977 Brittany Murphy, actress (Clueless, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl Interrupted)
1978 Eve, rapper/actress (Barbershop series)
1981 Jason L. Dunham, U.S. Marine Corporal/Medal of Honor recipient, died April 22, 2004 when he threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow Marines
1981 Alison Waite, model/playmate (May 2006)
1982 Heather Matarazzo, actress (Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Devil's Advocate)
Today's Deaths in History
1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder/first President of Turkey, dies at 57
1975 Ernest M. McSorley, ship captain (Edmund Fitzgerald) dies at 63
1982 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies at 75
1985 Pelle Lindbergh, NHL goaltender (Philadelphia Flyers) dies at 26
1986 King Clancy, NHL player/coach/referee (Ottawa Senators, Tornoto Maple Leafs) dies at 83
1992 Chuck Connors, actor (Cowboy in Africa, The Rifleman) dies at 71
1994 Carmen McRae, jazz singer, dies at 74
2001 Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) dies at 66
2006 Gerald Levert, R&B singer (Levert) dies at 40
2006 Jack Palance, actor (City Slickers series, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Batman) dies at 87
2007 Norman Mailer, author (The Naked and the Dead) dies at 84
Today in History
1483 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben, Germany.
1775 The U.S. Marines were founded and organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1865 Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1871 Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa and delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis.
1928 Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1928 In the game against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gave what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying, "Win one for the Gipper."
1938 Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1942 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, discussing the recent victory over Rommel at El Alamein, Egypt, said "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
1951 Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J., called his counterpart in Alameda, Calif.
1954 The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, Va.
1958 The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 Sesame Street debuted on PBS.
1975 The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism.
1975 The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm in Lake Superior; all 29 crew members died.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors in Washington, D.C.
1997 A judge in Cambridge, Mass., reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she'd already served in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1997 WorldCom Inc. and MCI Communications Corp. agreed to a $37 billion merger.
2001 The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.
2004 President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general, succeeding John Ashcroft.
2007 Six U.S. troops died in an insurgent ambush, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in Afghanistan since 2001.
Chart Toppers
1949
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack
Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Everybody Loves a Clown - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright
1973
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Heartbeat - It’s a Lovebeat - The DeFranco Family
Photograph - Ringo Starr
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond
1981
Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You - Bob Seger
Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys
1989
Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
Cover Girl - New Kids on the Block
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Ace in the Hole - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester Nimitz, Navy Admiral/Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces (1885-1966) speaking of the Marines' performance in taking Iwo Jima, World War II
Happy Birthday Giac!
QUOTE(Sed @ Nov 10 2008, 09:44 AM)
Happy Birthday Giac!
Thanks, Sed -- I'm getting into the Tux shortly and heading to the Birthday Ball.
Happy Birthday Giac!
You're already in a great place, so I hope the company is the same.
You're already in a great place, so I hope the company is the same.
Today in History - Nov 11th - Veteran's Day
Today's Birthdays
1744 Abigail Smith Adams, First Lady of 2nd U.S. President John Adams, died Oct 28, 1818
1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, revolutionary/author (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment) died Feb 9, 1881
1885 George S. (Smith) Patton Jr., U.S. Army General (World War II) died Dec 21, 1945
1889 Clifton Webb (Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck), actor (Laura, Three Coins in the Fountain, Mr. Belvedere series) died Oct 13, 1966
1899 Pat (William Joseph Patrick) O’Brien, actor (Knute Rockne All American, Ragtime, Some like It Hot) died Oct 15, 1983
1909 Robert Ryan, actor (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Dirty Dozen, Flying Leathernecks, The Longest Day) died July 11, 1973
1911 Patric (Reginald Lawrence) Knowles, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, How Green was My Valley) died Dec 23, 1995
1918 Stubby Kaye, actor (Cat Ballou, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) died Dec 14, 1997
1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., writer (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions) died Apr 11, 2007
1925 Jonathan (Harshman) Winters III, actor/comedian (The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, Mork & Mindy)
1929 LaVern Baker, Rock and Roll Hall of fame singer (I Cried a Tear, Jim Dandy) died March 10, 1997
1944 Jesse Colin Young (Perry Miller), songwriter/musician (The Youngbloods)
1945 Vince Martell, guitarist/singer (Vanilla Fudge)
1946 Chris Dreja, guitarist (Yardbirds)
1947 Pat Daugherty, bassist (Black Oak Arkansas)
1950 Jim Peterik, keyboardist (Survivor)
1951 Fuzzy (Frank) Zoeller, golf champion
1953 Andy Partridge, singer/guitarist (XTC)
1953 Marshall Crenshaw, singer (Someday Someway)
1955 Dave Alvin, singer (The Blasters)
1956 Ian Craig Marsh, keyboardist (Heaven 17, Human League)
1960 Stanley Tucci, actor (Big Night, The Imposters, Big Trouble, The Terminal)
1962 Mic Michaeli, keyboardist (Europe)
1962 Demi Moore (Demetria Guynes), actress (One Crazy Summer, Ghost, A Few Good Men, St. Elmo’s Fire, Striptease, G.I. Jane)
1964 Calista Flockhart, actress (The Birdcage, Ally McBeal)
1964 Scott Mercado, drummer (Candlebox)
1966 Alison Doody, Irish actress (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A View to a Kill)
1968 Ronnie Devoe, singer (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1968 Wyatt Pauley, guitarist (Linear)
1969 Carson Kressley, TV personality (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
1972 Leslie Mann, actress (Big Daddy, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up)
1972 Adam Beach, actor (Smoke Signals, Windtalkers, Flags of Our Fathers)
1973 Jason White, touring guitarist (Green Day)
1974 Leonardo (Wilhelm) DiCaprio, actor (Titanic, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Aviator)
1976 Lisa Gleave, actress/model (Deal or No Deal)
1980 Willie Parker, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1981 Jonathan Pretus, guitarist (Cowboy Mouth)
Today's Deaths in History
1831 Nat Turner, slave/rebel, is executed at 31
1855 Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, dies at 42
1917 Queen Lili'uokalani, last Queen of Hawaii, dies at 79
1938 Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease, dies at 69
1945 Jerome Kern, composer (Ol' Man River, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) dies at 60
1993 Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter/big band leader, dies at 79
1999 Mary Kay Bergman, voice actress (South Park) commits suicide at 38
2004 Yasser Arafat, PLO leader, dies at 75
Today in History
1620 Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."
1634 Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passed "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery."
1831 Former slave Nat Turner, who had led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Va.
1839 The Virginia Military Institute was founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1864 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1889 Washington became the 42nd state.
1918 Fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.
1921 President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1926 U.S. Route 66 was established.
1965 Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
1972 The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1992 The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1998 Israel's Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
2000 Republicans went to court, seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in Florida's presidential election.
2000 A cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders caught fire while being pulled through an Alpine tunnel in Austria, killing 155 people.
Chart Toppers
1950
All My Love - Patti Page
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Thinking of You - Don Cherry
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers
Dandy - Herman’s Hermits
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens
1974
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Jazzman - Carole King
Whatever Gets You Thru the Night - John Lennon with The Plastic Ono
Nuclear Band
Love is like a Butterfly - Dolly Parton
1982
Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
You’re So Good When You’re Bad - Charley Pride
1990
Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Pray - M.C. Hammer
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
Home - Joe Diffie
Quote of the Day
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
Today's Birthdays
1744 Abigail Smith Adams, First Lady of 2nd U.S. President John Adams, died Oct 28, 1818
1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, revolutionary/author (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment) died Feb 9, 1881
1885 George S. (Smith) Patton Jr., U.S. Army General (World War II) died Dec 21, 1945
1889 Clifton Webb (Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck), actor (Laura, Three Coins in the Fountain, Mr. Belvedere series) died Oct 13, 1966
1899 Pat (William Joseph Patrick) O’Brien, actor (Knute Rockne All American, Ragtime, Some like It Hot) died Oct 15, 1983
1909 Robert Ryan, actor (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Dirty Dozen, Flying Leathernecks, The Longest Day) died July 11, 1973
1911 Patric (Reginald Lawrence) Knowles, actor (The Devil’s Brigade, How Green was My Valley) died Dec 23, 1995
1918 Stubby Kaye, actor (Cat Ballou, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) died Dec 14, 1997
1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., writer (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions) died Apr 11, 2007
1925 Jonathan (Harshman) Winters III, actor/comedian (The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, Mork & Mindy)
1929 LaVern Baker, Rock and Roll Hall of fame singer (I Cried a Tear, Jim Dandy) died March 10, 1997
1944 Jesse Colin Young (Perry Miller), songwriter/musician (The Youngbloods)
1945 Vince Martell, guitarist/singer (Vanilla Fudge)
1946 Chris Dreja, guitarist (Yardbirds)
1947 Pat Daugherty, bassist (Black Oak Arkansas)
1950 Jim Peterik, keyboardist (Survivor)
1951 Fuzzy (Frank) Zoeller, golf champion
1953 Andy Partridge, singer/guitarist (XTC)
1953 Marshall Crenshaw, singer (Someday Someway)
1955 Dave Alvin, singer (The Blasters)
1956 Ian Craig Marsh, keyboardist (Heaven 17, Human League)
1960 Stanley Tucci, actor (Big Night, The Imposters, Big Trouble, The Terminal)
1962 Mic Michaeli, keyboardist (Europe)
1962 Demi Moore (Demetria Guynes), actress (One Crazy Summer, Ghost, A Few Good Men, St. Elmo’s Fire, Striptease, G.I. Jane)
1964 Calista Flockhart, actress (The Birdcage, Ally McBeal)
1964 Scott Mercado, drummer (Candlebox)
1966 Alison Doody, Irish actress (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A View to a Kill)
1968 Ronnie Devoe, singer (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1968 Wyatt Pauley, guitarist (Linear)
1969 Carson Kressley, TV personality (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
1972 Leslie Mann, actress (Big Daddy, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up)
1972 Adam Beach, actor (Smoke Signals, Windtalkers, Flags of Our Fathers)
1973 Jason White, touring guitarist (Green Day)
1974 Leonardo (Wilhelm) DiCaprio, actor (Titanic, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Aviator)
1976 Lisa Gleave, actress/model (Deal or No Deal)
1980 Willie Parker, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1981 Jonathan Pretus, guitarist (Cowboy Mouth)
Today's Deaths in History
1831 Nat Turner, slave/rebel, is executed at 31
1855 Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, dies at 42
1917 Queen Lili'uokalani, last Queen of Hawaii, dies at 79
1938 Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease, dies at 69
1945 Jerome Kern, composer (Ol' Man River, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) dies at 60
1993 Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter/big band leader, dies at 79
1999 Mary Kay Bergman, voice actress (South Park) commits suicide at 38
2004 Yasser Arafat, PLO leader, dies at 75
Today in History
1620 Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."
1634 Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passed "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery."
1831 Former slave Nat Turner, who had led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Va.
1839 The Virginia Military Institute was founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1864 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1889 Washington became the 42nd state.
1918 Fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.
1921 President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1926 U.S. Route 66 was established.
1965 Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
1972 The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1992 The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1998 Israel's Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
2000 Republicans went to court, seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in Florida's presidential election.
2000 A cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders caught fire while being pulled through an Alpine tunnel in Austria, killing 155 people.
Chart Toppers
1950
All My Love - Patti Page
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Thinking of You - Don Cherry
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow
1958
It’s Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers
Dandy - Herman’s Hermits
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens
1974
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Jazzman - Carole King
Whatever Gets You Thru the Night - John Lennon with The Plastic Ono
Nuclear Band
Love is like a Butterfly - Dolly Parton
1982
Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
You’re So Good When You’re Bad - Charley Pride
1990
Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Pray - M.C. Hammer
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
Home - Joe Diffie
Quote of the Day
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
Today in History - Nov 12th
Today's Birthdays
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women’s rights activist, died October 26, 1902
1840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor (The Kiss, The Thinker) died Nov 17, 1917
1866 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, died Mar 12,1925
1908 Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade) died Mar 4, 1999
1917 Jo Stafford, singer (Jambalaya, Long Ago and Far Away) died July 16, 2008
1922 Kim Hunter (Janet Cole), actress (A Streetcar Named Desire, Planet of the Apes series) died Sep 11, 2002
1929 Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco), singer/actress (High Noon, Rear Window) died Sep 14, 1982
1934 Charles Manson, cult leader/murderer
1936 Mills Lane, judge/boxing referee
1943 Brian Hyland, singer (Sealed with a Kiss, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini)
1943 Wallace Shawn, actor (Clueless, The Princess Bride, My Dinner with Andre)
1944 Booker T. Jones, musician (Booker T and the MG’s)
1944 Al Michaels, sportscaster (Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Football)
1945 Neil Young, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffalo Springfield)
1947 Donald Roeser, guitarist/songwriter (Blue Oyster Cult)
1948 Errol Brown, songwriter/singer (Hot Chocolate)
1955 Leslie McKeown, singer (The Bay City Rollers)
1958 Megan Mullally, actress (Will and Grace)
1961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic Gold Medal gymnast
1964 David Ellefson, bassist (Megadeath)
1967 Sam Lloyd, actor (Scrubs)
1968 Sammy (Samuel Peralta) Sosa, MLB outfielder (Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs)
1969 Kathleen Hanna, singer/songwriter (Bikini Kill)
1970 Tonya Harding, figure skater/kneecapper
1973 Radha Mitchell, actress (Silent Hill, Pitch Black, Phone Booth)
1974 Tamala Jones, actress (Booty Call, The Wood, Kingdom Come)
1974 Lourdes Benedicto, actress (24, The Nine)
1975 Angela Watson, actress (Step by Step)
1976 Tevin Campbell, R&B singer
1977 Dalene Kurtis, playmate (Sept 2001, PMOY 2002)
1980 Ryan Gosling, actor (The Notebook, Half Nelson)
1982 Anne Hathaway, actress (The Devil Wears Prada)
Today's Deaths in History
1981 William Holden, actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard) dies at 63
1990 Eve Arden, actress (Grease series) dies at 82
1993 H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff, dies at 67
1994 Wilma Rudolph, Olympic runner, dies at 54
2003 Kay E. Kuter, actor (Green Acres, Petticoat Juntion, The Last Starfighter, Deep Space Nine) dies at 78
2003 Tony Thompson, drummer (Chic, Power Station) dies at 48
2003 Jonathan Brandis, actor (Who's the Boss?) dies at 27
Today in History
1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first commissioner.
1927 Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1933 Hugh Gray took the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1942 The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began.
1948 Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
1954 Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon set February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
1979 In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, President Jimmy Carter ordered a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1981 Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a manned spacecraft was launched into space twice.
1982 Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1985 Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor.
1987 The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person has AIDS or is HIV-positive.
1990 Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1996 Jonathan Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Scott Amedure, a gay man who'd revealed a crush on Schmitz during a taping of The Jenny Jones Show.
1997 Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
1998 Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
1999 President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
2001 An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy airport, killing 265 people.
2004 A jury in Redwood City, Calif., convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay; Peterson was later sentenced to death.
2006 Gerald R. Ford surpassed Ronald Reagan as the longest-lived U.S. president at 93 years and 121 days (Ford died the following month).
2007 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in four days ahead of a planned march to protest emergency rule.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
Sin (It’s No) - Eddy Howard
And So to Sleep Again - Patti Page
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
Country Girl - Faron Young
1967
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
You Mean the World to Me - David Houston
1975
Island Girl - Elton John
Lyin’ Eyes - The Eagles
Who Loves You - Four Seasons
I’m Sorry - John Denver
1983
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Somebody’s Gonna Love You - Lee Greenwood
1991
Cream - Prince & The N.P.G.
Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
Real, Real, Real - Jesus Jones
Someday - Alan Jackson
Quote of the Day
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women’s rights activist, died October 26, 1902
1840 Auguste Rodin, sculptor (The Kiss, The Thinker) died Nov 17, 1917
1866 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, died Mar 12,1925
1908 Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade) died Mar 4, 1999
1917 Jo Stafford, singer (Jambalaya, Long Ago and Far Away) died July 16, 2008
1922 Kim Hunter (Janet Cole), actress (A Streetcar Named Desire, Planet of the Apes series) died Sep 11, 2002
1929 Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco), singer/actress (High Noon, Rear Window) died Sep 14, 1982
1934 Charles Manson, cult leader/murderer
1936 Mills Lane, judge/boxing referee
1943 Brian Hyland, singer (Sealed with a Kiss, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini)
1943 Wallace Shawn, actor (Clueless, The Princess Bride, My Dinner with Andre)
1944 Booker T. Jones, musician (Booker T and the MG’s)
1944 Al Michaels, sportscaster (Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Football)
1945 Neil Young, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffalo Springfield)
1947 Donald Roeser, guitarist/songwriter (Blue Oyster Cult)
1948 Errol Brown, songwriter/singer (Hot Chocolate)
1955 Leslie McKeown, singer (The Bay City Rollers)
1958 Megan Mullally, actress (Will and Grace)
1961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic Gold Medal gymnast
1964 David Ellefson, bassist (Megadeath)
1967 Sam Lloyd, actor (Scrubs)
1968 Sammy (Samuel Peralta) Sosa, MLB outfielder (Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs)
1969 Kathleen Hanna, singer/songwriter (Bikini Kill)
1970 Tonya Harding, figure skater/kneecapper
1973 Radha Mitchell, actress (Silent Hill, Pitch Black, Phone Booth)
1974 Tamala Jones, actress (Booty Call, The Wood, Kingdom Come)
1974 Lourdes Benedicto, actress (24, The Nine)
1975 Angela Watson, actress (Step by Step)
1976 Tevin Campbell, R&B singer
1977 Dalene Kurtis, playmate (Sept 2001, PMOY 2002)
1980 Ryan Gosling, actor (The Notebook, Half Nelson)
1982 Anne Hathaway, actress (The Devil Wears Prada)
Today's Deaths in History
1981 William Holden, actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard) dies at 63
1990 Eve Arden, actress (Grease series) dies at 82
1993 H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff, dies at 67
1994 Wilma Rudolph, Olympic runner, dies at 54
2003 Kay E. Kuter, actor (Green Acres, Petticoat Juntion, The Last Starfighter, Deep Space Nine) dies at 78
2003 Tony Thompson, drummer (Chic, Power Station) dies at 48
2003 Jonathan Brandis, actor (Who's the Boss?) dies at 27
Today in History
1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first commissioner.
1927 Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1933 Hugh Gray took the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1942 The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began.
1948 Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
1954 Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon set February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
1979 In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, President Jimmy Carter ordered a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1981 Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a manned spacecraft was launched into space twice.
1982 Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1985 Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor.
1987 The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person has AIDS or is HIV-positive.
1990 Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1996 Jonathan Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Scott Amedure, a gay man who'd revealed a crush on Schmitz during a taping of The Jenny Jones Show.
1997 Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
1998 Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
1999 President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.
2001 An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy airport, killing 265 people.
2004 A jury in Redwood City, Calif., convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay; Peterson was later sentenced to death.
2006 Gerald R. Ford surpassed Ronald Reagan as the longest-lived U.S. president at 93 years and 121 days (Ford died the following month).
2007 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in four days ahead of a planned march to protest emergency rule.
Chart Toppers
1951
Because of You - Tony Bennett
Sin (It’s No) - Eddy Howard
And So to Sleep Again - Patti Page
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King
1959
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
Country Girl - Faron Young
1967
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
You Mean the World to Me - David Houston
1975
Island Girl - Elton John
Lyin’ Eyes - The Eagles
Who Loves You - Four Seasons
I’m Sorry - John Denver
1983
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Somebody’s Gonna Love You - Lee Greenwood
1991
Cream - Prince & The N.P.G.
Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
Real, Real, Real - Jesus Jones
Someday - Alan Jackson
Quote of the Day
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Today in History - Nov 13th
Today's Birthdays
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, author (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde) died Dec 3, 1894
1856 Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died Oct 5, 1941
1916 Jack Elam, actor (High Noon, Cannonball Run series, Rawhide) died Oct 20, 2003
1922 Oskar Werner, actor (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Fahrenheit 451) died Oct 23, 1984
1932 Richard Mulligan, actor (Soap, Empty Nest, Little Big Man) died Sep 26, 2000
1934 Garry Marshall, director/producer (The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days, A League of Their Own)
1934 Peter Arnett, journalist (CNN)
1941 Dack (Norman) Rambo, actor (Dallas) died Mar 21, 1994
1941 Mel (Melvin Leon, Sr.) Stottlemyre, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
1947 Joe Mantegna, actor (Airheads, The Godfather Part III, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Joan of Arcadia)
1953 Tracy Scoggins, actress (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)
1953 Frances Conroy, actress (Six Feet Under)
1953 Andrew Ranken, drummer (The Pogues)
1954 Chris Noth, actor (Law & Order, Baby Boom, Sex and the City)
1955 Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson), actress (Ghost, The Color Purple, Sister Act series)
1956 Rex Linn, actor (CSI: Miami)
1959 Caroline Goodall, actress (Schindler’s List, Hook, The Princess Diaries)
1960 Neil Flynn, actor (Scrubs)
1963 Vinny Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers)
1967 Jimmy Kimmel, comedian/talk show host (Jimmy Kimmel Live)
1968 Steve Zahn, actor (That Thing You Do!, Out of Sight, Happy Texas)
1969 Gerard Butler, Scottish actor (300, The Phantom of the Opera)
1978 Nikolai Fraiture, bassist (The Strokes)
1980 Monique Coleman, singer/actress (High School Musical)
Today's Deaths in History
1973 Lila Lee, actress (Blood and Sand) dies at 72
1974 Karen Silkwood, activist, is killed in a car crash at 28
1985 George Robert Vincent, sound recording pioneer, dies at 87
1998 Valerie Hobson, British actress (Werewolf of London) dies at 81
2003 Kellie Waymire, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Six Feet Under) dies at 36
2004 Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper, dies at 35
Today in History
1775 U.S. forces captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
1789 Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1927 The Holland Tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River opened to the public.
1942 The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
1956 The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1969 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
1974 Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., was killed in a car crash.
1977 The comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.
1979 Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1982 Ray Mancini defeated Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada; Kim's subsequent death led to significant changes in the sport.
1985 A mudslide triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried the city of Armero, Colombia, killing some 23,000 people.
1995 A truck-bomb exploded outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians.
1997 The Disney musical The Lion King opened on Broadway.
1998 President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, ending the four-year legal battle over her sexual harassment lawsuit that spurred impeachment proceedings against him. Clinton did not admit guilt.
2001 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban abandoned the capital Kabul without a fight, allowing U.S.-backed northern alliance fighters to take over the city.
2002 Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel for having "placed himself above the law."
2007 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto demanded the resignation of U.S.-backed President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, dashing Western hopes the two would form an alliance to confront strengthening Islamic extremists.
2007 French rail workers went on a nine-day strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to strip away labor protections.
Chart Toppers
1944
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
The Trolley Song - The Pied Pipers
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Because You’re Mine - Mario Lanza
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes
I Walk Alone - Marty Robbins
1976
Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Love So Right - Bee Gees
Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) - Loretta
Lynn
1984
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
I’ve Been Around Enough to Know - John Schneider
Quote of the Day
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
George Santayana, philosopher (1863 - 1952)
Today's Birthdays
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, author (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde) died Dec 3, 1894
1856 Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died Oct 5, 1941
1916 Jack Elam, actor (High Noon, Cannonball Run series, Rawhide) died Oct 20, 2003
1922 Oskar Werner, actor (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Fahrenheit 451) died Oct 23, 1984
1932 Richard Mulligan, actor (Soap, Empty Nest, Little Big Man) died Sep 26, 2000
1934 Garry Marshall, director/producer (The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days, A League of Their Own)
1934 Peter Arnett, journalist (CNN)
1941 Dack (Norman) Rambo, actor (Dallas) died Mar 21, 1994
1941 Mel (Melvin Leon, Sr.) Stottlemyre, MLB pitcher (NY Yankees)
1947 Joe Mantegna, actor (Airheads, The Godfather Part III, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Joan of Arcadia)
1953 Tracy Scoggins, actress (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)
1953 Frances Conroy, actress (Six Feet Under)
1953 Andrew Ranken, drummer (The Pogues)
1954 Chris Noth, actor (Law & Order, Baby Boom, Sex and the City)
1955 Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson), actress (Ghost, The Color Purple, Sister Act series)
1956 Rex Linn, actor (CSI: Miami)
1959 Caroline Goodall, actress (Schindler’s List, Hook, The Princess Diaries)
1960 Neil Flynn, actor (Scrubs)
1963 Vinny Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers)
1967 Jimmy Kimmel, comedian/talk show host (Jimmy Kimmel Live)
1968 Steve Zahn, actor (That Thing You Do!, Out of Sight, Happy Texas)
1969 Gerard Butler, Scottish actor (300, The Phantom of the Opera)
1978 Nikolai Fraiture, bassist (The Strokes)
1980 Monique Coleman, singer/actress (High School Musical)
Today's Deaths in History
1973 Lila Lee, actress (Blood and Sand) dies at 72
1974 Karen Silkwood, activist, is killed in a car crash at 28
1985 George Robert Vincent, sound recording pioneer, dies at 87
1998 Valerie Hobson, British actress (Werewolf of London) dies at 81
2003 Kellie Waymire, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Six Feet Under) dies at 36
2004 Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper, dies at 35
Today in History
1775 U.S. forces captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
1789 Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1927 The Holland Tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River opened to the public.
1942 The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.
1956 The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1969 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
1974 Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., was killed in a car crash.
1977 The comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.
1979 Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1982 Ray Mancini defeated Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada; Kim's subsequent death led to significant changes in the sport.
1985 A mudslide triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried the city of Armero, Colombia, killing some 23,000 people.
1995 A truck-bomb exploded outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians.
1997 The Disney musical The Lion King opened on Broadway.
1998 President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, ending the four-year legal battle over her sexual harassment lawsuit that spurred impeachment proceedings against him. Clinton did not admit guilt.
2001 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban abandoned the capital Kabul without a fight, allowing U.S.-backed northern alliance fighters to take over the city.
2002 Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel for having "placed himself above the law."
2007 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto demanded the resignation of U.S.-backed President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, dashing Western hopes the two would form an alliance to confront strengthening Islamic extremists.
2007 French rail workers went on a nine-day strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy's bid to strip away labor protections.
Chart Toppers
1944
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
The Trolley Song - The Pied Pipers
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley
1952
You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Because You’re Mine - Mario Lanza
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1960
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky
1968
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes
I Walk Alone - Marty Robbins
1976
Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Love So Right - Bee Gees
Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) - Loretta
Lynn
1984
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
I’ve Been Around Enough to Know - John Schneider
Quote of the Day
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
George Santayana, philosopher (1863 - 1952)
Today in History - Nov 14th
Today's Birthdays
1765 Robert Fulton, builder of first profitable steamboat, died Feb 24, 1815
1840 Claude Monet, artist (Water Lilies) died Dec 5, 1926
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first prime minister, died May 27, 1964
1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower, First Lady, died Nov 1, 1979
1900 Aaron Copland, composer (Fanfare for the Common Man) died Dec 2, 1990
1904 Dick (Richard E.) Powell, actor (Gold Diggers series, Cry Danger) died Jan 2, 1963
1908 Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator/Commie hunter, died May 2, 1957
1916 Sherwood Schwartz, television writer/producer (Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island)
1919 Veronica Lake, actress (So Proudly We Hail) died July 7, 1973
1920 Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo de Simone), singer (Yellow Rose of Texas) died Sep 6, 1985
1921 Brian Keith (Robert Keith Richey, Jr.), actor (Family Affair, The Parent Trap) died June 24, 1997
1922 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN Secretary-General
1929 Tiny (DeWayne) Lund, NASCAR driver, died Aug 10, 1975
1929 McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry) died Feb 15, 1996
1930 Edward White, astronaut, killed aboard Apollo 1 Jan 27, 1967
1933 Fred Haise Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13)
1936 Cornell Gunter, singer (The Coasters) died Feb 26, 1990
1940 Freddie Garrity, singer(Freddie and the Dreamers) died May 19, 2006
1948 Prince Charles of Wales
1949 James Young, guitarist (Styx)
1951 Stephen Bishop, songwriter/singer (It Might Be You, On and On)
1954 Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
1954 Yanni (Chrysomallis), pianist/composer
1955 Frankie Banali, drummer (Quiet Riot)
1956 Alec Jon Such, bassist (Bon Jovi)
1961 D. B. Sweeney, actor (The Cutting Edge, Eight Men Out, Memphis Belle)
1961 Laura San Giacomo, actress (Just Shoot Me, Pretty Woman, sex, lies and videotape)
1964 Patrick Warburton, actor (Seinfeld, Men in Black 2, Big Trouble, The Dish)
1964 Rev. Run, rapper (Run-DMC)
1965 Jeanette Jurado, singer (Exposé)
1966 Curt Schilling, MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1967 Nina Gordon, singer (Veruca Salt)
1968 Brian Yale, bassist (Matchbox 20)
1972 Josh Duhamel, actor (Las Vegas)
1973 Dana Snyder, voice actor (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
1975 Travis Barker, drummer (Blink 182, +44)
1979 Tobin Esperance, bassist (Papa Roach)
1979 Olga Kurylenko, actress (Quantum of Solace)
1981 DetroitHockey, board member
1982 Kyle Orton, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1984 Anaconda, board member
1988 Knight of Dight, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1915 Booker T. Washington, educator/inventor, dies at 59
1916 Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), British writer (The Open Window) dies at 45
1991 Tony Richardson, film director (Look Back in Anger) dies at 63
1997 Eddie Arcaro, jockey, dies at 81
2001 Charlotte Coleman, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral) dies at 33
2002 Eddie Bracken, actor (Hello, Dolly!, The Odd Couple) dies at 87
2003 Gene Anthony Ray, actor/dancer (Fame) dies at 41
Today in History
1832 The first streetcar, actually a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason, went into operation in New York City.
1851 Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick was published.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield; he was convicted and hanged.
1889 Inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days; she made the trip in 72 days.
1910 Aviator Eugene Ely performed the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1922 The British Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.
1940 German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry during World War II.
1969 Apollo 12 was launched on the second manned mission to the moon.
1971 Mariner 9 reached Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
1972 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.
1973 Britain's Princess Anne married Capt. Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey.
1979 President Jimmy Carter issued Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1986 The SEC fined Ivan F. Boesky $100 million for insider stock trading.
1991 In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee went on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
1995 The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while government offices operated with skeleton crews.
1999 The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden.
2001 Eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, who had been accused of preaching Christianity in Afghanistan were freed by the Taliban.
2002 Argentina defaulted on an $805 million World Bank payment.
2002 The United States House of Representatives voted not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
Chart Toppers
1945
It’s Been a Long, Long Time - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy that Dream - The Pied Pipers
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1953
Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett
Many Times - Eddie Fisher
There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce
1961
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Fool #1 - Brenda Lee
Tower of Strength - Gene McDaniels
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Come Together - The Beatles
Baby It’s You - Smith
To See My Angel Cry - Conway Twitty
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me - Barry White
More to Me - Charley Pride
1985
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Head over Heels - Tears For Fears
You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey
Can’t Keep a Good Man Down - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen, actor/writer/director (1935 - )
Today's Birthdays
1765 Robert Fulton, builder of first profitable steamboat, died Feb 24, 1815
1840 Claude Monet, artist (Water Lilies) died Dec 5, 1926
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first prime minister, died May 27, 1964
1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower, First Lady, died Nov 1, 1979
1900 Aaron Copland, composer (Fanfare for the Common Man) died Dec 2, 1990
1904 Dick (Richard E.) Powell, actor (Gold Diggers series, Cry Danger) died Jan 2, 1963
1908 Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator/Commie hunter, died May 2, 1957
1916 Sherwood Schwartz, television writer/producer (Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island)
1919 Veronica Lake, actress (So Proudly We Hail) died July 7, 1973
1920 Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo de Simone), singer (Yellow Rose of Texas) died Sep 6, 1985
1921 Brian Keith (Robert Keith Richey, Jr.), actor (Family Affair, The Parent Trap) died June 24, 1997
1922 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN Secretary-General
1929 Tiny (DeWayne) Lund, NASCAR driver, died Aug 10, 1975
1929 McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry) died Feb 15, 1996
1930 Edward White, astronaut, killed aboard Apollo 1 Jan 27, 1967
1933 Fred Haise Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13)
1936 Cornell Gunter, singer (The Coasters) died Feb 26, 1990
1940 Freddie Garrity, singer(Freddie and the Dreamers) died May 19, 2006
1948 Prince Charles of Wales
1949 James Young, guitarist (Styx)
1951 Stephen Bishop, songwriter/singer (It Might Be You, On and On)
1954 Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
1954 Yanni (Chrysomallis), pianist/composer
1955 Frankie Banali, drummer (Quiet Riot)
1956 Alec Jon Such, bassist (Bon Jovi)
1961 D. B. Sweeney, actor (The Cutting Edge, Eight Men Out, Memphis Belle)
1961 Laura San Giacomo, actress (Just Shoot Me, Pretty Woman, sex, lies and videotape)
1964 Patrick Warburton, actor (Seinfeld, Men in Black 2, Big Trouble, The Dish)
1964 Rev. Run, rapper (Run-DMC)
1965 Jeanette Jurado, singer (Exposé)
1966 Curt Schilling, MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1967 Nina Gordon, singer (Veruca Salt)
1968 Brian Yale, bassist (Matchbox 20)
1972 Josh Duhamel, actor (Las Vegas)
1973 Dana Snyder, voice actor (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
1975 Travis Barker, drummer (Blink 182, +44)
1979 Tobin Esperance, bassist (Papa Roach)
1979 Olga Kurylenko, actress (Quantum of Solace)
1981 DetroitHockey, board member
1982 Kyle Orton, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1984 Anaconda, board member
1988 Knight of Dight, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1915 Booker T. Washington, educator/inventor, dies at 59
1916 Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), British writer (The Open Window) dies at 45
1991 Tony Richardson, film director (Look Back in Anger) dies at 63
1997 Eddie Arcaro, jockey, dies at 81
2001 Charlotte Coleman, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral) dies at 33
2002 Eddie Bracken, actor (Hello, Dolly!, The Odd Couple) dies at 87
2003 Gene Anthony Ray, actor/dancer (Fame) dies at 41
Today in History
1832 The first streetcar, actually a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason, went into operation in New York City.
1851 Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick was published.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield; he was convicted and hanged.
1889 Inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days; she made the trip in 72 days.
1910 Aviator Eugene Ely performed the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1922 The British Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.
1940 German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry during World War II.
1969 Apollo 12 was launched on the second manned mission to the moon.
1971 Mariner 9 reached Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
1972 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.
1973 Britain's Princess Anne married Capt. Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey.
1979 President Jimmy Carter issued Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1986 The SEC fined Ivan F. Boesky $100 million for insider stock trading.
1991 In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee went on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
1995 The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while government offices operated with skeleton crews.
1999 The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden.
2001 Eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, who had been accused of preaching Christianity in Afghanistan were freed by the Taliban.
2002 Argentina defaulted on an $805 million World Bank payment.
2002 The United States House of Representatives voted not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
Chart Toppers
1945
It’s Been a Long, Long Time - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy that Dream - The Pied Pipers
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle
1953
Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett
Many Times - Eddie Fisher
There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce
1961
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Fool #1 - Brenda Lee
Tower of Strength - Gene McDaniels
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke
1969
Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Come Together - The Beatles
Baby It’s You - Smith
To See My Angel Cry - Conway Twitty
1977
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me - Barry White
More to Me - Charley Pride
1985
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Head over Heels - Tears For Fears
You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey
Can’t Keep a Good Man Down - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen, actor/writer/director (1935 - )
Today in History - Nov 15th
Today's Birthdays
1887 Georgia O’Keefe, artist (Black Iris, Lake George) died Mar 6, 1986
1891 W. Averell Harriman, Governor of New York, died July 26, 1986
1891 Erwin Rommel, ‘The Desert Fox,’ WWII German field marshal and commander, forced to commit suicide Oct 14, 1944
1905 Mantovani, Italian-born composer (light orchestra style) died March 29, 1980
1919 Carol Bruce, actress (WKRP in Cincinnati) died Oct 9, 2007
1919 Joseph A. Wapner, judge (The People’s Court)
1928 C.W. McCall (William Fries), singer/songwriter (Convoy)
1929 Edward Asner, actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1932 Petula Clark, singer (Downtown)
1933 Clyde (Lensley) McPhatter, R&B singer (Dominoes, Drifters) died June 13, 1972
1937 Little Willie John (William Edward John), singer (Talk to Me) died Mar 26, 1968
1937 Yaphet Kotto, actor (Midnight Run, The Running Man, Homicide: Life on the Street)
1940 Sam Waterston, actor (The Killing Fields, Law & Order)
1945 Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, singer (Abba)
1951 Beverly D’Angelo, actress (Hair, National Lampoon’s Vacation series)
1954 Tony Thompson, drummer (Chic) died Nov 12, 2003
1956 Michael Hampton, guitarist (Funkadelic)
1957 Kevin Eubanks, bandleader (The Tonight Show With Jay Leno)
1963 Kevin J. O’Connor, actor (The Mummy, Peggy Sue Got Married)
1966 Rachel True, actress (The Craft)
1967 Mari Fernandez, singer (Sweet Sensation)
1968 Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper, died Nov 13, 2004
1972 Jonny Lee Miller, actor/ex-Mr. Angelina Jolie (Hackers)
1973 Sydney Tamiia Poitier, actress (Joan of Arcadia, Death Proof)
1974 Chad Kroeger, singer (Nickelback)
1974 Jesse Sandoval, drummer (The Shins)
1976 Virginie Ledoyen, actress (The Beach)
1980 Ace Young, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1981 Lorena Ochoa, LPGA golfer
Today's Deaths in History
1819 Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist/physician (isolation of nitrogen) dies at 70
1954 Lionel Barrymore, actor (Captains Courageous) dies at 76
1958 Tyrone Power, actor (The Mark of Zorro) dies at 44
1967 Michael J. Adams, test pilot (X-15) dies at 37
1971 Edie Sedgwick, actress/model/socialite (Andy Warhol) dies at 28
1978 Margaret Mead, anthropologist, dies at 76
1996 Alger Hiss, government official/alleged spy, dies at 92
1998 Stokely Carmichael, civil rights activist (Black Panther Party) dies at 57
2006 Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model, dies of anorexia and bulimia nervosa at 21
2007 Joe Nuxhall, MLB player and sportscaster (Cincinnati Reds) dies at 79
Today in History
1515 Thomas Wolsey was invested as a Cardinal.
1777 The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
1791 The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opened its doors.
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak.
1889 Brazil's monarchy was overthrown.
1920 The first assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva.
1926 The National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.
1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1940 The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1943 German SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."
1959 Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family were murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurred during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams lost control of his aircraft, which was destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 A quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
1971 Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1979 A package from the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, began smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1982 Funeral services were held in Moscow for Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev.
1984 Baby Fae, the month-old infant who had received a baboon's heart to replace her own congenitally deformed one, died at a California medical center three weeks after the transplant.
1985 A research assistant was injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor exploded.
1985 Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.
1986 A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of delivering arms to Contra rebels and sentenced him to 30 years in prison; he was pardoned a month later.
1988 The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
1993 A judge in Mineola, N.Y., sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, who shot and wounded Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.
1993 13 Cuban refugees landed in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
2002 Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
2005 Baseball players and owners agreed on a tougher steroids-testing policy.
2005 Boeing formally launched the stretched Boeing 747-8.
2006 One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family pleaded guilty at Fort Campbell, Ky; Spec. James P. Barker, who agreed to testify against the others, was later sentenced to 90 years in prison.
2007 Baseball home run king Barry Bonds was indicted on charges related to grand jury testimony during which he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs; he has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
2007 A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroying the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
Chart Toppers
1946
Rumors are Flying - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Keep Coming Back like a Song - Dinah Shore
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Hold My Hand - Don Cornell
Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
More and More - Webb Pierce
1962
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Big Girls Don’t Cry - The 4 Seasons
All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee
I’ve Been Everywhere - Hank Snow
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me - Charley Pride
1978
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Double Vision - Foreigner
How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell
1986
Amanda - Boston
Human - Human League
True Blue - Madonna
Diggin’ Up Bones - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus, French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)
Today's Birthdays
1887 Georgia O’Keefe, artist (Black Iris, Lake George) died Mar 6, 1986
1891 W. Averell Harriman, Governor of New York, died July 26, 1986
1891 Erwin Rommel, ‘The Desert Fox,’ WWII German field marshal and commander, forced to commit suicide Oct 14, 1944
1905 Mantovani, Italian-born composer (light orchestra style) died March 29, 1980
1919 Carol Bruce, actress (WKRP in Cincinnati) died Oct 9, 2007
1919 Joseph A. Wapner, judge (The People’s Court)
1928 C.W. McCall (William Fries), singer/songwriter (Convoy)
1929 Edward Asner, actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1932 Petula Clark, singer (Downtown)
1933 Clyde (Lensley) McPhatter, R&B singer (Dominoes, Drifters) died June 13, 1972
1937 Little Willie John (William Edward John), singer (Talk to Me) died Mar 26, 1968
1937 Yaphet Kotto, actor (Midnight Run, The Running Man, Homicide: Life on the Street)
1940 Sam Waterston, actor (The Killing Fields, Law & Order)
1945 Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, singer (Abba)
1951 Beverly D’Angelo, actress (Hair, National Lampoon’s Vacation series)
1954 Tony Thompson, drummer (Chic) died Nov 12, 2003
1956 Michael Hampton, guitarist (Funkadelic)
1957 Kevin Eubanks, bandleader (The Tonight Show With Jay Leno)
1963 Kevin J. O’Connor, actor (The Mummy, Peggy Sue Got Married)
1966 Rachel True, actress (The Craft)
1967 Mari Fernandez, singer (Sweet Sensation)
1968 Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper, died Nov 13, 2004
1972 Jonny Lee Miller, actor/ex-Mr. Angelina Jolie (Hackers)
1973 Sydney Tamiia Poitier, actress (Joan of Arcadia, Death Proof)
1974 Chad Kroeger, singer (Nickelback)
1974 Jesse Sandoval, drummer (The Shins)
1976 Virginie Ledoyen, actress (The Beach)
1980 Ace Young, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1981 Lorena Ochoa, LPGA golfer
Today's Deaths in History
1819 Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist/physician (isolation of nitrogen) dies at 70
1954 Lionel Barrymore, actor (Captains Courageous) dies at 76
1958 Tyrone Power, actor (The Mark of Zorro) dies at 44
1967 Michael J. Adams, test pilot (X-15) dies at 37
1971 Edie Sedgwick, actress/model/socialite (Andy Warhol) dies at 28
1978 Margaret Mead, anthropologist, dies at 76
1996 Alger Hiss, government official/alleged spy, dies at 92
1998 Stokely Carmichael, civil rights activist (Black Panther Party) dies at 57
2006 Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model, dies of anorexia and bulimia nervosa at 21
2007 Joe Nuxhall, MLB player and sportscaster (Cincinnati Reds) dies at 79
Today in History
1515 Thomas Wolsey was invested as a Cardinal.
1777 The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
1791 The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opened its doors.
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak.
1889 Brazil's monarchy was overthrown.
1920 The first assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva.
1926 The National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.
1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1940 The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1943 German SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."
1959 Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family were murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurred during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams lost control of his aircraft, which was destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 A quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
1971 Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1979 A package from the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, began smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1982 Funeral services were held in Moscow for Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev.
1984 Baby Fae, the month-old infant who had received a baboon's heart to replace her own congenitally deformed one, died at a California medical center three weeks after the transplant.
1985 A research assistant was injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor exploded.
1985 Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.
1986 A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of delivering arms to Contra rebels and sentenced him to 30 years in prison; he was pardoned a month later.
1988 The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
1993 A judge in Mineola, N.Y., sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, who shot and wounded Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.
1993 13 Cuban refugees landed in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
2002 Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
2005 Baseball players and owners agreed on a tougher steroids-testing policy.
2005 Boeing formally launched the stretched Boeing 747-8.
2006 One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family pleaded guilty at Fort Campbell, Ky; Spec. James P. Barker, who agreed to testify against the others, was later sentenced to 90 years in prison.
2007 Baseball home run king Barry Bonds was indicted on charges related to grand jury testimony during which he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs; he has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
2007 A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroying the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
Chart Toppers
1946
Rumors are Flying - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Keep Coming Back like a Song - Dinah Shore
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1954
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Hold My Hand - Don Cornell
Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
More and More - Webb Pierce
1962
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Big Girls Don’t Cry - The 4 Seasons
All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee
I’ve Been Everywhere - Hank Snow
1970
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me - Charley Pride
1978
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Double Vision - Foreigner
How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell
1986
Amanda - Boston
Human - Human League
True Blue - Madonna
Diggin’ Up Bones - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus, French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)
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