Today in History - May 12th
Today’s Birthdays
1812 Edward Lear, illustrator/poet (Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense) died June 29, 1888
1820 Florence Nightingale, nurse/author (Notes on Nursing) died Aug 13, 1910
1828 Dante Rossetti, poet/artist (The Annunciation) died Apr 9, 1882
1850 Henry Cabot Lodge, statesman, died Nov 9, 1924
1907 Katharine Hepburn, actress (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The African Queen) died June 29, 2003
1912 Archibald Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate) died May 29, 2004
1914 Howard K. Smith, journalist/TV anchorman (ABC News) died Feb 15, 2002
1915 Mary Kay Ash, founder (Mary Kay Cosmetics) died November 22, 2001
1918 Julius Rosenberg, convicted spy, executed June 19, 1953
1925 Yogi (Lawrence Peter) Berra, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher/manager (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1928 Burt Bacharach, composer (Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head)
1936 Tom Snyder, broadcaster (The Late Show with Tom Snyder, Tomorrow) died July 29, 2007
1937 George Carlin, actor/comedian (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) died June 22, 2008
1938 Millie Perkins, actress (Ensign Pulver)
1939 Ronald L. Ziegler, Press Secretary (President Nixon) died Feb 10, 2003
1942 Ian Dury, singer (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) died Mar 27, 2000
1942 Billy Swan, songwriter/singer (I Can Help)
1943 David Walker, guitarist (Gary Lewis & The Playboys)
1945 Ian McLagan, keyboardist (The Faces)
1948 Lindsay Crouse, actress (Places in the Heart, Slap Shot)
1948 Steve Winwood, keyboardist/singer (Blind Faith, Traffic, Spencer Davis Group)
1950 Bruce Boxleitner, actor (Scarecrow and Mrs. King)
1950 Billy Squier, singer/guitarist (Everybody Wants You, The Stroke)
1950 Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor (The Usual Suspects, A Simple Twist of Fate)
1956 Greg Phillinganes, keyboardist (Toto)
1958 Kim Greist, actress (Throw Momma from the Train)
1958 Eric Singer, drummer (KISS, Alice Cooper)
1959 Ving Rhames, actor (Pulp Fiction)
1961 Billy Duffy, guitarist (The Cult)
1962 Emilio Estevez, actor (Breakfast Club, Mighty Ducks series)
1962 Brett Gurewitz, songwriter/producer (Bad Religion)
1962 April Grace, actress (Lost)
1963 Vanessa A. Williams, actress (Soul Food)
1963 Deborah Kara Unger, actress (The Game, Payback)
1966 Stephen Baldwin, actor (The Usual Suspects)
1967 Paul D'Amour, bassist (Tool)
1968 Tony Hawk, skateboard champion
1969 Kim Fields, actress (The Facts of Life, Living Single)
1970 Samantha Mathis, actress (Broken Arrow, American Psycho)
1978 Jason Biggs, actor (American Pie series)
1978 Amy Sloan, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1979 Steve Smith, NFL wide reciever (Carolina Panthers)
1984 Cheryl Burke, ballroom dancer (Dancing with the Stars)
1986 Emily VanCamp, actress (Everwood)
1992 Malcolm David Kelley, actor (Lost)
Today’s Deaths in History
1864 J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate Army general, dies at 31
1889 John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur, dies at 87
1957 Erich von Stroheim, film director/actor (Sunset Boulevard) dies at 71
1992 Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch) dies at 59 of AIDS-related cancer
2000 Adam Petty, NASCAR driver, dies at 19 in a crash during race practice
2001 Perry Como, singer, dies at 88
2001 Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer, dies at 75
2002 Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (Joe Bananas) dies at 97
2007 Teddy Infuhr, child actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) dies at 70
Today in History
1870 Manitoba entered the confederation as a Canadian province.
1932 The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J.
1937 Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1942 1,500 Jews were sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.
1949 The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin blockade.
1962 Douglas MacArthur delivered his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
1965 West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations.
1967 Pink Floyd staged the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert, at Queen Elizabeth Hall, England.
1970 The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
1972 The Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main St. was released.
1975 The Cambodian navy seized the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1982 Pope John Paul II was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal.
1992 Four suspects were arrested in the beating of trucker Reginald Denny at the start of the Los Angeles riots.
2002 Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
2003 Suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 26 people, including nine U.S. citizens.
2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers brought the Texas House to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
2008 A devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province killed some 70,000 people.
2008 Cleveland Indians second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera turned the 14th unassisted triple play in major league history.
Chart Toppers
1948
Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby
Manana - Peggy Lee
The Dickey Bird Song - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Glenn Hughes)
Anytime - Eddy Arnold
1956
Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley
Standing on the Corner - The Four Lads
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1964
Hello Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
Do You Want to Know a Secret - The Beatles
My Guy - Mary Wells
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1972
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
I Gotcha - Joe Tex
Betcha By Golly, Wow - The Stylistics
Grandma Harp - Merle Haggard
1980
Call Me - Blondie
Ride like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Lost in Love - Air Supply
Beneath Still Waters - Emmylou Harris
1988
Wishing Well - Terence Trent D’Arby
Anything for You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole
Cry, Cry, Cry - Highway 101
Quote of the Day
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison, inventor (1847 - 1931)
Full Version: Today in History
Today in History - May 13th
Today’s Birthdays
1842 Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, operetta composer (The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance) died Nov 22, 1900
1907 Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (The Birds, Rebecca) died Apr 19, 1989
1914 Joe Louis (Barrow), ‘The Brown Bomber,’ champion boxer, died Apr 12, 1981
1923 Bea (Beatrice) Arthur, actress/U.S. Marine (The Golden Girls, Maude) died April 25, 2009
1927 Herbert Ross, film director (Steel Magnolias, Footloose) died Oct 9, 2001
1931 Jim Jones, cult leader, died Nov 18, 1978
1939 Harvey Keitel, actor (Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, From Dusk 'til Dawn)
1941 Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela), singer (Donna, La Bamba) killed in a plane crash Feb 3, 1959
1943 Mary Wells, singer (My Guy) died July 26, 1992
1945 Magic Dick, harmonica player (The J. Geils Band)
1946 Danny Klein, bassist (J. Geils Band)
1947 (Pete) Overend Watts, bassist (Mott the Hoople)
1949 Franklyn Ajaye, comic/actor (The Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
1950 Stevie Wonder (Stevland Morris), singer/songwriter (My Cherie Amour, For Once in My Life)
1950 Danny Kirwan, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1951 Paul Thompson, drummer (Roxy Music)
1957 Alan Ball, screenwriter/director/producer (American Beauty, Six Feet Under)
1957 Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer (The Ring, Dark Water)
1958 Karen Cellini, actress (Dynasty)
1960 Julianne Phillips, actress/Mrs Bruce Springsteen (Skin Deep)
1961 Siobhan Fallon, comic/actress (Saturday Night Live, Men in Black)
1964 Stephen Colbert, comedian/actor (The Colbert Report)
1964 Tom Verica, actor (American Dreams, From the Earth to the Moon)
1966 Darius Rucker, singer/guitarist (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 Chuck Schuldiner, heavy metal guitarist (Death) died Dec 13, 2001
1967 Melanie Thornton, singer (La Bouche) died in a plane crash Nov 24, 2001
1968 Buckethead, guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1977 Samantha Morton, actress (Minority Report)
1977 Neil Hopkins, actor (Lost)
1979 Michael Madden, bassist (Maroon 5)
1987 Hunter Parrish, actor (Weeds)
1987 Carrie Prejean, beauty pageant contestant (Miss California)
Today’s Deaths in History
1884 Cyrus McCormick, inventor (mechanical reaper) dies at 75
1961 Gary Cooper, actor (Sergeant York, High Noon) dies at 60
1972 Dan Blocker, actor (Bonanza) dies at 43
1975 Bob Wills, country singer/songwriter, dies at 70
1988 Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
2000 Paul Bartel, actor/writer/director (Eating Raoul) dies at 61
2006 Johnnie Wilder, Jr., R&B singer (Heatwave) dies at 56
Today in History
1607 An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia.
1787 Captain Arthur Phillip left Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1846 The United States declared that a state of war existed against Mexico.
1880 Thomas Edison performed the first test of his electric railway in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1913 Igor Sikorsky became the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1917 Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States was launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
1940 Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
1958 Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1958 The trade mark Velcro was registered.
1960 Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregated for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1981 Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
1985 Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
1994 Johnny Carson made his last television appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.
2003 The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
Chart Toppers
1949
Cruising Down the River - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The Skyliners)
Forever and Ever - Perry Como
Careless Hands - Mel Torme
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
School Day - Chuck Berry
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
So Rare - Jimmy Dorsey
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
1965
Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman’s Hermits
Count Me In - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves
1973
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
You are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
Little Willy - The Sweet
Come Live with Me - Roy Clark
1981
Morning Train (Nine to Five) - Sheena Easton
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr./Bill Withers
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Am I Losing You - Ronnie Milsap
1989
I’ll Be There for You - Bon Jovi
Real Love - Jody Watley
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Is It Still Over? - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno (1950 - )
Today’s Birthdays
1842 Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, operetta composer (The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance) died Nov 22, 1900
1907 Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (The Birds, Rebecca) died Apr 19, 1989
1914 Joe Louis (Barrow), ‘The Brown Bomber,’ champion boxer, died Apr 12, 1981
1923 Bea (Beatrice) Arthur, actress/U.S. Marine (The Golden Girls, Maude) died April 25, 2009
1927 Herbert Ross, film director (Steel Magnolias, Footloose) died Oct 9, 2001
1931 Jim Jones, cult leader, died Nov 18, 1978
1939 Harvey Keitel, actor (Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, From Dusk 'til Dawn)
1941 Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela), singer (Donna, La Bamba) killed in a plane crash Feb 3, 1959
1943 Mary Wells, singer (My Guy) died July 26, 1992
1945 Magic Dick, harmonica player (The J. Geils Band)
1946 Danny Klein, bassist (J. Geils Band)
1947 (Pete) Overend Watts, bassist (Mott the Hoople)
1949 Franklyn Ajaye, comic/actor (The Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
1950 Stevie Wonder (Stevland Morris), singer/songwriter (My Cherie Amour, For Once in My Life)
1950 Danny Kirwan, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1951 Paul Thompson, drummer (Roxy Music)
1957 Alan Ball, screenwriter/director/producer (American Beauty, Six Feet Under)
1957 Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer (The Ring, Dark Water)
1958 Karen Cellini, actress (Dynasty)
1960 Julianne Phillips, actress/Mrs Bruce Springsteen (Skin Deep)
1961 Siobhan Fallon, comic/actress (Saturday Night Live, Men in Black)
1964 Stephen Colbert, comedian/actor (The Colbert Report)
1964 Tom Verica, actor (American Dreams, From the Earth to the Moon)
1966 Darius Rucker, singer/guitarist (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 Chuck Schuldiner, heavy metal guitarist (Death) died Dec 13, 2001
1967 Melanie Thornton, singer (La Bouche) died in a plane crash Nov 24, 2001
1968 Buckethead, guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1977 Samantha Morton, actress (Minority Report)
1977 Neil Hopkins, actor (Lost)
1979 Michael Madden, bassist (Maroon 5)
1987 Hunter Parrish, actor (Weeds)
1987 Carrie Prejean, beauty pageant contestant (Miss California)
Today’s Deaths in History
1884 Cyrus McCormick, inventor (mechanical reaper) dies at 75
1961 Gary Cooper, actor (Sergeant York, High Noon) dies at 60
1972 Dan Blocker, actor (Bonanza) dies at 43
1975 Bob Wills, country singer/songwriter, dies at 70
1988 Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
2000 Paul Bartel, actor/writer/director (Eating Raoul) dies at 61
2006 Johnnie Wilder, Jr., R&B singer (Heatwave) dies at 56
Today in History
1607 An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia.
1787 Captain Arthur Phillip left Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1846 The United States declared that a state of war existed against Mexico.
1880 Thomas Edison performed the first test of his electric railway in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1913 Igor Sikorsky became the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1917 Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States was launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
1940 Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
1958 Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1958 The trade mark Velcro was registered.
1960 Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregated for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1981 Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
1985 Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire.
1994 Johnny Carson made his last television appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.
2003 The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
Chart Toppers
1949
Cruising Down the River - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The Skyliners)
Forever and Ever - Perry Como
Careless Hands - Mel Torme
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
School Day - Chuck Berry
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
So Rare - Jimmy Dorsey
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
1965
Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman’s Hermits
Count Me In - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves
1973
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
You are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
Little Willy - The Sweet
Come Live with Me - Roy Clark
1981
Morning Train (Nine to Five) - Sheena Easton
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr./Bill Withers
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Am I Losing You - Ronnie Milsap
1989
I’ll Be There for You - Bon Jovi
Real Love - Jody Watley
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Is It Still Over? - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno (1950 - )
Today in History - May 14th
Today’s Birthdays
1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (The Divine Comedy) died September 13, 1321
1727 Thomas Gainsborough, artist (The Blue Boy) died Aug 2, 1788
1916 Skip (Lloyd) Martin, bandleader/composer/arranger (Singin’ in the Rain, Guys and Dolls) died in Feb 1976
1921 Richard Deacon, actor (Leave It to Beaver, Carousel) died Aug 8, 1984
1925 Al Porcino, jazz trumpeter (Louis Prima, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie)
1929 Gump (Lorne John) Worsley, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (New York Rangers) died January 26, 2007
1936 Bobby Darin (Cassotto), singer (Mack the Knife, Splish Splash) died Dec 20, 1973
1943 Jack Bruce, bassist (Cream)
1943 Derek Leckenby, guitarist (Herman’s Hermits) died June 4, 1994
1943 Elizabeth Ray, sex scandal figure (U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays)
1944 George Lucas (George Walton Lucas Jr.), film producer/director (Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti)
1946 Gene Cornish, guitarist (The Young Rascals/Rascals)
1947 Tamara Dobson, actress (Cleopatra Jones) died Oct 2, 2006
1951 Pierre Plante NHL winger (NY Rangers)
1952 David Byrne, singer/composer (Talking Heads)
1952 Robert Zemeckis, director/executive producer (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future trilogy)
1953 Tom Cochrane, guitarist/singer (Red Rider)
1959 Steve Hogarth, singer (Marillion)
1961 Tim Roth, English actor (Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms)
1962 Ian Astbury, singer (The Cult)
1962 C.C. DeVille, guitarist (Poison)
1964 Suzy Kolber, sportscaster (NFL)
1964 Eric Peterson, guitarist (Testament)
1966 Fabrice Morvan, notorious lipsyncer (Milli Vanilli)
1966 Mike Inez, bassist (Ozzy Osbourne)
1966 Raphael Saadiq, singer/producer (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1967 Tony Siragusa, NFL tackle/sportscaster (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Danny Wood, singer (New Kids on the Block)
1969 Cate Blanchett, actress (Elizabeth, Bandits)
1971 Sofia Coppola, film director/writer (Lost in Translation)
1976 Hunter Burgan, rock bassist (AFI)
1978 Henry Garza, singer/guitarist (Los Lonely Boys)
1982 Rachel Roth, actress (Titus)
1983 Amber Tamblyn, actress (Joan of Arcadia)
1984 Mark Zuckerberg, founder & CEO (Facebook)
Today’s Deaths in History
1919 Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 75
1959 Sidney Bechet, jazz saxophonist/composer, dies on his 62nd birthday
1968 Husband E. Kimmel, Pacific Fleet Admiral (Pearl Harbor) dies at 86
1970 Billie Burke, actress (The Wizard of Oz) dies at 84
1976 Keith Relf, singer/harmonica player (The Yardbirds) dies at 33
1982 Hugh Beaumont, actor (Leave it to Beaver) dies at 73
1987 Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda) dies at 68
1992 Lyle Alzado, defensive lineman (Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos) dies at 42
1993 William Randolph Hearst Jr., newspaper magnate, dies at 85
1997 Harry Blackstone Jr., magician, dies at 62
1998 Frank Sinatra, singer/actor (Old Blue Eyes) dies at 82
2003 Dave DeBusschere, NBA Hall of Famer, dies at 62
2003 Wendy Hiller, actress (Voyage of the Damned) dies at 90
2003 Robert Stack, actor (Untouchables) dies at 84
2004 Anna Lee, actress (How Green Was My Valley) dies at 91
Today in History
1607 Jamestown, Virginia was settled as an English colony.
1643 Four-year-old Louis XIV became King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1796 Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition departed from Camp Dubois, beginning its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1913 New York Governor William Sulzer approved the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation.
1939 Peruvian Lina Medina became the world's youngest confirmed mother at the age of five years, 7 months and 21 days.
1942 The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established.
1948 Israel was declared to be an independent state and a provisional government was established; immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1961 The Freedom Riders bus was fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters were beaten by an angry mob.
1970 Mississippi state police kill two black students at Jackson State University.
1973 The United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station.
1988 A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, hit a converted school bus carrying a church youth group; the crash and ensuing fire killed 27.
1996 A tornado flattened 80 villages in nothern Bangladesh, killing more than 440 people.
1998 The hit TV series Seinfeld aired its final episode after nine years on NBC.
2001 The Supreme Court ruled that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses.
2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturned the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI observed his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 The USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned Navy supercarrier, was deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises, the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2007 DaimlerChrysler said it was selling almost all of Chrysler to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management for $7.4 billion, backing out of a troubled 1998 takeover.
2007 The trial of suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla opened in Miami; Padilla was later convicted of terrorism conspiracy and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
2008 The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.
2008 Justine Henin, 25, became the first woman to retire from tennis while ranked No. 1 in the world.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
It Isn’t Fair - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
The Third Man Theme - Alton Karas
Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck - Elvis Presley
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson
1966
Monday Monday - The Mamas & The Papas
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders
I Want to Go with You - Eddy Arnold
1974
The Loco-Motion - Grand Funk
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
Is It Wrong (For Loving You) - Sonny James
1982
Chariots of Fire - Titles - Vangelis
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
1990
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Help Me Hold On - Travis Tritt
Quote of the Day
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President (1858 - 1919)
Today’s Birthdays
1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (The Divine Comedy) died September 13, 1321
1727 Thomas Gainsborough, artist (The Blue Boy) died Aug 2, 1788
1916 Skip (Lloyd) Martin, bandleader/composer/arranger (Singin’ in the Rain, Guys and Dolls) died in Feb 1976
1921 Richard Deacon, actor (Leave It to Beaver, Carousel) died Aug 8, 1984
1925 Al Porcino, jazz trumpeter (Louis Prima, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie)
1929 Gump (Lorne John) Worsley, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (New York Rangers) died January 26, 2007
1936 Bobby Darin (Cassotto), singer (Mack the Knife, Splish Splash) died Dec 20, 1973
1943 Jack Bruce, bassist (Cream)
1943 Derek Leckenby, guitarist (Herman’s Hermits) died June 4, 1994
1943 Elizabeth Ray, sex scandal figure (U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays)
1944 George Lucas (George Walton Lucas Jr.), film producer/director (Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti)
1946 Gene Cornish, guitarist (The Young Rascals/Rascals)
1947 Tamara Dobson, actress (Cleopatra Jones) died Oct 2, 2006
1951 Pierre Plante NHL winger (NY Rangers)
1952 David Byrne, singer/composer (Talking Heads)
1952 Robert Zemeckis, director/executive producer (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future trilogy)
1953 Tom Cochrane, guitarist/singer (Red Rider)
1959 Steve Hogarth, singer (Marillion)
1961 Tim Roth, English actor (Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms)
1962 Ian Astbury, singer (The Cult)
1962 C.C. DeVille, guitarist (Poison)
1964 Suzy Kolber, sportscaster (NFL)
1964 Eric Peterson, guitarist (Testament)
1966 Fabrice Morvan, notorious lipsyncer (Milli Vanilli)
1966 Mike Inez, bassist (Ozzy Osbourne)
1966 Raphael Saadiq, singer/producer (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1967 Tony Siragusa, NFL tackle/sportscaster (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Danny Wood, singer (New Kids on the Block)
1969 Cate Blanchett, actress (Elizabeth, Bandits)
1971 Sofia Coppola, film director/writer (Lost in Translation)
1976 Hunter Burgan, rock bassist (AFI)
1978 Henry Garza, singer/guitarist (Los Lonely Boys)
1982 Rachel Roth, actress (Titus)
1983 Amber Tamblyn, actress (Joan of Arcadia)
1984 Mark Zuckerberg, founder & CEO (Facebook)
Today’s Deaths in History
1919 Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 75
1959 Sidney Bechet, jazz saxophonist/composer, dies on his 62nd birthday
1968 Husband E. Kimmel, Pacific Fleet Admiral (Pearl Harbor) dies at 86
1970 Billie Burke, actress (The Wizard of Oz) dies at 84
1976 Keith Relf, singer/harmonica player (The Yardbirds) dies at 33
1982 Hugh Beaumont, actor (Leave it to Beaver) dies at 73
1987 Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda) dies at 68
1992 Lyle Alzado, defensive lineman (Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos) dies at 42
1993 William Randolph Hearst Jr., newspaper magnate, dies at 85
1997 Harry Blackstone Jr., magician, dies at 62
1998 Frank Sinatra, singer/actor (Old Blue Eyes) dies at 82
2003 Dave DeBusschere, NBA Hall of Famer, dies at 62
2003 Wendy Hiller, actress (Voyage of the Damned) dies at 90
2003 Robert Stack, actor (Untouchables) dies at 84
2004 Anna Lee, actress (How Green Was My Valley) dies at 91
Today in History
1607 Jamestown, Virginia was settled as an English colony.
1643 Four-year-old Louis XIV became King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1796 Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition departed from Camp Dubois, beginning its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1913 New York Governor William Sulzer approved the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation.
1939 Peruvian Lina Medina became the world's youngest confirmed mother at the age of five years, 7 months and 21 days.
1942 The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established.
1948 Israel was declared to be an independent state and a provisional government was established; immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1961 The Freedom Riders bus was fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters were beaten by an angry mob.
1970 Mississippi state police kill two black students at Jackson State University.
1973 The United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station.
1988 A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, hit a converted school bus carrying a church youth group; the crash and ensuing fire killed 27.
1996 A tornado flattened 80 villages in nothern Bangladesh, killing more than 440 people.
1998 The hit TV series Seinfeld aired its final episode after nine years on NBC.
2001 The Supreme Court ruled that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses.
2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturned the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI observed his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 The USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned Navy supercarrier, was deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises, the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2007 DaimlerChrysler said it was selling almost all of Chrysler to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management for $7.4 billion, backing out of a troubled 1998 takeover.
2007 The trial of suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla opened in Miami; Padilla was later convicted of terrorism conspiracy and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
2008 The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.
2008 Justine Henin, 25, became the first woman to retire from tennis while ranked No. 1 in the world.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
It Isn’t Fair - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
The Third Man Theme - Alton Karas
Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck - Elvis Presley
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson
1966
Monday Monday - The Mamas & The Papas
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders
I Want to Go with You - Eddy Arnold
1974
The Loco-Motion - Grand Funk
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
Is It Wrong (For Loving You) - Sonny James
1982
Chariots of Fire - Titles - Vangelis
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
1990
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Help Me Hold On - Travis Tritt
Quote of the Day
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President (1858 - 1919)
Today in History - May 15th
Today’s Birthdays
1856 Lyman Frank Baum, newspaperman/author (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) died May 5, 1919
1859 Pierre Curie, French physicist/Nobel Prize laureate, died Apr 19, 1906
1902 Richard Joseph Daley, ‘The Boss,’ politician (former mayor of Chicago) died Dec 20, 1976
1905 Joseph (Cheshire) Cotten, actor (Tora Tora Tora, The Philadelphia Story) died Feb 6, 1994
1909 James (Neville) Mason, actor (The Desert Fox, Lolita) died July 27, 1984
1914 Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa (Mt Everest) died May 9, 1986
1918 Eddy (Richard Edward) Arnold, Country Music Hall of Famer (Make the World Go Away) died May 8, 2008
1923 Richard Avedon, glamour photographer, died October 1, 2004
1923 Ellis Larkins, pianist (Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams) died Sep 29, 2002
1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti, singer/actress (Carnival)
1936 Paul Zindel, writer (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds) died Mar 27, 2003
1936 Ralph Steadman, cartoonist/illustrator (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas)
1937 Trini López, singer/actor (The Dirty Dozen)
1937 Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State
1938 Lenny Welch, singer (Since I Fell for You)
1940 Lainie Kazan (Lainie Levine), singer/actress (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1940 Roger Ailes, Fox News Chairman and CEO
1941 K.T. Oslin, country singer/songwriter
1943 David Cronenberg, film director (Dead Ringers, The Fly)
1945 Jerry Quarry, heavyweight boxing champion
1947 Graham Goble, guitarist/singer (Little River Band)
1948 Brian Eno (Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno), composer/musician/producer (Roxy Music)
1950 Nicholas Hammond, actor (Lord of the Flies, Spiderman TV series)
1951 Chazz Palminteri, actor/writer/director (A Bronx Tale, The Usual Suspects)
1951 Jonathan Richman, punk guitarist (The Modern Lovers)
1953 Pat Hickey, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1953 Mike Oldfield, composer/musician (Tubular Bells)
1955 Lee Horsley, actor (North and South Book II)
1955 Melinda Culea, actress (The A-Team)
1956 Dan Patrick, sportscaster (ESPN)
1959 Andrew Eldritch, singer/songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
1961 Giselle Fernandez, actress/dancer (Dancing with the Stars)
1961 Melle Mel, Rapper (Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five)
1970 Prince B, rapper/R&B musician (PM Dawn)
1972 David Charvet, actor (Baywatch, Melrose Place)
1974 Ahmet Zappa, musician/son of Frank Zappa
1978 Amy Chow, gymnastic Gold Medalist (1996 Atlanta Olympics)
1978 David Krumholtz, actor (NUMB3RS, The Santa Clause series)
1978 Krissy Taylor, model (Cosmo, Vogue) died July 2, 1995
1981 Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress (The Sopranos)
1982 Jessica Sutta, dancer/singer (The Pussycat Dolls)
1982 Alex Breckenridge, actress (She's the Man, Dirt)
1983 Devin Bronson, guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
Today’s Deaths in History
1886 Emily Dickinson, poet (Because I Could Not Stop for Death) dies at 55
1948 Father Edward Flanagan, priest/founder (Boys Town) dies at 61
1954 William March, writer (The Bad Seed) dies at 60
1967 Edward Hopper, painter (Nighthawks) dies at 84
1982 Gordon Smiley, Indy race car driver, killed at 36 while attempting to qualify for the Indianapolis 500
1986 Theodore White, journalist/historian (The Making of the President) dies at 71
1989 Johnny Green, songwriter (Easy Come Easy Go) dies at 80
1996 Charles B. Fulton, jurist (Federal Judge) dies at 86
2003 June Carter Cash, country musician/singer/Mrs. Johnny Cash, dies at 73
2007 The Rev. Jerry Falwell (Moral Majority) dies at 73
2007 Yolanda King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 51
2008 Alexander Courage, composer (original Star Trek theme) dies at 88
2009 Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor (Breaker Morant, The Castle) dies at 86
Today in History
1776 The Virginia Convention instructed its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
1817 The first private mental health hospital in the United States opened, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman's Suffrage Association in New York.
1911 The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1930 Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.
1940 Nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.
1941 Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees began his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.
1942 Gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states.
1948 Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1963 NASA launchede the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board; he became the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1969 Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.
1970 Two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1970 President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1972 Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Md., and left permanently paralyzed below the waist.
1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverted to Japanese control.
1988 The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.
1990 Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh was sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
1995 Dow Corning Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing potentially astronomical expenses from liability lawsuits.
1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole announced he was leaving the Senate after 27 years to challenge President Bill Clinton full time.
1997 The United States government acknowledged the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other Secret War veterans.
2001 A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.
2003 Texas Democrats boarded two buses and returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma that temporarily succeeded in killing a redistricting plan they opposed.
2006 A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq's president as a judge formally charged him with crimes against humanity.
2006 The Pentagon disclosed the names of everyone detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since it opened four years earlier.
2006 The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states and said it would restore normal diplomatic relations.
2008 California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the state could marry – a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned by the passage of Proposition 8 the following November.
Chart Toppers
1951
If - Perry Como
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams
1959
The Happy Organ - Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez
Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) - The Impalas
Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Edward Byrnes & Connie Stevens
White Lightning - George Jones
1967
The Happening - The Supremes
Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens
1975
He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando & Dawn
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles) - Gary Stewart
1983
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Let’s Dance - David Bowie
Overkill - Men at Work
Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love - B.J. Thomas
1991
Joyride - Roxette
I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) - Hi-Five
Here We Go - C + C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
If I Know Me - George Strait
Quote of the Day
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
Today’s Birthdays
1856 Lyman Frank Baum, newspaperman/author (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) died May 5, 1919
1859 Pierre Curie, French physicist/Nobel Prize laureate, died Apr 19, 1906
1902 Richard Joseph Daley, ‘The Boss,’ politician (former mayor of Chicago) died Dec 20, 1976
1905 Joseph (Cheshire) Cotten, actor (Tora Tora Tora, The Philadelphia Story) died Feb 6, 1994
1909 James (Neville) Mason, actor (The Desert Fox, Lolita) died July 27, 1984
1914 Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa (Mt Everest) died May 9, 1986
1918 Eddy (Richard Edward) Arnold, Country Music Hall of Famer (Make the World Go Away) died May 8, 2008
1923 Richard Avedon, glamour photographer, died October 1, 2004
1923 Ellis Larkins, pianist (Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams) died Sep 29, 2002
1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti, singer/actress (Carnival)
1936 Paul Zindel, writer (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds) died Mar 27, 2003
1936 Ralph Steadman, cartoonist/illustrator (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas)
1937 Trini López, singer/actor (The Dirty Dozen)
1937 Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State
1938 Lenny Welch, singer (Since I Fell for You)
1940 Lainie Kazan (Lainie Levine), singer/actress (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1940 Roger Ailes, Fox News Chairman and CEO
1941 K.T. Oslin, country singer/songwriter
1943 David Cronenberg, film director (Dead Ringers, The Fly)
1945 Jerry Quarry, heavyweight boxing champion
1947 Graham Goble, guitarist/singer (Little River Band)
1948 Brian Eno (Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno), composer/musician/producer (Roxy Music)
1950 Nicholas Hammond, actor (Lord of the Flies, Spiderman TV series)
1951 Chazz Palminteri, actor/writer/director (A Bronx Tale, The Usual Suspects)
1951 Jonathan Richman, punk guitarist (The Modern Lovers)
1953 Pat Hickey, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1953 Mike Oldfield, composer/musician (Tubular Bells)
1955 Lee Horsley, actor (North and South Book II)
1955 Melinda Culea, actress (The A-Team)
1956 Dan Patrick, sportscaster (ESPN)
1959 Andrew Eldritch, singer/songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
1961 Giselle Fernandez, actress/dancer (Dancing with the Stars)
1961 Melle Mel, Rapper (Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five)
1970 Prince B, rapper/R&B musician (PM Dawn)
1972 David Charvet, actor (Baywatch, Melrose Place)
1974 Ahmet Zappa, musician/son of Frank Zappa
1978 Amy Chow, gymnastic Gold Medalist (1996 Atlanta Olympics)
1978 David Krumholtz, actor (NUMB3RS, The Santa Clause series)
1978 Krissy Taylor, model (Cosmo, Vogue) died July 2, 1995
1981 Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress (The Sopranos)
1982 Jessica Sutta, dancer/singer (The Pussycat Dolls)
1982 Alex Breckenridge, actress (She's the Man, Dirt)
1983 Devin Bronson, guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
Today’s Deaths in History
1886 Emily Dickinson, poet (Because I Could Not Stop for Death) dies at 55
1948 Father Edward Flanagan, priest/founder (Boys Town) dies at 61
1954 William March, writer (The Bad Seed) dies at 60
1967 Edward Hopper, painter (Nighthawks) dies at 84
1982 Gordon Smiley, Indy race car driver, killed at 36 while attempting to qualify for the Indianapolis 500
1986 Theodore White, journalist/historian (The Making of the President) dies at 71
1989 Johnny Green, songwriter (Easy Come Easy Go) dies at 80
1996 Charles B. Fulton, jurist (Federal Judge) dies at 86
2003 June Carter Cash, country musician/singer/Mrs. Johnny Cash, dies at 73
2007 The Rev. Jerry Falwell (Moral Majority) dies at 73
2007 Yolanda King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 51
2008 Alexander Courage, composer (original Star Trek theme) dies at 88
2009 Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor (Breaker Morant, The Castle) dies at 86
Today in History
1776 The Virginia Convention instructed its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
1817 The first private mental health hospital in the United States opened, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman's Suffrage Association in New York.
1911 The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1930 Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.
1940 Nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.
1941 Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees began his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.
1942 Gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states.
1948 Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1963 NASA launchede the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board; he became the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1969 Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.
1970 Two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1970 President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1972 Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Md., and left permanently paralyzed below the waist.
1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverted to Japanese control.
1988 The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.
1990 Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh was sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
1995 Dow Corning Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing potentially astronomical expenses from liability lawsuits.
1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole announced he was leaving the Senate after 27 years to challenge President Bill Clinton full time.
1997 The United States government acknowledged the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other Secret War veterans.
2001 A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.
2003 Texas Democrats boarded two buses and returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma that temporarily succeeded in killing a redistricting plan they opposed.
2006 A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq's president as a judge formally charged him with crimes against humanity.
2006 The Pentagon disclosed the names of everyone detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since it opened four years earlier.
2006 The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states and said it would restore normal diplomatic relations.
2008 California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the state could marry – a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned by the passage of Proposition 8 the following November.
Chart Toppers
1951
If - Perry Como
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams
1959
The Happy Organ - Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez
Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) - The Impalas
Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Edward Byrnes & Connie Stevens
White Lightning - George Jones
1967
The Happening - The Supremes
Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens
1975
He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando & Dawn
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles) - Gary Stewart
1983
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Let’s Dance - David Bowie
Overkill - Men at Work
Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love - B.J. Thomas
1991
Joyride - Roxette
I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) - Hi-Five
Here We Go - C + C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
If I Know Me - George Strait
Quote of the Day
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
Today in History - May 16th
Today’s Birthdays
1801 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (bought Alaska) died October 10, 1872
1905 Henry (Jaynes) Fonda, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts) died Aug 12, 1982
1912 Studs Terkel, writer/broadcaster (Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression) died October 31, 2008
1913 Woody Herman, musician/band leader, died October 29, 1987
1919 (Wladziu Valentino) Liberace, concert pianist/showman, died Feb 4, 1987
1921 Harry Carey, Jr., actor (Monkey Business, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rio Bravo)
1928 Billy (Alfred Manuel) Martin, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees) died Dec 25, 1989
1937 Yvonne Craig, actress (Batgirl)
1944 Billy Cobham, virtuoso drummer
1945 Nicky Chinn, songwriter (Sweet, Suzi Quatro)
1946 Roger Earl, drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)
1946 Robert Fripp, guitarist (King Crimson)
1953 Pierce Brosnan, actor (Remington Steele, The Thomas Crown Affair, James Bond)
1955 Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast (1972, 19876 Olympics)
1955 (Mary) Debra Winger, actress (Terms of Endearment, An Officer and a Gentleman)
1959 Mare Winningham, actress (Turner and Hooch, St. Elmo’s Fire)
1961 Kevin McDonald, actor (The Kids in the Hall, That 70's Show)
1964 Boyd Tinsley, violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
1965 Krist Novoselic, bassist (Nirvana)
1966 Janet Jackson, singer (Control, Miss You Much)
1968 Ralph Tresvant, singer (New Edition)
1969 Tracey Gold, actress (Growing Pains)
1969 David Boreanaz, actor (Angel, Bones)
1970 Gabriela Sabatini, tennis champion
1970 Danielle Spencer, Australian singer/actress/Mrs. Russell Crowe
1973 Tori Spelling, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 Sonny Sandoval, rock singer (P.O.D.)
1977 Jean-Sebastien Giguere, NHL goaltender (Anaheim Ducks)
1979 Kaila Yu, actress (The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift)
1986 Megan Fox, actress (Transformers)
Today’s Deaths in History
1953 Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz guitarist, dies at 43
1955 James Agee, writer (A Death in the Family) dies at 45
1956 H. B. Reese, founder of Reese's candies, dies at 77
1957 Eliot Ness, federal agent (The Untouchables) dies at 54
1969 Robert R., first confirmed to die from AIDS in North America, dies at 15
1984 Andy Kaufman, comedian/actor (Taxi, Andy's Funhouse) dies at 35
1984 Irwin Shaw, author (Rich Man Poor Man) dies at 71
1985 Margaret Hamilton, actress (The Wizard of Oz) dies at 82
1990 Sammy Davis Jr., singer/dancer/entertainer, dies at 64
1990 Jim Henson, puppeteer (Muppets) dies at 53
1993 Marv Johnson, R&B/soul singer (I Love The Way You Love) dies at 54
1994 Jack Dodson, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 63
1996 Jeremy Michael Boorda, Navy Admiral, commits suicide at 56
2001 Brian Pendleton, guitarist (The Pretty Things) dies at 57
Today in History
1532 Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England.
1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1836 Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.
1866 Congress authorized minting of the nickel.
1866 Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.
1868 The U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him; he was acquitted of all charges.
1920 Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.
1929 The first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
1946 The musical Annie Get Your Gun opened on Broadway.
1948 Chaim Weizmann was elected the first President of Israel.
1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights began between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1960 Nikita Khrushchev demanded an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union.
1965 The Campbell Soup Company introduced SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1966 The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds was released.
1966 The Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blonde was released.
1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1988 A report by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that the addictive properties of nicotine were similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1995 Japanese police arrested doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, holding him in connection with the nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier.
1997 Zaire's president, Mobutu Sese Seko, ended 32 years of autocratic rule, giving control of the country to rebel forces.
2001 Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was indicted on charges of spying for Moscow.
2002 The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were unearthed in Pakistan.
2003 Five simultaneous suicide attacks claimed the lives of 33 victims and a dozen suicide bombers in Casablanca, Morocco.
2005 Newsweek magazine retracted a story that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay; the story had sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan.
2005 Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib; she was later sentenced to six months in prison.
2005 Kuwait permitted women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2007 Nicolas Sarkozy took over from Jacques Chirac as France's president.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby
Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry - Al Dexter
1952
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blacksmith Blues - Ella Mae Morse
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Stuck on You - Elvis Presley
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Night - Jackie Wilson
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
Have a Little Faith - David Houston
1976
Boogie Fever - Sylvers
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
What Goes on When the Sun Goes Down - Ronnie Milsap
1984
Hello - Lionel Richie
Hold Me Now - The Thompson Twins
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before - Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson
Quote of the Day
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Today’s Birthdays
1801 William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (bought Alaska) died October 10, 1872
1905 Henry (Jaynes) Fonda, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts) died Aug 12, 1982
1912 Studs Terkel, writer/broadcaster (Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression) died October 31, 2008
1913 Woody Herman, musician/band leader, died October 29, 1987
1919 (Wladziu Valentino) Liberace, concert pianist/showman, died Feb 4, 1987
1921 Harry Carey, Jr., actor (Monkey Business, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rio Bravo)
1928 Billy (Alfred Manuel) Martin, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees) died Dec 25, 1989
1937 Yvonne Craig, actress (Batgirl)
1944 Billy Cobham, virtuoso drummer
1945 Nicky Chinn, songwriter (Sweet, Suzi Quatro)
1946 Roger Earl, drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)
1946 Robert Fripp, guitarist (King Crimson)
1953 Pierce Brosnan, actor (Remington Steele, The Thomas Crown Affair, James Bond)
1955 Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast (1972, 19876 Olympics)
1955 (Mary) Debra Winger, actress (Terms of Endearment, An Officer and a Gentleman)
1959 Mare Winningham, actress (Turner and Hooch, St. Elmo’s Fire)
1961 Kevin McDonald, actor (The Kids in the Hall, That 70's Show)
1964 Boyd Tinsley, violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
1965 Krist Novoselic, bassist (Nirvana)
1966 Janet Jackson, singer (Control, Miss You Much)
1968 Ralph Tresvant, singer (New Edition)
1969 Tracey Gold, actress (Growing Pains)
1969 David Boreanaz, actor (Angel, Bones)
1970 Gabriela Sabatini, tennis champion
1970 Danielle Spencer, Australian singer/actress/Mrs. Russell Crowe
1973 Tori Spelling, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 Sonny Sandoval, rock singer (P.O.D.)
1977 Jean-Sebastien Giguere, NHL goaltender (Anaheim Ducks)
1979 Kaila Yu, actress (The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift)
1986 Megan Fox, actress (Transformers)
Today’s Deaths in History
1953 Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz guitarist, dies at 43
1955 James Agee, writer (A Death in the Family) dies at 45
1956 H. B. Reese, founder of Reese's candies, dies at 77
1957 Eliot Ness, federal agent (The Untouchables) dies at 54
1969 Robert R., first confirmed to die from AIDS in North America, dies at 15
1984 Andy Kaufman, comedian/actor (Taxi, Andy's Funhouse) dies at 35
1984 Irwin Shaw, author (Rich Man Poor Man) dies at 71
1985 Margaret Hamilton, actress (The Wizard of Oz) dies at 82
1990 Sammy Davis Jr., singer/dancer/entertainer, dies at 64
1990 Jim Henson, puppeteer (Muppets) dies at 53
1993 Marv Johnson, R&B/soul singer (I Love The Way You Love) dies at 54
1994 Jack Dodson, actor (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 63
1996 Jeremy Michael Boorda, Navy Admiral, commits suicide at 56
2001 Brian Pendleton, guitarist (The Pretty Things) dies at 57
Today in History
1532 Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England.
1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1836 Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.
1866 Congress authorized minting of the nickel.
1866 Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.
1868 The U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him; he was acquitted of all charges.
1920 Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.
1929 The first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
1946 The musical Annie Get Your Gun opened on Broadway.
1948 Chaim Weizmann was elected the first President of Israel.
1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights began between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1960 Nikita Khrushchev demanded an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union.
1965 The Campbell Soup Company introduced SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1966 The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds was released.
1966 The Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blonde was released.
1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1988 A report by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that the addictive properties of nicotine were similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1995 Japanese police arrested doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, holding him in connection with the nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier.
1997 Zaire's president, Mobutu Sese Seko, ended 32 years of autocratic rule, giving control of the country to rebel forces.
2001 Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was indicted on charges of spying for Moscow.
2002 The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were unearthed in Pakistan.
2003 Five simultaneous suicide attacks claimed the lives of 33 victims and a dozen suicide bombers in Casablanca, Morocco.
2005 Newsweek magazine retracted a story that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay; the story had sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan.
2005 Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib; she was later sentenced to six months in prison.
2005 Kuwait permitted women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2007 Nicolas Sarkozy took over from Jacques Chirac as France's president.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby
Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry - Al Dexter
1952
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blacksmith Blues - Ella Mae Morse
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Stuck on You - Elvis Presley
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Night - Jackie Wilson
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
Have a Little Faith - David Houston
1976
Boogie Fever - Sylvers
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
What Goes on When the Sun Goes Down - Ronnie Milsap
1984
Hello - Lionel Richie
Hold Me Now - The Thompson Twins
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before - Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson
Quote of the Day
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Today in History - May 17th
Today’s Birthdays
1682 Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bart), notorious Welsh pirate, died Feb 17, 1722
1866 Erik Satie, French composer (Gymnopédies) died July 1, 1925
1903 James ‘Cool Papa’ Bell, Baseball Hall of Famer (Negro League) died Mar 7, 1991
1911 Maureen (Paul) O’Sullivan, actress (Tarzan films) died June 23, 1998
1936 Dennis Hopper, actor/director (Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now)
1938 Pervis Jackson, R&B singer (The Spinners) died August 18, 2008
1942 Taj Mahal, blues singer
1949 Bill Bruford, drummer (Genesis, Yes)
1955 Bill Paxton, actor (Twister, True Lies, Aliens, Apollo 13)
1956 Sugar Ray Leonard, champion boxer
1956 Bob Saget, actor/comedian (Full House)
1958 Paul Di'Anno, singer (Iron Maiden)
1959 Jim Nantz, CBS sportscaster (NFL)
1961 Enya, Irish singer/songwriter (Orinoco Flow)
1962 Craig Ferguson, Scottish actor/comedian/talk show host (The Late Late Show)
1963 Page McConnell, keyboardist/songwriter (Phish)
1964 Paige Turco, actress (The Agency)
1965 Trent Reznor, singer/songwriter/musician (Nine Inch Nails)
1966 Hill Harper, actor (CSI: NY)
1970 Jordan Knight, singer (New Kids on the Block)
1971 Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
1973 Matthew McGrory, actor (Big Fish, Carnivalé) died August 9, 2005
1973 Josh Homme, guitarist/songwriter (Queens of the Stone Age)
1974 Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1974 Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor (Heroes)
1978 Kat Foster, actress ('Til Death)
1980 Dallas Taylor, singer (Underoath)
1982 Tony Parker, NBA point guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1982 Matt Cassel, NFL quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs)
1985 Derek Hough, dancer/singer (Dancing with the Stars)
1988 Nikki Reed, actress (The O.C., Lords of Dogtown)
Today’s Deaths in History
1510 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (The Birth of Venus) dies at 65
1536 George Boleyn, English diplomat/brother to Anne Boleyn, is executed at 34 for incest and adultery with his sister
1829 John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 83
1886 John Deere, American blacksmith/manufacturer, dies at 82
1992 Lawrence Welk, musician/TV host, dies at 89
1995 Hector "Toe" Blake, NHL left wing/coach (Montreal Maroons, Montreal Canadiens) dies at 82
1996 Scott Brayton, Indy race driver, dies at 39 in a crash practicing for the Indy 500
1999 Bruce Fairbairn, record producer/musician (Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Loverboy) dies at 49
2002 Dave Berg, cartoonist (Lighter Side) dies at 81
2004 Tony Randall, actor (The Odd Couple) dies at 84
2005 Frank Gorshin, impressionist/actor (Batman) dies at 72
2007 Lloyd Alexander, author (The Chronicles of Prydain) dies at 83
Today in History
1775 The Continental Congress banned trade with Canada.
1792 The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street.
1875 The first Kentucky Derby was run; the winner was Aristides.
1939 Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Quebec on the first visit to Canada by reigning British sovereigns.
1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers played in the first-ever televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
1940 The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War II.
1943 The United States Army contracted with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1946 President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954 The Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
1973 The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal.
1974 Police in Los Angeles, California, raided the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1980 Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating a black man.
1987 An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors; Iraq and the United States called the attack a mistake.
1992 The WHO took homosexuality off of its list of mental illnesses.
1996 President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in; Megan's Law was named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994.
1997 Rebel leader Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.
1998 New York Yankees pitcher David Wells became the 13th player in modern major league baseball history to throw a perfect game in a 4-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
1999 Labor Party leader Ehud Barak unseated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections.
2000 Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four black girls.
2003 A top Vatican official confirmed that Pope John Paul II was suffering from Parkinson's disease.
2004 Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.
2005 Los Angeles Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa trounced Mayor James Hahn to be elected the city's first Hispanic mayor in more than a century.
2007 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz announced he would resign following controversy over his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend.
2007 Trains crossed the border dividing the two Koreas for the first time in more than half a century.
Chart Toppers
1945
Candy - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
I’m Beginning to See the Light - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
Mexican Joe - Jim Reeves
1961
Runaway - Del Shannon
Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe
A Hundred Pounds of Clay - Gene McDaniels
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In - The 5th Dimension
Hair - The Cowsills
Get Back - The Beatles
My Life (Throw It Away if I Want To) - Bill Anderson
1977
When I Need You - Leo Sayer
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Couldn’t Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
Some Broken Hearts Never Mend - Don Williams
1985
Don’t You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Somebody Should Leave - Reba McEntire
Quote of the Day
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
Today’s Birthdays
1682 Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bart), notorious Welsh pirate, died Feb 17, 1722
1866 Erik Satie, French composer (Gymnopédies) died July 1, 1925
1903 James ‘Cool Papa’ Bell, Baseball Hall of Famer (Negro League) died Mar 7, 1991
1911 Maureen (Paul) O’Sullivan, actress (Tarzan films) died June 23, 1998
1936 Dennis Hopper, actor/director (Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now)
1938 Pervis Jackson, R&B singer (The Spinners) died August 18, 2008
1942 Taj Mahal, blues singer
1949 Bill Bruford, drummer (Genesis, Yes)
1955 Bill Paxton, actor (Twister, True Lies, Aliens, Apollo 13)
1956 Sugar Ray Leonard, champion boxer
1956 Bob Saget, actor/comedian (Full House)
1958 Paul Di'Anno, singer (Iron Maiden)
1959 Jim Nantz, CBS sportscaster (NFL)
1961 Enya, Irish singer/songwriter (Orinoco Flow)
1962 Craig Ferguson, Scottish actor/comedian/talk show host (The Late Late Show)
1963 Page McConnell, keyboardist/songwriter (Phish)
1964 Paige Turco, actress (The Agency)
1965 Trent Reznor, singer/songwriter/musician (Nine Inch Nails)
1966 Hill Harper, actor (CSI: NY)
1970 Jordan Knight, singer (New Kids on the Block)
1971 Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
1973 Matthew McGrory, actor (Big Fish, Carnivalé) died August 9, 2005
1973 Josh Homme, guitarist/songwriter (Queens of the Stone Age)
1974 Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1974 Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor (Heroes)
1978 Kat Foster, actress ('Til Death)
1980 Dallas Taylor, singer (Underoath)
1982 Tony Parker, NBA point guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1982 Matt Cassel, NFL quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs)
1985 Derek Hough, dancer/singer (Dancing with the Stars)
1988 Nikki Reed, actress (The O.C., Lords of Dogtown)
Today’s Deaths in History
1510 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (The Birth of Venus) dies at 65
1536 George Boleyn, English diplomat/brother to Anne Boleyn, is executed at 34 for incest and adultery with his sister
1829 John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 83
1886 John Deere, American blacksmith/manufacturer, dies at 82
1992 Lawrence Welk, musician/TV host, dies at 89
1995 Hector "Toe" Blake, NHL left wing/coach (Montreal Maroons, Montreal Canadiens) dies at 82
1996 Scott Brayton, Indy race driver, dies at 39 in a crash practicing for the Indy 500
1999 Bruce Fairbairn, record producer/musician (Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Loverboy) dies at 49
2002 Dave Berg, cartoonist (Lighter Side) dies at 81
2004 Tony Randall, actor (The Odd Couple) dies at 84
2005 Frank Gorshin, impressionist/actor (Batman) dies at 72
2007 Lloyd Alexander, author (The Chronicles of Prydain) dies at 83
Today in History
1775 The Continental Congress banned trade with Canada.
1792 The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street.
1875 The first Kentucky Derby was run; the winner was Aristides.
1939 Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Quebec on the first visit to Canada by reigning British sovereigns.
1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers played in the first-ever televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
1940 The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War II.
1943 The United States Army contracted with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1946 President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954 The Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
1973 The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal.
1974 Police in Los Angeles, California, raided the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1980 Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating a black man.
1987 An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors; Iraq and the United States called the attack a mistake.
1992 The WHO took homosexuality off of its list of mental illnesses.
1996 President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in; Megan's Law was named for 7-year-old Megan Kanka, who was raped and killed in 1994.
1997 Rebel leader Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.
1998 New York Yankees pitcher David Wells became the 13th player in modern major league baseball history to throw a perfect game in a 4-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
1999 Labor Party leader Ehud Barak unseated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections.
2000 Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four black girls.
2003 A top Vatican official confirmed that Pope John Paul II was suffering from Parkinson's disease.
2004 Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.
2005 Los Angeles Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa trounced Mayor James Hahn to be elected the city's first Hispanic mayor in more than a century.
2007 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz announced he would resign following controversy over his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend.
2007 Trains crossed the border dividing the two Koreas for the first time in more than half a century.
Chart Toppers
1945
Candy - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
I’m Beginning to See the Light - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
Mexican Joe - Jim Reeves
1961
Runaway - Del Shannon
Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe
A Hundred Pounds of Clay - Gene McDaniels
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In - The 5th Dimension
Hair - The Cowsills
Get Back - The Beatles
My Life (Throw It Away if I Want To) - Bill Anderson
1977
When I Need You - Leo Sayer
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Couldn’t Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
Some Broken Hearts Never Mend - Don Williams
1985
Don’t You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Somebody Should Leave - Reba McEntire
Quote of the Day
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
Today in History - May 18th
Today’s Birthdays
1892 Ezio Pinza, Italian-born bass (South Pacific) died May 9, 1957
1897 Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life) died Sep 3, 1991
1912 Perry (Pierino) Como, singer (Catch a Falling Star) died May 12, 2001
1920 Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), 264th Pope, died April 2, 2005
1922 Bill Macy, actor (Maude)
1928 Pernell Roberts, actor (Bonanza, Trapper John, M.D.)
1931 Don Martin, cartoonist (MAD magazine) died January 6, 2000
1937 Brooks (Calbert) Robinson, Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman (Baltimore Orioles)
1942 Albert Hammond, singer/composer (It Never Rains in Southern California)
1946 Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1949 Rick Wakeman, songwriter/keyboards (Yes)
1949 Bill Wallace, bassist (The Guess Who)
1950 Mark Mothersbaugh, composer/singer (Devo)
1952 George Strait, countrty singer/songwriter (All My Exes Live in Texas)
1955 Chow Yun-Fat, actor (Replacement Killers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
1957 Michael Cretu, German musician (Enigma)
1960 Page Hamilton, singer (Helmet)
1963 Marty McSorely, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1965 Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) died March 8, 1995
1966 Cathie Speakman, actress (24)
1969 Martika, singer (Toy Soldiers)
1970 Tina Fey, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock)
1973 Dario Franchitti, Scottish racecar driver/Mr. Ashley Judd
1975 Jack Johnson, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Bubbly Toes)
1983 Vince Young, NFL quarterback (Tennessee Titans)
1992 Spencer Breslin, actor (The Kid, The Santa Clause 2, The Cat in the Hat)
Today’s Deaths in History
1808 Elijah Craig, minister/inventor (bourbon whiskey) dies at 70
1911 Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer, dies at 50
1973 Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman, dies at 92
1980 Ian Curtis, singer (Joy Division) hangs himself at 23
1981 Arthur O'Connell, actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Hiding Place) dies at 73
1990 Jill Ireland, actress/Mrs Charles Bronson, dies at 54
1995 Elisha Cook, Jr., actor (Salem's Lot) dies at 91
1995 Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer/actor, dies at 45
1995 Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched) dies at 62
1996 Kevin Gilbert, songwriter/keyboards/guitarist (Madonna) dies at 29
2004 Elvin Jones, jazz drummer (Charles Mingus, Miles Davis) dies at 76
2006 Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy," commits suicide at 33
2008 Joseph Pevney, television director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase) dies at 96
Today in History
1642 The Canadian city of Montreal was founded.
1804 The French Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
1860 Abraham Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
1896 The Supreme Court endorsed the concept of "separate but equal" racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson, a precedent that was overturned in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
1897 A public reading of Bram Stoker's new novel Dracula, or, The Un-dead was staged in London.
1933 The Tennessee Valley Authority was created.
1951 The United Nations moved out of its temporary headquarters in Lake Success, N.Y., for its permanent home in Manhattan.
1953 Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1969 Apollo 10 was launched on a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
1980 The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state erupted, killing 57 people.
1990 In France, a modified TGV train achieved a new rail world speed record of 515.3km/h.
1998 The federal government filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
2003 Les Miserables, the third-longest running show in Broadway history, closed after more than 16 years and 6,680 performances.
2004 Randy Johnson became the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game; the 40-year-old lefty retired all 27 batters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0.
Chart Toppers
1946
All Through the Day - Perry Como
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
Shoo Fly Pie - The Stan Kenton Orchestra (vocal: June Christy)
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Wanted - Perry Como
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold
1962
Soldier Boy - The Shirelles
Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
She Cried - Jay & The Americans
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
Vehicle - The Ides of March
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
My Love - Sonny James
1978
If I Can’t Have You - Yvonne Elliman
The Closer I Get to You - Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway
With a Little Luck - Wings
It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right - Dolly Parton
1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Why Can’t This Be Love - Van Halen
What Have You Done for Me Lateley - Janet Jackson
Ain’t Misbehavin’ - Hank Williams, Jr.
Quote of the Day
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
Today’s Birthdays
1892 Ezio Pinza, Italian-born bass (South Pacific) died May 9, 1957
1897 Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life) died Sep 3, 1991
1912 Perry (Pierino) Como, singer (Catch a Falling Star) died May 12, 2001
1920 Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), 264th Pope, died April 2, 2005
1922 Bill Macy, actor (Maude)
1928 Pernell Roberts, actor (Bonanza, Trapper John, M.D.)
1931 Don Martin, cartoonist (MAD magazine) died January 6, 2000
1937 Brooks (Calbert) Robinson, Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman (Baltimore Orioles)
1942 Albert Hammond, singer/composer (It Never Rains in Southern California)
1946 Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1949 Rick Wakeman, songwriter/keyboards (Yes)
1949 Bill Wallace, bassist (The Guess Who)
1950 Mark Mothersbaugh, composer/singer (Devo)
1952 George Strait, countrty singer/songwriter (All My Exes Live in Texas)
1955 Chow Yun-Fat, actor (Replacement Killers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
1957 Michael Cretu, German musician (Enigma)
1960 Page Hamilton, singer (Helmet)
1963 Marty McSorely, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1965 Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) died March 8, 1995
1966 Cathie Speakman, actress (24)
1969 Martika, singer (Toy Soldiers)
1970 Tina Fey, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock)
1973 Dario Franchitti, Scottish racecar driver/Mr. Ashley Judd
1975 Jack Johnson, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Bubbly Toes)
1983 Vince Young, NFL quarterback (Tennessee Titans)
1992 Spencer Breslin, actor (The Kid, The Santa Clause 2, The Cat in the Hat)
Today’s Deaths in History
1808 Elijah Craig, minister/inventor (bourbon whiskey) dies at 70
1911 Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer, dies at 50
1973 Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman, dies at 92
1980 Ian Curtis, singer (Joy Division) hangs himself at 23
1981 Arthur O'Connell, actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Hiding Place) dies at 73
1990 Jill Ireland, actress/Mrs Charles Bronson, dies at 54
1995 Elisha Cook, Jr., actor (Salem's Lot) dies at 91
1995 Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer/actor, dies at 45
1995 Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched) dies at 62
1996 Kevin Gilbert, songwriter/keyboards/guitarist (Madonna) dies at 29
2004 Elvin Jones, jazz drummer (Charles Mingus, Miles Davis) dies at 76
2006 Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy," commits suicide at 33
2008 Joseph Pevney, television director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase) dies at 96
Today in History
1642 The Canadian city of Montreal was founded.
1804 The French Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
1860 Abraham Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
1896 The Supreme Court endorsed the concept of "separate but equal" racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson, a precedent that was overturned in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
1897 A public reading of Bram Stoker's new novel Dracula, or, The Un-dead was staged in London.
1933 The Tennessee Valley Authority was created.
1951 The United Nations moved out of its temporary headquarters in Lake Success, N.Y., for its permanent home in Manhattan.
1953 Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1969 Apollo 10 was launched on a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
1980 The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state erupted, killing 57 people.
1990 In France, a modified TGV train achieved a new rail world speed record of 515.3km/h.
1998 The federal government filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
2003 Les Miserables, the third-longest running show in Broadway history, closed after more than 16 years and 6,680 performances.
2004 Randy Johnson became the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game; the 40-year-old lefty retired all 27 batters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves 2-0.
Chart Toppers
1946
All Through the Day - Perry Como
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
Shoo Fly Pie - The Stan Kenton Orchestra (vocal: June Christy)
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Wanted - Perry Como
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold
1962
Soldier Boy - The Shirelles
Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
She Cried - Jay & The Americans
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
Vehicle - The Ides of March
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
My Love - Sonny James
1978
If I Can’t Have You - Yvonne Elliman
The Closer I Get to You - Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway
With a Little Luck - Wings
It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right - Dolly Parton
1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Why Can’t This Be Love - Van Halen
What Have You Done for Me Lateley - Janet Jackson
Ain’t Misbehavin’ - Hank Williams, Jr.
Quote of the Day
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
Today in History - May 19th
Today’s Birthdays
1890 Ho Chi Mihn (Nguyen That Thanh), North Vietnamese leader, died Sep 2, 1969
1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), civil rights activist, assassinated Feb 21, 1965
1925 Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator, died April 15, 1998
1928 Colin Chapman, founder (Lotus Cars) died Dec 16, 1982
1934 James Lehrer, journalist/news anchor (The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour)
1935 David Hartman, TV personality (Good Morning America)
1939 Dick Scobee, astronaut (Challenger) died January 28, 1986
1941 Nora Ephron, author (Heartburn, Sleepless in Seattle)
1944 Peter Mayhew, actor (Star Wars)
1945 Peter Townshend, guitarist (The Who)
1946 André the Giant, wrestler/actor (The Princess Bride) died January 27, 1993
1947 David Helfgott, Australian pianist (Shine)
1949 Dusty Hill, bassist/singer (ZZ Top)
1949 Archie Manning, NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints)
1951 Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman), singer (The Ramones) died Apr 15, 2001
1952 Grace Jones (Mendoza), singer/actress (Slave to the Rhythm)
1954 Phil Rudd, drummer (AC/DC)
1956 Martyn Ware, keyboardist (The Human League)
1959 Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J.'sex-wife/murder victim, killed June 12, 1994
1962 Iain Harvie, guitarist (Del Amitri)
1966 Polly Walker, actress (Patriot Games, Rome)
1970 Jason Gray-Stanford, actor (Monk)
1972 Jenny Berggren, singer (Ace of Base)
1976 Kevin Garnett, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1979 Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress (Hostel)
1980 Drew Fuller, actor (Charmed)
1983 Jessica Fox, actress (The Muppet Christmas Carol)
1986 Eric Lloyd, actor (The Santa Clause trilogy)
1988 Lily Cole, model/actress (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Today’s Deaths in History
1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded at 35
1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, author (The Scarlet Letter) dies at 59
1935 T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) dies at 46
1946 Booth Tarkington, novelist (The Magnificent Ambersons) dies 76
1971 Ogden Nash, poet (light verse) dies at 68
1994 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady, dies at 64
2001 Susannah McCorkle, jazz singer, dies at 55
2005 Henry Corden, actor/voice artist (Fred Flintstone) dies at 85
2006 Freddie Garrity, singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) dies at 69
Today in History
1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England had Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
1588 The Spanish Armada set sail for England.
1848 Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million.
1921 The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas on immigration.
1935 T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1964 The State Department disclosed that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1967 The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
1992 Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown because the title character chose to have a child out of wedlock.
1992 Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded in Massapequa, N.Y., by her husband Joey's teenage lover, Amy Fisher.
1992 The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect.
1993 The White House set off a political storm by firing the entire staff of its travel office.
2003 WorldCom Inc. agreed to pay investors $500 million to settle civil fraud charges.
2004 Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits received a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge in the first court-martial stemming from abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.
2005 Revenge of the Sith, the final chapter of the Star Wars saga, opened in movie theaters.
Chart Toppers
1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde) - Red Foley
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
Surfin’ USA - The Beatles
Foolish Little Girl - The Shirelles
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price
1979
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
In the Navy - Village People
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers
1987
With or Without You - U2
The Lady in Red - Chris DeBurgh
Heat of the Night - Bryan Adams
To Know Him is to Love Him - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
Quote of the Day
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
Today’s Birthdays
1890 Ho Chi Mihn (Nguyen That Thanh), North Vietnamese leader, died Sep 2, 1969
1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), civil rights activist, assassinated Feb 21, 1965
1925 Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator, died April 15, 1998
1928 Colin Chapman, founder (Lotus Cars) died Dec 16, 1982
1934 James Lehrer, journalist/news anchor (The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour)
1935 David Hartman, TV personality (Good Morning America)
1939 Dick Scobee, astronaut (Challenger) died January 28, 1986
1941 Nora Ephron, author (Heartburn, Sleepless in Seattle)
1944 Peter Mayhew, actor (Star Wars)
1945 Peter Townshend, guitarist (The Who)
1946 André the Giant, wrestler/actor (The Princess Bride) died January 27, 1993
1947 David Helfgott, Australian pianist (Shine)
1949 Dusty Hill, bassist/singer (ZZ Top)
1949 Archie Manning, NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints)
1951 Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman), singer (The Ramones) died Apr 15, 2001
1952 Grace Jones (Mendoza), singer/actress (Slave to the Rhythm)
1954 Phil Rudd, drummer (AC/DC)
1956 Martyn Ware, keyboardist (The Human League)
1959 Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J.'sex-wife/murder victim, killed June 12, 1994
1962 Iain Harvie, guitarist (Del Amitri)
1966 Polly Walker, actress (Patriot Games, Rome)
1970 Jason Gray-Stanford, actor (Monk)
1972 Jenny Berggren, singer (Ace of Base)
1976 Kevin Garnett, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1979 Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress (Hostel)
1980 Drew Fuller, actor (Charmed)
1983 Jessica Fox, actress (The Muppet Christmas Carol)
1986 Eric Lloyd, actor (The Santa Clause trilogy)
1988 Lily Cole, model/actress (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Today’s Deaths in History
1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded at 35
1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, author (The Scarlet Letter) dies at 59
1935 T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) dies at 46
1946 Booth Tarkington, novelist (The Magnificent Ambersons) dies 76
1971 Ogden Nash, poet (light verse) dies at 68
1994 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady, dies at 64
2001 Susannah McCorkle, jazz singer, dies at 55
2005 Henry Corden, actor/voice artist (Fred Flintstone) dies at 85
2006 Freddie Garrity, singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) dies at 69
Today in History
1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England had Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
1588 The Spanish Armada set sail for England.
1848 Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million.
1921 The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas on immigration.
1935 T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1964 The State Department disclosed that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1967 The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
1992 Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown because the title character chose to have a child out of wedlock.
1992 Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded in Massapequa, N.Y., by her husband Joey's teenage lover, Amy Fisher.
1992 The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect.
1993 The White House set off a political storm by firing the entire staff of its travel office.
2003 WorldCom Inc. agreed to pay investors $500 million to settle civil fraud charges.
2004 Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits received a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge in the first court-martial stemming from abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.
2005 Revenge of the Sith, the final chapter of the Star Wars saga, opened in movie theaters.
Chart Toppers
1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde) - Red Foley
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
Surfin’ USA - The Beatles
Foolish Little Girl - The Shirelles
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price
1979
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
In the Navy - Village People
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers
1987
With or Without You - U2
The Lady in Red - Chris DeBurgh
Heat of the Night - Bryan Adams
To Know Him is to Love Him - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
Quote of the Day
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
Today in History - May 20th
Today’s Birthdays
1768 Dolley Madison (Payne), U.S. First Lady, died July 12, 1849
1908 (Jimmy) James (Maitland) Stewart, actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Rear Window, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Vertigo) died July 2, 1997
1919 George Gobel, comedian, died February 24, 1991
1927 Bud (Henry) Grant, Pro Football Hall of Famer/coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings)
1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1942 Carlos Hathcock, Marine sniper (93 confirmed kills in Vietnam) died Feb 23, 1999
1944 Joe (John Robert) Cocker, singer/songwriter (With a Little Help from My Friends)
1946 Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre), singer/actress (Witches of Eastwick)
1946 Bobby (Ray) Murcer, center fielder (NY Yankees, SF Giants, Chicago Cubs)
1949 Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian/actor (Strange Brew)
1952 Warren Cann, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1954 David Paterson, governor (New York)
1954 Guy Hoffman, drummer/singer (Violent Femmes)
1954 Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain
1958 Jane Wiedlin, singer (The Go-Go's)
1959 Bronson Pinchot, actor (Perfect Strangers)
1959 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World) died June 26, 1997
1960 Tony Goldwyn, actor (Ghost)
1961 Nick Heyward, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Haircut 100)
1963 Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash, guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1963 David Wells, pitcher (NY Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays)
1965 Ted Allen, TV personality (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
1966 Gina Ravera, actress (The Closer)
1966 Mindy Cohn, actress (Facts of Life)
1966 Lisa Edelstein, actress (House)
1966 Tom Gorman, guitarist (Belly)
1968 Timothy Olyphant, actor (Deadwood, The Girl Next Door, Hitman)
1971 Tony Stewart, NASCAR race driver
1972 Busta Rhymes, rapper
1977 Angela Goethals, actress (24)
Today’s Deaths in History
1506 Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, dies at 55
1989 Gilda Radner, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live) dies at 42
1995 Ingrid von Rosen, wife of Ingmar Bergman, dies at 65
2002 Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, dies at 60
2008 Hamilton Jordan, former White House Chief of Staff (Carter Administration) dies at 63
Today in History
1861 North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.
1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1902 The United States ended its occupation of Cuba.
1916 The Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
1927 Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1939 Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.
1949 The Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, was established.
1961 A white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order.
1969 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
1970 Some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.
1971 The Marvin Gaye album What's Going On was released.
1989 Chinese authorities declared martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1993 An estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of Cheers on NBC.
1995 President Bill Clinton announced that the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House would be permanently closed to traffic as a security measure.
1996 The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
2002 East Timor became an independent nation.
2004 Iraqi police backed by American soldiers raided the home and offices of Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician once groomed as a possible replacement for Saddam Hussein.
2006 Iraq's new unity government took office, five months after elections.
2006 The FBI searched the Capitol Hill office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., as part of a bribery investigation; Jefferson was indicted in 2007 and lost his re-election bid in 2008; he is awaiting trial.
2006 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career list with his 714th home run.
2008 Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor.
Chart Toppers
1948
Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
The Dickey Bird Song - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Glenn Hughes)
Anytime - Eddy Arnold
1956
Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1964
My Guy - Mary Wells
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Ronnie - The 4 Seasons
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1972
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
Grandma Harp - Merle Haggard
1980
Call Me - Blondie
Ride like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Lost in Love - Air Supply
Gone Too Far - Eddie Rabbitt
1988
Anything for You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
One More Try - George Michael
I’m Gonna Get You - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken, computer scientist (1900 - 1973)
Today’s Birthdays
1768 Dolley Madison (Payne), U.S. First Lady, died July 12, 1849
1908 (Jimmy) James (Maitland) Stewart, actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Rear Window, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Vertigo) died July 2, 1997
1919 George Gobel, comedian, died February 24, 1991
1927 Bud (Henry) Grant, Pro Football Hall of Famer/coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings)
1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1942 Carlos Hathcock, Marine sniper (93 confirmed kills in Vietnam) died Feb 23, 1999
1944 Joe (John Robert) Cocker, singer/songwriter (With a Little Help from My Friends)
1946 Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre), singer/actress (Witches of Eastwick)
1946 Bobby (Ray) Murcer, center fielder (NY Yankees, SF Giants, Chicago Cubs)
1949 Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian/actor (Strange Brew)
1952 Warren Cann, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1954 David Paterson, governor (New York)
1954 Guy Hoffman, drummer/singer (Violent Femmes)
1954 Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain
1958 Jane Wiedlin, singer (The Go-Go's)
1959 Bronson Pinchot, actor (Perfect Strangers)
1959 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World) died June 26, 1997
1960 Tony Goldwyn, actor (Ghost)
1961 Nick Heyward, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Haircut 100)
1963 Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash, guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1963 David Wells, pitcher (NY Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays)
1965 Ted Allen, TV personality (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
1966 Gina Ravera, actress (The Closer)
1966 Mindy Cohn, actress (Facts of Life)
1966 Lisa Edelstein, actress (House)
1966 Tom Gorman, guitarist (Belly)
1968 Timothy Olyphant, actor (Deadwood, The Girl Next Door, Hitman)
1971 Tony Stewart, NASCAR race driver
1972 Busta Rhymes, rapper
1977 Angela Goethals, actress (24)
Today’s Deaths in History
1506 Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, dies at 55
1989 Gilda Radner, comedian/actress (Saturday Night Live) dies at 42
1995 Ingrid von Rosen, wife of Ingmar Bergman, dies at 65
2002 Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, dies at 60
2008 Hamilton Jordan, former White House Chief of Staff (Carter Administration) dies at 63
Today in History
1861 North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.
1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1902 The United States ended its occupation of Cuba.
1916 The Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
1927 Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1939 Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.
1949 The Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, was established.
1961 A white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order.
1969 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
1970 Some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.
1971 The Marvin Gaye album What's Going On was released.
1989 Chinese authorities declared martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1993 An estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of Cheers on NBC.
1995 President Bill Clinton announced that the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House would be permanently closed to traffic as a security measure.
1996 The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
2002 East Timor became an independent nation.
2004 Iraqi police backed by American soldiers raided the home and offices of Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician once groomed as a possible replacement for Saddam Hussein.
2006 Iraq's new unity government took office, five months after elections.
2006 The FBI searched the Capitol Hill office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., as part of a bribery investigation; Jefferson was indicted in 2007 and lost his re-election bid in 2008; he is awaiting trial.
2006 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career list with his 714th home run.
2008 Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor.
Chart Toppers
1948
Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
The Dickey Bird Song - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Glenn Hughes)
Anytime - Eddy Arnold
1956
Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1964
My Guy - Mary Wells
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Ronnie - The 4 Seasons
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1972
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
Grandma Harp - Merle Haggard
1980
Call Me - Blondie
Ride like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Lost in Love - Air Supply
Gone Too Far - Eddie Rabbitt
1988
Anything for You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
One More Try - George Michael
I’m Gonna Get You - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken, computer scientist (1900 - 1973)
Today in History - May 21st
Today’s Birthdays
1688 Alexander Pope, poet (The Rape of the Lock) died May 30, 1744
1901 Sam Jaffe, film producer (Born Free) died January 10, 2000
1904 Fats Waller, blues pianist/songwriter (Ain’t Misbehavin’) died Dec 15, 1943
1904 Robert Montgomery, actor (Night Must Fall) died September 27, 1981
1916 Harold Robbins (Francis Kane), writer (The Carpetbaggers) died Oct 14, 1997
1917 Raymond (William Stacy) Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironside) died Sep 12, 1993
1921 Andrei Sakharov, physicist (first Soviet atomic bomb) died Dec 14, 1989
1923 Ara Parseghian, College Football Hall of Fame head coach (Notre Dame)
1924 Peggy Cass, actress (Don't Drink the Water) died March 8, 1999
1941 Ronald Isley, singer (The Isley Brothers)
1943 Hilton Valentine, guitarist (The Animals)
1945 Richard Hatch, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Leo Sayer, singer (Long Tall Glasses, You Make Me Feel like Dancing)
1951 Al Franken, comedian/pundit (Air America)
1952 Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud), actor (The A-Team, Rocky III)
1955 Stan Lynch, rock drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1957 Judge Reinhold, actor (Beverly Hills Cop series, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1959 Nick Cassavetes, actor/director (Face/Off)
1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer, died Nov 28, 1994
1963 Kevin Shields, singer/guitarist (My Bloody Valentine)
1967 Chris Benoit, professional wrestler, died June 24, 2007
1968 Lisa Edelstein, actress (House M.D., Keeping the Faith)
1972 The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), rapper, shot and killed Mar 9, 1997
1974 Fairuza Balk, actress (The Craft, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead)
1977 Ricky Williams, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1978 Adam Gontier, singer (Three Days Grace)
Today’s Deaths in History
1894 Emile Henry, French anarchist, is executed at 22
1952 John Garfield, actor (The Postman Always Rings Twice) dies at 39
1965 Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer, dies 82
1973 Vaughn Monroe, trumpeter/bandleader (There I've Said It Again) dies at 61
1988 Sammy Davis, Sr., dancer, dies at 87
1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, is assassinated at 46
1996 Lash LaRue, actor (Westerns) dies at 80
1999 Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, rapper (D12) dies at 21
2000 Barbara Cartland, English author (romance novels) dies at 98
2000 Sir John Gielgud, British actor (Arthur) dies at 96
2005 Howard Morris, comic actor/director (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 85
2006 Spencer Clark, NASCAR race driver, dies at 29 in an auto accident
Today in History
1542 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.
1832 The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore.
1840 New Zealand was declared a British colony.
1881 Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
1892 The opera I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo was first performed, in Milan, Italy.
1894 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry was executed by guillotine.
1924 Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago, killed a 14-year-old boy in a "thrill killing."
1927 Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1936 Sada Abe was arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand; her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1956 The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb, over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1959 The musical Gypsy," starring Ethel Merman, opened on Broadway.
1968 The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from; the remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was damaged by a vandal, mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1979 Former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk; White's argument that junk food had fueled his rampage was derided as the "Twinkie defense."
1991 Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber.
1998 A 15-year-old student open fired inside Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., killing two students and wounding 23, one day after killing his parents.
1999 Susan Lucci, star of the ABC soap opera All My Children, won her first Daytime Emmy Award for best actress in the 19th straight year she was nominated.
2006 The Republic of Montenegro held a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2006 The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor took gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 The clipper Cutty Sark was badly damaged by fire in London, England.
2008 David Cook won American Idol in a landslide over David Archuleta.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Forever and Ever - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The Skylarks)
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
School Day - Chuck Berry
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
1965
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves
1973
You are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
Little Willy - The Sweet
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
What’s Your Mama’s Name - Tanya Tucker
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr./Bill Withers
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
I Loved ’Em Every One - T.G. Sheppard
1989
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Real Love - Jody Watley
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
If I Had You - Alabama
Quote of the Day
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Today’s Birthdays
1688 Alexander Pope, poet (The Rape of the Lock) died May 30, 1744
1901 Sam Jaffe, film producer (Born Free) died January 10, 2000
1904 Fats Waller, blues pianist/songwriter (Ain’t Misbehavin’) died Dec 15, 1943
1904 Robert Montgomery, actor (Night Must Fall) died September 27, 1981
1916 Harold Robbins (Francis Kane), writer (The Carpetbaggers) died Oct 14, 1997
1917 Raymond (William Stacy) Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironside) died Sep 12, 1993
1921 Andrei Sakharov, physicist (first Soviet atomic bomb) died Dec 14, 1989
1923 Ara Parseghian, College Football Hall of Fame head coach (Notre Dame)
1924 Peggy Cass, actress (Don't Drink the Water) died March 8, 1999
1941 Ronald Isley, singer (The Isley Brothers)
1943 Hilton Valentine, guitarist (The Animals)
1945 Richard Hatch, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Leo Sayer, singer (Long Tall Glasses, You Make Me Feel like Dancing)
1951 Al Franken, comedian/pundit (Air America)
1952 Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud), actor (The A-Team, Rocky III)
1955 Stan Lynch, rock drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1957 Judge Reinhold, actor (Beverly Hills Cop series, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1959 Nick Cassavetes, actor/director (Face/Off)
1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer, died Nov 28, 1994
1963 Kevin Shields, singer/guitarist (My Bloody Valentine)
1967 Chris Benoit, professional wrestler, died June 24, 2007
1968 Lisa Edelstein, actress (House M.D., Keeping the Faith)
1972 The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), rapper, shot and killed Mar 9, 1997
1974 Fairuza Balk, actress (The Craft, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead)
1977 Ricky Williams, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1978 Adam Gontier, singer (Three Days Grace)
Today’s Deaths in History
1894 Emile Henry, French anarchist, is executed at 22
1952 John Garfield, actor (The Postman Always Rings Twice) dies at 39
1965 Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer, dies 82
1973 Vaughn Monroe, trumpeter/bandleader (There I've Said It Again) dies at 61
1988 Sammy Davis, Sr., dancer, dies at 87
1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, is assassinated at 46
1996 Lash LaRue, actor (Westerns) dies at 80
1999 Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, rapper (D12) dies at 21
2000 Barbara Cartland, English author (romance novels) dies at 98
2000 Sir John Gielgud, British actor (Arthur) dies at 96
2005 Howard Morris, comic actor/director (The Andy Griffith Show) dies at 85
2006 Spencer Clark, NASCAR race driver, dies at 29 in an auto accident
Today in History
1542 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.
1832 The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore.
1840 New Zealand was declared a British colony.
1881 Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
1892 The opera I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo was first performed, in Milan, Italy.
1894 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry was executed by guillotine.
1924 Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago, killed a 14-year-old boy in a "thrill killing."
1927 Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1936 Sada Abe was arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand; her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1956 The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb, over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1959 The musical Gypsy," starring Ethel Merman, opened on Broadway.
1968 The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from; the remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was damaged by a vandal, mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1979 Former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk; White's argument that junk food had fueled his rampage was derided as the "Twinkie defense."
1991 Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber.
1998 A 15-year-old student open fired inside Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., killing two students and wounding 23, one day after killing his parents.
1999 Susan Lucci, star of the ABC soap opera All My Children, won her first Daytime Emmy Award for best actress in the 19th straight year she was nominated.
2006 The Republic of Montenegro held a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2006 The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor took gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 The clipper Cutty Sark was badly damaged by fire in London, England.
2008 David Cook won American Idol in a landslide over David Archuleta.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Forever and Ever - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The Skylarks)
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
School Day - Chuck Berry
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
1965
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves
1973
You are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
Little Willy - The Sweet
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
What’s Your Mama’s Name - Tanya Tucker
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr./Bill Withers
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
I Loved ’Em Every One - T.G. Sheppard
1989
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Real Love - Jody Watley
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
If I Had You - Alabama
Quote of the Day
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Today in History - May 22nd
Today’s Birthdays
1813 Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer (Die Valkyrie) died Feb 13, 1883
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, physician/writer (Sherlock Holmes) died July 7, 1930
1907 Sir Laurence (Kerr) Olivier, actor (Hamlet, The Jazz Singer) died July 11, 1989
1910 Johnny Olson, game show announcer (The Price Is Right) died October 12, 1985
1914 Sun Ra, jazz musician/composer, died May 30, 1993
1927 Michael Constantine, actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1939 Paul Winfield, actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) died Mar 7, 2004
1942 Theodore Kaczynski, terrorist (The Unabomber)
1942 Calvin Simon, musician (P Funk)
1943 Tommy (Thomas Edward) John, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1950 Bernie Taupin, lyricist (Elton John)
1955 Jimmy Lyon, guitarist (Eddie Money)
1955 Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (The Specials)
1959 Morrissey (Stephen Morrissey), singer (The Smiths)
1962 Jesse Valenzuela, musician (Gin Blossoms)
1966 Johnny Gill, R&B singer (New Edition)
1967 Brooke Smith, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan)
1967 Dan Roberts, bassist (Crash Test Dummies)
1970 Naomi Campbell, model
1972 Anna Belknap, actress (CSI: NY)
1972 Alison Eastwood, actress (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
1974 A. J. Langer, actress (MY So-Called Life)
1978 Ginnifer Goodwin, actress (Big Love, Walk the Line)
1978 Katie Price (Jordan), British glamour model
1979 Maggie Q, actress (Live Free or Die Hard, Mission Impossible III)
1982 Apolo Anton Ohno, short track speed skater
Today’s Deaths in History
1885 Victor Hugo, French author (Les Miserables) dies at 83
1967 Langston Hughes, writer (The Ways of White Folks) dies at 65
1972 Margaret Rutherford, actress (The Importance of Being Earnest) dies at 80
1990 Rocky Graziano, boxing champion, dies at 78
2004 Richard Biggs, actor (Babylon 5) dies at 44
2005 Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor/singer (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Tony the Tiger) dies at 91
Today in History
1807 A grand jury indicted former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1819 The SS Savannah left port at Savannah, Georgia, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean; it arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
1840 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished.
1868 The Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds.
1872 President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law, restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1906 The Wright brothers were granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine."
1939 The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy signed a "Pact of Steel" committing the two countries to a military alliance.
1942 Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
1947 The Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
1968 The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sank with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1969 The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972 The island nation of Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka with the adoption of a new constitution.
1980 Namco released the highly influential video game Pacman.
1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
1990 Microsoft released the Windows 3.0 operating system.
1992 Johnny Carson hosted NBC's Tonight Show for the last time after nearly 30 years in the job.
1997 Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepted a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial for adultery.
1998 Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland cast ballots giving resounding approval to a Northern Ireland peace accord.
2002 A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. 2002 The remains of Chandra Levy, the federal intern who had disappeared more than a year earlier, were found in a Washington, D.C., park; an arrest warrant was issued in March 2009 for a man serving a 10-year-sentence for assaulting two other women in the same park.
2003 Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since 1945 to tee off against the men on the pro tour, playing in the first round of the Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.
2004 The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, was wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake - Eileen Barton
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Just Married - Marty Robbins
1966
Monday Monday - The Mamas & the Papas
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
Country Bumpkin - Cal Smith
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Just to Satisfy You - Waylon & Willie
1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Walkin’ Away - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965)
Today’s Birthdays
1813 Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer (Die Valkyrie) died Feb 13, 1883
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, physician/writer (Sherlock Holmes) died July 7, 1930
1907 Sir Laurence (Kerr) Olivier, actor (Hamlet, The Jazz Singer) died July 11, 1989
1910 Johnny Olson, game show announcer (The Price Is Right) died October 12, 1985
1914 Sun Ra, jazz musician/composer, died May 30, 1993
1927 Michael Constantine, actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1939 Paul Winfield, actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) died Mar 7, 2004
1942 Theodore Kaczynski, terrorist (The Unabomber)
1942 Calvin Simon, musician (P Funk)
1943 Tommy (Thomas Edward) John, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1950 Bernie Taupin, lyricist (Elton John)
1955 Jimmy Lyon, guitarist (Eddie Money)
1955 Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (The Specials)
1959 Morrissey (Stephen Morrissey), singer (The Smiths)
1962 Jesse Valenzuela, musician (Gin Blossoms)
1966 Johnny Gill, R&B singer (New Edition)
1967 Brooke Smith, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan)
1967 Dan Roberts, bassist (Crash Test Dummies)
1970 Naomi Campbell, model
1972 Anna Belknap, actress (CSI: NY)
1972 Alison Eastwood, actress (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
1974 A. J. Langer, actress (MY So-Called Life)
1978 Ginnifer Goodwin, actress (Big Love, Walk the Line)
1978 Katie Price (Jordan), British glamour model
1979 Maggie Q, actress (Live Free or Die Hard, Mission Impossible III)
1982 Apolo Anton Ohno, short track speed skater
Today’s Deaths in History
1885 Victor Hugo, French author (Les Miserables) dies at 83
1967 Langston Hughes, writer (The Ways of White Folks) dies at 65
1972 Margaret Rutherford, actress (The Importance of Being Earnest) dies at 80
1990 Rocky Graziano, boxing champion, dies at 78
2004 Richard Biggs, actor (Babylon 5) dies at 44
2005 Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor/singer (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Tony the Tiger) dies at 91
Today in History
1807 A grand jury indicted former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1819 The SS Savannah left port at Savannah, Georgia, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean; it arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
1840 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished.
1868 The Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds.
1872 President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law, restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1906 The Wright brothers were granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine."
1939 The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy signed a "Pact of Steel" committing the two countries to a military alliance.
1942 Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
1947 The Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
1968 The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sank with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1969 The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972 The island nation of Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka with the adoption of a new constitution.
1980 Namco released the highly influential video game Pacman.
1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
1990 Microsoft released the Windows 3.0 operating system.
1992 Johnny Carson hosted NBC's Tonight Show for the last time after nearly 30 years in the job.
1997 Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepted a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial for adultery.
1998 Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland cast ballots giving resounding approval to a Northern Ireland peace accord.
2002 A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. 2002 The remains of Chandra Levy, the federal intern who had disappeared more than a year earlier, were found in a Washington, D.C., park; an arrest warrant was issued in March 2009 for a man serving a 10-year-sentence for assaulting two other women in the same park.
2003 Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since 1945 to tee off against the men on the pro tour, playing in the first round of the Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.
2004 The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, was wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake - Eileen Barton
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Just Married - Marty Robbins
1966
Monday Monday - The Mamas & the Papas
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
Country Bumpkin - Cal Smith
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Just to Satisfy You - Waylon & Willie
1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Walkin’ Away - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965)
Today in History - May 23rd
Today’s Birthdays
1824 Ambrose Burnside, hirsute Civil War general (sideburns) died Sept 13, 1881
1846 Arabella Mansfield (Belle Aurelia Babb), first woman lawyer in U.S., died Aug 2, 1911
1883 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (The Three Musketeers) died Dec 12, 1939
1910 Scatman Crothers, entertainer/actor (The Shining) died Nov 22, 1986
1910 Artie Shaw, clarinetist/bandleader (Begin the Beguine) died Dec 30, 2004
1912 John Payne, actor (Miracle on 34th Street) died Dec 6, 1989
1928 Rosemary Clooney, singer (Come on-a My House) died June 29, 2002
1933 Joan Collins, actress (Dynasty)
1934 Dr. Robert Moog, electronics inventor (Moog synthesizer) died Aug 21, 2005
1943 General Norman Johnson, singer (Chairmen of the Board)
1951 Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess master
1952 Marvelous Marvin Hagler, International Boxing Hall of Famer
1957 Baltimora, singer (Tarzan Boy) died of AIDS Mar 29, 1995
1958 Drew Carey, comedian/actor/producer/writer (The Drew Carey Show)
1962 Karen "Duff" Duffy, MTV V-J/actress (Dumb & Dumber)
1963 Gregg "Opie" Hughes, radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1963 Wally Dallenbach, former NASCAR driver
1967 Phil Selway, drummer (Radiohead)
1968 Laurel Holloman, actress (The L Word)
1968 Guinevere Turner, actress (American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page)
1970 Matt Flynn, drummer (Maroon 5)
1974 Jewel Kilcher, pop/folk singer
1974 Ken Jennings, game show contestant (won $3,022,700 on Jeopardy)
1976 Kelly Monaco, playmate/actress/TV personality (Dancing with the Stars)
1978 Scott Raynor, drummer (original Blink-182 drummer)
1980 Lane Garrison, actor (Prison Break)
1983 Heidi Range, singer (Sugababes)
1988 Morgan Pressel, LPGA golfer
Today’s Deaths in History
1701 Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at 55
1868 Kit Carson, trapper/scout/Indian agent, dies at 58
1906 Henrik Ibsen, playwright (Peer Gynt) dies at 78
1934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw, is gunned down at 25
1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw, is gunned down at 23
1937 John D. Rockefeller, entrepreneur (Standard Oil) dies at 97
1945 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS commander, commits suicide at 44
1975 Moms Mabley, comedian (Boarding House Blues) dies at 81
1981 George Jessel, actor (The Jazz Singer) dies at 83
1986 Sterling Hayden, actor (The Asphalt Jungle, The Godfather) dies at 70
1999 Owen Hart, wrestler, dies in a stunt gone bad at 34
2002 Sam Snead, golf champion, dies at 89
2006 Lloyd Bentsen, politician/Vice Presidential candidate, dies at 85
2009 Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of the Republic of Korea, commits suicide at 62
Today in History
1430 Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1533 The marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1701 Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.
1788 South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1863 Sgt. William Harvey Carney became the first African-American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the assault on Battery Wagner.
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.
1911 The New York Public Library was dedicated.
1915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1929 The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, was released.
1934 Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen car in Bienville Parish, La.
1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sank off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians; the remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect were rescued the following day.
1945 Nazi official and SS chief Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
1960 Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1967 Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran and blockaded the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.
1992 The United States and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Lisbon, Portugal, to implement the START missile reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution.
1995 In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building were imploded.
1995 The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1997 Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.
2003 Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts, the third of his presidency.
2006 ABC named Charles Gibson to replace Elizabeth Vargas as anchor of its World News Tonight evening newscast.
Chart Toppers
1951
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Kentucky Waltz - Eddy Arnold
1959
The Happy Organ - Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez
A Teenager in Love - Dion & the Belmonts
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Respect - Aretha Franklin
I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens
1975
Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter
1983
Let’s Dance - David Bowie
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Common Man - John Conlee
1991
I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) - Hi-Five
Touch Me (All Night Long) - Cathy Dennis
Here We Go - C + C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
If I Know Me - George Strait
Quote of the Day
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter & poet (1828 - 1882)
Today’s Birthdays
1824 Ambrose Burnside, hirsute Civil War general (sideburns) died Sept 13, 1881
1846 Arabella Mansfield (Belle Aurelia Babb), first woman lawyer in U.S., died Aug 2, 1911
1883 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (The Three Musketeers) died Dec 12, 1939
1910 Scatman Crothers, entertainer/actor (The Shining) died Nov 22, 1986
1910 Artie Shaw, clarinetist/bandleader (Begin the Beguine) died Dec 30, 2004
1912 John Payne, actor (Miracle on 34th Street) died Dec 6, 1989
1928 Rosemary Clooney, singer (Come on-a My House) died June 29, 2002
1933 Joan Collins, actress (Dynasty)
1934 Dr. Robert Moog, electronics inventor (Moog synthesizer) died Aug 21, 2005
1943 General Norman Johnson, singer (Chairmen of the Board)
1951 Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess master
1952 Marvelous Marvin Hagler, International Boxing Hall of Famer
1957 Baltimora, singer (Tarzan Boy) died of AIDS Mar 29, 1995
1958 Drew Carey, comedian/actor/producer/writer (The Drew Carey Show)
1962 Karen "Duff" Duffy, MTV V-J/actress (Dumb & Dumber)
1963 Gregg "Opie" Hughes, radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1963 Wally Dallenbach, former NASCAR driver
1967 Phil Selway, drummer (Radiohead)
1968 Laurel Holloman, actress (The L Word)
1968 Guinevere Turner, actress (American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page)
1970 Matt Flynn, drummer (Maroon 5)
1974 Jewel Kilcher, pop/folk singer
1974 Ken Jennings, game show contestant (won $3,022,700 on Jeopardy)
1976 Kelly Monaco, playmate/actress/TV personality (Dancing with the Stars)
1978 Scott Raynor, drummer (original Blink-182 drummer)
1980 Lane Garrison, actor (Prison Break)
1983 Heidi Range, singer (Sugababes)
1988 Morgan Pressel, LPGA golfer
Today’s Deaths in History
1701 Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at 55
1868 Kit Carson, trapper/scout/Indian agent, dies at 58
1906 Henrik Ibsen, playwright (Peer Gynt) dies at 78
1934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw, is gunned down at 25
1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw, is gunned down at 23
1937 John D. Rockefeller, entrepreneur (Standard Oil) dies at 97
1945 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS commander, commits suicide at 44
1975 Moms Mabley, comedian (Boarding House Blues) dies at 81
1981 George Jessel, actor (The Jazz Singer) dies at 83
1986 Sterling Hayden, actor (The Asphalt Jungle, The Godfather) dies at 70
1999 Owen Hart, wrestler, dies in a stunt gone bad at 34
2002 Sam Snead, golf champion, dies at 89
2006 Lloyd Bentsen, politician/Vice Presidential candidate, dies at 85
2009 Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of the Republic of Korea, commits suicide at 62
Today in History
1430 Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1533 The marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1701 Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.
1788 South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1863 Sgt. William Harvey Carney became the first African-American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the assault on Battery Wagner.
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.
1911 The New York Public Library was dedicated.
1915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1929 The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, was released.
1934 Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen car in Bienville Parish, La.
1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sank off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians; the remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect were rescued the following day.
1945 Nazi official and SS chief Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
1960 Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1967 Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran and blockaded the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.
1992 The United States and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Lisbon, Portugal, to implement the START missile reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution.
1995 In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building were imploded.
1995 The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1997 Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.
2003 Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts, the third of his presidency.
2006 ABC named Charles Gibson to replace Elizabeth Vargas as anchor of its World News Tonight evening newscast.
Chart Toppers
1951
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Kentucky Waltz - Eddy Arnold
1959
The Happy Organ - Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez
A Teenager in Love - Dion & the Belmonts
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Respect - Aretha Franklin
I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens
1975
Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter
1983
Let’s Dance - David Bowie
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Common Man - John Conlee
1991
I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) - Hi-Five
Touch Me (All Night Long) - Cathy Dennis
Here We Go - C + C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis
If I Know Me - George Strait
Quote of the Day
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter & poet (1828 - 1882)
Today in History - May 24th
Today’s Birthdays
1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist/inventor (mercury thermometer) died Sep 16, 1736
1816 Emanuel Leutze, artist (Washington Crossing the Delaware) died July 18, 1868
1879 H. B. Reese, inventor (Reese's Peanut Butter Cups) died May 16, 1956
1909 Wilbur Mills, politician (Fannie Foxe scandal) died May 2, 1992
1938 Tommy Chong, comedian (Cheech and Chong)
1941 Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman), singer/songwriter (Like a Rolling Stone)
1942 Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1943 Gary Burghoff, actor (M*A*S*H)
1944 Patti LaBelle (Patricia Louise Holte), singer (Lady Marmalade)
1945 Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis' widow/actress (Naked Gun series)
1949 Jim Broadbent, actor (Hot Fuzz, Time Bandits, Moulin Rouge)
1953 Alfred Molina, actor (Spiderman 2, Chocolat, Maverick)
1956 Larry Blackmon, R&B musician (Cameo)
1960 Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1960 Kristen Scott Thomas, actress (The English Patient)
1962 Gene Anthony Ray, actor/dancer (Fame) died Nov 14, 2003
1963 Vivian Trimble, keyboardist/singer (Luscious Jackson)
1964 Pat Verbeek, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1965 John C. Reilly, actor (Talladega Nights Walk Hard)
1967 Heavy D, rapper/actor (Now That We Found Love)
1967 Eric Close, actor (Without a Trace)
1969 Rich Robinson, guitarist (The Black Crowes)
1972 Layne Beachley, professional surfer/actress (Blue Crush)
1978 Johan Holmqvist, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1984 Sarah Hagan, actress (Freaks and Geeks)
1989 Tara Correa-McMullen, actress (Judging AMy, Rebound) murdered Oct 21, 2005
Today’s Deaths in History
1959 John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, dies at 71
1963 Elmore James, "King of the Slide Guitar," blues musician, dies at 45
1974 Duke Ellington, composer/jazz musician, dies at 75
1984 Vincent J. McMahon, pro wrestling promoter, dies at 69
1991 Gene Clark, singer/songwriter (The Byrds) dies at 46
1997 Edward Mulhare, actor (Knight Rider) dies at 74
2005 Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash, dies at 71
2006 Desmond Dekker, ska/reggae singer/songwriter, dies at 64
2008 Dick Martin, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) dies at 86
2008 Rob Knox, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) is stabbed to death at 18
Today in History
1830 "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale was published.
1830 The first passenger railroad in the United States began service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, Md.
1844 Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he opened America's first telegraph line.
1881 Turkey ceded Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic.
1895 Henry Irving became the first personage from the theatre to be knighted.
1930 Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia.
1935 The first major league baseball game played at night took place at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.
1940 Igor Sikorsky performed the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1943 Josef Mengele became chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1958 United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1961 Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1962 Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
1976 Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.
1976 In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rated wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.
1980 The International Court of Justice called for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran.
1992 The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigned following pro-democracy protests.
1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1995 "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call girl ring that catered to the rich and famous.
2000 Israeli troops pulled out of southern Lebanon, ending 18 years of occupation.
2001 Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont abandoned the Republican Party and declared himself an independent.
2004 North Korea banned mobile phones.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Good Timin’ - Jimmy Jones
Cradle of Love - Johnny Preston
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
A Beautiful Morning - The Rascals
I Wanna Live - Glen Campbell
1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
After All the Good is Gone - Conway Twitty
1984
Hello - Lionel Richie
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before - Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson
Quote of the Day
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
Today’s Birthdays
1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist/inventor (mercury thermometer) died Sep 16, 1736
1816 Emanuel Leutze, artist (Washington Crossing the Delaware) died July 18, 1868
1879 H. B. Reese, inventor (Reese's Peanut Butter Cups) died May 16, 1956
1909 Wilbur Mills, politician (Fannie Foxe scandal) died May 2, 1992
1938 Tommy Chong, comedian (Cheech and Chong)
1941 Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman), singer/songwriter (Like a Rolling Stone)
1942 Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1943 Gary Burghoff, actor (M*A*S*H)
1944 Patti LaBelle (Patricia Louise Holte), singer (Lady Marmalade)
1945 Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis' widow/actress (Naked Gun series)
1949 Jim Broadbent, actor (Hot Fuzz, Time Bandits, Moulin Rouge)
1953 Alfred Molina, actor (Spiderman 2, Chocolat, Maverick)
1956 Larry Blackmon, R&B musician (Cameo)
1960 Guy Fletcher, keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1960 Kristen Scott Thomas, actress (The English Patient)
1962 Gene Anthony Ray, actor/dancer (Fame) died Nov 14, 2003
1963 Vivian Trimble, keyboardist/singer (Luscious Jackson)
1964 Pat Verbeek, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1965 John C. Reilly, actor (Talladega Nights Walk Hard)
1967 Heavy D, rapper/actor (Now That We Found Love)
1967 Eric Close, actor (Without a Trace)
1969 Rich Robinson, guitarist (The Black Crowes)
1972 Layne Beachley, professional surfer/actress (Blue Crush)
1978 Johan Holmqvist, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1984 Sarah Hagan, actress (Freaks and Geeks)
1989 Tara Correa-McMullen, actress (Judging AMy, Rebound) murdered Oct 21, 2005
Today’s Deaths in History
1959 John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, dies at 71
1963 Elmore James, "King of the Slide Guitar," blues musician, dies at 45
1974 Duke Ellington, composer/jazz musician, dies at 75
1984 Vincent J. McMahon, pro wrestling promoter, dies at 69
1991 Gene Clark, singer/songwriter (The Byrds) dies at 46
1997 Edward Mulhare, actor (Knight Rider) dies at 74
2005 Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash, dies at 71
2006 Desmond Dekker, ska/reggae singer/songwriter, dies at 64
2008 Dick Martin, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) dies at 86
2008 Rob Knox, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) is stabbed to death at 18
Today in History
1830 "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale was published.
1830 The first passenger railroad in the United States began service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, Md.
1844 Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he opened America's first telegraph line.
1881 Turkey ceded Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic.
1895 Henry Irving became the first personage from the theatre to be knighted.
1930 Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia.
1935 The first major league baseball game played at night took place at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.
1940 Igor Sikorsky performed the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1943 Josef Mengele became chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1958 United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1961 Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1962 Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
1976 Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.
1976 In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rated wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.
1980 The International Court of Justice called for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran.
1992 The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigned following pro-democracy protests.
1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1995 "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call girl ring that catered to the rich and famous.
2000 Israeli troops pulled out of southern Lebanon, ending 18 years of occupation.
2001 Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont abandoned the Republican Party and declared himself an independent.
2004 North Korea banned mobile phones.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Good Timin’ - Jimmy Jones
Cradle of Love - Johnny Preston
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
A Beautiful Morning - The Rascals
I Wanna Live - Glen Campbell
1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
After All the Good is Gone - Conway Twitty
1984
Hello - Lionel Richie
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before - Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson
Quote of the Day
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
Today in History - May 25th
Today’s Birthdays
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer (Essays) died Apr 27, 1882
1878 Bill ‘Bojangles’ (Luther) Robinson, dancer/actor (Stormy Weather) died Nov 25, 1949
1889 Igor Sikorsky, engineer (first successful helicopter) died Oct 26, 1972
1898 Bennett Cerf, publisher/TV personality (What's My Line) died Aug 27, 1971
1898 Gene (James Joseph) Tunney, Heavyweight Boxing Champion, died July 11, 1978
1925 Jeanne Crain, actress (State Fair, Cheaper by the Dozen) died December 14, 2003
1926 Claude Akins, actor (The Caine Mutiny) died Jan 27, 1994
1926 Miles (Dewey) Davis III, jazz trumpet/flugelhorn, died Sep 28, 1991
1927 Robert Ludlum, novelist (Bourne series) died Mar 12, 2001
1929 Beverly Sills, operatic soprano, died July 2, 2007
1939 Sir Ian McKellen, actor (X-Men series, Lord of the Rings series)
1944 Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz), muppeteer/film director (Miss Piggy)
1948 Klaus Meine, singer (Scorpions)
1958 Paul Weller, guitarist/singer (The Jam, The Style Council)
1963 Mike Myers, actor/comedian (Wayne's World, Shrek, The Love Guru)
1969 Anne Heche, actress (Wag the Dog)
1969 Glen Drover, guitarist (Megadeth)
1970 Jamie Kennedy, actor (Scream series)
1971 Justin Henry, actor (Kramer vs Kramer)
1972 Octavia Spencer, actress (Ugly Betty)
1973 Molly Sims, supermodel/actress (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Las Vegas)
1975 Lauryn Hill, singer (Fugees)
1976 Cillian Murphy, actor (28 Days Later)
1976 Ethan Suplee, actor (My Name Is Earl, Remember the Titans)
1978 Todd Whitener, guitarist (Tantric)
1978 Brian Urlacher, linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1980 Joe King, guitarist (The Fray)
1984 Shawne Merriman, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
Today’s Deaths in History
1934 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) dies at 59
1965 Sonny Boy Williamson, singer/songwriter/blues musician, dies at 65
1974 Donald Crisp, actor (How Green Was My valley) dies at 94
1990 Vic Tayback, actor (Alice) dies at 60
1996 Bradley Nowell, singer/guitarist (Sublime) dies at 28 of a heroin overdose
2003 Jeremy Michael Ward, musician (The Mars Volta) dies at 27
2005 Ismail Merchant, film producer (Merchant/Ivory films) dies at 68
2005 Domenic Troiano, guitarist/songwriter (James Gang, Guess Who) dies at 59
2006 Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician, dies at 64
2007 Charles Nelson Reilly, actor/TV personality (Match Game) dies at 76
Today in History
1787 The Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia.
1810 Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
1844 The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.
1925 John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University broke five world records and tied a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1935 Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.
1946 Transjordan became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
1951 Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays made his major league debut with the New York Giants.
1953 At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 The first public television station in the United States officially began broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1961 President John F. Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
1963 The Organisation of African Unity was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1968 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.
1977 The film Star Wars was released.
1979 An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, killing all 271 people on board and two on the ground.
1985 Bangladesh was hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which killed approximately 10,000 people.
1986 An estimated 7 million people participated in Hands Across America, forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless.
1992 Jay Leno debuted as host of NBC's Tonight Show, succeeding Johnny Carson.
1997 Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, marking 41 years, 10 months in office; Thurmond's record was surpassed in 2006 by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.
1997 Polish voters adopted a constitution that removed the last traces of communism.
1999 The United States House of Representatives released the Cox Report, which detailed the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2004 The Boston Roman Catholic archdiocese announced it would close 65 of 357 parishes because of financial problems caused in part by the clergy sex abuse scandal.
2006 Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company's downfall; Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison; Lay died before he could be sentenced.
Chart Toppers
1945
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Candy - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Mexican Joe - Jim Reeves
1961
Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe
Daddy’s Home - Shep & the Limelites
Travelin’ Man - Ricky Nelson
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins’ Singers
My Life (Throw It Away if I Want To) - Bill Anderson
1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Couldn’t Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Radio Heart - Charly McClain
Quote of the Day
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13, King James Version, Holy Bible
Today’s Birthdays
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer (Essays) died Apr 27, 1882
1878 Bill ‘Bojangles’ (Luther) Robinson, dancer/actor (Stormy Weather) died Nov 25, 1949
1889 Igor Sikorsky, engineer (first successful helicopter) died Oct 26, 1972
1898 Bennett Cerf, publisher/TV personality (What's My Line) died Aug 27, 1971
1898 Gene (James Joseph) Tunney, Heavyweight Boxing Champion, died July 11, 1978
1925 Jeanne Crain, actress (State Fair, Cheaper by the Dozen) died December 14, 2003
1926 Claude Akins, actor (The Caine Mutiny) died Jan 27, 1994
1926 Miles (Dewey) Davis III, jazz trumpet/flugelhorn, died Sep 28, 1991
1927 Robert Ludlum, novelist (Bourne series) died Mar 12, 2001
1929 Beverly Sills, operatic soprano, died July 2, 2007
1939 Sir Ian McKellen, actor (X-Men series, Lord of the Rings series)
1944 Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz), muppeteer/film director (Miss Piggy)
1948 Klaus Meine, singer (Scorpions)
1958 Paul Weller, guitarist/singer (The Jam, The Style Council)
1963 Mike Myers, actor/comedian (Wayne's World, Shrek, The Love Guru)
1969 Anne Heche, actress (Wag the Dog)
1969 Glen Drover, guitarist (Megadeth)
1970 Jamie Kennedy, actor (Scream series)
1971 Justin Henry, actor (Kramer vs Kramer)
1972 Octavia Spencer, actress (Ugly Betty)
1973 Molly Sims, supermodel/actress (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Las Vegas)
1975 Lauryn Hill, singer (Fugees)
1976 Cillian Murphy, actor (28 Days Later)
1976 Ethan Suplee, actor (My Name Is Earl, Remember the Titans)
1978 Todd Whitener, guitarist (Tantric)
1978 Brian Urlacher, linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1980 Joe King, guitarist (The Fray)
1984 Shawne Merriman, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
Today’s Deaths in History
1934 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets) dies at 59
1965 Sonny Boy Williamson, singer/songwriter/blues musician, dies at 65
1974 Donald Crisp, actor (How Green Was My valley) dies at 94
1990 Vic Tayback, actor (Alice) dies at 60
1996 Bradley Nowell, singer/guitarist (Sublime) dies at 28 of a heroin overdose
2003 Jeremy Michael Ward, musician (The Mars Volta) dies at 27
2005 Ismail Merchant, film producer (Merchant/Ivory films) dies at 68
2005 Domenic Troiano, guitarist/songwriter (James Gang, Guess Who) dies at 59
2006 Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician, dies at 64
2007 Charles Nelson Reilly, actor/TV personality (Match Game) dies at 76
Today in History
1787 The Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia.
1810 Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
1844 The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.
1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.
1925 John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University broke five world records and tied a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1935 Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.
1946 Transjordan became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.
1951 Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays made his major league debut with the New York Giants.
1953 At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 The first public television station in the United States officially began broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1961 President John F. Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
1963 The Organisation of African Unity was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1968 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.
1977 The film Star Wars was released.
1979 An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, killing all 271 people on board and two on the ground.
1985 Bangladesh was hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which killed approximately 10,000 people.
1986 An estimated 7 million people participated in Hands Across America, forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless.
1992 Jay Leno debuted as host of NBC's Tonight Show, succeeding Johnny Carson.
1997 Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, marking 41 years, 10 months in office; Thurmond's record was surpassed in 2006 by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.
1997 Polish voters adopted a constitution that removed the last traces of communism.
1999 The United States House of Representatives released the Cox Report, which detailed the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2004 The Boston Roman Catholic archdiocese announced it would close 65 of 357 parishes because of financial problems caused in part by the clergy sex abuse scandal.
2006 Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company's downfall; Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison; Lay died before he could be sentenced.
Chart Toppers
1945
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Candy - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Mexican Joe - Jim Reeves
1961
Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe
Daddy’s Home - Shep & the Limelites
Travelin’ Man - Ricky Nelson
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins’ Singers
My Life (Throw It Away if I Want To) - Bill Anderson
1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Couldn’t Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Radio Heart - Charly McClain
Quote of the Day
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13, King James Version, Holy Bible
Today in History - May 26th
Today’s Birthdays
1886 Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), singer/actor (The Jazz Singer) died Oct 23, 1950
1907 John ‘Duke’ Wayne (Marion Morrison), actor (True Grit, The Cowboys, The Green Berets, The Shootist) died June 11, 1979
1912 Jay Silverheels, American actor (Tonto) died March 5, 1980
1913 Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, The Horror of Dracula) died Aug 11, 1994
1920 Peggy Lee (Norma Delores Egstrom), singer (Fever) died Jan 21, 2002
1923 James Arness (Aurness), actor (Gunsmoke)
1926 Miles Davis, Jazz trumpeter/band leader, died Sept 28, 1991
1939 Brent Musburger, sportscaster (ABC Sports, CBS Sports)
1940 Levon Helm, drummer/singer (The Band)
1944 Verden Allen, keyboards (Mott the Hoople)
1945 Garry Peterson, drums (The Guess Who)
1946 Mick Ronson, guitarist/composer (David Bowie) died Apr 29, 1993
1948 Stevie (Stephanie) Nicks, singer/songwriter (Fleetwood Mac; Edge of Seventeen)
1949 Philip Michael Thomas, actor (Miami Vice)
1949 Pam Grier, actress (Foxy Brown)
1949 Hank Williams Jr., singer (Are You Ready For Some Football?)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut (first American woman in space)
1955 Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef (The Iron Chef)
1959 Wayne Hussey, guitarist/singer (The Mission, Sisters of Mercy)
1960 Doug Hutchison, actor (The Green Mile, The Salton Sea)
1962 Genie Francis, actress (General Hospital)
1962 Bobcat Goldthwait, comic/actor (Police Academy series)
1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer/songwriter (Are You Gonna Go My Way?)
1966 Helena Bonham Carter, actress (Planet of the Apes)
1968 Phillip Rhodes, drummer (Gin Blossoms)
1971 Matt Stone, television producer/writer (South Park)
1981 Isaac Slade, singer/pianist (The Fray)
Today’s Deaths in History
1907 Ida McKinley, First Lady, dies at 59
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, singer (The Brakeman’s Blues) dies at 35
1943 Edsel Ford, automobile executive/son of Henry Ford, dies at 49
1968 Little Willie John, singer/songwriter (All Around the World) dies at 30
1977 William Powell, R&B singer (The O'Jays) dies at 35
1995 Friz Freleng, animator (Looney Tunes) dies at 89
2001 Anne Haney, actress (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) dies at 67
2003 Kathleen Winsor, writer (Forever Amber) dies at 83
2005 Eddie Albert, actor (Green Acres) dies at 99
2006 Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin tires, dies at 43
2008 Sydney Pollack, actor/director/producer/sreenwriter (They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Tootsie) dies at 73
Today in History
1521 Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.
1647 Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies.
1805 Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
1864 Montana was organized as a United States territory.
1868 The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.
1896 The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published; the average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94.
1908 The first major oil strike in the Middle East took place as engineers working for British entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy hit a gusher more than 1,100 feet below ground in Masjid-i-Suleiman in present-day Iran.
1913 The Actors' Equity Association was organized.
1938 The House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
1940 The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
1969 Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
1972 The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 George H. Willig scaled the outside of the south tower of New York's World Trade Center; he was arrested at the top of the 110-story building.
1978 The first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in Atlantic City, N.J.
1983 A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands.
1994 Pop star Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic; they were divorced 19 months later.
1998 The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island, historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
2002 Barges being pushed by a towboat crashed into the piers of the Interstate 40 bridge in Webbers Falls, Okla., causing part of the structure to fall into the Arkansas River, killing 14 people.
2004 Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing; he later received 161 consecutive life sentences.
2004 The New York Times published an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2006 An earthquake in Java killed more than 5,700 people and left 200,000 homeless.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
Laughing on the Outside - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Billy Williams)
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Wanted - Perry Como
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Man Upstairs - Kay Starr
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold
1962
Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Old Rivers - Walter Brennan
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
My Love - Sonny James
1978
With a Little Luck - Wings
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed (Anytime) - Johnny Duncan
1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
Tomb of the Unknown Love - Kenny Rogers
Quote of the Day
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright (1955 - )
Today’s Birthdays
1886 Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), singer/actor (The Jazz Singer) died Oct 23, 1950
1907 John ‘Duke’ Wayne (Marion Morrison), actor (True Grit, The Cowboys, The Green Berets, The Shootist) died June 11, 1979
1912 Jay Silverheels, American actor (Tonto) died March 5, 1980
1913 Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, The Horror of Dracula) died Aug 11, 1994
1920 Peggy Lee (Norma Delores Egstrom), singer (Fever) died Jan 21, 2002
1923 James Arness (Aurness), actor (Gunsmoke)
1926 Miles Davis, Jazz trumpeter/band leader, died Sept 28, 1991
1939 Brent Musburger, sportscaster (ABC Sports, CBS Sports)
1940 Levon Helm, drummer/singer (The Band)
1944 Verden Allen, keyboards (Mott the Hoople)
1945 Garry Peterson, drums (The Guess Who)
1946 Mick Ronson, guitarist/composer (David Bowie) died Apr 29, 1993
1948 Stevie (Stephanie) Nicks, singer/songwriter (Fleetwood Mac; Edge of Seventeen)
1949 Philip Michael Thomas, actor (Miami Vice)
1949 Pam Grier, actress (Foxy Brown)
1949 Hank Williams Jr., singer (Are You Ready For Some Football?)
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut (first American woman in space)
1955 Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef (The Iron Chef)
1959 Wayne Hussey, guitarist/singer (The Mission, Sisters of Mercy)
1960 Doug Hutchison, actor (The Green Mile, The Salton Sea)
1962 Genie Francis, actress (General Hospital)
1962 Bobcat Goldthwait, comic/actor (Police Academy series)
1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer/songwriter (Are You Gonna Go My Way?)
1966 Helena Bonham Carter, actress (Planet of the Apes)
1968 Phillip Rhodes, drummer (Gin Blossoms)
1971 Matt Stone, television producer/writer (South Park)
1981 Isaac Slade, singer/pianist (The Fray)
Today’s Deaths in History
1907 Ida McKinley, First Lady, dies at 59
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, singer (The Brakeman’s Blues) dies at 35
1943 Edsel Ford, automobile executive/son of Henry Ford, dies at 49
1968 Little Willie John, singer/songwriter (All Around the World) dies at 30
1977 William Powell, R&B singer (The O'Jays) dies at 35
1995 Friz Freleng, animator (Looney Tunes) dies at 89
2001 Anne Haney, actress (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) dies at 67
2003 Kathleen Winsor, writer (Forever Amber) dies at 83
2005 Eddie Albert, actor (Green Acres) dies at 99
2006 Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin tires, dies at 43
2008 Sydney Pollack, actor/director/producer/sreenwriter (They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Tootsie) dies at 73
Today in History
1521 Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.
1647 Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies.
1805 Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
1864 Montana was organized as a United States territory.
1868 The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.
1896 The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published; the average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94.
1908 The first major oil strike in the Middle East took place as engineers working for British entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy hit a gusher more than 1,100 feet below ground in Masjid-i-Suleiman in present-day Iran.
1913 The Actors' Equity Association was organized.
1938 The House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
1940 The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
1969 Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
1972 The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 George H. Willig scaled the outside of the south tower of New York's World Trade Center; he was arrested at the top of the 110-story building.
1978 The first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in Atlantic City, N.J.
1983 A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands.
1994 Pop star Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic; they were divorced 19 months later.
1998 The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island, historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
2002 Barges being pushed by a towboat crashed into the piers of the Interstate 40 bridge in Webbers Falls, Okla., causing part of the structure to fall into the Arkansas River, killing 14 people.
2004 Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing; he later received 161 consecutive life sentences.
2004 The New York Times published an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2006 An earthquake in Java killed more than 5,700 people and left 200,000 homeless.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
Laughing on the Outside - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Billy Williams)
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Wanted - Perry Como
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Man Upstairs - Kay Starr
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold
1962
Stranger on the Shore - Mr. Acker Bilk
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Old Rivers - Walter Brennan
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
My Love - Sonny James
1978
With a Little Luck - Wings
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed (Anytime) - Johnny Duncan
1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
Tomb of the Unknown Love - Kenny Rogers
Quote of the Day
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright (1955 - )
Today in History - May 27th
Today’s Birthdays
1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, capitalist (Manhattan & Staten Island ferrys) died Jan 4, 1877
1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, women’s rights advocate, died Dec 30, 1894
1837 Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok, frontiersman/marksman, shot from behind and killed Aug 2, 1876 while playing poker holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights (the ‘dead man’s hand’)
1894 Dashiell Hammett, author (The Maltese Falcon) died Jan 10, 1961
1911 Hubert Humphrey, 38th vice president of the U.S., died Jan 13, 1978
1911 Vincent (Leonard) Price, actor (Edward Scissorhands) died Oct 25, 1993
1912 ‘Slammin’ Sammy Snead, golf champion, died May 23, 2002
1915 Herman Wouk, writer (The Winds of War)
1922 Christopher (Frank Carandini) Lee, actor (Dracula, Lords of the Rings series)
1923 Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
1935 Ramsey Lewis, jazz/fusion musician (Ramsey Lewis Trio)
1936 Lou Gossett Jr., actor (An Officer and a Gentleman)
1943 Bruce Weitz, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1944 Christopher Dodd, United States Senator (Connecticut)
1945 Bruce Cockburn, Canadian folk singer/songwriter
1955 Richard Schiff, actor (The West Wing)
1957 Siouxsie Sioux (Janet Susan Ballion), singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1958 Neil Finn, singer/songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1958 Linnea Quigley, actress (Return of the Living Dead)
1961 Peri Gilpin, actress (Frasier)
1965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff’rent Strokes)
1970 Joseph Fiennes, actor (Shakespeare in Love)
1971 Brian Desveaux, singer (Nine Days)
1971 Paul Bettany, actor (A Beautiful Mind, A Knight's Tale)
1971 Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, singer/rapper (TLC) died Apr 25, 2002
1973 Jack McBrayer, actor (30 Rock)
1975 André 3000 (Andre Benjamin) musician/actor (OutKast; Be Cool)
1975 Jamie Oliver, TV chef (The Naked Chef)
Today’s Deaths in History
1564 John Calvin, French Protestant theologian, dies at 54
1831 Jedediah Smith, explorer (Rocky Mountains) dies at 32
1840 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 57
1949 Robert Ripley, cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) dies at 58
1993 Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera) dies at 89
2000 Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 78
2006 Paul Gleason, actor (Breakfast Club) dies at 67
2006 Alex Toth, cartoonist (Space Ghost, Johnny Quest) dies at 76
2007 Ed Yost, the "father of modern hot-air ballooning," dies at 87
2007 Gretchen Wyler, Brodaway actress (Damn Yankees) dies at 75
Today in History
1703 Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.
1895 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for sodomy.
1896 A tornado struck St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill., killing 255 people.
1907 The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco, California.
1927 The Ford Motor Company ceased manufacture of the Ford Model T and began to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1933 The Walt Disney Company released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 The U.S. Federal Securities Act was signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1935 The Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1937 The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., opened.
1941 The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of more than 2,100 lives.
1963 The album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, which featured the song "Blowin' in the Wind," was released.
1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1994 Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after spending two decades in exile.
1995 Actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Va.; he died in 2004.
1996 Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiated a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the rebels' leader.
1997 The Supreme Court ruled Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he was in office.
1998 Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.
1999 A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo.
2006 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed at least 5,800 people.
Chart Toppers
1947
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Heartaches - The Ted Weems Orchestra (whistler: Elmo Tanner)
What is Life Without Love - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
Surfin’ USA - The Beach Boys
Foolish Little Girl - The Shirelles
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price
1979
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers
1987
With or Without You - U2
The Lady in Red - Chris DeBurgh
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You - The O’Kanes
Quote of the Day
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder, Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC)
Today’s Birthdays
1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, capitalist (Manhattan & Staten Island ferrys) died Jan 4, 1877
1818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, women’s rights advocate, died Dec 30, 1894
1837 Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok, frontiersman/marksman, shot from behind and killed Aug 2, 1876 while playing poker holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights (the ‘dead man’s hand’)
1894 Dashiell Hammett, author (The Maltese Falcon) died Jan 10, 1961
1911 Hubert Humphrey, 38th vice president of the U.S., died Jan 13, 1978
1911 Vincent (Leonard) Price, actor (Edward Scissorhands) died Oct 25, 1993
1912 ‘Slammin’ Sammy Snead, golf champion, died May 23, 2002
1915 Herman Wouk, writer (The Winds of War)
1922 Christopher (Frank Carandini) Lee, actor (Dracula, Lords of the Rings series)
1923 Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
1935 Ramsey Lewis, jazz/fusion musician (Ramsey Lewis Trio)
1936 Lou Gossett Jr., actor (An Officer and a Gentleman)
1943 Bruce Weitz, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1944 Christopher Dodd, United States Senator (Connecticut)
1945 Bruce Cockburn, Canadian folk singer/songwriter
1955 Richard Schiff, actor (The West Wing)
1957 Siouxsie Sioux (Janet Susan Ballion), singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1958 Neil Finn, singer/songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1958 Linnea Quigley, actress (Return of the Living Dead)
1961 Peri Gilpin, actress (Frasier)
1965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff’rent Strokes)
1970 Joseph Fiennes, actor (Shakespeare in Love)
1971 Brian Desveaux, singer (Nine Days)
1971 Paul Bettany, actor (A Beautiful Mind, A Knight's Tale)
1971 Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, singer/rapper (TLC) died Apr 25, 2002
1973 Jack McBrayer, actor (30 Rock)
1975 André 3000 (Andre Benjamin) musician/actor (OutKast; Be Cool)
1975 Jamie Oliver, TV chef (The Naked Chef)
Today’s Deaths in History
1564 John Calvin, French Protestant theologian, dies at 54
1831 Jedediah Smith, explorer (Rocky Mountains) dies at 32
1840 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 57
1949 Robert Ripley, cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) dies at 58
1993 Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera) dies at 89
2000 Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 78
2006 Paul Gleason, actor (Breakfast Club) dies at 67
2006 Alex Toth, cartoonist (Space Ghost, Johnny Quest) dies at 76
2007 Ed Yost, the "father of modern hot-air ballooning," dies at 87
2007 Gretchen Wyler, Brodaway actress (Damn Yankees) dies at 75
Today in History
1703 Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.
1895 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for sodomy.
1896 A tornado struck St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill., killing 255 people.
1907 The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco, California.
1927 The Ford Motor Company ceased manufacture of the Ford Model T and began to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1933 The Walt Disney Company released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 The U.S. Federal Securities Act was signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1935 The Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1937 The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., opened.
1941 The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of more than 2,100 lives.
1963 The album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, which featured the song "Blowin' in the Wind," was released.
1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1994 Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after spending two decades in exile.
1995 Actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Va.; he died in 2004.
1996 Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiated a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the rebels' leader.
1997 The Supreme Court ruled Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he was in office.
1998 Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.
1999 A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo.
2006 A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed at least 5,800 people.
Chart Toppers
1947
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Heartaches - The Ted Weems Orchestra (whistler: Elmo Tanner)
What is Life Without Love - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
Surfin’ USA - The Beach Boys
Foolish Little Girl - The Shirelles
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price
1979
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me - Bellamy Brothers
1987
With or Without You - U2
The Lady in Red - Chris DeBurgh
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You - The O’Kanes
Quote of the Day
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder, Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC)
Today in History - May 28th
Today's Birthdays
1888 Jim Thorpe, Olympic gold medalist (decathlon, pentathlon) died Mar 28, 1953
1900 Clarence ‘Taffy’ Abel, Hockey Hall of Famer (NY Rangers) died Aug 1, 1964
1908 Ian Fleming, author (James Bond series) died Aug 12, 1964
1917 Papa John Creech, musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) died February 22, 1994
1936 Betty Shabazz, civil rights activist/Mrs Malcolm X, died June 23, 1997
1938 Jerry West, Basketball Hall of Famer (Los Angeles Lakers)
1944 Rudolph Giuliani, former NYC mayor
1944 Billy Vera, singer (At This Moment)
1944 Gladys Knight, R&B singer (Midnight Train to Georgia)
1945 John Fogerty, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1947 Sondra Locke, actress (Every Which Way But Loose)
1949 Wendy O. Williams, punk singer (The Plasmatics) committed suicide Apr 6, 1998
1955 Mark Howe, WHA defenseman/son of Gordie Howe (Houston Aeros)
1955 John McGeoch, guitarist (Siouxsie and the Banshees) died Mar 4, 2004
1962 Brandon Cruz, actor (The Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1962 Roland Gift, singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
1964 Christa Miller, actress (Scrubs)
1965 Chris Ballew, guitarist (Presidents of the USA)
1968 Kylie Minogue, pop singer
1969 Justin Kirk, actor (Weeds)
1970 Glenn Quinn, actor (Angel) died Dec 3, 2002
1971 Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, singer (TLC) died April 25, 2002
1973 gr8flscott, board member
1977 Elisabeth Hasselbeck, TV host (The View)
1979 Jesse Bradford, actor (Bring it On, The West Wing)
1979 Monica Keena, actress (Dawson's Creek)
1985 Colbie Caillat, singer (Bubbly)
Today's Deaths in History
1843 Noah Webster, author/politician/lexicographer, dies at 84
1849 Anne Brontë, English author, dies at 29
1937 Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (individual psychology) dies at 67
1971 Audie Murphy, actor/war hero (To Hell and Back) dies at 46
1975 Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight boxing champion, dies at 53
1993 Billy Conn, light-heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 75
1998 Phil Hartman, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live) is murdered by his wife at 49
1998 Brynn Hartman, wife of Phil Hartman, commits suicide at
2002 James Grant Benton, Hawaiian comic/actor (Booga-Booga) dies at 53
2003 Martha Scott, actress (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Airport 1975) dies at 91
2007 Marquise Hill, NFL defensive end (New England Patriots) dies at 24
2008 Robert Justman, television producer (Lassie, Adventures of Superman, The Outer Limits) dies at 81
Today in History
1533 England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1774 The first Continental Congress convened.
1892 The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
1930 The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opened.
1934 The Dionne quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne - were born to Elzire Dionne in Ontario, Canada.
1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.
1957 The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.
1977 Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killing 165 people.
1984 President Ronald Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
1985 David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers.
1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
1987 A robot probe found the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1996 President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.
1998 Comic actor Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
2002 NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 The Mars Odyssey found signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts.
2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chose Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
The Happy Whistler - Don Robertson
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1964
My Guy - Mary Wells
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1972
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
Look What You Done for Me - Al Green
(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date - Conway Twitty
1980
Call Me - Blondie
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
Starting Over Again - Dolly Parton
1988
One More Try - George Michael
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea
Quote of the Day
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
Today's Birthdays
1888 Jim Thorpe, Olympic gold medalist (decathlon, pentathlon) died Mar 28, 1953
1900 Clarence ‘Taffy’ Abel, Hockey Hall of Famer (NY Rangers) died Aug 1, 1964
1908 Ian Fleming, author (James Bond series) died Aug 12, 1964
1917 Papa John Creech, musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) died February 22, 1994
1936 Betty Shabazz, civil rights activist/Mrs Malcolm X, died June 23, 1997
1938 Jerry West, Basketball Hall of Famer (Los Angeles Lakers)
1944 Rudolph Giuliani, former NYC mayor
1944 Billy Vera, singer (At This Moment)
1944 Gladys Knight, R&B singer (Midnight Train to Georgia)
1945 John Fogerty, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1947 Sondra Locke, actress (Every Which Way But Loose)
1949 Wendy O. Williams, punk singer (The Plasmatics) committed suicide Apr 6, 1998
1955 Mark Howe, WHA defenseman/son of Gordie Howe (Houston Aeros)
1955 John McGeoch, guitarist (Siouxsie and the Banshees) died Mar 4, 2004
1962 Brandon Cruz, actor (The Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1962 Roland Gift, singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
1964 Christa Miller, actress (Scrubs)
1965 Chris Ballew, guitarist (Presidents of the USA)
1968 Kylie Minogue, pop singer
1969 Justin Kirk, actor (Weeds)
1970 Glenn Quinn, actor (Angel) died Dec 3, 2002
1971 Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, singer (TLC) died April 25, 2002
1973 gr8flscott, board member
1977 Elisabeth Hasselbeck, TV host (The View)
1979 Jesse Bradford, actor (Bring it On, The West Wing)
1979 Monica Keena, actress (Dawson's Creek)
1985 Colbie Caillat, singer (Bubbly)
Today's Deaths in History
1843 Noah Webster, author/politician/lexicographer, dies at 84
1849 Anne Brontë, English author, dies at 29
1937 Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (individual psychology) dies at 67
1971 Audie Murphy, actor/war hero (To Hell and Back) dies at 46
1975 Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight boxing champion, dies at 53
1993 Billy Conn, light-heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 75
1998 Phil Hartman, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live) is murdered by his wife at 49
1998 Brynn Hartman, wife of Phil Hartman, commits suicide at
2002 James Grant Benton, Hawaiian comic/actor (Booga-Booga) dies at 53
2003 Martha Scott, actress (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Airport 1975) dies at 91
2007 Marquise Hill, NFL defensive end (New England Patriots) dies at 24
2008 Robert Justman, television producer (Lassie, Adventures of Superman, The Outer Limits) dies at 81
Today in History
1533 England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1774 The first Continental Congress convened.
1892 The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
1930 The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opened.
1934 The Dionne quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne - were born to Elzire Dionne in Ontario, Canada.
1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.
1957 The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.
1977 Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killing 165 people.
1984 President Ronald Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
1985 David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers.
1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
1987 A robot probe found the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1996 President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.
1998 Comic actor Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
2002 NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 The Mars Odyssey found signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts.
2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chose Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
The Happy Whistler - Don Robertson
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1964
My Guy - Mary Wells
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1972
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
Look What You Done for Me - Al Green
(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date - Conway Twitty
1980
Call Me - Blondie
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
Starting Over Again - Dolly Parton
1988
One More Try - George Michael
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea
Quote of the Day
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
Today in History - May 29th
Today's Birthdays
1736 Patrick Henry, patriot (“give me liberty, or give me death!”) died June 6, 1799
1903 Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope), comedian/entertainer/actor, died July 27, 2003
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, assassinated Nov 22, 1963
1938 Francis ‘Fay’ Vincent Jr., baseball commissioner
1939 Al Unser Sr., Indy car racer
1945 Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1947 Anthony Geary, actor (General Hospital)
1950 Rebbie (Maureen Reilette) Jackson, singer
1953 Danny Elfman, singer/songwriter/film score composer (Oingo Boingo)
1955 Michael Porcaro, bassist (Toto)
1955 John Hinckley, Jr., shot President Reagan
1956 Larry Blackmon, drummer/singer (Cameo)
1956 LaToya (Yvonne) Jackson, singer
1957 Ted Levine, actor (Silence of the Lambs, Monk)
1958 Annette Bening, actress (America Beauty, The American President)
1959 Rupert Everett, actor (My Best Friend's Wedding, Shrek series)
1961 Melissa Etheridge, singer/songwriter (Come to My Window)
1963 Lisa Whelchel, actress (The Facts of Life)
1967 Noel Gallagher, guitarist (Oasis)
1967 Mike Keane, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1969 Chan Kinchla, guitarist (Blues Traveler)
1974 Aaron McGruder, comic strip creator (The Boondocks)
1975 Melanie Brown, singer (Spice Girls)
1976 David Buckner, drummer (Papa Roach)
1978 Pelle Almqvist, singer (The Hives)
1979 Casey Sheehan, soldier, died April 4, 2004
1982 Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1984 Carmelo Anthony, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1989 Riley Keough, model/Elvis' granddaughter
Today's Deaths in History
1866 Winfield Scott, American Army general (Grand Old Man of the Army) dies at 79
1942 John Barrymore, actor (grandfather of Drew Barrymore) dies at 60
1951 Fanny Brice, singer/comedian, dies at 59
1979 Mary Pickford, actress/studio founder (Coquette) dies at 86
1989 John Cipollina, guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) dies at 45
1997 Jeff Buckley, singer/guitarist, drowns at 30
1997 George Fenneman, radio/television announcer (You Bet Your Life) dies at 77
1998 Barry Goldwater, former Arizona Senator/Presidential candidate, dies at 89
2004 Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor, dies at 92
2007 Dave Balon, NHL left wing (NY Rangers) dies at 68
2008 Harvey Korman, actor/comedian (Blazing Saddles, Carol Burnett Show) dies at 81
Today in History
1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, saying, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1790 Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.
1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.
1886 Chemist John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring received its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
1932 World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1935 The Hoover Dam was completed.
1942 Bing Crosby recorded Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in Los Angeles for Decca Records.
1953 Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.
1969 The self-titled debut album by Crosby, Stills and Nash was released.
1973 Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
1982 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1988 President Ronald Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1990 Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
1996 Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israeli prime minister.
1999 Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
2004 A memorial to America's World War II veterans was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
2005 French voters soundly rejected the European Union's proposed constitution.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves
1973
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash
1989
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
After All This Time - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1736 Patrick Henry, patriot (“give me liberty, or give me death!”) died June 6, 1799
1903 Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope), comedian/entertainer/actor, died July 27, 2003
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, assassinated Nov 22, 1963
1938 Francis ‘Fay’ Vincent Jr., baseball commissioner
1939 Al Unser Sr., Indy car racer
1945 Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1947 Anthony Geary, actor (General Hospital)
1950 Rebbie (Maureen Reilette) Jackson, singer
1953 Danny Elfman, singer/songwriter/film score composer (Oingo Boingo)
1955 Michael Porcaro, bassist (Toto)
1955 John Hinckley, Jr., shot President Reagan
1956 Larry Blackmon, drummer/singer (Cameo)
1956 LaToya (Yvonne) Jackson, singer
1957 Ted Levine, actor (Silence of the Lambs, Monk)
1958 Annette Bening, actress (America Beauty, The American President)
1959 Rupert Everett, actor (My Best Friend's Wedding, Shrek series)
1961 Melissa Etheridge, singer/songwriter (Come to My Window)
1963 Lisa Whelchel, actress (The Facts of Life)
1967 Noel Gallagher, guitarist (Oasis)
1967 Mike Keane, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1969 Chan Kinchla, guitarist (Blues Traveler)
1974 Aaron McGruder, comic strip creator (The Boondocks)
1975 Melanie Brown, singer (Spice Girls)
1976 David Buckner, drummer (Papa Roach)
1978 Pelle Almqvist, singer (The Hives)
1979 Casey Sheehan, soldier, died April 4, 2004
1982 Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)
1984 Carmelo Anthony, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1989 Riley Keough, model/Elvis' granddaughter
Today's Deaths in History
1866 Winfield Scott, American Army general (Grand Old Man of the Army) dies at 79
1942 John Barrymore, actor (grandfather of Drew Barrymore) dies at 60
1951 Fanny Brice, singer/comedian, dies at 59
1979 Mary Pickford, actress/studio founder (Coquette) dies at 86
1989 John Cipollina, guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) dies at 45
1997 Jeff Buckley, singer/guitarist, drowns at 30
1997 George Fenneman, radio/television announcer (You Bet Your Life) dies at 77
1998 Barry Goldwater, former Arizona Senator/Presidential candidate, dies at 89
2004 Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor, dies at 92
2007 Dave Balon, NHL left wing (NY Rangers) dies at 68
2008 Harvey Korman, actor/comedian (Blazing Saddles, Carol Burnett Show) dies at 81
Today in History
1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, saying, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1790 Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.
1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.
1886 Chemist John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring received its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
1932 World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1935 The Hoover Dam was completed.
1942 Bing Crosby recorded Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in Los Angeles for Decca Records.
1953 Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.
1969 The self-titled debut album by Crosby, Stills and Nash was released.
1973 Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
1982 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1988 President Ronald Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrived in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1990 Boris N. Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
1996 Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israeli prime minister.
1999 Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
2004 A memorial to America's World War II veterans was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
2005 French voters soundly rejected the European Union's proposed constitution.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Girl on the Billboard - Del Reeves
1973
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash
1989
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
After All This Time - Rodney Crowell
Quote of the Day
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
Today in History - May 30th
Today's Birthdays
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith/jeweler (Fabergé eggs) died September 24, 1920
1896 Howard Hawks, producer/director (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) died Dec 26, 1977
1899 Irving Thalberg, film producer (The Good Earth) died September 14, 1936
1908 Mel Blanc, cartoon voice actor (Warner Bros), died July 10, 1989
1909 Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader, died June 13, 1986
1926 Christine Jorgensen, transsexual/activist, died May 3, 1989
1927 Clint Walker, actor (Cheyenne)
1936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1940 Gilles Villemure, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1943 Gayle Sayers, Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears)
1944 Meredith MacRae, actress (Petticoat Junction) died July 14, 2000
1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, actor (Groundhog Day, Sneakers)
1953 Colm Meaney, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Mystery Alaska)
1955 (Nicky) Topper Headon, drummer (The Clash)
1958 Marie Fredriksson, singer (Roxette)
1958 Ted McGinley, actor (Revenge of the Nerds series, Married...with Children)
1961 Ralph Carter, actor (Good Times)
1962 Kevin Eastman, comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
1964 Wynonna Judd (Christina Claire Ciminella), country singer
1964 Tom Morello, guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1966 Stephen Malkmus, guitarist (Pavement)
1967 Tim Burgess, singer (The Charlatans)
1971 Patrick Dahlheimer, bassist (Live)
1971 Idina Menzel, actress (Rent, Wicked)
1972 Trey Parker, actor/producer (South Park)
1972 Manny Ramirez, outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1974 David Wilkie, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1974 Cee-Lo, rapper (Gnarls Barkley)
1981 Blake Bashoff, actor (Bushwhacked, Big Bully)
Today's Deaths in History
1431 Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint, is burned at the stake at 19
1593 Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, dies at 29
1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (heroic couplets) dies at 56
1778 Voltaire, French philosopher and author, dies at 83
1912 Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, dies at 45
1939 Floyd Roberts, Indy racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 at 35
1953 Dooley Wilson, musician/actor (Casablanca, Stormy Weather) dies at 57
1955 Bill Vukovich, Indy racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 at 36
1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago) dies at 70
1964 Eddie Sachs, Indy racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 at 24
1964 Dave MacDonald, Indy racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 at 27
1967 Claude Rains, English actor (Casablanca) dies at 77
1975 Steve Prefontaine, runner, dies at 24
1980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & the Dominos) dies at 37
1986 Perry Ellis, fashion designer, dies at 46 of AIDS
1993 Sun Ra, jazz/fusion musician, dies at 79
2000 Tex Beneke, bandleader/saxophone player (Glenn Miller Orchestra) dies at 86
2003 Mickie Most, English record producer (The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan) dies at 64
2006 Robert Sterling, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Topper) dies at 88
Today in History
1431 Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
1536 King Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.
1854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1868 Decoration Day, the predecessor of the modern Memorial Day, was observed in the United States for the first time.
1879 New York City's Gilmores Garden was renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and was opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1883 A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing triggered a stampede that led to the trampling deaths of 12 people.
1911 The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time.
1922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean War were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 Mariner 9 was launched to map 70% of the surface and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface of Mars.
1972 In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1982 Spain became NATO's 16th member.
1982 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
1989 Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy."
1996 Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
1997 Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka, a case that inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2002 A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2005 American teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared on a trip to Aruba; the case remains unsolved.
2006 A jury in Rockville, Md., convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
It Isn’t Fair - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Just Married - Marty Robbins
1966
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
The Show Must Go On - Three Dog Night
No Charge - Melba Montgomery
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Just to Satisfy You - Waylon & Willie
1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Walkin’ Away - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome, British humor writer (1859 - 1927)
Today's Birthdays
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith/jeweler (Fabergé eggs) died September 24, 1920
1896 Howard Hawks, producer/director (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) died Dec 26, 1977
1899 Irving Thalberg, film producer (The Good Earth) died September 14, 1936
1908 Mel Blanc, cartoon voice actor (Warner Bros), died July 10, 1989
1909 Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader, died June 13, 1986
1926 Christine Jorgensen, transsexual/activist, died May 3, 1989
1927 Clint Walker, actor (Cheyenne)
1936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1940 Gilles Villemure, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1943 Gayle Sayers, Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears)
1944 Meredith MacRae, actress (Petticoat Junction) died July 14, 2000
1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, actor (Groundhog Day, Sneakers)
1953 Colm Meaney, actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Mystery Alaska)
1955 (Nicky) Topper Headon, drummer (The Clash)
1958 Marie Fredriksson, singer (Roxette)
1958 Ted McGinley, actor (Revenge of the Nerds series, Married...with Children)
1961 Ralph Carter, actor (Good Times)
1962 Kevin Eastman, comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
1964 Wynonna Judd (Christina Claire Ciminella), country singer
1964 Tom Morello, guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1966 Stephen Malkmus, guitarist (Pavement)
1967 Tim Burgess, singer (The Charlatans)
1971 Patrick Dahlheimer, bassist (Live)
1971 Idina Menzel, actress (Rent, Wicked)
1972 Trey Parker, actor/producer (South Park)
1972 Manny Ramirez, outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1974 David Wilkie, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1974 Cee-Lo, rapper (Gnarls Barkley)
1981 Blake Bashoff, actor (Bushwhacked, Big Bully)
Today's Deaths in History
1431 Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint, is burned at the stake at 19
1593 Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, dies at 29
1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (heroic couplets) dies at 56
1778 Voltaire, French philosopher and author, dies at 83
1912 Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, dies at 45
1939 Floyd Roberts, Indy racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 at 35
1953 Dooley Wilson, musician/actor (Casablanca, Stormy Weather) dies at 57
1955 Bill Vukovich, Indy racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 at 36
1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago) dies at 70
1964 Eddie Sachs, Indy racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 at 24
1964 Dave MacDonald, Indy racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 at 27
1967 Claude Rains, English actor (Casablanca) dies at 77
1975 Steve Prefontaine, runner, dies at 24
1980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & the Dominos) dies at 37
1986 Perry Ellis, fashion designer, dies at 46 of AIDS
1993 Sun Ra, jazz/fusion musician, dies at 79
2000 Tex Beneke, bandleader/saxophone player (Glenn Miller Orchestra) dies at 86
2003 Mickie Most, English record producer (The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan) dies at 64
2006 Robert Sterling, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Topper) dies at 88
Today in History
1431 Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
1536 King Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.
1854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1868 Decoration Day, the predecessor of the modern Memorial Day, was observed in the United States for the first time.
1879 New York City's Gilmores Garden was renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and was opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1883 A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing triggered a stampede that led to the trampling deaths of 12 people.
1911 The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time.
1922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean War were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 Mariner 9 was launched to map 70% of the surface and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface of Mars.
1972 In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1982 Spain became NATO's 16th member.
1982 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
1989 Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy."
1996 Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
1997 Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka, a case that inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2002 A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2005 American teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared on a trip to Aruba; the case remains unsolved.
2006 A jury in Rockville, Md., convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
It Isn’t Fair - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Return to Me - Dean Martin
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Just Married - Marty Robbins
1966
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
The Show Must Go On - Three Dog Night
No Charge - Melba Montgomery
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Just to Satisfy You - Waylon & Willie
1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Walkin’ Away - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome, British humor writer (1859 - 1927)
Today in History - May 31st
Today's Birthdays
1819 Walt Whitman, poet (Leaves of Grass) died Mar 26, 1892
1898 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman/author (The Power of Positive Thinking) died Dec 24, 1993
1908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places) died Dec 6, 1993
1922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Trading Places) died Oct 6, 1992
1923 Prince Rainer III, head of state (Monaco) died Apr 6, 2005
1930 Clint Eastwood (Jr.), actor/director/producer (Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino)
1938 Peter Yarrow, singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer (Take This Job and Shove It) died Feb 18, 2003
1943 Sharon Gless, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Queer as Folk)
1943 Joe ‘Broadway Joe’ Namath, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (NY Jets)
1945 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (The Marriage of Maria Braun) died June 10, 1982
1948 John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) died Sep 25, 1980
1949 Tom Berenger, actor (Platoon, Eddie & the Cruisers, Major League)
1950 Gregory Harrison, actor (Trapper John, M.D.)
1952 Karl Bartos, electronic percussionist (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1954 Vicki Sue Robinson, singer (Turn the Beat Around) died April 27, 2000
1956 Fritz Hilpert, keyboardsit/sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1957 Jim Craig, 1980 USA Olympic hockey goaltender
1958 Roma Maffia, actress (Nip/Tuck)
1960 Chris Elliott, comic/actor (Groundhog Day)
1961 Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future series)
1962 Corey Hart, singer (Sunglasses at Night)
1964 Darryl McDaniels, rapper (Run-D.M.C.)
1964 Scotti Hill, guitarist (Skid Row)
1965 Brooke Shields, model/actress (The Blue Lagoon)
1972 Sarah Murdoch, Australian model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues)
1976 Colin Farrell, Irish actor (Phone Booth, Dare Devil)
1977 Eric Christian Olsen, actor (Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd)
1977 Scott Klopfenstein, trumpeter/guitarist/singer (Reel Big Fish)
1980 Andy Hurley, drummer (Fall Out Boy)
Today's Deaths in History
1809 Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Father of the Symphony) dies at 77
1837 Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (Commedia dell'arte) dies at 48
1962 Adolph Eichmann, Nazi SS, is hanged at 56
1970 Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers) dies at 40
1983 Jack Dempsey, boxing champion, dies at 87
1993 Spuds Mackenzie, advertisement dog (Bud Light) dies at 10
1996 Timothy Leary, professor/LSD advocate, dies at 75
2000 Tito Puente, Latin jazz musician, dies at 77
2000 Johnnie Taylor, singer (Who's Making Love?) dies at 62
2001 Arlene Francis, TV personality (What's My Line) dies at 93
2004 Robert Quine, guitarist (Lou Reed, Brian Eno) dies at 61
2006 Lula Mae Hardaway, songwriter/mother of singer Stevie Wonder, dies at 76
Today in History
1678 The Lady Godiva procession through Coventry began.
1790 The United States enacted its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1862 Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1889 More than 2,200 people died when a dam break flooded Johnstown, Pa.
1910 The Union of South Africa was founded.
1911 The R.M.S. Titanic was launched.
1913 The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1916 British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark during World War I.
1927 The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1961 South Africa became an independent republic.
1962 Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.
1970 An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.
1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurred on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of work.
1985 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1989 House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, dogged by questions about his ethics, announced he would resign.
1991 Leaders of Angola's two warring factions signed a peace treaty, ending a 16-year civil war.
1994 The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
2003 Bombing suspect Eric Rudolph was arrested outside a grocery store in Murphy, N.C.;he later pleaded guilty to four bombings - including those at a Birmingham. Ala., abortion clinic and at the Atlanta Olympics - and was sentenced to four life terms.
2005 Former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Chart Toppers
1951
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Respect - Aretha Franklin
I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens
1975
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
How Long - Ace
Sister Golden Hair - America
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men at Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
You Take Me for Granted - Merle Haggard
1991
I Don’t Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey
More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
In a Different Light - Doug Stone
Quote of the Day
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
Today's Birthdays
1819 Walt Whitman, poet (Leaves of Grass) died Mar 26, 1892
1898 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman/author (The Power of Positive Thinking) died Dec 24, 1993
1908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places) died Dec 6, 1993
1922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Trading Places) died Oct 6, 1992
1923 Prince Rainer III, head of state (Monaco) died Apr 6, 2005
1930 Clint Eastwood (Jr.), actor/director/producer (Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino)
1938 Peter Yarrow, singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer (Take This Job and Shove It) died Feb 18, 2003
1943 Sharon Gless, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Queer as Folk)
1943 Joe ‘Broadway Joe’ Namath, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (NY Jets)
1945 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (The Marriage of Maria Braun) died June 10, 1982
1948 John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) died Sep 25, 1980
1949 Tom Berenger, actor (Platoon, Eddie & the Cruisers, Major League)
1950 Gregory Harrison, actor (Trapper John, M.D.)
1952 Karl Bartos, electronic percussionist (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1954 Vicki Sue Robinson, singer (Turn the Beat Around) died April 27, 2000
1956 Fritz Hilpert, keyboardsit/sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1957 Jim Craig, 1980 USA Olympic hockey goaltender
1958 Roma Maffia, actress (Nip/Tuck)
1960 Chris Elliott, comic/actor (Groundhog Day)
1961 Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future series)
1962 Corey Hart, singer (Sunglasses at Night)
1964 Darryl McDaniels, rapper (Run-D.M.C.)
1964 Scotti Hill, guitarist (Skid Row)
1965 Brooke Shields, model/actress (The Blue Lagoon)
1972 Sarah Murdoch, Australian model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues)
1976 Colin Farrell, Irish actor (Phone Booth, Dare Devil)
1977 Eric Christian Olsen, actor (Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd)
1977 Scott Klopfenstein, trumpeter/guitarist/singer (Reel Big Fish)
1980 Andy Hurley, drummer (Fall Out Boy)
Today's Deaths in History
1809 Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Father of the Symphony) dies at 77
1837 Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (Commedia dell'arte) dies at 48
1962 Adolph Eichmann, Nazi SS, is hanged at 56
1970 Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers) dies at 40
1983 Jack Dempsey, boxing champion, dies at 87
1993 Spuds Mackenzie, advertisement dog (Bud Light) dies at 10
1996 Timothy Leary, professor/LSD advocate, dies at 75
2000 Tito Puente, Latin jazz musician, dies at 77
2000 Johnnie Taylor, singer (Who's Making Love?) dies at 62
2001 Arlene Francis, TV personality (What's My Line) dies at 93
2004 Robert Quine, guitarist (Lou Reed, Brian Eno) dies at 61
2006 Lula Mae Hardaway, songwriter/mother of singer Stevie Wonder, dies at 76
Today in History
1678 The Lady Godiva procession through Coventry began.
1790 The United States enacted its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1862 Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1889 More than 2,200 people died when a dam break flooded Johnstown, Pa.
1910 The Union of South Africa was founded.
1911 The R.M.S. Titanic was launched.
1913 The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1916 British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark during World War I.
1927 The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1961 South Africa became an independent republic.
1962 Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.
1970 An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.
1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurred on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of work.
1985 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1989 House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, dogged by questions about his ethics, announced he would resign.
1991 Leaders of Angola's two warring factions signed a peace treaty, ending a 16-year civil war.
1994 The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
2003 Bombing suspect Eric Rudolph was arrested outside a grocery store in Murphy, N.C.;he later pleaded guilty to four bombings - including those at a Birmingham. Ala., abortion clinic and at the Atlanta Olympics - and was sentenced to four life terms.
2005 Former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Chart Toppers
1951
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Too Young - Nat King Cole
Mockingbird Hill -Patti Page
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
Respect - Aretha Franklin
I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
Sam’s Place - Buck Owens
1975
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
How Long - Ace
Sister Golden Hair - America
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men at Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
You Take Me for Granted - Merle Haggard
1991
I Don’t Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey
More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
In a Different Light - Doug Stone
Quote of the Day
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
Today in History - June 1st
Today's Birthdays
1801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, Aug 28, 1877
1890 Frank Morgan (Francis Wuppermann), actor (The Wizard of Oz) died Sep 18, 1949
1901 Clarence Henry "Happy" Day, NHL Hall of famer (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Americans) died Feb 17, 1990
1926 Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortensen), actress/singer (Seven Year Itch) died Aug 5, 1962
1926 Andy Griffith, actor (Mayberry RFD, Matlock)
1930 Edward Woodward, actor (The Equalizer)
1934 Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone), singer (Love Letters in the Sand)
1937 Morgan Freeman, actor (Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption)
1937 Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds)
1939 Cleavon (Jake) Little, actor (Blazing Saddles) died Oct 22, 1992
1946 Brian Cox, actor (X-Men United, Manhunter)
1947 Jonathan Pryce, actor (Jumpin' Jack Flash)
1947 Ron Wood, guitarist (Rolling Stones)
1949 Powers Boothe, actor (Red Dawn, 24)
1950 Graham Russell, singer (Air Supply)
1950 Wayne Nelson, bassist (Little River Band)
1953 David Berkowitz, serial killer (The Son of Sam)
1955 Tony Snow, former White House press secretary, died July 12, 2008
1956 Lisa Hartman Black, actress (Knots Landing)
1959 Alan Wilder, singer/keyboards (Depeche Mode)
1960 Simon Gallup, guitarist (The Cure)
1963 Mike Joyce, drummer (The Smiths)
1969 Teri Polo, actress (Sports Night, Meet the Parents series)
1972 Mike Dunham, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1973 Heidi Klum, supermodel/actress
1973 leedsy99, board member
1973 Adam Garcia, Australian actor (Coyote Ugly)
1974 Alanis Morissette, singer (You Oughta Know)
1975 Michal Grosek, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1976 Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss Hawaii/Miss America 2001
1977 Danielle Harris, actress (Halloween series)
1977 Sarah Wayne Callies, actress (Prison Break)
1982 Justine Henin, professional tennis player
Today's Deaths in History
1868 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, dies at 77
1943 Leslie Howard, English actor (Gone with the Wind) dies at 50
1948 Sonny Boy Williamson I, blues musician, dies at 34
1960 Lester Patrick, NHL Hall of fame defenseman/coach (NY Rangers) dies at 76
1962 Adolf Eichmann, Nazi SS official, is hanged at 56
1965 Earl "Curly" Lambeau, football coach (Green Bay Packers) dies at 67
1968 Helen Keller, blind/deaf/mute advocate, dies at 87
1991 David Ruffin, R&B singer (The Temptations) dies at 50
2001 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) dies at 81
2007 Tony Thompson, R&B singer (Hi-Five) dies at 31
2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, dies at 71
Today in History
1495 Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned Queen Consort of England.
1792 Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.
1796 Tennessee became the 16th state.
1813 The Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate.
1869 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1925 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig's streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games began when he entered a game as a pinch hitter for the New York Yankees.
1926 Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles.
1944 The BBC broadcast a coded message to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1958 Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1967 The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.
1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims was published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1977 The Soviet Union charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason.
1980 CNN made its debut.
1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
2001 A suicide bomber attacked a Tel Aviv nightclub, killing 21 Israelis.
2005 Dutch voters rejected the European Union constitution.
2007 Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison after serving eight years for ending the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroyed several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
He’ll Have to Stay - Jeanne Black
Paper Roses - Anita Bryant
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash
1984
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
As Long as I’m Rockin’ with You - John Conlee
Quote of the Day
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster, diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852)
Today's Birthdays
1801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, Aug 28, 1877
1890 Frank Morgan (Francis Wuppermann), actor (The Wizard of Oz) died Sep 18, 1949
1901 Clarence Henry "Happy" Day, NHL Hall of famer (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Americans) died Feb 17, 1990
1926 Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortensen), actress/singer (Seven Year Itch) died Aug 5, 1962
1926 Andy Griffith, actor (Mayberry RFD, Matlock)
1930 Edward Woodward, actor (The Equalizer)
1934 Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone), singer (Love Letters in the Sand)
1937 Morgan Freeman, actor (Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption)
1937 Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds)
1939 Cleavon (Jake) Little, actor (Blazing Saddles) died Oct 22, 1992
1946 Brian Cox, actor (X-Men United, Manhunter)
1947 Jonathan Pryce, actor (Jumpin' Jack Flash)
1947 Ron Wood, guitarist (Rolling Stones)
1949 Powers Boothe, actor (Red Dawn, 24)
1950 Graham Russell, singer (Air Supply)
1950 Wayne Nelson, bassist (Little River Band)
1953 David Berkowitz, serial killer (The Son of Sam)
1955 Tony Snow, former White House press secretary, died July 12, 2008
1956 Lisa Hartman Black, actress (Knots Landing)
1959 Alan Wilder, singer/keyboards (Depeche Mode)
1960 Simon Gallup, guitarist (The Cure)
1963 Mike Joyce, drummer (The Smiths)
1969 Teri Polo, actress (Sports Night, Meet the Parents series)
1972 Mike Dunham, NHL goaltender (NY Rangers)
1973 Heidi Klum, supermodel/actress
1973 leedsy99, board member
1973 Adam Garcia, Australian actor (Coyote Ugly)
1974 Alanis Morissette, singer (You Oughta Know)
1975 Michal Grosek, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1976 Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss Hawaii/Miss America 2001
1977 Danielle Harris, actress (Halloween series)
1977 Sarah Wayne Callies, actress (Prison Break)
1982 Justine Henin, professional tennis player
Today's Deaths in History
1868 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, dies at 77
1943 Leslie Howard, English actor (Gone with the Wind) dies at 50
1948 Sonny Boy Williamson I, blues musician, dies at 34
1960 Lester Patrick, NHL Hall of fame defenseman/coach (NY Rangers) dies at 76
1962 Adolf Eichmann, Nazi SS official, is hanged at 56
1965 Earl "Curly" Lambeau, football coach (Green Bay Packers) dies at 67
1968 Helen Keller, blind/deaf/mute advocate, dies at 87
1991 David Ruffin, R&B singer (The Temptations) dies at 50
2001 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) dies at 81
2007 Tony Thompson, R&B singer (Hi-Five) dies at 31
2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, dies at 71
Today in History
1495 Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1533 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned Queen Consort of England.
1792 Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.
1796 Tennessee became the 16th state.
1813 The Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate.
1869 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1925 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig's streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games began when he entered a game as a pinch hitter for the New York Yankees.
1926 Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles.
1944 The BBC broadcast a coded message to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1958 Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1967 The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.
1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims was published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1977 The Soviet Union charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason.
1980 CNN made its debut.
1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
2001 A suicide bomber attacked a Tel Aviv nightclub, killing 21 Israelis.
2005 Dutch voters rejected the European Union constitution.
2007 Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison after serving eight years for ending the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroyed several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
He’ll Have to Stay - Jeanne Black
Paper Roses - Anita Bryant
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash
1984
Let’s Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
As Long as I’m Rockin’ with You - John Conlee
Quote of the Day
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster, diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852)
Today in History - June 2nd
Today's Birthdays
1731 Martha Washington, First Lady, died May 22, 1802
1740 Marquis de Sade (Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade), author (Justine) died Dec 2, 1814
1840 Thomas Hardy, writer (Far From the Madding Crowd) died January 11, 1928
1857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance) died Feb 23, 1934
1890 Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry), celebrity columnist/show biz gossip, died Feb 1, 1966
1904 Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer/actor (Tarzan films) died Jan 20, 1984
1920 Tex Schramm, NFL team president/GM (Dallas Cowboys) died July 15, 2003
1926 Milo O’Shea, actor (The Playboys)
1930 Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Jr., NASA astronaut (Gemini, Apollo) died July 8, 1999
1937 Sally Kellerman, actress (M*A*S*H)
1939 Charles Miller, saxophonist/clarinet (War)
1941 (Walter) Stacy Keach Jr., actor (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer)
1941 William Guest, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones)
1943 Charles Haid, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1944 Marvin Hamlisch, pianist/composer
1946 Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer (Yorkshire Ripper)
1946 Lasse Hallstrom, director (Chocolat)
1948 Jerry Mathers, actor (Leave it to Beaver)
1950 Joanna Gleason, actress (Mr. Holland's Opus)
1952 Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner
1954 Dennis Haysbert, actor (Major League series, 24, The Unit)
1955 Dana Carvey, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World)
1955 Michael Steele, bassist/singer (The Bangles)
1960 Tony Hadley, singer (Spandau Ballet)
1960 Kyle Petty, NASCAR driver
1961 Dez Cadena, singer/guitarist (Black Flag)
1970 B-Real, rapper (Cypress Hill)
1972 Wayne Brady, actor/comedian (Whose Line is it Anyway?)
1972 Wentworth Miller, actor (Prison Break)
1976 Tim Rice-Oxley, pianist/composer (Keane)
1977 Zachary Quinto, actor (Heroes, Star Trek)
1978 Nikki Cox, actress (The Norm Show, Las Vegas)
1978 Justin Long, actor (Accepted, Dodgeball, Live Free or Die Hard)
1980 Fabrizio Moretti, drummer (The Strokes)
1983 Brooke White, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1989 Freddy Adu, Ghanaian/American soccer star
Today's Deaths in History
1941 Lou Gehrig, Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Yankees) dies of ALS at 37
1948 Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler, dies at 44
1961 George S. Kaufman, playwright (You Can't Take it with You) dies at 71
1969 Leo Gorcey, actor (Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys series) dies at 51
1970 Bruce McLaren, auto racer/designer/manufacturer, dies at 32
1979 Jim Hutton, actor/father of Timothy Hutton (The Green Berets) dies at 45
1987 Sammy Kaye, bandleader, dies at 77
1990 Rex Harrison, English actor (My Fair Lady, Dr. Doolittle) dies at 82
1990 Stiv Bators, singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) dies at 40
1996 Ray Combs, game show host/comedian (Family feud) dies at 40
1999 Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican reggae singer (The Wailers)
2001 Imogene Coca, actress/comedienne (partner with Sid Caesar) dies at 92
2003 "Classy" Fred Blassie, professional wrestler, dies at 95
2006 Vince Welnick, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) dies at 55
2008 Bo Diddley, singer/songwriter/guitarist, dies at 79
2008 Mel Ferrer, actor/director/producer (The Longest Day) dies at 90
Today in History
1692 Bridget Bishop became the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty and hanged June 10.
1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus started their first tour of the United States.
1851 Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1886 President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony.
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applied for a patent for his radio.
1897 Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1941 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1946 The Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.
1953 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
1966 The U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1987 President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
1995 A U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, was rescued six days later.
1997 Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.
2004 Ken Jennings began his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
Chart Toppers
1945
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Travelin’ Man - Ricky Nelson
Daddy’s Home - Shep & the Limelites
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins’ Singers
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette
1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Don’t Call Him a Cowboy - Conway Twitty
Quote of the Day
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)
Today's Birthdays
1731 Martha Washington, First Lady, died May 22, 1802
1740 Marquis de Sade (Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade), author (Justine) died Dec 2, 1814
1840 Thomas Hardy, writer (Far From the Madding Crowd) died January 11, 1928
1857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance) died Feb 23, 1934
1890 Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry), celebrity columnist/show biz gossip, died Feb 1, 1966
1904 Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer/actor (Tarzan films) died Jan 20, 1984
1920 Tex Schramm, NFL team president/GM (Dallas Cowboys) died July 15, 2003
1926 Milo O’Shea, actor (The Playboys)
1930 Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Jr., NASA astronaut (Gemini, Apollo) died July 8, 1999
1937 Sally Kellerman, actress (M*A*S*H)
1939 Charles Miller, saxophonist/clarinet (War)
1941 (Walter) Stacy Keach Jr., actor (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer)
1941 William Guest, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones)
1943 Charles Haid, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1944 Marvin Hamlisch, pianist/composer
1946 Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer (Yorkshire Ripper)
1946 Lasse Hallstrom, director (Chocolat)
1948 Jerry Mathers, actor (Leave it to Beaver)
1950 Joanna Gleason, actress (Mr. Holland's Opus)
1952 Gary Bettman, NHL commissioner
1954 Dennis Haysbert, actor (Major League series, 24, The Unit)
1955 Dana Carvey, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World)
1955 Michael Steele, bassist/singer (The Bangles)
1960 Tony Hadley, singer (Spandau Ballet)
1960 Kyle Petty, NASCAR driver
1961 Dez Cadena, singer/guitarist (Black Flag)
1970 B-Real, rapper (Cypress Hill)
1972 Wayne Brady, actor/comedian (Whose Line is it Anyway?)
1972 Wentworth Miller, actor (Prison Break)
1976 Tim Rice-Oxley, pianist/composer (Keane)
1977 Zachary Quinto, actor (Heroes, Star Trek)
1978 Nikki Cox, actress (The Norm Show, Las Vegas)
1978 Justin Long, actor (Accepted, Dodgeball, Live Free or Die Hard)
1980 Fabrizio Moretti, drummer (The Strokes)
1983 Brooke White, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
1989 Freddy Adu, Ghanaian/American soccer star
Today's Deaths in History
1941 Lou Gehrig, Baseball Hall of Famer (NY Yankees) dies of ALS at 37
1948 Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler, dies at 44
1961 George S. Kaufman, playwright (You Can't Take it with You) dies at 71
1969 Leo Gorcey, actor (Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys series) dies at 51
1970 Bruce McLaren, auto racer/designer/manufacturer, dies at 32
1979 Jim Hutton, actor/father of Timothy Hutton (The Green Berets) dies at 45
1987 Sammy Kaye, bandleader, dies at 77
1990 Rex Harrison, English actor (My Fair Lady, Dr. Doolittle) dies at 82
1990 Stiv Bators, singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) dies at 40
1996 Ray Combs, game show host/comedian (Family feud) dies at 40
1999 Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican reggae singer (The Wailers)
2001 Imogene Coca, actress/comedienne (partner with Sid Caesar) dies at 92
2003 "Classy" Fred Blassie, professional wrestler, dies at 95
2006 Vince Welnick, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) dies at 55
2008 Bo Diddley, singer/songwriter/guitarist, dies at 79
2008 Mel Ferrer, actor/director/producer (The Longest Day) dies at 90
Today in History
1692 Bridget Bishop became the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty and hanged June 10.
1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus started their first tour of the United States.
1851 Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1886 President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony.
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applied for a patent for his radio.
1897 Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1941 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1946 The Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.
1953 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
1966 The U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1987 President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
1995 A U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, was rescued six days later.
1997 Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.
2004 Ken Jennings began his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
Chart Toppers
1945
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
I Believe - Frankie Laine
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Travelin’ Man - Ricky Nelson
Daddy’s Home - Shep & the Limelites
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins’ Singers
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette
1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Don’t Call Him a Cowboy - Conway Twitty
Quote of the Day
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)
Today in History – June 3rd
Today's Birthdays
1808 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died Dec 5, 1889
1901 Maurice Evans, actor (Planet of the Apes) died Mar 12, 1989
1906 Josephine Baker, dancer (The Black Pearl) died April 12, 1975
1911 Ellen Corby, actress (The Waltons) died April 14, 1999
1911 Paulette Goddard, actress (Ziegfeld Follies) died April 23, 1990
1917 Leo Gorcey, actor (Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys series) died June 2, 1969
1918 Lili St. Cyr, ecdysiast (burlesque stripper) died January 29, 1999
1925 Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), actor (Some Like it Hot)
1926 (Irwin) Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation poet, died Apr 5, 1997
1929 Chuck Barris, producer/TV Host (Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Gong Show)
1936 Larry McMurtry, author (Lonesome Dove)
1937 Edward Winter, actor (M*A*S*H) died March 8, 2001
1939 Ian Hunter (Patterson), guitarist/singer/songwriter (Mott the Hoople)
1942 Curtis Mayfield, songwriter/singer (Superfly)
1945 Hale Irwin, golf champion
1946 Mike Clarke (Michael Dick), drummer (The Byrds) died Dec 19, 1993
1947 Mickey Finn, guitarist/percussionist (T. Rex) died Jan 11, 2003
1950 Melissa Mathison, screenwriter (E.T.: The Extraterrestrial)
1950 Suzi Quatro (Susan Kay Quatro), rock singer/guitarist (Stumblin' In)
1950 Deniece Williams, singer (Let’s Hear it for the Boy)
1952 Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynryd Skynyrd) died January 28, 2009
1954 Dan Hill, singer (Sometimes When We Touch)
1964 Kerry King, guitarist (Slayer)
1964 James Purefoy, actor (A Knight's Tale, Rome)
1965 Mike Gordon, bassist (Phish)
1967 Anderson Cooper, newsman/anchor (CNN)
1974 Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
1986 Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis champion
Today's Deaths in History
1861 Stephen A. Douglas, politician, dies at 48
1875 Georges Bizet, French composer (Carmen) dies at 36
1924 Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (The Metamorphosis) dies at 40
1975 Ozzie Nelson, band leader/producer/director/actor, dies at 69
1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director, dies at 71
1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader, dies at 89
1990 Robert Noyce, American inventor (microchip) dies at 62
1997 Dennis James, television game show host (Name That Tune) dies at 79
2001 Anthony Quinn, actor (Zorba the Greek) dies at
2003 Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (Iwo Jima flag-raising) dies at 96
2006 Johnny Grande, accordion/piano/keyboardist (Bill Haley's Comets) dies at 76
Today in History
1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1888 The poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is established by the U.S. Congress.
1937 The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne.
1965 Astronaut Edward White became the first American to walk in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
1968 Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas.
1981 Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.
1983 Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
1989 Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
2001 Mel Brooks' musical comedy The Producers won a record 12 Tony Awards.
The union of Serbia and Montenegro came to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2007 The USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.
2008 Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, making him the first black candidate to lead his party.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say it’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
The Happy Wanderer - Frank Weir
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out) - Ernie Maresca
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Love on a Two-Way Street - The Moments
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
My Love - Sonny James
1978
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Do You Know You are My Sunshine - The Statler Brothers
1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
Whoever’s in New England - Reba McEntire
Quote of the Day
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
Today's Birthdays
1808 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died Dec 5, 1889
1901 Maurice Evans, actor (Planet of the Apes) died Mar 12, 1989
1906 Josephine Baker, dancer (The Black Pearl) died April 12, 1975
1911 Ellen Corby, actress (The Waltons) died April 14, 1999
1911 Paulette Goddard, actress (Ziegfeld Follies) died April 23, 1990
1917 Leo Gorcey, actor (Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys series) died June 2, 1969
1918 Lili St. Cyr, ecdysiast (burlesque stripper) died January 29, 1999
1925 Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), actor (Some Like it Hot)
1926 (Irwin) Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation poet, died Apr 5, 1997
1929 Chuck Barris, producer/TV Host (Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Gong Show)
1936 Larry McMurtry, author (Lonesome Dove)
1937 Edward Winter, actor (M*A*S*H) died March 8, 2001
1939 Ian Hunter (Patterson), guitarist/singer/songwriter (Mott the Hoople)
1942 Curtis Mayfield, songwriter/singer (Superfly)
1945 Hale Irwin, golf champion
1946 Mike Clarke (Michael Dick), drummer (The Byrds) died Dec 19, 1993
1947 Mickey Finn, guitarist/percussionist (T. Rex) died Jan 11, 2003
1950 Melissa Mathison, screenwriter (E.T.: The Extraterrestrial)
1950 Suzi Quatro (Susan Kay Quatro), rock singer/guitarist (Stumblin' In)
1950 Deniece Williams, singer (Let’s Hear it for the Boy)
1952 Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynryd Skynyrd) died January 28, 2009
1954 Dan Hill, singer (Sometimes When We Touch)
1964 Kerry King, guitarist (Slayer)
1964 James Purefoy, actor (A Knight's Tale, Rome)
1965 Mike Gordon, bassist (Phish)
1967 Anderson Cooper, newsman/anchor (CNN)
1974 Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
1986 Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis champion
Today's Deaths in History
1861 Stephen A. Douglas, politician, dies at 48
1875 Georges Bizet, French composer (Carmen) dies at 36
1924 Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (The Metamorphosis) dies at 40
1975 Ozzie Nelson, band leader/producer/director/actor, dies at 69
1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director, dies at 71
1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader, dies at 89
1990 Robert Noyce, American inventor (microchip) dies at 62
1997 Dennis James, television game show host (Name That Tune) dies at 79
2001 Anthony Quinn, actor (Zorba the Greek) dies at
2003 Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (Iwo Jima flag-raising) dies at 96
2006 Johnny Grande, accordion/piano/keyboardist (Bill Haley's Comets) dies at 76
Today in History
1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.
1888 The poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is established by the U.S. Congress.
1937 The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne.
1965 Astronaut Edward White became the first American to walk in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
1968 Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas.
1981 Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.
1983 Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark.
1989 Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.
1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.
2001 Mel Brooks' musical comedy The Producers won a record 12 Tony Awards.
The union of Serbia and Montenegro came to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2007 The USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.
2008 Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, making him the first black candidate to lead his party.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say it’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
The Happy Wanderer - Frank Weir
I Really Don’t Want to Know - Eddy Arnold
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out) - Ernie Maresca
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Love on a Two-Way Street - The Moments
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
My Love - Sonny James
1978
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Do You Know You are My Sunshine - The Statler Brothers
1986
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
Whoever’s in New England - Reba McEntire
Quote of the Day
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
Today in History - June 4th
Today's Birthdays
1910 Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor (Hovercraft) died June 1, 1999
1917 Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller), Metropolitan Opera singing star, died Oct 23, 2004
1924 (Billy) Dennis Weaver, actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud) died Feb 24, 2006
1928 Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Karola Ruth Siegel), sex therapist/author
1932 John Drew Barrymore, actor (The Trojan Horse) died November 29, 2004
1936 Bruce Dern, actor (Silent Running, Diggstown)
1937 Freddy Fender, singer (Wasted Days and Wasted Nights) died Oct 14, 2006
1944 Roger Ball, saxophonist/keyboards (Average White Band)
1944 Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam), singer (The Mamas and the Papas)
1945 Gordon Waller, singer (Peter and Gordon)
1951 Danny Brown, musician (The Fixx)
1952 Parker Stevenson, actor (The Hardy Boys Mysteries)
1953 Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii
1953 Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings) died Sept 27, 1979
1956 Keith David, actor (Platoon, The Quick and the Dead)
1961 El DeBarge, R&B singer (DeBarge)
1968 Scott Wolf, actor (Party of Five)
1968 Al B. Sure, R&B singer
1969 Horatio Sanz, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Noah Wyle, actor (ER)
1974 Stefan Lessard, bassist (The Dave Matthews Band)
1975 Angelina Jolie, actress (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Girl Interrupted)
1975 Russell Brand, actor/comedian (Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
1980 JoJo Garza, bassist (Los Lonely Boys)
1985 Bar Refaeli, Israeli model (Victoria's Secret)
Today's Deaths in History
1798 Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover/writer, dies at 73
1929 Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923, dies at 47
1941 Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor, dies at 82
1968 Dorothy Gish, actress (Orphans of the Storm) dies at 70
1989 Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hagar the Horrible, Hi and Lois) dies at 71
1990 Stiv Bators, punk singer (The Dead Boys) dies at 40
1992 Carl Stotz, Little League Founder, dies at 82
1994 Derek Leckenby, guitarist (Herman's Hermits) dies at 51
1997 Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces) dies at 51
2004 Steve Lacy, jazz soprano saxophonist (Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington) dies at 69
2007 Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer, dies at 74
2007 Freddie Scott, singer/songwriter (You Got What I Need) dies at 74
2009 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill) dies at 72
Today in History
1584 Sir Walter Raleigh established the first English colony on Roanoke Island.
1647 The English army seized King Charles I as a hostage.
1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrated their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1878 Turkey turned Cyprus over to the British.
1892 The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
1896 Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.
1912 Massachusetts became the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1919 The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sent it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1940 The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France.
1942 The Battle of Midway began during World War II.
1944 The U.S. Fifth Army began liberating Rome during World War II.
1947 The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1954 French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris according independence to Vietnam.
1973 A patent for the ATM was granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1984 The Bruce Springsteen album Born in the U.S.A. was released.
1985 The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
1986 Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to spying for Israel.
1989 Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement; hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were killed.
1992 The U.S. Postal Service announced the results of a nationwide vote on the Elvis Presley stamp, saying more people preferred the "younger Elvis" design.
1998 A federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire, hours after federal prosecutors in New York charged her with obstruction of justice, conspiracy, securities fraud and lying to investigators.
2007 A federal indictment accused Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., of receiving more than $500,000 in bribes; Jefferson has maintained his innocence and is awaiting trial.
Chart Toppers
1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
What is Life Without Love - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
I Love You Because - Al Martino
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Want Ads - The Honey Cone
It Don’t Come Easy - Ringo Starr
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price
1979
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold it Against Me - Bellamy Brothers
1987
With or Without You - U2
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
It Takes a Little Rain (To Make Love Grow) - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury, science fiction author (1920 - )
Today's Birthdays
1910 Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor (Hovercraft) died June 1, 1999
1917 Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller), Metropolitan Opera singing star, died Oct 23, 2004
1924 (Billy) Dennis Weaver, actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud) died Feb 24, 2006
1928 Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Karola Ruth Siegel), sex therapist/author
1932 John Drew Barrymore, actor (The Trojan Horse) died November 29, 2004
1936 Bruce Dern, actor (Silent Running, Diggstown)
1937 Freddy Fender, singer (Wasted Days and Wasted Nights) died Oct 14, 2006
1944 Roger Ball, saxophonist/keyboards (Average White Band)
1944 Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam), singer (The Mamas and the Papas)
1945 Gordon Waller, singer (Peter and Gordon)
1951 Danny Brown, musician (The Fixx)
1952 Parker Stevenson, actor (The Hardy Boys Mysteries)
1953 Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii
1953 Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings) died Sept 27, 1979
1956 Keith David, actor (Platoon, The Quick and the Dead)
1961 El DeBarge, R&B singer (DeBarge)
1968 Scott Wolf, actor (Party of Five)
1968 Al B. Sure, R&B singer
1969 Horatio Sanz, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Noah Wyle, actor (ER)
1974 Stefan Lessard, bassist (The Dave Matthews Band)
1975 Angelina Jolie, actress (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Girl Interrupted)
1975 Russell Brand, actor/comedian (Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
1980 JoJo Garza, bassist (Los Lonely Boys)
1985 Bar Refaeli, Israeli model (Victoria's Secret)
Today's Deaths in History
1798 Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover/writer, dies at 73
1929 Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923, dies at 47
1941 Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor, dies at 82
1968 Dorothy Gish, actress (Orphans of the Storm) dies at 70
1989 Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hagar the Horrible, Hi and Lois) dies at 71
1990 Stiv Bators, punk singer (The Dead Boys) dies at 40
1992 Carl Stotz, Little League Founder, dies at 82
1994 Derek Leckenby, guitarist (Herman's Hermits) dies at 51
1997 Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces) dies at 51
2004 Steve Lacy, jazz soprano saxophonist (Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington) dies at 69
2007 Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer, dies at 74
2007 Freddie Scott, singer/songwriter (You Got What I Need) dies at 74
2009 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill) dies at 72
Today in History
1584 Sir Walter Raleigh established the first English colony on Roanoke Island.
1647 The English army seized King Charles I as a hostage.
1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrated their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1878 Turkey turned Cyprus over to the British.
1892 The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
1896 Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.
1912 Massachusetts became the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1919 The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sent it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1940 The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France.
1942 The Battle of Midway began during World War II.
1944 The U.S. Fifth Army began liberating Rome during World War II.
1947 The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
1954 French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris according independence to Vietnam.
1973 A patent for the ATM was granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1984 The Bruce Springsteen album Born in the U.S.A. was released.
1985 The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
1986 Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty in Washington to spying for Israel.
1989 Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush a pro-democracy movement; hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were killed.
1992 The U.S. Postal Service announced the results of a nationwide vote on the Elvis Presley stamp, saying more people preferred the "younger Elvis" design.
1998 A federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire, hours after federal prosecutors in New York charged her with obstruction of justice, conspiracy, securities fraud and lying to investigators.
2007 A federal indictment accused Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., of receiving more than $500,000 in bribes; Jefferson has maintained his innocence and is awaiting trial.
Chart Toppers
1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
What is Life Without Love - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
I Love You Because - Al Martino
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Want Ads - The Honey Cone
It Don’t Come Easy - Ringo Starr
I Won’t Mention It Again - Ray Price
1979
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold it Against Me - Bellamy Brothers
1987
With or Without You - U2
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
It Takes a Little Rain (To Make Love Grow) - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury, science fiction author (1920 - )
Today in History - June 5th
Today's Birthdays
1718 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, died November 1779
1819 John Couch Adams, mathematician/astronomer (Neptune) died Jan 21, 1892
1850 Pat Garrett, Western lawman (shot Billy the Kid) died February 29, 1908
1878 Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, died July 23, 1923
1895 William Boyd, actor (Hopalong Cassidy) died Sep 12, 1972
1919 Richard Scarry, children's books author/illustrator, died Apr 30, 1994
1932 Christy Brown, Irish author (My Left Foot) died Sept 6, 1981
1941 Floyd Butler, singer (Fifth Dimension) died in 1990
1941 Spalding Gray, actor/screenwriter (The Killing Fields) died Jan 10, 2004
1946 Freddie Stone, singer (Sly and the Family Stone)
1947 Tom Evans, singer/bassist/guitarist (Badfinger)
1949 Ken Follett, Welsh author (Pillars of the Earth)
1952 Nicko McBrain, drummer (Iron Maiden)
1956 Kenny G, jazz saxophonist
1956 Richard Butler, singer/songwriter (Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love)
1960 Leslie Hendrix, actress (Law & Order)
1961 Mary Kay Bergman, voice actress (South Park) died Nov 11, 1999
1967 Ron Livingston, actor (Office Space)
1969 Brian McKnight, R&B singer
1971 Mark Wahlberg, singer/actor (Renaissance Man, The Departed)
1974 P-nut, musician (311)
1974 Chad Allen, actor (Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman)
1977 Navi Rawat, actress (Numb3ers)
1977 Liza Weil, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1979 Pete Wentz, bassist/singer (Fall Out Boy)
1983 Marques Colston, NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
Today's Deaths in History
1900 Stephen Crane, author (The Red Badge of Courage) dies at 28
1910 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), author (The Gift of the Magi) dies at 47
1993 Conway Twitty, country singer, dies at 59
1998 Jeanette Nolan, actress (The Horse Whisperer) dies at 86
1999 Mel Tormé, "The Velvet Fog," singer/songwriter, dies at 73
2002 Dee Dee Ramone, punk rock bassist (The Ramones), dies at 49
2004 Ronald Reagan, movie star/former President of the United States, dies at 93
Today in History
1794 Congress passed the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly started a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1884 Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1916 Louis Brandeis was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1933 The United States went off the gold standard.
1940 During the World War II Battle of France, Germany attacked French forces along the Somme line.
1947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall, speaking at Harvard University, outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as the Marshall Plan.
1956 Elvis Presley introduced his new single, "Hound Dog," on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1967 War erupted in the Middle East as Israel raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary; gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
1977 The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, went on sale.
1981 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.
1998 A strike at a General Motors parts factory near Detroit closed five assembly plants and idled workers nationwide; the walkout lasted seven weeks.
2001 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party, an act which shifted control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2002 Elizabeth Smart, 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in her family's Salt Lake City home.
2004 Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
2006 An Islamic militia with alleged links to al-Qaida seized Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after weeks of fighting with U.S.-backed secular warlords.
2006 Serbian lawmakers proclaimed their Balkan republic a sovereign state.
2007 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation; President George W. Bush later commuted the prison sentence.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Standing on the Corner - The Four Lads
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1964
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1972
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sylvia’s Mother - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap
1988
One More Try - George Michael
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox
What She Is (Is a Woman in Love) - Earl Thomas Conley
Quote of the Day
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton, mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)
Today's Birthdays
1718 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, died November 1779
1819 John Couch Adams, mathematician/astronomer (Neptune) died Jan 21, 1892
1850 Pat Garrett, Western lawman (shot Billy the Kid) died February 29, 1908
1878 Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, died July 23, 1923
1895 William Boyd, actor (Hopalong Cassidy) died Sep 12, 1972
1919 Richard Scarry, children's books author/illustrator, died Apr 30, 1994
1932 Christy Brown, Irish author (My Left Foot) died Sept 6, 1981
1941 Floyd Butler, singer (Fifth Dimension) died in 1990
1941 Spalding Gray, actor/screenwriter (The Killing Fields) died Jan 10, 2004
1946 Freddie Stone, singer (Sly and the Family Stone)
1947 Tom Evans, singer/bassist/guitarist (Badfinger)
1949 Ken Follett, Welsh author (Pillars of the Earth)
1952 Nicko McBrain, drummer (Iron Maiden)
1956 Kenny G, jazz saxophonist
1956 Richard Butler, singer/songwriter (Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love)
1960 Leslie Hendrix, actress (Law & Order)
1961 Mary Kay Bergman, voice actress (South Park) died Nov 11, 1999
1967 Ron Livingston, actor (Office Space)
1969 Brian McKnight, R&B singer
1971 Mark Wahlberg, singer/actor (Renaissance Man, The Departed)
1974 P-nut, musician (311)
1974 Chad Allen, actor (Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman)
1977 Navi Rawat, actress (Numb3ers)
1977 Liza Weil, actress (Gilmore Girls)
1979 Pete Wentz, bassist/singer (Fall Out Boy)
1983 Marques Colston, NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
Today's Deaths in History
1900 Stephen Crane, author (The Red Badge of Courage) dies at 28
1910 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), author (The Gift of the Magi) dies at 47
1993 Conway Twitty, country singer, dies at 59
1998 Jeanette Nolan, actress (The Horse Whisperer) dies at 86
1999 Mel Tormé, "The Velvet Fog," singer/songwriter, dies at 73
2002 Dee Dee Ramone, punk rock bassist (The Ramones), dies at 49
2004 Ronald Reagan, movie star/former President of the United States, dies at 93
Today in History
1794 Congress passed the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly started a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1884 Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1916 Louis Brandeis was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1933 The United States went off the gold standard.
1940 During the World War II Battle of France, Germany attacked French forces along the Somme line.
1947 Secretary of State George C. Marshall, speaking at Harvard University, outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as the Marshall Plan.
1956 Elvis Presley introduced his new single, "Hound Dog," on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1967 War erupted in the Middle East as Israel raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary; gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
1977 The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, went on sale.
1981 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.
1998 A strike at a General Motors parts factory near Detroit closed five assembly plants and idled workers nationwide; the walkout lasted seven weeks.
2001 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party, an act which shifted control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2002 Elizabeth Smart, 14, was kidnapped from her bedroom in her family's Salt Lake City home.
2004 Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
2006 An Islamic militia with alleged links to al-Qaida seized Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after weeks of fighting with U.S.-backed secular warlords.
2006 Serbian lawmakers proclaimed their Balkan republic a sovereign state.
2007 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation; President George W. Bush later commuted the prison sentence.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Standing on the Corner - The Four Lads
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1964
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens
1972
I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sylvia’s Mother - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap
1988
One More Try - George Michael
Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox
What She Is (Is a Woman in Love) - Earl Thomas Conley
Quote of the Day
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton, mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)
Today in History - June 6th
Today's Birthdays
1755 Nathan Hale, patriot (“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”) executed Sep 22, 1776
1799 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (Boris Gudunov, Eugene Onegin) died Feb 10, 1837
1923 V. C. Andrews, author (Flowers in the Attic) died December 19, 1986
1936 Levi Stubbs (Stubbles), singer (The Four Tops) died October 17, 2008
1939 Gary "U.S." Bonds (Anderson), singer (Quarter to Three)
1939 Eddie (Edward) Giacomin, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie (NY Rangers)
1948 Tony Levin, bassist (King Crimson)
1949 Robert Englund, actor (A Nightmare on Elm Street series)
1954 Harvey Fierstein, actor (Torch Song Trilogy, Mrs Doubtfire)
1955 Sandra Bernhard, comedienne/actress
1956 Bjorn Borg, tennis champion
1959 Amanda Pays, actress (Oxford Blues, Max Headroom)
1959 Colin Quinn, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1959 Jimmy Jam, record producer
1960 Steve Vai, guitar virtuoso
1961 Tom Araya, bassist/singer (Slayer)
1966 Sean Yseult, bassist (White Zombie)
1966 Murdoc Niccals, bassist/lead singer (Gorillaz)
1967 Paul Giamatti, actor (Duets, Sideways)
1967 Max Casella, actor (Doogie Howser)
1970 James "Munky" Shaffer, guitarist (Korn)
1972 Cristina Scabbia, singer (Lacuna Coil)
1975 Sonya Walger, actress (Lost)
1975 Niklas Sundström, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1978 Carl Barât, singer/guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things)
Today's Deaths in History
1799 Patrick Henry, American patriot, dies at 63
1865 William Quantrill, Confederate raider, dies at 27
1941 Louis Chevrolet, automotive pioneer, dies at 62
1948 Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer, dies at 83
1961 Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, dies at 85
1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies at 42
1976 J. Paul Getty, industrialist, dies at 83
1979 Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz) dies at 80
1991 Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist, dies at 64
2002 Robbin Crosby, guitarist (Ratt) dies at 42
2003 Dave Rowberry, keyboardist (The Animals) dies at 62
2005 Anne Bancroft, actress/Mrs. Mel Brooks (The Turning Point, The Miracle Worker) dies at 73
2006 Billy Preston, keyboardist/The Fifth Beatle, dies at 59
Today in History
1833 U.S. President Andrew Jackson became the first President to ride a train.
1844 The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.
1889 The Great Seattle Fire destroyed the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.
1933 The first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden County, N.J.
1934 The Securities and Exchange Commission was established.
1944 Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War II.
1966 Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
1978 California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a ballot measure calling for major cuts in property taxes.
1982 Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive PLO fighters out of the country.
1984 Video game Tetris was released.
1985 Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz during World War II.
1990 A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ruled that the 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was obscene.
2004 Phylicia Rashad became the first African-American actress to win a Tony for a leading dramatic role for her work in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun.
2005 The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating federal drug laws.
2007 Bob Barker ended his 35-year run as host of the CBS game show The Price Is Right.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenager’s Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold
1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Friends - Razzy Bailey
1989
Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Where Did I Go Wrong - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut (1930 - )
Today's Birthdays
1755 Nathan Hale, patriot (“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”) executed Sep 22, 1776
1799 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet (Boris Gudunov, Eugene Onegin) died Feb 10, 1837
1923 V. C. Andrews, author (Flowers in the Attic) died December 19, 1986
1936 Levi Stubbs (Stubbles), singer (The Four Tops) died October 17, 2008
1939 Gary "U.S." Bonds (Anderson), singer (Quarter to Three)
1939 Eddie (Edward) Giacomin, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie (NY Rangers)
1948 Tony Levin, bassist (King Crimson)
1949 Robert Englund, actor (A Nightmare on Elm Street series)
1954 Harvey Fierstein, actor (Torch Song Trilogy, Mrs Doubtfire)
1955 Sandra Bernhard, comedienne/actress
1956 Bjorn Borg, tennis champion
1959 Amanda Pays, actress (Oxford Blues, Max Headroom)
1959 Colin Quinn, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1959 Jimmy Jam, record producer
1960 Steve Vai, guitar virtuoso
1961 Tom Araya, bassist/singer (Slayer)
1966 Sean Yseult, bassist (White Zombie)
1966 Murdoc Niccals, bassist/lead singer (Gorillaz)
1967 Paul Giamatti, actor (Duets, Sideways)
1967 Max Casella, actor (Doogie Howser)
1970 James "Munky" Shaffer, guitarist (Korn)
1972 Cristina Scabbia, singer (Lacuna Coil)
1975 Sonya Walger, actress (Lost)
1975 Niklas Sundström, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1978 Carl Barât, singer/guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things)
Today's Deaths in History
1799 Patrick Henry, American patriot, dies at 63
1865 William Quantrill, Confederate raider, dies at 27
1941 Louis Chevrolet, automotive pioneer, dies at 62
1948 Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer, dies at 83
1961 Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, dies at 85
1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies at 42
1976 J. Paul Getty, industrialist, dies at 83
1979 Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz) dies at 80
1991 Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist, dies at 64
2002 Robbin Crosby, guitarist (Ratt) dies at 42
2003 Dave Rowberry, keyboardist (The Animals) dies at 62
2005 Anne Bancroft, actress/Mrs. Mel Brooks (The Turning Point, The Miracle Worker) dies at 73
2006 Billy Preston, keyboardist/The Fifth Beatle, dies at 59
Today in History
1833 U.S. President Andrew Jackson became the first President to ride a train.
1844 The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.
1889 The Great Seattle Fire destroyed the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp.
1933 The first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden County, N.J.
1934 The Securities and Exchange Commission was established.
1944 Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War II.
1966 Black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.
1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
1978 California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a ballot measure calling for major cuts in property taxes.
1982 Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive PLO fighters out of the country.
1984 Video game Tetris was released.
1985 Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz during World War II.
1990 A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ruled that the 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be was obscene.
2004 Phylicia Rashad became the first African-American actress to win a Tony for a leading dramatic role for her work in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun.
2005 The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating federal drug laws.
2007 Bob Barker ended his 35-year run as host of the CBS game show The Price Is Right.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenager’s Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold
1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Friends - Razzy Bailey
1989
Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Where Did I Go Wrong - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut (1930 - )
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Today in History - June 7th
Today's Birthdays
1778 Beau Brummell, English fashion leader, died March 30, 1840
1848 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin, artist (The Yellow Christ) died May 8, 1903
1909 Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy, Cocoon) died Sep 11, 1994
1917 Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti), singer/actor/Rat Pack member, died Dec 25, 1995
1928 James Ivory, director (Jefferson in Paris, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End)
1940 Tom Jones, singer (It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, What’s New Pussycat?)
1943 Ken Osmond, actor (Leave it to Beaver)
1946 Jenny Jones, former TV talk show host
1947 Thurman Munson, MLB catcher (NY Yankees) killed in plane crash Aug 2, 1979
1952 Liam Neeson, actor (Schindler’s List, Star Wars Episode I)
1955 William Forsythe, actor (Blue Streak, Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo)
1955 Tim Richmond, NASCAR driver, died of AIDS Aug 13, 1989
1956 Bonnie Lee Bakley, wife of Robert Blake, murdered May 4, 2001
1957 Paddy McAloon, singer/songwriter (Prefab Sprout)
1958 Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson), singer/guitarist/composer (Purple Rain, 1999)
1961 Dave Catching, guitarist (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age)
1962 Michael Cartellone, drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1963 Gordon Gano, singer/guitarist (The Violent Femmes)
1964 Mark Steines, TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1964 Gia Carides, actress (Strictly Ballroom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1966 Eric Kretz, drummer (Stone Temple Pilots)
1967 David M. Navarro, guitarist (Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1972 Karl Urban, actor (Lord of the Rings series)
1973 PuckforBrains, board member
1974 Bear Grylls, adventurer/former soldier (Man vs Wild)
1979 Anna Torv, actress (Fringe)
1981 Anna Kournikova, tennis champ/model
1988 Michael Cera, actor (Arrested Development, Superbad, Juno)
Today's Deaths in History
1329 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, dies at 54
1937 Jean Harlow, actress (Platinum Blonde) dies at 26
1963 Zasu Pitts, actress (Fibber McGee and Molly) dies at 69
1968 Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees) dies at 61
1970 E. M. Forster, English author (Howard's End) dies at 91
1980 Henry Miller, writer (Tropic of Cancer) dies at 88
1988 Vernon Washington, actor (The Last Starfighter) dies at 60
1996 Marjorie Gross, screenwriter (Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show) dies at 40
1996 Max Factor, Jr., cosmetics mogul, dies at 91
2003 Trevor Goddard, actor (Mortal Kombat, JAG) dies at 40
2008 Jim McKay, sportscaster (Wide World of Sports) dies at 86
Today in History
1654 Louis XIV was crowned king of France in Rheims.
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans; the case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
1892 Benjamin Harrison became the first sitting President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1909 Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1929 The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1942 Japanese soldiers occupied the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decided on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1971 The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
1972 The musical Grease opened on Broadway.
1975 Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.
1991 Mount Pinatubo exploded, generating an ash column 4.5 miles high.
1996 The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."
1998 James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.
2000 A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2002 A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving three Americans came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the captives.
2003 In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.
2006 The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a U.S. airstrike.
2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency and endorsed fellow Democrat Barack Obama.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Third Man Theme - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley
1958
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
1966
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Pure Love - Ronnie Milsap
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Finally - T.G. Sheppard
1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
I’ve Cried My Last Tear for You - Ricky Van Shelton
Quote of the Day
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Today's Birthdays
1778 Beau Brummell, English fashion leader, died March 30, 1840
1848 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin, artist (The Yellow Christ) died May 8, 1903
1909 Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy, Cocoon) died Sep 11, 1994
1917 Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti), singer/actor/Rat Pack member, died Dec 25, 1995
1928 James Ivory, director (Jefferson in Paris, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End)
1940 Tom Jones, singer (It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, What’s New Pussycat?)
1943 Ken Osmond, actor (Leave it to Beaver)
1946 Jenny Jones, former TV talk show host
1947 Thurman Munson, MLB catcher (NY Yankees) killed in plane crash Aug 2, 1979
1952 Liam Neeson, actor (Schindler’s List, Star Wars Episode I)
1955 William Forsythe, actor (Blue Streak, Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo)
1955 Tim Richmond, NASCAR driver, died of AIDS Aug 13, 1989
1956 Bonnie Lee Bakley, wife of Robert Blake, murdered May 4, 2001
1957 Paddy McAloon, singer/songwriter (Prefab Sprout)
1958 Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson), singer/guitarist/composer (Purple Rain, 1999)
1961 Dave Catching, guitarist (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age)
1962 Michael Cartellone, drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1963 Gordon Gano, singer/guitarist (The Violent Femmes)
1964 Mark Steines, TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)
1964 Gia Carides, actress (Strictly Ballroom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1966 Eric Kretz, drummer (Stone Temple Pilots)
1967 David M. Navarro, guitarist (Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1972 Karl Urban, actor (Lord of the Rings series)
1973 PuckforBrains, board member
1974 Bear Grylls, adventurer/former soldier (Man vs Wild)
1979 Anna Torv, actress (Fringe)
1981 Anna Kournikova, tennis champ/model
1988 Michael Cera, actor (Arrested Development, Superbad, Juno)
Today's Deaths in History
1329 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, dies at 54
1937 Jean Harlow, actress (Platinum Blonde) dies at 26
1963 Zasu Pitts, actress (Fibber McGee and Molly) dies at 69
1968 Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees) dies at 61
1970 E. M. Forster, English author (Howard's End) dies at 91
1980 Henry Miller, writer (Tropic of Cancer) dies at 88
1988 Vernon Washington, actor (The Last Starfighter) dies at 60
1996 Marjorie Gross, screenwriter (Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show) dies at 40
1996 Max Factor, Jr., cosmetics mogul, dies at 91
2003 Trevor Goddard, actor (Mortal Kombat, JAG) dies at 40
2008 Jim McKay, sportscaster (Wide World of Sports) dies at 86
Today in History
1654 Louis XIV was crowned king of France in Rheims.
1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
1864 Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term as president at the Republican Party convention in Baltimore.
1892 Homer Plessy was arrested when he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on a train in New Orleans; the case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
1892 Benjamin Harrison became the first sitting President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1909 Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1929 The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1942 Japanese soldiers occupied the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decided on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1971 The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
1972 The musical Grease opened on Broadway.
1975 Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1981 Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.
1991 Mount Pinatubo exploded, generating an ash column 4.5 miles high.
1996 The Clinton White House acknowledged it had obtained the FBI files of prominent Republicans, calling it "an innocent bureaucratic mistake."
1998 James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African-American man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.
2000 A federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp.
2002 A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving three Americans came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the captives.
2003 In a national first, New Hampshire Episcopalians elected an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.
2006 The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by a U.S. airstrike.
2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency and endorsed fellow Democrat Barack Obama.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Third Man Theme - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley
1958
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
1966
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Pure Love - Ronnie Milsap
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Finally - T.G. Sheppard
1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
I’ve Cried My Last Tear for You - Ricky Van Shelton
Quote of the Day
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Today in History - June 8th
Today's Birthdays
1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer, died September 14, 1712
1847 Ida McKinley, First Lady, died May 26, 1907
1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (NYC’s Guggenheim Museum) died Apr 9, 1959
1917 Byron White, Supreme Court Justice, died April 15, 2002
1918 Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man, The Last Starfighter) died Mar 21, 1987
1921 LeRoy Neiman, painter
1925 Barbara Bush (Pierce), former First Lady
1927 Jerry Stiller, comedian/actor (Seinfeld, The King of Queens)
1933 Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra Molinsky), comedienne/TV personality
1936 James Darren (Ercolani), singer/actor (The Guns of Navarone)
1939 Bernie Casey, actor (Revenge of the Nerds, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
1940 Nancy Sinatra, singer (These Boots are Made for Walkin’, Something Stupid)
1941 Fuzzy Haskins, guitarist/singer (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1942 Chuck Negron, singer (Three Dog Night)
1944 Boz (William) Scaggs, singer (Lowdown, Lido Shuffle)
1947 Mick Box, guitarist/songwriter (Uriah Heep)
1950 Kathy Baker, actress (Picket Fences, Edward Scissorhands)
1950 Sonia Braga, actress (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands)
1951 Bonnie Tyler, singer (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1955 Griffin Dunne, actor (Johnny Dangerously)
1955 Greg Ginn, punk guitarist (Black Flag)
1957 Scott Adams, cartoonist (Dilbert)
1958 Keenan Ivory Wayans, producer/actor/writer (In Living Color)
1960 Mick ‘Red’ Hucknall, singer (Simply Red)
1962 Nick Rhodes (Bates), keyboardist (Duran Duran)
1965 Robert Pilatus, lip-syncer (Milli Vanilli) committed suicide Apr 2, 1998
1967 Julianna Margulies, actress (ER, The Newton Boys)
1967 Neil Mitchell, keyboardist (Wet Wet Wet)
1970 Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
1971 Mark Feuerstein, actor (West Wing, Woman on Top, Royal Pains)
1976 Lindsay Davenport, tennis champion
1977 Kanye West, R&B performer
1978 Maria Menounos, TV personality/actress (Entertainment Tonight)
1979 Derek Trucks, guitarist (Allman Brothers Band)
1981 Alex Band, singer (The Calling)
1983 Kim Clijsters, tennis champion
Today's Deaths in History
0632 Mohammed, prophet of Islam, dies at 62
1809 Thomas Paine, American revolutionary/writer (Common Sense) dies at 72
1845 Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, dies at 78
1874 Cochise, Apache leader, dies at 59
1876 George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin), French author, dies at 71
1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Quo Vadis) dies at 57
1982 Satchel Paige, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 75
1993 Root Boy Slim, singer/bandleader (The Sex Change Band) dies at 48
2000 Jeff MacNelly, political cartoonist (Shoe) dies at 51
2006 Robert Donner, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Mork & Mindy) dies at 75
Today in History
1789 James Madison introduced 12 proposed amendments to the Constitution in the House of Representatives; 10 of them were ratified by the state legislatures and became the Bill of Rights.
1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1915 Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.
1948 The Texaco Star Theater made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle as guest host.
1949 Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson were named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1953 The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1968 Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium.
1978 A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
1982 In the first speech by an American president to a joint session of the British Parliament, President Ronald Reagan predicted that Marxism-Leninism would wind up "on the ash heap of history."
1987 Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents.
1995 U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1995 The first release of the PHP programming language was released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
1998 The National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston its president.
2001 British Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected to a second term in a landslide.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) - Engelbert Humperdinck
Creeque Alley - The Mamas & the Papas
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart
1975
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
Sister Golden Hair - America
Bad Time - Grand Funk
Window Up Above - Mickey Gilley
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men At Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Lucille (You Won’t Do Your Daddy’s Will) - Waylon Jennings
1991
More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Meet in the Middle - Diamond Rio
Quote of the Day
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Today's Birthdays
1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer, died September 14, 1712
1847 Ida McKinley, First Lady, died May 26, 1907
1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (NYC’s Guggenheim Museum) died Apr 9, 1959
1917 Byron White, Supreme Court Justice, died April 15, 2002
1918 Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man, The Last Starfighter) died Mar 21, 1987
1921 LeRoy Neiman, painter
1925 Barbara Bush (Pierce), former First Lady
1927 Jerry Stiller, comedian/actor (Seinfeld, The King of Queens)
1933 Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra Molinsky), comedienne/TV personality
1936 James Darren (Ercolani), singer/actor (The Guns of Navarone)
1939 Bernie Casey, actor (Revenge of the Nerds, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
1940 Nancy Sinatra, singer (These Boots are Made for Walkin’, Something Stupid)
1941 Fuzzy Haskins, guitarist/singer (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1942 Chuck Negron, singer (Three Dog Night)
1944 Boz (William) Scaggs, singer (Lowdown, Lido Shuffle)
1947 Mick Box, guitarist/songwriter (Uriah Heep)
1950 Kathy Baker, actress (Picket Fences, Edward Scissorhands)
1950 Sonia Braga, actress (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands)
1951 Bonnie Tyler, singer (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1955 Griffin Dunne, actor (Johnny Dangerously)
1955 Greg Ginn, punk guitarist (Black Flag)
1957 Scott Adams, cartoonist (Dilbert)
1958 Keenan Ivory Wayans, producer/actor/writer (In Living Color)
1960 Mick ‘Red’ Hucknall, singer (Simply Red)
1962 Nick Rhodes (Bates), keyboardist (Duran Duran)
1965 Robert Pilatus, lip-syncer (Milli Vanilli) committed suicide Apr 2, 1998
1967 Julianna Margulies, actress (ER, The Newton Boys)
1967 Neil Mitchell, keyboardist (Wet Wet Wet)
1970 Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
1971 Mark Feuerstein, actor (West Wing, Woman on Top, Royal Pains)
1976 Lindsay Davenport, tennis champion
1977 Kanye West, R&B performer
1978 Maria Menounos, TV personality/actress (Entertainment Tonight)
1979 Derek Trucks, guitarist (Allman Brothers Band)
1981 Alex Band, singer (The Calling)
1983 Kim Clijsters, tennis champion
Today's Deaths in History
0632 Mohammed, prophet of Islam, dies at 62
1809 Thomas Paine, American revolutionary/writer (Common Sense) dies at 72
1845 Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, dies at 78
1874 Cochise, Apache leader, dies at 59
1876 George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin), French author, dies at 71
1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Quo Vadis) dies at 57
1982 Satchel Paige, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 75
1993 Root Boy Slim, singer/bandleader (The Sex Change Band) dies at 48
2000 Jeff MacNelly, political cartoonist (Shoe) dies at 51
2006 Robert Donner, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Mork & Mindy) dies at 75
Today in History
1789 James Madison introduced 12 proposed amendments to the Constitution in the House of Representatives; 10 of them were ratified by the state legislatures and became the Bill of Rights.
1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1915 Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.
1948 The Texaco Star Theater made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle as guest host.
1949 Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson were named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1953 The Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.
1968 Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's uniform No. 7 during Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium.
1978 A jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
1982 In the first speech by an American president to a joint session of the British Parliament, President Ronald Reagan predicted that Marxism-Leninism would wind up "on the ash heap of history."
1987 Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents.
1995 U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F16-C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
1995 The first release of the PHP programming language was released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
1998 The National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston its president.
2001 British Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected to a second term in a landslide.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) - Engelbert Humperdinck
Creeque Alley - The Mamas & the Papas
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart
1975
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
Sister Golden Hair - America
Bad Time - Grand Funk
Window Up Above - Mickey Gilley
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men At Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Lucille (You Won’t Do Your Daddy’s Will) - Waylon Jennings
1991
More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Meet in the Middle - Diamond Rio
Quote of the Day
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Today in History - June 9th
Today's Birthdays
1672 Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov), Russian Czar, died Feb 8, 1725
1781 George Stephenson, inventor (steam locomotive), died Aug 12, 1848
1890 Leslie Banks, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much) died Apr 21, 1952
1891 Cole Porter, composer/lyricist (It’s De-Lovely, Night and Day), died Oct 15, 1964
1915 Les Paul (Polfus), guitarist/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
1922 George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died June 21, 2003
1929 Johnny Ace, R&B singer (Hound Dog) died Dec 25, 1954
1930 Marvin Kalb, journalist (NBC News, Meet the Press)
1931 Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza), comedian/actor (Caddyshack 2)
1934 Jackie Wilson, R&B singer (Lonely Teardrops) died Jan 21, 1984
1939 Dick Vitale, sportscaster/basketball analyst (ABC, ESPN)
1941 Jon Lord, keyboardist (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
1950 Trevor Bolder, bassist (Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep)
1951 James Newton Howard, film composer (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs)
1956 Patricia Cornwell, author (crime novelist)
1961 Michael J. Fox, actor (Back to the Future series, Spin City)
1961 Aaron Sorkin, writer/producer (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1963 Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp III), actor (Pirates of the Caribbean series)
1964 Gloria Reuben, actress (ER)
1964 Wayman Tisdale, basketball player/jazz bassist, died May 15, 2009
1967 Dean Felber, bassist (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 Dean Dinning, bassist (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
1978 Michaela Conlin, actress (Bones)
1978 Matthew Bellamy, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Muse)
1981 Natalie Portman, actress (The Professional, Star Wars series)
Today's Deaths in History
0068 Nero, Roman Emperor, commits suicide at 31
1870 Charles Dickens, author (Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol) dies at 58
1958 Robert Donat, English actor (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) dies at 53
1979 Cyclone Taylor, Hockey Hall of Fame forward (Ottawa Senators) dies at 94
1981 Allen Ludden, TV personality (Password) dies at 62
2006 Roosevelt Brown, NFL tackle (NY Giants) dies at 73
Today in History
1732 James Oglethorpe was granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
1856 Five hundred Mormons left Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1915 William Jennings Bryan resigned as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1928 Charles Kingsford Smith completed the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle was killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 Donald Duck made his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1940 Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1954 Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm; said Welch: "Have you no sense of decency?"
1959 The USS George Washington, the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles, was launched.
1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.
1973 Secretariat became horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.
1978 Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home when a mixture of "free-base" cocaine exploded.
1986 The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
1993 Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada.
2004 The Federal Communications Commission agreed to a record $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities.
2008 Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds became the sixth player in baseball history to hit 600 home runs.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Paper Roses - Anita Bryant
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash
1984
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Someday When Things are Good - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President (1911 - 2004)
Today's Birthdays
1672 Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov), Russian Czar, died Feb 8, 1725
1781 George Stephenson, inventor (steam locomotive), died Aug 12, 1848
1890 Leslie Banks, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much) died Apr 21, 1952
1891 Cole Porter, composer/lyricist (It’s De-Lovely, Night and Day), died Oct 15, 1964
1915 Les Paul (Polfus), guitarist/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
1922 George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) died June 21, 2003
1929 Johnny Ace, R&B singer (Hound Dog) died Dec 25, 1954
1930 Marvin Kalb, journalist (NBC News, Meet the Press)
1931 Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza), comedian/actor (Caddyshack 2)
1934 Jackie Wilson, R&B singer (Lonely Teardrops) died Jan 21, 1984
1939 Dick Vitale, sportscaster/basketball analyst (ABC, ESPN)
1941 Jon Lord, keyboardist (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
1950 Trevor Bolder, bassist (Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep)
1951 James Newton Howard, film composer (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs)
1956 Patricia Cornwell, author (crime novelist)
1961 Michael J. Fox, actor (Back to the Future series, Spin City)
1961 Aaron Sorkin, writer/producer (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1963 Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp III), actor (Pirates of the Caribbean series)
1964 Gloria Reuben, actress (ER)
1964 Wayman Tisdale, basketball player/jazz bassist, died May 15, 2009
1967 Dean Felber, bassist (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1967 Dean Dinning, bassist (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
1978 Michaela Conlin, actress (Bones)
1978 Matthew Bellamy, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Muse)
1981 Natalie Portman, actress (The Professional, Star Wars series)
Today's Deaths in History
0068 Nero, Roman Emperor, commits suicide at 31
1870 Charles Dickens, author (Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol) dies at 58
1958 Robert Donat, English actor (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) dies at 53
1979 Cyclone Taylor, Hockey Hall of Fame forward (Ottawa Senators) dies at 94
1981 Allen Ludden, TV personality (Password) dies at 62
2006 Roosevelt Brown, NFL tackle (NY Giants) dies at 73
Today in History
1732 James Oglethorpe was granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
1856 Five hundred Mormons left Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1915 William Jennings Bryan resigned as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1928 Charles Kingsford Smith completed the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle was killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 Donald Duck made his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1940 Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1954 Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm; said Welch: "Have you no sense of decency?"
1959 The USS George Washington, the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles, was launched.
1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.
1973 Secretariat became horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes.
1978 Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home when a mixture of "free-base" cocaine exploded.
1986 The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
1993 Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada.
2004 The Federal Communications Commission agreed to a record $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities.
2008 Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds became the sixth player in baseball history to hit 600 home runs.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Paper Roses - Anita Bryant
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash
1984
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Someday When Things are Good - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President (1911 - 2004)
Today in History - June 10th
Today's Birthdays
1895 Hattie McDaniel, first African-American Oscar winner (Gone with the Wind) died Oct 2, 1952
1903 Clyde Beatty, circus performer/owner, died July 19, 1965
1904 Frederick Loewe, composer (Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) died Feb 14, 1988
1910 Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett), blues guitarist/singer, died Jan 10, 1976
1915 Saul Bellow, writer (The Adventures of Augie March) died Apr 5, 2005
1918 Barry Morse, actor (The Fugitive, Space: 1999) died February 2, 2008
1921 Prince Philip (Mountbatten), Duke of Edinburgh/married to Queen Elizabeth II
1922 Judy Garland, singer/actress (The Wizard of Oz) died June 22, 1969
1928 Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are)
1930 Grace Mirabella, fashion publishing executive (Vogue, Mirabella)
1933 F. (Francis) Lee Bailey, defense attorney (O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst)
1941 Shirley Owens Alston, singer (The Shirelles)
1941 Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Das Boot)
1949 Kevin Corcoran, actor (Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog)
1955 Andrew Stevens, actor (Dallas)
1959 Eliot Spitzer, former New York Governor
1961 Kim Deal, bassist (Pixies, The Breeders)
1961 Kelley Deal, guitarist (The Breeders)
1961 Maxi Priest, reggae singer (Close to You)
1962 Gina Gershon, actress (Showgirls, Bound)
1962 Vincent Perez, actor (The Crow: City of Angels)
1963 Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress (The Firm, Waterworld)
1964 Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer (Smashing Pumpkins)
1964 Kate Flannery, actress (The Office)
1965 Linda Evangelista, supermodel
1965 Elizabeth Hurley model/actress (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
1966 Doug McKeon, actor (On Golden Pond)
1967 Emma Anderson, guitarist/songwriter (Lush)
1967 Darren Robinson, human beatbox/rapper (Fat Boys) died Dec 10, 1995
1971 Leanza Cornett, Miss America 1993
1973 Faith Evans, singer
1978 DJ Qualls, actor (Road Trip, The New Guy)
1981 Hoku Ho, singer/daughter of Don Ho
1981 Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)
1982 Tara (Kristen) Lipinski, Olympic figure skating medalist
1982 Leelee Sobieski, actress (Deep Impact, Eyes Wide Shut)
Today's Deaths in History
0323 (BC) Alexander the Great, world conqueror, dies at 32
1946 Jack Johnson, boxing champion, dies at 68
1967 Spencer Tracy, actor (Captains Courageous, Boys Town) dies at 67
1971 Michael Rennie, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still) dies at 61
1973 William Inge, playwright (Come Back Little Sheba) dies at 60
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, author/director (Lili Marleen) dies at 37
1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (The Shirelles) dies at 42
1987 Elizabeth Hartman, actress (A Patch of Blue) dies at 43
1988 Louis L'Amour, author (westerns) dies at 80
1996 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Cool Hand Luke) dies at 81
1998 Steve Sanders, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys) commits suicide at 45
2000 Hafez Assad, Syrian President, dies at 69
2002 John Gotti, organized crime figure, dies in a prison hospital at 61
2003 Donald Regan, White House Chief of Staff/U.S. Treasury Secretary, dies at 84
2004 Ray Charles, singer/songwriter/pianist, dies at 73
Today in History
1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries."
1801 The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduated.
1898 U.S. Marines landed on the island of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
1940 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
1942 The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
1944 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds became the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1946 Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.
1964 The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.
1967 The Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1977 James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured three days later.
1977 Apple shipped its first Apple II personal computer.
1978 Affirmed won horse racing's Triple Crown by taking the Belmont Stakes.
1985 Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.
1999 Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
2003 ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal.
2003 The Spirit Rover was launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2007 The final episode of The Sopranos aired on HBO.
Chart Toppers
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Pretend - Nat King Cole
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Moody River - Pat Boone
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Grazing in the Grass - The Friends of Distinction
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette
1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Suddenly - Billy Ocean
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Natural High - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
Today's Birthdays
1895 Hattie McDaniel, first African-American Oscar winner (Gone with the Wind) died Oct 2, 1952
1903 Clyde Beatty, circus performer/owner, died July 19, 1965
1904 Frederick Loewe, composer (Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) died Feb 14, 1988
1910 Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett), blues guitarist/singer, died Jan 10, 1976
1915 Saul Bellow, writer (The Adventures of Augie March) died Apr 5, 2005
1918 Barry Morse, actor (The Fugitive, Space: 1999) died February 2, 2008
1921 Prince Philip (Mountbatten), Duke of Edinburgh/married to Queen Elizabeth II
1922 Judy Garland, singer/actress (The Wizard of Oz) died June 22, 1969
1928 Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are)
1930 Grace Mirabella, fashion publishing executive (Vogue, Mirabella)
1933 F. (Francis) Lee Bailey, defense attorney (O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst)
1941 Shirley Owens Alston, singer (The Shirelles)
1941 Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Das Boot)
1949 Kevin Corcoran, actor (Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog)
1955 Andrew Stevens, actor (Dallas)
1959 Eliot Spitzer, former New York Governor
1961 Kim Deal, bassist (Pixies, The Breeders)
1961 Kelley Deal, guitarist (The Breeders)
1961 Maxi Priest, reggae singer (Close to You)
1962 Gina Gershon, actress (Showgirls, Bound)
1962 Vincent Perez, actor (The Crow: City of Angels)
1963 Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress (The Firm, Waterworld)
1964 Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer (Smashing Pumpkins)
1964 Kate Flannery, actress (The Office)
1965 Linda Evangelista, supermodel
1965 Elizabeth Hurley model/actress (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
1966 Doug McKeon, actor (On Golden Pond)
1967 Emma Anderson, guitarist/songwriter (Lush)
1967 Darren Robinson, human beatbox/rapper (Fat Boys) died Dec 10, 1995
1971 Leanza Cornett, Miss America 1993
1973 Faith Evans, singer
1978 DJ Qualls, actor (Road Trip, The New Guy)
1981 Hoku Ho, singer/daughter of Don Ho
1981 Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)
1982 Tara (Kristen) Lipinski, Olympic figure skating medalist
1982 Leelee Sobieski, actress (Deep Impact, Eyes Wide Shut)
Today's Deaths in History
0323 (BC) Alexander the Great, world conqueror, dies at 32
1946 Jack Johnson, boxing champion, dies at 68
1967 Spencer Tracy, actor (Captains Courageous, Boys Town) dies at 67
1971 Michael Rennie, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still) dies at 61
1973 William Inge, playwright (Come Back Little Sheba) dies at 60
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, author/director (Lili Marleen) dies at 37
1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (The Shirelles) dies at 42
1987 Elizabeth Hartman, actress (A Patch of Blue) dies at 43
1988 Louis L'Amour, author (westerns) dies at 80
1996 Jo Van Fleet, actress (Cool Hand Luke) dies at 81
1998 Steve Sanders, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys) commits suicide at 45
2000 Hafez Assad, Syrian President, dies at 69
2002 John Gotti, organized crime figure, dies in a prison hospital at 61
2003 Donald Regan, White House Chief of Staff/U.S. Treasury Secretary, dies at 84
2004 Ray Charles, singer/songwriter/pianist, dies at 73
Today in History
1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries."
1801 The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduated.
1898 U.S. Marines landed on the island of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
1940 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
1942 The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
1944 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds became the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1946 Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.
1964 The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.
1967 The Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1977 James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured three days later.
1977 Apple shipped its first Apple II personal computer.
1978 Affirmed won horse racing's Triple Crown by taking the Belmont Stakes.
1985 Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.
1999 Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
2003 ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal.
2003 The Spirit Rover was launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2007 The final episode of The Sopranos aired on HBO.
Chart Toppers
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Pretend - Nat King Cole
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Moody River - Pat Boone
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Grazing in the Grass - The Friends of Distinction
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette
1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Suddenly - Billy Ocean
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Natural High - Merle Haggard
Quote of the Day
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
Today in History - June 11th
Today's Birthdays
1864 Richard Strauss, composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra) died Sep 8, 1949
1880 Jeannette Rankin, First U.S. Congresswoman, died May 18, 1973
1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer (co-inventor of Aqua-Lung) died June 25, 1997
1913 Vince Lombardi, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Green Bay Packers) died Sep 3, 1970
1925 William Styron, author (Sophie’s Choice) died November 1, 2006
1933 Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
1936 Chad Everett (Raymon Cramton), actor (Medical Center)
1939 Jackie Stewart (John Young Stewart), World Grand Prix champion/sportscaster
1940 Joey Dee (Joseph DiNicola), singer (Joey Dee and the Starliters)
1945 Adrienne Barbeau, actress (Swamp Thing, Maude, Cannonball Run)
1947 Richard Palmer-James, lyricist/guitarist (King Crimson, Supertramp)
1949 Frank Beard, drummer (ZZ Top)
1950 Graham Russell, guitarist/singer (Air Supply)
1952 Donnie Van Zandt, guitarist/singer (.38 Special)
1954 Greta Van Susteren, Fox news anchor
1956 Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs)
1956 Ray Nagin, New Orleans mayor
1959 Hugh Laurie, actor (House, Jeeves and Wooster)
1960 Giac, board member/Death's Grim Herald
1963 Gioia Bruno, singer (Exposé)
1965 Joey Santiago, guitarist (Pixies)
1969 Dan Lavery, bassist (Tonic)
1969 Peter Dinklage, actor (The Station Agent)
1969 Steven Drozd, drummer (The Flaming Lips)
1969 Matt McGrath, actor (The Notorious Bettie Page, Boys Don't Cry)
1978 Joshua Jackson, actor (Dawson’s Creek, Mighty Ducks series)
1986 Shia LaBeouf, actor (Holes, Disturbia)
Today's Deaths in History
1796 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/politician (Whitbread Ale) dies at 75
1936 Robert E. Howard, author (Conan the Barbarian) dies at 30
1941 Daniel Carter Beard, founder (Boy Scouts of America) dies at 90
1979 John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison), actor (The Cowboys, The Sands of Iwo Jima) dies at 72
1993 Ray Sharkey, actor (The Idolmaker) dies of AIDS at 40
1999 DeForest Kelley, actor (Star Trek) dies at 79
2001 Timothy McVeigh, mass murderer (Oklahoma City bombing) is executed at 33
2003 David Brinkley, broadcast news pioneer, dies at 82
Today in History
1184 (BC) Troy was sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
1509 England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon.
1776 The Continental Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1825 The first cornerstone was laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1919 Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
1942 The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
1955 Eighty-three were killed and at least 100 were injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collided at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1963 Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two black students to enroll at the school.
1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
1986 A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
1987 Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
1990 The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
1992 The Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra punishment.
1998 Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition to date.
2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2002 Musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle; they divorced in 2008.
2004 The nation bade farewell to former President Ronald Reagan at a state funeral in Washington, D.C.; hours later he was laid to rest in California.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say it’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely - Johnnie & Jack
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty
1978
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Georgia on My Mind - Willie Nelson
1986
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Today's Birthdays
1864 Richard Strauss, composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra) died Sep 8, 1949
1880 Jeannette Rankin, First U.S. Congresswoman, died May 18, 1973
1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer (co-inventor of Aqua-Lung) died June 25, 1997
1913 Vince Lombardi, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Green Bay Packers) died Sep 3, 1970
1925 William Styron, author (Sophie’s Choice) died November 1, 2006
1933 Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
1936 Chad Everett (Raymon Cramton), actor (Medical Center)
1939 Jackie Stewart (John Young Stewart), World Grand Prix champion/sportscaster
1940 Joey Dee (Joseph DiNicola), singer (Joey Dee and the Starliters)
1945 Adrienne Barbeau, actress (Swamp Thing, Maude, Cannonball Run)
1947 Richard Palmer-James, lyricist/guitarist (King Crimson, Supertramp)
1949 Frank Beard, drummer (ZZ Top)
1950 Graham Russell, guitarist/singer (Air Supply)
1952 Donnie Van Zandt, guitarist/singer (.38 Special)
1954 Greta Van Susteren, Fox news anchor
1956 Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs)
1956 Ray Nagin, New Orleans mayor
1959 Hugh Laurie, actor (House, Jeeves and Wooster)
1960 Giac, board member/Death's Grim Herald
1963 Gioia Bruno, singer (Exposé)
1965 Joey Santiago, guitarist (Pixies)
1969 Dan Lavery, bassist (Tonic)
1969 Peter Dinklage, actor (The Station Agent)
1969 Steven Drozd, drummer (The Flaming Lips)
1969 Matt McGrath, actor (The Notorious Bettie Page, Boys Don't Cry)
1978 Joshua Jackson, actor (Dawson’s Creek, Mighty Ducks series)
1986 Shia LaBeouf, actor (Holes, Disturbia)
Today's Deaths in History
1796 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/politician (Whitbread Ale) dies at 75
1936 Robert E. Howard, author (Conan the Barbarian) dies at 30
1941 Daniel Carter Beard, founder (Boy Scouts of America) dies at 90
1979 John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison), actor (The Cowboys, The Sands of Iwo Jima) dies at 72
1993 Ray Sharkey, actor (The Idolmaker) dies of AIDS at 40
1999 DeForest Kelley, actor (Star Trek) dies at 79
2001 Timothy McVeigh, mass murderer (Oklahoma City bombing) is executed at 33
2003 David Brinkley, broadcast news pioneer, dies at 82
Today in History
1184 (BC) Troy was sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
1509 England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon.
1776 The Continental Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1825 The first cornerstone was laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1919 Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner.
1942 The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
1955 Eighty-three were killed and at least 100 were injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collided at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1963 Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two black students to enroll at the school.
1963 Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
1986 A divided Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania abortion law while reaffirming its 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
1987 Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office.
1990 The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag.
1992 The Supreme Court ruled that people who commit hate crimes may be sentenced to extra punishment.
1998 Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition to date.
2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
2002 Musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle; they divorced in 2008.
2004 The nation bade farewell to former President Ronald Reagan at a state funeral in Washington, D.C.; hours later he was laid to rest in California.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say it’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely - Johnnie & Jack
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty
1978
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Georgia on My Mind - Willie Nelson
1986
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap
Quote of the Day
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Today in History - June 12th
Today's Birthdays
1827 Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (Heidi) died July 7, 1901
1903 Emmett Hardy, Jazz cornetist, died June 16, 1925
1916 Irwin Allen, producer/director (The Towering Inferno) died Nov 2, 1991
1919 Uta (Thyra) Hagen, actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) died Jan 14, 2004
1924 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st U.S. President
1928 Vic Damone (Vito Rocco Farinola), singer (An Affair to Remember)
1929 Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist/Holocaust victim, died March 1945
1930 Jim Nabors, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., The Andy Griffith Show)
1941 Marv Albert (Marv Philip Aufrichtig), sportscaster (NBC-TV)
1941 Chick (Armando) Corea, jazz composer/musician
1945 Reg Presley, singer (The Troggs)
1949 John Wetton, bassist/guitarist (Asia)
1951 Bun E. Carlos (Brad Carlson), drummer (Cheap Trick)
1951 Brad Delp, guitarist/singer (Boston) died March 9, 2007
1952 Pete Farndon, bassist (The Pretenders) died April 14, 1983
1957 Timothy Busfield, actor (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1958 Meredith Brooks, singer (Bitch)
1958 Rebecca Holden, actress (Knight Rider)
1959 John Linnell, singer/songwriter (They Might Be Giants)
1959 Scott Thompson, comedian (Kids in the Hall)
1964 Paula Marshall, actress (The Wonder Years, Snoops)
1967 Frances O'Connor, actress (Windtalkers)
1968 Bobby Sheehan, bassist (Blues Traveler) died Aug 20, 1999
1969 Mathieu Schneider, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1974 Jason Mewes, actor (Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
1974 Hideki Matsui, MLB outfielder (NY Yankees)
1977 Kenny Wayne Shepherd, blues/rock guitarist
1978 DJ Qualls, actor (Road Trip, The New Guy)
1979 Dallas Clark, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1981 Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel (Victoria's Secret)
1985 Kendra Wilkinson, Playmate/television personality
Today's Deaths in History
1957 Jimmy Dorsey, jazz clarinetist/band leader, dies at 53
1963 Medgar Evers, civil rights activist, is shot and killed at 37
1980 Milburn Stone, actor (Gunsmoke) dies at 75
1983 Norma Shearer, actress (The Divorceé) dies at 82
1994 Ronald Goldman, actor/model, is murdered at 25
1994 Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, is murdered at 35
1994 Christopher Collins, actor (GI Joe, Transformers) dies at 44
2002 Bill Blass, fashion designer, dies at 79
2003 Gregory Peck, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) dies at 87
2007 Don Herbert, TV personality (Mr. Wizard) dies at 89
Today in History
1665 England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1776 Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
1838 The Iowa Territory was organized.
1880 Lee Richmond of the Worcester Ruby Legs pitched the first perfect game in major league history in a 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Blues.
1898 Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.
1937 The Soviet Union under Josef Stalin executed eight army leaders during a purge.
1939 The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1939 Shooting began on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1942 Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1963 Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.
1967 The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon's daughter Tricia and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.
1978 David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that had terrified New Yorkers.
1981 Major league baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
1987 During a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home; her former husband, football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson, was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but held liable in a civil action.
1997 The Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
1999 Thousands of NATO peacekeeping troops poured into Kosovo by air and by land; in a surprising move, a Russian armored column entered Pristina before dawn to a hero's welcome from Serb residents.
2008 A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba had the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges.
2009 All television broadcasts in the United States switched from analog to digital transmission.
Chart Toppers
1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Sugar Moon - Bob Wills
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Want Ads - The Honey Cone
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
You’re My Man - Lynn Anderson
1979
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers
1987
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Will Be There - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato, Greek author & philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1827 Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (Heidi) died July 7, 1901
1903 Emmett Hardy, Jazz cornetist, died June 16, 1925
1916 Irwin Allen, producer/director (The Towering Inferno) died Nov 2, 1991
1919 Uta (Thyra) Hagen, actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) died Jan 14, 2004
1924 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st U.S. President
1928 Vic Damone (Vito Rocco Farinola), singer (An Affair to Remember)
1929 Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist/Holocaust victim, died March 1945
1930 Jim Nabors, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., The Andy Griffith Show)
1941 Marv Albert (Marv Philip Aufrichtig), sportscaster (NBC-TV)
1941 Chick (Armando) Corea, jazz composer/musician
1945 Reg Presley, singer (The Troggs)
1949 John Wetton, bassist/guitarist (Asia)
1951 Bun E. Carlos (Brad Carlson), drummer (Cheap Trick)
1951 Brad Delp, guitarist/singer (Boston) died March 9, 2007
1952 Pete Farndon, bassist (The Pretenders) died April 14, 1983
1957 Timothy Busfield, actor (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
1958 Meredith Brooks, singer (Bitch)
1958 Rebecca Holden, actress (Knight Rider)
1959 John Linnell, singer/songwriter (They Might Be Giants)
1959 Scott Thompson, comedian (Kids in the Hall)
1964 Paula Marshall, actress (The Wonder Years, Snoops)
1967 Frances O'Connor, actress (Windtalkers)
1968 Bobby Sheehan, bassist (Blues Traveler) died Aug 20, 1999
1969 Mathieu Schneider, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1974 Jason Mewes, actor (Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
1974 Hideki Matsui, MLB outfielder (NY Yankees)
1977 Kenny Wayne Shepherd, blues/rock guitarist
1978 DJ Qualls, actor (Road Trip, The New Guy)
1979 Dallas Clark, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1981 Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel (Victoria's Secret)
1985 Kendra Wilkinson, Playmate/television personality
Today's Deaths in History
1957 Jimmy Dorsey, jazz clarinetist/band leader, dies at 53
1963 Medgar Evers, civil rights activist, is shot and killed at 37
1980 Milburn Stone, actor (Gunsmoke) dies at 75
1983 Norma Shearer, actress (The Divorceé) dies at 82
1994 Ronald Goldman, actor/model, is murdered at 25
1994 Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, is murdered at 35
1994 Christopher Collins, actor (GI Joe, Transformers) dies at 44
2002 Bill Blass, fashion designer, dies at 79
2003 Gregory Peck, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) dies at 87
2007 Don Herbert, TV personality (Mr. Wizard) dies at 89
Today in History
1665 England installed a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1776 Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
1838 The Iowa Territory was organized.
1880 Lee Richmond of the Worcester Ruby Legs pitched the first perfect game in major league history in a 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Blues.
1898 Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.
1937 The Soviet Union under Josef Stalin executed eight army leaders during a purge.
1939 The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1939 Shooting began on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1942 Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1963 Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.
1967 The Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon's daughter Tricia and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.
1978 David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that had terrified New Yorkers.
1981 Major league baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
1987 During a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home; her former husband, football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson, was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but held liable in a civil action.
1997 The Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
1999 Thousands of NATO peacekeeping troops poured into Kosovo by air and by land; in a surprising move, a Russian armored column entered Pristina before dawn to a hero's welcome from Serb residents.
2008 A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba had the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges.
2009 All television broadcasts in the United States switched from analog to digital transmission.
Chart Toppers
1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Sugar Moon - Bob Wills
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
1963
It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins
1971
Want Ads - The Honey Cone
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
You’re My Man - Lynn Anderson
1979
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers
1987
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Will Be There - Dan Seals
Quote of the Day
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato, Greek author & philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
Today in History - June 13th
Today's Birthdays
1786 Winfield Scott, U.S. General (Grand Old Man of the Army; served 50 years) died May 29, 1866
1865 William Butler Yeats, poet/dramatist (Nobel Prize 1923) died Jan 28, 1939
1892 (Philip St. John) Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes) died July 21, 1967
1903 Red Grange, Pro and College Football Hall of Famer (‘The Galloping Ghost’) died Jan 28, 1991
1910 Mary Wickes, stage and screen actress (Oklahoma!; Sister Act) died Oct 22, 1995
1912 Samuel A. (Albert) Taylor, playwright (Sabrina, Vertigo) died May 26, 2000
1913 Ralph Edwards, actor/TV host (Truth or Consequences, This is Your Life) died Nov 16, 2005
1918 Ben Johnson, actor (Angels in the Outfield, The Last Picture Show) died Apr 8, 1996
1926 Paul Lynde, comedian/actor (Hollywood Squares, Bewitched) died Jan 10, 1982
1939 Siegfried Fischbacher, magician (Siegfried & Roy)
1940 Bobby Freeman, singer/songwriter (Do You Want to Dance)
1943 Malcolm McDowell, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Blue Thunder, Caligula)
1944 Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General
1949 Dennis Locorriere, guitarist/singer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show)
1951 Howard Leese, guitarist/keyboardist (Heart)
1951 Richard Thomas, actor (The Waltons)
1951 Stellan Skarsgard, actor (Wind, The Hunt for Red October)
1953 Tim Allen, comedian/actor (Home Improvement, The Santa Clause, Toy Story series, Galaxy Quest)
1962 Ally Sheedy, actress (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire)
1962 Hannah Storm, TV host (The Early Show)
1963 Paul deLisle, bassist (Smash Mouth)
1963 Robbie Merrill, bassist (Godsmack)
1968 David Gray, singer/pianist
1969 James Walters, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1969 Laura Kightlinger, comedian/actress
1970 Rivers Cuomo, singer/guitarist (Weezer)
1973 Leeann Tweeden, model/TV personality (The Best Damn Sports Show Period)
1973 Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1974 Steve-O, television personality (Jackass)
1974 Brande Roderick, model/actress (Playboy, Baywatch)
1977 Andy from the LES, board moderator
1978 Ethan Embry, actor (Empire Records, Can't Hardly Wait)
1980 Rochelle Davis, actress (The Crow)
1981 Chris Evans, actor (Fantastic Four series)
1986 Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, actresses (Full House)
1986 Kat Dennings, actress (The 40-Year Old Virgin)
Today's Deaths in History
1784 Henry Middleton, President of the Continental Congress, dies at 67
1972 Clyde McPhatter, R&B singer (A Lover's Question) dies at 39
1977 Matthew Garber, child actor (Mary Poppins) dies at 21
1979 Darla Hood, actress (Little Rascals) dies at 47
1982 King Khalid of Saudi Arabia dies at 70
1986 Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader, dies at 77
1987 Geraldine Page, actress (The Trip to Bountiful) dies at 62
1993 Deke Slayton, NASA astronaut (Mercury Seven astronaut) dies at 69
2005 Jonathan Adams, actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) dies at 74
2005 Walter Lane Smith, actor (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) dies at 69
2008 Tim Russert, TV moderator (Meet the Press) dies at 58
Today in History
1777 Marquis de Lafayette landed near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
1888 Congress created the Department of Labor.
1893 Grover Cleveland underwent secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after his death.
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted.
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1934 Adolf Hitler and Mussolini met in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later described the German dictator as "a silly little monkey."
1935 In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, 10-1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.
1942 The United States established the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1966 The Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.
1971 The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1981 A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during a parade in London.
1983 The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 An 81-day standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
1997 A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002 The United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2004 Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
2005 A jury in Santa Maria, Calif., acquitted singer Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - Elvis Presley
Crazy Arms - Ray Price
1964
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
Together Again - Buck Owens
1972
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap
1988
One More Try - George Michael
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Everything Your Heart Desires - Daryl Hall John Oates
I Told You So - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Today's Birthdays
1786 Winfield Scott, U.S. General (Grand Old Man of the Army; served 50 years) died May 29, 1866
1865 William Butler Yeats, poet/dramatist (Nobel Prize 1923) died Jan 28, 1939
1892 (Philip St. John) Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes) died July 21, 1967
1903 Red Grange, Pro and College Football Hall of Famer (‘The Galloping Ghost’) died Jan 28, 1991
1910 Mary Wickes, stage and screen actress (Oklahoma!; Sister Act) died Oct 22, 1995
1912 Samuel A. (Albert) Taylor, playwright (Sabrina, Vertigo) died May 26, 2000
1913 Ralph Edwards, actor/TV host (Truth or Consequences, This is Your Life) died Nov 16, 2005
1918 Ben Johnson, actor (Angels in the Outfield, The Last Picture Show) died Apr 8, 1996
1926 Paul Lynde, comedian/actor (Hollywood Squares, Bewitched) died Jan 10, 1982
1939 Siegfried Fischbacher, magician (Siegfried & Roy)
1940 Bobby Freeman, singer/songwriter (Do You Want to Dance)
1943 Malcolm McDowell, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Blue Thunder, Caligula)
1944 Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General
1949 Dennis Locorriere, guitarist/singer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show)
1951 Howard Leese, guitarist/keyboardist (Heart)
1951 Richard Thomas, actor (The Waltons)
1951 Stellan Skarsgard, actor (Wind, The Hunt for Red October)
1953 Tim Allen, comedian/actor (Home Improvement, The Santa Clause, Toy Story series, Galaxy Quest)
1962 Ally Sheedy, actress (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire)
1962 Hannah Storm, TV host (The Early Show)
1963 Paul deLisle, bassist (Smash Mouth)
1963 Robbie Merrill, bassist (Godsmack)
1968 David Gray, singer/pianist
1969 James Walters, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1969 Laura Kightlinger, comedian/actress
1970 Rivers Cuomo, singer/guitarist (Weezer)
1973 Leeann Tweeden, model/TV personality (The Best Damn Sports Show Period)
1973 Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1974 Steve-O, television personality (Jackass)
1974 Brande Roderick, model/actress (Playboy, Baywatch)
1977 Andy from the LES, board moderator
1978 Ethan Embry, actor (Empire Records, Can't Hardly Wait)
1980 Rochelle Davis, actress (The Crow)
1981 Chris Evans, actor (Fantastic Four series)
1986 Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, actresses (Full House)
1986 Kat Dennings, actress (The 40-Year Old Virgin)
Today's Deaths in History
1784 Henry Middleton, President of the Continental Congress, dies at 67
1972 Clyde McPhatter, R&B singer (A Lover's Question) dies at 39
1977 Matthew Garber, child actor (Mary Poppins) dies at 21
1979 Darla Hood, actress (Little Rascals) dies at 47
1982 King Khalid of Saudi Arabia dies at 70
1986 Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader, dies at 77
1987 Geraldine Page, actress (The Trip to Bountiful) dies at 62
1993 Deke Slayton, NASA astronaut (Mercury Seven astronaut) dies at 69
2005 Jonathan Adams, actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) dies at 74
2005 Walter Lane Smith, actor (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) dies at 69
2008 Tim Russert, TV moderator (Meet the Press) dies at 58
Today in History
1777 Marquis de Lafayette landed near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
1888 Congress created the Department of Labor.
1893 Grover Cleveland underwent secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after his death.
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted.
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1934 Adolf Hitler and Mussolini met in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later described the German dictator as "a silly little monkey."
1935 In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, 10-1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.
1942 The United States established the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1966 The Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.
1971 The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1981 A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during a parade in London.
1983 The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 An 81-day standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch.
1997 A jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002 The United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2004 Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
2005 A jury in Santa Maria, Calif., acquitted singer Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - Elvis Presley
Crazy Arms - Ray Price
1964
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
Together Again - Buck Owens
1972
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap
1988
One More Try - George Michael
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Everything Your Heart Desires - Daryl Hall John Oates
I Told You So - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Today in History - June 14th
Flag Day
Today's Birthdays
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) died July 1, 1896
1820 John Bartlett, compiler/editor (Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations) died in 1905
1864 Dr. Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer's disease) died Dec 19, 1915
1901 Hap (Clarence) Day, Hockey Hall-of-Famer (Toronto Maple Leafs) died Feb 17, 1990
1906 Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (first woman photojournalist attached to US Armed Forces in WWII) died Aug 27, 1971
1909 Burl Ives, singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) died Apr 14, 1995
1916 Dorothy McGuire, actress (Old Yeller) died September 13, 2001
1917 Lash LaRue, actor (Westerns) died May 21, 1996
1925 Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary (Kennedy) died October 16, 2004
1928 Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary, died Oct 9, 1967
1931 Marla Gibbs, actress (The Jeffersons)
1931 Junior Walker, saxophonist/singer (The All Stars) died November 23, 1995
1936 Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) died July 1, 2005
1945 Rod Argent, keyboardist (Argent, The Zombies)
1946 Donald Trump, real estate mogul
1947 Barry Melton, guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 Alan White, drummer (Yes)
1952 Jim Lea, bassist/songwriter (Slade)
1952 Eddie Mekka, actor (Laverne and Shirley)
1954 Will Patton, actor (No Way Out, Remember the Titans)
1956 King Diamond, singer (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)
1958 Eric Heiden, Olympic Gold Medal speed skater
1959 Marcus Miller, R&B/Jazz bassist
1961 Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd), singer (Culture Club)
1962 Kim Lankford, actress/widow of Warren Zevon
1963 Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche)
1966 Traylor Howard, actress (Boston Common, Monk)
1968 Yasmine Bleeth, actress (Nash Bridges, Baywatch)
1968 Faizon Love, actor (Blue Crush)
1969 Steffi (Stephanie) Graf, tennis champ
1973 Gay-Yee Westerhoff, classical/rock cellist (Bond)
1978 Diablo Cody, screenwriter (Juno)
1992 Daryl & Evan Sabara, actors (Spy Kids series)
Today's Deaths in History
1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies at 60
1908 Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley, founder of the Stanley Cup, dies at 67
1936 G. K. Chesterton, English author (prince of paradox) dies at 62
1967 Eddie Eagan, Summer/Winter Olympic medalist (boxing, bobsled) dies at 70
1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway composer/lyricist, dies at 67
1991 Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A Passage to India) dies at 83
1994 Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther) dies at 70
1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist/composer, dies at 47
1997 Richard Jaeckel, actor (Sands of Iwo Jima) dies at 70
2007 Kurt Waldheim, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, dies at 88
2007 Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, dies at 87
Today in History
1648 Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
1775 The United States Army was founded.
1777 The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
1789 Bounty mutiny survivors, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reached Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat.
1789 Whiskey distilled from maize was first produced by American clergyman Rev. Elijah Craig.
1841 The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.
1846 A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
1872 Trade unions were legalized in Canada.
1900 Hawaii became a United States territory.
1922 Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.
1928 The Republican National Convention nominated Herbert Hoover for president.
1937 Pennsylvania became the first (and only) state to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1938 Action Comics issue one was released, introducing Superman.
1940 The Nazis opened a concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.
1940 German troops entered Paris during World War II.
1943 The Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs.
1951 UNIVAC I was dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1962 Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, murdered Anna Slesers, his first victim.
1982 Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
1985 A 17-day hijack ordeal began when a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized TWA Flight 847 shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
2002 American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.
2007 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an emergency after the Hamas militant group effectively took control of the Gaza Strip.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenager’s Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold
1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me) - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
What are We Doin’ in Love - Dottie West with Kenny Rogers
1989
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
Better Man - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
Flag Day
Today's Birthdays
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) died July 1, 1896
1820 John Bartlett, compiler/editor (Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations) died in 1905
1864 Dr. Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer's disease) died Dec 19, 1915
1901 Hap (Clarence) Day, Hockey Hall-of-Famer (Toronto Maple Leafs) died Feb 17, 1990
1906 Margaret Bourke-White, photojournalist (first woman photojournalist attached to US Armed Forces in WWII) died Aug 27, 1971
1909 Burl Ives, singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) died Apr 14, 1995
1916 Dorothy McGuire, actress (Old Yeller) died September 13, 2001
1917 Lash LaRue, actor (Westerns) died May 21, 1996
1925 Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary (Kennedy) died October 16, 2004
1928 Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary, died Oct 9, 1967
1931 Marla Gibbs, actress (The Jeffersons)
1931 Junior Walker, saxophonist/singer (The All Stars) died November 23, 1995
1936 Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) died July 1, 2005
1945 Rod Argent, keyboardist (Argent, The Zombies)
1946 Donald Trump, real estate mogul
1947 Barry Melton, guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 Alan White, drummer (Yes)
1952 Jim Lea, bassist/songwriter (Slade)
1952 Eddie Mekka, actor (Laverne and Shirley)
1954 Will Patton, actor (No Way Out, Remember the Titans)
1956 King Diamond, singer (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)
1958 Eric Heiden, Olympic Gold Medal speed skater
1959 Marcus Miller, R&B/Jazz bassist
1961 Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd), singer (Culture Club)
1962 Kim Lankford, actress/widow of Warren Zevon
1963 Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche)
1966 Traylor Howard, actress (Boston Common, Monk)
1968 Yasmine Bleeth, actress (Nash Bridges, Baywatch)
1968 Faizon Love, actor (Blue Crush)
1969 Steffi (Stephanie) Graf, tennis champ
1973 Gay-Yee Westerhoff, classical/rock cellist (Bond)
1978 Diablo Cody, screenwriter (Juno)
1992 Daryl & Evan Sabara, actors (Spy Kids series)
Today's Deaths in History
1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies at 60
1908 Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley, founder of the Stanley Cup, dies at 67
1936 G. K. Chesterton, English author (prince of paradox) dies at 62
1967 Eddie Eagan, Summer/Winter Olympic medalist (boxing, bobsled) dies at 70
1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway composer/lyricist, dies at 67
1991 Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A Passage to India) dies at 83
1994 Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther) dies at 70
1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist/composer, dies at 47
1997 Richard Jaeckel, actor (Sands of Iwo Jima) dies at 70
2007 Kurt Waldheim, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, dies at 88
2007 Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, dies at 87
Today in History
1648 Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
1775 The United States Army was founded.
1777 The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
1789 Bounty mutiny survivors, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reached Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat.
1789 Whiskey distilled from maize was first produced by American clergyman Rev. Elijah Craig.
1841 The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.
1846 A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
1872 Trade unions were legalized in Canada.
1900 Hawaii became a United States territory.
1922 Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.
1928 The Republican National Convention nominated Herbert Hoover for president.
1937 Pennsylvania became the first (and only) state to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1938 Action Comics issue one was released, introducing Superman.
1940 The Nazis opened a concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.
1940 German troops entered Paris during World War II.
1943 The Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs.
1951 UNIVAC I was dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1962 Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, murdered Anna Slesers, his first victim.
1982 Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
1985 A 17-day hijack ordeal began when a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized TWA Flight 847 shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.
2002 American Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas adopted a policy to bar sexually abusive clergy from face-to-face contact with parishioners but keep them in the priesthood.
2007 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an emergency after the Hamas militant group effectively took control of the Gaza Strip.
Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenager’s Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold
1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me) - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
What are We Doin’ in Love - Dottie West with Kenny Rogers
1989
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
Better Man - Clint Black
Quote of the Day
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
Today in History - June 15th
Today's Birthdays
1767 Rachel Jackson (Donelson Robards), First Lady, died Dec 22, 1828
1843 Edvard Grieg, composer (Peer Gynt Suite) died Sep 4, 1907
1910 David Rose, composer (The Stripper) died Aug 23, 1990
1914 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist (New Yorker magazine) died May 12, 1999
1932 Mario Cuomo, governor (New York)
1937 Waylon Jennings, country singer (Luckenbach Texas) died Feb 13, 2002
1941 Harry (Edward) Nilsson III, singer (Me and My Arrow) died Jan 15, 1994
1942 Lee Dorman, bassist (Iron Butterfly)
1943 Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author (The Happy Hooker)
1943 Muff Winwood, songwriter/producer/bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
1946 Noddy (Neville) Holder, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Slade)
1948 Mike Holmgren, NFL head coach (Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks)
1949 Russ Hitchcock, singer (Air Supply)
1949 Jim Varney, actor (Ernest movies) died Feb 10, 2000
1949 Simon Callow, actor (Amadeus, Four Weddings and a Funeral)
1951 Steve Walsh, singer (Kansas)
1954 Jim Belushi, actor (K-9, The Principal)
1955 Julie Hagerty, actress (Airplane! series)
1956 Polly Draper, actress (thirtysomething)
1963 Helen (Elizabeth) Hunt, actress (As Good as it Gets, Mad About You, The Quarterback Princess)
1963 Scott Rockenfield, drummer (Queensryche)
1964 Courteney Cox, actress (Friends, Ace Ventura Pet Detective)
1965 Riki Rachtman, TV host (MTV's Headbanger's Ball)
1966 Rob Mitchell, drummer (Sixpence None the Richer)
1969 Ice Cube, rapper/actor (Fridays series, Barbershop series)
1970 Leah Remini, actress (The King of Queens)
1971 Jake Busey, actor (Starship Troopers, Twister, Contact)
1972 T-Bone Willy, trombonist (Save Ferris)
1973 Neil Patrick Harris, actor (Doogie Howser, M.D., How I Met Your Mother)
1975 Elizabeth Reaser, actress (Grey's Anatomy)
1976 Dryden Mitchell, singer (Alien Ant Farm)
1976 Gary Lightbody, singer/guitarist (Snow Patrol)
1980 Mary Carey, adult film actress/former California gubernatorial candidate
1981 Billy Martin, guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1985 Nadine Coyle, singer (Girls Aloud)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 James Polk, 11th President of the United States, dies at 53
1965 Steve Cochran, actor (White Heat) dies at 48
1968 Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies at 45
1984 Robert Meredith Willson, composer (The Music Man) dies at 82
1989 Victor French, actor (Get Smart!) dies at 54
1991 Happy Chandler, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, dies at 92
1995 John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor (automatic electronic digital computer) dies at 91
1996 Dick Murdoch, wrestler (Texas Outlaws) dies at 48
1996 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (First Lady of Song) dies at 78
2003 Hume Cronyn, actor (Cocoon, *batteries not included) dies at 91
2007 Sherri Martel, professional wrestler, dies at 49
2008 Stan Winston, special effects/makeup artist, dies at 62
Today in History
1215 King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England, granting his barons more liberty.
1667 The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1775 The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.
1836 Arkansas became the 25th state.
1844 Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.
1846 The United States and Britain signed a treaty settling a boundary dispute between Canada and the United States in the Pacific Northwest.
1864 Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial ground, which became Arlington National Cemetery.
1904 More than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River.
1911 The Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) was incorporated.
1916 President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1923 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.
1934 The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park was founded.
1955 The Eisenhower administration staged the first annual Operation Alert (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
1969 The variety show Hee Haw premiered on CBS.
1978 King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.
1992 Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously instructed a Trenton, N.J., elementary school student to spell potato as "potatoe" during a spelling bee.
1994 Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.
1995 During his murder trial, O.J. Simpson struggled to don a pair of gloves that prosecutors said were worn by the killer of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
2003 A jury in Houston convicted accounting firm Arthur Andersen of obstruction of justice.
2005 The autopsy on Terri Schiavo was released, backing the contention of her husband, Michael, that she was in a persistent vegetative state.
2006 A divided Supreme Court made it easier for police to barge into homes and seize evidence without knocking or waiting.
2006 Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said he would transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
The Third Man Theme - Alton Karas
Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams
1958
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Yakety Yak - The Coasters
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
1966
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin’ Spoonful
I am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore - Charlie Rich
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
For All the Wrong Reasons - The Bellamy Brothers
1990
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe
It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1767 Rachel Jackson (Donelson Robards), First Lady, died Dec 22, 1828
1843 Edvard Grieg, composer (Peer Gynt Suite) died Sep 4, 1907
1910 David Rose, composer (The Stripper) died Aug 23, 1990
1914 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist (New Yorker magazine) died May 12, 1999
1932 Mario Cuomo, governor (New York)
1937 Waylon Jennings, country singer (Luckenbach Texas) died Feb 13, 2002
1941 Harry (Edward) Nilsson III, singer (Me and My Arrow) died Jan 15, 1994
1942 Lee Dorman, bassist (Iron Butterfly)
1943 Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author (The Happy Hooker)
1943 Muff Winwood, songwriter/producer/bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
1946 Noddy (Neville) Holder, guitarist/singer/songwriter (Slade)
1948 Mike Holmgren, NFL head coach (Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks)
1949 Russ Hitchcock, singer (Air Supply)
1949 Jim Varney, actor (Ernest movies) died Feb 10, 2000
1949 Simon Callow, actor (Amadeus, Four Weddings and a Funeral)
1951 Steve Walsh, singer (Kansas)
1954 Jim Belushi, actor (K-9, The Principal)
1955 Julie Hagerty, actress (Airplane! series)
1956 Polly Draper, actress (thirtysomething)
1963 Helen (Elizabeth) Hunt, actress (As Good as it Gets, Mad About You, The Quarterback Princess)
1963 Scott Rockenfield, drummer (Queensryche)
1964 Courteney Cox, actress (Friends, Ace Ventura Pet Detective)
1965 Riki Rachtman, TV host (MTV's Headbanger's Ball)
1966 Rob Mitchell, drummer (Sixpence None the Richer)
1969 Ice Cube, rapper/actor (Fridays series, Barbershop series)
1970 Leah Remini, actress (The King of Queens)
1971 Jake Busey, actor (Starship Troopers, Twister, Contact)
1972 T-Bone Willy, trombonist (Save Ferris)
1973 Neil Patrick Harris, actor (Doogie Howser, M.D., How I Met Your Mother)
1975 Elizabeth Reaser, actress (Grey's Anatomy)
1976 Dryden Mitchell, singer (Alien Ant Farm)
1976 Gary Lightbody, singer/guitarist (Snow Patrol)
1980 Mary Carey, adult film actress/former California gubernatorial candidate
1981 Billy Martin, guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1985 Nadine Coyle, singer (Girls Aloud)
Today's Deaths in History
1849 James Polk, 11th President of the United States, dies at 53
1965 Steve Cochran, actor (White Heat) dies at 48
1968 Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies at 45
1984 Robert Meredith Willson, composer (The Music Man) dies at 82
1989 Victor French, actor (Get Smart!) dies at 54
1991 Happy Chandler, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, dies at 92
1995 John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor (automatic electronic digital computer) dies at 91
1996 Dick Murdoch, wrestler (Texas Outlaws) dies at 48
1996 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (First Lady of Song) dies at 78
2003 Hume Cronyn, actor (Cocoon, *batteries not included) dies at 91
2007 Sherri Martel, professional wrestler, dies at 49
2008 Stan Winston, special effects/makeup artist, dies at 62
Today in History
1215 King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England, granting his barons more liberty.
1667 The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1775 The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.
1836 Arkansas became the 25th state.
1844 Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.
1846 The United States and Britain signed a treaty settling a boundary dispute between Canada and the United States in the Pacific Northwest.
1864 Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial ground, which became Arlington National Cemetery.
1904 More than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River.
1911 The Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) was incorporated.
1916 President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1923 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.
1934 The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park was founded.
1955 The Eisenhower administration staged the first annual Operation Alert (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
1969 The variety show Hee Haw premiered on CBS.
1978 King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.
1992 Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously instructed a Trenton, N.J., elementary school student to spell potato as "potatoe" during a spelling bee.
1994 Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.
1995 During his murder trial, O.J. Simpson struggled to don a pair of gloves that prosecutors said were worn by the killer of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
2003 A jury in Houston convicted accounting firm Arthur Andersen of obstruction of justice.
2005 The autopsy on Terri Schiavo was released, backing the contention of her husband, Michael, that she was in a persistent vegetative state.
2006 A divided Supreme Court made it easier for police to barge into homes and seize evidence without knocking or waiting.
2006 Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said he would transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
The Third Man Theme - Alton Karas
Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams
1958
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Yakety Yak - The Coasters
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
1966
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin’ Spoonful
I am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves
1974
Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore - Charlie Rich
1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
For All the Wrong Reasons - The Bellamy Brothers
1990
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe
It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)
Today in History - June 16th
Today's Birthdays
1829 Geronimo, Apache leader, died Feb 17, 1909
1890 Stan Laurel, actor/comedian (Laurel & Hardy) died Feb 23, 1965
1907 Jack Albertson, actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) died Nov 25, 1981
1917 Katharine Graham, publisher (The Washington Post) died July 17, 2001
1934 Roger Neilson, NHL coach (NY Rangers) died June 21, 2003
1937 Erich Segal, writer (Love Story)
1938 Joyce Carol Oates, novelist (Smooth Talk)
1939 Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock, country singer (Sea Cruise)
1941 Lamont Dozier, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
1942 Eddie Levert, singer (O’Jays)
1943 Joan Van Ark, actress (Knots Landing)
1945 Ian Matthews (McDonald), guitarist/singer (Fairport Convention)
1946 Derek Sanderson, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1946 M. Jodi Rell, Connecticut Governor
1950 James Smith, R&B singer (The Stylistics)
1951 Roberto Duran, boxing champion
1952 Gino Vannelli, singer/songwriter (I Just Wanna Stop)
1953 Ian Mosley, drummer (Marillion)
1955 Laurie Metcalf, actress (Roseanne, Uncle Buck)
1961 Steve Larmer, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1962 Arnold Vosloo, actor (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns)
1966 Adrienne Shelly, actress/director/screenwriter (Waitress) murdered Nov 1, 2006
1970 Phil (Alfred) Mickelson, golf champion
1971 Tupac Shakur, rapper, shot and killed Sept 13, 1996
1972 John Cho, actor (American Pie, Harold & Kumar series)
1982 Missy Peregrym, actress (Heroes, Reaper)
1983 Olivia Hack, actress (Brady Bunch movies)
1987 Diana DeGarmo, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
Today's Deaths in History
1925 Emmett Hardy, jazz cornetist, dies at 22
1930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor (gyrocompass) dies at 69
1939 Chick Webb, jazz drummer/big band leader, dies at 34
1959 George Reeves, actor (Superman) dies at 45
1970 Brian Piccolo, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) dies at 26
1977 Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist, dies at 65
1982 James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist/songwriter (The Pretenders) dies at 25
1994 Kristen Pfaff, bassist (Hole) dies at 27 of a heroin overdose
1996 Mel Allen, baseball announcer (NY Yankees) dies at 83
1996 Curt Swan, comic book artist (Superman) dies at 76
2000 Empress dowager Nagako, widow of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, dies at 97
Today in History
1858 Abraham Lincoln argued that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" in a speech to the state Republican convention in Springfield, Ill., after he was nominated for the U.S. Senate.
1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States was signed.
1903 Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1932 President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1955 Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Peron, a ban that was lifted eight years later.
1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1963 The Soviet Union launched the first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, into orbit aboard Vostok 6.
1967 The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival, which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom, opened in northern California.
1976 Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1978 President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1987 A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.
1992 Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair; he was later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.
1996 Russian voters went to the polls in their first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and a Communist challenger.
2000 Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., creating the nation's largest local phone company, Verizon.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Syncopated Clock - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Him or Me - What’s It Gonna Be? - Paul Revere & the Raiders
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart
1975
Sister Golden Hair - America
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
My Love - Lionel Richie
Our Love is on the Faultline - Crystal Gayle
1991
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Love is a Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets) - Joe Diffie
Quote of the Day
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann, author & journalist (1889 - 1974)
Today's Birthdays
1829 Geronimo, Apache leader, died Feb 17, 1909
1890 Stan Laurel, actor/comedian (Laurel & Hardy) died Feb 23, 1965
1907 Jack Albertson, actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) died Nov 25, 1981
1917 Katharine Graham, publisher (The Washington Post) died July 17, 2001
1934 Roger Neilson, NHL coach (NY Rangers) died June 21, 2003
1937 Erich Segal, writer (Love Story)
1938 Joyce Carol Oates, novelist (Smooth Talk)
1939 Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock, country singer (Sea Cruise)
1941 Lamont Dozier, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
1942 Eddie Levert, singer (O’Jays)
1943 Joan Van Ark, actress (Knots Landing)
1945 Ian Matthews (McDonald), guitarist/singer (Fairport Convention)
1946 Derek Sanderson, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1946 M. Jodi Rell, Connecticut Governor
1950 James Smith, R&B singer (The Stylistics)
1951 Roberto Duran, boxing champion
1952 Gino Vannelli, singer/songwriter (I Just Wanna Stop)
1953 Ian Mosley, drummer (Marillion)
1955 Laurie Metcalf, actress (Roseanne, Uncle Buck)
1961 Steve Larmer, NHL forward (NY Rangers)
1962 Arnold Vosloo, actor (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns)
1966 Adrienne Shelly, actress/director/screenwriter (Waitress) murdered Nov 1, 2006
1970 Phil (Alfred) Mickelson, golf champion
1971 Tupac Shakur, rapper, shot and killed Sept 13, 1996
1972 John Cho, actor (American Pie, Harold & Kumar series)
1982 Missy Peregrym, actress (Heroes, Reaper)
1983 Olivia Hack, actress (Brady Bunch movies)
1987 Diana DeGarmo, singer/TV personality (American Idol)
Today's Deaths in History
1925 Emmett Hardy, jazz cornetist, dies at 22
1930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor (gyrocompass) dies at 69
1939 Chick Webb, jazz drummer/big band leader, dies at 34
1959 George Reeves, actor (Superman) dies at 45
1970 Brian Piccolo, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) dies at 26
1977 Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist, dies at 65
1982 James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist/songwriter (The Pretenders) dies at 25
1994 Kristen Pfaff, bassist (Hole) dies at 27 of a heroin overdose
1996 Mel Allen, baseball announcer (NY Yankees) dies at 83
1996 Curt Swan, comic book artist (Superman) dies at 76
2000 Empress dowager Nagako, widow of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, dies at 97
Today in History
1858 Abraham Lincoln argued that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" in a speech to the state Republican convention in Springfield, Ill., after he was nominated for the U.S. Senate.
1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States was signed.
1903 Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1932 President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1955 Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Peron, a ban that was lifted eight years later.
1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1963 The Soviet Union launched the first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, into orbit aboard Vostok 6.
1967 The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival, which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom, opened in northern California.
1976 Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1978 President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1987 A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.
1992 Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair; he was later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.
1996 Russian voters went to the polls in their first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and a Communist challenger.
2000 Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., creating the nation's largest local phone company, Verizon.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Syncopated Clock - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Him or Me - What’s It Gonna Be? - Paul Revere & the Raiders
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart
1975
Sister Golden Hair - America
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
My Love - Lionel Richie
Our Love is on the Faultline - Crystal Gayle
1991
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Love is a Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets) - Joe Diffie
Quote of the Day
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann, author & journalist (1889 - 1974)
Today in History - June 17th
Today's Birthdays
1704 John Kay, inventor (flying shuttle for weaving) died in 1780
1867 John Robert Gregg, inventor (shorthand system) died Feb 23, 1948
1882 Igor (Fedorovich) Stravinsky, composer (The Firebird Suite) died Apr 6, 1971
1898 M.C. Escher, Dutch artist, dies March 27, 1972
1900 Martin Bormann, Nazi (Hitler's private secretary) died May 2, 1945
1903 Ruth Wakefield, inventor (Toll House Cookie) died Jan 10, 1977
1904 Ralph Bellamy, actor (War & Remembrance) died Nov 29, 1991
1923 Elroy ‘Crazy Legs’ Hirsch, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back/receiver (Chicago Rockets, LA Rams) died Jan 28, 2004
1932 Peter Lupus, actor (Mission: Impossible)
1939 Dickie Doo (Gerry Granahan), singer (Dickie Doo and The Don’ts)
1943 Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives
1943 Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus), singer/songwriter (Mandy)
1949 Snakefinger (Philip Charles Lithman), guitarist/violiniust (The Residents) died July 1, 1987
1951 Joe Piscopo, comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, Johnny Dangerously)
1952 Mike Milbury, hockey player/coach/executive (NY Islanders)
1954 Mark Linn-Baker, actor (Perfect Strangers)
1957 Phil Chevron, Irish singer/songwriter/guitarist (The Pogues)
1957 Jon Gries, actor (The Big Empty, Napoleon Dynamite)
1958 Jello Biafra, punk singer/songwriter (Dead Kennedys)
1958 Bobby Farrelly, film director (There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber)
1961 Thomas Haden Church, actor (Wings, Sideways, Spiderman 3)
1962 Michael Monroe, singer (Hanoi Rocks)
1963 Greg Kinnear, actor (Sabrina, As Good as it Gets, Mystery Men, Nurse Betty)
1964 Erin Murphy, actress (Bewitched)
1965 Kami Cotler, actress (The Waltons)
1966 Jason Patric (Miller), actor (Rush, The Lost Boys)
1967 Eric Stefani, musician/animator (The Simpsons)
1970 Will Forte, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Paulina Rubio, Latina singer
1973 Krayzie Bone, rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1977 Roger Manganelli, bassist (Less Than Jake)
1980 Venus Williams, tennis champion
1986 GKRangers, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1961 Jeff Chandler, actor (Our Miss Brooks) dies at 42
1974 Pamela Britton, actress (My Favorite Martian) dies at 51
1981 Zerna Sharp, children's book writer/educator (Dick and Jane) dies at 91
1986 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) dies at 79
2002 Willie Davenport, Olympic hurdler, dies at 59
2004 Gerry McNeil, NHL goaltender (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 78
2005 Ronald Winans, gospel singer (The Winans) dies at 48
2005 Karl Mueller, bassist (Soul Asylum) dies at 41 of cancer
2006 Arthur Franz, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies at 86
2007 Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer, dies at 62
2008 Cyd Charisse, dancer/actress (Singin' in the Rain, Silk Stockings) dies at 86
Today in History
1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston during the Revolutionary War.
1789 The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly and undertook to frame a constitution.
1839 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issued the Edict of toleration which gave Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands.
1856 The Republican Party opened its first convention, in Philadelphia.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps was established.
1901 The College Board introduced its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1928 Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman.
1940 France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.
1944 The republic of Iceland was established.
1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris.
1963 The Supreme Court struck down rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or the reading of Biblical verses in public schools.
1972 President Richard Nixon's downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex.
1987 With the death of the last of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow became extinct.
1994 After leading police on a chase through Southern California, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman.
2005 Former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and a second executive, Mark H. Swartz, were convicted of looting their company of more than $600 million; each was later sentenced to 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison.
2008 Hundreds of same-sex couples got married across California on the first full day that gay marriage became legal by order of the state's highest court; however, California voters passed Proposition 8 in November, once again banning gay marriage.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
I’m Yours - Eddie Fisher
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
I’ll Get Over You - Crystal Gayle
1984
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Self Control - Laura Branigan
I Got Mexico - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)
Today's Birthdays
1704 John Kay, inventor (flying shuttle for weaving) died in 1780
1867 John Robert Gregg, inventor (shorthand system) died Feb 23, 1948
1882 Igor (Fedorovich) Stravinsky, composer (The Firebird Suite) died Apr 6, 1971
1898 M.C. Escher, Dutch artist, dies March 27, 1972
1900 Martin Bormann, Nazi (Hitler's private secretary) died May 2, 1945
1903 Ruth Wakefield, inventor (Toll House Cookie) died Jan 10, 1977
1904 Ralph Bellamy, actor (War & Remembrance) died Nov 29, 1991
1923 Elroy ‘Crazy Legs’ Hirsch, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back/receiver (Chicago Rockets, LA Rams) died Jan 28, 2004
1932 Peter Lupus, actor (Mission: Impossible)
1939 Dickie Doo (Gerry Granahan), singer (Dickie Doo and The Don’ts)
1943 Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives
1943 Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus), singer/songwriter (Mandy)
1949 Snakefinger (Philip Charles Lithman), guitarist/violiniust (The Residents) died July 1, 1987
1951 Joe Piscopo, comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, Johnny Dangerously)
1952 Mike Milbury, hockey player/coach/executive (NY Islanders)
1954 Mark Linn-Baker, actor (Perfect Strangers)
1957 Phil Chevron, Irish singer/songwriter/guitarist (The Pogues)
1957 Jon Gries, actor (The Big Empty, Napoleon Dynamite)
1958 Jello Biafra, punk singer/songwriter (Dead Kennedys)
1958 Bobby Farrelly, film director (There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber)
1961 Thomas Haden Church, actor (Wings, Sideways, Spiderman 3)
1962 Michael Monroe, singer (Hanoi Rocks)
1963 Greg Kinnear, actor (Sabrina, As Good as it Gets, Mystery Men, Nurse Betty)
1964 Erin Murphy, actress (Bewitched)
1965 Kami Cotler, actress (The Waltons)
1966 Jason Patric (Miller), actor (Rush, The Lost Boys)
1967 Eric Stefani, musician/animator (The Simpsons)
1970 Will Forte, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Paulina Rubio, Latina singer
1973 Krayzie Bone, rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1977 Roger Manganelli, bassist (Less Than Jake)
1980 Venus Williams, tennis champion
1986 GKRangers, board member
Today's Deaths in History
1961 Jeff Chandler, actor (Our Miss Brooks) dies at 42
1974 Pamela Britton, actress (My Favorite Martian) dies at 51
1981 Zerna Sharp, children's book writer/educator (Dick and Jane) dies at 91
1986 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) dies at 79
2002 Willie Davenport, Olympic hurdler, dies at 59
2004 Gerry McNeil, NHL goaltender (Montreal Canadiens) dies at 78
2005 Ronald Winans, gospel singer (The Winans) dies at 48
2005 Karl Mueller, bassist (Soul Asylum) dies at 41 of cancer
2006 Arthur Franz, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies at 86
2007 Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer, dies at 62
2008 Cyd Charisse, dancer/actress (Singin' in the Rain, Silk Stockings) dies at 86
Today in History
1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston during the Revolutionary War.
1789 The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly and undertook to frame a constitution.
1839 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issued the Edict of toleration which gave Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands.
1856 The Republican Party opened its first convention, in Philadelphia.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps was established.
1901 The College Board introduced its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1928 Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman.
1940 France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.
1944 The republic of Iceland was established.
1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris.
1963 The Supreme Court struck down rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or the reading of Biblical verses in public schools.
1972 President Richard Nixon's downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex.
1987 With the death of the last of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow became extinct.
1994 After leading police on a chase through Southern California, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman.
2005 Former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and a second executive, Mark H. Swartz, were convicted of looting their company of more than $600 million; each was later sentenced to 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison.
2008 Hundreds of same-sex couples got married across California on the first full day that gay marriage became legal by order of the state's highest court; however, California voters passed Proposition 8 in November, once again banning gay marriage.
Chart Toppers
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
I’m Yours - Eddie Fisher
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
I’ll Get Over You - Crystal Gayle
1984
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Self Control - Laura Branigan
I Got Mexico - Eddy Raven
Quote of the Day
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)
Today in History - June 18th
Today's Birthdays
1854 E.W. Scripps, journalist/publisher, died March 12, 1926
1886 George Mallory, explorer/mountain climber (Mt. Everest) disappeared climbing Everest in 1924, body found at 27,000' May 1, 1999
1904 Keye Luke, actor (Kung Fu) died Jan 12, 1991
1913 Sammy Cahn, composer/lyricist (Love and Marriage) died Jan 15, 1993
1914 E.G. Marshall, actor (Chicago Hope, Twelve Angry Men) died Aug 24, 1998
1915 Red Adair, oil well firefighter, died Aug 7, 2004
1917 Richard (Allen) Boone, actor (Have Gun Will Travel) died Jan 10, 1981
1939 Lou (Louis Clark) Brock, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1942 Roger Ebert, film critic
1942 (James) Paul McCartney, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Beatles, Wings)
1942 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & the Dominos) died May 30, 1980
1952 Carol Kane, actress (Taxi, The Princess Bride, Scrooged)
1952 Isabella Rossellini, model/actress (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Big Night)
1953 Jerome Smith, guitarist (KC & The Sunshine Band)
1956 Brian Benben, actor (Radioland Murders, Private Practice)
1960 Barbara Broccoli, film producer
1961 Alison ‘Alf’ Moyet, singer (Yaz)
1963 Dizzy Reed, keyboardist (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver)
1964 Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader/son of Saddam, killed by American forces July 22, 2003
1965 Kim Dickens, actress/model (Things Behind the Sun, Lost)
1971 Nathan Morris, R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1971 Mara Hobel, actress (Mommie Dearest)
1973 Eddie Cibrian, actor (Sunset Beach, Beverly Hills: 90210, Third Watch)
1976 Alana de la Garza, actress (Law and Order)
Today's Deaths in History
1928 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (South Pole) dies at 53
1936 Maxim Gorky, Russian author, dies at 68
1959 Ethel Barrymore, stage actress (A Doll's House) dies at 79
1984 Alan Berg, radio talk show host (inspiration for Talk Radio) is shot and killed at 50
1986 Frances Scott Fitzgerald, daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, dies at 64
2000 Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) dies the day before her 72nd birthday
2002 Jack Buck, baseball announcer/father of Joe Buck (St Louis Cardinals) dies at 77
2006 Vincent Sherman, film director (The Young Philadelphians) dies at 99
Today in History
1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeated the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay.
1812 The United States declared war against Britain.
1815 British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.
1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1923 Checker Taxi put its first taxi on the streets.
1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.
1940 With the World War II Battle of Britain looming, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves so that future generations would say, "this was their finest hour."
1945 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a tumultuous welcome in Washington, D.C., where he addressed a joint session of Congress.
1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted the International Declaration of Human Rights.
1948 Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33-1/3 rpm phonograph record.
1953 A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan, killing 129.
1959 Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long was committed to a state mental hospital; he responded by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeded to proclaim him perfectly sane.
1979 President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1981 The AIDS epidemic was formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1983 Astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1996 Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, Calif., of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
2002 A Palestinian detonated a nail-studded bomb in a Jerusalem bus, killing 19 passengers and himself.
2004 An al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia beheaded American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr., posting grisly photographs of his severed head on the Internet; hours later, Saudi security forces tracked down and killed the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping and murder.
2004 European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc's 25 members.
2006 Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Communion.
Chart Toppers
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Moody River - Pat Boone
Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
Running Bear - Sonny James
1977
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Country Boy - Ricky Skaggs
Quote of the Day
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter, educator & writer (1919 - 1988)
Today's Birthdays
1854 E.W. Scripps, journalist/publisher, died March 12, 1926
1886 George Mallory, explorer/mountain climber (Mt. Everest) disappeared climbing Everest in 1924, body found at 27,000' May 1, 1999
1904 Keye Luke, actor (Kung Fu) died Jan 12, 1991
1913 Sammy Cahn, composer/lyricist (Love and Marriage) died Jan 15, 1993
1914 E.G. Marshall, actor (Chicago Hope, Twelve Angry Men) died Aug 24, 1998
1915 Red Adair, oil well firefighter, died Aug 7, 2004
1917 Richard (Allen) Boone, actor (Have Gun Will Travel) died Jan 10, 1981
1939 Lou (Louis Clark) Brock, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1942 Roger Ebert, film critic
1942 (James) Paul McCartney, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Beatles, Wings)
1942 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & the Dominos) died May 30, 1980
1952 Carol Kane, actress (Taxi, The Princess Bride, Scrooged)
1952 Isabella Rossellini, model/actress (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Big Night)
1953 Jerome Smith, guitarist (KC & The Sunshine Band)
1956 Brian Benben, actor (Radioland Murders, Private Practice)
1960 Barbara Broccoli, film producer
1961 Alison ‘Alf’ Moyet, singer (Yaz)
1963 Dizzy Reed, keyboardist (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver)
1964 Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader/son of Saddam, killed by American forces July 22, 2003
1965 Kim Dickens, actress/model (Things Behind the Sun, Lost)
1971 Nathan Morris, R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1971 Mara Hobel, actress (Mommie Dearest)
1973 Eddie Cibrian, actor (Sunset Beach, Beverly Hills: 90210, Third Watch)
1976 Alana de la Garza, actress (Law and Order)
Today's Deaths in History
1928 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (South Pole) dies at 53
1936 Maxim Gorky, Russian author, dies at 68
1959 Ethel Barrymore, stage actress (A Doll's House) dies at 79
1984 Alan Berg, radio talk show host (inspiration for Talk Radio) is shot and killed at 50
1986 Frances Scott Fitzgerald, daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, dies at 64
2000 Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) dies the day before her 72nd birthday
2002 Jack Buck, baseball announcer/father of Joe Buck (St Louis Cardinals) dies at 77
2006 Vincent Sherman, film director (The Young Philadelphians) dies at 99
Today in History
1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeated the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay.
1812 The United States declared war against Britain.
1815 British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.
1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1923 Checker Taxi put its first taxi on the streets.
1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.
1940 With the World War II Battle of Britain looming, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves so that future generations would say, "this was their finest hour."
1945 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a tumultuous welcome in Washington, D.C., where he addressed a joint session of Congress.
1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted the International Declaration of Human Rights.
1948 Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33-1/3 rpm phonograph record.
1953 A United States Air Force C-124 crashed and burned near Tokyo, Japan, killing 129.
1959 Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long was committed to a state mental hospital; he responded by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeded to proclaim him perfectly sane.
1979 President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1981 The AIDS epidemic was formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1983 Astronaut Sally K. Ride became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1996 Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, Calif., of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
2002 A Palestinian detonated a nail-studded bomb in a Jerusalem bus, killing 19 passengers and himself.
2004 An al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia beheaded American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr., posting grisly photographs of his severed head on the Internet; hours later, Saudi security forces tracked down and killed the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping and murder.
2004 European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc's 25 members.
2006 Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Communion.
Chart Toppers
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Moody River - Pat Boone
Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
Running Bear - Sonny James
1977
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Country Boy - Ricky Skaggs
Quote of the Day
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter, educator & writer (1919 - 1988)
Today in History – June 19
Today's Birthdays
1856 Elbert Hubbard, author (A Message to Garcia) died aboard the Lusitania May 7, 1915
1896 Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, died Apr 24, 1986
1897 Moe Howard (Moses Horowitz), comic actor (Three Stooges) died May 4, 1975
1902 Guy (Gaetano) Lombardo, bandleader (The Royal Canadians) died Nov 5, 1977
1903 Lou (Henry Louis) Gehrig, Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (NY Yankees) died June 02, 1941
1905 Mildred Natwick, actress (The Enchanted Cottage, Dangerous Liaisons) died October 25, 1994
1910 Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, died Apr 5, 1982
1914 Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (Flatt & Scruggs) died May 11, 1979
1919 Louis Jourdan (Gendre), actor (Gigi, Three Coins in the Fountain)
1928 Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) died June 18, 2000
1930 Gena Rowlands, actress (Peyton Place, Night on Earth, The Mighty)
1936 Tommy DeVito, singer (The Four Seasons)
1938 Chief Wahoo McDaniel, football player/professional wrestler, died Apr 18, 2002
1939 Al Wilson, R&B singer (Show and Tell) died April 21, 2008
1940 Shirley Muldowney, drag race driver
1942 Spanky (Elaine) McFarlane, singer (Spanky and Our Gang)
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner
1947 Salman Rushdie, author (The Satanic Verses)
1948 Phylicia (Allen) Rashad, actress (The Cosby Show)
1948 Nick Drake, singer/guitarist, died Nov 25, 1974
1951 Ann Wilson, singer (Heart)
1953 Larry Dunn, keyboardist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 (Mary) Kathleen Turner, actress (Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile)
1962 Paula Abdul, singer (Forever Your Girl, Straight Up, Opposites Attract)
1964 Brian Vander Ark, singer/songwriter (Verve Pipe)
1967 Mia Sara, actress (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Legend)
1970 Brian Welch, guitarist (KoЯn)
1972 Robin Tunney, actress (The Craft, Empire Records)
1975 Poppy Montgomery, actress (Without a Trace)
1977 Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
1978 Zoe Saldana, actress (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
1980 Lauren Lee Smith, actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
1984 Paul Dano, actor (Little Miss Sunshine)
Today's Deaths in History
1937 J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (Peter Pan) dies at 77
1953 Julius Rosenberg, spy, is executed at 35
1953 Ethel Rosenberg, spy, is executed at 37
1956 Thomas J. Watson, businessman/founder (IBM) dies at 80
1966 Ed Wynn, actor (Requiem for a Heavyweight) dies at 79
1986 Len Bias, basketball player, dies at 22 of cardiac arrhythmia caused by a cocaine overdose
1991 Jean Arthur, actress (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) dies at 90
1993 William Golding, English writer (Lord of the Flies) dies at 81
1997 Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock) dies at 63
2007 Terry Hoeppner, college football coach (Indiana) dies at 59
2008 Bennie Swain, NBA center (Boston Celtics) dies at 77
Today in History
1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1846 The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
1862 Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories.
1865 More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, were finally informed of their freedom.
1870 The Confederate States of America ceased to exist after all of the Southern States were formally readmitted to the United States.
1910 Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash.
1917 During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with its German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; the family took the name Windsor.
1934 The Federal Communications Commission was created.
1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y., after being convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
1961 The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
1970 The Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed.
1977 Pope Paul VI proclaimed a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first male U.S. saint.
1978 The Garfield comic strip debuted; it has grown to more than $1 billion in revenue, and is distributed to more than 110 countries.
1986 University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the second pick in the NBA draft, suffered a fatal cocaine-induced seizure.
1987 The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well.
1999 Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.
2000 The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
2007 A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 87 people.
2008 Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
Hernando’s Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin’ - Johnny Tillotson
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue - The Beatles
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Get Ready - Rare Earth
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty
1978
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
Two More Bottles of Wine - Emmylou Harris
1986
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
Life’s Highway - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.
Adrienne E. Gusoff, teacher, humorist and greeting card writer
Today's Birthdays
1856 Elbert Hubbard, author (A Message to Garcia) died aboard the Lusitania May 7, 1915
1896 Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, died Apr 24, 1986
1897 Moe Howard (Moses Horowitz), comic actor (Three Stooges) died May 4, 1975
1902 Guy (Gaetano) Lombardo, bandleader (The Royal Canadians) died Nov 5, 1977
1903 Lou (Henry Louis) Gehrig, Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (NY Yankees) died June 02, 1941
1905 Mildred Natwick, actress (The Enchanted Cottage, Dangerous Liaisons) died October 25, 1994
1910 Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, died Apr 5, 1982
1914 Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (Flatt & Scruggs) died May 11, 1979
1919 Louis Jourdan (Gendre), actor (Gigi, Three Coins in the Fountain)
1928 Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) died June 18, 2000
1930 Gena Rowlands, actress (Peyton Place, Night on Earth, The Mighty)
1936 Tommy DeVito, singer (The Four Seasons)
1938 Chief Wahoo McDaniel, football player/professional wrestler, died Apr 18, 2002
1939 Al Wilson, R&B singer (Show and Tell) died April 21, 2008
1940 Shirley Muldowney, drag race driver
1942 Spanky (Elaine) McFarlane, singer (Spanky and Our Gang)
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner
1947 Salman Rushdie, author (The Satanic Verses)
1948 Phylicia (Allen) Rashad, actress (The Cosby Show)
1948 Nick Drake, singer/guitarist, died Nov 25, 1974
1951 Ann Wilson, singer (Heart)
1953 Larry Dunn, keyboardist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 (Mary) Kathleen Turner, actress (Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile)
1962 Paula Abdul, singer (Forever Your Girl, Straight Up, Opposites Attract)
1964 Brian Vander Ark, singer/songwriter (Verve Pipe)
1967 Mia Sara, actress (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Legend)
1970 Brian Welch, guitarist (KoЯn)
1972 Robin Tunney, actress (The Craft, Empire Records)
1975 Poppy Montgomery, actress (Without a Trace)
1977 Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
1978 Zoe Saldana, actress (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
1980 Lauren Lee Smith, actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
1984 Paul Dano, actor (Little Miss Sunshine)
Today's Deaths in History
1937 J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (Peter Pan) dies at 77
1953 Julius Rosenberg, spy, is executed at 35
1953 Ethel Rosenberg, spy, is executed at 37
1956 Thomas J. Watson, businessman/founder (IBM) dies at 80
1966 Ed Wynn, actor (Requiem for a Heavyweight) dies at 79
1986 Len Bias, basketball player, dies at 22 of cardiac arrhythmia caused by a cocaine overdose
1991 Jean Arthur, actress (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) dies at 90
1993 William Golding, English writer (Lord of the Flies) dies at 81
1997 Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock) dies at 63
2007 Terry Hoeppner, college football coach (Indiana) dies at 59
2008 Bennie Swain, NBA center (Boston Celtics) dies at 77
Today in History
1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1846 The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
1862 Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories.
1865 More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, were finally informed of their freedom.
1870 The Confederate States of America ceased to exist after all of the Southern States were formally readmitted to the United States.
1910 Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash.
1917 During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with its German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; the family took the name Windsor.
1934 The Federal Communications Commission was created.
1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y., after being convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
1961 The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
1970 The Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed.
1977 Pope Paul VI proclaimed a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first male U.S. saint.
1978 The Garfield comic strip debuted; it has grown to more than $1 billion in revenue, and is distributed to more than 110 countries.
1986 University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the second pick in the NBA draft, suffered a fatal cocaine-induced seizure.
1987 The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well.
1999 Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.
2000 The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
2007 A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 87 people.
2008 Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
Hernando’s Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin’ - Johnny Tillotson
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue - The Beatles
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Get Ready - Rare Earth
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty
1978
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
Two More Bottles of Wine - Emmylou Harris
1986
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
Life’s Highway - Steve Wariner
Quote of the Day
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.
Adrienne E. Gusoff, teacher, humorist and greeting card writer
Today in History - June 20th
Today's Birthdays
1909 Errol Flynn, actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood) died Oct 14, 1959
1924 Chet Atkins, guitarist (Country Music Hall of Fame) died June 30, 2001
1924 Audie Murphy, hero/actor (most decorated GI of WWII; The Red Badge of Courage, To Hell and Back) killed in plane crash May 28, 1971
1931 Olympia Dukakis, actress (Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias)
1931 Martin Landau, actor (Ed Wood, Mission Impossible)
1931 James Tolkan, actor (Dick Tracy, Back to the Future, Serpico)
1933 Danny Aiello (Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr.), actor (Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing)
1935 Len Dawson, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs)
1936 Billy Guy, singer (The Coasters) died Nov 5, 2002
1940 John Mahoney, actor (Frasier, Primal Fear)
1942 Brian Wilson, bassist/singer/songwriter (The Beach Boys)
1945 Anne Murray, singer (Love Song, Could I Have This Dance, Snowbird)
1946 Bob Vila, TV host/fixer-upper (This Old House)
1947 Candy Clark, actress (American Graffiti, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1947 Dolores Brooks, singer (The Crystals)
1949 Lionel Richie, songwriter/singer (Commodores)
1949 Alan Longmuir, bassist (Bay City Rollers)
1952 John Goodman, actor (Roseanne, The Flintstones, The Babe)
1954 Michael Anthony, bassist (Van Halen)
1960 John Taylor, guitarist/bassist (Duran Duran)
1964 Renee Albert, actress (Big Love)
1967 Nicole Kidman, actress (Days of Thunder, Bewitched, Eyes Wide Shut)
1968 Robert Rodriguez, director (Spy Kids)
1969 Peter Paige, actor (Queer as Folk)
1971 Josh Lucas, actor (A Beautiful Mind, Glory Road)
1973 Chino Moreno, singer/guitarist (Deftones)
1984 Troy Smith, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback (Ohio State)
1985 Mark Saul, actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1989 Chris Mintz-Plasse, actor (Superbad)
1997 Maria Lark, actress (Medium)
Today's Deaths in History
1947 Bugsy Siegel, gangster, is shot and killed at 41
1972 Howard Deering Johnson, entrepreneur (motels/restaurants) dies at 75
1978 Mark Robson, film director/producer (Valley of the Dolls) dies at 64
1996 Jim Ellison, singer/guitarist (Material Issue) dies at 32
1997 Lawrence Payton, singer (The Four Tops) dies at 59
2006 Billy Johnson, MLB 3rd baseman (NY Yankees) dies at 87
Today in History
1214 The University of Oxford received its charter.
1782 The U.S. Congress adopted the Great Seal of the United States.
1791 King Louis XVI of France attempted to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes, but was caught
1837 Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.
1840 Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph.
1863 West Virginia became the 35th state.
1877 Alexander Graham Bell installed the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
1943 Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit.
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was shot dead in Beverly Hills, Calif., apparently at the order of mob associates.
1948 The TV variety series Toast of the Town, hosted by Ed Sullivan, debuted on CBS.
1963 The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers.
1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted; the conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
1975 The movie Jaws was released.
1979 ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart was shot to death in Managua, Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard.
1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.
1999 As the last of 40,000 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo, NATO declared a formal end to its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.
2001 Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub in her family's home in Houston; she was later found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state hospital.
2002 The U.S. Supreme Court declared that executing mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel.
2007 President George W. Bush vetoed an embryonic stem cell bill for the second time.
2007 Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
It’s a Sin - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie - Somethin’ Smith & the Redheads
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young
1963
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
You Can’t Sit Down - The Dovells
Blue on Blue - Bobby Vinton
Act Naturally - Buck Owens
1971
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed
1979
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers
1987
Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
In Too Deep - Genesis
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
Today's Birthdays
1909 Errol Flynn, actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood) died Oct 14, 1959
1924 Chet Atkins, guitarist (Country Music Hall of Fame) died June 30, 2001
1924 Audie Murphy, hero/actor (most decorated GI of WWII; The Red Badge of Courage, To Hell and Back) killed in plane crash May 28, 1971
1931 Olympia Dukakis, actress (Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias)
1931 Martin Landau, actor (Ed Wood, Mission Impossible)
1931 James Tolkan, actor (Dick Tracy, Back to the Future, Serpico)
1933 Danny Aiello (Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr.), actor (Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing)
1935 Len Dawson, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs)
1936 Billy Guy, singer (The Coasters) died Nov 5, 2002
1940 John Mahoney, actor (Frasier, Primal Fear)
1942 Brian Wilson, bassist/singer/songwriter (The Beach Boys)
1945 Anne Murray, singer (Love Song, Could I Have This Dance, Snowbird)
1946 Bob Vila, TV host/fixer-upper (This Old House)
1947 Candy Clark, actress (American Graffiti, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1947 Dolores Brooks, singer (The Crystals)
1949 Lionel Richie, songwriter/singer (Commodores)
1949 Alan Longmuir, bassist (Bay City Rollers)
1952 John Goodman, actor (Roseanne, The Flintstones, The Babe)
1954 Michael Anthony, bassist (Van Halen)
1960 John Taylor, guitarist/bassist (Duran Duran)
1964 Renee Albert, actress (Big Love)
1967 Nicole Kidman, actress (Days of Thunder, Bewitched, Eyes Wide Shut)
1968 Robert Rodriguez, director (Spy Kids)
1969 Peter Paige, actor (Queer as Folk)
1971 Josh Lucas, actor (A Beautiful Mind, Glory Road)
1973 Chino Moreno, singer/guitarist (Deftones)
1984 Troy Smith, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback (Ohio State)
1985 Mark Saul, actor (Grey's Anatomy)
1989 Chris Mintz-Plasse, actor (Superbad)
1997 Maria Lark, actress (Medium)
Today's Deaths in History
1947 Bugsy Siegel, gangster, is shot and killed at 41
1972 Howard Deering Johnson, entrepreneur (motels/restaurants) dies at 75
1978 Mark Robson, film director/producer (Valley of the Dolls) dies at 64
1996 Jim Ellison, singer/guitarist (Material Issue) dies at 32
1997 Lawrence Payton, singer (The Four Tops) dies at 59
2006 Billy Johnson, MLB 3rd baseman (NY Yankees) dies at 87
Today in History
1214 The University of Oxford received its charter.
1782 The U.S. Congress adopted the Great Seal of the United States.
1791 King Louis XVI of France attempted to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes, but was caught
1837 Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.
1840 Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph.
1863 West Virginia became the 35th state.
1877 Alexander Graham Bell installed the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
1943 Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit.
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was shot dead in Beverly Hills, Calif., apparently at the order of mob associates.
1948 The TV variety series Toast of the Town, hosted by Ed Sullivan, debuted on CBS.
1963 The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers.
1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted; the conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
1975 The movie Jaws was released.
1979 ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart was shot to death in Managua, Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard.
1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.
1999 As the last of 40,000 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo, NATO declared a formal end to its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.
2001 Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub in her family's home in Houston; she was later found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state hospital.
2002 The U.S. Supreme Court declared that executing mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel.
2007 President George W. Bush vetoed an embryonic stem cell bill for the second time.
2007 Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs.
Chart Toppers
1947
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
It’s a Sin - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie - Somethin’ Smith & the Redheads
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young
1963
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
You Can’t Sit Down - The Dovells
Blue on Blue - Bobby Vinton
Act Naturally - Buck Owens
1971
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed
1979
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers
1987
Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
In Too Deep - Genesis
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
Today in History - June 21st
Today's Birthdays
1850 Daniel Carter Beard, founder (Boy Scouts of America) died June 11, 1941
1859 Henry Tanner, African-American artist, died May 25, 1937
1896 Charles B. Momsen, inventor (Momsen Lung) died May 25, 1967
1902 Howie Morenz, Hockey Hall of fame forward (NY Rangers) died Mar 8, 1937
1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher/writer (Being and Nothingness) died Apr 15, 1980
1916 Buddy O'Connor, NHL forward (NY Rangers) died August 24, 1977
1921 Jane (Ernestine) Russell, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Outlaw)
1925 Maureen Stapleton, actress (Reds, Cocoon: The Return) died Mar 13, 2006
1932 O.C. (Ocie Lee) Smith, singer (Little Green Apples) died November 23, 2001
1932 Lalo Schifrin, pianist/composer (Mission: Impossible theme)
1933 Bernie Kopell, actor (The Love Boat, Get Smart, Love American Style)
1938 Ron Ely (Ronald Pierce), actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
1940 Mariette Hartley, actress (Encino Man, Silence of the Heart)
1941 Joe Flaherty, comedian/actor (Second City TV, Happy Gilmore)
1941 Lyman Ward, actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1944 Ray Davies, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Kinks)
1944 Corinna Tsopei, the first Greek Miss Universe
1945 Chris Britton, guitarist (The Troggs)
1947 Joey Molland, guitarist (Badfinger)
1947 Meredith Baxter, actress (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
1947 Michael Gross, actor (Family Ties, Tremors)
1948 Don Airey, keyboardist (Deep Purple)
1950 Joey Kramer, drums (Aerosmith)
1951 Nils Lofgren, guitarist/keyboardist/singer/songwriter (E Street Band)
1953 Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, died December 27, 2007
1954 Robert Pastorelli, actor (Be Cool, Murphy Brown) died Mar 8, 2004
1957 Berkeley Breathed, cartoonist (Bloom County, Outland, Opus)
1957 Mark Brzezicki, drummer (Big Country)
1957 Lucien DeBlois, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1959 Marcella Detroit, singer/songwriter (Shakespear's Sister)
1961 Kip Winger, guitarist (Winger)
1964 Sammi Davis-Voss, actress (The Lair of the White Worm, Hope and Glory)
1964 Doug Savant, actor (Desperate Housewives)
1965 Larry Wachowski, writer/director (Matrix movies)
1965 Michael Dolan, actor (Biloxi Blues, Courage Under Fire)
1966 Rudi Bakhtiar, broadcast journalist (CNN, Fox)
1967 Jim Breuer, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
1973 Juliette Lewis, actress (Cape Fear, Natural Born Killers, From Dusk ‘til Dawn)
1976 Mike Einziger, guitarist (Incubus)
1978 Erica Durance, actress (Smallville)
1979 Chris Pratt, actor (Everwood, The O.C.)
1981 Brandon Flowers, singer/keyboardist (The Killers)
1982 Prince William (William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor), Prince William of Wales
1985 Kris Allen, singer/TV personality (American Idol winner)
Today's Deaths in History
1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Flight of the Bumblebee) dies at 64
1940 Smedley D. Butler, U.S. Marine general (awarded Medal of Honor twice) dies at 58
1954 Gideon Sundback, inventor (the zipper) dies at 74
1964 James Chaney, American civil rights activist, is murdered at 21
1964 Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist, is murdered at 20
1964 Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist, is murdered at 24
1998 Al Campanis, Major League Baseball manager (LA Dodgers) dies at 81
2001 John Lee Hooker, blues guitarist/singer (Boom Boom) dies at 83
2001 Carroll O'Connor, actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night) dies at 76
2003 Roger Neilson, NHL coach (NY Rangers) dies at 69
2003 Leon Uris, writer (Exodus) dies at 78
2007 Bob Evans, restaurateur, dies at 89
2008 Scott Kalitta, drag racer, dies at 46 in qualifying run accident
Today in History
1788 The U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
1915 The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1932 After heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey, Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed: "We was robbed!"
1942 A Japanese submarine surfaced near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
1948 The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) ran the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
1964 Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.
1964 Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6-0 victory over the New York Mets.
1973 The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
1977 Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.
1982 A jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others.
1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
1997 The Women's National Basketball Association made its debut.
2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 Connecticut Gov. John Rowland resigned amid graft allegations and a federal investigation.
2005 Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier; he is serving a 60-year prison sentence.
2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons were officially named Nix & Hydra.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
You Can’t Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I Almost Lost My Mind - Pat Boone
Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
Crazy Arms - Ray Price
1964
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
Together Again - Buck Owens
1972
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
One Day at a Time - Cristy Lane
1988
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Foolish Beat - Debbie Gibson
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
I Told You So - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin, comedian and actor (1937 - 2008)
Today's Birthdays
1850 Daniel Carter Beard, founder (Boy Scouts of America) died June 11, 1941
1859 Henry Tanner, African-American artist, died May 25, 1937
1896 Charles B. Momsen, inventor (Momsen Lung) died May 25, 1967
1902 Howie Morenz, Hockey Hall of fame forward (NY Rangers) died Mar 8, 1937
1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher/writer (Being and Nothingness) died Apr 15, 1980
1916 Buddy O'Connor, NHL forward (NY Rangers) died August 24, 1977
1921 Jane (Ernestine) Russell, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Outlaw)
1925 Maureen Stapleton, actress (Reds, Cocoon: The Return) died Mar 13, 2006
1932 O.C. (Ocie Lee) Smith, singer (Little Green Apples) died November 23, 2001
1932 Lalo Schifrin, pianist/composer (Mission: Impossible theme)
1933 Bernie Kopell, actor (The Love Boat, Get Smart, Love American Style)
1938 Ron Ely (Ronald Pierce), actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
1940 Mariette Hartley, actress (Encino Man, Silence of the Heart)
1941 Joe Flaherty, comedian/actor (Second City TV, Happy Gilmore)
1941 Lyman Ward, actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1944 Ray Davies, guitarist/singer/songwriter (The Kinks)
1944 Corinna Tsopei, the first Greek Miss Universe
1945 Chris Britton, guitarist (The Troggs)
1947 Joey Molland, guitarist (Badfinger)
1947 Meredith Baxter, actress (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
1947 Michael Gross, actor (Family Ties, Tremors)
1948 Don Airey, keyboardist (Deep Purple)
1950 Joey Kramer, drums (Aerosmith)
1951 Nils Lofgren, guitarist/keyboardist/singer/songwriter (E Street Band)
1953 Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, died December 27, 2007
1954 Robert Pastorelli, actor (Be Cool, Murphy Brown) died Mar 8, 2004
1957 Berkeley Breathed, cartoonist (Bloom County, Outland, Opus)
1957 Mark Brzezicki, drummer (Big Country)
1957 Lucien DeBlois, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1959 Marcella Detroit, singer/songwriter (Shakespear's Sister)
1961 Kip Winger, guitarist (Winger)
1964 Sammi Davis-Voss, actress (The Lair of the White Worm, Hope and Glory)
1964 Doug Savant, actor (Desperate Housewives)
1965 Larry Wachowski, writer/director (Matrix movies)
1965 Michael Dolan, actor (Biloxi Blues, Courage Under Fire)
1966 Rudi Bakhtiar, broadcast journalist (CNN, Fox)
1967 Jim Breuer, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1971 Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
1973 Juliette Lewis, actress (Cape Fear, Natural Born Killers, From Dusk ‘til Dawn)
1976 Mike Einziger, guitarist (Incubus)
1978 Erica Durance, actress (Smallville)
1979 Chris Pratt, actor (Everwood, The O.C.)
1981 Brandon Flowers, singer/keyboardist (The Killers)
1982 Prince William (William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor), Prince William of Wales
1985 Kris Allen, singer/TV personality (American Idol winner)
Today's Deaths in History
1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Flight of the Bumblebee) dies at 64
1940 Smedley D. Butler, U.S. Marine general (awarded Medal of Honor twice) dies at 58
1954 Gideon Sundback, inventor (the zipper) dies at 74
1964 James Chaney, American civil rights activist, is murdered at 21
1964 Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist, is murdered at 20
1964 Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist, is murdered at 24
1998 Al Campanis, Major League Baseball manager (LA Dodgers) dies at 81
2001 John Lee Hooker, blues guitarist/singer (Boom Boom) dies at 83
2001 Carroll O'Connor, actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night) dies at 76
2003 Roger Neilson, NHL coach (NY Rangers) dies at 69
2003 Leon Uris, writer (Exodus) dies at 78
2007 Bob Evans, restaurateur, dies at 89
2008 Scott Kalitta, drag racer, dies at 46 in qualifying run accident
Today in History
1788 The U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
1915 The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1932 After heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey, Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed: "We was robbed!"
1942 A Japanese submarine surfaced near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
1948 The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) ran the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
1964 Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.
1964 Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game in a 6-0 victory over the New York Mets.
1973 The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
1977 Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.
1982 A jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others.
1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
1997 The Women's National Basketball Association made its debut.
2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 Connecticut Gov. John Rowland resigned amid graft allegations and a federal investigation.
2005 Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., 41 years to the day earlier; he is serving a 60-year prison sentence.
2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons were officially named Nix & Hydra.
Chart Toppers
1948
Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
You Can’t Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
1956
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I Almost Lost My Mind - Pat Boone
Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
Crazy Arms - Ray Price
1964
Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
Together Again - Buck Owens
1972
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo
1980
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
One Day at a Time - Cristy Lane
1988
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Foolish Beat - Debbie Gibson
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
I Told You So - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin, comedian and actor (1937 - 2008)
Today in History - June 22nd
Today's Birthdays
1845 Tom Dula, folk character (Tom Dooley) died May 1, 1868
1856 H. Rider Haggard, English author (King Solomon's Mines) died May 14, 1925
1903 John Dillinger, bank robber, died July 22, 1934
1906 Billy Wilder, director (The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot) died Mar 27, 2002
1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, aviator/Mrs Charles Lindbergh, died Feb 7, 2001
1909 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days) killed in plane crash Mar 22, 1958
1922 Bill Blass, fashion designer, died June 12, 2002
1929 Ralph Waite, actor (The Waltons)
1936 Kris Kristofferson, songwriter/singer/actor (Me & Bobby McGee; Blade)
1941 Ed Bradley, news correspondent (60 Minutes) died Nov 9, 2006
1943 Brit Hume, news anchor/commentator (Fox News Channel)
1944 Peter Asher, singer (Peter and Gordon)
1944 Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor (Quo Vadis, Never Say Never Again)
1946 Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1947 Howard Kaylan (Kaplan), singer (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
1947 David Lander, actor (Laverne & Shirley)
1948 ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich, basketball (New Orleans Jazz) died Jan 5, 1988
1948 Todd Rundgren, singer/producer (Runt, Utopia)
1949 Meryl Streep, actress (Sophie’s Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer, Silkwood)
1949 Lindsay Wagner, actress (The Bionic Woman)
1952 Graham Greene, actor (Dances with Wolves, The Green Mile, Maverick)
1953 Cyndi Lauper, singer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1954 Freddie Prinze, actor (Chico and the Man) committed suicide Jan 29, 1977
1956 Green Gartside, singer (Scritti Politti)
1957 Gary Beers, bassist (INXS)
1958 Bruce Campbell, actor (Army of Darkness, Evil Dead series)
1959 Alan Anton, bassist (Cowboy Junkies)
1960 Tracy (Jo) Pollan, actress/Mrs Michael J Fox (Family Ties)
1961 Jimmy Somerville, keyboards/singer (Communards, Bronksi Beat)
1962 Bobby Gillespie, singer/drummer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream)
1964 Amy Brenneman, actress (Judging Amy, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Private Practice)
1964 Tom Cunningham, drummer (Wet Wet Wet)
1964 Dan Brown, author (The Da Vinci Code)
1964 Mike Edwards, singer (Jesus Jones)
1966 Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress (La Vie En Rose)
1970 Steven Page, singer/guitarist/songwriter (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 Mary Lynn Rajskub, actress (24)
1971 Kurt Warner, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Chris Traynor, guitarist (Helmet)
1973 Carson Daly, TV personality (Last Call with Carson Daly)
1974 Donald Faison, actor (Scrubs, Clueless)
1974 Alicia Goranson, actress (Roseanne)
1978 Dan Wheldon, British Indy car driver
1979 Jai Rodriguez, TV personality (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
1984 Pymonte, board member and chef extraordinairé
Today's Deaths in History
1965 David O. Selznick, film producer (Rebecca) dies at 63
1969 Judy Garland, singer/actress (The Wizard of Oz) dies at 47
1977 Peter Laughner, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Pere Ubu) dies at 24
1987 Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Daddy Long Legs) dies at 88
1992 Chuck Mitchell, actor (Porky's, Porky's Revenge) dies at 64
1993 Pat Nixon, former First lady, died at 81
2002 Darryl Kile, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dies at 33
2002 Ann Landers, Syndicated advice columnist, dies at 83
2006 Moose, dog actor, (Frasier) dies at 15
2008 Dody Goodman, comedienne (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) dies at 93
2008 George Carlin, comedian, dies at 71
Today in History
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1633 The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Universe.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the second time.
1844 Fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon was founded at Yale University.
1868 Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870 Congress created the Department of Justice.
1898 United States Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1911 Britain's King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1938 Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling of Germany in the first round of their rematch in New York City's Yankee Stadium.
1940 France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris during World War II.
1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights, authorizing a broad package of benefits for World War II veterans.
1945 The World War II battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.
1969 The Cuyahoga River caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river.
1970 President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
1977 Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up.
1978 Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered.
1981 Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon.
1984 Virgin Atlantic Airways launched with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1989 The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year civil war.
1992 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violate free-speech rights.
2004 A federal judge approved a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart.
Chart Toppers
1949
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
I Like Your Kind of Love - Andy Williams
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
For Your Love - The Yardbirds
Ribbon of Darkness - Marty Robbins
1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Playground in My Mind - Clint Holmes
I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby - Barry White
Kids Say the Darndest Things - Tammy Wynette
1981
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
A Woman Needs Love (Just like You Do) - Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
But You Know I Love You - Dolly Parton
1989
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Satisfied - Richard Marx
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Love Out Loud - Earl Thomas Conley
Quote of the Day
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown
Today's Birthdays
1845 Tom Dula, folk character (Tom Dooley) died May 1, 1868
1856 H. Rider Haggard, English author (King Solomon's Mines) died May 14, 1925
1903 John Dillinger, bank robber, died July 22, 1934
1906 Billy Wilder, director (The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot) died Mar 27, 2002
1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, aviator/Mrs Charles Lindbergh, died Feb 7, 2001
1909 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days) killed in plane crash Mar 22, 1958
1922 Bill Blass, fashion designer, died June 12, 2002
1929 Ralph Waite, actor (The Waltons)
1936 Kris Kristofferson, songwriter/singer/actor (Me & Bobby McGee; Blade)
1941 Ed Bradley, news correspondent (60 Minutes) died Nov 9, 2006
1943 Brit Hume, news anchor/commentator (Fox News Channel)
1944 Peter Asher, singer (Peter and Gordon)
1944 Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor (Quo Vadis, Never Say Never Again)
1946 Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1947 Howard Kaylan (Kaplan), singer (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
1947 David Lander, actor (Laverne & Shirley)
1948 ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich, basketball (New Orleans Jazz) died Jan 5, 1988
1948 Todd Rundgren, singer/producer (Runt, Utopia)
1949 Meryl Streep, actress (Sophie’s Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer, Silkwood)
1949 Lindsay Wagner, actress (The Bionic Woman)
1952 Graham Greene, actor (Dances with Wolves, The Green Mile, Maverick)
1953 Cyndi Lauper, singer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1954 Freddie Prinze, actor (Chico and the Man) committed suicide Jan 29, 1977
1956 Green Gartside, singer (Scritti Politti)
1957 Gary Beers, bassist (INXS)
1958 Bruce Campbell, actor (Army of Darkness, Evil Dead series)
1959 Alan Anton, bassist (Cowboy Junkies)
1960 Tracy (Jo) Pollan, actress/Mrs Michael J Fox (Family Ties)
1961 Jimmy Somerville, keyboards/singer (Communards, Bronksi Beat)
1962 Bobby Gillespie, singer/drummer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream)
1964 Amy Brenneman, actress (Judging Amy, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Private Practice)
1964 Tom Cunningham, drummer (Wet Wet Wet)
1964 Dan Brown, author (The Da Vinci Code)
1964 Mike Edwards, singer (Jesus Jones)
1966 Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress (La Vie En Rose)
1970 Steven Page, singer/guitarist/songwriter (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 Mary Lynn Rajskub, actress (24)
1971 Kurt Warner, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Chris Traynor, guitarist (Helmet)
1973 Carson Daly, TV personality (Last Call with Carson Daly)
1974 Donald Faison, actor (Scrubs, Clueless)
1974 Alicia Goranson, actress (Roseanne)
1978 Dan Wheldon, British Indy car driver
1979 Jai Rodriguez, TV personality (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy)
1984 Pymonte, board member and chef extraordinairé
Today's Deaths in History
1965 David O. Selznick, film producer (Rebecca) dies at 63
1969 Judy Garland, singer/actress (The Wizard of Oz) dies at 47
1977 Peter Laughner, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Pere Ubu) dies at 24
1987 Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Daddy Long Legs) dies at 88
1992 Chuck Mitchell, actor (Porky's, Porky's Revenge) dies at 64
1993 Pat Nixon, former First lady, died at 81
2002 Darryl Kile, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, dies at 33
2002 Ann Landers, Syndicated advice columnist, dies at 83
2006 Moose, dog actor, (Frasier) dies at 15
2008 Dody Goodman, comedienne (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) dies at 93
2008 George Carlin, comedian, dies at 71
Today in History
1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1633 The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Universe.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the second time.
1844 Fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon was founded at Yale University.
1868 Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870 Congress created the Department of Justice.
1898 United States Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1911 Britain's King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1938 Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling of Germany in the first round of their rematch in New York City's Yankee Stadium.
1940 France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris during World War II.
1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights, authorizing a broad package of benefits for World War II veterans.
1945 The World War II battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.
1969 The Cuyahoga River caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river.
1970 President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
1977 Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up.
1978 Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered.
1981 Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon.
1984 Virgin Atlantic Airways launched with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1989 The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year civil war.
1992 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violate free-speech rights.
2004 A federal judge approved a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart.
Chart Toppers
1949
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold
1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
I Like Your Kind of Love - Andy Williams
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
For Your Love - The Yardbirds
Ribbon of Darkness - Marty Robbins
1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Playground in My Mind - Clint Holmes
I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby - Barry White
Kids Say the Darndest Things - Tammy Wynette
1981
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
A Woman Needs Love (Just like You Do) - Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
But You Know I Love You - Dolly Parton
1989
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Satisfied - Richard Marx
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Love Out Loud - Earl Thomas Conley
Quote of the Day
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown
Today in History - June 23rd
Today's Birthdays
1894 Dr. Alfred Kinsey, sexual researcher (The Kinsey Report) died Aug 25, 1956
1910 Edward P. Morgan, radio/TV reporter (ABC) died Jan 27, 1993
1922 Hal Laycoe, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers) died April 29, 1998
1925 Larry Blyden, actor/TV moderator (What’s My Line) died June 6, 1975
1927 Bob Fosse, director/choreographer (Cabaret, Damn Yankees) died Sep 23, 1987
1929 June Carter Cash, country singer/songwriter/Mrs. Johnny Cash, died May 15, 2003
1933 Bert Convy, TV host (Win Lose or Draw, Tattletales) died July 15, 1991
1937 Niki Sullivan, guitarist (The Crickets)
1940 Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (The Beatles) died Apr 10, 1962
1946 Ted Shackelford, actor (Knots Landing, Dallas)
1947 Bryan Brown, actor (Breaker Morant, F/X series, Cocktail)
1948 Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1948 Myles Goodwyn, guitarist/singer (April Wine)
1955 Glenn Danzig, punk singer/songwriter (The Misfits, Danzig)
1956 Randy Jackson, music producer/judge (American Idol)
1957 Frances McDormand, actress (Fargo, Almost Famous)
1962 Billy Wirth, actor (The Lost Boys)
1963 Steve Shelley, drummer (Sonic Youth)
1964 Joss Whedon, producer/director/screenwriter (Firefly, Serenity)
1965 Paul Arthurs, guitarist (Oasis)
1972 Selma Blair, actress (In & Out, Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde)
1975 KT Tunstall, singer (Black Horse & the Cherry Tree)
1976 Emmanuelle Vaugier, actress (CSI: NY)
1977 Jason Mraz, singer/songwriter
1979 LaDainian Tomlinson, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers)
1984 Duffy, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1995 Jonas Salk, medical researcher (Polio vaccine) dies at 80
1996 Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, dies at 77
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, dies in a house fire at 61
1998 Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (Tarzan films) dies at 87
2005 Shana Alexander, columnist (60 minutes) dies at 79
2006 Aaron Spelling, television producer (Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat) dies at 83
2009 Ed McMahon, television personality (The Tonight Show) dies at 86
Today in History
1860 The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office.
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
1888 Frederick Douglass became the first African-American to be nominated for U.S. president.
1892 The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1917 In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retired 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1926 The College Board administered the first SAT exam.
1931 Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1947 The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1967 The Senate voted to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for using campaign money for personal uses.
1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1972 President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.
1985 All 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because of a bomb.
1989 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services was unconstitutional.
1992 John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
1993 Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
2005 Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Old Piano Roll Blues - Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley
I’ll Sail My Ship Alone - Moon Mullican
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley
Guess Things Happen that Way - Johnny Cash
1966
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Barefootin’ - Robert Parker
Take Good Care of Her - Sonny James
1974
Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
This Time - Waylon Jennings
1982 - Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
Rosanna - Toto
Slow Hand - Conway Twitty
1990 - It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Step By Step - New Kids on the Block
Do You Remember? - Phil Collins
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields, actor (1880 - 1946)
Today's Birthdays
1894 Dr. Alfred Kinsey, sexual researcher (The Kinsey Report) died Aug 25, 1956
1910 Edward P. Morgan, radio/TV reporter (ABC) died Jan 27, 1993
1922 Hal Laycoe, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers) died April 29, 1998
1925 Larry Blyden, actor/TV moderator (What’s My Line) died June 6, 1975
1927 Bob Fosse, director/choreographer (Cabaret, Damn Yankees) died Sep 23, 1987
1929 June Carter Cash, country singer/songwriter/Mrs. Johnny Cash, died May 15, 2003
1933 Bert Convy, TV host (Win Lose or Draw, Tattletales) died July 15, 1991
1937 Niki Sullivan, guitarist (The Crickets)
1940 Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (The Beatles) died Apr 10, 1962
1946 Ted Shackelford, actor (Knots Landing, Dallas)
1947 Bryan Brown, actor (Breaker Morant, F/X series, Cocktail)
1948 Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1948 Myles Goodwyn, guitarist/singer (April Wine)
1955 Glenn Danzig, punk singer/songwriter (The Misfits, Danzig)
1956 Randy Jackson, music producer/judge (American Idol)
1957 Frances McDormand, actress (Fargo, Almost Famous)
1962 Billy Wirth, actor (The Lost Boys)
1963 Steve Shelley, drummer (Sonic Youth)
1964 Joss Whedon, producer/director/screenwriter (Firefly, Serenity)
1965 Paul Arthurs, guitarist (Oasis)
1972 Selma Blair, actress (In & Out, Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde)
1975 KT Tunstall, singer (Black Horse & the Cherry Tree)
1976 Emmanuelle Vaugier, actress (CSI: NY)
1977 Jason Mraz, singer/songwriter
1979 LaDainian Tomlinson, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers)
1984 Duffy, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1995 Jonas Salk, medical researcher (Polio vaccine) dies at 80
1996 Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, dies at 77
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, dies in a house fire at 61
1998 Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (Tarzan films) dies at 87
2005 Shana Alexander, columnist (60 minutes) dies at 79
2006 Aaron Spelling, television producer (Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat) dies at 83
2009 Ed McMahon, television personality (The Tonight Show) dies at 86
Today in History
1860 The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office.
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
1888 Frederick Douglass became the first African-American to be nominated for U.S. president.
1892 The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.
1917 In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retired 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1926 The College Board administered the first SAT exam.
1931 Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1947 The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1967 The Senate voted to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for using campaign money for personal uses.
1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1972 President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.
1985 All 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because of a bomb.
1989 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services was unconstitutional.
1992 John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison.
1993 Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
2005 Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
Chart Toppers
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Old Piano Roll Blues - Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley
I’ll Sail My Ship Alone - Moon Mullican
1958
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley
Guess Things Happen that Way - Johnny Cash
1966
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Barefootin’ - Robert Parker
Take Good Care of Her - Sonny James
1974
Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
This Time - Waylon Jennings
1982 - Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
Rosanna - Toto
Slow Hand - Conway Twitty
1990 - It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Step By Step - New Kids on the Block
Do You Remember? - Phil Collins
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait
Quote of the Day
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields, actor (1880 - 1946)
Today in History - June 24th
Today's Birthdays
1842 Ambrose Bierce, author (Devil's Dictionary) died in 1914
1893 Roy O. Disney, co-founder (Walt Disney Company) died December 20, 1971
1895 Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight boxing champion, died May 31, 1983
1901 Chuck Taylor, basketball player/Converse spokesperson, died June 23, 1969
1910 Irving Kaufman, judge (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial) died Feb 1, 1992
1919 Al Molinaro, actor (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Odd Couple)
1935 Pete Hamill, journalist/editor (New York Post, New York Daily News)
1942 Michele Lee (Dusick), actress (Knots Landing, The Love Bug)
1943 Georg Stanford Brown, actor (The Rookies)
1944 Jeff Beck, guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers)
1944 Chris Wood, flautist/saxophonist (Traffic) died July 12, 1983
1945 Colin Blunstone, singer (The Zombies)
1946 Lt. Col. Ellison S. Onizuka, astronaut, killed aboard shuttle Challenger Jan 28, 1986
1947 Mick Fleetwood, drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 Peter Weller, actor (Screamers, RoboCop series)
1948 Patrick Moraz, keyboardist (Yes, Moody Blues)
1949 John Illsley, bassist (Dire Straits)
1950 Nancy Allen, actress (Robocop, Blow Out, Dressed to Kill, 1941)
1956 Joe Penny, actor (Jake and the Fatman)
1958 Tommy "Tiny" Lister, actor (5th Element, Enterprise)
1958 John Tortorella, NHL coach (NY Rangers)
1959 Andy McCluskey, singer (Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark)
1960 Siedah Garrett, R&B singer/songwriter (Brand New Heavies)
1961 Curt Smith, bassist/singer (Tears for Fears)
1961 Dennis Danell, guitarist (Social Distortion) died February 29, 2000
1961 Bernie Nicholls, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1965 Danielle Spencer, actress (What's Happening!)
1966 Adrienne Shelly, actress/screenwriter (Waitress) murdered November 1, 2006
1967 Jeff Cease, guitarist (The Black Crowes)
1967 Sherry Stringfield, actress (N.Y.P.D. Blue, ER)
1967 Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, guitarist (Rammstein)
1969 Rich Eisen, sportscaster (ESPN)
1975 Carla Gallo, actress (Carnivàle, The 40 Year Old Virgin)
1975 Marek Malik, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1978 Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1979 Petra Němcová, Czechoslovakian-born supermodel
1979 Mindy Kaling, actress/producer (The Office)
1980 Minka Kelly, actress (Friday Night Lights)
1982 Hockey101, board member
1986 Solange Knowles, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, dies at 71
1984 Clarence Campbell, NHL president, dies at 78
1987 Jackie Gleason, actor/orchestra leader (The Honeymooners) dies at 71
1993 Archie Williams, African-American athlete (1936 Berlin Olympics) dies at 78
1997 Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair) dies at 75
2000 David Tomlinson, English actor (Mary Poppins) dies at 83
2005 Paul Winchell, voice actor/ventriloquist, dies at 82
2006 Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey/murder suspect, dies at 49
2007 Chris Benoit, professional wrestler, killed his wife and son and commits suicide at 40
Today in History
1314 The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.
1497 The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were crowned King and Queen of England.
1664 The colony of New Jersey was founded.
1793 The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1901 The first exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opened.
1916 Mary Pickford became the first female film star to get a million-dollar contract.
1940 France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1947 Kenneth Arnold made the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1948 Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organize a massive airlift.
1949 The first television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, was aired on NBC.
1957 In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1975 An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 people.
1993 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter lost the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mail bomb from the Unabomber.
1997 The Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1998 AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2003 President Vladimir Putin arrived in London on the first state visit to Britain by a Russian leader since the 19th century.
2004 Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Personality - Lloyd Price
Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
Along Came Jones - The Coasters
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
She’d Rather Be with Me - The Turtles
Windy - The Association
All the Time - Jack Greene
1975
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
You’re My Best Friend - Don Williams
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
You Can’t Run from Love - Eddie Rabbitt
1991
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Unbelievable - EMF
The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
Today's Birthdays
1842 Ambrose Bierce, author (Devil's Dictionary) died in 1914
1893 Roy O. Disney, co-founder (Walt Disney Company) died December 20, 1971
1895 Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight boxing champion, died May 31, 1983
1901 Chuck Taylor, basketball player/Converse spokesperson, died June 23, 1969
1910 Irving Kaufman, judge (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial) died Feb 1, 1992
1919 Al Molinaro, actor (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Odd Couple)
1935 Pete Hamill, journalist/editor (New York Post, New York Daily News)
1942 Michele Lee (Dusick), actress (Knots Landing, The Love Bug)
1943 Georg Stanford Brown, actor (The Rookies)
1944 Jeff Beck, guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers)
1944 Chris Wood, flautist/saxophonist (Traffic) died July 12, 1983
1945 Colin Blunstone, singer (The Zombies)
1946 Lt. Col. Ellison S. Onizuka, astronaut, killed aboard shuttle Challenger Jan 28, 1986
1947 Mick Fleetwood, drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 Peter Weller, actor (Screamers, RoboCop series)
1948 Patrick Moraz, keyboardist (Yes, Moody Blues)
1949 John Illsley, bassist (Dire Straits)
1950 Nancy Allen, actress (Robocop, Blow Out, Dressed to Kill, 1941)
1956 Joe Penny, actor (Jake and the Fatman)
1958 Tommy "Tiny" Lister, actor (5th Element, Enterprise)
1958 John Tortorella, NHL coach (NY Rangers)
1959 Andy McCluskey, singer (Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark)
1960 Siedah Garrett, R&B singer/songwriter (Brand New Heavies)
1961 Curt Smith, bassist/singer (Tears for Fears)
1961 Dennis Danell, guitarist (Social Distortion) died February 29, 2000
1961 Bernie Nicholls, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1965 Danielle Spencer, actress (What's Happening!)
1966 Adrienne Shelly, actress/screenwriter (Waitress) murdered November 1, 2006
1967 Jeff Cease, guitarist (The Black Crowes)
1967 Sherry Stringfield, actress (N.Y.P.D. Blue, ER)
1967 Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, guitarist (Rammstein)
1969 Rich Eisen, sportscaster (ESPN)
1975 Carla Gallo, actress (Carnivàle, The 40 Year Old Virgin)
1975 Marek Malik, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1978 Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1979 Petra Němcová, Czechoslovakian-born supermodel
1979 Mindy Kaling, actress/producer (The Office)
1980 Minka Kelly, actress (Friday Night Lights)
1982 Hockey101, board member
1986 Solange Knowles, singer
Today's Deaths in History
1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, dies at 71
1984 Clarence Campbell, NHL president, dies at 78
1987 Jackie Gleason, actor/orchestra leader (The Honeymooners) dies at 71
1993 Archie Williams, African-American athlete (1936 Berlin Olympics) dies at 78
1997 Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair) dies at 75
2000 David Tomlinson, English actor (Mary Poppins) dies at 83
2005 Paul Winchell, voice actor/ventriloquist, dies at 82
2006 Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey/murder suspect, dies at 49
2007 Chris Benoit, professional wrestler, killed his wife and son and commits suicide at 40
Today in History
1314 The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.
1497 The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were crowned King and Queen of England.
1664 The colony of New Jersey was founded.
1793 The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1901 The first exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opened.
1916 Mary Pickford became the first female film star to get a million-dollar contract.
1940 France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1947 Kenneth Arnold made the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1948 Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organize a massive airlift.
1949 The first television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, was aired on NBC.
1957 In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1975 An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 people.
1993 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter lost the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mail bomb from the Unabomber.
1997 The Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1998 AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2003 President Vladimir Putin arrived in London on the first state visit to Britain by a Russian leader since the 19th century.
2004 Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
Chart Toppers
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell
1959
Personality - Lloyd Price
Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
Along Came Jones - The Coasters
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
1967
Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
She’d Rather Be with Me - The Turtles
Windy - The Association
All the Time - Jack Greene
1975
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
You’re My Best Friend - Don Williams
1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
You Can’t Run from Love - Eddie Rabbitt
1991
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Unbelievable - EMF
The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks
Quote of the Day
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
Today in History - June 25th
Today's Birthdays
1886 Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold, U.S. General (first five-star general of the U.S. Army Air Force) died Jan 15,1950
1887 George Abbott, director (Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game) died Jan 31, 1995
1903 George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), author (Animal Farm, 1984) died Jan 21, 1950
1924 Sidney Lumet, director (Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network)
1925 June Lockhart, actress (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, The Yearling, Meet Me in St. Louis)
1939 Harold Melvin, R&B singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) died March 24, 1997
1940 Clint Warwick (Eccles), bassist (The Moody Blues) died May 15, 2004
1945 Carly Simon, singer (Anticipation, You’re So Vain, Mockingbird)
1946 Allen Lanier, guitarist/keyboards (Blue Oyster Cult)
1946 Ian McDonald, saxophonist/keyboards/guitarist (Foreigner, King Crimson)
1947 Jimmie "JJ" Walker, actor/comedian (Good Times, Airplane!)
1949 Phyllis George (Brown), former Miss America/TV host (The CBS Morning News)
1952 Tim Finn, keyboardist/singer (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1954 David Paich, keyboardist/singer (Toto)
1961 Ricky Gervais, actor/writer (The Office)
1963 George Michael, singer (Wham!)
1963 John Benjamin Hickey, actor (Love! Valour! Compassion!)
1964 Erica Gimpel, actress (ER, JAG, Babylon 5)
1969 Zim Zum, guitarist (Marilyn Manson)
1971 Sean Kelly, musician (Six Pence None the Richer)
1971 Angela Kinsey, actress (The Office)
1972 Mike Kroeger, bassist (Nickelback)
1972 Carlos Delgado, MLB 1st baseman (New York Mets)
1974 Mario Calire, drummer (Wallflowers, Ozomatli)
1974 Jim LaMarca, bassist (Chimaira)
1975 Linda Cardellini, actress (Good Burger, Scooby-Doo, Legally Blonde, ER)
1979 Busy Philipps, atress (ER)
1980 Fleury9816, board member
1984 Indigo, actress (Weeds)
Today's Deaths in History
1533 Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France/sister of Henry VIII, dies at 37
1876 George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army general, is killed at Little Big Horn at 36
1876 Thomas Custer, brother of George A. Custer/2-time Medal of Honor winner, is killed at Little Big Horn at 31
1876 Boston Custer, brother of George A. Custer, is killed at Little Big Horn at 27
1976 Johnny Mercer, songwriter (That Old Black Magic) dies at 66
1988 Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) dies at 26
1992 Jerome Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles) dies at 27 in a car crash
1995 Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 87
1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Oceanographer dies at 87
2003 Lester Maddox, former Georgia governor, dies at 87
2005 John Fiedler, actor (Piglet, The Bob Newhart Show) dies at 80
2007 J. Fred Duckett, sports announcer/teacher (Houston Astros) dies at 74
2009 Farrah Fawcett, atress (Charlie's Angels, The Burning Bed) dies at 62
Today in History
1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.
1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1876 Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.
1947 The Diary of Anne Frank was published.
1949 Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, was released in theaters.
1950 War broke out on the Korean peninsula as forces from the communist North invaded the South.
1951 The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.
1962 The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
1967 The Beatles performed a new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast.
1973 Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
1981 Microsoft was restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1987 Pope John Paul II received Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, a meeting fraught with controversy because of allegations that Waldheim had hidden a Nazi past.
1991 The Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.
1993 Kim Campbell was chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1996 A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1998 The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional.
2005 Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
2006 Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Swinging on a Star/Going My Way - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
I’m Yours - Don Cornell
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Swingin’ School - Bobby Rydell
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
The Look of Love - Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
El Paso City - Marty Robbins
1984
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Self Control - Laura Branigan
When We Make Love - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1886 Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold, U.S. General (first five-star general of the U.S. Army Air Force) died Jan 15,1950
1887 George Abbott, director (Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game) died Jan 31, 1995
1903 George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), author (Animal Farm, 1984) died Jan 21, 1950
1924 Sidney Lumet, director (Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network)
1925 June Lockhart, actress (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, The Yearling, Meet Me in St. Louis)
1939 Harold Melvin, R&B singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) died March 24, 1997
1940 Clint Warwick (Eccles), bassist (The Moody Blues) died May 15, 2004
1945 Carly Simon, singer (Anticipation, You’re So Vain, Mockingbird)
1946 Allen Lanier, guitarist/keyboards (Blue Oyster Cult)
1946 Ian McDonald, saxophonist/keyboards/guitarist (Foreigner, King Crimson)
1947 Jimmie "JJ" Walker, actor/comedian (Good Times, Airplane!)
1949 Phyllis George (Brown), former Miss America/TV host (The CBS Morning News)
1952 Tim Finn, keyboardist/singer (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1954 David Paich, keyboardist/singer (Toto)
1961 Ricky Gervais, actor/writer (The Office)
1963 George Michael, singer (Wham!)
1963 John Benjamin Hickey, actor (Love! Valour! Compassion!)
1964 Erica Gimpel, actress (ER, JAG, Babylon 5)
1969 Zim Zum, guitarist (Marilyn Manson)
1971 Sean Kelly, musician (Six Pence None the Richer)
1971 Angela Kinsey, actress (The Office)
1972 Mike Kroeger, bassist (Nickelback)
1972 Carlos Delgado, MLB 1st baseman (New York Mets)
1974 Mario Calire, drummer (Wallflowers, Ozomatli)
1974 Jim LaMarca, bassist (Chimaira)
1975 Linda Cardellini, actress (Good Burger, Scooby-Doo, Legally Blonde, ER)
1979 Busy Philipps, atress (ER)
1980 Fleury9816, board member
1984 Indigo, actress (Weeds)
Today's Deaths in History
1533 Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France/sister of Henry VIII, dies at 37
1876 George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army general, is killed at Little Big Horn at 36
1876 Thomas Custer, brother of George A. Custer/2-time Medal of Honor winner, is killed at Little Big Horn at 31
1876 Boston Custer, brother of George A. Custer, is killed at Little Big Horn at 27
1976 Johnny Mercer, songwriter (That Old Black Magic) dies at 66
1988 Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) dies at 26
1992 Jerome Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles) dies at 27 in a car crash
1995 Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 87
1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Oceanographer dies at 87
2003 Lester Maddox, former Georgia governor, dies at 87
2005 John Fiedler, actor (Piglet, The Bob Newhart Show) dies at 80
2007 J. Fred Duckett, sports announcer/teacher (Houston Astros) dies at 74
2009 Farrah Fawcett, atress (Charlie's Angels, The Burning Bed) dies at 62
Today in History
1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.
1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1876 Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.
1947 The Diary of Anne Frank was published.
1949 Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, was released in theaters.
1950 War broke out on the Korean peninsula as forces from the communist North invaded the South.
1951 The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.
1962 The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
1967 The Beatles performed a new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast.
1973 Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
1981 Microsoft was restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1987 Pope John Paul II received Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, a meeting fraught with controversy because of allegations that Waldheim had hidden a Nazi past.
1991 The Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.
1993 Kim Campbell was chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1996 A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1998 The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional.
2005 Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
2006 Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip.
Chart Toppers
1944
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Swinging on a Star/Going My Way - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
I’m Yours - Don Cornell
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Swingin’ School - Bobby Rydell
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1968
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
The Look of Love - Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
El Paso City - Marty Robbins
1984
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Self Control - Laura Branigan
When We Make Love - Alabama
Quote of the Day
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
Today in History - June 26th
Today's Birthdays
1819 Abner Doubleday, baseball founder, died Jan 26, 1893
1892 Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning author (The Good Earth) died Mar 6, 1973
1898 Lt.Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (five Navy Crosses) died October 11, 1971
1904 Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein), actor (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, M) died Mar 23, 1964
1909 Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley) died Jan 21, 1997
1910 Roy Plunkett, scientist (discovered Teflon) died May 12, 1994
1914 Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias, International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer, died Sep 27, 1956
1934 Dave Grusin, composer (On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie)
1939 Charles Robb, former Virginia governor/U.S. senator
1940 Billy Davis Jr., singer (The 5th Dimension)
1942 Larry Taylor, bassist (Canned Heat)
1953 Robert Davi, actor (Die Hard)
1955 Mick Jones, guitarist/singer (Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash)
1955 Gedde Watanabe, actor (16 Candles, ER)
1956 Chris Isaak singer/actor/songwriter (Wicked Game)
1957 Patty Smyth, singer (Scandal)
1961 Terri Nunn, singer (Berlin)
1961 Greg LeMond, Tour de France-winning cyclist
1963 Harriet Wheeler, singer (The Sundays)
1969 Colin Greenwood, bassist (Radiohead)
1970 Chris O’Donnell, actor (Dead Poets Society, Batman & Robin)
1970 Sean Hayes, actor (Will & Grace)
1974 Derek Jeter, MLB shortstop (NY Yankees)
1974 Gretchen Wilson, country singer
1976 Chad Pennington, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1979 Nathan Followill, drummer (Kings of Leon)
1980 Jason Schwartzman, actor (Rushmore, Slackers)
1980 Redlightnry24, board member
1980 Michael Vick, former NFL quarterback/jailbird (Atlanta Falcons)
Today's Deaths in History
1810 Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor (hot air balloon) dies at 69
1956 Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter, dies at 25
1993 Roy Campanella, MLB catcher (Brooklyn Dodgers) dies at 71
1996 Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist, is shot and killed at 37
1997 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World) dies at 38
2003 Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator, dies at 100
2003 Sir Denis Thatcher, husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, dies at 88
2007 Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer, dies at 78
Today in History
1284 The legendary Pied Piper led 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany.
1870 The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., was opened to the public.
1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1894 The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
1917 The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.
1919 The New York Daily News was first published.
1925 Charlie Chaplin's comedy The Gold Rush premiered in Hollywood.
1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opened on Coney Island.
1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act, which established credit unions.
1945 The charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
1948 The Berlin Airlift began in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes.
1948 Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" was published in The New Yorker magazine.
1950 President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.
1963 President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he declared in a speech, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).
1973 Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
1974 The Universal Product Code was used for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier was later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1990 President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package.
1993 President Bill Clinton announced the U.S. had launched missiles against Iraqi targets because of "compelling evidence" Iraq had plotted to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush.
1994 Microsoft ceased supporting MS-DOS and the development of FreeDOS began.
1996 The Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin was shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin.
1997 The Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1998 The Supreme Court ruled that employers can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it.
2000 Rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genetic code.
2003 The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, struck down state bans on gay sex.
2008 The Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, an individual right to gun ownership.
Chart Toppers
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Ruby - Richard Hayman
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Raindrops - Dee Clark
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Running Bear - Sonny James
1977
Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Undercover Angel - Alan O’Day
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Raspberry Beret - Prince & the Revolution
Little Things - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
Today's Birthdays
1819 Abner Doubleday, baseball founder, died Jan 26, 1893
1892 Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning author (The Good Earth) died Mar 6, 1973
1898 Lt.Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (five Navy Crosses) died October 11, 1971
1904 Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein), actor (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, M) died Mar 23, 1964
1909 Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley) died Jan 21, 1997
1910 Roy Plunkett, scientist (discovered Teflon) died May 12, 1994
1914 Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias, International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer, died Sep 27, 1956
1934 Dave Grusin, composer (On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie)
1939 Charles Robb, former Virginia governor/U.S. senator
1940 Billy Davis Jr., singer (The 5th Dimension)
1942 Larry Taylor, bassist (Canned Heat)
1953 Robert Davi, actor (Die Hard)
1955 Mick Jones, guitarist/singer (Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash)
1955 Gedde Watanabe, actor (16 Candles, ER)
1956 Chris Isaak singer/actor/songwriter (Wicked Game)
1957 Patty Smyth, singer (Scandal)
1961 Terri Nunn, singer (Berlin)
1961 Greg LeMond, Tour de France-winning cyclist
1963 Harriet Wheeler, singer (The Sundays)
1969 Colin Greenwood, bassist (Radiohead)
1970 Chris O’Donnell, actor (Dead Poets Society, Batman & Robin)
1970 Sean Hayes, actor (Will & Grace)
1974 Derek Jeter, MLB shortstop (NY Yankees)
1974 Gretchen Wilson, country singer
1976 Chad Pennington, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1979 Nathan Followill, drummer (Kings of Leon)
1980 Jason Schwartzman, actor (Rushmore, Slackers)
1980 Redlightnry24, board member
1980 Michael Vick, former NFL quarterback/jailbird (Atlanta Falcons)
Today's Deaths in History
1810 Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor (hot air balloon) dies at 69
1956 Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter, dies at 25
1993 Roy Campanella, MLB catcher (Brooklyn Dodgers) dies at 71
1996 Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist, is shot and killed at 37
1997 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World) dies at 38
2003 Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator, dies at 100
2003 Sir Denis Thatcher, husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, dies at 88
2007 Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer, dies at 78
Today in History
1284 The legendary Pied Piper led 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany.
1870 The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., was opened to the public.
1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1894 The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
1917 The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.
1919 The New York Daily News was first published.
1925 Charlie Chaplin's comedy The Gold Rush premiered in Hollywood.
1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opened on Coney Island.
1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act, which established credit unions.
1945 The charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
1948 The Berlin Airlift began in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes.
1948 Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" was published in The New Yorker magazine.
1950 President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.
1963 President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he declared in a speech, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).
1973 Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
1974 The Universal Product Code was used for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier was later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1990 President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package.
1993 President Bill Clinton announced the U.S. had launched missiles against Iraqi targets because of "compelling evidence" Iraq had plotted to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush.
1994 Microsoft ceased supporting MS-DOS and the development of FreeDOS began.
1996 The Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin was shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin.
1997 The Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1998 The Supreme Court ruled that employers can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it.
2000 Rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genetic code.
2003 The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, struck down state bans on gay sex.
2008 The Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, an individual right to gun ownership.
Chart Toppers
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Ruby - Richard Hayman
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
1961
Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Raindrops - Dee Clark
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Running Bear - Sonny James
1977
Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Undercover Angel - Alan O’Day
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings
1985
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Raspberry Beret - Prince & the Revolution
Little Things - The Oak Ridge Boys
Quote of the Day
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
cheeers to rangerland!!!! partaaaaying it up till i drop tonight ! 
Today in History - June 27th
Today's Birthdays
1859 Mildred J. Hill, teacher/composer (Happy Birthday to You) died June 5, 1916
1880 Helen Keller, author/educator (blind/deaf) died June 1, 1968
1913 Willie Mosconi, billiards champion, died Sep 12, 1993
1920 I.A.L. Diamond, screen writer (Some Like it Hot, The Apartment) died Apr 21, 1988
1925 (Jerome) Doc Pomus, Rock and Roll Hall of fame songwriter (A Teenager in Love) died Mar 14, 1991
1926 Don (Bones) Raleigh, NHL center (New York Rangers)
1927 Bob Keeshan, children's TV host/ Clown Hall of Famer (Captain Kangaroo) died Jan 23, 2004
1930 H. Ross Perot, billionaire industrialist/philanthropist/U.S. presidential hopeful
1936 John Shalikashvili, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1941 Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (Three Colors) died March 13, 1996
1942 Frank Mills, pianist (Music Box Dancer)
1942 Bruce Johnston, singer (The Beach Boys)
1944 Bruce Johnston, songwriter/singer (The Beach Boys)
1949 Vera Wang, fashion designer
1951 Julia Duffy, actress (Designing Women, Newhart)
1955 Isabelle Adjani, actress (Diabolique, Ishtar)
1958 Lisa Germano, singer/songwriter/violinist (John Mellencamp)
1959 Lorrie (Loretta Lynn) Morgan, country singer/songwriter
1961 Margo Timmins, folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1966 J. J. Abrams, television writer/producer (Lost, Alias, Felicity)
1971 Yancey Arias, actor (Kingpin, Live Free or Die Hard )
1975 Tobey Maguire, actor (Pleasantville, The Cider House Rules, Spider-Man)
1976 Leigh Nash, singer (Sixpence None the Richer)
1984 Khloe Kardashian, reality television personality
1991 Madylin Sweeten, actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)
Today's Deaths in History
1829 James Smithson, English scientist/philanthropist (Smithsonian) dies at 64
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is shot and killed at 38
1996 Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, film producer (James Bond films) dies at 87
2001 Jack Lemmon, actor (Some Like it Hot, The Apartment) dies at 76
2002 John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) dies at 57
2004 George Patton IV, Army general/son of WWII Gen. George Patton, dies at 80
2004 Darrell Russell, NHRA driver, dies in a crash at 35
2005 Shelby Foote, author/historian (Civil War) dies at 88
2005 John T. Walton, businessman/son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, dies at 58 in a plane crash
2005 Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter, dies at 35
2006 Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, serial killer (The Railway Killer) is executed at 46
2008 Michael Turner, comic book artist (Witchblade, Fathom) dies at 37
Today in History
1844 Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
1846 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1893 The New York stock market crashed.
1942 The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1944 American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans three weeks after D-Day.
1950 The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
1954 The world's first nuclear power station opened in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
1966 Dark Shadows was first broadcast on ABC-TV.
1967 The world's first ATM was installed in Enfield, London.
1969 Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
1977 Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1980 President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
1985 Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.
2003 More than 735,000 phone numbers were registered on the first day of a national do-not-call list aimed at blocking unwelcome solicitations from telemarketers.
2005 BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that spread fear across Wichita, Kan., beginning in the 1970's; Rader later received multiple life sentences.
2005 AMD filed broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 Gordon Brown became British prime minister, succeeding Tony Blair.
2008 North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor at Yongbyon – only to announce in September that it would restore its nuclear facilities.
2008 Bill Gates stepped down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
They Say it’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
All Through the Day - Perry Como
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
Hernando’s Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
The Stripper - David Rose
Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
The Love You Save - The Jackson 5
Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Three Dog Night
Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty
1978
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
I’ll Be True to You - The Oak Ridge Boys
1986
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
Crush on You - The Jets
Mama’s Never Seen Those Eyes - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)
Today's Birthdays
1859 Mildred J. Hill, teacher/composer (Happy Birthday to You) died June 5, 1916
1880 Helen Keller, author/educator (blind/deaf) died June 1, 1968
1913 Willie Mosconi, billiards champion, died Sep 12, 1993
1920 I.A.L. Diamond, screen writer (Some Like it Hot, The Apartment) died Apr 21, 1988
1925 (Jerome) Doc Pomus, Rock and Roll Hall of fame songwriter (A Teenager in Love) died Mar 14, 1991
1926 Don (Bones) Raleigh, NHL center (New York Rangers)
1927 Bob Keeshan, children's TV host/ Clown Hall of Famer (Captain Kangaroo) died Jan 23, 2004
1930 H. Ross Perot, billionaire industrialist/philanthropist/U.S. presidential hopeful
1936 John Shalikashvili, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1941 Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (Three Colors) died March 13, 1996
1942 Frank Mills, pianist (Music Box Dancer)
1942 Bruce Johnston, singer (The Beach Boys)
1944 Bruce Johnston, songwriter/singer (The Beach Boys)
1949 Vera Wang, fashion designer
1951 Julia Duffy, actress (Designing Women, Newhart)
1955 Isabelle Adjani, actress (Diabolique, Ishtar)
1958 Lisa Germano, singer/songwriter/violinist (John Mellencamp)
1959 Lorrie (Loretta Lynn) Morgan, country singer/songwriter
1961 Margo Timmins, folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1966 J. J. Abrams, television writer/producer (Lost, Alias, Felicity)
1971 Yancey Arias, actor (Kingpin, Live Free or Die Hard )
1975 Tobey Maguire, actor (Pleasantville, The Cider House Rules, Spider-Man)
1976 Leigh Nash, singer (Sixpence None the Richer)
1984 Khloe Kardashian, reality television personality
1991 Madylin Sweeten, actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)
Today's Deaths in History
1829 James Smithson, English scientist/philanthropist (Smithsonian) dies at 64
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is shot and killed at 38
1996 Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, film producer (James Bond films) dies at 87
2001 Jack Lemmon, actor (Some Like it Hot, The Apartment) dies at 76
2002 John Entwistle, bassist (The Who) dies at 57
2004 George Patton IV, Army general/son of WWII Gen. George Patton, dies at 80
2004 Darrell Russell, NHRA driver, dies in a crash at 35
2005 Shelby Foote, author/historian (Civil War) dies at 88
2005 John T. Walton, businessman/son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, dies at 58 in a plane crash
2005 Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter, dies at 35
2006 Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, serial killer (The Railway Killer) is executed at 46
2008 Michael Turner, comic book artist (Witchblade, Fathom) dies at 37
Today in History
1844 Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
1846 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1893 The New York stock market crashed.
1942 The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1944 American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans three weeks after D-Day.
1950 The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
1954 The world's first nuclear power station opened in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
1966 Dark Shadows was first broadcast on ABC-TV.
1967 The world's first ATM was installed in Enfield, London.
1969 Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
1977 Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1980 President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
1985 Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.
2003 More than 735,000 phone numbers were registered on the first day of a national do-not-call list aimed at blocking unwelcome solicitations from telemarketers.
2005 BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that spread fear across Wichita, Kan., beginning in the 1970's; Rader later received multiple life sentences.
2005 AMD filed broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 Gordon Brown became British prime minister, succeeding Tony Blair.
2008 North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor at Yongbyon – only to announce in September that it would restore its nuclear facilities.
2008 Bill Gates stepped down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Chart Toppers
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
They Say it’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
All Through the Day - Perry Como
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills
1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
Hernando’s Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow
1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
The Stripper - David Rose
Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
1970
The Love You Save - The Jackson 5
Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Three Dog Night
Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty
1978
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
I’ll Be True to You - The Oak Ridge Boys
1986
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
Crush on You - The Jets
Mama’s Never Seen Those Eyes - The Forester Sisters
Quote of the Day
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler, English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)
Today in History - June 28th
Today's Birthdays
1491 Henry VIII, King of England, died Jan 28, 1547
1577 Sir Peter Rubens, artist (Elevation of the Cross) died May 30 1640
1703 John Wesley, founder of Methodism, died March 2, 1791
1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, died July 2, 1778
1902 Richard Rodgers, Broadway composer (Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I) died Dec 30, 1979
1914 Lester Flatt, country/bluegrass guitarist (Flatt and Scruggs) died May 11, 1979
1926 Mel Brooks (Kaminsky), actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers)
1932 Pat (Noriyuki) Morita, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid series) died Nov 24, 2005
1935 John Inman, English actor (Are You Being Served?) died Mar 8, 2007
1937 Richard Bright, actor (Godfather Films) died February 18, 2006
1945 David Knights, bassist (Procol Harum)
1946 Gilda Radner, comedienne/actress (Saturday Night Live) died May 20, 1989
1946 Bruce Davison, actor (Runaway Jury, Apt Pupil, X-Men series)
1948 Kathy Bates, actress (Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes, Six Feet Under)
1954 Alice Krige, South African actress (Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Voyager)
1960 John Elway, former NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1965 Jessica Hecht, actress (Friends, The Single Guy)
1965 Saul Davies, guitarist (James)
1966 John Cusack, actor (Bullets over Broadway, Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank)
1966 Mary Stuart Masterson, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful, Benny & Joon)
1967 Gil Bellows, actor (The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal)
1969 Danielle Brisebois, actress (All in the Family)
1971 Tichina Arnold, actress (Martin, Everybody Hates Chris)
1972 Alessandro Nivola, actor (Jurassic Park III, Face/Off)
1977 Mark Stoermer, bassist (The Killers)
1986 Kellie Pickler, country singer/TV personality (American Idol)
Today's Deaths in History
1836 James Madison, 4th President of the United States, dies at 85
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, is assassinated at 50
1914 Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, is assassinated at 46
1974 Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC) dies at 50
1975 Rod Serling, television scriptwriter (Twilight Zone) dies at 50
1976 Stanley Baker, Welsh actor/producer (The Guns of Navarone) dies at 48
1981 Terry Fox, Canadian athlete/cancer activist, dies at 22
2006 George Page, television host (PBS' Nature) dies at 71
2009 Billy Mays, television/advertisement salesperson, dies at 50
Today in History
1838 Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1894 Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees on the first Monday of September.
1902 The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1914 Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event triggered World War I.
1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
1919 Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Mo.
1950 North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1964 Malcom X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the Six-Day War.
1967 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1978 The Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit a white man who argued he had been a victim of reverse discrimination.
1994 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas in an attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing seven and injuring 660.
1995 Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.
1996 The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
1997 Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during their WBA heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas.
2000 Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits.
2000 The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.
2004 The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government two days ahead of schedule.
2004 The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.
2007 The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
Mam’selle - Art Lund
It’s a Sin - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Unchained Melody - Al Hibler
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young
1963
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Blue on Blue - Bobby Vinton
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer - Nat King Cole
Act Naturally - Buck Owens
1971
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Indian Reservation - Raiders
Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed
1979
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
The Logical Song - Supertramp
Nobody Likes Sad Songs - Ronnie Milsap
1987
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
In Too Deep - Genesis
Alone - Heart
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato, Greek author & philosopher(427 BC - 347 BC)
Today's Birthdays
1491 Henry VIII, King of England, died Jan 28, 1547
1577 Sir Peter Rubens, artist (Elevation of the Cross) died May 30 1640
1703 John Wesley, founder of Methodism, died March 2, 1791
1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, died July 2, 1778
1902 Richard Rodgers, Broadway composer (Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I) died Dec 30, 1979
1914 Lester Flatt, country/bluegrass guitarist (Flatt and Scruggs) died May 11, 1979
1926 Mel Brooks (Kaminsky), actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers)
1932 Pat (Noriyuki) Morita, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid series) died Nov 24, 2005
1935 John Inman, English actor (Are You Being Served?) died Mar 8, 2007
1937 Richard Bright, actor (Godfather Films) died February 18, 2006
1945 David Knights, bassist (Procol Harum)
1946 Gilda Radner, comedienne/actress (Saturday Night Live) died May 20, 1989
1946 Bruce Davison, actor (Runaway Jury, Apt Pupil, X-Men series)
1948 Kathy Bates, actress (Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes, Six Feet Under)
1954 Alice Krige, South African actress (Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Voyager)
1960 John Elway, former NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1965 Jessica Hecht, actress (Friends, The Single Guy)
1965 Saul Davies, guitarist (James)
1966 John Cusack, actor (Bullets over Broadway, Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank)
1966 Mary Stuart Masterson, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful, Benny & Joon)
1967 Gil Bellows, actor (The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal)
1969 Danielle Brisebois, actress (All in the Family)
1971 Tichina Arnold, actress (Martin, Everybody Hates Chris)
1972 Alessandro Nivola, actor (Jurassic Park III, Face/Off)
1977 Mark Stoermer, bassist (The Killers)
1986 Kellie Pickler, country singer/TV personality (American Idol)
Today's Deaths in History
1836 James Madison, 4th President of the United States, dies at 85
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, is assassinated at 50
1914 Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, is assassinated at 46
1974 Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC) dies at 50
1975 Rod Serling, television scriptwriter (Twilight Zone) dies at 50
1976 Stanley Baker, Welsh actor/producer (The Guns of Navarone) dies at 48
1981 Terry Fox, Canadian athlete/cancer activist, dies at 22
2006 George Page, television host (PBS' Nature) dies at 71
2009 Billy Mays, television/advertisement salesperson, dies at 50
Today in History
1838 Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1894 Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees on the first Monday of September.
1902 The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1914 Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event triggered World War I.
1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
1919 Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Mo.
1950 North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1964 Malcom X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the Six-Day War.
1967 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1978 The Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit a white man who argued he had been a victim of reverse discrimination.
1994 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas in an attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing seven and injuring 660.
1995 Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.
1996 The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
1997 Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during their WBA heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas.
2000 Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits.
2000 The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.
2004 The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government two days ahead of schedule.
2004 The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.
2007 The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
Chart Toppers
1947
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
Mam’selle - Art Lund
It’s a Sin - Eddy Arnold
1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Unchained Melody - Al Hibler
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young
1963
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Blue on Blue - Bobby Vinton
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer - Nat King Cole
Act Naturally - Buck Owens
1971
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Indian Reservation - Raiders
Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed
1979
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
The Logical Song - Supertramp
Nobody Likes Sad Songs - Ronnie Milsap
1987
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
In Too Deep - Genesis
Alone - Heart
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
Quote of the Day
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato, Greek author & philosopher(427 BC - 347 BC)
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