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Born on this day in history: 1920 - Leo McKern (actor, Clang in Help!; died 2002) 1926 - Jerry Lewis (comedian-actor-director-legend) 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan (former Democratic senator, New York; died 2003) 1930 - Tommy Flanagan (jazz pianist; died 2002) 1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci (movie director, The Dreamers) 1941 - Chuck Woolery (TV game show host, Love Connection) 1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker (singer-songwriter, Circus Maximus) 1948 - Michael Bruce (guitar, ex-Alice Cooper) 1949 - Erik Estrada (actor, TV's CHiPs) 1949 - Victor Garber (actor, TV's Alias, Godspell) 1950 - Kate Nelligan (actress, Prince of Tides) 1951 - Ray Benson (singer, "Asleep At The Wheel") 1953 - Isabelle Huppert (actress, Madame Bovary) 1954 - Nancy Wilson (guitarist-vocalist, Heart) 1959 - Flavor Flav (rapper, Public Enemy) 1967 - Lauren Graham (actress, TV's Gilmore Girls) On this day in music history: 1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary released "Puff The Magic Dragon." 1964 - The Beach Boys' Shut Down, Volume 2 was released. 1964 - The Beatles released Can't Buy Me Love. By the time of its US release, advance orders in the States had topped the two-million mark. 1966 - The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds was released. 1968 - The late Otis Redding’s "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay" hit #1, becoming the first posthumous #1 single of the rock era. 1970 - Singer Tammi Terrell died of a brain tumor at the age of 23. 1971 - The 13th Annual Grammy Awards were announced. The big winners were Simon & Garfunkel, and Bridge Over Troubled Water, both the album and the song. It won Grammys for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Contemporary Song, Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) and Best Engineered Recording. 1972 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were served with deportation orders because of his 1968 London drug conviction. 1975 - Blues guitar legend T-Bone Walker died of pneumonia in Los Angeles. He was 64. 1991 - Reba McEntire's road manager and seven members of her band were killed when their plane crashed into the side of a mountain near the California-Mexican border. 1991 - Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his wife, actress Valerie Bertinelli, welcomed a son into the world. They named him Wolfgang Van Halen. 1999 - The Recording Academy presented the first Diamond Awards, signifying sales of over ten million copies. On this day in history: 1802 - The U.S. Military Academy was established at West Point. 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter was first published. 1871 - Delaware enacted the first US Law regulating the production of fertilizer and manure. 1915 - The Federal Trade Commission was organized. 1932 - Babe Ruth signed with the Yankees for $75,000. At the time, it was the highest salary ever paid to a ballplayer. 1935 - Adolf Hitler scrapped the Treaty of Versailles. 1964 - Deejay Alan Freed was charged with income tax evasion by a federal grand jury. 1968 - American soldiers in Vietnam killed 109 men, women, and children in the infamous My Lai massacre. 1978 - Italy’s former prime minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Red Brigade guerrillas. He later was found murdered. 1985 - Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut. He was released in December 1991. 1986 - In a move found surprising by many, actress Debra Winger married actor Timothy Hutton. 1994 - Tonya Harding pled guilty to a felony charge associated with the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. She avoided jail in exchange for the guilty plea. 1998 - Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was demoted one rank after being convicted of obstruction of justice in a sexual misconduct case. 1999 - The Dow Jones industrial average topped the 10,000 level. It reached a high of 10,000.78 before retreating. 2000 - Thomas Wilson Ferebee, the Enola Gay bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died at age 81. |
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