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Born on this day in history: 1883 - Franz Kafka (German novelists; Metamorphasis) 1927 - Ken Russell (movie director, Tommy) 1930 - Pete Fountain (jazz clarinetist) 1937 - Tom Stoppard (playwright, Shakespeare in Love) 1939 - Jay Tarses (writer-producer, TV's Molly Dodd) 1940 - Fontella Bass (singer, "Rescue Me") 1943 - Judith Durham (vocals, The Seekers) 1943 - Kurtwood Smith (actor, TV's That 70's Show, Robocop) 1945 - Michael Cole (actor, TV's Mod Squad) 1946 - Johnny Lee (country singer, "Looking For Love") 1947 - Betty Buckley (actress, TV's Eight is Enough) 1947 - Dave Barry (writer-humorist) 1948 - Paul Barrere (guitar, Little Feat) 1949 - Jan Smithers (actress, Bailee on TV's WKRP in Cincinnati) 1952 - Alan Autry 1956 - Montel Williams (TV talk show host) 1957 - Laura Branigan (singer, Gloria"; died 2004) 1958 - Aaron Tippin (country singer) 1960 - Vince Clarke (keyboards, Erasure, ex-Depeche Mode) 1962 - Tom Cruise (actor, Jerry Maguire, Mission Impossible, Risky Business, weird-o Scientologist) ) 1962 - Thomas Gibson (actor, Greg on TV's Dharma & Greg) 1962 - Hunter Tylo (actress, TV's Jack Of All Trades) 1969 - Kevin Hearn (keyboards, Barenaked Ladies) 1970 - Audra McDonald (singer-actress) On this day in music history: 1969 - Ex-Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones drowned in his swimming pool. 1970 - The Allman Brothers Band appeared at the Atlanta Pop Festival. Also on the bill were Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Johnny Winter, Mountain, Procol Harum and Rare Earth. 1971 - Jim MOrrison died of a heart attack in Paris. He was 27. 1973 - David Bowie announced he was retiring from live performing. Turns out he was just retiring his Ziggy Stardust character. 1975 - Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night was arrested for cocaine possession. 1977 - One-hit-wonder Alan O'Day had the #1 song with "Undercover Angel." 1982 - The Human League had the #1 single with "Don't You Want Me." 1986 - Depression-era singer Rudy Vallee died. 1988 - The #1 song was "The Flame" by Cheap Trick. 1995 - Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots pled not guilty to drug charges. 2000 - DirecTV aired the movie The Wizard of Oz, and synched up the soundtrack with Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. The band has denied any connection between the two. 2001 - Country songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Johnny Russell died at 61. On this day in history: 1608 - The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel De Champlain. 1775 - U.S. Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1863 - The Civil War battle of Gettysburg ended after Confederate General George Pickett's troops suffered severe losses to General George Meade and the Union Army. Meade had taken command only six days previously when General Joseph Hooker was relieved of command. The South had almost won the war, thanks to General Hooker's preoccupation with ladies of the evening in Washington; ladies who became known as "Hooker's Division," and, later, as simply "hookers." No kidding. 1901 - The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, committed its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana. They took $65,000 from a Great Northern train. 1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. 1962 - Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule. 1965 - Roy Rogers' beloved horse Trigger died at the age of 33. Roy couldn't stand the thought of life without Trigger, so he had the horse stuffed and put on display at his Double-R-Bar Ranch in Apple Valley, California. 1987 - Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first hot-air ballooners to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 1988 - Rocky Kenoyer set a record for making 403 parachute jumps in 24 hours. He made one every three minutes with the help of 50 parachute packers, seven airplanes and ten pilots. 1988 - The U.S.S. "Vincennes" shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. 1991 - U.S. President George Bush formally inaugurated the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. 1997 - U.S. President Clinton made his first formal response to the charges of sexual harassment from Paula Jones. He denied all the charges and asked that the judge dismiss the case. 1999 - President Clinton, acting to head off potential problems with the safety of imported food, said in his weekly radio address he was ordering inspectors at American ports to brand all unsafe and rejected food products, "Refused U.S." 2000 - Harold Nicholas, the younger half of the tap dancing Nicholas Brothers, died at age 79. |
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