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Born on this day in history: 1888 - Irving Berlin (composer, "God Bless America," "White Christmas"; died 1989) 1894 - Martha Graham (American dancer and choreographer; died 1991) 1904 - Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist painter; died 1989) 1912 - Phil Silvers (actor-comedian, TV's Sgt. Bilko; died 1985) 1912 - Foster Brooks (comedian; died 2001) 1927 - Mort Sahl (comedian-satirist) 1933 - Louis Farrakhan (head of the Nation of Islam) 1941 - Eric Burdon (singer, The Animals, War) 1943 - Les Chadwick (bass, Gerry & The Pacemakers) 1947 - Butch Trucks (drums, Allman Brothers Band) 1952 - Frances Fisher (actress, Titanic, Gone In Sixty Seconds) 1953 - Boyd Gaines (actor, TV's One Day At A Time) 1955 - Mark Herndon (drummer, Alabama) 1959 - Martha Quinn (former MTV veejay) 1963 - Natasha Richardson (actress, The Handmaiden's Tale) 1975 - Coby Bell (actor, TV's Third Watch) 1980 - Austin O'Brien (actor, Last Action Hero) 1982 - Jonathan Jackson (actor, TV's General Hospital) 1983 - Holly Valance (dancer, actor from New Zealand; distant relation of Benny Hill) On this day in music history: 1953 - "The Song From Moulin Rouge" by the Percy Faith Orchestra with Felicia Sanders was the #1 single. 1957 - The Everly Brothers made their debut on Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. 1963 - The Beatles started a 30-week run at #1 on the UK album chart with their debut LP, Please Please Me. Their second LP, With The Beatles, replaced it on December 7, 1963, and stayed on top for 21 weeks. 1964 - Mary Wells had the #1 single with "My Guy." It was the first chart-topper for the Motown label. 1964 - The Rolling Stones were refused lunch at The Grand Hotel in Bristol, England, where they were staying because the boys were not wearing jackets and ties. 1967 - The Bee Gees made their first appearance on the BBC's Top of the Pops TV show singing "New York Mining Disaster 1941." 1970 - The triple-LP Woodstock soundtrack was released. It went gold within two weeks. 1972 - John Lennon appeared on the Dick Cavett TV show claiming the FBI had him under surveillance. 1981 - Reggae legend Bob Marley died of cancer in a Miami hospital at the age of 36. 1995 - Guitarists Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray all got together for a tribute to the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. All five played with Stevie Ray at what was to be his last concert on August 26th, 1990. Vaughan died in a helicopter crash right after the gig. 1996 - Irish journalist Bill Graham, the man credited with discovering U2, died of a heart attack at age 44. 1997 - Country singer Trace Adkins married former record company publicist Rhonda Forlaw. 1999 - Country all-sisters group SHeDAISY returned to their hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, to sing at a charity dinner benefiting the Karl Malone Foundation for children's charities. On this day in history: 1858 - Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state. 1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established. 1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded. 1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market. 1970 - An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26. 1973 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. 1976 - The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D., is aired. 1997 - Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beat a world-champion player. 1998 - India conducted its first underground nuclear tests, three of them, in 24 years. The tests were in violation of a global ban on nuclear testing. 2001 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his decision to approve a 30-day delay of the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh had been scheduled to be executed on May 16, 2001. The delay was because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had failed to disclose thousands of documents to McVeigh's defense team. |
