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Born on this day in history: 1919 - Art Blakey (jazz drummer, leader of The Jazz Messengers; died 1990) 1937 - Ron Leibman (actor, Norma Rae) 1946 - Daryl Hall (singer, Hall & Oates) 1950 - Catlin Adams (actress-director, Sticky Fingers) 1950 - Andrew Woolfolk (sax, Earth, Wind & Fire) 1952 - Paulette Carlson (country singer) 1953 - David Morse (actor, TV's St. Elsewhere, Hack) 1957 - Blair Cunningham (drummer, Haircut 100, ex-Paul McCartney) 1961 - Steve Young (former quarterback for the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 1962 - Joan Cusack (actress, TV's What About Joan?, sister of John) 1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery (actor, Young Indiana Jones series) 1965 - Luke Perry (actor, TV's Beverly Hills 90210) 1968 - Jane Krakowski (actress, National Lampoon's Vacation, TV's Ally McBeal) 1971 - MC Lyte (rapper) 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg (actress, TV's Buffy The Vampire Slayer) 1989 - Michelle Wie (professional American golfer who has gained attention for her long drives and attempts to make a cut at a PGA Tour event) On this day in music history: 1960 - Aretha Franklin made her stage debut at the Village Vanguard in New York City. 1965 - The Beatles released "Roll Over Beethoven." 1966 - The Four Tops had the #1 song with "Reach Out, I'll Be There." 1969 - Actress Jane Birkin and French singer Serge Gainsbourg had the #1 single in the U.K. with the salacious instrumental with vocal moans, "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus." Pink Floyd's Roger Waters has said that it's his favorite record of all time. 1969 - Muddy Waters was seriously injured and three people were killed in a car accident near Chicago, Illinois. 1973 - Elvis's divorce from Priscilla Presley became final. 1976 - Disc jockey Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots, had the #1 song with "Disco Duck." Dees was fired from his morning show gig at WMPS in Memphis, Tennessee, for mentioning his novelty hit on the air. 1976 - The Sex Pistols recorded their first single, Anarchy In The U.K. 1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of punk rocker Sid Vicious, was found murdered in her Greenwich Village apartment. Sid was arrested the next day and charged with the murder. Sid later died of a heroin overdose after he was bailed out of prison on Rikers Island. 1986 - Janet Jackson had the #1 single with "When I Think Of You." 1987 - The #1 song was "Lost In Emotion" by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam. 1988 - Ringo Starr and his wife, actress Barbara Bach, checked themselves in for rehab from alcohol abuse at a clinic in Tucson, Arizona. 1992 - Singer Amy Grant gave birth to a daughter, Sarah Cannon. She was the third child of Grant and her now-former husband, songwriter Gary Chapman. 1997 - Elton John had the #1 single with his re-recording of "Candle In The Wind." It was his eighth U.S. chart topper. 1997 - Gregg Allman, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy and John Hiatt were all part of a tribute concert to Muddy Waters at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. 1999 - Deborah Rowe, the wife of Michael Jackson, filed for divorce after three years of marriage. They met while she was a nurse at the office of Michael's plastic surgeon. On this day in history: 1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The forces under General Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses. 1890 - The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C. 1968 - Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched. 1972 - Michael Gallens of Cairns, Australia set a world record by eating 63 bananas in 10 minutes. 1975 - Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC-TV, with the "Not Ready For Prime-Time Players." The host was George Carlin. 1975 - Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham in Fayetteville, Arkansas. 1976 - Jane Pauley replaced Barbara Walters on the Today Show. 1984 - Space shuttle astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. 1992 - George Bush Sr., Ross Perot and Bill Clinton had their first presidential debate. 1995 - O.J. Simpson backed out of his live interview with NBC-TV just hours before airtime. 1998 - Pope John Paul the Second decreed the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a convert to Catholicism who became a nun, and was then killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. 2000 - Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice-President Al Gore met in their second TV debate. 2001 - The FBI warned of possible terrorist attacks on the US in the days to come. 2002 - In Cedar Grave, Wisconsin, ten people were killed when more than two dozen vehicles crashed on a foggy highway. |
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