Today in history.

[ShadowThomas]

Today in history. March 10th 2007

the 69th day of 2007. There are 296 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight-saving time begins Sunday at 2 a.m. locally. Clocks go forward one hour.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 10, 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you.” (The words were recounted by Bell in his lab notebook.)
On this date:

In 1629, England’s King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he did not call it back for 11 years.

In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.

In 1848, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.

In 1880, the Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.

In 1948, the body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.

In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally,” was convicted in Washington of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)

In 1965, Neil Simon’s play “The Odd Couple,” starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway.

In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)

In 1980, “Scarsdale Diet” author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (Tarnower’s former lover, Jean Harris, was convicted of murder; she served nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.)

In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73.

Ten years ago: The White House and the FBI clashed in a rare public quarrel after President Clinton said he should have been alerted when the bureau told national security officials that the Chinese government might be trying to influence U.S. elections.

Five years ago: Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office in Gaza City, hours after 11 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the street from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s residence in Jerusalem. Russell Crowe won best actor honors at the Screen Actors Guild awards for “A Beautiful Mind” while Halle Berry won best actress for “Monster’s Ball.” Actress Irene Worth died in New York at age 85.

One year ago: Officials confirmed that Tom Fox, an American who was among four Christian activists kidnapped in Iraq, had been found slain. A NASA spacecraft, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, slipped into orbit around the Red Planet. Ohio State, acknowledging eight of nine violations alleged by the NCAA, was placed on three years’ probation. Opera singer Anna Moffo died in New York at age 73.

Today’s Birthdays: Talk show host Ralph Emery is 74. Bluegrass/country singer-musician Norman Blake is 69. Actor Chuck Norris is 67. Playwright David Rabe is 67. Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean) is 67. Actress Katharine Houghton is 62. Rock musician Tom Scholz (Boston) is 60. Producer-director-writer Paul Haggis is 54. Actress Shannon Tweed is 50. Actress Sharon Stone is

49. Rock musician Gail Greenwood is 47. Magician Lance Burton is

47. Actress Jasmine Guy is 45. Rock musician Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) is 44. Music producer Rick Rubin is 44. Britain’s Prince Edward is

43. Singer Edie Brickell is 41. Actor Stephen Mailer is 41. Actress Paget Brewster is 38. Country singer Daryle Singletary is 36. Rapper-producer Timbaland is 35. Actor Cristian de la Fuente is 33. Singer Robin Thicke is 30. Actress Bree Turner is 30. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Shannon Miller is 30. Country singer Carrie Underwood is 24. Actress Emily Osment is 15.

Thought for Today: “If the Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me.” — Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter.

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. Also a big thank you to, Admin. Steve for letting me have this thread as a, Sticky. :)

Enjoy everyone. :)

[ShadowThomas]

Today in History - March 11

Today is Sunday, March 11, the 70th day of 2007. There are 295 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 11, 1942, as Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, vowing: “I shall return.” (He kept that promise nearly three years later.)
On this date:

In 1810, Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.

In 1861, the Confederate convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopted a constitution.

In 1888, the famous “Blizzard of ’88” began inundating the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths.

In 1941, President Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.

In 1957, Charles Van Doren’s 14-week run on the rigged NBC game show “Twenty-One” ended as he was “defeated” by attorney Vivienne Nearing; Van Doren’s take was $129,000.

In 1957, American explorer Richard E. Byrd died in Boston at age 68.

In 1965, the Rev. James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, died after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.

In 1977, more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.

In 1985, Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko.

In 2004, 10 bombs exploded in quick succession across the commuter rail network in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people in an attack linked to al-Qaida.

Ten years ago: In a startling turnaround, Senate Republicans agreed to a broader investigation of campaign financing that would include a look at huge “soft money” donations. Senate confirmation hearings for CIA Director-designate Anthony Lake began. Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

Five years ago: Two columns of light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. At the White House, President Bush unveiled a commemorative stamp to raise money to help Sept. 11 victims “get their lives back in order.” Israel lifted Yasser Arafat’s three-month confinement in the West Bank.

One year ago: Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Netherlands, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that had killed a quarter of a million people; he was 64. Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as Chile’s first female president.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Terence Alexander is 84. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is 76. ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson is 73. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is 71. Musician Flaco Jimenez is 68. Actress Tricia O’Neil is 62. Actor Mark Metcalf is 61. Rock singer-musician Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge) is 60. Singer Bobby McFerrin is 57. Movie director Jerry Zucker is 57. Actress Susan Richardson is 55. Recording executive Jimmy Iovine is 54. Singer Nina Hagen is 52. Country singer Jimmy Fortune (The Statler Brothers) is 52. Singer Cheryl Lynn is 50. Actress Alex Kingston is

44. Country musician David Talbot is 44. Actor Wallace Langham is

42. Actor John Barrowman is 40. Singer Lisa Loeb is 39. Singer Pete Droge is 38. Actor Terrence Howard is 38. Rock musician Rami Jaffee (Wallflowers) is 38. Actor Johnny Knoxville is 36. Rock singer-musicians Joel and Benji Madden (Good Charlotte) are 28. Actor David Anders is 26. Singer LeToya is 26. Actress Thora Birch is 25. Actor Anton Yelchin is 18.

Thought for Today: “There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.” — Kate Chopin, American writer (1851-1904).

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

Today is Tuesday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2007. There are 293 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 13, 1925, a law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.
On this date:

In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

In 1884, Congress adopted Eastern Standard Time for the District of Columbia.

In 1901, the 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis.

In 1933, banks began to reopen after a “holiday” declared by President Roosevelt.

In 1947, the Lerner and Loewe musical “Brigadoon” opened on Broadway.

In 1964, bar manager Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York City home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese’s neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.

In 1969, the Apollo 9 astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module.

In 1980, Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down.

In 1980, a jury in Winamac, Ind., found Ford Motor Co. innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto.

In 1996, a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire on a class of kindergartners, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

Ten years ago: A Jordanian soldier fired on Israeli junior high school girls on a field trip, killing seven of them. (The soldier, Corp. Ahmed Daqamseh, was later sentenced by a military court to life in prison.) In a southern Egyptian village, four masked militants shot and killed 14 people before escaping.

Five years ago: President Bush declared at a news conference that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a menace “and we’re going to deal with him,” and said Osama bin Laden had been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism.

One year ago: Deadly tornadoes raked the Midwest while wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle. Publisher McClatchy Co. agreed to buy Knight-Ridder, but planned to immediately sell 12 of its newspapers. Black Sabbath and Blondie entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Actress Maureen Stapleton died in Lenox, Mass., at age 80; game show host Peter Tomarken, 63, and his wife, Kathleen, were killed when their small plane crashed into California’s Santa Monica Bay.

Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 82. Country singer Jan Howard is 77. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 74. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 68. Actor William H. Macy is 57. Actress Deborah Raffin is 54. Comedian Robin Duke is 53. Actress Glenne Headly is 52. Actress Dana Delany is 51. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 47. Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 45. Actor Christopher Collet is 39. Actress Annabeth Gish is 36. Actress Tracy Wells is 36. Rapper Common is 35. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 35. Singer Glenn Lewis is 32. Actor Danny Masterson is 31. Actor Emile Hirsch is 22. Singers Natalie and Nicole Albino (Nina Sky) are 21.

Thought for Today: “The history of the world is the verdict of the world.” — Friedrich von Schiller, German author (1759-1805).

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

Today is Wednesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2007. There are 292 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America’s cotton industry.

On this date:

In 1900, Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan.

In 1923, President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.

In 1939, the republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation of Czech areas and the separation of Slovakia.

In 1951, during the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.

In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.

In 1965, Israel’s cabinet formally approved establishment of diplomatic relations with West Germany.

In 1967, the body of President Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1980, a Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.

In 1991, a British court reversed the convictions of the Birmingham 6, who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.

Ten years ago: Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a painful torn knee tendon in President Clinton’s right leg; the injury had been caused by a freak middle-of-the-night stumble at the Florida home of golfer Greg Norman.

Five years ago: The government charged the Arthur Andersen accounting firm with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in the collapse of Enron. Serbia and Montenegro signed a historic accord to radically restructure their federation, dropping the name “Yugoslavia” and granting greater autonomy to prevent the country’s final breakup.

One year ago: Iraqi authorities reported discovering at least 87 corpses — those of men shot to death execution-style — as Iraq edged closer to open civil warfare. Israel raided a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho, seizing six militants, after the new Hamas-led Palestinian government said it would release the men. A reservoir dam in Hawaii burst, releasing a torrent of water that killed seven people.

Today’s Birthdays: Former astronaut Frank Borman is 79. Singer Phil Phillips is 76. Actor Michael Caine is 74. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 74. Former astronaut Eugene Cernan is 73. Movie director Wolfgang Petersen is 66. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 62. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 62. Actor Steve Kanaly is 61. Comedian Billy Crystal is 59. Country singer Jann Browne is 53. Actor Adrian Zmed is 53. Prince Albert of Monaco is 49. Actress Tamara Tunie is 48. Actress Penny Johnson Jerald is

46. Producer-director-writer Kevin Williamson is 42. Actress Megan Follows is 39. Rock musician Michael Bland is 38. Country singer Kristian Bush is 37. Rock musician Derrick (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack) is 35. Actor Jake Fogelnest is 28. Actor Chris Klein is 28. Actress Kate Maberly is 25. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 24.

Thought for Today: “Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.” — Ayn Rand, American author (1905-1982).



For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[lynn]

Waiting Shadow.... ;) :D

[ShadowThomas]

Waiting Shadow.... ;) :D
:D

Thursday, March 15, 2007
#1 ALBUM DAY.

Billboard magazine began a new feature. It was the record chart of top albums. What album was the first to top this new chart? For those who thought it was something by Lauryn Hill, move two steps back, please. For those who thought it was a wax cylinder from Thomas Edison and the Record Rappers, jump back another three spaces. If, however, you said that the first album to reach #1 on this day in 1945 was The King Cole Trio, you are absolutely correct!

Of course, the albums mentioned on the Billboard list were, for several years, 78 rpm disks, not the 33-1/3 albums we came to know. Billboard and other trade magazines continue to list the week’s top albums. Billboard lists the Top 200 in order, from #1 on down. Some even have ‘bullets’ to reflect the week’s top movement in sales and radio airplay.
Events
March 15
44BC - In the ancient Roman calendar, each of the 12 months had an ‘ides’ of the month. In March, May, July and October, the ides fell on the 15th day. In all other months, the ides fell on the 13th. The word ‘ides’ was derived from the Latin “to divide.” The ides were originally meant to mark the full moon, but since the solar calendar months and lunar months were of different lengths, the ides eventually lost their original intent and purpose. We only remember March as the month that has Ides because it was on this day that Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated. William Shakespeare helped to promote the Ides of March. He sure knew how to run a PR campaign.

1820 - Maine joined the 22 states of the United States of America. Travel way up to the far northeastern tip of the U.S., where many pine trees grow, and you’ll be in Maine, the Pine Tree State. Coincidentally, the white pine cone with its tassel is the state flower; and since the chickadee makes its nest in the pine tree, we figure that’s why it is the state bird. The landlocked salmon is the state fish, the tourmaline is the state mineral and the state song is ... we’re not kidding ... “State of Maine Song”. ‘I direct’ is the state motto which is ‘dirigo’ in Latin. How about all of us who know the origin of the name, Maine, getting together for a Maine lobster dinner! We learned that its first use was to distinguish the mainland from islands offshore. Maine was also thought to be named in honor of Henrietta Maria, Charles I of England’s queen. She owned a province in France titled, Mayne. And, last but not least, Augusta is the capital of Maine (not Georgia).

1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team in America, had quite a day in Yellow Springs, OH, where they trounced Antioch 41-7. They weren’t even the Big Red Machine back then! In fact, the team was so embarrassed about their name, they changed it to Cincinnati Red Legs and even after that, (but long before Pete Rose) they became the Cincinnati Reds.

1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference just 11 days after his inauguration.

1937 - The first blood bank was established -- in Chicago, IL at the Cook County Hospital. Have some cookies and maybe an orange to celebrate...

1945 - Celebrities sauntered into Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles to celebrate the best of 1944. For the 17th time, the Academy Awards were presented by Hollywood -- to Hollywood. These Oscar awards were the first broadcast in entirety over the ABC radio network and Armed Forces Radio around the world. Co-hosts for the big show were actor/director John Cromwell (first half) and actor/comedian Bob Hope (second half). The Oscar for Best Picture went to the musical comedy, Going My Way. Best Director was Leo McCarey, who also wrote (Oscar: Best Writing/Original Story) and produced the Bing Crosby (Best Actor)/Barry Fitzgerald (nominated for Best Actor/winner of Best Supporting Actor) gem. Going My Way also scored an Academy Award for music (James Van Heusen), lyrics (Johnny Burke) for the song Swinging on a Star (a hit for Crosby, as was Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra, also from the film) and Best Writing/Screenplay (Frank Butler, Frank Cavett). Interesting trivia note: Some years later, while practicing a golf swing in his living room, Crosby knocked the head off the then plaster-cast Oscar statuette he earned from the movie. Best Actress Oscar was given to Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight and Best Supporting Actress was Ethel Barrymore for None But the Lonely Heart. We hope you’ve been paying attention. There may be a quiz later...

1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier was on the cover of LIFE magazine for his starring role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

1954 - CBS television inaugurated its Morning Show. The host? None other than the man who would become “The most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite. Uncle Walter was called “host, ring-master and coordinator” in the network’s attempt to compete against the already three-year-old Today show on NBC. Cronkite was a ‘nice’ host, but clearly out of his news element and the show was a ratings disappointment. Jack Paar took over as host some time later. The show still didn’t work. The program immediately following did work, however. That show was Captain Kangaroo.

1956 - The musical, My Fair Lady, opened on Broadway. The show ran for 6-1/2 years before 2,717 audiences. It became, thanks to Rex Harrison and an outstanding cast, the longest-running musical to that time.

1959 - The musical, No Strings, opened on Broadway at the 54th Street Theatre. Richard Kiley and Diahann Carroll starred in the show. Also featured was the show’s composer in an acting role, singing his own lyrics. The composer was Richard Rodgers.

1964 - Wedding bells (the first time) for actor Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The couple wed in secret ceremonies in Montreal, Canada.

1968 - LIFE magazine called Jimi Hendrix, “the most spectacular guitarist in the world.”

1968 - Bob Beamon set an indoor long jump record as he, literally, flew 27 feet, 2-3/4 inches.

1970 - The musical, Purlie, opened a run of 680 continuous performances on Broadway in New York City.

1971 - CBS television made a major announcement, saying that it was dropping The Ed Sullivan Show from its program line-up after 23 years on the network. The Sullivan show, a Sunday night fixture, presented everyone from the Beatles and dancing bears to a talking mouse named Topo Gigio, plus anyone and anything in between. It was the longest-running show in television history. “Kissa-me goo-night, Eddie...” (The final show aired June 6, 1971.)

1977 - The first episode of Eight is Enough was aired on ABC-TV. Mark Hamill starred in the opening show and, for a very few shows, as son, David. After talking to star, Dick Van Patten, Hamill said, “Enough!” He left to star in the motion picture, Star Wars as Luke Skywalker, gaining considerable notoriety from the George Lucas film epic.

1985 - Larry Holmes beat David Bey in Las Vegas, NV. This was probably good for Bey, since no one had heard of him in the first place. Holmes defended his International Boxing Federation heavyweight boxing title with the win. Holmes said after the fight that his career was probably over and that he would retire as no other heavyweight champ had done -- undefeated. Bey was notch number 47-in-a-row in Holmes’ belt buckle. Of course, Holmes would quit to come back another day. What happened to Bey? Hey, we didn’t hear from him again.

1987 - The place: Orlando, Florida. The golf course: the Arnold Palmer-designed Bay Hill layout. The tournament: the Bay Hill Classic. Don Pooley showed the golf world what a true million-dollar swing looked like, as he made a hole in one during the final round. The tournament sponsor had offered a million dollars to anyone making an ace. Pooley didn’t win the tourney, but won a lot more than anyone else...
Birthdays
March 15
1767 - Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President [1829-1837]; married to Rachel Robards; nickname: Old Hickory [died June 8, 1845]

1907 - Jimmy McPartland
jazz musician: cornetist; played for the Wolverine Orchestra, Embassy Four; bandleader; actor: The Magic Horn; played at Newport Jazz Festival with wife, Marian; died Mar 12, 1991

1913 - MacDonald Carey
actor: “Like sands through the hourglass these are the Days of Our Lives”; Comanche Territory, The Rebels, Who is the Black Dahlia, Access Code; died Mar 21, 1994

1916 - Harry (Haag) James
trumpeter, bandleader: Sweet Georgia Brown, Chiribiribin, And the Angels Sing, Two O’clock Jump, You Made Me Love You, Music Makers, Strictly Instrumental, I’ll Get By; married to Betty Grable (second of four wives); died July 5, 1983

1926 - Norm Van Brocklin
Pro Football Hall of Famer: quarterback: LA Rams, Philadelphia Eagles; died May 2, 1983

1927 - Carl Smith
country singer: Let’s Live a Little, Loose Talk, Trademark, Satisfaction Guaranteed; actor: The Badge of Marshall Brennan, Buffalo Guns; member: Grand Ole Opry

1932 - Alan (LaVern) Bean
astronaut: lunar module pilot: Apollo 12 [man’s second lunar landing], fourth man to set foot on the moon [Nov 19, 1969]; commander of Skylab 3 mission [U.S.’ first space station: 1973]

1933 - Cecil Taylor
jazz pianist, international concert artist, composer; taught black music and led Black Music Ensemble at U. of Wisconsin, Antioch, N.J. Glassboro State

1935 - Judd Hirsch
Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1980-81,1982-83]; Ordinary People, The Good-bye People, Running on Empty

1935 - Jimmy (Lee) Swaggert
TV evangelist: Jimmy Swaggart Ministries; cousin of singer Jerry Lee Lewis

1940 - Phil Lesh (Chapman)
musician: bass: group: Grateful Dead: St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower, Dark Star, Uncle John’s Band, New Speedway Boogie, Truckin’, Box of Rain, Alabama Gateway; composer: electronic music

1941 - Mike Love
singer, songwriter: group: The Beach Boys: I Get Around, Help Me Rhonda, Good Vibrations, California Girls, Surfin’ USA, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Be True to Your School

1944 - David Costell
musician: bass: group: Gary Lewis & The Playboys: This Diamond Ring

1944 - Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart)
musician, singer: group: Sly & The Family Stone: Dance to the Music, Everyday People, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You, Family Affair; Former San Francisco DJ

1946 - Bobby (Lee) Bonds
baseball: SF Giants [individual record for season strikeouts [189 in 1970/all-star: 1971, 1973], NY Yankees, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs; father of baseball’s Barry Bonds; died Aug 23, 2003

1946 - Howard Scott
musician: guitar, singer: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Can’t We be Friends?

1947 - Ry (Ryland) Cooder
musician: guitar: Sister Morphine, Ditty Wah Ditty [w/Earl Hines]; composer: Mama Don’t Treat Your Daughter Mean, UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto, I’m Drinking Again, Hard Workin’ Man

1954 - Craig Wasson
actor: Body Double, Malcolm X, Phyllis, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1955 - Dee Snider
composer, singer: group: Twisted Sister: We’re Not Gonna Take It

1961 - Fabio (Lanzoni)
model: covers of romance novels; writer: Pirate

1962 - Terence Trent D’Arby
singer, songwriter: Wishing Well, LP: Introducing the Hard Line

1964 - Rockwell (Kennedy William Gordy)
singer: Somebody’s Watching Me; son of Motown founder, Berry Gordy
Chart Toppers
March 15
1946Oh, What It Seemed to Be - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie
Hughes)
Let It Snow - Vaughn Monroe
Symphony - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
Guitar Polka - Al Dexter

1954Make Love to Me! - Jo Stafford
I Get So Lonely - The Four Knights
Answer Me, My Love - Nat ‘King’ Cole
Slowly - Webb Pierce

1962Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
Don’t Break the Heart that Loves You - Connie Francis
Misery Loves Company - Porter Wagoner

1970Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Travelin’ Band/Who’ll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Rapper - The Jaggerz
It’s Just a Matter of Time - Sonny James

1978(Love Is) Thicker Than Water - Andy Gibb
Night Fever - Bee Gees
Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Waylon &
Willie

1986Sara - Starship
These Dreams - Heart
Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr
I Could Get Used to You - Exile


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

75th day of 2007 - 290 remaining

Friday, March 16, 2007
LE ROI DU CRAZY DAY.

Who could have known that Joseph Levitch, the baby boy born on this day in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, would someday wear the crown of the ‘King of Crazy’! Maybe his father had a clue when he introduced his five year old on stage at Brown’s Hotel in Loch Sheldrake, NY. Little Joey sang, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime. Today, that theatre bears the name of this actor, singer, dancer, musician, comedian, producer, professor, and humanitarian. Maybe you’ve been to the Jerry Lewis Theatre in the borscht belt in upstate New York. Certainly, you’ve seen Jerry Lewis perform.

Maybe your first experience was seeing him in his role as the goofy partner of the suave, romantic Dean Martin. From 1946, when the two performed together for the first time in Atlantic City’s 500 Club, till a decade later when the partners split; we were entertained with club appearances and no less than a dozen movies. The first, My Friend Irma, premiered at New York’s Paramount Theatre. The opening stage act starred Martin and Lewis in person.

Jerry Lewis’ mugging skills became the central force behind many of the movies the two made. Films like That’s My Boy and The Caddy catapulted him into stardom. From 1951 through 1959, Jerry’s name appeared in the top ten of box-office stars (6 years with his partner and 3 solo). In fact, in 1959, Paramount signed him to a fourteen-film contract for ten million dollars -- probably the most expensive contract signed with a performer at the time. He was back in the top ten from 1961 through 1964 and had received acclaim as Best Director for The Nutty Professor from the French.

Comedian, film star and director was never enough for the zany, talented Lewis. He had a top-ten hit in 1956, Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody; his own TV variety show from 1965 to 1974 and he continued to make movies, work the club circuit, and teach film at USC. His devotion to supporting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is known world wide. There are few who have never seen the annual Labor Day Telethon for MDA hosted by the untiring Jerry Lewis. Undaunted by protesters he continues the quest to raise money to help those stricken with neuromuscular diseases.

And, undaunted by the fact that his talents have never been truly recognized by his fellow Americans, Jerry Lewis continues to entertain us. A cult hero to the French, he remains ‘Le Roi du Crazy’.
Events
March 16
1850 - The novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time. Attention: Any sweater with a big letter “A” on it should not be worn today! So, please, put the letter sweaters away for a day, ok? Thank you. In case you forgot, other novels by Mr. Hawthorne included The House of Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, Twice-Told Tales, Tanglewood Tales and The Wonder Book.

1871 - The state of Delaware, the first state to enter the union, enacted the first fertilizer law.

1882 - The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.

1915 - The Federal Trade Commission began operation. The U.S. government appointed five commissioners to receive $10,000 each year to regulate commerce and prohibit unlawful trade.

1934 - The 6th celebration of movieland’s achievements, The Academy Awards for the films of 1932 and 1933, was held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles with humorist/actor/writer Will Rogers as host. Only one film from 1932 captured honors. Harold C. Lewis of the Paramount Studio Sound Department won the Best Sound/Recording award for A Farewell to Arms. The Best Picture and Best Director Frank Lloyd) prizes went to the 1933 flick, Cavalcade produced by Winfield R. Sheehan. The Best Actor was Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII, and the Best Actress was Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (1933). This was her first Academy Award, and the last she would receive for 34 years. The second cartoon to take home (to their little brick house) an Oscar was Walt Disney’s The Three Little Pigs for Best Short Subjects/Cartoons.

1937 - Former world champion hurdler, Percy Beard, was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers to teach the faltering baseball team how to run.

1942 - Fats Waller recorded The Jitterbug Waltz in New York for Bluebird Records.

1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.

1955 - The Ballad of Davy Crockett, by Bill Hayes, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts and stayed for five weeks beginning this day. The smash hit song sold more than 7,000,000 records on more than 20 different labels. Everyone seemed to be singing the song that saluted the frontier hero who was “Born on a mountain top in Tennessee...” Coonskin caps were seen everywhere as the Crockett craze spread like a frontier fire.

1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary released the single, Puff The Magic Dragon. Through the years, controversy continually surrounded the song. It was banned by several radio stations whose management figured that the song was about the elicit joys of smoking marijuana. The group denied this startling assumption. “It’s about a magic dragon named Puff,” they said. So there. The trio recorded a dozen hits that charted between 1962 and 1969. Puff was their third song. It went to number two on the pop charts and puffed around for nearly three months. The group next did a Bob Dylan protest song, Blowin’ in the Wind and ended a sterling career with a John Denver song -- the group’s biggest -- Leaving on a Jet Plane.

1964 - Paul Hornung, ‘The Golden Boy’, and Alex Karras, the guy who punched out a horse in the movie, Blazing Saddles, were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games.

1985 - A Chorus Line played performance number 4,000 this night at New York’s famed Shubert Theatre. The show originally opened in July, 1975, and became the longest-running show to light up the Great White Way in September, 1983.

1985 - People magazine listed the top 57 money-making show-biz stars. At the pinnacle was Paul McCartney, former Beatle and leader of the group, Wings, whose music empire was said to be worth $500 million. Bob Hope made the list with a worth of about $200 million.

1987 - Bostonia magazine printed an English translation of Albert Einstein’s last high school report card. The brain behind the theory of relativity did relatively well with an ‘A’ in math, of course, but a ‘D’ in French.
Birthdays
March 16
1751 - James Madison
4th U.S. President [1809-1817]; married to Dorothea ‘Dolly’ Todd; nickname: Father of the Constitution; died June 28, 1836

1822 - Rosa Bonheur
artist: famous for her animal paintings: The Horse Fair; 1st woman to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion d’Honneur; died May 25, 1899

1897 - Conrad Nagel
actor: The Mysterious Lady, The Kiss, The Divorcee; died Feb 24, 1970

1906 - Henny (Henry) Youngman
comedian: “Take my wife ... please.”, Joe & Dad, The Henny and Rocky Show; actor: Amazon Women on the Moon, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, The Unkissed Bride, Goodfellas [cameo]; died Feb 24, 1998

1912 - Pat Nixon (Ryan)
former U.S. First Lady: Married to 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon; died June 22, 1993

1920 - Leo McKern
actor: A Foreign Field, The Mouse that Roared, A Man for All Seasons, Help, Rumpole of the Bailey, Ladyhawke, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Blue Lagoon, Ryan’s Daughter; died July 23, 2002

1926 - Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
comedian, actor; see Le Roi du Crazy Day [above]

1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
U.S. Senator from New York; died Mar 26, 2003

1927 - Ruby (Reuben) Braff
modern jazz musician: trumpet, cornet; actor: Pipe Dream

1930 - Hobie (Hobert Neal) Landrith
baseball: catcher: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs, Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals, SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles, NY Mets, Washington Senators

1932 - Don (Lee) Blasingame
baseball: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1958], SF Giants, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961], Washington Senators, KC Athletics

1932 - R. Walter Cunningham
astronaut: Apollo 7 mission [circled Earth 173 times: Oct, 1968]; chief of Skylab applications program [supervised development and design]

1932 - Betty Johnson
singer: I Dreamed, Little White Lies, The Little Blue Man, Dream

1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci
Academy Award-winning director: The Last Emperor [1987]; Stealing Beauty, Little Buddha, Once Upon a Time in the West, Last Tango in Paris, The Grim Reaper

1942 - Roger Crozier
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [Stanley Cup playoff MVP: 1966], Buffalo Sabres, Washington Capitals; died Jan 11, 1996

1942 - MacArthur Lane
football: Green Bay Packers

1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker (Paul Crosby)
country singer, guitarist: Mr. Bojangles, Good Loving Grace, My Old Man, Hill Country Rain, Charlie Dunn

1947 - Tom (Thomas William) Bradley
baseball: pitcher: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, SF Giants

1949 - Erik Estrada
actor: C.H.I.P.S., Twisted Justice, Night of the Wilding, Caged Fury, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

1950 - Kate Nelligan
actress: Up Close and Personal, Fatal Instinct, Eye of the Needle, Frankie and Johnny, The Prince of Tides, Dracula, The Count of Monte Cristo

1950 - Tim Stokes
football: Univ of Oregon, LA Rams

1951 - Brian McKenzie
hockey: Pittsburgh Penguins, Omaha Knights, Hershey Bears, Edmonton Oilers, Mohawk Valley Comets, Indianapolis Racers, Toledo Goaldiggers, Milwaukee Admirals

1953 - Isabelle Huppert
actress: Le Ceremonie, The Separation, Violette, Story of Women, Entre Nous

1954 - Hollis Stacy
golf champion: U.S. Open [1977, 1978, 1984]; Du Maurier Classic [1983]

1954 - Nancy Wilson (Nancy Lamoureux Wilson)
musician: guitar, singer: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On; actress: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Wild Life

Chart Toppers
March 16
1947 The Anniversary Song - Dinah Shore
Managua, Nicaragua - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Don Rodney)
Oh, But I Do - Margaret Whiting
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed - Merle Travis

1955 The Ballad of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes
Sincerely - McGuire Sisters
Pledging My Love - Johnny Ace
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963 Walk like a Man - The 4 Seasons
Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics
You’re the Reason I’m Living - Bobby Darin
The Ballad of Jed Clampett - Flatt & Scruggs

1971 One Bad Apple - The Osmonds
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
For All We Know - Carpenters
I’d Rather Love You - Charley Pride

1979 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Tragedy - Bee Gees
Heaven Knows - Donna Summer with Brooklyn Dreams
Golden Tears - Dave & Sugar

1987 Jacob’s Ladder - Huey Lewis & The News
Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
Let’s Wait Awhile - Janet Jackson
Baby’s Got a New Baby - S-K-O


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

Sunday, March 18, 2007
PENNY LANE DAY.

The Beatles went gold this day in 1967 -- receiving a gold record for the hit single, Penny Lane. This was not an unusual event for The Beatles. However, the recording of Penny Lane has left us with some interesting trivia.

According to Paul McCartney, Penny Lane is a bus roundabout in Liverpool; and there is a barber’s shop showing photographs of every head he’s had the pleasure to know -- no that’s not true, they’re just photos of hairstyles, but all the people who come and go stop and say hello. “It’s part fact, part nostalgia for a place which is a great place, blue suburban skies as we remember it, and it’s still there.”

There were at least two different endings to the song. Radio stations were furnished with a 45 rpm version that featured a trumpet solo of seven notes, sustaining on the final note into Ringo’s cymbal conclusion. Record buyers, on the other hand, heard the words “Penny Lane” at the end of the song, which then went into a sustaining note under Ringo’s cymbal. There was no trumpet fanfare.

The original version shows up on the Rarities album on Capitol Records. Those having the original ‘Promotional Copy’ of the song have quite a valuable find. Penny Lane is also included on the American release of the Magical Mystery Tour album, but not the British EP version. While a number one song in America, Penny Lane made it to number two in England, causing some to wonder “if The Beatles were beginning to slip,” according to The Beatles -- An Illustrated Record.

The ‘B’ side of gold record was the popular Strawberry Fields Forever.
Events
March 18
1813 - David Melville of Newport, Rhode Island patented the gas streetlight. He celebrated by having the new lights installed in front of his house!

1902 - Enrico Caruso recorded 10 arias for the Gramophone Company. The recording session took place in Milan, Italy and Caruso walked away with $500 for his effort.

1910 - Hold on to your hats! The opera, Pipe of Desire, was first performed this day at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Frederick Sheperd Converse wrote the work that turned out to be the first opera by an American composer to be performed at the Met.

1918 - The first seagoing ship made of concrete was launched at Redwood City, CA, near San Francisco. The ship was named Faith and those who launched her had plenty of that. They had faith that the vessel wouldn’t sink. It didn’t. Faith cost $750,000 to build.

1931 - Schick, Inc., the razor company, displayed the first electric shaver -- in Stamford, CT.

1940 - Light of the World was first heard on NBC radio. The soap opera was unique in that it featured the Bible as the center of the story line.

1940 - Glen Gray and his orchestra recorded No Name Jive on Decca Records.

1953 - Major-league baseball announced the first team relocation since 1903. The Boston Braves told of their plans to move west to Milwaukee, WI. The Red Sox stayed in Beantown. After almost two more decades, the Braves moved again, this time they went south to Atlanta. The Brewers then took over Milwaukee County Stadium.

1954 - How’s this for confidence? RKO Pictures was sold to become the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. That person was none other than Howard Hughes. The selling price? $23,489,478.

1959 - Bill Sharman of the Boston Celtics began what was to be the longest string of successful consecutive free throws (56 in a row) to set a new National Basketball Association record.

1970 - Brook Benton received a gold record for the hit single, Rainy Night in Georgia. It was Benton’s first hit since 1963’s Hotel Happiness.

1978 - The Bee Gees started an eight-week stay at the top of the pop music charts with Night Fever (they had a total of nine #1 hits) from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Makes you want to get out that white suit and black shirt, doesn’t it?

1985 - The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) announced plans to merge with Capital Cities Communications to form Cap Cities/ABC. The $3.5 billion merger was the 11th largest corporate merger in U.S. history.

1985 - History was made in the short-lived United States Football League this day. A pro football record was set by Denver and Houston of the USFL with a total of 112 passes thrown in the game. Houston went airborne 69 times, Denver took to the air 43 times.

1986 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear, polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.

Birthdays
March 18

1782 - John Calhoun
U.S. Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson [1825-1832]; the first VP to resign office: became a U.S. Senator; died Mar 31, 1850

1837 - Grover (Stephen) Cleveland
22nd [1885-1889] & 24th [1893-1897] U.S. President; only one to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms; only president to be married in White House [to Frances Folsom (2 sons, 3 daughters)]; the 1st to have a child born there; died June 24, 1908

1844 - Nikolai (Nikolay Andreyevich) Rimsky-Korsakov
composer: Scheherazade, Song of India, The Flight of the Bumblebee; died June 21, 1908

1886 - Edward Everett Horton
narrator: Fractured Fairy Tales on The Bullwinkle Show; actor: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Lost Horizon, Sex and the Single Girl, Arsenic and Old Lace; died Sep 29, 1970

1901 - William H. (Henry) Johnson
artist: expressionist: Minnie, Sun Setting, Denmark; returned to U.S. when Hitler began destroying African and primitive themes; known later for historical African-American figures & events: Going to Church, Mom and Dad; died in 1970

1911 - Smiley (Lester Alvin) Burnette
actor: Western Double Features, Gene Autry Matinee Double Features, Dick Tracy: The Original Serial, King of the Cowboys, Springtime in the Rockies, Silver Spurs; died Feb 16, 1967

1923 - Andy Granatelli
auto racer: “STP is the racer’s edge.”

1926 - Peter Graves (Aurness)
actor: Mission Impossible, The Winds of War, Airplane, Airplane 2, Stalag 17, The President’s Plane is Missing, The Night of the Hunter; brother of actor James Arness

1927 - George Plimpton
author: Paper Lion, Shadow Box actor: Rio Lobo, Reds, Little Man Tate, Just Cause; died Sep 26, 2003

1932 - John Updike
writer: The Witches of Eastwicke, Rabbit Run

1936 - Frederik Willem de Klerk
president: South Africa [1989-1994]; recipient [with Nelson Mandela] of Nobel Peace Prize [1993] for democratization of South Africa

1937 - Mark Donohue
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1972]; killed practicing for Austrian Grand Prix at Graz, Austria Aug 19, 1975

1938 - Shashi Kapoor
actor: Gulliver’s Travels, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Heat and Dust, The Householder

1938 - Charley Pride
country singer: Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’, Why Baby Why; member of Grand Ol’ Opry, CMA Entertainer of the Year [1971], Male Vocalist of the Year [1971-1972]; semipro baseball player

1941 - Margie Bowes
country entertainer: Grand Ole Opry; married to Doyle Wilburn of the Wilburn Brothers

1941 - Pat (Robert Patrick) Jarvis
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos

1941 - Wilson Pickett
singer: In the Midnight Hour, Land of 1000 Dances, Funky Broadway, Mustang Sally, It’s Too Late, Don’t Knock My Love; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1991]; died Jan 19, 2006

1942 - Jeff Mullins
basketball: Duke Univ. All-American, 1964 Olympics, Atlanta Hawks

1943 - Kevin Dobson
actor: Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon, Dirty Work, Code of Honor, Midway

1947 - B.J. (Barrie James) Wilson
musician: drummer: group: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale; died Oct 8, 1990

1948 - Guy Lapointe
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, SL Blues, Boston Bruins

1950 - Brad Dourif
actor: Phoenix, Color of Night, Wild Palms, Final Judgement, Jungle Fever, Body Parts, Mississippi Burning, Blue Velvet, Dune, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Studs Lonigan

1950 - John Hartman
musician: drums: group: The Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music, Long Train Runnin’, China Grove, Black Water, What a Fool Believes; veterinarian

1952 - Glenn McDonald
basketball: Long Beach State Univ., Boston Celtics

1952 - Mike Webster ‘Iron Mike’: Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers center [1974-1988]: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; played more seasons [15] and more games [220] than any player in Steelers’ history; died Sep 24, 2002

1956 - Ingemar Stenmark
Swedish skier: holds individual racing record of 86 wins including 46 giant slalom and 40 slalom out of 287 contests, [1974-1989]

1959 - Irene Cara
singer: Fame, The Dream; actress: Fame, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Caged in Paradiso, City Heat, For Us the Living, Killing ’Em Softly

1963 - Vanessa L. Williams
singer: LPs: The Comfort Zone, The Sweetest Days; actress: Eraser, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man; Broadway: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Into The Woods; Miss America 1984

1964 - Bonnie Blair
Olympic Gold medalist [1988] and world record holder: speed skater [1994]

Chart Toppers

March 18
1949 Far Away Places - Margaret Whiting
Powder Your Face with Sunshine - Evelyn Knight
Cruising Down the River - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The
Skyliners)
Don’t Rob Another Man’s Castle - Eddy Arnold

1957 Young Love - Tab Hunter
Round and Round - Perry Como
Little Darlin’ - The Diamonds
There You Go - Johnny Cash

1965 Eight Days a Week - The Beatles
Stop! In the Name of Love - The Supremes
The Birds and the Bees - Jewel Akens
I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail - Buck Owens

1973 Killing Me Softly with His Song - Roberta Flack
Love Train - O’Jays
Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) - Deodato
Teddy Bear Song - Barbara Fairchild

1981 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon
Woman - John Lennon
Guitar Man - Elvis Presley

1989 Lost in Your Eyes - Debbie Gibson
The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
Roni - Bobby Brown
From a Jack to a King - Ricky Van Shelton


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[Penny]

Really enjoying this thread..........thanks so much for posting it Shadow!!!! :)

[ShadowThomas]

Monday, March 19, 2007
SWALLOW DAY. :D

This is St. Joseph’s Day, the day that those little birds known as swallows traditionally return to the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California. Every March 19th since 1776 (with very few exceptions), the birds come back to usher in spring in this Southern California seaside town.

While their return is an annual tourist attraction, some in the community have gotten a bit fed up with the mess left behind when the birds migrate in the fall (October 23rd, St. John’s Day). It is costing the quaint town of San Juan Capistrano, in Orange County, California, a lot of money to clean up historic, old buildings where the swallows return to roost year after year.

Events
March 19


1831 - The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the heist.

1928 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll left WGN radio in Chicago to head across town to WMAQ radio. They weren’t able to take their previously popular radio show names with them due to contract limitations. So Sam and Henry were no more. However, Gosden and Correll came up with a new name for the show that became even more popular than the first. A year later it was the national hit: Amos and Andy.

1941 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded one of their biggest musical successes. It became one of Decca Records’ all-time greats. Green Eyes featured vocalists Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly.

1948 - The quickest main event in the history of Madison Square Garden in New York City happened on this day. A crowd of spectators watched in amazement as Lee Savold knocked out Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds of the first round of their prize fight.

1949 - The American Museum of Atomic Energy opened in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

1951 - The Caine Mutiny, a novel by Herman Wouk, was published for the first time. Wouk won a Pulitzer for the novel. He followed it with several more successes: Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.

1953 - The Academy Awards celebrated their silver anniversary -- and came to television. NBC paid $100,000 for the rights to broadcast the event on both radio and TV. Hollywood’s best turned out to hand out the Oscar statuettes for the movies of 1952. The party was held at the RKO Pantages Theater, Los Angeles, with Bob Hope hosting. A dual celebration was staged in New York City, where Conrad Nagel was host. The Best Picture award went to Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth. Best Director was the legendary John Ford for The Quiet Man. The rest of the best: Actor: Gary Cooper for High Noon; Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn for Viva Zapata!; Actress: Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba; Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful; Art Direction-Set Decoration/Color: Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertès for Moulin Rouge; Music/Song: Dimitri Tiomkin (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) for the song, High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’), from High Noon.

1954 - Viewers saw the first televised prize fight shown in living color as Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Troy in round seven of a scheduled 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1954 - The first rocket-driven sled that ran at incredible speeds on rails was tested in Alamogordo, NM. Scientists were heard to exclaim, “And we didn’t even need snow!”

1968 - Dean Martin received a gold record for the album, Houston. Martin charted 17 hits on the pop music charts in the 1950s and 1960s. Houston was his 12th.

1977 - The staff of WJM-TV had a going-away party, as the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was broadcast. Everyone was fired except the inept Ted Baxter. The show had been a popular hit for seven years. Syndication continues to keep Mary, Lou, Murray, Ted, Rhoda and the rest of the crew going with what was called “the best television of the 1970s.”

1985 - IBM announced that it was planning to stop making the PCjr consumer-oriented computer. The machine had been expected to dominate the home computer market but didn’t quite live up to those expectations. In the 16 months that the PCjr was on the market, only 240,000 units were sold.

Birthdays
March 19


1589 - William Bradford
governor: Plymouth Colony; sailed on the Mayflower; died May 19, 1657

1813 - David Livingstone
missionary, explorer: the Livingstone of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” spoken by Henry M. Stanley who found Livingstone in Africa after a two year search; died May 1, 1873

1847 - Albert Pinkham Ryder
artist: The Race Track, Toilers of the Sea, Siefried and the Rhine Maidens; known for his layered paintings of the sea; died Mar 28, 1917

1848 - Wyatt Earp
frontiersman, lawman, gunfighter: gunfight at O.K. Corral; died Jan 13, 1929

1860 - William Jennings Bryan
politician: member of U.S. Congress, Democratic U.S. presidential nominee [1896]; the ‘silver-tongued orator’: Scopes trial; died July 26, 1925

1864 - Charles Marion Russell
artist: known for his paintings of the American cowboy; died Oct 24, 1926

1881 - Edith Nourse Rogers
created Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps [1942]; member of U.S. House of Representatives [reelected 17 times: served from June 25, 1925 until her death on Sep 10, 1960]

1891 - Earl Warren
14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1953-1969]; died July 9, 1974

1892 - James (Alward) Van Fleet
4-star U.S. Army General [WWI, WWII, Korean War]; consulted Defense Dept.; received Distinguished Service Cross; died Sep 23, 1992 [6 months after his 100th birthday]

1894 - (Jackie) ‘Moms’ Mabley (Loretta Mary Aiken)
comedienne: Abraham, Martin & John; films: Boarding House Blues, Emperor Jones, Amazing Grace, Killer Diller; died May 23, 1975

1904 - John Sirica
U.S. federal judge: presided over Watergate trials and hearings; died Aug 14, 1992

1915 - Patricia Morison (Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison)
musician: bass; singer; actress: The Magnificent Fraud, The Roundup, One Night in Lisbon, The Song of Bernadette, Lady on a Train, Song of the Thin Man, Tarzan and the Huntress

1916 - Irving Wallace
novelist and biographer: The Fan Club, The Word, The Man; co-author with David Wallechinsky: The People’s Almanac; died June 29, 1990

1920 - Tige Andrews (Tiger Androwaous)
actor: The Detectives, The Mod Squad

1927 - Richie (Don Richard) ‘Whitey’ Ashburn
Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star; 1948, 1951, 1953, 1958/World Series: 1950/batting championship: 1955, 1958], Chicago Cubs, NY Mets [all-star: 1962]; batted .308 lifetime with nine .300 seasons and 2,574 hits in 2,189 games; broadcaster for three decades for the Phillies; died Sep 9, 1997

1928 - Patrick McGoohan
actor: Secret Agent, Braveheart, Escape from Alcatraz, The Silver Streak, Ice Station Zebra, I Am a Camera; actor, director: The Prisoner

1930 - Ornette Coleman
musician: saxophone, trumpet, violin, composer: LPs: Something Else!!!, Tomorrow is the Question!, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change the Century, Free Jazz, Ornette on Tenor, Town Hall, Chappaqua Suite, Ornette Coleman in Europe Vols. 1 & 2, At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Who’s Crazy, The Empty Foxhole, Forms and Sounds: The Music of Ornette Coleman, New York is Now!, Ornette at 12, Crisis, Friends and Neighbors, Science Fiction, Broken Shadows, Skies of America, The Caravan of Dreams

1930 - Bill Henderson
jazz singer: LPs: And His Special Friends, Live at the Times, Bill Henderson with The Oscar Peterson Trio, Something’s Gotta Give

1932 - Gay Brewer Jr.
golf: champion: Masters [1967]; member of Senior Tour since 1982

1933 - Phyllis Newman
actress: Coming of Age, That was the Week That Was, Picnic, A Secret Space

1933 - Phillip Roth
writer: Goodbye, Columbus, A.P.E.X., Ghostwriter, The Great American Novel, Portnoy’s Complaint

1933 - Renée Taylor
Emmy Award-winning writer: Acts of Love - and Other Comedies [1973]; entertainer: The Jack Paar Show; actress: The Nanny, Daddy Dearest, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Producers, A New Leaf

1935 - Nancy Malone
actress: The Long Hot Summer, Naked City

1936 - Ursula Andress
actress: Dr. No, Casino Royale, Fun in Acapulco, What’s New Pussycat, Clash of the Titans

1937 - Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry
singer: Ain’t Got No Home, But I Do [I Don’t Know Why]

1939 - Joe Kapp
football: Minnesota Vikings quarterback: Super Bowl IV; shares NFL Individual Record for touchdowns thrown in a game [7]: Vikings vs. Baltimore Colts [9/28/69]

1944 - Lynda Bird Johnson
daughter of 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson

1946 - Paul Atkinson
musician: guitar: group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, You Make Me Feel Good, Tell Her No, She’s Coming Home, I Want You Back Again, Time of the Season; CBS A&R; died Apr 1, 2004

1946 - Ruth Pointer
singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, He’s So Shy, Jump [for My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, I’m So Excited, Dare Me

1947 - Glenn Close
Tony Award-winning actress: The Real Thing [1984], Death and the Maiden [1992], Sunset Boulevard [1995]; Emmy Award: Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story [1995]; Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, 101 Dalmations

1952 - Chris Brubeck
composer, musician: trombone; Dave Brubeck’s son

1955 - Derek Longmuir
musician: drums: group: The Bay City Rollers: Keep On Dancing, Remember [Sha-La-La], Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, Saturday Night

1955 - (Walter) Bruce Willis
Emmy Award-winning actor: Moonlighting [1987]; Die Hard series, Pulp Fiction, Hudson Hawk, The Last Boy Scout, Billy Bathgate, In Country, Last Man Standing, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense

1959 - Terry Hall
singer: group: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town; Fun Boy Three: It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It, Really Saying Something, Tunnel of Love, Our Lips are Sealed.

Chart Toppers
March 19

1950 I Said My Pajamas - Tony Martin & Fran Warren
Music, Music, Music - Teresa Brewer
If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake - Eileen Barton
Chatanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley

1958 Don’t/I Beg of You - Elvis Presley
Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
Dinner with Drac (Part 1) - John Zacherle
Ballad of a Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash

1966 The Ballad of the Green Berets - SSgt Barry Sadler
19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones
Nowhere Man - The Beatles
Waitin’ in Your Welfare Line - Buck Owens

1974 Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Dark Lady - Cher
Sunshine on My Shoulders - John Denver
There Won’t Be Anymore - Charlie Rich

1982 Centerfold - The J. Geils Band
Open Arms - Journey
I Love Rock ’N Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Blue Moon with Heartache - Roseanne Cash

1990 Escapade - Janet Jackson
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Roam - The B-52’s
Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart - Randy Travis


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[lynn]

Thanks Shadow :yourock:

[lynn]

:notacrook

[icedreams]

Thanks for posting Shadow :)

[ShadowThomas]

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN DAY. :D

It was on this day in 1852 that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic book was published. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, subtitled Life Among the Lowly became an instant success, selling 300,000 copies in its first year. It has since been translated into twenty languages and performed as a play the world over.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was even spotlighted in the Broadway musical and film, The King and I. Maybe you remember the haunting chant from the show, “Run Eliza, Run!” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel remains a must-read for school children -- and a reminder to all of us of an ugly time in the history of the United States.

The antislavery novel and the adapted plays all feature the elderly, kind slave, Uncle Tom; the slave child, Topsy; Little Eva, the daughter of Tom’s owner; Eliza, a young mulatto woman and the cruel, northern-born overseer who beat Tom to death, Simon LeGree.

The book brought much sympathy from around the world toward the American “peculiar institution” of slavery. In fact, Abraham Lincoln told Harriet Beecher Stowe she was “the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war,” referring of course, to the Civil War.

’Til this day, we refer to an employer or any other with slave-driving tendencies as a ‘Simon LeGree’.

Events
March 20th.

1865 - A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Abraham Lincoln was foiled when Lincoln changed plans and failed to appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, DC. Booth would later assassinate the President while Lincoln was attending a performance at Ford’s Theatre in the nation’s capital.

1891 - The first computing scale company was incorporated in Dayton, OH. Look around antique stores and you may find some of the old -- and possibly still working -- Dayton Scales. There were other famous scales, too, that were direct from Ohio, ‘the birthplace of weights and measures’. Remember Toledo Scales for weighing fruit and produce in grocery stores?

1897 - The first five-man basketball team intercollegiate basketball game to use five players per team was held. Yale beat Pennsylvania by a score of 32-10 in New Haven, CT.

1911 - The National Squash Tennis Association was formed in New York City.

1914 - The first international figure skating championship was held in New Haven, CT.

1936 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded Christopher Columbus on Victor Records in, where else, Chicago, IL.

1948 - Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra were featured in the first televised symphonic concert. CBS-TV, with help from its then Philadelphia television station, WCAU-TV 10, carried the program from the Philadelphia Academy of Music, the home of the world-famous orchestra. The concert was televised live, at 5 p.m. Ninety minutes later, NBC-TV carried TV’s second symphonic concert. This one was from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra was featured in a presentation of Wagner compositions.

1948 - The 20th Academy Awards saw Darryl F. Zanuck’s Gentleman’s Agreement take the Best Picture prize, the Best Director (Elia Kazan), and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm). Other awards passed out at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles for the best of 1947 included Best Actor to Ronald Colman for A Double Life; Best Actress to Loretta Young for Farmer’s Daughter; Best Supporting Actor to Edmund Gwenn for Miracle on 34th Street; and Best Music/Song to Allie Wrubel (music), Ray Gilbert (lyrics) for Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South.

1952 - Actor/comedian Danny Kaye hosted the 24th Annual Academy Awards, held this day at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles and it was upset night. Humphrey Bogart surprised the ‘experts’ by winning an Academy Award for African Queen. Most thought that Marlon Brando would win Best Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire. The top film was Arthur Freed’s An American in Paris. Critics had already decided that A Place in The Sun or Streetcar would walk away with the coveted Oscar for Best Picture of 1951. How wrong they were! Of course both pictures did win golden statues. Best Director was George Stevens for A Place in the Sun. A Streetcar Named Desire won awards for Karl Malden (Best Supporting Actor), Vivien Leigh (Best Actress) and Kim Hunter (Best Supporting Actress). The Best Music/Song Oscar was presented to Hoagy Carmichael (music), and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) for In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening from Here Comes the Groom.

1967 - Fashion model, Twiggy, arrived in the United States for a one-week stay. She quickly became the most sought-after subject of photographers due to her terrifically skinny-yet-wholesome good looks and the shortest dresses ever seen (to that time).

1969 - Beatle John Lennon married Yoko Ono at the Rock of Gibraltar on this day. Lennon called the location, “quiet, friendly and British.” He was the second Beatle to marry in eight days. Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman were wed a week earlier.

1985 - For the first time in its 99-year history, Avon representatives received something instead of cosmetics -- a salary. Up to that time, the Avon lady used to get paid solely on commissions. That’s why she had to say, “Avon calling!” a lot.

1985 - CBS-TV presented The Romance of Betty Boop. The special starred Desiree Goyette as the ‘Boop-Boop-Be-Doop’ cartoon cutie from the Max Fleisher one-reel films in the 1930s. There were 112 Betty Boop shorts produced. Only two other cartoon characters have surpassed Betty in animation fame. They are: Felix the Cat and (of course) Mickey Mouse. Most people thought Betty Boop was fashioned after the actress, Clara Bow, the ‘it’ girl.

1985 - Libby Riddles won the $50,000 top prize in the 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog race. The Iditarod was called Alaska’s ultimate endurance test and this was the first time a woman had won. Libby completed the course in 18 days, twenty minutes and seventeen seconds. Another woman, Susan Butcher, won the next three Iditarod trail-sled dog races. The first race was run in 1973. The annual race commemorates the emergency during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic when medical supplies had to be rushed to Nome by dog sled.

1986 - Fallon Carrington and Jeff Colby were wed on the TV drama, The Colby’s. The Colby’s was an offshoot of Dynasty.

Birthdays
March 20th.

1811 - George Caleb Bingham
artist: County Election, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, Jolly Flatboat Men, Boatmen on the Missouri; died July 7, 1879

1828 - Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian playwright: Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, The Pillars of Society, An Enemy of the People; died May 23, 1906

1890 - Lauritz Melchior (Lebrecht Hommel)
opera: ‘The Heroic Tenor’, ‘The Premier Heldentenor of the 20th Century’; died Mar 18, 1973

1904 - B.F. (Burrhus Frederic) Skinner
psychologist: behaviorism: developed the Skinner Box, an experimental, enclosed environment for laboratory animals; died Aug 18, 1990

1906 - Ozzie (Oswald George) Nelson
bandleader, actor: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; married to actress, Harriet Nelson; parents of David and Ricky; died June 3, 1975

1908 - Dr. Frank Stanton
president: CBS [1946-1971]

1908 - Sir Michael (Scudamore) Redgrave
actor: Goodbye Mr. Chips, Heidi, Importance of Being Earnest, Nicholas and Alexandra; died Mar 21, 1985

1914 - Wendell Corey
actor: The Rainmaker, Sorry Wrong Number, Rear Window, Buckskin, The Astro-Zombies, The Light in the Forest; died Nov 8, 1968

1918 - Marian McPartland (Margaret Marian Turner)
musician: After Hours, Ambiance, Personal Choice, In My Life; founded Halcyon Records; songwriter: There’ll Be other Times, Twilight World; National Public Radio show: Marian McPartand’s Piano Jazz

1920 - Pamela Harriman
politician, U.S. ambassador to France; wife of Averell Harriman; died Feb 5, 1997

1922 - Larry Elgart
musician: lead alto sax, bandleader with brother Les: Hooked On Swing, The Bandstand Boogie

1922 - Ray Goulding
comedian: Bob and Ray; died Mar 24, 1990

1922 - Carl Reiner
writer: The Man with Two Brains; actor: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; director: Fatal Instinct, The Jerk, Oh! God; comedian: Your Show of Shows; Rob Reiner’s dad

1928 - Fred Rogers
TV host: Mr. Rogers Neighborhood; died Feb 27, 2003

1929 - Sonny (Santo) Russo
jazz musician: trombonist: group: Sonny Russo Jazz Ensemble

1931 - Hal Linden (Harold Lipshitz)
actor: Barney Miller, How to Break up a Happy Divorce, Starflight One, A New Life

1933 - George (Lee) Altman
baseball: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1961, 1962], SL Cardinals, NY Mets

1937 - Jerry Reed (Hubbard)
singer: Amos Moses, When You’re Hot, You’re Hot, She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft; songwriter: U.S. Male, Guitar Man; actor: Gator, Smokey & the Bandit

1943 - Paul Junger Witt
Emmy Award-winning producer: Brian’s Song [1972], The Golden Girls [1985-86, 1986-87]

1945 - Pat Riley
basketball coach: Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks: coach with the highest winning percentage in basketball history [.719]

1948 - Bobby Orr
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Boston Bruins [Hart Memorial Trophy winner: 1970, 1971, 1972], Chicago Blackhawks

1948 - Steve Zabel
football: Univ. of Oklahoma [All-American: 1969], Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Colts, New England Patriots

1950 - William Hurt
actor: Broadcast News, The Accidental Tourist, Altered States, The Big Chill, Trial by Jury, Children of a Lesser God

1950 - Carl Palmer
musician: drums: groups: Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man, From the Beginning; Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell

1951 - Derrek Dickey
basketball: Golden State Warriors; TV color analyst: Chicago Bulls, Sacramento Kings; died June 25, 2002

1957 - Spike Lee
director: She’s Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers

1957 - Theresa Russell
actress: The Spy Within, Straight Time, Black Widow, The Last Tycoon

1958 - Holly Hunter
Academy Award-winning actress: The Piano [1993]; Broadcast News, The Firm, Raising Arizona

1961 - John Clark Gable
actor: Bad Jim, A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story, Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome; son of actor Clark Gable

1961 - Slim Jim Phantom (Jim McDonell)
musician: drums: group: The Stray Cats: Runaway Boys, Stray Cat Strut, Rock This Town.

Chart Toppers
March 20th.

1951 If - Perry Como
Be My Love - Mario Lanza
My Heart Cries for You - Guy Mitchell
The Rhumba Boogie - Hank Snow

1959 Venus - Frankie Avalon
Charlie Brown - The Coasters
Alvin’s Harmonica - David Seville & The Chipmunks
Don’t Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash

1967 Penny Lane - The Beatles
Happy Together - The Turtles
Dedicated to the One I Love - The Mamas & The Papas
The Fugitive - Merle Haggard

1975 Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli
Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender

1983 Billy Jean - Michael Jackson
Shame on the Moon - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club
I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could - Ricky Skaggs

1991 Someday - Mariah Carey
One More Try - Timmy -T-
Show Me the Way - Styx
I’d Love You All Over Again - Alan Jackson


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
GOD BLESS AMERICA DAY.

God Bless America, written by Irving Berlin back in 1918 as a tribute by a successful immigrant to his adopted country, was recorded by Kate Smith for Victor Records on this day in 1939.

Ms. Smith first introduced the song on her Thursday, November 10, 1938 radio show (aired live the day before Armistice Day). God Bless America was a fitting tribute to its composer, who gave all royalties from the very popular and emotional song to the Boy Scouts. The song became Kate Smith’s second signature after When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain; and the second national anthem of the United States of America.

On several occasions, it has even been suggested that the U.S. Congress enact a bill changing the national anthem to God Bless America.

Events
March 21st.


1826 - The Rensselaer School in Troy, New York was incorporated. The school, known today as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, became the first engineering college in the United States. Remember this when crossing over a bridge today...

1868 - The first club for professional women was formed in New York City by writer, Jennie June Croly. The club was called Sorosos.

1925 - The voice of Lowell Thomas was first heard on radio. Thomas was heard talking about “Man’s first flight around the world,” on KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA.

1941 - Singer Paula Kelly joined Glenn Miller’s band. Her husband, also a part of the Miller organization, was one of the four singing Modernaires.

1946 - The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, the first black player to join a National Football League team since 1933.

1956 - The 28th Academy Awards were celebrated at the RKO Pantages Theater, Los Angeles, California. Hosting the festivities were comedian/actor/singer/producer Jerry Lewis in Hollywood, plus actress Claudette Colbert and writer/producer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz in New York City. Marty, produced by Harold Hecht, was a big winner: Best Picture; Best Director (Delbert Mann); Best Actor (Ernest Borgnine); and Best Writing/Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). Best Actress was Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo; Best Supporting Actor was Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts; Best Supporting Actress was Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden; and Best Music/Song to Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. 1955 was a great year for other great movies, too (some Oscar winners, some not): Picnic; Bad Day at Black Rock; The Man with the Golden Arm; Rebel Without a Cause; Pete Kelly’s Blues; The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell; The Seven Little Foys; Blackboard Jungle; To Catch a Thief; and Oklahoma!, The Bridges at Toko-Ri to name a few...

1957 - Shirley Booth made her TV acting debut in The Hostess with the Mostest on Playhouse 90 on CBS.

1961 - The Beatles made their debut in an appearance at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where they became regulars in a matter of months.

1963 - A year after opening in the Broadway show, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand tied the matrimonial knot.

1964 - Singer Judy Collins made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City and established herself “in the front rank of American balladeers.” She would first hit the Top 40 in 1968 with Both Sides Now, a Joni Mitchell song. Her versions of Amazing Grace and Send In the Clowns also became classics.

1970 - The Beatles established a new record. Let It Be entered the Billboard chart at number six. This was the highest debuting position ever for a record. Let It Be reached number two a week later and made it to the top spot on April 11, overshadowing Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge over Troubled Water.

1985 - Boy George said he would never marry, settle down, or become a father because he was “too eccentric!” He made this revealing statement in, what else? Women’s World magazine!

1994 - Actress/Comedienne Whoopi Goldberg hosted the 66th Annual Academy Awards show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The film that was created so the world would never forget the Holocaust -- the inhumanity of mankind to other humans -- received the highest honors this evening. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) awarded Schindler’s List, nominated in no less than 12 categories, with seven Oscars: beginning with Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Stephen Zaillian); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Allan Starski, Ewa Braun); Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski); Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn); Best Music/Original Score (John Williams); Best Director (Steven Spielberg); and culminating with Best Picture (Producers Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig). Schindler’s List was not the only film to receive multiple golden statuettes. Philadelphia (nominated five times) scored two awards, Best Actor (Tom Hanks) and Best Music/Song, Streets of Philadelphia to Bruce Springsteen. The Piano (nominated in eight categories) won both Best Actress (Holly Hunter)and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin), and Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Jane Campion); Jurassic Park received the Best Sound award (Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy, Ron Judkins), the Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing award (Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns), and the Best Effects, Visual Effects award (Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, Michael Lantieri). Tommy Lee Jones picked up the Best Supporting Actor award for The Fugitive, a film nominated in seven categories.

1999 - Everything was beautiful at the 71st Annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. There were beautiful people, gowns, and the beautiful words, “The Oscar goes to...” Hosting the festivities which had moved from the traditional Monday night to Sunday evening, was comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, who modeled the beautiful, and sometimes bizarre, costumes from the movies nominated in the Best Costume Design category. (And the Oscar went to Sandy Powell for Shakespeare in Love.) A beautiful lady, Gwyneth Paltrow, emotionally accepted the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Shakespeare in Love. It was a beautiful night for the film with 13 nominations and seven wins including the upset win of Best Picture of the 1998 year; Best Supporting Actress (Dame Judi Dench); Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Martin Childs, Jill Quertier); and Best Music/Original Musical or Comedy Score (Stephen Warbeck). This was the first time in nine years that the film that won Best Picture did not win for Best Director. Steven Spielberg was the winning director for Saving Private Ryan (which also won four more of the golden statuettes). It was a beautiful moment when the Best Supporting Actor Oscar was awarded to James Coburn (Affliction), his first Academy Award nomination in over 70 films. But the most beautiful moment/s of the long (Oscar's longest to date) evening was when Sophia Loren said, “and the Oscar goes to Roberto!” (Best Actor: La Vita è bella - Roberto Benigni). In plain English, Life is Beautiful. Roberto Benigni was the first actor in a foreign language film to receive an Oscar. Coincidentally, Ms. Loren had been the first actress to be so honored. Benigni had received an Oscar earlier in the evening for Best Foreign Film (Life is Beautiful) when he pirouetted on top of seat backs, hopping and dancing to the stage. Roberto Benigni truly made the evening bella, bella!

Birthdays
March 21st.

1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach
composer: Gottes Zeit, Toccata and Fugue in d minor, Little Organ Book, Mass in B Minor, Magnificat; died July 28, 1750

1813 - James Jesse Strang
crowned king of the Mormons [1850-1856]; died July 8, 1856

1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld
producer Ziegfeld Follies: annual variety shows famous for the Ziegfeld Girls [1907-1930s]; died July 22, 1932

1882 - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Appalachian folk song writer: Good Old Mountain Dew; started first folk music festival in 1928: annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival at Asheville, N.C.; responsible for formation of the National Clogging and Hoedown Council; died in 1973

1905 - Phyllis McGinley
Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Times Three: Selected Verses from Three Decades [1961]; The Horse Who Lived Upstairs, Sugar and Spice, Saint-Watching, Sixpence in her Shoe; died Feb 22, 1978

1910 - Julio Gallo
vintner: Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery, Modesto, CA; died May 2, 1993

1918 - Sir Charles Thompson
musician: pianist, organist: w/Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing; composer: Robbins Nest [tribute to DJ Fred Robbins]

1921 - Fonty Flock (Truman Fontello)
auto racer: NASCAR Hall of Famer; died July 15, 1972

1923 - Mort Lindsey
bandleader: The Merv Griffin Show; composer of score: 40 Pounds of Trouble

1925 - Peter Brook
director: Lord of the Flies, King Lear

1930 - James Coco
actor: The Chair, Ensign Pulver, Man of La Mancha; died Feb 25, 1987

1934 - Al Freeman Jr.
actor: A Patch of Blue, Roots: The Next Generation, Hot L Baltimore, Malcolm X, Finian’s Rainbow, Ensign Pulver

1939 - Tommy (Herman Thomas) Davis
baseball: right-handed, hitting outfielder: LA Dodgers [all-star: 1962, 1963/batting titles: 1962, 1963/World Series: 1963, 1966], NY Mets, Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros, Seattle Pilots, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, KC Royals

1942 - Junior (Lee) Coffey
football: Atlanta Falcons

1944 - Charles Greene
sprinter: Univ. of Nebraska, 1968 Olympics; sprint coach: West Point; director: Special Olympics International; secretary: USA Track & Field’s International Competition Committee

1944 - Manny (Manuel De Jesus Magan) Sanguillen
baseball: catcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971, 1979/all-star: 1971, 1972, 1975], Oakland Athletics

1945 - Rosie Stone
musician: piano: group: Sly & the Family Stone; Sly’s sister: Everyday People, Dance to the Music

1946 - Timothy Dalton
actor: Centennial, Licence to Kill, The Lion in Winter, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Flash Gordon, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill

1947 - Bill (William Francis) Plummer
baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners

1950 - Roger Hodgson
musician: guitar: group: Supertramp: Dreamer, Bloody Well Right

1951 - John Hicks
football: lineman: Ohio State U.: Outland Trophy and Lombardi Trophy Winner; offensive rookie of the year: NY Giants [1974]

1951 - Russell Thompkins Jr.
singer: group: The Stylistics: I’m Stone in Love with You

1958 - Gary Oldman
actor: The Scarlet Letter, True Romance, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sid and Nancy, JFK

1962 - Matthew Broderick
Tony Award-winning actor: The Producers [2001]; films: War Games, The Freshman, Family Business, Ladyhawke, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

1965 - Cynthia Geary
actress: Northern Exposure, 8 Seconds.

Chart Toppers
March 21st.

1944 Mairzy Doats - The Merry Macs
Besame Mucho - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Bob Eberly & Kitty
Kallen
Poinciana - Bing Crosby
They Took the Stars Out of Heaven - Floyd Tillman

1952 Cry - Johnnie Ray
Wheel of Fortune - Kay Starr
Anytime - Eddie Fisher
(When You Feel like You’re in Love) Don’t Just Stand There - Carl Smith

1960 The Theme from "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith
Wild One - Bobby Rydell
Puppy Love - Paul Anka
He’ll Have to Go - Jim Reeves

1968 (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
Simon Says - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
A World of Our Own - Sonny James

1976 December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
Lonely Night (Angel Face) - Captain & Tennille
Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet) - Tom T. Hall

1984 Jump - Van Halen
Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell
Elizabeth - The Statler Brothers


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[icedreams]

Keep it coming Shadow :D

[lynn]

You da man Shadow !!! :D

[ShadowThomas]

Thursday, March 22, 2007
STANLEY CUP DAY.

In 1894, play-off competition for the coveted hockey award known as Lord Stanley’s Cup began. Montreal and Ottawa played for the first championship honors on this day. Montreal took home the trophy.

The original trophy cost $48.67 and was purchased the previous year by Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston. He then donated it to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The inaugural champion was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association.

From 1894 on, the winner of the Stanley Cup has had to win a series of playoff games first. In 1926, the playoff format took the order that remains in place today. The National Hockey League has been the permanent forum.

The teams with the most Stanley Cup titles since 1927 include the Detroit Red Wings (9) and Toronto Maple Leafs (11), with the Montreal Canadiens outdistancing the rest of the NHL (24 championship trophies). Larry Robinson holds the record for playing in the most Stanley Cup games (203 for Montreal and 24 for the LA Kings).

The Stanley Cup competition remains the oldest in professional sports in North America.

Events
March 22nd.

1630 - The first legislation to prohibit gambling was enacted -- in Boston, Massachusetts.

1911 - Hermann Jadlowker became the first opera singer to perform two major roles in the same day at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

1948 - The Voice of Firestone was the first commercial radio program to be carried simultaneously on both AM and FM radio stations.

1956 - Sammy Davis, Jr. starred in the play, Mr. Wonderful, in New York City. The critics were unkind, saying that they didn’t care for the production. Audiences, however, gave it ‘thumbs up’ and the show went on to be one of Broadway’s more popular musicals -- catapulting Davis into the limelight. His father had already launched him into the vaudeville spotlight when Sammy was just three years old. By the time he was Mr. Wonderful, Sammy Davis, Jr. had played vaudeville and the nightclub circuit singing and dancing his way to the top over a twenty-eight-year period. He entertained us for sixty-two years!

1956 - Perry Como became the first major TV variety-show host to book a rock and roll act on his program. The ‘Incomparable Mr. C.’ booked Carl Perkins for the show and Perkins sang Blue Suede Shoes.

1962 - The play, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, opened on Broadway. It featured a 19-year-old named Barbra Streisand. She stopped the show at the famed Shubert Theatre in New York City. Streisand starred as Miss Marmelstein. Audiences kept coming back for more of Barbra for 300 performances.

1969 - UCLA defeated Purdue 92-72 to win the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball championship. The Bruins were the first team to win three consecutive championships -- all under legendary head coach John Wooden. UCLA went on to dominate the college basketball title through the 1973 season.

1977 - Comedienne Lily Tomlin made her debut on Broadway as Appearing Nightly opened in New York.

1980 - Pink Floyd started a 4-week run in the #1 slot on the pop charts with their smash, Another Brick in the Wall. When the boys popped open their gold record and threw it on the stereo, they heard Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers. Legend has it that they ordered a pizza and played it over and over for hours (the record, not the pizza).

1981 - U.S. Postage rates rose from 15-cents to 18-cents an ounce.

1981 - RCA put its Selectravision laser disc players on the market. Soon, the product was called “the Edsel of the entertainment field.” The units cost $500 and the videodisks about $15 each. The combination failed to catch the consumer’s fancy.

1985 - Clara Peller, the lady who said, “Where’s the Beef?” in those Wendy’s hamburger ads, said, “Where’s my final paycheck?” She ended her relationship with Dave Thomas and company when she found the beef for a spaghetti sauce company. The hamburger chain said it made her “lose credibility.”

1987 - A 3,100-ton pile of rotting garbage left Islip, New York looking for a landfill willing to take all of its stinking contents. It was later submerged at sea ... we think...

Birthdays
March 22nd.

1887 - Chico (Leonard) Marx
comedian; the Marx Brother who wore the hat: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup; died Oct 11, 1961

1912 - Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovich)
actor: Streets of San Francisco, Streetcar Named Desire, The Sting, How the West was Won, On the Waterfront; spokesperson: American Express commercials

1917 - Virginia Grey
actress: The Rose Tattoo, Bachelor in Paradise; died July 31, 2004

1920 - Ross Martin (Martin Rosenblatt)
actor: The Wild Wild West, Dying Room Only; died July 3, 1981

1920 - Werner Klemperer
Emmy Award-winning actor: Hogan’s Heroes [1967-1968]; Ship of Fools; died Dec 6, 2000

1923 - Marcel Marceau (Mangel)
mime: famous quote from Marceau “!”; he spoke in Silent Movie - the only speaking part in the film

1924 - Bill Wendell (William Joseph Wenzel, Jr.)
announcer: Tonight, Late Night with David Letterman; died Apr 14, 1999

1928 - ‘Easy’ Ed (Edward) Macauley
Basketball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Univ., St. Louis Bombers, Boston Celtics [all-star: 1951-57/1st NBA all-star game: MVP: 1951/NBA championship: 1958], St. Louis Hawks; coach: St. Louis Hawks

1930 - Pat Robertson (Marion Gordon Robinson)
TV evangelist

1930 - Stephen Sondheim
composer: Send in the Clowns, A Little Night Music; scores for West Side Story, Reds, Gypsy, Dick Tracy

1931 - William Shatner
Emmy Award-winning actor: Boston Legal [2004]; Star Trek, Rescue 9-1-1, T.J. Hooker

1933 - May Britt (Maybritt Wilkens)
actress: The Young Lions, The Hunters, Murder, Inc., Haunts

1935 - Gene (Eugene George) Oliver
baseball: SL Cardinals, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs

1935 - M. (Michael) Emmet Walsh
actor: Relative Fear, The Mighty Quinn, Serpico, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fletch, Blade Runner, Reds, Ordinary People, East of Eden, Stiletto, Unsub, The Sandy Duncan Show

1937 - Johnny Ferguson
singer: Angela Jones

1940 - Dick (Richard Clark) Ellsworth
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1964], Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers

1940 - Dave Keon
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs [Rookie of the Year; 1961/Lady Byng Trophy: 1962, 1963/Stanley Cup playoff MVP: 1967], Hartford Whalers

1941 - Bruno Ganz
actor: The American Friend, Wings of Desire, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Children of Nature

1941 - Bob Leiter
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Flames

1943 - George Benson
singer: This Masquerade, On Broadway, Give Me the Night; session guitarist: CTI Records

1944 - Jeremy Clyde
singer: group: Chad & Jeremy: Yesterday’s Gone, A Summer Song, Willow Weep for Me, Before & After

1946 - Don Chaney
basketball: Univ. of Houston, LA Lakers, Boston Celtics; coach: Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets [1991 Coach of the Year]

1947 - Harry Vanda
musician: guitar: group: The Easybeats: She’s So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Hello How are You, Good Times

1948 - Randy Hobbs
musician: bass: group: The McCoys: Hang on Sloopy

1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber
composer: Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Cats, Phantom of the Opera

1952 - Bob Costas (Robert Quinlan)
sportscaster: WSYR radio/TV [Syracuse NY], KMOX radio [voice of ABA Spirits of St. Louis MO], CBS Sports, NBC Sports: Contributor: Dateline NBC, Anchor: MSNBC’s InterNight

1955 - Lena Olin
actress: Romeo is Bleeding, Havana, After the Rehearsal

1957 - Stephanie Mills
singer; actress: The Wiz

1959 - Matthew Modine
actor: Fluke, Short Cuts, Married to the Mob, And the Band Played On, Pacific Heights, Full Metal Jacket, Mrs. Soffel, The Hotel New Hampshire, Birdy, Private School.

Chart Toppers
March 22nd.

1945 A Little on the Lonely Side - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Jimmy
Brown)
Accentuate the Positive - Johnny Mercer
My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time - The Pied Pipers
There’s a New Moon Over My Shoulder - Jimmie Davis

1953 Till I Waltz Again with You - Teresa Brewer
Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como
Doggie in the Window - Patti Page
Kaw-Liga - Hank Williams

1961 Surrender - Elvis Presley
Where the Boys Are - Connie Francis
Dedicated to the One I Love - The Shirelles
Don’t Worry - Marty Robbins

1969 Dizzy - Tommy Roe
Traces - Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost
Indian Giver - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
Only the Lonely - Sonny James

1977 Love Theme from "A Star is Born" (Evergreen) - Barbra Streisand
Fly like an Eagle - Steve Miller
Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Southern Nights - Glen Campbell

1985 Can’t Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon
The Heat is On - Glenn Frey
Material Girl - Madonna
Crazy for Your Love - Exile


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[lynn]

Thanks Shadow ;)

[ShadowThomas]

Friday, March 23, 2007
MONKEY DAY. :D

An evolution law, enacted this day in the great State of Tennessee in the year 1925, made it a crime for a teacher in any state-supported public school or college to teach any theory that contradicted the Bible’s account of man’s creation. Tennessee’s Governor Austin Peay said, “The very integrity of the Bible in its statement of man’s divine creation is denied by any theory that man descended or has ascended from any lower order of animals.” Opponents planned to challenge the law, denouncing it as a violation of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state.

Within two months, a Dayton, Tennessee high school science teacher, John T. Scopes was indicted, and later convicted, in the famous ‘Monkey Trial’ for teaching his students the theory of evolution; that man descended from a lower order of animals ... or monkeys. Scopes was fined $100. Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow stated that this was “the first case of its kind since we stopped trying people for witchcraft.”

Remember this the next time you think about swinging from a tree ... especially while eating a banana and singing, “Yaba daba daba.”

Events
March 23rd.


1743 - It was the first London performance of Handel’s Messiah, and King King George II was in the audience. In the middle of the Hallelujah Chorus, the King rose to his feet in appreciation of the great piece! The entire audience followed suit out of respect for the King. And so began the custom of standing during the singing of the Hallelujah Chorus.

1794 - Josiah G. Pierson patented a rivet machine. Rivet at home with a hand-held gizmo perfect for pocket or purse that lets you rivet buttons, snaps and other do-dads on clothes. Makes a perfect gift!

1858 - Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania received two special awards: 1) For having the courage to stick with the name Eleazer and 2) for patenting the cable street car. Not the cable car that made San Francisco so popular, but the street car that runs on overhead cables in some cities -- like Philadelphia.

1861 - John D. Defrees became the first Superintendent of the United States Government Printing Office. He, however, received no special holiday in his honor. Go figure.

1880 - John Stevens of Neenah, WI patented the device which was called a grain crushing mill. The machine allowed flour production to increase by 70 percent and to sell for $2 more per barrel.

1940 - Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. The Ralph Edwards-produced program was hosted by Mr. Edwards before he discovered a young announcer named Bob Barker. Barker also was the show’s host on television more than a decade later. The radio show was originally heard on only four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the show where it eventually became the most popular of all radio quiz shows.

1950 - Beat the Clock, starring radio’s original Superman, Bud Collyer, premiered on CBS-TV. A lady named Roxanne was Collyer’s assistant from 1950 to 1955. Beverly Bentley was the clock-beater’s assistant from 1955 through the last show on February 16, 1958. It was another one of those Mark Goodsen and Bill Todman productions.

1950 - And the Oscar for Best Actor goes to... Broderick Crawford for his portrayal of corrupt politician Willie Stark in All the King’s Men. Thus we recall the 22nd Academy Awards, held at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. The host for the evening, actor Paul Douglas, helped Hollywood pat itself on the back, as they celebrated the films of 1949. All the King’s Men also won the Academy Award for Best Picture (Robert Rossen, producer) and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge). Other winners this night included Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Letter to Three Wives, Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland for The Heiress and Best Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger for Twelve O’Clock High. On a musical note, the Best Music/Song Oscar was awarded to Frank Loesser for Baby, It’s Cold Outside from Neptune’s Daughter. And who did Broderick Crawford beat out for the Best Actor prize? Kirk Douglas, Richard Todd, John Wayne and Gregory Peck.

1963 - An indoor pole vault record was set by John Pennel in Memphis, TN. He cleared 16 feet, 3 inches.

1965 - Astronaut John Young became the first man to eat a corned beef sandwich in outer space. When it comes to events of progress, we will certainly add this to the record book, now won’t we? ...along with that golf club stunt of Alan Shepard’s from the surface of the moon years later. Young smuggled the sandwich on board in order to supplement the astronauts’ meals of dehydrated foods, including powdered fruit juice (Tang).

1972 - New York Yankees baseball officials announced plans to keep the Yankees in the nation’s largest city. Plans were also revealed concerning a major renovation of Yankee Stadium. While work was underway at ‘The House that Ruth Built’, the Bronx Bombers shared tenancy with the cross-town New York Mets in Flushing, New York at Shea Stadium. New Yorkers also got one other bonus from the announced plans: George Steinbrenner.

1973 - Concentration, the longest-running game show in television history, starring Hugh Downs, left the air after 15 years on NBC. A syndicated version without Downs aired shortly thereafter, but did not survive for long.

1974 - Cher reached the top of the music charts as Dark Lady reached the #1 spot for a one-week stay. Other artists who shared the pop music spotlight during that time included: Terry Jacks, John Denver, Blue Swede, Elton John and MFSB.

1981 - CBS Television announced plans to reduce Captain Kangaroo to a 30-minute show each weekday morning. The reason, according to network brass, was to allow more time for its morning news programming. This move proved to be a huge mistake. The CBS Morning News was the weakest morning news program on the air, against NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America. The show was a ratings disaster that went through many changes and complete makeovers in an effort to find an audience. Secret plans to use Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock and Mr. Green Jeans on the Morning News did not, however, become reality -- although former Miss America, Phyllis George, was a reality on the program.

1985 - Singer Billy Joel married supermodel Christie Brinkley in private ceremonies held in New York City. (They were divorced Aug 25, 1994.)

1985 - We Are the World, by USA for Africa, a group of 46 pop stars, entered the music charts for the first time at number 21.

1986 - Martina Navratilova defeated Hana Mandlikova to win the Virginia Slims Championship. It was the first women’s tournament to go four sets since 1901.

1987 - Baltimore Orioles’ manager, Cal Ripken, Sr., cut one of the birds from the nest. His own son, Cal Ripken, Jr., was sent down to the minors for a short stay before returning to capture the ‘Most Consecutive Games Played’ honor in 1995.

1998 - The movie, Titanic, won a record-tying 11 Oscars at the 70th Annual Academy Awards (tying the number of awards won by Ben-Hur in 1959). Comedian/actor Billy Crystal kept the crowd at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and the millions watching on TV, in stitches as Titanic (James Cameron, Jon Landau, producers) won (big breath now): Best Picture; Best Director (James Cameron); Best Cinematography (Russell Carpenter); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Peter Lamont [art director], Michael Ford [set decorator]); Best Costume Design (Deborah Lynn Scott); Best Sound (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano); Best Film Editing (Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris); Best Effects/Sound Effects Editing (Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes); Best Effects/Visual Effects (Robert Legato, Mark A. Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer); Best Music/Original Dramatic Score (James Horner); and Best Music/Song (James Horner (music) and Will Jennings (lyrics) for My Heart Will Go On, performed by Céline Dion). Not a bad return for a measly investment of $200 million. And yes, Virginia, there were other winners: Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt took top acting honors as the misanthropic writer and the waitress who softens his heart in As Good as it Gets. The Best Supporting Actor Oscar went to Robin Williams for Good Will Hunting and Best Supporting Actress was Kim Basinger for her L.A. Confidential part (Lynn Bracken: “Merry Christmas to you, officer.”) We’re running a little late, so good night all...

Birthdays
March 23rd.

1823 - Schuyler Colfax
17th U.S. Vice President [1869-1873] under Ulysses S. Grant; died Jan 13, 1885

1900 - Erich Fromm
psychoanalyst: The Method and Function of an Analytic Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Characterology and Its Relevance for Social Psychology; died Mar 18, 1980

1904 - Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur)
Academy Award-winning actress: Mildred Pierce [1945]; A Woman’s Face, Night Gallery, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Above Suspicion, Grand Hotel; died May 10, 1977

1910 - Akira Kurosawa
film director: Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Ran, Rhapsody in August, The Idiot, The Bad Sleep Well; died Sep 6, 1998

1912 - Wernher von Braun
scientist: developer of WWII German V-2 rocket, head of U.S. Army missile team; technological leader of American space program; died June 16, 1977

1917 - Johnny Guarnieri
musician: piano: played with Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw; played at the Tail O’ The **** in LA for a decade; died Jan 7, 1985

1928 - Jim (James Robert) Lemon
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals, Washington Senators [all-star: 1960], Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies

1929 - Roger Bannister
British track star: broke the 4-minute mile [3:59.4 on May 6, 1954]; physician

1931 - ‘Rocky’ Warren Godfrey
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings

1933 - Monique van Vooren
actress: Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, Ash Wednesday, Sugar Cookies

1937 - Craig Breedlove
rocket car speedster: the first person to travel more than 400mph, more than 500mph and more than 600 mph on land

1940 - Ted Green
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins

1943 - Lee (Andrew) May
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1969, 1971/World Series: 1970], Houston Astros [all-star: 1972], Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979], KC Royals

1944 - George (Charles) ‘Boomer’ Scott
baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1966, 1977/World Series: 1967], Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1975], KC Royals, NY Yankees

1946 - Vic Washington
football: SF 49ers, Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills

1949 - Ric Ocasek (Richard Otcasek)
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Cars: My Best Friend’s Girl, Just What I Needed, Let’s Go, You Might Think, Magic, Drive, Tonight She Comes; solo: LP: Beatitude

1951 - Ron Jaworski
football: Philadelphia Eagles quarterback: Super Bowl XV

1953 - Chaka Khan (Yvette Marie Stevens)
singer: Tell Me Something Good [with Rufus], You Got the Love; solo: I Feel for You

1955 - Moses Malone
Basketball Hall of Famer: Buffalo Braves, Houston Rockets [single-game playoff record for most offensive rebounds [15: April 21, 1977 vs. Washington], Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Bullets, Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, Washington Bullets, Atlanta Hawks, San Antonio Spurs; NBA MVP: 1979, 1982, 1983; records: most consecutive games without a disqualification [1,212], most free throws made [8,531], most offensive rebounds [6,731]

1957 - Teresa Ganzel
actress: The Dave Thomas Comedy Hour, The Duck Factory, Roxie, Teachers Only

1957 - Amanda Plummer
Tony Award-winning actress [1982]: Agnes of God; The Fisher King, Joe Versus the Volcano, The World According to Garp, Pulp Fiction; Christopher Plummer’s daughter

1966 - Marti Pellow (Mark McLoughlin)
singer: group: Wet, Wet, Wet: Goodnight Girl<

1990 - Princess Eugenie (Eugenie Victoria Helena Windsor)
British royalty: daughter of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York [Sarah Ferguson]

Chart Toppers
March 23rd.

1946 Oh, What It Seemed to Be - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie
Hughes)
Personality - Johnny Mercer
Day by Day - Frank Sinatra
Guitar Polka - Al Dexter

1954 Make Love to Me! - Jo Stafford
Cross Over the Bridge - Patti Page
Wanted - Perry Como
Slowly - Webb Pierce

1962 Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
Don’t Break the Heart that Loves You - Connie Francis
That’s My Pa - Sheb Wooley

1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
The Rapper - The Jaggerz
Give Me Just a Little More Time - Chairmen of the Board
The Fightin’ Side of Me - Merle Haggard

1978 Night Fever - Bee Gees
Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Waylon &
Willie

1986 These Dreams - Heart
Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
What’s a Memory like You (Doing in a Love like This) - John Schneider


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show.

All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents.
You are however, welcomed to PM. me or even start a thread on comments about, Today in history.
Thanks for your kind, considerate understanding. :)

[lynn]

Thanks Shadow.... ;)

[ShadowThomas]

Saturday, March 24, 2007
TREASURE HUNT DAY.

“To be or not to be ... the winner of an Oscar”. That was the question as the Academy Awards were passed out for the 21st time on this night in 1949.

Actor/producer/director Robert Montgomery hosted the ceremony held at the AMPAS Theater in Los Angeles. Hamlet, produced by Lawrence Olivier for J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, won Best Picture of 1948. Olivier also was pronounced Best Actor for his portrayal of Hamlet.

The real star of the evening, however, was the Hollywood flick, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the story of a trio of prospectors in their search for gold in them thar hills. The search finally led them to gold in the shape of Oscar ... three Oscars, to be exact, and a nomination for Best Picture.

And, as far as we know, it was the first, and remains the only time a father and son both won Academy Awards on the same night. They were presented to Walter and John Huston for their stunning work in the 1948 film. Walter was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and his son, John, received honors for Best Director and for Best Screenplay (based on a B. Traven story).

Other winners of the treasured golden statuette on this spring night were: Jane Wyman (the former Mrs. Ronald Reagan) for Best Actress (film: Johnny Belinda); Claire Trevor for Best Supporting Actress (film: Key Largo); Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for Best Music/Song (Buttons and Bows from the Bob Hope/Jane Russell flick, The Paleface). And although Olivier won the Best Actor Oscar, Humphrey Bogart was superb as the paranoid, and ultimately, homicidal Fred C. Dobbs in Sierra Madre.

Events
March 24th.

1792 - Benjamin West became the first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London.

1882 - Professor Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ -- in Berlin, Germany.

1932 - Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train ... a first for radio broadcasting. The program originated from a Baltimore and Ohio train that chugged its way around the New York area. The broadcast was heard on WABC in New York City.

1935 - After a year as a local show from New York City, Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour was heard on the entire NBC radio network. The show stayed on the air for 17 years. Later, Ted Mack took over for Bowes and made the move from radio to television.

1941 - Glenn Miller began work on his first motion picture for 20th Century Fox. The film was Sun Valley Serenade.

1955 - The Tennessee Williams play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opened on Broadway. The hit ran for 694 shows and won the Critics’ Circle Award as the Best American Play. The movie version was a big hit as well and featured Burl Ives, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in starring roles. Paul, Liz and the movie received Oscar nominations.

1958 - Elvis Presley reported to local draft board 86 in Memphis, TN. He became US 53310761. Oddly, since Elvis was now ‘government property’ serving his time in the Army, Uncle Sam stood to lose an estimated $500,000 in lost taxes each year that Private Presley was in the Army.

1960 - A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, was not obscene and could be sent through the mail. Try it and see...

1973 - Professional track debuted with Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile run at the International Track Association meet held in Los Angeles, CA.

1980 - Capitol Records released some rare Beatles tracks. Included in the album were stereo versions of Penny Lane and She Loves You, sung by the group in German, under the title, Sie Liebt Dich. Also included was a German version of I Want to Hold Your Hand or, in the Teutonic tongue, Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand.

1985 - The Golden Raspberry Awards were presented to parody the Oscar Awards. The movie, Bolero, won the big award, for John and Bo (I’m a 10!) Derek; winning honors for worst director and worst actress, respectively.

1985 - Actress Jacqueline Bisset made her television debut in Forbidden, a Home Box Office (HBO) presentation. Her second TV role came just two nights later in the CBS-TV adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

1986 - The 58th Academy Awards show was held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It took three hosts (Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams) to handle the MC duties this time. The Best Picture was Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, producer). It also won Best Director (Sydney Pollack); Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Kurt Luedtke); Best Cinematography (David Watkin); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Stephen B. Grimes, Josie MacAvin); Best Sound (Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, Peter Handford); and Best Music/Original Score (John Barry). But Out of Africa didn’t win everything. Other Oscars went to Kiss of the Spider Woman (Best Actor: William Hurt); The Trip to Bountiful (Best Actress: Geraldine Page); Cocoon (Best Supporting Actor: Don Ameche - his first Oscar) and Prizzi’s Honor (Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston). The award for Best Music/Song was given to Lionel Richie for Say You, Say Me from White Nights. Other memorable movies in 1985 (some Oscar winners, so