Today in history.

[ShadowThomas]

285th day of 2007 - 80 remaining.

Friday, October 12, 2007
COLUMBUS DAY DAY. :)

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And on this day, with a crew of 90 and three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, he landed on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas.

Italian born Christopher Columbus, sailing for Spain’s Queen Isabel, had been in search of a water passageway to Cathay. It was a long and dangerous journey across what Columbus called “shoreless seas,” so there was much jubilation when they saw land. Columbus renamed the island, San Salvador, and claimed it for the Spanish Crown.

An entry in his journal described meeting the natives of the island, “As I saw that they were friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps, and strings of beads to wear upon the neck, and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted and became wonderfully attached to us.”

And most people in Spanish-speaking countries and the Americas are still pretty much attached to Columbus, as they continue to celebrate this day as a holiday in his honor.
1492: AN ONGOING VOYAGE. (http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html) Christopher Columbus. (http://www.columbusnavigation.com/)

Events
October 12th.

1792 - The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated -- in Baltimore, MD.

1895 - The first amateur golf tournament was held -- in Newport, Rhode Island. A chap named Charles Blair McDonald beat a field of 31 others in the event.

1920 - The leading race horse money winner of the day ran for the last time. Man o’ War beat Sir Barton in Canada’s Kenilworth Park. Man o’ War’s career earnings totaled nearly $250,000.

1920 - Construction of the Holland Tunnel got underway. The tunnel would provide a direct link between Twelfth Street in Jersey City, NJ and Canal Street in New York City. The tunnel has two tubes more than 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) long. It opened to traffic on November 13, 1927. Oh, and one more thing: The Holland Tunnel was named for Clifford Milburn Holland (1883-1924), the civil engineer who died while directing the tunnel’s construction.

1923 - The largest crowd to catch a World Series game (over 62,000) saw Casey Stengel hit the winning home run as the New York Giants beat the Yankees 1-0.

1937 - The longest-running detective show on radio debuted. Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons lasted until 1955. Three different actors played the title role, Bennett Kilpack was Mr. Keen the longest, and Arthur Hughes saw the final show. Phil Clark also played the part. There were many more than three sponsors -- Anacin, Kolynos (a toothpaste), BiSoDol antacid mints, Hill’s cold tablets, Heet liniment, Dentyne, Aerowax, RCA Victor and Chesterfield cigarettes. Some are long gone, some are still around, some don’t advertise on radio anymore, and some are not allowed to.

1944 - Who could forget the picture of a huge crowd of swooning bobbysoxers stopping traffic in New York’s Times Square as Frank Sinatra made his triumphant return to the famed Paramount Theatre (he had played there for eight weeks starting on December 30, 1942). In what was called the ‘Columbus Day Riot’, 25,000 teenagers, mostly young women, blocked the streets, screaming and swooning for Frankie. Sinatra later explained, “It was the war years, and there was a great loneliness. And I was the boy in every corner drug store ... who’d gone off, drafted to the war. That was all.”

1950 - The Kefauver Crime Commission convened in New York to investigate interstate organized crime. TV was there the following year, showing Frank Costello’s hands for a long, long time on screen. Mr. Costello told Senator Estes Kefauver’s committee that he would refuse to testify on TV if his face was shown. So, viewers were shown his hands instead.

1950 - The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show made its debut on CBS-TV. Burns and Allen had been on the radio since 1935. The TV show ran through Sep 22, 1958, featuring the real-life married couple at home. George played on-screen host/narrator and straight man for Gracie’s scatterbrained (but hillarious) schemes.

1960 - At the United Nations, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev went ballistic, taking off his shoe and pounding it on his desk! The UN Assembly President, Frederick Boland, was so irritated that he split his gavel trying to reestablish order.

1961 - The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made. CBS presented a three-hour discussion with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Reportedly, 11 hours of film were used and later, edited to the final print. The interviewer was Walter Cronkite.

1967 - The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in the World Series. A few stats worth remembering: In 27 innings, Bob Gibson allowed three runs and 14 hits to notch St. Louis’ eighth title. Although he and Boston’s Jim Lonborg pitched spectacularly, the series tied the record for most pitchers used (20). St. Louis’ Lou Brock collected 12 hits for a .414 average and a Series-record seven stolen bases. He also tied a Series mark with eight runs. Roger Maris batted .385, collecting ten hits. Julian Javier batted .360. Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski batted .400 with three homers. Dalton Jones batted .389.

1968 - Cheap Thrills, the album by Big Brother and the Holding Company, started an eight-week run as number one in the U.S. It was the first and only album (for a major label) Janis Joplin made with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The album’s tracks: Combination of the Two, I Need a Man to Love, Summertime, Piece of My Heart, Turtle Blues, Oh, Sweet Mary, Ball and Chain.

1968 - The games of the XIX Olympiad were opened in Mexico City by Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Norma Enriqueta Basilio de Sotelo became first woman to light the Olympic flame. The high-altitude (2,240 meters or 7,573 feet above seal level) and polluted air in Mexico City, put the athletes to a real test. Black Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the black power salute during the national anthem as a protest against racism in the U.S. They were expelled from the Olympic Village & thrown off the team by the USOC.

1971 - Some folks weren’t pleased when Jesus Christ Superstar premiered on Broadway because of the controversial content of the musical. Before the show opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, some 2.5 million copies of the album were sold to the curious. The Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Weber collaboration would become a big hit. Jesus Christ Superstar would run on Broadway for 720 shows, and spawn several hit songs, including I Don’t Know How to Love Him (Helen Reddy) and the title song, Jesus Christ Superstar (Murray Head).

1981 - Barbara Mandrell walked away with the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year honor for the second year in a row.

1986 - It cost $100 a seat. It featured refreshments and food. It ran for 8.5 hours. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby closed on Broadway this day. Incidentally, those who saw it may remember that there were potty breaks scheduled, so the audience wouldn’t miss one thrilling moment...

1992 - An earthquake, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, hit Dahshur, near Cairo, Egypt. More than 500 people were killed and about 6500 others were injured.

1997 - Singer/songwriter John Denver, piloting an experimental, amateur-built Long-EZ airplane, crashed into Monterey Bay, California. Witnesses said the plane, made of fiberglass with a single engine and two seats, was flying about at about 500 feet “when it just sort of dropped unexpectedly into the ocean. When it hit the water it broke into numerous parts.” Denver, age 53 and the only occupant of the plane, was killed.

Birthdays
October 12th.

1860 - Elmer A. (Ambrose) Sperry
inventor: Sperry Automatic Pilot [gyroscopic compass]; founder: Sperry-Rand Corp.; died in 1930

1872 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
composer: The Pilgrim’s Progress, Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis, Mass in G Minor; died Aug 26, 1958

1891 - Perle Mesta (Skirvin)
socialite: ‘The hostess with the mostes’; diplomat: appointment as U.S. envoy to Luxembourg [1949] inspired Broadway play Call Me Madam; died Mar 16, 1975

1906 - Joe (Joseph Edward) Cronin
Baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals [World Series: 1933/all-star: 1933, 1934], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941]; American League president; American League Chairman; died Sep 7, 1984

1923 - Jean Nidetch
diet mogul: founder of Weight Watchers

1932 - Dick Gregory
comedian; civil rights activist

1932 - Ned Jarrett
auto racer: NASCAR/International Motorsports Hall of Famer: 50 Grand National victories; radio/TV commentator

1935 - Tony (Anthony Christopher) Kubek
baseball: NY Yankees outfielder/shortstop [Rookie of the Year: 1957/World Series: 1957, 1958, 1960-1963/all-star: 1958, 1959, 1961]; broadcaster: Toronto Blue Jays, NBC Game of the Week

1935 - Samuel Moore
singer: group: Sam & Dave: Hold On! I’m a Comin’, Soul Man, I Thank You, Soul Sister Brown Sugar

1935 - Luciano Pavarotti
Emmy Award-winning opera star: Pavarotti in Philadelphia: La Boheme [1982-1983]; actor: Yes, Giorgio; died Sep 6, 2007

1939 - Jerry Hill
football: Baltimore Colts running back: Super Bowl III, V

1940 - Glenn (Alfred) Beckert
baseball: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1969-1972], SD Padres

1948 - Rick Parfitt
singer, musician: guitar: group: Status Quo: LPs: Piledriver, Hello, On the Level, Blue for You, 1982

1949 - Dan Medlin
football: Oakland Raiders guard: Super Bowl XI

1950 - Susan Anton
singer: Killin’ Time [w/Fred Knoblock]; actress: Cannonball Run 2, Goldengirl, Baywatch, Stop Susan Williams

1951 - Sally Little
golf champion: Nabisco Dinah Shore [1982], Du Maurier Classic [1988], LPGA [1980]

1951 - Jeff Winans
football: University of Southern California [USC]

1956 - Dave Vanian (Letts)
singer; group: The Damned: Love Song, Grimly Fiendish, Shadow of Love, Eloise, Alone Again Or

1968 - Adam Rich
actor: Eight is Enough, The Devil & Max Devlin, Zertigo Diamond Caper, Code Red

1970 - Kirk Cameron
actor: Growing Pains, Listen to Me, The Best of Times, Like Father, like Son, Two Marriages

1970 - Charlie Ward
football: Florida State quarterback: Heisman Trophy winner [1993]

Chart Toppers
October 12th.

1944 I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Together - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley

1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Jo Stafford
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams

1960 Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley

1976 A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots :D
The Games That Daddies Play - Conway Twitty

1984 Let’s Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
Everyday - The Oak Ridge Boys


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286th day of 2007 - 79 remaining.

Saturday, October 13, 2007
MOLLY PITCHER DAY. :)

A young woman, nicknamed Molly, by her husband, William Hays, was born on this day in 1754 near Trenton, New Jersey. Her birth name was Mary Ludwig.
During the American Revolution, and specifically at the Battle of Monmouth, Molly was helping out as a water carrier. She gained a new nickname, Molly Pitcher.

Her husband, William, was wounded during the battle. At that point, Molly dropped the water pitcher and picked up her husband’s job of loading and firing a cannon. General George Washington appointed her a noncommissioned officer; and Mary Ludwig Hays garnered a new nickname, Sergeant Molly.

Sgt. Molly Pitcher added yet another name to her already long moniker. She married George McCauley after William Hays died, her full name then read: Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley.

The name, Molly Pitcher, became a synonym for a heroine. Her nickname was given to another famous woman, Harriet Tubman, rescuer and heroine of abolitionist times.
The Story of Molly Pitcher. (http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm) Molly Pitcher. (http://www.earlyamerica.com/molly_pitcher.html)

Events
October 13th.

1775 - The second Continental Congress gave the okay for its young country to acquire ships and form what is now the United States Navy.

1792 - The cornerstone of what was termed the President’s House was laid by George Washington in Washington, DC. The name, White House, was not officially adopted until 1902. The house, designed by James Hoban, would be three stories tall with more than 100 rooms.

1903 - Beginning this night, and for 192 performances, Babes in Toyland entertained youngsters of all ages in New York City. Toyland is just one of Victor Herbert’s timeless operettas.

1924 - The Guardsman, starring Lynne Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, was the catalyst to stardom for the pair. The play opened in New York this day.

1939 - Harry James and his band recorded On a Little Street in Singapore for Columbia Records. A kid singer named Frank Sinatra was the featured vocalist on what was his seventh recording.

1951 - A football with a rubber covering was used for the first time, as Georgia Tech whipped Louisiana State 25-7. The game was played in Atlanta, GA.

1953 - An ultrasonic (sound with a frequency greater than 20,000 Hz) burglar alarm was patented by New Yorker Samuel Bagno.

1957 - Two superstars introduced a new car on ABC-TV. Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra joined forces in an hourlong special that turned out to be a big ratings hit. Too bad the Edsel, the car that Ford Motor Company was introducing, didn’t fare as well.

1958 - This day was musically memorable as Warren Covington conducted the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra for what would be the last big band tune to climb the pop charts. Tea for Two Cha Cha, made it into the Top 10, peaking at #7. And that was the end of the Big Band Era. Rock ’n’ roll was here to stay.

1960 - After game six of the World Series, the New York Yankees had scored 46 runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates only 17, yet the Bucs had the series tied going into game seven. The final game opened with a home run by Rocky Nelson and was concluded by a historic game-winning hit by Bill Mazeroski, giving the Pirates their first world championship in thirty-five years.

1961 - For the first time since 77 Sunset Strip debuted (Oct. 10, 1958), viewers saw Gerald Lloyd ‘Kookie’ Kookson III (Edd Byrnes) wearing a coat and tie. It was “the ginchiest.” Kookie, Kookie, lend us your comb.

1961 - A TV news icon called it quits. Howard K. Smith parted ways with CBS News. He said that “there was a difference in interpretation of network news policy.”

1962 - A young 34-year-old named Edward Albee brought his play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, to the stage in New York. Four years later, Albee’s play became an Academy Award-winning film (6 Oscars).

1963 - Beatlemania hit the London Palladium. The Beatles made their first appearance on a major TV show -- for the BBC. Thousands of delirious fans jammed the streets outside the theatre to voice their support of the Fab Four. A few months later, Beatlemania would sweep the U.S. as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

1971 - ‘Little’ Donny Osmond received a shiny gold record for his rendition of the Steve Lawrence hit, Go Away Little Girl. He went on to garner million-seller success with Hey Girl and Puppy Love too. Donny was quite popular with the bubblegum set, as well he should have been. Donny was only 13 years old.

1973 - The Rolling Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup was number one album in the U.S. With the exception of Angie, the album’s tracks were only semi-memorable: Dancing With Mr. D, 100 Years Ago, Coming Down Again, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker), Silver Train, Hide Your Love, Winter, Can You Hear the Music, Star Star.

1979 - Speaking of the teenage set, Michael Jackson went to “#1 ... 1 ... 1” for the second time with Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough. His first number one (Oct. 14, 1972 - age 14) was a ratty little number about Ben.

1984 - And speaking of Jacksons (we are so clever), Jesse Jackson collected the $5,000 standard scale payment for guest hosts on Saturday Night Live. Jackson also appeared in several skits on the show.

1994 - Netscape Communications Corporation announced that it was offering its new Netscape Navigator free to users via the Internet. The Internet browser, developed by the six-month-old Silicon Valley company led by Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark and NCSA Mosaic creator Marc Andreessen, was available for free downloading by “individual, academic and research users.”

1995 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Copycat, with Sigourney Weaver, Harry Connick Jr., John Rothman and Holly Hunter; Les Miserables, starring Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines and Clementine Celarie; The Scarlet Letter, starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall; Strange Days, with Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis and Tom Sizemore.

Birthdays
October 13th.

1754 - Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley)
American heroine; died July 22, 1832; see Molly Pitcher Day [above]

1821 - Rudolf Virchow
scientist: founded cellular pathology; died Sep 5, 1902

1902 - Wilbur Shaw
Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Famer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1937, 1939, 1940]: 1st to win twice in a row; became president & general manager of Speedway; died Oct. 30, 1954

1909 - Herblock (Herbert Block)
editorial cartoonist; died Oct 7, 2001

1915 - Cornel (Cornelius Louis) Wilde
actor: A Song to Remember, Sharks’ Treasure, Norseman, Omar Khayyam, The Greatest Show on Earth, Forever Amber; died Oct 16, 1989

1917 - Laraine Day (La Raine Johnson)
actress: Return to Fantasy Island, Murder on Flight 502, Mr. Lucky, Those Endearing Young Charms, Tycoon; TV panelist: I’ve Got a Secret

1917 - Burr Tillstrom
Emmy Award-winning puppeteer: Berlin Wall Hand Ballet, That was the Week that Was [1965-66]; Kukla, Fran & Ollie; died Dec 6, 1985

1918 - Robert Walker
actor: Bataan, Madame Curie, Since You Went Away, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo; father of actor Robert Walker, Jr.; died Aug 28, 1951

1921 - Yves Montand (Yvo Livi)
actor: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Lovers like Us, Grand Prix, The Crucible; singer: Mais Qu’est-ce que J’ai; died Nov 9, 1991

1921 - Lou Saban
football: Indiana Univ QB; Cleveland Browns LB; Head Coach: NE Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Maryland Terrapins

1924 - Nipsey Russell
actor, comedian: Car 54, Where are You?, ABC’s Nightlife, Barefoot in the Park, The Dean Martin Show; died Oct 2, 2005

1925 - Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider)
comedian; films: Dance Hall Racket, Dynamite Chicken; died Aug 3, 1966

1925 - Frank D. Gilroy
playwright: The Gig, Jinxed, From Noon till Three, Desperate Characters, Fastest Gun Alive

1925 - Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts)
‘The Iron Lady’: British leader: Prime Minister of Great Britain [1979-1990]

1926 - Eddie (Edward Frederick Joseph) Yost
‘The Walking Man’: baseball: third base: Washington Nationals [all-star: 1952], Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels; Manager: 1963 Senators

1931 - Eddie (Edwin Lee) Mathews
Baseball Hall of Famer: third base: Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves [all-star: 1953, 1955-1962/World Series: 1957, 1958], Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1968], Houston Astros; seventh player in major league history to hit 500 home runs [512]; Braves coach & manager; on cover of first Sports Illustrated; died Feb 18, 2001

1939 - Melinda Dillon
actress: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Sioux City, The Prince of Tides, Harry and the Hendersons, A Christmas Story, Absence of Malice, Slap Shot, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Bound for Glory

1941 - Paul Simon
songwriter, singer, musician: guitar: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; solo: Mother and Child Reunion, Me and Julio, Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Slip Slidin’ Away; LP: Graceland; Wonderful World [w/Art Garfunkel, James Taylor]; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; in film: Annie Hall

1942 - Pamela Tiffin
actress: Viva Max, The Hallelujah Trail, State Fair, Summer and Smoke, Dinner at Eight, Harper

1944 - Robert Lamm
singer, musician: keyboards: group: The Big Thing: Chicago Transit Authority: Chicago: Beginnings, Feelin’ Stronger Every Day, Saturday in the Park, [I’ve Been] Searchin’ So Long, If You Leave Me Now, Just You ’n’ Me, Hard to Say I’m Sorry; songwriter: Critic’s Choice; solo: LP: Skinny Boy

1945 - Karen Akers
singer, actress: Heartburn, The Purple Rose of Cairo

1946 - Demond Wilson
actor: Sanford and Son, The Odd Couple, Baby I’m Back; preacher

1947 - Sammy Hagar
singer, musician: guitar: Keep on Rockin’, Bad Motor Scooter, Your Love is Driving Me Crazy, Two Sides of Love, I Can’t Drive 55; group: Van Halen

1948 - Lacy J. Dalton (Jill Byrem)
songwriter, singer: Dream Baby, 16th Avenue, Takin’ It Easy, Hard Times, Crazy Blue Eyes; in film: Take this Job and Shove It

1948 - Randy (Randall James) Moffitt
baseball: pitcher: SF Giants, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays; brother of tennis great Billie Jean King

1951 - John Ford Coley
singer: duo: England Dan and John Ford Coley: I’d Really Love to See You Tonight, It’s Sad to Belong, Love is the Answer, Gone Too Far, We’ll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again

1952 - Beverly Johnson
model, actress: The Cover Girl Murders, Ashanti, Land of No Mercy

1952 - Greg Latta
football: Chicago Bears TE

1953 - Pat Day
‘Little Jesus’: jockey: National Horse Racing Hall of Famer: Eclipse Award [1984, 1986, 1987, 1991]; Triple Crown winner [1985]; Classic winner [1984, 1990]; won a record $11,631,000 in Breeders’ Cup races [1984-1994]

1959 - Marie (Olive) Osmond
singer: Paper Roses, Who’s Sorry Now, This is the Way That I Feel; TV host: Donny and Marie, Ripley’s Believe It or Not

1962 - Kelly Preston
actress: For Love and Honor, Cheyenne Warrior, Double Cross, Love is a Gun, Only You, The Perfect Bride, Amazon Women on the Moon; actor John Travolta’s wife

1962 - Jerry Rice
football: San Francisco ’49er wide receiver: Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV, XXIX; NFL individual record: touchdown receptions: career [131], season [22]; Super Bowl records: career: yards gained [215], points scored: [42], touchdowns scored [7], TDs in one game [3]; Oakland Raiders

1968 - Tisha Campbell
actress: House Party series, Boomerang, Rooftops, School Daze, Rags to Riches, Martin

1969 - Nancy Kerrigan
Olympic ice skating medalist: [silver, 1994]

Chart Toppers
October 13th.

1945 Till the End of Time - Perry Como
If I Loved You - Perry Como
Along the Navajo Trail - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter

1953 Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters

1961 Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Crying - Roy Orbison
Runaround Sue - Dion
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke ;)

1969 Sugar, Sugar - The Archies ;)
Jean - Oliver
Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James

1977 Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Maco
Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls

1985 Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Meet Me in Montana - Marie Osmond with Dan Seals


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.

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287th day of 2007 - 78 remaining.

Sunday, October 14, 2007
POOH BEAR DAY. :)

Oh-tay, boys and girls, gather ’round as we tell you that the classic A.A. Milne book, Winnie-the-Pooh, made its debut on this day in 1926.

Alan Alexander Milne wrote this and other delightful Winnie-the-Pooh stories, centering the tales around his little son, Christopher Robin, and Christopher’s stuffed animals, like the honey-loving Pooh Bear, Eeyore (the donkey), Piglet and Tigger, too.

The other A.A. Milne Pooh books were The House at Pooh Corner, When We were Very Young and Now We are Six. That’s it.
Winnie-the-Pooh. (http://www.just-pooh.com/history.html) Christopher Robin. (http://www.just-pooh.com/christopher.html)

Events
October 14th.

1928 - So you think that Tiny Tim and Miss Vickie were the first with televised weddings, eh? Well, you’re left at the altar on this one. James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison tied the knot as the first (experimental) televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL -- in a radio studio.

1930 - I Got Rhythm, by Ethel Merman, was a show-stopper in the production of Girl Crazy on Broadway. It was Merman’s debut on the Great White Way as she captivated audiences and launched her stellar career. Girl Crazy went on for 272 performances.

1934 - Folks had clean hands for 21 years beginning this day. The Lux Radio Theater was heard on the NBC Blue radio network. The show was also known as Lux Presents Hollywood and nearly every famous Hollywood star over the next three decades appeared on the program. Lux Radio Theater adapted novels, Broadway plays and Hollywood films into radio’s favorite dramatic series. The show was such a hit, the sponsors literally cleaned up in profits. Besides the title sponsor, Lux soap, Rinso Blue bleach and detergent and Spry shortening were also supportive, especially in the 1950s.

1938 - One of the great songs of the big band era was recorded by Bob Crosby (Bing’s brother) and The Bob Cats. Big Noise from Winnetka on Decca Records featured Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc. Haggart whistled and played bass, while Bauduc played the skins.

1947 - U.S. Air Force Captain Charles Yeager rode the X-1, attached to the belly of a B-29 bomber, to an altitude of 25,000 ft. over dry Rogers Lake in California. After releasing from the B-29, he rocketed to an altitude of 40,000 ft. and became the first person to break the sound barrier.

1954 - Talk about screen credits! With a cast of 25,000, the C.B. DeMille epic, The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. Incidentally, Heston’s name was mentioned waaaaaay at the top in big letters. After the film became a smash, DeMille issued Commandment Eleven: Thou shalt not use 25,000 extras ever again in the making of a major motion picture.

1955 - A TV hat trick was scored. Ethel and Albert, one of the few shows to play on all three major U.S. networks, came to ABC-TV. The show, starring Alan Bunce and Peg Lynch, had been on NBC and CBS previously. A popular radio show in the 1940s, Ethel and Albert got a second life (three years) on TV.

1961 - The Broadway production How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying opened on Broadway.

1964 - The youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize received the $54,000 award this day. Martin Luther King, Jr. donated the dollars to support civil rights in the U.S.

1965 - Dodger ace Sandy Koufax, working on just two days rest, pitched a three-hit shutout of the Minnesota Twins. Koufax struck out ten Twins on his way to the 2-0 win. And the Dodgers were World Series champs for the second time in three years.

1971 - It was John and Yoko Day on The Dick Cavett Show on ABC. The couple promoted Lennon’s new LP (Imagine) and film (Imagine) and Yoko’s book, two films and a fine arts show.

1973 - Scottish racecar driver Jackie Stewart announced his retirement from auto racing. He also announced his newfound ability to be a race commentator for ABC-TV.

1977 - Crooner Bing Crosby suffered a fatal heart attack while playing golf at a course near Madrid, Spain. Crosby, 73, had just completed a tour of England that had included a sold-out engagement at the London Palladium.

1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson’s Detroit Tigers walloped the Padres 8-4 in the Motor City and Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. Not since 1927 had a team won the World Series after leading its division since the first day of the season.

1987 - A media frenzy occurred when hundreds of rescuers came to the aid of little 18-month-old Jessica McClure. At 9:30 a.m. on this day, Jessica fell 22 feet into an abandoned well in her backyard in Midland, Texas. She was brought out of the well 58 hours later and was rushed to the hospital, where she underwent minor surgery. Gifts, especially stuffed animals, pouring into the hospital from well-wishers, most of whom had never met Jessica or her family.

1991 - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar), won the Nobel Peace Prize. For six years, from 1989 to 1995, Aung San Suu Kyi was kept in isolation under house arrest for speaking out against the government, which used torture and forced labor, and refused to hand over power even though it lost a national election.

1994 - Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.”

1996 - Singer/entertainer Madonna gave birth to her daughter, Lourdes Maria, in Los Angeles, California. The father is Carlos Leon, her former fitness-trainer.

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Birthdays
October 14th.

1644 - William Penn
colonist: founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers; died July 30, 1718

1890 - Dwight David Eisenhower
5-star U.S. army general: Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II; 34th U.S. President [1953-1961]; married to Mamie Doud [two sons]; nickname: Ike; died Mar 28, 1969

1893 - Lillian Gish (de Guiche)
actress: Birth of a Nation, Orphans of the Storm, Sweet Liberty, A Wedding, The Whales of August; died Feb 27, 1993

1894 - e e cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings)
poet, playwright: Him, Santa Claus; writer: The Enormous Room; died Sep 3, 1962

1905 - Eugene Fodor
writer: travel books; died Feb 2, 1991

1907 - Allan Jones
singer: The Donkey Serenade; actor: Showboat, Rose Marie, Firefly, One Night in the Tropics, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races; father of singer, Jack Jones; died June 27, 1992

1910 - John Wooden
Basketball Hall of Famer: coach: UCLA Bruins: most NCAA titles [10], Indiana State

1916 - C. Everett Koop
U.S. Surgeon General [1981-1989]; Director of Office of International Health [1982]; Senior Scholar: C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College

1924 - Robert Webber
actor: Private Benjamin, 10, Revenge of the Pink Panther, The Stripper, The Sandpiper, Twelve Angry Men, Moonlighting; died May 19, 1989

1927 - Bill (William E.) Justis (Jr.)
musician: saxophone: Raunchy; died July 15, 1982

1927 - Sir Roger (George) Moore
actor: The Saint, Maverick, The Persuaders, The Alaskans; James Bond ‘007’: A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy

1938 - Melba Montgomery
singer: No Charge, Angel of the Morning, Hall of Shame, The Greatest Ones of All

1939 - Ralph Lauren (Lifshitz)
fashion designer: Polo clothes, cologne, linens, etc.

1940 - Tommy Harper
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Seattle Pilots, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1970], Boston Red Sox, California Angels, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles

1940 - Cliff Richard (Harry Webb)
singer: Move It, Devil Woman, Dreaming, High Class Baby, Livin’ Doll, Travelin’ Light, Please Don’t Tease, I Love You, The Young Ones, The Next Time, Bachelor Boy, Summer Holiday, The Minute You’re Gone, Congratulations, Power to all Our Friends; in films: The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, Wonderful Life

1940 - J.C. (Jesse Carlyle) Snead
golf: 22-year PGA Tour pro; Senior PGA Tour [1990]; career winnings total $5,000,000+

1942 - Billy Harrison
musician: guitar: group: Them: Gloria

1943 - Lance Rentzel
football: Dallas Cowboys WR

1946 - Justin Hayward
guitarist, singer: group: The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Question, Your Wildest Dreams; solo: Forever Autumn, LP: Songwriter, Moving Mountains, Other Side of Life, Sur la Mer

1946 - Al (Albert) Oliver
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971/all-star: 1972, 1975, 1976, 1980-1983], Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants, LA Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays

1947 - Charlie Joiner
Pro Football Hall of Famer [enshrined 1996]: Grambling State WR, Houston Oilers wide receiver, Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers: player, receivers coach

1947 - Bob Kuechenberg
football: Miami Dolphins guard: Super Bowls VI, VII, VIII, XVII

1948 - Marcia Barrett
singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon

1950 - Sheila Young (Ochowicz)
International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist [3 in 1976]: speed skater; national and world cycling sprint champion [1981]

1952 - Harry Anderson
actor: Night Court, Dave’s World; magician

1953 - Greg Evigan
actor: B.J. and the Bear, Masquerade, My Two Dads, Tek War, Deepstar Six, P.S. I Luv You

1956 - Beth Daniel
champion golfer: LPGA [1990], Rookie of the Year [1979], Player of the Year [1980]; AP Female Athlete of the Year [1990]

1956 - Arleen Sorkin
actress: It’s Pat: The Movie, Days of Our Lives, Duet; TV host: America’s Funniest People

1965 - Trevor Goddard
actress: JAG, Mortal Kombat, Assault on Devil’s Island, First Encounter, Deep Rising, Dead Man’s Run; died June 7, 2003

1970 - Jon Seda
actor: Twelve Monkeys, Primal Fear, Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, Thin Air, Rikki the Pig, Double Bang

1974 - Natalie Maines
singer: group: Dixie Chicks: LPs: Wide Open Spaces, Fly.

Chart Toppers
October 14th.

1946 To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis

1954 Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow

1962 Sherry - The 4 Seasons
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket :D
I Remember You - Frank Ifield
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins

1970 Cracklin’ Rosie - Neil Diamond
I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
All Right Now - Free ;)
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash

1978 Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton

1986 When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) - Glass Tiger
Two of Hearts - Stacey Q
Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers) - Eddie Rabbitt & Juice Newton


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288th day of 2007 - 77 remaining.
Part 1 of 2

Monday, October 15, 2007
GRAND OLE OPRY DAY. :)

If you’re a country music performer, the day you make it to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry is the day you’ve made it! The Grand Ole Opry started on radio in Nashville, Tennessee (where it still originates) in 1925. It was first heard on network radio in 1939. The show finally made it to TV on this day in 1955.

The ABC network carried just one hour of Opry (it continued through the night) live from Nashville. This arrangement only lasted for one year; although the Grand Ole Opry was used as a staging arena for other successful shows like Classic Country Featuring Stars of the Grand Ole Opry and Hayride.

Then, miracle of miracles for country music fans, Grand Ole Opry came to TV to stay. In 1985, the Nashville Network (TNN) positioned the show on Saturday nights. In 2001, Opry was carried on Country Music Televison (CMT). In 2003, Grand Ole Opry (Opry Live) moved to GAC (Great American Country).

The Grand Ole Opry made it! And it looks like it will continue in Nashville, regardless of which cable TV channel it is on at the moment.
Great American Country. (http://www.gactv.com/gac/shows_goo) The Grand Ole Opry. (http://www.opry.com/)

Events
October 15th.

1860 - Grace Bedell, age 11, wrote Abe Lincoln with a suggestion. She urged Lincoln to grow a beard. If he did, she’d try to get her four brothers to vote for him for president. Lincoln won the election in November -- then he grew a beard.

1892 - The U.S. government convinced the Crow Indians to give up 1.8 million acres of their reservation for 50 cents per acre. On this day, by presidential proclamation, the land in the mountainous area of western Montana was opened to settlers.

1905 - President Grover Cleveland wrote an article for Ladies Home Journal, joining others in the U.S. who opposed women voters. The president said, “We all know how much further women go than men in their social rivalries and jealousies... sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.”

1931 - The production of The Cat and the Fiddle opened in New York. It played for 395 performances. Meow!

1932 - The War Memorial Opera House became the first municipally-owned opera palace -- in San Francisco, CA. Tosca was the first opera presented.

1946 - With two outs, and St. Louis Cardinals’ Enos Slaughter on first, Harry Walker hit a line drive to left-center. Slaughter got an early jump as Boston Red Sox pitcher Bob Klinger failed to hold him on the bag. Leon Culberson (in center) bobbled Walker’s single and shortstop Johnny Pesky hesitated on the cutoff (checking the runner on first instead of throwing home). Ignoring third base coach Mike Gonzalez, Slaughter rounded third and scored. Pitcher Harry Brecheen shut down the Red Sox in the ninth and St. Louis won the game, 4-3, and the World Series, four games to three. The ’46 Series will always be remembered in Red Sox lore as the one in which “Pesky held the ball.”

1951 - I Love Lucy debuted on CBS-TV. For the next 20 years, Lucille Ball would be a TV regular. She did take 1956 off. Why? No, having little Ricky had nothing to do with it. She starred in Wildcat on Broadway that year.

1953 - The Teahouse of the August Moon opened on Broadway to begin a long and successful run (1,027 performances).

1959 - Van Johnson was originally slated to play Eliot Ness, but he backed out in a dispute over money the weekend before filming was to begin. Robert Stack was hastily recruited for the starring role in The Untouchables on a Sunday morning. He was fitted for costumes in the afternoon, and started filming the first episode, The Empty Chair, on Monday morning. The Untouchables, with the chatter of machine-gun fire and the squeal of tires on the streets of Chicago, began a four-year run this day on ABC-TV. With Stack, as G-man Ness, were Nick Georgiade (as Enrico Rossi), Jerry Paris (as Martin Flaherty), Abel Fernandez (as William Youngfellow), Anthony George (as Cam Allison), Paul Percerni (as Lee Hobson), Steve London (as Agent Rossman) and Bruce Gordon (as Frank Nitti). The unforgettable narrator was radio’s famous Walter Winchell.

1964 - An American treasure died. Cole Porter, renowned lyricist and composer, died at age 73. I’ve Got You Under My Skin and hundreds of other classics crossed all musical style and format boundaries throughout his long and rich career.

1964 - For St. Louis, it was the first time a Cardinal team had appeared in the World Series since 1946 (see above), and the first of three Series appearances in the 1960s. For the Yankees, it was their last Series appearance for 12 years, and the last hurrah in a long string of Fall Classics for legendary players Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle. The Cards won the Series in seven games, with Bob Gibson’s complete game, nine strike-out performance in game seven. Lou Brock’s fifth-inning home run triggered a second 3-run inning and a 6-0 lead for Gibson. Mickey Mantle, Clete Boyer, and Phil Linz homered for New York, but it wasn’t enough. The Cards won the game, 7-5, and the series, four games to three.

1970 - The Baltimore Orioles overcame a 3-0 deficit to beat the Cincinnati Reds, 9-3, and win the World Series in five games. It was the first Series on artificial turf and the first at Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati). And it was the Brooks Robinson show. With the Orioles’ third baseman leading the way, the Orioles avenged their World Series loss (to the NY Mets) of a year earlier by getting beating the Reds in five games.

1971 - Rick Nelson was booed off the stage when he didn’t stick to all oldies at the seventh Annual Rock ’n’ Roll Revival show at Madison Square Garden, New York. He tried to slip in some of his new material and the crowd did not approve. The negative reaction to his performance inspired Nelson to write his last top-40 hit, Garden Party, which hit the top-ten about a year after the Madison Square Garden debacle. Garden Party, ironically, was Nelson’s biggest hit in years, “...If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck; But if memories were all I sang, I rather drive a truck.”

1973 - “From those of us working the late shift in Southern California, sweet dreams.” Tom Snyder would use this phrase to close his late-night show, Tomorrow, which debuted on NBC-TV this night. Tom would yuk it up with some of TV’s most interesting chatter -- right after the Tonight show. NBC would later add critic Rona Barrett to the show. Tomorrow ran until January of 1982.

1984 - Public telephones flew on 20 flights beginning this day for those who had credit cards. Costs for the Airfone service: $7.50 for a three-minute call, $1.25 for each additional minute anywhere you wanted to call in the United States.

1988 - Red Red Wine, by UB40, was the first reggae hit to make it to number one in the U.S. From the album Labour of Love, Red Red Wine was #1 for only one week, but turned out to be UB40’s signature song.

1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the USSR (1985-1991), won the Nobel Peace Prize. Gorbachev is widely credited for “helping to end the Cold War, change the map of Europe and usher in a new era in world affairs.”

1993 - African National Congress leader Nelson (Rolihlahla) Mandela and South African President F.W. (Frederik Willem) de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to usher in reforms that 1) ended South Africa’s era of white minority rule and 2) laid the foundations for democracy.

1994 - REM’s Monster was a monster of an album -- #1 in the U.S. The album, featuring What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?, Crush with Eyeliner, King of Comedy, I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, Star 69, Strange Currencies, Tongue, Bang and Blame, I Took Your Name, Let Me In, Circus Envy and You, was number one for two weeks.

1997 - British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green drove (piloted?) the first land-based vehicle (at Black Rock Desert, NV) to break the sound barrier: a two-way average speed of 763.035 mph – mach 1.020. And, considering he had to use one hand just to hold on to his hat, that is an impressive feat...

Birthdays
October 15th.

70 B.C. - Virgil
poet: The Aeneid; died Sep 21, 19 B.C.

1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche
philosopher: “Plato was a bore.”; The Birth of Tragedy, Thoughts out of Season, Human, All Too Human, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist; died Aug 25, 1900

1858 - John L. Sullivan
International Boxing Hall of Famer: World Heavyweight champion [1881-1889], Marquis of Queensbury Champion [1885-1892]; last bareknuckle championship fight [75 rounds in 1889]; actor: The Great John L. Sullivan, vaudeville; died Feb 2, 1918

1881 - P.G. (Sir Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
author: Leave It to Psmith, The Inimitable Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, French Leave, Carry on Jeeves, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves; died Feb 14, 1975

1900 - Mervyn LeRoy
director: Gypsy, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, The F.B.I. Story, Homecoming, Little Women, Madame Curie, A Majority of One, Quo Vadis, Rose Marie, Random Harvest, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Three on a Match; died Sep 13, 1987

1903 - Mule (George William) Haas
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Athletics [World Series: 1929-1931], Chicago White Sox; died June 30, 1974

1904 - Marty Mann
social activist: first woman to stay sober in Alcoholics Anonymous [AA], founded National Committee for Education on Alcoholism; author: A New Primer on Alcoholism; died in 1980

1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith
economist; author: The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, The Anatomy of Power; U.S. ambassador to India [1961-1963]; died Apr 29, 2006

1909 - Robert Trout
journalist: radio/TV; TV moderator: Presidential Timber; emcee: Who Said That?; died Nov 14, 2000

1913 - David Carroll
musician, conductor, arranger: Melody of Love, It’s Almost Tomorrow; record producer for The Diamonds, The Platters

1917 - Arthur (Meier) Schlesinger Jr.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author/historian: The Age of Jackson [1946 prize in history], A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House [1966 prize in biography]; The Age of Roosevelt, The Imperial Presidency, Robert F. Kennedy and His Times; presidential special assistant and speech writer [1961-64]

1920 - Chris Economaki
auto sports writer, broadcaster: ABC Sports

1921 - Mario Puzo
novelist: The Godfather, Fourth K.; screen playwright: The Godfather series, Earthquake, Superman: The Movie, Superman 2, The Cotton Club, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery; died July 2, 1999

1924 - José Quintero
director: Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Medea; died Feb 26, 1999

1924 - Lee (Lido) Iacocca
mechanical engineer, automobile executive: chairperson of Chrysler Corporation, president of Ford Motor Company; >author: Iacocca; chairperson: centennial rehabilitation of Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island foundation

1925 - Mickey (McHouston) Baker
musician: guitar, singer: duo: Mickey & Sylvia: Love is Strange, There Oughta Be a Law, Baby You’re So Fine; solo: session player: Losing Hand, [Mama] He treats Your Daughter Mean

1926 - Jean Peters
actress: Three Coins in the Fountain, Apache, Broken Lance, Viva Zapata, It Happens Every Spring; died Oct 13, 2000

1934 - Peter Haskell
actor: Robot Wars, Child’s Play, Christina, Bracken’s World, The Law and Harry McGraw, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book II, Rituals

1935 - Barry McGuire
singer, songwriter: group: The New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green; solo: Eve of Destruction

1935 - Bobby Morrow
National Track & Field & Olympic Hall of Famer: Gold Medalist: [3-1956]: 100-meter, 200-meter, 4x100 relay; Sullivan Award [1957]

1937 - Linda Lavin
Tony Award-winning actress: Broadway Bound [1987]; Alice, Barney Miller, Room for Two

1938 - Marv Johnson
singer: You Got What it Takes, I Love the Way You Love, Come to Me, I Miss You Baby [How I Miss You]; in film: The Teenage Millionaire [1962]; died May 16, 1993

1942 - Dick Lotz
golf: PGA Tour [1969]; champ: [Kemper Open: 1970]

1942 - Penny (Carole) Marshall
actress: Laverne & Shirley, The Odd Couple, The Bob Newhart Show; director: Renaissance Man, Big, A League of Their Own, Awakenings, Jumpin’ Jack Flash; sister of director, producer Garry Marshall

1942 - Don Stevenson
musician: drums, singer: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam

1945 - Jim (James Alvin) Palmer
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1979, 1983/all-star: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978/Cy Young Award-winner: 1975, 1976]; broadcaster: ABC Sports; spokesperson, model: Jockey underwear

1946 - Richard Carpenter
musician, composer, singer: Grammy Award-winning group: Carpenters: [They Long to Be] Close to You [1970], Best New Artist [1970], LP: The Carpenters [1971]; We’ve Only Just Begun, Rainy Days and Mondays, Superstar, Goodbye to Love, Yesterday Once More, Sing, Top of the World, Only Yesterday; TV host: Make Your Own Kind of Music

1946 - Victor Banerjee
actor: Bitter Moon, Foreign Body, The Home and the World, A Passage to India

1946 - Jim Beirne
football: Purdue [All-American: 1966], Houston Oilers

1948 - Chris De Burgh (Christopher John Davidson)
singer, songwriter: The Lady in Red, A Spaceman Came Travelling, Ship to Shore, Don’t Pay the Ferryman, High on Emotion, The Ecstacy of Flight [I Love the Night], Transmission Ends

1951 - Roscoe Tanner
tennis champion: Australian Open [1977]

1953 - Tito (Toriano) Jackson
singer: group: The Jackson Five: I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, I’ll Be There; brother of Michael, Janet, Jermaine, LaToya

1955 - Tanya Roberts (Leigh)
actress: Charlie’s Angels, Deep Down, Sins of Desire, Body Slam, A View to a Kill, Tourist Trap, California Dreaming, Forced Entry

1959 - Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York: ‘Fergie’

1959 - Emeril Lagasse
celebrity chef, TV host: Emeril Live, Essence of Emeril; actor: Emeril; restaurateur: owns restaurants in New Orleans, Las Vegas, Orlando

1965 - Trace Armstrong
football: Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins, Oakland Raiders.

[ShadowThomas]

Part 2 of 1

Chart Toppers
October 15th.

1947 I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Black Denim Trousers - The Cheers
The Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold

1963 Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs ;)
Be My Baby - The Ronettes ;)
Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters
Talk Back Trembling Lips - Ernest Ashworth

1971 Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Superstar - Carpenters
Yo-Yo - The Osmonds
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson

1979 Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Rise - Herb Alpert
Sail On - Commodores
Last Cheater’s Waltz - T.G. Sheppard

1987 Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Carrie - Europe
The Way We Make a Broken Heart - Rosanne Cash


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.

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289th day of 2007 - 76 remaining.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
POPULATION CONTROL DAY.

If you think that Planned Parenthood and other such organizations are unique to today’s society, think again.

Long before most of us were born, three women, Margaret Sanger, Fania Mindell and Ethel Burne, all from New York, decided that the poor should have some help in controlling the size of their families. They felt they could help if they opened a birth control clinic because “no social progress is possible, especially where poverty is a factor, unless the size of families is limited.” Talk about being way ahead of your time...

They opened the doors of the first such clinic in the United States, right smack in the middle of Brooklyn at 46 Amboy Street on this day in 1916. Ms. Sanger served 30 days in jail for her bold action. A year earlier she had been indicted for using the U.S. mail to disseminate birth control information in three languages throughout the United States.

A public nurse, Margaret Sanger went on to become the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Foundation in 1953.
More reading on the following links. (http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/captions.html) Click. (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/) Click. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger) Click. (http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Sanger/) And click. (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~mbpatton/reproductive_rights/sanger.html) :)

Events
October 16th.

1829 - The Tremont House (now known as the Tremont Hotel) opened in Boston, MA. It was called the first modern hotel in America. Each of the Tremont’s 170 luxurious rooms went for $2 a day and included four meals...

Eat your heart out, Tom Bodett! The Tremont Hotel opened in Boston. It was called the first modern hotel in America. Each of the Tremont’s luxurious 170 rooms went for $2 a day and included four meals! We’ll leave the light on...

1846 - The painkiller, >ether, was demonstrated successfully for the first time -- in Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. The drug was administered by William T.G. Morton, a ‘dentist’ (he never attended dental or medical school), of Charlestown, MA.

1909 - The first seesaw World Series ended , after each team -- Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Detroit Tigers -- had won alternately until game seven. Pittsburgh pitcher Babe Adams came through with a 6-hit, 8-0 win over Detroit. It was his third complete-game victory and gave the Pirates their first world championship.

1912 - It was the day for game eight of the World Series. What? Game eight? Yes, it seems game two was called for darkness with the score tied, and did not count. Anyway, back to game eight, between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees: Boston won, 2-1, in ten innings. Talk about even-steven baseball...

1928 - The frosted electric light bulb was patented. No, it wasn’t the work of Thomas Edison, Westinghouse, General Electric, or any of his army, either. It was one Marvin Pipkin who lit up at receiving this patent.

1939 - Radio listeners welcomed The Right to Happiness on the NBC Blue network. The 15-minute radio drama turned out to be one of the longest-running radio shows of its kind. It moved over to CBS in 1941, then back to NBC in 1942. Fourteen years later Right to Happiness returned to CBS where it stayed until its last days in 1960. The show had a theme song, Song of the Soul, and what seemed like a cast of thousands. It just took a lot of different radio actors to play the continuing roles over a 21-year period.

1941 - Fry Me Cookie, with a Can of Lard was recorded by the Will Bradley Orchestra on Columbia. Ray McKinley was featured.

1944 - The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, was published this day. Nine years later the novel was made into a movie and captured three Oscars. It is seen annually (around the Easter holiday) on TV.

1945 - Barry Fitzgerald starred as Judge Barnard Fitz in His Honor, the Barber, which debuted on NBC radio.

1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer made news. She replaced Ruth Crowley as a columnist in 26 newspapers. Mrs. Crowley, a writer of advice to the lovelorn, had died in July of 1955 and was replaced by the woman whose advice column was seen in hundreds of newspapers. She wrote under the famous pen name, Ann Landers. ‘Eppie’ Lederer, who died June 22, 2002, was also the twin sister of another advice columnist, Abigail Van Buren.

1962 - World Series time again: The New York Yankees scored the game’s only run in the fourth inning. In the ninth, San Francisco Giants’ Willie Mays ripped a double to right off pitcher Ralph Terry, but great fielding by Roger Maris kept Matty Alou from scoring. Willie McCovey hit a liner toward right, but second-baseman Bobby Richardson grabbed it, giving the Yankees their second straight world championship. Terry was named Series MVP.

1969 - The once-lowly New York Mets won their first World Series baseball championship. The ‘Miracle Mets’ were 100-to-1 long shots at the beginning of the season. Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner were at the mike on radio for one of the most exciting finishes in baseball history.

1972 - John C. Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival called it a career ... and the group disbanded. Fogerty would continue in a solo career with big hits including, Centerfield and The Old Man Down the Road.

1976 - Memphis, TN disc jockey Rick Dees and his ‘Cast of Idiots’ made it all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with the immortal Disco Duck (Part 1). Dees is still around, but not as a recording artist. He’s a DJ in Los Angeles and is hosting several varieties of the Weekly Top 40 show, syndicated around the world.

1976 - Stevie Wonder’s album, Songs in the Key of Life wound up at number one in the U.S. It turned out to be no fluke. With greats, such as Sir Duke, Isn’t She Lovely and I Wish, the double-album stayed at #1 for 14 weeks. Other tracks: Love’s in Need of Love Today, Have a Talk with God, Village Ghetto Land, Contusion, Knocks Me Off My Feet, Pastime Paradise, Summer Soft, Ordinary Pain, Saturn, Ebony Eyes, Joy Inside My Tears, Black Man, Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am S inging, If It’s Magic, As, Another Star, All Day Sucker, Easy Goin’ Evening (My Mama’s Call).

1978 - Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected the 264th Pope: His Holiness John Paul II.

1983 - The Baltimore Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in the World Series. The Orioles featured Cal Ripken, Eddie Murray, a stingy pitching staff and clutch performances by other great players. The Phillies were led by Mike Schmidt and a group of veterans nicknamed The Wheeze Kids: Pete Rose (age 42), Joe Morgan (40), Tony Perez (41) and Steve Carlton (38). After losing the Series opener in Baltimore, the Orioles won the next four games. In the fifth game, Murray hit two home runs and MVP Rick Dempsey another, giving the Orioles their third World Series championship.

1984 - Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa.”

1986 - Chuck Berry celebrated his 60th birthday with a concert in his home town of St. Louis, Missouri (at the Fox Theatre). The show was organized by Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) and the concert was used in a documentary titled, Hail! Hail! Rock ’N’ Roll, an overview of Berry’s career.

1987 - WBA, WBC & IBF undisputed, as they say, World Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson stopped Tyrell Biggs (TKO) in the seventh round at Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, NJ.

1992 - Sinead O’Connor was booed off the stage at a show honoring Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden (famous for booing folks off the stage), New York. The crowd was acting in disapproval of O’Connor’s tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live October 3, 1992.

1998 - Movies debuting in the U.S. this day: Beloved, with Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Thandie Newton; Bride of Chucky, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif and Katherine Heigl; and Practical Magic, with Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing.

Birthdays
October 16th.

1758 - Noah Webster
author, lexicographer: Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language; died May 28, 1843

1854 - Oscar (O’Flahertie Fingal Wills) Wilde
playwright: The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray; died Nov 30, 1900

1886 - David Ben-Gurion
Israel’s first prime minister; died in Dec 1, 1973

1888 - Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill
Nobel Prize [1936] and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: The Ice Man Cometh [1946]; Long Day’s Journey into Night; died Nov 27, 1953

1898 - William O. Douglas
jurist: U.S. Supreme Court Justice [1939-1975]; died Jan 19, 1980

1900 - Goose (Leon Allen) Goslin
Baseball Hall of Famer: Washington Nationals [World Series: 1924, 1925, 1933], St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1934, 1935/all-star: 1936]; drove in 100 or more runs on eleven occasions, hit .300 or better eleven times; career: .316 average, 2735 hits, 37 more in World Series competition; died May 15, 1971

1906 - George Lott
International Tennis Hall of Famer [enshrined 1964]; U.S. Open Tennis Mixed Doubles Champion [w/Betty Nuthall - 1929 & 1931] [w/Helen Jacobs - 1934]; author [w/Jeffrey Bairstow]: How to Play Winning Doubles [1979]; died Dec 2, 1991

1923 - Linda Darnell
actress: Dakota Incident, Blackbeard the Pirate, Anna and the King of Siam, Forever Amber, Buffalo Bill, The Mark of Zorro; died Apr 10, 1965

1923 - Bert Kaempfert
musician: Wonderland by Night, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Three O’Clock in the Morning; died June 21, 1980

1925 - Angela Lansbury
Tony Award-winning actress: Mame [1966], Dear World [1969], Gypsy [1975], Sweeney Todd [1979]; Murder, She Wrote, Death on the Nile, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Harlow, Blue Hawaii, The Manchurian Candidate, The Long Hot Summer, The World of Henry Orient, The Harvey Girls, Picture of Dorian Gray, National Velvet; voice: teapot: Beauty and the Beast

1927 - Günter (Wilhelm) Grass
novelist: Dog Years, The Tin Drum; won 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature

1931 - Chuck (Charles) Colson
government: Watergate co-conspirator

1940 - Barry Corbin
actor: Northern Exposure, Boone, The Chase, Urban Cowboy, Who’s Harry Crumb

1941 - Mel Counts
basketball: Oregon State Univ.; U.S. Olympic Basketbal Gold Medal Winner [1964]; Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers

1941 - Tim (James Timothy) McCarver
baseball: catcher: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968/all-star: 1966, 1967], Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox; broadcaster: NY Mets, ABC Sports

1942 - Dave Lovelady
musician: drums: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, I’m in Love, A Little Loving, Baby I Need Your Loving

1943 - C.F. (Fred) Turner
musician: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Takin’ Care of Business, Let It Ride, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Looking Out for Number One, Hey You

1945 - D.D. (Dwight Douglas) Lewis
football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII

1946 - Suzanne Somers (Mahoney)
actress: Three’s Company, She’s the Sheriff, Step by Step, American Graffiti, Seduced by Evil

1947 - Bob Weir (Hall)
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Grateful Dead: Touch of Grey, Truckin’; solo: LP: Ace, Heaven Help the Fool

1947 - David Zucker
director: Airplane!, Naked Gun series, Ruthless People, Top Secret!, Police Squad!, Help Wanted!

1948 - Richard Caster
football: Washington Redskins tight end: Super Bowl XVII

1949 - Bob Collyard
hockey: NHL: St. Louis Blues

1952 - Cal Peterson
football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl X

1953 - Tony Carey
musician: keyboards: group: Rainbow: LPs: Rainbow Rising, Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll

1953 - Mike Sojourner
basketball: Univ. of Utah; Atlanta Hawks

1958 - Tim Robbins
Academy Award-winning actor: Mystic River [2003]; The Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham, Short Cuts, Hudsucker Proxy; director: Dead Man Walking, Cradle Will Rock, Queens Supreme

1959 - Gary Kemp
musician: guitar: group: Spandau Ballet: To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1, True, Gold, Only When You Leave; brother of musician Martin Kemp

1962 - Flea (Michael Balzary)
musician: bass guitar: group: The Red Hot Chili Peppers: LPs: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Freaky Styley, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Mother’s Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, One Hot Minute

1969 - Wendy Wilson
singer: group: Wilson Phillips: Hold On, Release Me; daughter of Beach Boys singer, Brian Wilson

1975 - Kellie Martin
actress: Matinee, Troop Beverly Hills, Life Goes On, Christy.

Chart Toppers
October 16th.

1948 A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold

1956 Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Just Walking in the Rain - Johnnie Ray
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

1964 Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves

1972 Ben - Michael Jackson
Use Me - Bill Withers
Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
Funny Face - Donna Fargo

1980 Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
Loving Up a Storm - Razzy Bailey

1988 Red Red Wine - UB40
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens


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290th day of 2007 - 75 remaining.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
NGM DAY.

The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was on newsstands this day in 1888. The highly acclaimed magazine was published on a somewhat irregular basis at first. Material was hard to come by in the early years, so the publisher just waited to publish the next issue until enough material accumulated to fill it.

The science and travel magazine, the official journal of the National Geographic Society (incorporated January 27, 1888), soon became a monthly and it wasn’t long before it became famous for its maps and photographic essays of exotic locales and peoples.

At last check, National Geographic Magazine maintained a paid circulation of some 5.5 million readers.
National Geographic. (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/birth/)

Events
October 17th.

1845 - According to a Boston newspaper, the entire audience walked out of a reading of The Raven. The audience walked out, not because of the material, but because of their objection to Edgar Allan Poe, the reader and author of the macabre poem.

1845 - According to a Boston newspaper, the entire audience walked out of a reading of The Raven. The audience walked out, not because of the material, but because of their objection to Edgar Allan Poe, the reader and author of the macabre story.

1919 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed. The company became a giant in electronics, especially radios and TVs. It would later own its own TV network (NBC) and other broadcast interests.

1933 - Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after arriving in the United States from his troubled homeland of Germany.

1938 - This was a big day in Tinseltown. NBC moved to the corner of Sunset and Vine, the ‘Crossroads of the World’. The new Hollywood Radio City drew thousands of visitors ready to fill studio-audience seats for popular radio programs.

1940 - One year before recording that memorable song, Fry Me Cookie, with a Can of Lard, Will Bradley’s orchestra recorded Five O’Clock Whistle, also on Columbia Records.

1945 - Actress Ava Gardner made news. She married bandleader Artie Shaw.

1953 - The first concert of contemporary Canadian music presented in the U.S. was performed by conductor Leopold Stokowski at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

1955 - Jose Ferrer and Claire Bloom starred on NBC’s Producer’s Showcase. They performed in Cyrano De Bergerac. Ferrer also won an Oscar for his performance in the film version.

1962 - Though the ‘Fab Four’ would appear on both radio and television, on what they would call ‘Auntie Beeb’ (the BBC), The Beatles made their first appearance this day on Great Britain’s Granada TV Network. The show from Manchester, England was "People and Places".

1967 - “Gimme a head with hair. Long, beautiful hair...” The rock musical HAIR opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater for a limited run. After much trial and error, involving several openings and closings, HAIR eventually opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater on April 29, 1968. It closed on July 1, 1972 after 1,742 performances.

1971 - Roberto Clemente’s bat, Steve Blass’ pitching, and the leadership of Willie Stargell made the Pittsburgh Pirates World Series winners. After losing the first two games, the Bucs came back to win three consecutive -- and eventually their fourth world championship. Steve Blass hurled a four-hitter and Roberto Clemente homered as the Pirates won Game 7, 2-1.

1974 - The Oakland A’s beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1, to win the World Series. In Game 5, played this day, Joe Rudi connected with a homer off Dodger reliever Mike Marshall to break a 2-2 tie. Oakland's bullpen ace, Rollie Fingers preserved the one run lead and the A’s were world champions for the third consecutive year. The A’s were the only team other than the Yankees to win 3 straight series.

1978 - The New York Yankees were pounded 11-to-5 in the opening game of the World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers also took game two 4-to-3. No American League team had ever recovered from an 0-2 deficit in the World Series -- until then. The Yankees won the next four games to clinch their 22nd world championship.

1979 - After being down three games to one, Willie ‘Pops’ Stargell’s third World Series homer gave the Pittsburgh Pirates their third straight win, 4-1, and the world championship, four games to three. Stargell was Series MVP.

1983 - Actor Anthony Quinn lit up the Great White Way in the revival of the 1968 musical, Zorba, that reunited Quinn with Lila Kedrova, who played Madame Hortense. They both had appeared in the film portrayal, Zorba the Greek, which won Quinn a nomination for Best Actor, and an Oscar for Kedrova as Best Supporting Actress. This was one of the few films that came before the Broadway show, rather than the reverse.

1985 - Intel introduced the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip. It was the first Intel/*86 chip to handle 32-bit data sets. It ran at ‘clock speeds’ of up to 33 MHz -- blazingly fast in 1985.

1989 - Millions were watching the third game of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, when much to their horror, the seats at Candlestick Park began to rock, light towers swayed, and 58,000 fans became eerily quiet. An earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, had hit the San Francisco Bay area at 5:04 p.m. Homes crumbled, gas lines ruptured, ‘earthquake-safe’ structures fell and the upper section of a two-tiered freeway collapsed onto the lower level at the height of rush hour -- trapping commuters in flattened cars. The tremor and its aftershocks reached north to Sacramento and south to Los Angeles, causing an estimated 270 deaths, 3,000 injuries, and damages up to $3 billion. TV audiences stayed glued to their sets as fires burned, rescue workers went about their jobs and real stories unfolded. At the World Series game (postponed because of earth shaking), the fans cheered when the tremor stopped. They were the victors of nature’s game.

1997 - “Ever have a body that just won’t stay dead?” The creepy I Know What You Did Last Summer opened in the U.S. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. play high-school kids who run over a mysterious person on the road. They decide to dump the ‘body’ and forgetta bout it. Hah! As you might guess, that’s easier said than done. At last check (Oct 2001), I Know What You Did Last Summer had scared up $72,219,000 at the box office.

1998 - The single, One Week, by Barenaked Ladies, was number one -- for one week.

Birthdays
October 17th.

1711 - Jupiter Hammon
poet: An Evening Thought; died between 1790 and 1806

1780 - Richard Johnson
9th U.S. Vice President [1837-1841: under President Martin Van Buren]; died Nov 19, 1850

1880 - Charles H. Kraft
cheese mogul [w/brother James L.]: Kraft Food Company

1893 - Spring Byington
actress: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Angels in the Outfield, In the Good Old Summertime, Jezebel, Little Women, Laramie, December Bride; died Sep 7, 1971

1900 - Jean Arthur (Gladys Georgianna Greene)
actress: Shane, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Jean Arthur Show; died June 19, 1991

1902 - Irene Ryan (Noblette)
actress: The Beverly Hillbillies, Heading for Heaven; died Apr 26, 1973

1909 - Cozy (William Randolph) Cole
musician: drums: played w/Cab Calloway, Louie Armstrong; solo: Topsy; in films: Make Mine Music, The Glen Miller Story; developed a drummers’ school w/Gene Krupa; died Jan 31, 1981

1912 - Albino Luciani
Pope John Paul I: 263rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church [Aug 26, 1978 to Sep 28, 1978]; died Sep 28, 1978

1914 - Jerry (Jerome) Siegel
cartoonist: Superman [w/Joe Shuster]; died Jan 28, 1999

1915 - Arthur Miller
Tony Award-winning playwright: Death of a Salesman [1949]; Emmy Award-winning playwright: Playing for Time [1980-81], Death of a Salesman [1966-67]; It Takes a Thief, Rhinoceros, The Misfits; died Feb 10, 2004

1918 - Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino)
actress: Miss Sadie Thompson, Pal Joey, Separate Tables, They Came to Cordura, You’ll Never Get Rich; died May 14, 1987

1920 - Elie Abel
journalist: NBC News; writer: What’s News : the Media in American Society, The Missile Crisis; dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism

1920 - (Edward) Montgomery Clift
actor: From Here to Eternity, Suddenly Last Summer, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun, Raintree County; died July 23, 1966

1921 - Tom Poston
Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: The Steve Allen Show [1958-59]; On the Rocks, Bob, Mork & Mindy, Newhart; TV panelist: To Tell the Truth, A Perfect Little Murder, Up the Academy; died Apr 30, 2007

1926 - Beverly Garland (Fessenden)
actress: My Three Sons, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Bing Crosby Show, DOA, The Desperate Hours

1927 - Johnny (John Calvin) Klippstein
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959], Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1965], Detroit Tigers; son-in-law of former pitcher Emil ‘Dutch’ Leonard; died Oct 10, 2003

1930 - Jimmy Breslin
newspaper columnist; author: Table Money

1938 - Evel Knievel (Robert Craig)
motorcycle daredevil

1940 - Jimmy Seals
singer, musician: guitar, saxophone, fiddle: group: Seals and Crofts: Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, Hummingbird, We May Never Pass this Way Again, Get Closer, You’re the Love, I’ll Play for You

1941 - Alan Howard
musician: bass: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes: Twist and Shout, Do You Love Me, Someone, Someone

1942 - Gary Puckett
singer: group: The Union Gap: Young Girl, Woman, Woman, This Girl is a Woman Now, Over You, Lady Willpower

1946 - Bob Seagren
National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic gold medalist: pole vault [1968], silver [1972]; first American to clear 18 feet; winner of World Superstars competition [1976]

1946 - Jim Tucker
musician: guitar: group: The Turtles [until 1965]

1947 - Michael McKean
actor: LaVerne & Shirley, Grand, The Brady Bunch Movie, Radioland Murders, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, This is Spinal Tap, Coneheads, The Big Picture, Used Cars

1948 - Margot (Ruth) Kidder
actress: Superman series, The Amityville Horror, Vanishing Act, Nichols

1948 - George Wendt
actor: Cheers, Man of the House, Never Say Die, Fletch, No Small Affair

1949 - Bill Hudson
comedian, singer: group: The Hudson Brothers: So You are a Star, Rendezvous; TV: The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Comedy Show; was married to actress Goldie Hawn

1950 - Howard E. Rollins Jr.
actor: In the Heat of the Night, A Soldier’s Story, Ragtime, The Member of the Wedding; died Dec 8, 1996

1955 - Sam Bottoms
actor: The Witching of Ben Wagner, Project Shadowchaser 3000, Return to Eden, East of Eden, Bronco Billy, Apocalypse Now, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Class of ’44, The Last Picture Show

1957 - Vincent Van Patten
tennis; actor: The Break, The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission, Payback, Charley and the Angel, Apple’s Way; son of actor Dick Van Patten

1957 - Steve McMichael
football: Chicago Bears DT

1958 - Alan Jackson
singer: Chattahoochie, Don’t Rock the Jukebox

1963 - Norm Macdonald
actor, comedian, celebrity impersonator: Saturday Night Live, Billy Madison, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Doctor Dolittle, The Norm Show, Screwed

1969 - Ernie Els (Theodore Ernest Els)
golf champ: U.S. Open [1994, 1997]

1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick
singer: group: *N Sync: LPs: *N Sync, Home For Christmas, No Strings Attached

1972 - Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III) (rapper: LP: Slim Shady; film songwriter: Strangeland, Scary Movie, Down to Earth

1978 - Sharon Leal
actress: Boston Public, Legacy, The Guiding Light, Face the Music.

Chart Toppers
October 17th.

1949 You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely

1957 Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis ;)
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Keep a Knockin’ - Little Richard
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers

1965 Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Behind the Tear - Sonny James

1973 Half-Breed - Cher
Ramblin’ Man - The Allman Brothers Band
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez

1981 Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones ;)
For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
Party Time - T.G. Sheppard

1989 Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Love Song - The Cure
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
Killin’ Time - Clint Black


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291st day of 2007 - 74 remaining.
Part 1 of 2

Thursday, October 18, 2007
MR. ROCK ’N’ ROLL DAY. ;)

Between St. Louis and outer space, there is only one person who can stand up and be saluted with the refrain, “Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in 1926, ‘Chuck’ Berry was destined to become a musical icon, the creative artist who established rock ‘n’ roll as its own art form.

With influences like Nat King Cole and Muddy Waters, Berry led the Sir John’s Trio, which soon became the Chuck Berry Combo, to big success at the well-known Cosmopolitan Club in St. Louis. It was 1955, and Chuck Berry was ready to move on to bigger things like a recording contract. Muddy Waters introduced him to Leonard Chess (Chess Records). As fate would have it, it wasn’t a rhythm and blues song that influenced Chess to sign Berry, but a country number, Ida Red, the forerunner of Maybellene.

Maybellene was true to Chuck Berry, kick-starting his trip to stardom. When it hit #5 on the Billboard pop charts, Berry became a rarity … a black performer entertaining mostly white teenagers. Berry theorized that it was his diction (the Nat King Cole influence) that helped him climb the pop charts. He said, “The pop fan could understand what I was saying better than many other singers.” Looking back, we can confidently add that his success was his innate ability to relate to his young audience through his lyrics and music. The thirtysomething singer/songwriter’s list of hits became high school anthems: School Days, Rock and Roll Music, Roll Over, Beethoven, etc.

Chuck Berry also inspired the musicians of the ’60s … groups like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys (who borrowed Sweet Little Sixteen for their own hit, Surfin’ U.S.A. only to be forced, legally, to give Chuck Berry due credit). He appeared on stage in concerts, in films, including playing himself in American Hot Wax, and, in 1979, performed at the White House for US President Jimmy Carter. Berry received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the following year by Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, who quipped, “It’s hard for me to induct Chuck Berry, because I lifted every lick he ever played!”

Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll’s only #1 pop chart hit of his career was the novelty ditty, My Ding-a-Ling, in 1972. But it was a clip of his most famous tune, Johnny B. Goode from 1958 that made it into outer space on the Voyager I spacecraft to represent rock music.

Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry.
Chuck Berry. (http://www.chuckberry.com/) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/chuck-berry) ;)

Events
October 18th.

1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse, whose friends all called him Sammy or F.B. for short, laid his first telegraph cable in New York Harbor between the Battery and Governor’s Island. This is the same Sam Morse of Morse code fame.

1892 - The first long-distance telephone communication was established between the mayors of New York and Chicago. As the two exchanged messages, one of the mayors is reported to have said, “I think I’ll switch to Sprint.”

1922 - As the British observed the wild growth of radio in the U.S., they realized the potential of broadcasting in their own country, as well as the need for its regulation. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was established on this day to monitor the development of the radio biz in Great Britain.

1924 - The term ‘The Four Horsemen’ was used in a New York Herald Tribune article by columnist Grantland Rice. The referenced Four Horsemen were the backfield of the University of Notre Dame which had beaten Army, 13-7.

1929 - The Judicial Committee of England’s Privy Council ruled that women were to be considered as persons in Canada. Previously, under English common law, women were persons in matters of pains and penalties, but were not persons in matters of rights and privileges.

1935 - Victor record #25236 was recorded by Tommy Dorsey and orchestra. It would become one of the most familiar big band themes of all time, I’m Getting Sentimental Over You.

1943 - The first broadcast of Perry Mason was presented on CBS radio. In the 15-minute (Monday-Friday) shows, Perry was played by Barlett Robinson, Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs and John Larkin. Larkin played the role the longest and was reportedly very disappointed when Raymond Burr got the gig on TV (1957).

1944 - Forever Amber, was first published this day. This historic-romance novel was written by Kathleen Windsor. Although the book was very popular among women between the ages of 12 and 24, it was considered scandalous to be seen reading it; a reaction that lasted at least another three decades.

1954 - The comic strip Hi and Lois appeared in newspapers for the first time. Created by Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker (and Dik Browne), Hi and Lois are still tickling us (now done by Brian and Greg Walker and artist Chance Browne). The strip appears in more than 1,100 newspapers around the world in 37 countries and is translated into ten languages.

1956 - Football commissioner Bert Bell turned thumbs down on the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks. Bell had received, um, a lot of static about the devices which were quite popular with coach Paul Brown of Cleveland. Word was that severe whiplash was possible with the long antennas used and, like mom used to say, “Hey, watch it! That thing could put somebody’s eye out!”

1961 - Le Bateau, by French painter Henri Matisse, went on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting attracted large numbers (over 100,000) of viewers. For 47 days, nobody realized that Le Bateau was hanging upside down.

1968 - Circus Circus Casino opened in Las Vegas “to attract all members of the family.” The football-field-sized casino and big top was a giant pink and white oval shaped circus tent across from the Riviera Hotel. To separate the gamblers from their kids, as required by law, a second level contained midway games and attractions for the tykes, but still in view of the circus acts.

1971 - The final issue of Look magazine was published. It had been a must-see publication every week for 34 years.

1977 - Reggie Jackson made history and earned the nickname, Mr. October. Regg-a-roo (as Howard Cosell called him) hit three home runs on three successive pitches. He lead the New York Yankees to an 8-4 thrashing of the Los Angeles Dodgers and rookie manager Tommy Lasorda in Game 6 of the World Series. Three different pitchers served up the gopher balls to Jackson. The New York Yankees won the series, 4 games to 2; their first Series title in 15 years.

1979 - Following extensive renovation to return Radio City Music Hall to the look and feel of its 1931 art deco glory, the venerable New York City theatre reopened. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first live presentation.

1983 - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton received some gold to add to their collections -- for their smash, Islands in the Stream.

1986 - Huey Lewis and The News had the number one album in the U.S. Fore was perched at the pinacle of popdom for one week. Fore featured these tracks: Jacob’s Ladder, Stuck with You, Whole Lotta Lovin’, Doing It All for My Baby, Hip to Be Square, I Know What I Like, I Never Walk Alone, Forest for the Trees, Naturally and Simple as That.

1988 - French economist Maurice Allais won the Nobel Prize for Economics (or, more precisely, the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) “for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources.”

1996 - Warner Bros.’ Sleepers opened in U.S. theatres. The movie stars Kevin Bacon, Robert Deniro, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt and Minnie Driver. Also debuting this day was To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, from Triumph Films. This one starred Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer.

1997 - The Women In Military Service for America Memorial was dedicated by U.S. Vice President and Mrs. Gore and other distinguished guests. The memorial at Arlington National Cemetery honors all military women - past, present and future - who have served in the United States armed forces during all eras and in all services.

Birthdays
October 18th.

1697 - Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canale)
landscape artist: Venice, London; died in 1768

1854 - Salomon Andree
explorer: ill-fated North Pole expedition: killed in July 1897 attempt to drift across North Pole in hot-air balloon

1859 - Henri Bergson
Nobel prize-winning [1927] philosopher, author: Creative Evolution; died Jan 4, 1941

1898 - Lotte Lenya (Karoline Blamauer)
Tony Award-winning singer, actress: The Threepenny Opera [1956]; From Russia with Love, Semi-Tough, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone; died Nov 27, 1981

1902 - Miriam Hopkins
actress: The Children’s Hour, The Chase, Carrie, Barbary Coast; died Oct 9, 1972

1906 - James Brooks
artist: Flight: 235 ft. mural at La Guardia National Airport, NY; abstract expressionist exhibit: Ninth Street Exhibition; died Mar 9, 1992

1918 - Bobby Troup
actor: Emergency; singer, musician, TV host: Stars of Jazz; married to singer Julie London; died Feb 7, 1999

1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada {1968-1979]; died Sep 28, 2000

1926 - Chuck Berry (Charles Edward Anderson Berry)
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [inducted 1986]; Lifetime Achievement Grammy [1985]; Maybellene, Roll Over Beethoven, School Day, Rock & Roll Music, Sweet Little Sixteen, Johnny B. Goode, My Ding-A-Ling; in films: Rock, Rock, Rock, London Rock and Roll Show, American Hot Wax, Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music, Christmas in Washington; see Mr. Rock ’n’ Roll Day [above]

1927 - George C. (Campbell) Scott
Academy Award-winning actor: Patton [1970]; Anatomy of a Murder, The Day of the Dolphin, The Hanging Tree, Taps, Oklahoma Crude, The Prince and the Pauper, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Malice; died Sep 22, 1999

1928 - Keith Jackson
American Sportscasters Hall of Famer: ABC Sports, Wide World of Sports; “Whoa Nelly!”

1933 - Forrest Gregg
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers offensive tackle: Super Bowl I, II; Dallas Cowboys: Super Bowl VI; head coach: Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals: AFC Coach of the Year [1981]: Super Bowl XVI; Green Bay Packers; Southern Methodist University Athletic Director

1934 - Inger Stevens (Stensland)
actress: The Farmer’s Daughter, Madigan, A Guide for the Married Man, Hang ’Em High; died Apr 30, 1970

1935 - Peter Boyle
Emmy Award-winning actor: The X-Files [1995-1996]; Everybody Loves Raymond, Taxi Driver, While You were Sleeping, Young Frankenstein, Midnight Caller, From Here to Eternity [TV]; died Dec 12, 2006

1937 - Boyd Dowler
football: Green Bay Packers wide receiver: Super Bowl I, II

1939 - Mike Ditka
Pro & College Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears Rookie of the Year [1961]; Philadelphia Eagles; Dallas Cowboys tight end: Super Bowl V, VI; Chicago Bears head coach: Super Bowl XX; TV sports analyst: NBC Sports

1942 - Willie (Watterson) Horton
baseball: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1965, 1968, 1970, 1973/World Series: 1968], Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners

1943 - Russ Giguere
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love

1947 - Joe Morton
actor: Executive Decision, Speed, Of Mice and Men, Forever Young, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, City of Hope, Trouble in Mind, The Brother from Another Planet, Tribeca, Grady, Equal Justice, A Different World

1947 - Laura Nyro
singer: Up on the Roof; songwriter: Wedding Bell Blues, Blowin’ Away, And When I Die, Stoney End, Stoned Soul Picnic, Sweet Blindness, Eli’s Coming, Time and Love, Save the Country; died Apr 8, 1997

1948 - Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams)
poet, playwright: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

1950 - Wendy Wasserstein
writer: The Heidi Chronicles, Bachelor Girls

1951 - Pam Dawber
actress: Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam

1952 - Jerry (Jeron Kennis) Royster
baseball: LA Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, SD Padres, Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees

1956 - Martina Navratilova
tennis champion: Australian Open [1981, 1983, 1985], French Open [1982, 1984], Wimbledon [1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990], U.S. Open [1983, 1984, 1986, 1987]; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer

1958 - Thomas Hearns
‘Hit Man’: boxer: Titles: WBC Light Heavyweight Champion, WBA Light Heavyweight Champion, WBC Middleweight Champion, WBC Junior Middleweight Champion, WBA Welterweight Champion

1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme (Varenberg)
actor: Kickboxer, Double Impact, Universal Soldier, Nowhere to Run, Last Action Hero, Hard Target, Timecop

1961 - Wynton Marsalis
Grammy Award-winning musician: jazz/classical trumpet [1984, 1985]: Think of One [1983]; played on: Father & Sons; in orchestra for Sweeney Todd; composer: TV theme song for Shannon’s Deal

1961 - Erin Moran
actress: Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Don Rickles Show, Daktari, Galaxy of Terror, Twirl, Watermelon Man, How Sweet It Is!

1962 - Vincent Spano
actor: The Tie That Binds, The Ascent, Oscar, City of Hope, And God Created Woman, Blood Ties, Rumblefish, Baby, It’s You, The Double McGuffin

[ShadowThomas]

Part 2 of 1
Chart Toppers
October 18th.

1950 Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow

1958 It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Tears on My Pillow - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers

1966 Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees ;)
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
Blue Side of Lonesome - Jim Reeves

1974 I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John
Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & Spinners
Please Don’t Stop Loving Me - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton

1982 Jack & Diane - John Cougar
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

1990 Praying for Time - George Michael
I Don’t Have the Heart - James Ingram
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks


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292nd day of 2007 - 73 remaining.

Friday, October 19, 2007
ANNIE PECK DAY. :)

On this day in 1850, a baby girl was born in New York City, destined to become one of the world’s renowned mountain climbers. Her name was Annie. Annie Smith Peck.

When Annie turned 45, she gained international recognition by climbing the Matterhorn -- and we’re not talking about the Disney ride here, but the real thing in the Swiss Alps. Annie would probably have loved the song, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough. After the Matterhorn, she took on 21,812 foot-high Huascaran, a mountain peak in Peru. She accomplished the feat gaining the distinction of being the first American to reach this high a pinnacle in the Western Hemisphere.

Then, Mt. Coropuna, also in Peru, proved no obstacle. It was a mere 562 feet shorter than Huascaran. Not bad for a 61-year-old woman. When Annie got to the top of this mountain she placed a banner there that said, “Votes for Women.”

Why did Annie Peck climb those peaks? Because they were there...
Annie Smith Peck. (http://www.loe.org/series/discovery_women/peck.php)

Events
October 19th.

1781 - British general Charles Cornwallis formally surrendered his British army to a combined French and American force outside the Virginia tobacco port of Yorktown. Cornwallis’ second-in-command, Charles O’Hara, attempted to deliver Cornwallis’s sword to French general, Comte de Rochambeau. But Rochambeau directed O’Hara to American General George Washington, who coolly steered the British officer to Washington’s own second in command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln.

1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.

1937 - A staple at checkout racks in supermarkets everywhere, Woman’s Day, was first published. It was a magazine designed expressly for the A&P store chain. After 20 years, A&P (the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) sold Woman’s Day to Fawcett Publications.

1937 - “The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold it high, guard it well.” The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on CBS radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and Lorelei Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor. Tell the Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast tablets and Lifebuoy soap.

1938 - The Bob Crosby Orchestra recorded I’m Free for Decca. Billy Butterfield was featured on trumpet. A few years later, the song would be retitled, What’s New.

1944 - An actor who would become legend in scores of tough guy roles made his stage debut in New York. Marlon Brando appeared in the Broadway hit, I Remember Mama.

1953 - Julius LaRosa, popular singer of the time, was unceremoniously fired on the air by Arthur Godfrey. “Julie lacks humility,” Godfrey told the stunned audience, while putting his arm around LaRosa. He said, “So, Julie, to teach you a lesson, you’re fired!”

1959 - Twelve-year-old Patty Duke made her first Broadway appearance -- in The Miracle Worker. The play would last for 700 performances and become a classic motion picture, launching Patty to fame and fortune.

1963 - Buck Owens started a 16-week run at top of the U.S. Country chart with Love’s Gonna Live Here. It eventually became the biggest of all the Buck Owens hits.

1970 - One World Trade Center was ready for its first tenants this day, though the upper stories were not completed until 1972. Construction had begun in 1966 and the opening of the twin towers went on from 1970 to 1973. The actual ribbon cutting was held on April 4, 1973. At 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world’s tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower (Chicago) surpassed them both in 1974.

1973 - Elvis and Priscilla Presley were divorced after six years and one child (Lisa Marie).

1974 - The late-night TV market welcomed Lloyd Dobins, Garrick Utley and Linda Ellerbee to the aptly named, Weekend news program, which debuted on NBC this day.

1985 - Take on Me, by a-ha, reached number one on the pop music charts. MTV was playing a-ha’s nifty Take on Me video regularly, too.

1987 - The Wall Street Journal said it all (the next day): “Stocks Plunge 508 Amid Panicky Selling; Percentage Decline Greater Than in 1929...” The Dow Jones industrial average (DJIA) closed down 22.6% this day (Black Monday). Volume was 604.3 million shares, almost double the previous record of 338.5 million shares set on the previous Friday. The DJIA was down 36.7% from its closing high less than two months earlier.

1988 - Americans Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their neutrino beam method and the discoveries made using this.”

1988 - Hartmut Michel, Robert Huber and Johann Deisenhofer of West Germany were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.”

1998 - Microsoft and prosecutors for the U.S. Department of Justice and twenty states met in federal court. It was the beginning of the antitrust case against the Microsoft Corporation.

Birthdays
October 19th.

1605 - Thomas Browne
physician, author: Religio Medici; died Oct 19, 1682

1748 - Martha Jefferson (Wayles)
wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson; died Sep 6, 1782 -- 19 years before Jefferson became president

1850 - Annie Peck
mountain climber; died July 18, 1935; see Annie Peck Day [above]

1885 - Charles Merrill
stock company mogul: founded Merrill-Lynch; died Oct 6, 1956

1909 - Robert Beatty
actor: Where Eagles Dare, Postmark for Danger, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Against the Wind; died Mar 3, 1992

1911 - George Cates
musician: Moonglow/Theme from Picnic, Autumn Leaves [w/Steve Allen]; musical director of Lawrence Welk Show for 25 years; died May 12, 2002

1920 - LaWanda Page
actress: Sanford and Son, Detective School; died Sep 14, 2002

1921 - Bern Bennett
staff announcer: CBS Radio

1922 - Jack Anderson
columnist: Washington Merry-Go-Round, commentator: Mutual, USA Radio Network; author: Stormin’ Norman, Japan Conspiracy; died Dec 17, 2005

1931 - John Le Carré (David Cornwell)
author: The Russia House, A Small Town in Germany, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Night Manager

1932 - Robert Reed (John Robert Rietz Jr.)
actor: The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Bradys, The Defenders, Mannix, Nurse, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book I, Roots, The Runaways; died May 12, 1992

1937 - Peter Max (Finkelstein)
pop artist: psychedelic best-selling poster; designer: postage stamp: Expo ’74; 1982 World’s Fair official artist

1940 - Michael Gambon
actor: Mary Reilly, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale, Toys, The Heat of the Day, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Rachel Papers, Turtle Diary, The Singing Detective

1941 - Simon Ward
actor: The Monster Club, Supergirl, The Chosen, The Four Musketeers, The Three Musketeers, All Creatures Great and Small, Dracula, If...

1945 - Patricia Ireland
social activist: president of NOW

1945 - John Lithgow
Emmy Award-winning actor: 3rd Rock from the Sun [1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1998-1999]; Tony Award-winning actor: The Changing Room [1973]; Twilight Zone-The Movie, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can, The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Raising Cain, The Pelican Brief, Cliffhanger

1945 - Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson)
Grammy Award-winning singer: Harper Valley P.T.A. [1968]; Country Girl, The Girl Most Likely, There Never was a Time, Oh Singer, Good Enough to be Your Wife

1949 - Lynn Dickey
football: Green Bay Packers quarterback

1950 - Luke Witte
basketball: Ohio State University, USA Men’s Pan American Games [1971]; Cleveland Cavaliers

1950 - Morris Bradshaw
football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XI, XV

1956 - Nino DeFranco
singer: group: The DeFranco Family: Heartbeat - It’s a Lovebeat

1957 - Karl Wallinger
musician: keyboards, guitar; group: World Party

1960 - Jennifer Holliday
singer; actress: Dreamgirls, Touched by an Angel, Ally McBeal

1962 - Evander Holyfield
boxing: World Heavyweight Champion [1990-1992]; Junior Heavyweight Champion [1986, 1988]

1967 - Amy Carter
First Daughter: daughter of 39th U.S. President Jimmy and Roselyn Carter

Chart Toppers
October 19th.

1951 Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell

1959 Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin ;)
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
The Three Bells - The Browns

1967 The Letter - The Box Tops
To Sir with Love - Lulu
Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) - Bill Cosby
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette

1975 Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Miracles - Jefferson Starship ;)
Hope You’re Feelin’ Me (Like I’m Feelin’ You) - Charley Pride

1983 Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
Paradise Tonight - Charly McClain & Mickey Gilley

1991 Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Romantic - Karyn White
Keep It Between the Lines - Ricky Van Shelton


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293rd day of 2007 - 72 remaining.

Saturday, October 20, 2007
SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE DAY.

Richard M. Nixon pulled out his presidential pistol and let ’em have it this night. Nixon was under heavy pressure to turn over some tape recordings he had made of conversations with various folks in the Oval Office. The taped conversations were regarding the break-in at the Watergate apartment/office complex in Washington DC.

Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox, whom Nixon had appointed, was applying the pressure, thinking that there might be some interesting stuff on those tapes. So, on this Saturday night in 1973, the President asked U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused, so Nixon fired Cox himself. Then, in protest, Richardson resigned. Nixon, a little peeved by now, fired Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus, who also had refused to fire Cox.

Unfortunately for the U.S. President, this Saturday Night Massacre, as it immediately came to be known, only made things worse. Nixon eventually did turn over those tapes; but since there were little pieces of dialogue mysteriously missing, suspicion about the President’s involvement in Watergate grew to the point where he resigned from office (August 9, 1974) rather than face (almost certain) impeachment.

It seems Nixon was also a victim of the Saturday Night Massacre.
Richard Milhous Nixon. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/chronology.htm) 'Saturday Night Massacre' attorney general dies (http://archives.cnn.com/1999/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/31/richardson/) And, Who Was Deep Throat? (http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/watergate/index.html)

Events
October 20th.

1774 - The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, passed an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies “discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, **** fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment.” Since this proclamation included acting, dancing, singing, and the playing of music, all forms of entertainment and all theatre productions ceased. So much for freedom from persecution...

1811 - Fulton’s steamboat, New Orleans, built in Pittsburgh, sailed down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. It was the first steamboat in western waters. Passage on the New Orleans was $30.

1873 - A Hippodrome was opened in New York City by showman Phineus T. (P.T.) Barnum. The impressive place was the new home of The Greatest Show on Earth; the big top of what would be the greatest circus in the land.

1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time. The Philadelphia Athletics (managed by Connie Mack) and the Chicago Cubs (managed by P.K. Wrigley) played for the championship. (Philadelphia won the series 4 games to 1.)

1930 - One of the most memorable of all radio shows, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its first entry, The Speckled Band, featured William Gillette in the role of the famous detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to New York audiences as early as 1899 ... on the stage, not the radio, of course..

1932 - Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS. Trout became a household name to CBS listeners -- and they later became loyal viewers of Trout on CBS-TV.

1939 - All the Things You Are was recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra -- for the Victor label. Jack Leonard was the featured vocalist.

1953 - Legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow found himself in a unique situation. On the CBS program, See It Now, Murrow focused on Lt. Milo Radulovich and sought to disprove the “guilty by association” position of Radulovich during the McCarthy hearings. The network and the program’s sponsors refused to promote the show because of the controversy. As a result, Murrow purchased his own ads to promote the program.

1955 - No Time for Sergeants opened on Broadway starring Andy Griffith.

1955 - “Day-O. Day-ay-ay-ay-o!” One of the most popular of the Harry Belafonte hits was recorded -- for RCA Victor. Day-O didn’t make it to the pop charts for over a year (January 1957), however, after its name had been changed to The Banana Boat Song (Day-O).

1957 - Walter Cronkite hosted a weekly documentary beginning this (Sunday) night. The 20th Century reported on major events that had shaped modern world history. The show changed its focus and its title to The 21st Century in 1967. Cronkite was the only narrator of the program through its final show on January 4, 1970.

1962 - With Halloween just around the corner, we remember that Bobby “Boris” Picket and the Crypt Kickers reached the top of the charts this day (for two weeks) with The Monster Mash. And someone, somewhere, has resurrected it every Halloween since.

1962 - The musical, Mr. President, written by Irving Berlin, opened on Broadway. Mr. President ran for 265 performances.

1965 - Boxing Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Robinson, at age 45, notched his 174th and final victory, a third-round knockout of Rudolph Bent. Robinson, who won the World Middleweight boxing title for the first time in 1951, announced his retirement on Dec 20, 1965.

1965 - The Beatles received a gold record for the single, Yesterday. This song marked the first time a cello was used in a pop hit.

1970 - Norman Ernest Borlaug, credited with saving millions of people from starvation in the ‘Green Revolution’, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1974 - The Bard’s presentation of Richard III opened at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Michael Moriarty and Marsha Mason were featured in the William Shakespeare classic.

1979 - Herb Alpert’s Rise, from the album, Rise, rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

1982 - The St. Louis Cardinals rallied for 3 runs in the sixth inning of Game 7 to beat the Milwaukee Brewers. It was the Brewers first World Series. The Cardinals took home the crown, 4 games to 3.

1988 - The powerful Oakland Athletics had slugged their way to 104 regular season victories, then swept the Red Sox for the American League pennant. The Los Angeles Dodgers unexpectantly charged through the final months of the season, led by Orel Hershiser, who posted a record-breaking 59 consecutive scoreless innings. Unfortunately for Oakland, Hershiser’s pitching dominance continued through the World Series. With complete-game victories in Game Two and the deciding Game Five this day, Hershiser punctuated his remarkable season and pitched a four-hitter, giving the Dodgers a 5-2 victory over the A’s and the World Series title.

1990 - It was game four of the World Series, featuring the Cincinnati Reds vs. Oakland A’s, and it was all over this day. Few had given the Reds much of a chance against the A’s. It was a four-game sweep, alright. But it was Cincinnati, in one of baseball’s all-time World Series upsets, who did the sweeping.

1991 - Hot wind gusts, called Diablo winds, twisted through the East Bay hills near Oakland, California. The winds, coupled with drought-weary vegetation, sparked the Oakland Hills fire. The fire claimed 25 lives and destroyed more than 2,700 structures and 1500 acres. The blaze took three days to control and did more than $1 billion in property damage.

1995 - Mallrats opened in U.S. theatres. It stars Jeremy London, Clair Forlani, Jason Lee, Shannon Doherty, Ethan Suplee, Joey Lauren Adams, Renee Humphrey, Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. If you can’t remember this one, you were over 12 years of age in 1995.

2000 - These films opened in the U.S.: Bamboozled, with Damon Wayans; Bedazzled, with Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley; The Legend of Drunken Master, starring Jackie Chan; Pay It Forward, with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt; Two Family House, with Michael Rispoli; and The Yards, starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan and Faye Dunaway.

Birthdays
October 20th.

1632 - Sir Christopher Wren
architect, astronomer, mathematician; died Feb 25, 1723

1856 - James Mann
lawyer; U.S. Congressman: authored the Mann Act aka the White Slave Traffic Act [1910]; died Nov 30, 1922

1859 - John Dewey
psychologist, philosopher: The School and Society, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, How We Think, Experience and Nature, Art as Experience; educator: Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of Chicago, Columbia Univ.;died June 1, 1952

1874 - Charles Ives
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Symphony No. 3 [Camp Meeting]: 1947; The Concord Sonata; author: Essays Before A Sonata; died May 19, 1954

1882 - Bela Lugosi (Blasko)
actor: Dracula, One Body Too Many, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Night Monster, Chandu the Magician, The Ape Man, The Body Snatcher; died Aug 16, 1956

1905 - Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay)
author: mystery series [w/Manfred B. Lee]; died Sep 9, 1982

1907 - Arlene Francis (Kazanjian)
actress: Murders in the Rue Morgue, Stage Door Canteen, All My Sons, One, Two, Three, The Thrill of it All; Broadway: All that Glitters, Danton’s Death, Journey to Jerusalem, The Doughgirls; radio actress/host: Blind Date, The Arlene Francis Show [WOR]; TV emcee: Home, Who’s There, Talent Patrol, The Comeback Story, Blind Date; panelist: What’s My Line; died May 31, 2001

1911 - Will Rogers Jr.
actor: The Story of Will Rogers, Pall Mall Playhouse; TV host: The Pioneers; lecturer; died July 10, 1993

1913 - Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones
Country Music Hall of Famer: Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; singer: The All-American Boy, T for Texas, Old Rattler, Mountain Dew; died Feb 19, 1998

1923 - Herschel Bernardi
actor: Peter Gunn, Arnie, Love with the Proper Stranger, Irma La Douce; voice: Charlie Tuna TV commercials, The Jetsons characters; died May 9, 1986

1925 - Art Buchwald
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist [prize for commentary: 1982]; author: While Reagan Slept, Leaving Home

1931 - Mickey (Charles) Mantle
‘The Commerce Comet’: Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees [World Series: 1951-1953, 1955-1958, 1960-1964/all-star: 1952-1965, 1967, 1968]; World Series records: most home runs [18], most RBIs [40], most walks [13], most strikeouts [54]; three-time MVP; died Aug 13, 1995

1932 - Roosevelt Brown
Pro Football Hall of Famer: NY Giants offensive tackle; 8 time All Pro

1932 - William Christopher
actor: M*A*S*H, Aftermash, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., With Six You Get Eggroll

1935 - Jerry Orbach
actor: Tony Award-winning actor: Promises, Promises [1969]; Law and Order, Dirty Dancing, Straight Talk, Brewster’s Millions; voice of candelabra: Beauty and the Beast; died Dec 28, 2004

1936 - Bobby Seale
political activist: cofounder: Black Panthers

1937 - Wanda Jackson
singer: Right or Wrong, Let’s Have a Party, In the Middle of a Heartache; songwriter: [Let’s Stop] Kickin’ Our Hearts Around

1937 - Juan (Antonio Sanchez) ‘Manito’ Marichal
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: SF Giants [World Series: 1962/all-star: 1962-1969, 1971], Boston Red Sox, LA Dodgers

1939 - Jay Siegel
singer: groups: The Tokens: Tonight I Fell in Love, The Lion Sleeps Tonight; Cross Country: In the Midnight Hour

1942 - Earl Hindman
actor: Home Improvement, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe; died Dec 29, 2003

1945 - Ric Lee
musician: drums: group: Ten Years After: I’m Going Home, Love like a Man

1950 - Isaac Curtis
football: Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver: Super Bowl XVI

1950 - Tom Petty
singer: group: The Traveling Wilburys; Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Don’t Come Around Here No More, Don’t Do Me Like That, Refugee, Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around [w/Stevie Nicks]; in film: Made in Heaven

1951 - Al Greenwood
musician: keyboard: group: Foreigner: Feels Like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Hot Blooded, Double Vision

1952 - Dave McClelland
hockey: Des Moines Capitols, Vancouver Canucks

1952 - Dave (David S.) Collins
baseball: California Angels, Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, NY Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, SL Cardinals

1952 - Melanie Mayron
Emmy Award-winning actress: thirtysomething [1988-1989]

1953 - Keith Hernandez
baseball: first base: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1979, 1980/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1979/World Series: 1982], NY Mets [all-star: 1984, 1986, 1987/World Series: 1986], Cleveland Indians

1958 - Mark King
musician: bass, singer: group: Level 42: The Chinese Way, The Sun Goes Down [Living It Up], I Feel Free, Hot Water, Something About You, Leaving Me Now

1958 - Eric Scott
actor: The Waltons

1971 - Snoop Doggy Dogg (Cordozar Broadus)
rapper: LPs: Doggystyle, The Doggfather, No Limit Top Dogg

Chart Toppers
October 20th.

1944 I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Is You is or is You Ain’t - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It Had to Be You - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley

1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams

1960 Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee
Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold

1976 Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots :D
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
If You Leave Me Now -Chicago ;)
You and Me - Tammy Wynette

1984 I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
I Don’t Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song) - Conway Twitty


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
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294th day of 2007 - 71 remaining.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
BOTTLE O’ RUM DAY. :D

The Battle of Trafalgar was fought this day in 1805. Admiral Horatio Nelson led the English fleet to victory over Napoleon’s combined French and Spanish navies. This win ended any threat to England by Napoleon.

In those days, a lot of drinking was done on board the ships. You’ve heard the refrain, “Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum.” And rum probably had a lot to do with the victory. All Lord Nelson had to say to his men was, “England expects that every man will do his duty.” And they did, getting up enough nerve to defeat the enemy in a mere five hours. There was much bravery or bravado.

Unfortunately, the good Admiral was hit by an enemy musket ball and died as the enemy surrendered.

The crew preserved his body in the rum. Now, bear in mind that the British tars were entitled a tot of rum each day; it was part of the navy regulations. When the officers aboard Nelson’s flag ship commandeered part of the crew’s booze to preserve the old boy’s body in a cask, the crew went on short rations. But when the cask was opened back home, it was discovered that the crew had been surreptitiously tapping the barrel and the admiral’s upper half was pretty ripe. Apparently even a distinct change in flavor was not enough to put a British sailor off his rum.

Now we know where that other refrain came from, “Oh, it’s rum, rum, rum that makes you feel so numb.”
Click. (http://www.admiralnelson.org/)

Events
October 21st.

1849 - The tattooed Irishman, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York. We imagine that a lot of folks came by just to needle him.

1879 - After 14 months of experimenting in Menlo Park, NJ, Thomas Alva Edison succeeded in producing a working prototype of the electric, incandescent lamp. It could burn for thirteen and a half hours.

1907 - The Merry Widow opened in New York. The play starred Ethel Jackson and Donald Brian. The operetta had been introduced in Europe two years before.

1908 - A Saturday Evening Post advertisement offered a chance to buy, for the first time, a two-sided record. It was on Columbia.

1918 - A typing speed record was set by Margaret Owen of New York City. Margaret typed 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter. We wonder how fast she’d type on a computer keyboard...

1924 - It was a big night for a big band in New York’s Cinderella Ballroom. The crowd loved the Wolverine Orchestra from Chicago and the guy on the cornet, Bix Beiderbecke, the ‘young man with a horn’.

1925 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for (alcohol) prohibition violations. The fines totaled $5,000,000.

1938 - Quaker City Jazz was recorded on the Bluebird label by Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters Orchestra. The tune would become the theme of the band. It was not, however, recorded in the Quaker City of Philadelphia. The song was waxed in New York City.

1953 - Randy Turpin got the stuffing beaten out of him at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He was in a middleweight boxing match against Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson.

1957 - The Elvis Presley movie, Jailhouse Rock, opened in U.S. theatres. The flick also starred Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor, Jennifer Holden, Dean Jones and Anne Neyland and is considered by many to be Elvis’ best film.

1958 - Orchestral strings were used for the first time in a rock and roll tune. Buddy Holly recorded It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, written by Paul Anka. Sadly, it would be Holly’s last studio session. The song wasn’t released until after his death in February of 1959.

1960 - The fourth -- and last -- debate preceding the presidential election between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon was televised from New York City.

1965 - The Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded to Robert Burns Woodward for “for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis.”

1972 - Chuck Berry’s My Ding-a-Ling hit #1 in the U.S. It was number one for two weeks.

1972 - Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly movie soundtrack album started a four-week run at number one. The title song cracked the top-ten singles list in January 1973. Other tracks on the album: Little Child Runnin’ Wild, Pusherman, Freddie’s Dead, Junkie Chase, Give Me Your Love, Eddie You Should Know Better, No Thing on Me and Think.

1973 - Baseball manager Dick Williams turned in his last lineup card as skipper as the Oakland A’s won their second straight World Series. Bert Campaneris and Reggie Jackson each hit two-run homers as the A’s defeated the New York Mets 5-2 in game 7, and took the Series four games to three.

1976 - American Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.”

1976 - The Cincinnati Reds beat the New York Yankees in the World Series four games to zip. In game four, played this day, with Johnny Bench slugging two home runs for five RBIs, the Reds rang up a 7-2 victory. It was the Red’s second straight World Series championship.

1980 - The Phillies won their first World Series title. Mike Schmidt knocked in two runs and Tug McGraw stopped Kansas City’s hitters, 4-1, in Philadelphia. The Phils won the Series, 4 games to 2.

1985 - William ‘The Refrigerator’ Perry of the Chicago Bears led his team to a 23-7 win over the Green Bay Packers. Perry, weighing in at 325 pounds (more than some Frigidaires), became a folk hero as he cut a path for Walter Payton’s two TDs. He then plodded over the goal line himself for another score.

1995 - Mariah Carey’s Daydream was the number one album in the U.S. The album featured the smash hits Fantasy and One Sweet Day (both debuted on the singles chart at #1).

1997 - Elton John’s tribute to Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind 1997, was declared by The Guinness Book of Records to be the biggest-selling single record of all time. In 37 days, the single reached 31.8 million copies sold, eclipsing the previous record held by Bing Crosby’s White Christmas. The Crosby song sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide -- in 55 years.

1998 - The invincible New York Yankees won their 24th World Series. They beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 this day to take the Series 4-0. It was New York’s second title in three years and its first sweep since 1950. Scott Brosius was MVP after finishing with a .471 batting average, eight hits, two home runs and six runs batted in. Mariano Rivera and Jeff Nelson both pitched in three Yankee games and both finished with a 0.00 ERA.

Birthdays
October 21st.

1772 - Samuel Coleridge
poet: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan; died July 25, 1834

1833 - Alfred Nobel
chemist: invented dynamite; industrialist: revenues from his dynamite factories made Nobel a fortune; philanthropist: his will created the Nobel Prizes, awarded annually for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace; died Dec 10, 1896

1912 - Sir Georg Solti
orchestra leader: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; 1st complete recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen; died Sep 5, 1997

1917 - Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie
Grammy Award-winning musician: trumpet: Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie [1975], Live at the Royal Festival Hall [1991]; creator [w/Charlie Parker] of be-bop; trademark: puffed cheeks & bent trumpet; autobiography: To Be or Not to Bop; died Jan 6, 1993

1921 - Sir Malcolm Arnold
composer: screen scores: David Copperfield, The Chalk Garden, Suddenly, Last Summer, Solomon and Sheba, Island in the Sun, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Trapeze, I Am a Camera, The Belles of St. Trinian’s series, Eye Witness

1926 - Bob Rosburg
golf: PGA champion [1959]; sportscaster

1928 - Whitey (Edward Charles) Ford
‘Chairman of the Board’: Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1950, 1953, 1955-1958, 1960-1964/all-star: 1954-1956, 1958-1961, 1964/Cy Young Award: 1961]; pitching coach

1929 - Ursula LeGuin
author: The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, A Wizard of Earthsea, Left Hand of Darkness

1933 - Georgia Brown (Lillian Klot)
actress: Oliver, Cheers; died July 5, 1992

1936 - Connie Dierking
basketball: Univ. of Cincinnati, Sacramento Kings, San Francisco Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers

1940 - Frances Fitzgerald
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

1940 - Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz)
singer, musician: group: Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers: Do Wah Diddy Diddy, The Mighty Quinn; Earth Band: Blinded by the Light; solo: High Time, I’ve Been a Bad, Bad Boy

1940 - Ted (Theodore Otto) Uhlaender
baseball: Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1972]

1941 - Steve Cropper
musician: guitar: group: Blues Brothers; Booker T and The MG’s: Green Onions, Hang ’Em High, Time is Tight

1942 - Elvin Bishop
musician: guitar, singer: group: Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Drunk Again; Elvin Bishop Group; solo: Fooled Around and Fell in Love

1943 - Ron Elliott
musician: guitar: group: Beau Brummels: Laugh, Laugh, Just a Little, You Tell Me Why; solo: LP: The Candlestick Maker

1946 - Lee Loughnane
musician: brass: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say I’m Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

1948 - Bill (William Ellis) Russell
baseball: LA Dodgers: [all-star: 1973, 1976, 1980/World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981]

1950 - Ronald E. McNair
physicist, astronaut: mission specialist aboard the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle; died Jan 28, 1986

1953 - Charlotte Caffey
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Go-Gos: We Got the Beat, Our Lips are Sealed, Vacation, Head Over Heels, Turn to You

1955 - Eric Faulkner
musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love

1956 - Carrie Fisher
actress: Star Wars series, The Blues Brothers, When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters, Shampoo; writer: Postcards from the Edge, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma; daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds

1957 - Julian Cope
musician: bass, guitar, singer: groups: Crucial Three, Nova Mob, A Shallow Madness, The Teardrop Explodes: Sleeping Gas, Bouncing Babies, Reward, Treason, You Disappear from View; solo: Competition, World Shut Your Mouth

1957 - Steve Lukather
musician: guitar: group: Toto: Rosanna, Africa, Hold the Line; songwriter: Turn Your Love Around

1959 - George (Antonio) Bell
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1987, 1990], Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1991], Chicago White Sox

1976 - Jeremy Miller
actor: Growing Pains, The Willies, Emanon

Chart Toppers
October 21st.

1945 I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often - Tex Ritter

1953 Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters

1961 Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Runaround Sue - Dion
Bristol Stomp - The Dovells ;)
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke

1969 I Can’t Get Next to You - The Temptations
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone ;)
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Since I Met You, Baby - Sonny James

1977 You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
That’s Rock ’n’ Roll - Shaun Cassidy
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls

1985 Take on Me - a-ha
Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
You Make Me Want to Make You Mine - Juice Newton


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295th day of 2007 - 70 remaining.

Monday, October 22, 2007
THE MET DAY.

New York City’s nouveau riche built their own opera house on Broadway in Manhattan, staging its first performance on this day in 1883. The new socialites now had a theater where they could have opera boxes. Unlike the old Academy of Music, where the box seats were few and the likes of the Vanderbilts were unwelcome, the new structure had three levels of thirty-six boxes ... more than the number of millionaires in New York City, old or new. The lowest level became known as the ‘diamond horseshoe’. The Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera House had free opera boxes for all performances.

The Metropolitan Opera House was designed by J. Cleaveland Cady. A yellow-brick building, its interior, with red velvet and gold accents, was much more ornate than the exterior. Inside, it was truly designed for the enjoyment of millionaires.

When the curtains parted on this first night, Italian tenor Italo Campanini and Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson starred in Charles Gounod’s Faust. Orchestra-seat ticket holders paid $6 admission.

The Met remained at the Broadway between 39th and 40th Streets location until 1966, when a 3,700 seat, 14-story opera house was built in NYC’s Lincoln Memorial Center for the Performing Arts ... the present home of the venerable Metropolitan Opera House.
More here. (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded/themet_1) Here. (http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/) and here. (http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/11889/)

Events
October 22nd.

1746 - John Hamilton, the Royal Governor of New Jersey officially chartered the College of New Jersey. The school is now known as Princeton University.

1797 - The first person to jump from a hot air balloon did so over Paris on this day. André-Jacque Garnerin, a Frenchman, accomplished the feat.

1844 - On this day, according to those who practiced Millerism, the world was to come to an end. A man named William Miller, religious leader and founder of the Adventist church, started the Millerism movement. Some say his followers got rid of all their earthly possessions and climbed to high places so as to be saved when the world ended.

1917 - Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in its first recording session -- for Victor Records.

1939 - The first televised pro football game was telecast from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. NBC’s flagship, W2XBS, carried the action. Brooklyn beat Philadelphia, 23-14. (NBC later changed those experimental call letters to WRCA, and even later, to WNBC.)

1950 - A record score in the NFL: The Los Angeles Rams stopped the Baltimore Colts, 70-27, in a regular season game.

1959 - Take Me Along opened on Broadway and quickly became an American classic. Walter Pidgeon starred along with Jackie Gleason.

1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval quarantine (blockade) of Cuba. He also demanded that Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev remove all the missiles and their bases.

1966 - The Supremes rocketed to the top of the pop-album charts with Supremes A’ Go-Go. They were the first all-female vocal group to hit the top of the LP chart.

1969 - Michael Thomas, the 25-year-old assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, took over for ailing conductor William Steinberg in the symphony’s appearance in New York City.

1971 - Folk singer Joan Baez received a gold record for her hit, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. It turned out to be her biggest hit, peaking at #3 on the charts (October 2, 1971).

1972 - Gene Tenace hit four home runs in the Series, including two in his first two at-bats, and the Oakland A’s pulled out a dramatic seven-game win over the Cincinnati Reds. It was the first of the A’s three consecutive World Series championships and their first since 1930.

1975 - Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson said, “We were the best team in baseball, but not by much.” The World Series featured five one-run victories, two in extra innings and three on game-ending hits. In six of the seven victories, the winner trailed; four times the winning run came in the final inning. And 13 times, the score was either tied or the lead reversed. And in the seventh, played this day, a ninth-inning RBI single by Joe Morgan gave the Reds a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox and the title. It was the first title for the Reds in 35 years.

1978 - Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Universal Pastor of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first non-Italian Pope since Adrian VI (1522-1523), the first Polish Pope, and the youngest Pope since Pius IX (1846-1878).

1983 - Celebrating its 100th anniversary, New York’s Metropolitan Opera featured a daylong concert with some of the world’s greatest opera stars. On stage at the Met were Joan Sutherland, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.

1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on this day, but wrote his last name first. The signing, however, remains legal.

1988 - Phil Collins’ remake of the Mindbenders’ Groovy Kind of Love was the number one U.S. single. It was parked at the peak of the pops for two weeks.

1999 - Movies debuting in the U.S. this day: The Best Man, with Taye Diggs, Nia Long and Morris Chestnut; Body Shots, starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O’connell and Amanda Peet; Bringing Out the Dead, with Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette And John Goodman; Crazy in Alabama, featuring Melanie Griffith, John Beasley and Rod Steiger; The Limey, starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda and Lesley Ann Warren. Pass the popcorn, puleez.

Birthdays
October 22nd.

1811 - Franz Liszt
composer: The Hungarian Rhapsodies, Les Preludes, Orpheus, Tasso, Faust, Hungarian Fantasy, Sonata in B Minor; died July 31, 1886

1885 - Giovanni Martinelli
opera singer: tenor: with Metropolitan Opera for 30 seasons; died Oct 22, 1969

1903 - George Beadle
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [1958]: genetic research; President: University of Chicago; Harvard professor of genetics; died June 9, 1989

1903 - Curly Howard
comedian: The Three Stooges: Three Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Goofs and Saddles, Wee Wee Monsieur, Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise, Higher Than a Kite, The Yoke’s on Me, Stop! Look! and Laugh!; died Jan 18, 1952
1904 - Constance Bennett
actress: Madame X, As Young as You Feel, Two-Faced Woman, Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday; died July 24, 1965

1907 - Jimmie (Emory) Foxx
‘Beast’, ‘Double X’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Athletics [World Series: 1929, 1930, 1031/all-star: 1934, 1935, 1936/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1932, 1933], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1936-1941/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1938], Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Blue Jays; died July 21, 1967

1913 - Boots (Patricia) Mallory
actress: Sing Sing Nights, Wolf Dog, Powdersmoke Range, Carnival Lady; died Dec 1, 1958

1916 - Harry (William) Walker
‘Harry the Hat’: baseball: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1942, 1943, 1946/all-star: 1943], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1947], Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds; manager: Houston Astros; died Aug 8, 1999

1917 - Joan Fontaine (de Havilland)
Academy Award-winning actress: Suspicion [1941]; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe, Island in the Sun, Gunga Din, Emperor Waltz, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1919 - Doris Lessing (Taylor)
novelist: Children of Violence, African Stories

1920 - Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno)
actress: Lost in Alaska, Little Orphan Annie, Tom Sawyer, So This is Hollywood; died May 24, 1969

1920 - Timothy Leary
psychologist, professor: Harvard; 1960s icon: promoted the use of LSD in the search of political and spiritual freedom; died May 31, 1996

1925 - Slater Martin
Basketball Hall of Famer: Lakers: 4 NBA championships; New York Knicks, St. Louis Hawks

1925 - Robert Rauschenberg
artist: Monogram, Bed, Buffalo II, Tracer

1930 - Dory Previn
songwriter: Come Saturday Morning, It’s Impossible, The Faraway Part of Town [w/Andre Previn]

1938 - Derek Jacobi
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Tenth Man - Hallmark Hall of Fame [1988-89]; The Day of the Jackal, I Claudius series, The Odessa File, The Secret Garden

1938 - Christopher Lloyd
Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1981-1982] [1982-1983], Avonlea-The Disney Channel [1991-1992]; Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Star Trek III, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Angels in the Outfield, Addams Family Values, Radioland Murders, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mr. Mom, Lady in Red

1939 - Ray Jones
musician: bass: group: Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas: Bad to Me, I’ll Keep You Satisfied, From a Window, Little Children, Trains and Boats and Planes

1939 - Tony Roberts
actor: Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Edge of Night, The Thorns, The Four Seasons

1942 - Annette Funicello
actress: The Mickey Mouse Club, Beach Blanket Bingo, Back to the Beach, Beach Party, Bikini Beach; singer: Tall Paul, First Name Initial, O Dio Mio, Pineapple Princess

1942 - Cecil (Lee) Upshaw
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees, Chicago White Sox; died Feb 7, 1995

1943 - Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac)
actress: Repulsion, Indochine, The April Fools, Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1943 - Bobby Fuller
singer, musician: guitar: group: Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought the Law

1944 - John Wetzel
basketball: Phoenix Suns player, coach

1945 - Leslie West (Weinstein)
singer, musician: guitar: group: Mountain: Mississippi Queen

1946 - Eddie Brigati
singer, musician: tambourine: group: The [Young] Rascals: Good Lovin’, I’ve Been Lonely Too Long, Groovin’, A Girl like You, How Can I Be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to Be Free

1949 - Butch Goring
hockey: NHL: LA Kings: Masterton Award & Lady Byng Trophy [1978]; NY Islanders: playoff/Stanley Cup MVP [1981], Boston Bruins

1952 - Jeff Goldblum
actor: The Fly, The Big Chill, Independence Day, Death Wish, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Right Stuff, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Silverado, Hideaway, Jurassic Park, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

1954 - Jamie (James Patrick) Quirk
baseball: KC Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, SL Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics

1963 - Brian Boitano
Olympic gold medalist: men’s figure skating [1988]

1966 - Valeria Golino
actress: Escape from L.A., Leaving Las Vegas, Hot Shots! series, Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee

Chart Toppers
October 22nd.

1946 Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke
To Each His Own - Eddy Howard
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis

1954 Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow

1962 Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket :D
Do You Love Me - The Contours
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson

1970 I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf ;)
All Right Now - Free ;)
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash

1978 Kiss You All Over - Exile
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Tear Time - Dave & Sugar

1986 When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
Typical Male - Tina Turner
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Just Another Love - Tanya Tucker


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

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296th day of 2007 - 69 remaining.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
CANNED FOOD DAY.

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How does that old saying go? Eat what you can, and what you can’t eat, we’ll can ... or something similar. Well, without old Nicolas Appert we wouldn’t be familiar with any part of that saying because he was the one who invented the canning process.

Nicolas Appert was born on this day in 1752 at Chalons-Sur-Marne, France. He was destined to become a great chef and confectioner -- and chemist and inventor. In 1809 the French government awarded Appert with twelve thousand francs for his contribution to the world. Nicolas Appert had, in his search to preserve food, invented a process of heating foods and sealing them in airtight containers. In 1812 he was bestowed with the title, Benefactor of Humanity. Just think, we still use his methods of food preservation today!

And, we wouldn’t want to forget another invention of Appert’s: the bouillon cube. It was probably the first instant soup. Just add water. Then heat to boiling and seal in an airtight jar, tin or can and serve it on Canned Food Day next year!
The can's distinguished history began in 1795. (http://www.cancentral.com/hist_invention.cfm) Nicolas François Appert. (http://www.answers.com/topic/nicolas-francois-appert?cat=technology)

Events
October 23rd.

1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman aviator. Blanche was known, not as an aviator, but an aviatrix. She soared to an altitude of 12 feet over Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

1930 - The first miniature golf tournament came crashing to a close in Chattanooga, TN. The men’s title winner was J.K. Scott, who threatened (to shove a putter where the sun don’t shine) the first person to make a sound as he walked next to the windmill and the clown’s mouth. The women’s top ranker was J.E. Rankin, who scored triple points with an incredible bank shot off the left cushion and through the cowboy’s legs, into the duck’s bill, down its gullet (quack!) and through the mousetrap, into the cup beyond the three-foot-wide pond.

1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen’s comedy-variety program was known as The Linit Bath Club Revue. It then became The Salad Bowl Revue, then, The Sal Hapatica Revue, The Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The Texaco Star Theatre and finally, someone with just a bit of sense, came up with The Fred Allen Show. The comedic legend stayed on radio for 17 years.

1941 - Clarinet a la King was recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra -- on Okeh Records.

1950 - LIFE magazine was adorned with a cover picture of Ed Wynn, and the caption, “TV gets top comics.”

1950 - “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” (a billing he gave himself), Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), died at the age of 64.

1956 - Jonathan Winters became a TV star. Winters was seen coast to coast in the first videotape recording to be broadcast. The tape originated from WRCA-TV in New York City. The broadcast was developed for NBC network stations.

1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He, however, was forced to refuse the honor because of negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing Dr. Zhivago.

1961 - Dion’s Runaround Sue was the #1 U.S. single. It remained at the top for two weeks until being knocked off by Jimmy Dean’s Big Bad John.

1970 - ‘Lady Soul’, Aretha Franklin, won a gold record for Don’t Play that Song.

1976 - Just one of the highlights of the championship football season for the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh: Pitt’s Tony Dorsett rushed for 180 yards (at Navy, beating them 45-0) and set the NCAA all-time rushing record of 5,206 career yards.

1978 - CBS Records hiked prices of many vinyl albums by one dollar to $8.98. Other labels soon joined in.

1983 - Suicidal terrorists drove a truck loaded with TNT into the U.S. Marines headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion that followed killed 240 U.S. personnel. Many French personnel were also killed in a similar attack on their location at the same time.

1989 - After 33 years of Soviet rule, Hungary became an independent republic.

1993 - After his winning home run gave the Blue Jays the win, Joe Carter stepped on home plate and touched off a SkyDome celebration. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2 in the World Series to win the title for the second year in a row.

1998 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Apt Pupil, from Tristar Pictures, Ian Mckellen, Brad Renfro and David Schwimmer; and New Line Cinema’s Pleasantville, with Joan Allen, William H. Macy and Reese Witherspoon.

Birthdays
October 23rd.

1752 - Nicolas Appert
chef, confectioner, chemist, inventor; died June 3, 1841]; see Canned Food Day [above]

1835 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
23rd Vice President of the U.S. [1893-1897]; grandfather of U.S. presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson [1952, 1956]; died June 14, 1914

1892 - (Milton) ‘Gummo’ Marx
theatrical agent; vaudeville with his four brothers (Marx Brothers): The Four Nightingales, Fun in Hi Skule, Mr. Green’s Reception, Home Again; died Apr 21, 1977

1906 - Gertrude Ederle
Olympic swimming medalist [1924]: gold: 4x100-meter relay team; bronze: 100-meter freestyle; 1st woman to swim English Channel [14 hrs., 31 minutes - set a world record]; swimming instructor of deaf children; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer; died Nov 30, 2003

1914 - ‘Bruiser’ Frank Kinard
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: University of Mississippi; NFL’s Brooklyn Dodgers; AAFC’s NY Yankees; All-Pro: [1940, 1941, 1943, 1944]; ‘ironman of football’: played 708 out of 720 season minutes [1936]; missed only one game in nine years of pro ball; died Sep 7, 1985

1918 - James Daly
Emmy Award-winning actor: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Eagle in a Cage [1965-1966]; Medical Center, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders; father of actress Tyne Daly; died July 3, 1978

1922 - Ewell Blackwell
‘The Whip’: baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1946-1951], NY Yankees [World Series: 1952], Kansas City Athletics; died Oct 29, 1996

1922 - Frank Sutton
actor: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Jim Nabors Hour, Marty, Hurricane; died June 28, 1974

1923 - Ned Rorem
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Air Music [1976]

1925 - Johnny Carson
Emmy Award-winning comedian, TV host: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1977-1978, 1978-1979], 1979-1980, 1991-1992]; The Johnny Carson Show, Who Do You Trust?, Earn Your Vacation; died Jan 23, 2005

1927 - Sonny (William) Criss
musician: saxophone: LP: The Bop Masters, Saturday Morning, Criss Craft, Out of Nowhere, Warm and Sonny; died Nov, 19, 1977

1931 - Jim (James Paul David) Bunning
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1957, 1959, 1961-1963], Philadelphia Phillies [pitched seventh perfect game in history (against the NY Mets: 6-21-64)/all-star: 1964, 1966], Pittsburgh Pirates, LA Dodgers; U.S. Senator from Kentucky

1931 - Diana Dors (Mavis Fluck)
actress: Children of the Full Moon, Oliver Twist, Unicorn, Theatre of Blood, The Devil’s Web, Baby Love; died May 4, 1984

1935 - Juan ‘Chi-Chi’ Rodriguez
World Golf Hall of Famer: record for most consecutive wins on Senior PGA Tour [3]; established pro-am tournament: proceeds for Children’s Hospital in Puerto Rico; founded: Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation

1939 - Charlie Foxx
singer: Mockingbird [w/sister Inez]

1940 - (Eleanor) Ellie Greenwich (Ellie Gay, Ellie Gee)
songwriter [w/Jeff Barry]: Be My Baby, Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, River Deep, Mountain High; singer: group: Raindrops: What a Guy, The Kind of Boy You Can’t Forget; solo: LP: Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung; on Broadway: Leader of the Pack

1940 - Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
Brazil’s soccer star; record for most wins: 3 winning teams [1958, 1962, 1970]; most career goals in international competition [97, 1957-70]; most career hat-tricks [92, 1956-77] in film: Escape to Victory

1947 - Greg Ridley
musician , singer: groups: Dino of Dino and The Danubes; The Dakotas; The Ramrods; VIPs; Art: LP: Supernatural Fairytales; Spooky Tooth: LPs: It’s All About, Spooky Two, Ceremony, Cross Purpose; Humble Pie: Town and Country, Sucking on the Sweet Vine, Big George [Rock On], Smokin', Street Rats; All Stars: LP: Marriott; Small Faces: LP: Playmates

1948 - John Holliman
TV news reporter: CNN; killed in car crash Sep 12, 1998

1950 - Ed Smith
football: Colorado College, Denver Broncos

1956 - Dwight Yoakam
songwriter, singer: I’ll be Gone, Bury Me, Miner’s Prayer, South of Cincinnati; LP: Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., A Town South of Bakersfield

1959 - ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
singer, comedian: parodies: Eat It, My Bologna, Another One Rides the Bus, I Love Rocky Road, King of Suede, I Lost on Jeopardy, Polkas on 45, The Brady Bunch, Like a Surgeon

1962 - Doug Flutie
football: Boston College quarterback: Heisman Trophy winner [1984]; CFL: British Columbia Lions [1991 record: passing yards gained in a season: 6,619]; NFL: Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers

1962 - Mike Tomczak
football [quarterback]: Pittsburgh Steelers; Chicago Bears quarterback: Super Bowl XX

Chart Toppers
October 23rd.

1947 Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
The Shifting, Whispering Sands - Rusty Draper
Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce

1963 Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs ;)
Be My Baby - The Ronettes ;)
Busted - Ray Charles
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens

1971 Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson

1979 Rise - Herb Alpert
Pop Muzik - M
I’ll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick
All the Gold in California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers

1987 Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
U Got the Look - Prince
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Fishin’ in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band


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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
UNITED NATIONS DAY.

The United Nations charter took effect on this day in 1945 at the San Francisco Conference. 51 countries came together determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war; to reaffirm faith in human rights; to promote social progress and better standards of life; to practice tolerance and live together in peace and unite their strength to maintain international peace and security.

There are 191 member countries in the United Nations, led by a Secretary-General, controlled by the General Assembly and the Security Council. The Security Council has five permanent members (United States, Great Britain, France, China, Russian Federation) and ten temporary members (serving two-year terms, representing five regions of the world). Fifty-four members sit on the Economic and Social Council for three-year terms. There is also a Trusteeship Council and an International Court of Justice. At least fifteen agencies also exist under the auspices of the United Nations, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization.

Since 1971, by unanimous request of the U.N. General Assembly (the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security), this day has been observed throughout all UN member nations as a public holiday, United Nations Day.
UNITED NATIONS. (http://www.un.org/)

Events
October 24th.

1836 - Alonzo D. Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts received a patent for the phosphorous friction safety match. We thought it only appropriate to remind you to “close cover before striking” today.

1861 - Telegrams were sent coast to coast for the first time in the U.S. California Justice Stephen J. Field was the first in line to send a message. The recipient was President Abraham Lincoln.

1897 - The first regular comic strip was seen in The New York Journal American. The strip was The Yellow Kid.

1901 - Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor of Bay City, MI had nothing better to do on this, her 43rd birthday (at least that’s what she claimed), than to sail over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was the first to live to tell about it; but only one of many people to try. Interestingly, Annie couldn’t swim.

1929 - The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time over NBC radio. Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the years, all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee Show. Megaphone-totin’ Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were mainstays on radio into the late 1940s.

1929 - This day became known as Black Thursday after Wall Street investors panicked and ordered their stock brokers to sell, sell, sell! Nearly 13 million shares traded hands and stock prices plummeted. Many stocks recovered late in the afternoon, but the stage had been set for the October 29th stock market crash -- and the beginning of the Great Depression.

1931 - The George Washington Bridge was opened, linking New York City with New Jersey. The bridge became a famous New York landmark and has been featured in many movies and TV shows. The toll to cross the bridge was to be temporary -- just to cover costs. But it costs and costs and costs when you have to keep repairing and painting a bridge that big -- so, the bridge toll continues. And the bridge is still being painted.

1939 - Let’s Dance was recorded on Columbia Records. It became the theme song for the band that recorded it, the Benny Goodman Band.

1939 - Women’s nylon hosiery went on sale for the first time -- at Wilmington Dry Goods in Wilmington, DE. Why Wilmington? The Dupont Company, the inventor of nylon, is based there.

1951 - Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy starred in The Fourposter, which made its Broadway debut this day.

1952 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in Detroit, delivered his famous speech about Korea. He promised to go to Korea and seek “an early settlement to the war” if elected President. He was -- and he did.

1959 - Wilt ‘The Stilt’ Chamberlain launched a pro basketball record streak. Not only did he play in 799 consecutive games; he didn’t foul out in one of them.

1960 - Brenda Lee hit #1 for the second time in the year with I Want to Be Wanted. 1960 was a very good year for the young (age 15) songstress. In addition to her first #1 smash, I’m Sorry (July 18), Lee had two other songs on the charts: Sweet Nothin’s (#4, April 18) and That’s All You Gotta Do (#6, July 4).

1975 - Looking to name your own greatest hits album something other than Greatest Hits? Do what former Beatle John Lennon did, with his package of the best. Lennon called it, Shaved Fish.

1976 - Bowling announcer Chris Schenkel would remember this day on ABC’s Pro Bowlers Tournament. Mark Hill of Lawton, OK bowled a perfect 300 game. Yeah, so? Well, according to the American Bowling Congress, Hill’s dad had rolled a perfect game on February 15, 1975 and his mommy bowled a 300 game on August 4, 1975.

1977 - Gary Busey began filming The Buddy Holly Story. The star was a ringer for the rock idol.

1982 - EPCOT (experimental prototype community of tomorrow) Center was dedicated by Disney Chairman, E. Cardon Walker at Walt Disney World, Florida: “May EPCOT Center entertain, inform and inspire, and above all, may it instill a new sense of belief and pride in man’s ability to shape a world that offers hope to people everywhere.”

1992 - It was the first World Series won by a team from outside of the United States. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves in the sixth game (4-3 in 11 innings) and won the Series, four games to two.

1995 - The United Nations celebrated its 50th anniversary. The party (Oct 22-24) was the largest gathering of world leaders ever assembled in New York.

1996 - Motown Records founder Berry Gordy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gordy helped launch the careers Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson and many others.

1997 - It was first-run day in the U.S. for these flicks: Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Alan Arkin; A Life Less Ordinary, with Ewan Mcgregor, Cameron Diaz and Holly Hunter; and Fairytale - A True Story, starring Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Paul Mcgann, Phoebe Nicholls, Peter O'Toole and Harvey Keitel.

Birthdays
October 24th.

1788 - Sarah Hale
poet: Mary Had a Little Lamb; magazine editor; died Apr 30, 1879

1830 - Belva Lockwood
women’s rights advocate, attorney, 1st woman formally nominated to run for president of the U.S.; died May 19, 1917

1855 - James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice President [1909-1912]; died Oct 30, 1912

1891 - General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina
government leader: president/dictator of Dominican Republic; assassinated May 26, 1961

1904 - Moss Hart
Tony Award-winning director: My Fair Lady [1957]; playwright: You Can’t Take It with You, Gentleman’s Agreement, The Man Who Came to Dinner [w/George S. Kaufman], I Married An Angel; married to actress Kitty Carlisle; died Dec 20, 1961

1911 - Sonny Terry (Saunders Terrell)
singer, harmonica player: LPs: Sonny’s Story, Sonny is King, At the Second Fret, At Sugar Hill, Back to New Orleans, Midnight Special, California Blues; Spirituals to Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall; died Mar 12, 1986

1923 - Denise Levertov
poet: The Double Image, Relearning the Alphabet, Candles in Babylon, Breathing the Water, Light Up the Cave; died Dec 20, 1997

1926 - Y.A. (Yelberton Abraham) Tittle
Pro Football Hall of Famer: NY Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts: quarterback; UPI Player of the Year [1957, 1962]; AP Player of the Year [1963]

1929 - Jim (James Patrick) Brosnan
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961], Chicago White Sox; sportswriter

1930 - J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson
The Big Bopper: singer: Chantilly Lace, Big Bopper’s Wedding; songwriter: Running Bear; killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959

1934 - Margie Masters
golf: LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year [1965]

1936 - David Nelson
actor: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Peyton Place, Cry-Baby; son of entertainers Ozzie and Harriet Nelson; brother of singer Ricky Nelson

1936 - Bill Wyman
musician: group: The Rolling Stones: [I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction, Get Off of My Cloud, Paint It, Black, Ruby Tuesday, Honky Tonk Women, Brown Sugar, Angie; solo: LP: Stone Alone; songwriter: Downtown Suzie, In Another Land; London restaurant owner: Sticky Fingers

1937 - Santo Farina
musician, steel guitar: group: Santo & Johnny: Sleepwalk, Tear Drop

1939 - F. Murray Abraham
Academy Award-winning actor: Amadeus [1984]; Surviving the Game, Last Action Hero, Nostradamus, Scarface, Serpico, The Sunshine Boys, All the President’s Men

1944 - Randy Beisler
football: Indiana Univ. tackle; NFL: Philadephia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs

1946 - Jerry Edmonton
musician: drums: group: Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me; duo: Manbeast; killed in car crash Nov 28, 1993

1947 - Kevin Kline
Academy Award-winning actor: A Fish Called Wanda [1988]; Silverado, Grand Canyon, Dave, Princess Caraboo, The Big Chill, Sophie’s Choice, Search for Tomorrow

1950 - Rawly (Rawlins Jackson) Eastwick
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1975], SL Cardinals, NY Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, KC Royals, Chicago Cubs

1951 - Jim Laslavic
football: Penn State Univ., Detroit Lions; San Diego Chargers radio color commentator; Sports Director: KNSD-TV, San Diego CA

1960 - Ian Baker-Finch
golf: British Open Champion [1991]

1962 - B.D. (Bradley Darryl) Wong
actor: Seven Years in Tibet, Executive Decision, Father of the Bride series, Men of War, Jurassic Park, Mystery Date, The Freshman, M. Butterfly, All-American Girl

Chart Toppers
October 24th.

1948 You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold

1956 Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

1964 Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers ;)
We’ll Sing in the Sunshine - Gale Garnett
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens

1972 My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Funny Face - Donna Fargo

1980 Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
He’s So Shy - Pointer Sisters
I Believe in You - Don Williams

1988 Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club ;)
Gonna Take a Lot of River - The Oak Ridge Boys


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298th day of 2007 - 67 remaining.

Thursday, October 25, 2007
BLANDA DAY.

It all started on this, a fall football day in 1970.

George Blanda, who had played pro football for the Chicago Bears for ten years, retired and then returned to the game as starting quarterback for the Houston Oilers. He led the Oilers to two AFC championships, earning the title of AFC Player of the Year in 1961. By 1966 he was no longer the starter for the team, but was the team’s kicker, leading the league with 116 points. Blanda was then traded to the Oakland Raiders, primarily as a kicker.

That’s when George Blanda became a legend in his own time. As we said, it happened on this day in 1970. That’s when Blanda, 43 years old, replaced Daryle Lamonica, the Raiders injured quarterback. Blanda tossed three touchdown passes (19, 43 and 44 yards), taking the Raiders to an easy victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers (31-14). And that was only the beginning.

The following week, George Blanda kicked a field goal 48 yards to tie the Raiders with Kansas City -- with only three seconds left to play. The next week, Blanda replaced Lamonica in the last quarter. Oakland was down by one touchdown. With one minute and fourteen seconds remaining, Blanda threw a 14-yard touchdown, tied the game, then kicked a 52-yard field goal in the last three seconds.

Another week, another game and another Blanda heroic ending -- with only four minutes left to play. Denver was in the lead over Oakland by two points. Blanda drove for 80 yards, then threw a touchdown pass to Fred Biletnikoff. Oakland won. His heroics continued the following week. With four seconds remaining, the game tied at 17, Blanda kicked a 16-yard field goal and San Diego went home the loser. Oakland won the division championship and Blanda became AFC Player of the Year and AP male athlete of the year. That’s why George Blanda is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame!
George Blanda. (http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/BlanGe00.htm) Pro Football Hall of Fame. (http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=29)

Events
October 25th.

1870 - The first U.S. trademark was awarded -- to the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City.

1937 - Radio’s Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung out on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the entire run. Stella Dallas was “A continuation on the air of the true-life story of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel’s life.”

1940 - Cabin in the Sky opened for the first of 156 shows. Taking a Chance on Love is the one big hit that came from the musical.

1943 - Benny Carter and his orchestra recorded Poinciana on the Capitol label. The real title, incidentally, is Poinciana (Song of the Tree).

1955 - The microwave oven was introduced in Mansfield, Ohio at the corporate headquarters of the Tappan Company. The manufacturer put a $1,200 price tag on the new stove that could cook eggs in 22 seconds, bacon in 90 seconds.

1960 - The Bulova Watch Company introduced its high-tech Accutron electronic wrist watch. Ten years after it was introduced (as the watch the astronauts wear), it sold in jewelry stores for about $200.

1962 - Author John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.”

1964 - “And now, rrrrright here on this stage....” The Rolling Stones were introduced to American audiences on The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV.

1969 - Canada’s The Guess Who got a gold record for the single, Laughing.

1974 - The single, Skin Tight, by The Ohio Players, went gold on this day.

1980 - Barbra Streisand’s Woman in Love, from the number one album, Guilty, was the number one song in the U.S. Both the album and the single were #1 for three weeks.

1983 - 2,000 U.S. Marines invaded Grenada to take control away from the Soviet-Cubans. A political coup just one week earlier had made the tiny Caribbean Island a Soviet-Cuban colony.

1984 - John Cougar Mellencamp reached the two-million-dollar sales mark with his album, Uh-Huh. Also, country group Alabama went to the three-million-dollar mark with two albums this day: Feels So Right and Mountain Music.

1986 - New Jersey-based rock band Bon Jovi rose to number one in the U.S. with their Slippery When Wet album. It was the number one album for eight -- count ’em -- eight weeks. Track listing: Let It Rock, You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin’ on a Prayer, Social Disease, Wanted Dead or Alive, Raise Your Hands, Without Love, I’d Die for You, Never Say Goodbye, Wild in the Streets.

1987 - The World Series began in a dome for the first time and the team with the best record at home happened to play in that dome. The St. Louis Cardinals were pounded in the first game, but fought back and forced the series to seven games before the Minnesota Twins could claim the championship -- their first -- on this day.

1990 - James ‘Buster’ Douglas, who had knocked out the undefeated Mike Tyson on Feb. 10, 1990 to win the world heavyweight title, was floored by Evander Holyfield in the third round this day in Las Vegas. This was to be Douglas’ only defense of that fleeting title.

1998 - For the first time, all of the top five songs of the week were new entries: 1) Cher, Believe; 2) George Michael, Outside; 3) U2, Sweetest Thing; 4) Culture Club, I Just Wanna Be Loved; 5) Alanis Morissette, Thank U.

Birthdays
October 25th.

1340 - Geoffrey Chaucer
poet: Canterbury Tales; actual date of birth unknown; died Oct 25, 1400

1825 - Johann Strauss
‘The Waltz King’: composer: On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Wine, Women and Song; operettas: Die Fledermaus, A Night in Venice, The Gypsy Baron; died June 3, 1899

1838 - Georges Bizet
composer: Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, The Young Girl of Perth; died June 3, 1875

1881 - Pablo Picasso
artist: founder of cubism: Guernica, Ma Jolie; died Apr 8, 1973

1886 - Leo G. Carroll
actor: The Prize, The Parent Trap, North by Northwest, Father of the Bride, Forever Amber, Bahama Passage, Topper, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Going My Way, Life with Luigi; died Oct 16, 1972

1888 - Richard E. (Evelyn) Byrd
polar explorer: first to see North Pole; died Mar 11, 1957

1912 - Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley)
comedienne: “Howdee!”: On Stage America, Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; singer: Giddyup Go-Answer; CMA Hall of Famer; died Mar 4, 1996

1924 - Billy Barty
comedian: The Spike Jones Show, Ford Festival, Club Oasis; actor: Circus Boy, Snow White, Willow, Tough Guys, Rumpelstiltskin, Roustabout, The Amazing Dobermans, Day of the Locust; died Dec 23, 2000

1926 - Jimmy Heath
musician: reeds: group: Heath Brothers: LP: Marchin’ On, Passin’ Thru, Live at the Public Theatre, In Motion, Expressions of Life, Brotherly Love; band leader: LP: The Thumper, Really Big, The Quota, Triple Threat, Swamp Seed, On the Trail

1926 - (William) Biff McGuire
actor: The Thomas Crown Affair [1968], The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Serpico, Midway, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, The Last Word

1927 - Barbara Cook
Tony Award-winning actress, singer: The Music Man [1957]; Flahooley, Oklahoma, Carousel, Plain and Fancy, Candide, The Gay Life, She Loves Me, Any Wednesday, Funny Girl, The Gershwin Years

1927 - Bud (Franklin) Held
National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 1st [1953] to throw javelin more than 260 feet; his record: 268’ 2 1/2" [1955]; javelin designer

1928 - Tony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo)
actor: A Hatful of Rain, Death Wish 2, The Drowning Pool, A Face in the Crowd, The Long Hot Summer, Stagecoach, The Name of the Game, Matt Helm, Wheels, Valentine’s Day, Search, Finder of Lost Loves; died Jan 19, 2006

1928 - Marion Ross
actress: Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge, Mr. Novak, Life with Father, The Gertrude Berg Show, Forever Female, Grand Theft Auto

1934 - Earl Ingarfield
hockey: Vancouver Canucks, NY Rangers, Cleveland Barons, Pittsburgh Penguins, Oakland Seals, California Golden Seals; head coach: NY Islanders

1937 - Jeanne (Gloria) Black
singer: He’ll Have to Stay

1937 - Zelmo Beaty
basketball: Atlanta Hawks; all-star [1966]

1940 - Bobby Knight
Basketball Hall of Famer: coach: Indiana University, West Point; Pan-American games; player: Ohio State University NCAA championship team

1941 - Helen Reddy
singer: I Don’t Know How to Love Him, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone [Ruby Red Dress], Peaceful, Keep on Singing, Angie Baby, You & Me Against the World, I Am Woman

1941 - Ann Tyler
author: The Accidental Tourist, Searching for Caleb, Morgan’s Passing, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

1944 - Jon Anderson
singer: group: Yes: Roundabout; solo: LP: Olias of Sunhollow, Song of Seven; duo: Jon and Vangelis: I Hear You Now, I’ll Find My Way Home

1944 - Taffy Danoff (Nivert)
singer: group: Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight

1948 - Dan Gable
Olympic Hall of Famer: lightweight wrestling division gold medalist [1972]; wrestling coach: University of Iowa

1948 - Dan Issel
Basketball Hall of Famer: Kentucky Colonels: Rookie of the Year [1970-71]; Denver Nuggets: player, head coach

1948 - Glenn Tipton
musician: guitar: group: Judas Priest: Tyrant, Victim of Changes, Ripper, Beyond the Realms of Death, Take on the World, Living After Midnight, Breaking the Law

1949 - Brian Kerwin
actor: Lobo, The Young and the Restless, The Chisholms, The Blue and the Gray, Switched at Birth, Murphy’s Romance, A Real American Hero

1951 - Greg Stemrick
football: Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints

1956 - Mathias Jabs
musician: guitar: group: Scorpions: LPs: Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love at First Sting, World Wide Live

1963 - Tracy Nelson
actress: Father Dowling Mysteries, Square Pegs, Glitter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Yours, Mine & Ours

1971 - Midori (Goto)
musician: violin; created Midori and Friends foundation [musicians travel to NY public schools to give concerts and classes]

Chart Toppers
October 25th.

1949 You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely

1957 Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Hula Love - Buddy Knox
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers

1965 Yesterday - The Beatles
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones ;)
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright

1973 Angie - The Rolling Stones ;)
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez

1981 Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt
Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride

1989 Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Love Song - The Cure
Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears
Living Proof - 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
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299th day of 2007 - 66 remaining.

Friday, October 26, 2007
ERIE CANAL DAY. :)

After 8 years of digging ... and digging ... and digging, Clinton’s Big Ditch was completed. (That’s not Bill Clinton, but De Witt Clinton, governor of the state of New York at the time.)

The 363-mile-long inland waterway, connecting Lake Erie to New York City by way of the Hudson River, opened to boat traffic on this day in 1825. Cannons fired in celebration and folks lined the route to cheer the $7,602,000, pet project of Governor Clinton. He knew that this, the first major, man-made waterway in the U.S. would be enormously important to the settlement of the Great Lakes region. And right he was!

By the 1840s, thousands of barges used the ditch. The boatmen who worked them, known for their drinking and brawling, and their adventures on the Erie Canal became subjects of many stories and songs. One such refrain, the result of a storm that halted the ‘canawlers’ (as the barge operators were called) went something like this:

Oh, the Erie was a risin’
And the gin was gettin’ low,
And I scarcely think we’ll get a drink
Till we get to Buffalo.
History of the Erie Canal. (http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/)

Events
October 26th.

1785 - The first Spanish jacks imported to the United States arrived in Boston this day. They were a gift from King Charles III of Spain. George Washington bred them resulting in the first donkeys to be born in America.

1858 - The rotary motion-washing machine was patented by Hamilton E. Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1881 - Doc Holliday joined the Earp brothers, Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan, in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ. They went up against members of the Clanton gang of suspected cattle rustlers. Wyatt Earp and Billy Clanton opened the battle -- the most famous gunfight of the Old West -- with Doc shooting Billy in the chest. Less than thirty seconds later, three men lay dead and three were wounded. Doc had shot each of the dead cowboys at least once. Virgil had been shot in the leg and Morgan through both shoulders. Holliday was wounded in the hip. Only Wyatt Earp survived the fight untouched.

1911 - Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants in the World Series four games to two. Led by Chief Bender, the A’s cruised to a 4-hit 13-2 victory over the Giants in game six, capped by a 7-run seventh inning. The Giants managed just 13 runs and a .175 batting average off pitchers Bender, Jack Coombs, and Eddie Plank in the Series.

1934 - Cole Porter recorded his own composition titled, You’re the Top, from the show Anything Goes, on Victor.

1935 - A talented twelve-year-old sang on Wallace Beery’s NBC radio show on NBC. Judy Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon be in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years before Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would be better than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers everywhere with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

1951 - Rocky Marciano, the ‘Brockton Blockbuster’, knocked out Joe Louis, the ‘Brown Bomber’ in the 8th round of a fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. One year later, Marciano became heavyweight champ of the world.

1952 - NBC-TV premiered Victory at Sea. The show was the first documentary film series to gain wide acceptance. Richard Rodgers wrote the score and Robert Russell Bennett orchestrated it. No Other Love, adapted from one of the songs in the score, became a hit for Perry Como in the summer of 1953.

1955 - The Village Voice was first published. The Voice was New York City’s ‘underground’ (alternative) newspaper.

1965 - The Beatles received MBE medals from the Queen of England, as they became Members of the British Empire. Ceremonies were held at Buckingham Palace. John Lennon returned his medal four years later in protest of Britain’s involvement in the Nigerian Civil War.

1970 - Following 3½ years of forced isolation from boxing, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) returned to the ring and beat Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia.

1970 - Only 22 years old, Garry Trudeau began his comic strip, Doonesbury, in 28 newspapers across the U.S. The sometimes controversial strip is now in hundreds of papers and has spawned a publishing empire of books and assorted items.

1971 - Memphis minister Al Green received a gold record for his single, Tired of Being Alone.

1984 - Barbra Streisand won multiplatinum certification for three albums that reached the four-million-dollar sales mark. Greatest Hits, Vol. II, Guilty, and A Star is Born (with Kris Kristofferson) were honored.

1986 - Donald Duck was shown for the first time in the People’s Republic of China. Chinese television launched a weekly half-hour of old Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse cartoons. We guess “quack” is the same in any language.

1996 - The New York Yankees played against the defending World Champion Atlanta Braves in what looked like a quick sweep. The Yankees were battered, injured and struggling until the World Series left New York with the Braves leading two games to none. Beginning in Atlanta, the Yankees came to life and beat the braves in four straight, culminating with the 3-2 win on this day back at Yankee Stadium. The Bronx Bombers won the series four games to two.

1997 - The expansion Florida Marlins, who debuted during the 1993 season, won one of the most exciting game sevens in the history of the World Series and became the first wild card team to win a World Championship. Edgar Renteria’s bases-loaded single with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning started the celebration in Miami. The Marlins became the fastest team to reach the pinnacle of baseball, winning the World Series, four games to three, over Cleveland Indians.

2000 - “It is often said that the Mayor of New York City wears many hats, while this may be true, I can assure you that for the duration of this World Series I'll be wearing a Yankees hat,” said New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. New York (Yankees) battled New York (Mets) during the 2000 Fall Classic and the Yankees won the Series with a 4-2 victory over the Mets in Game 5 this day at Shea Stadium. Catcher Jorge Posada scored the game-winning run as the Yankees won their third consecutive World Series and their fourth in five years.

Birthdays
October 26th.

1685 - Domenico Scarlatti
composer: over 550 clavier sonatas; son of composer Alessandro Scarlatti; died July 23, 1757

1803 - Joseph Hansom
architect, inventor: Patent Safety Cab [2-wheeled, horse-driven cab with the driver seated above and behind the passengers]: the hansom cab; died in 1882

1854 - C.W. (Charles William) Post
cereal mogul; founder of Post cereals and products: Grape Nuts, Post Toasties, Postum; died May 9, 1914

1874 - Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller
philanthropist: cofounder of NY Museum of Modern Art; died Apr 5, 1948

1876 - H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner
actor: Bulldog Drummond series, It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments; died Dec 21, 1958

1894 - John S. (Shively) Knight
Pulitzer Prize-winning [Editor’s Notebook: 1968] reporter, editor: The Akron Beacon Journal; publisher: Knight-Ridder newspaper empire; died June 16, 1981

1902 - Jack Sharkey
boxer: World Heavyweight Champion: won title from Max Schmeling in a 15-round split decision [June 21, 1932], lost title when Primo Carnera knocked him out [June 29, 1933]; record: 38-13-3 (14 knockouts, 1 no-contest); died Aug 17, 1994

1906 - Primo Carnera
boxer: heaviest heavyweight champion [270 pounds: 3/1/34]: outweighed opponent by 86 lbs., won on points; died June 29, 1967

1911 - Sid Gillman
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: Ohio University: 1st college all-star game; Cleveland Rams; head coach: Miami University, University of Cincinnati, LA Rams, LA/San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers [AFC Coach of the Year-1974]; general manager: Houston Oilers

1911 - Mahalia Jackson
singer: God’s Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares, Move on Up a Little Higher, The Lord’s Prayer; in film: St. Louis Blues; LP: I Sing Because I’m Happy, The World’s Greatest Gospel Singer; died Jan 27, 1972

1913 - Charlie Barnet
musician: saxophone; bandleader: Cherokee, We’re All Burnt Up, Where Was I?, Pompton Turnpike, I Hear a Rhapsody, Skyliner; autobiography: Those Swinging Years; died Sep 4, 1991

1914 - Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan Jr.)
actor: The Kid: 1st full-length movie to star a child; Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, College Swing, Outlaw Women, The Shakiest Gun in the West, The Escape Artist, The Addams Family, McKeever & The Colonel; TV panelist: Pantomime Quiz; cause of the Coogan Act requiring parent’s of child actors to put their earnings in trust; died Mar 1, 1984

1916 - Francois Mitterand
President of France [1981-1995]; died Jan 8, 1996

1934 - Rodney ‘Hot Rod’ Hundley
basketball; W. Virginia Univ., Minneapolis/LA Lakers; sportscaster: Utah Jazz

1942 - Bob Hoskins
actor: Hook, Brazil, The Cotton Club, Mona Lisa, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Heart Condition, Mermaids

1944 - Michael Piano
singer: group: The Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning

1946 - Keith Hopwood
singer, musician: guitar: group: Herman’s Hermits: Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter, I’m Henry the Eighth I Am

1946 - Pat Sajak
TV host: Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajak Show

1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton
attorney; First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton; U.S. Senator from New York [2000-]

1947 - Jaclyn Smith
actress: Charlie’s Angels, Christine Cromwell, The Bourne Identity, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Goodbye Columbus; commercials: Breck girl

1948 - Toby (Colbert Dale) Harrah
baseball: Washington Senators, Texas Rangers [all-star: 1972, 1975, 1976], Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1982], New York Yankees

1949 - Steve (Stephen Douglas) Rogers
baseball: pitcher: record: NCAA Division I individual career pitching wins [Tulsa: 4, 1969, 1971]; Montreal Expos [all-star: 1974, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983

1949 - Mike (Dudley Michael) Hargrove
baseball: Texas Rangers [Rookie of the Year: 1974/all-star: 1975], Cleveland Indians, SD Padres; manager: Cleveland Indians

1950 - Chuck Foreman
football: Minnesota Vikings running back/receiver: NFC Rookie of the Year [1973]: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI; NFC Player of the Year [1974, 1976]; New England Patriots

1951 - Steve (Steven Robert) Ontiveros
baseball: SF Giants, Chicago Cubs

1953 - Keith Strickland
musician: drums: group: The B-52s: Rock Lobster, Quiche Lorraine, 606-0842, Dance This Mess Around

1954 - Lauren Tewes
actress: The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders

1958 - Rita Wilson
actress: The Bonfire of the Vanities, Barbarians at the Gate, Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts, If These Walls Could Talk, That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon, Runaway Bride, The Story of Us; wife of actor Tom Hanks

1961 - Dylan McDermott
actor: The Practice, Hamburger Hill, Twister, Steel Magnolias, In the Line of Fire, Destiny Turns on the Radio, Big Shots

1962 - Cary Elwes
actor: Twister, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Hot Shots!, Days of Thunder, Glory, The Princess Bride, Another Country

1968 - Thomas Cavanagh
actor: Ed, Sherlock Holmes Returns, Jake and the Kid, Bloodhounds II

Chart Toppers
October 26th.

1950 Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow

1958 It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Topsy II - Cozy Cole
City Lights - Ray Price

1966 Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops
96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians ;)
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens

1974 Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & Spinners
You Haven’t Done Nothin - Stevie Wonder
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
I See the Want to in Your Eyes - Conway Twitty

1982 Jack & Diane - John Cougar ;)
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
He Got You - Ronnie Milsap

1990 I Don’t Have the Heart - James Ingram
Black Cat - Janet Jackson
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks


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.

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300th day of 2007 - 65 remaining.

Saturday, October 27, 2007
RADIO DAY. ;)

Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.

It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they had to wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the first radio programming to reach an audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people.

And so we salute this day as the official birthday of mass-appeal radio.
KDKA Radio. (http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/kdka.html) KDKA History. (http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/15486.php)

Events
October 27th.

1904 - The first subway cars were placed in operation, forming the New York City subway system. The cars operated between the Brooklyn Bridge and Broadway; from City Hall to W. 145th Street. This was the first underwater, underground rail system in the world.

1917 - Jascha Heifetz made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Heifetz was a 16-year-old sensation who had played the violin since age 5.

1925 - It isn’t as exciting as radio’s birthday, maybe, but it was an exciting day for Fred Waller, who received a license of sorts from the U.S. Patent Office. Mr. Waller invented water skis. Now if he could have only invented an easy way to get up on those skis...

1941 - Everything I Love, by Buddy Clark, was recorded this day -- on the Okeh label (number 6469).

1947 - This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC radio. Nora solved domestic, social and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959.

1947 - “The one, the only Groucho” Marx appeared as quizmaster on You Bet Your Life for the first time -- on ABC radio. George Fenneman was Groucho’s eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program’s run on radio (1948 - 1959) and TV (1950 - 1961). By the way, who is buried in Grant’s tomb?

1954 - The show that ultimately altered TV for kids premiered on ABC-TV. Disneyland will be historically noted as ABC’s first smash. Many NBC and CBS affiliates in those days took ABC as a second network just to have the Disneyland show. Over the years, Disneyland changed names a few times. It was also titled, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, The Wonderful World of Disney, Disney’s Wonderful World, The Disney Sunday Movie and The Magical World of Disney.

1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary were sitting pretty at #1 and #2 on the U.S. album chart with Peter, Paul and Mary and In the Wind.

1973 - Riva Ridge, the racehorse that won 17 of 30 starts and earned a total of $1,111,497, came in dead last in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park in New York -- and was immediately retired.

1974 - ABC hit pay dirt this day with the first televised showing of the box office hit, The Poseidon Adventure. The movie featured a cast of notables, including Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Carol Lynley, Red Buttons and Roddy McDowall, in an upside down ship.

1975 - Rocker Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek. Things were certainly going well for ‘The Boss’ that week.

1978 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. They were honored for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel.

1985 - The Kansas City Royals vs. St. Louis Cardinals. It was was an all-Missouri feud, if you will; the I-70 Series; Kansas City versus St. Louis. The Kansas City Royals won, shutting out the St. Louis Cardinals in game seven this day, 11-0. The Royals rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series. Series MVP Bret Saberhagen pitched the shutout.

1986 - The ‘mighty’ New York Mets became world champs of baseball, as they beat Boston’s ‘hard-luck’ Red Sox in game seven of the World Series, 8-5. Two days after an improbable rally saved the Mets from the brink of defeat, they beat Boston, who had lost their three most recent World Series appearances (which had also gone seven games ended in defeat).

1990 - Janet Jackson’s Black Cat popped up to #1 for a week in the U.S. The single was one of the tracks on her number-one album of a year earlier, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814.

1991 - In what is considered by the experts (Bob and Jim down at the bar), the seventh game of the World Series, played this day, was one of the greatest ever. Minnesota Twins’ pinch-hitter Gene Larkin’s tenth-inning bases-loaded single beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in the seventh game the World Series. The Twins captured their second World Championship in five years during a tight series that included three extra-inning games and five one-runners. And, for only the second time in history, the home team won all seven games (the first time it happened was 1987, a series that also featured the Twins.)

1997 - The U.S. released a redesigned $50 bill. The new notes incorporated features to protect against counterfeiting and make U.S. currency more easily identifiable for people with low vision. The Series 1996 $50 note followed the introduction in March 1996 of the redesigned $100 note as part of a program to maintain the security of U.S. currency.

1999 - Roger Clemens pitched the New York Yankees to their second straight World Series sweep, shutting down the Atlanta Braves, 4-1. This ended Clemens’ quest for the prize that had eluded him. Clemens and the Yankees shut out Atlanta into the eighth out dueling John Smoltz. Pitcher Mariano Rivera who had two saves and a win in the Series was selected as MVP.

2000 - These films made their U.S. debuts: Blow Dry, from Simon Beaufoy, the writer of The Full Monty: “...comedy for anyone who has ever had hair.”; Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: “...returns to Maryland’s ominous Black Hills region to reconstruct a ghastly series of crimes...”; The Little Vampire: “They're Not Just Best Friends. They’re Blood Borthers.” (Hahahaha... Get it?); and Lucky Numbers, with John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow and Tim Roth: comedy about a TV lottery-fixing scheme.

Birthdays
October 27th.

1728 - James Cook
British sea captain, explorer: Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands; killed by angry natives at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, Feb 14, 1779

1782 - Nicolo Paganini
violin virtuoso; died May 27, 1840

1858 - Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President [1901-1909]; married to A. Lee, E. Carow [four sons, two daughters]; nickname: TR, Trust Buster; first president to ride in a car, submerge in a submarine and fly in a plane; initiated the National Monument System; died Jan 6, 1919

1872 - Emily Post (Price)
etiquette authority: author: Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage; syndicated newspaper columnist; died Sep 25, 1960

1910 - Fred De Cordova
Emmy Award-winning producer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1991-1992]; director: Bedtime for Bonzo, Frankie and Johnny, I’ll Take Sweden; died Sep 15, 2001

1911 - Leif Erickson (William Anderson)
actor: The High Chaparral, Force Five, On the Waterfront, Rocky 3, Tea and Sympathy, Waikiki Wedding; died Jan 29, 1986

1914 - Dylan Thomas
playwright: The Three Weird Sisters, Under Milkwood; poet: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade; died Nov 9, 1953

1917 - Oliver Tambo
President of South Africa’s African National Congress; died Apr 24, 1993

1920 - Nanette Fabray (Fabares)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Caesar’s Hour [1955, 1956]; One Day at a Time, Westinghouse Playhouse, Our Gang series; aunt of actress Shelley Fabares

1922 - Ralph (Mc Pherran) Kiner
Baseball Hall of Famer: outfielder: National League’s first $100,000 player; Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1948-1953/led league in home runs: 1946-52], Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians; broadcaster: NY Mets

1923 - Roy Lichenstein
sculptor; artist: Blam; died Sep 29, 1997

1924 - Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Decoration Day [1990-91]; Peyton Place, Zora is My Name, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun, The Jackie Robinson Story, All God’s Children, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln, Roots: The Next Generation

1928 - Kyle Rote
College Football Hall of Famer: Southern Methodist University; New York Giants running back; sportscaster

1930 - Bill George
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears middle linebacker: All-Pro [1955-1962]; LA Rams; died Sep 30, 1982

1932 - Kathy Cornelius (McKinnon)
golf champion: U.S. Open [1956]

1933 - Floyd Cramer
pianist: Last Date, On the Rebound, San Antonio Rose; died Dec 31, 1997

1939 - John Cleese
Emmy Award-winning actor: guest performer: Cheers [1986-87]; A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Splitting Heirs, Life of Brian, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Silverado, The Big Picture

1942 - Lara Parker
actress: Foxfire Light, The Solitary Man, Race with the Devil, Night of Dark Shadows

1943 - (Melvin) Lee Greenwood
CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1983, 1984]: Dixie Road, Hearts Aren’t Made to Break [They’re Made to Love], Going, Going, Gone, Mornin’ Ride, I Don’t Mind the Thorns [If You’re the Boss], God Bless the U.S.A.; musician: sax, piano: band leader: Trick

1945 - John Williams
football: Baltimore Colts guard: Super Bowl III, V

1945 - Mike (Michael Ken-Wai) Lum
baseball: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs

1946 - Ivan Reitman
director: Ghostbusters series, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Meatballs, Stripes

1946 - Carrie Snodgress
actress: Diary of a Mad Housewife, 8 Seconds, The Solitary Man, Woman with a Past, Pale Rider, Chill Factor; died Apr 1, 2004

1947 - Terry Anderson
news correspondent: kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut [1985], released [1991]

1952 - Pete Cusick
football: Ohio State, NE Patriots DT

1958 - Simon LeBon
singer: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is There Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys

1963 - Marla Maples
actress: Will Roger’s Follies, Executive Decision, Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish; married millionaire Donald Trump

Chart Toppers
October 27th.

1951 Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell

1959 Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
The Three Bells - The Browns

1967 To Sir with Love - Lulu
How Can I Be Sure - The Young Rascals
Expressway to Your Heart - Soul Survivors
I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette

1975 Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver
Miracles - Jefferson Starship ;)
San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker

1983 Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
Lady Down on Love - Alabama

1991 Emotions - Mariah Carey
Do Anything - Natural Selection
Romantic - Karyn White
Anymore - Travis Tritt


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.
Thanks for your understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

301st day of 2007 - 64 remaining.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
LIBERTY DAY.
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An emblem of Franco-American unity, the Statue of Liberty, was presented to the American people by the French and unveiled this day in 1886.

The Statue of Liberty at Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor is the work of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. He called it Liberty Enlightening the World. Bartholdi was present at the dedication presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland.

Inscribed on a tablet inside the pedestal of ‘Miss Liberty’ is a poem by Emma Lazarus. It describes the statue of a woman holding a book and torch. The symbol of freedom, she waits for immigrants who must pass by her on their way to Ellis Island and admission to America. It reads:

“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

‘Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she with silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’”

The 152-foot high statue, weighing 225 tons, now sits on Liberty Island. On August 3, 1957, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower changed the name from Bedloe’s Island to Liberty Island.

Liberty and justice for all!
The Statue of Liberty. (http://www.nyctourist.com/liberty1.htm) Click me. (http://www.nps.gov/stli/) And Ellis Island. (http://www.ellisisland.org/)

Events
October 28th.

1636 - The Massachusetts General Court provided 400 pounds to support a school or college, and so, Harvard University was founded in Cambridge, MA.

1904 - Fingerprinting was first used by the St. Louis Police Department.

1922 - WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21, Chicago 18.)

1927 - Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) flew the first international flight -- from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba.

1940 - The Greek people had much to celebrate. Their resistance and military had turned back Mussolini’s troops and Greece’s borders were closed to the Nazi supporters. This day is still celebrated throughout Greece as Ohi (No!) Day.

1946 - Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC radio for the first time. Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky’s niece Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by Mars candy.

1950 - Jack Benny took his well-known radio show [on radio for 20 years] to television without missing a beat. Audiences watching CBS-TV this night at 7:30 p.m. finally got to see the stingy, vain-about-his-age, Benny. There he was with his violin, ancient Maxwell car, and his basement vault in living black and white. Eventually, TV audiences got to see Jack Benny, his wife Mary Livingstone, and his friends Eddy ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Don Wilson and Dennis Day in living color. The show lasted on TV for fifteen years!

1961 - Brian Epstein, a record store owner in London, was asked by a customer for a copy of the record, My Bonnie, by a group known as The Silver Beatles. He didn’t have it in stock so he went to the Cavern Club to check out the group. He signed to manage them in a matter of days and renamed them The Beatles.

1961 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the Municipal Stadium at the former site of the New York World’s Fair in Flushing, NY. The name was later changed to Shea Stadium, after New York Commissioner William A. Shea.

1965 - The Gateway Arch (630ft/192m high), St. Louis, Missouri, was completed. Construction had begun Feb 29, 1964.

1973 - Secretariat raced into history by winning the Canadian International Stakes in Toronto. It was the last race won ... and run ... by the magnificent thoroughbred.

1974 - Rhoda Morgenstern made TV history as she married Joe Girard on Rhoda on CBS. The show was a spin-off from the hugely successful The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

1978 - Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City was the number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The hit was a track from Gilder’s City Nights album.

1980 - Annette Funicello, Cubby O’Brien, Tommy Cole, Sherry Alberoni and Dickie Dodd joined other Mouseketeers wearing black ears and white shirts on a sound stage in Burbank, CA. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Mickey Mouse Club. While we’re celebrating the Mickey Mouse Club, do you remember the five special events each week? There was Fun with Music Day on Monday, Guest Star Day on Tuesday, Anything Can Happen Day on Wednesday, Circus Day on Thursday and Talent Roundup Day on Friday. “Y? Because we LIKE you!”

1981 - Game 6 of the World Series saw the Los Angeles Dodgers storm back, winning their forth straight game (9-2), and the championship, after having been down two games to none to the New York Yankees. Rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela started the Dodger comeback, and batters Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, Steve Garvey, and Steve Yeager took them the rest of the way. There had been genuine concern that snow might interfere with the Fall Classic since it was being played so late in the season in New York City. And we worry about that every year that there’s a World Series game in a northern city...

1986 - In the Neiman-Marcus catalogue this day, the store offered, as a unique holiday gift, a 100-year subscription to The Wall Street Journal -- for just $6,000. That was a $5,400 saving over the regular 100-year rate!

1989 - The Oakland Athletics beat the San Francisco Giants 9-6 to complete a four-game sweep of the World Series, the first World Series sweep since 1976. The A’s scored first in every game and never lost the lead once. Oakland pitcher Dave Stewart pitched two games, won two games, struck out fourteen hitters in sixteen innings, had an earned run average of 1.69 and was named MVP. The Series will be remembered not not only for the A’s dominance, but but for the earthquake before game three that killed sixty- seven people in the San Francisco Bay area.

1995 - Atlanta Braves right fielder David Justice broke a scoreless tie with the Cleveland Indians. It was a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth in in Game 6 of the World Series, and it was all the Braves would need. Pitcher/Series MVP Tom Glavine allowed just one hit in eight innings, and Mark Wohlers pitched a perfect ninth to seal the championship, the first in Atlanta’s history.

Birthdays
October 28th.

1466 - Desiderius Erasmus (Gerhard Gerhards)
scholar, author: Encomium Moriae [In Praise of Folly]; died July 12, 1536

1842 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, orator, author: ‘American Joan of Arc’; died Oct 22, 1932

1846 - Auguste Escoffier
‘King of Chefs and Chef of Kings’: invented Peach Melba; Legion d’Honneur: contribution to international reputation of French cuisine; died Feb 12, 1935

1896 - Howard Hanson
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Symphony No. 4 [1944]; George Foster Peabody Award [1946]; Laurel Leaf of the American Composers Alliance [1957]; Huntington Hartford Foundation Award [1959]; Priz de Rome [1921]; president: Eastman School of Music; died Feb 26, 1981

1897 - Edith Head
Academy Award-winning costume designer: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1973; died Oct 24, 1981

1902 - Elsa Lanchester (Elizabeth Sullivan)
actress: Come to the Stable, Witness for the Prosecution, The Bride of Frankenstein, Nanny and the Professor, The John Forsythe Show; wife of actor Charles Laughton; died Dec 26, 1986

1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk
medical researcher: Salk polio vaccine; AIDS research; died June 23, 1995

1915 - Dody Goodman
comedienne, actress: Forever Fernwood, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Jack Paar Show, Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes; TV panelist: Liar’s Club

1926 - Bowie Kuhn
attorney; baseball commissioner [1969-1984]

1929 - Joan Plowright
actress: Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April, The Merchant of Venice, Equus, The Entertainer; wife of actor Lord Lawrence Olivier

1930 - Bruce Morton
Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: Reports from the Lt. Calley Trial [1970-71]; CNN

1932 - Suzy Parker (Cecelia Anne Renee Parker)
model, actress: The Interns, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick, Funny Face; died May 3, 2003

1934 - Jim Beatty
National Track & Field Hall of Famer: LA Track Club distance runner; Sullivan Award-winner [1962]: AAU indoor-mile champion [1961-63]: 1st person to run an indoor mile under 4 minutes [3:59.9]

1936 - Charlie Daniels
CMA Award-winning musician [1979]: guitar, fiddle; singer: group: Charlie Daniels Band: The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Uneasy Rider, Still in Saigon; in film: Urban Cowboy

1937 - Lenny Wilkens
Basketball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers; player/coach: Seattle Supersonics: 1979 NBA championship, Portland Trail Blazers; VP/General Mgr.: Seattle Supersonics; coach: Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks

1939 - Jane Alexander (Quigley)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Playing for Time [1980-81]; Kramer vs. Kramer, The Great White Hope, All the President’s Men, Eleanor & Franklin; chairperson: National Endowment for the Arts

1941 - Curtis Lee
singer: Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Under the Moon of Love

1941 - Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin)
musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

1942 - Michael (John) Crichton
writer: Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man, Disclosure, The Great Impostor, The Secret of Canta Victoria, Congo; director: Runaway, Coma, Westworld, The Great Train Robbery

1944 - Dennis Franz (Schlachta)
Emmy Award-winning actor: N.Y.P.D. Blue [1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1998-1999]; Nasty Boys, Hill Street Blues, Chicago Story, Beverly Hills Buntz, The Bay City Blues, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Body Double, Psycho 2, Dressed to Kill

1945 - Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis)
singer: group: The Mindbenders: Game of Love, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um; solo: Come on Home, Pamela Pamela

1948 - Telma Hopkins
singer: group: Dawn: Candida, Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; actress: A New Kind of Family, Getting By, Family Matters, Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break, Tony Orlando and Dawn

1948 - Rick Reynolds
musician: guitar: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Memories at the Window, Jim Dandy to the Rescue

1949 - Bruce (William) Jenner
National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: decathlon winner [1976]; AP Athlete of the Year, Sullivan Award-winner [1976]; sportscaster; Wheaties box star

1952 - Annie Potts
actress: Designing Women, Love & War, Goodtime Girls, Breaking the Rules, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ghost Busters series

1955 - Bill Gates (William H. Gates)
computer software mogul, richest man the the world, president and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation

1960 - Mark Derwin
actor: The Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless

1962 - Daphne Zuniga
actress: The Sure Thing, Melrose Place, Modern Girls, Spaceballs, Last Rites, Gross Anatomy, The Fly II, Staying Together, Degree of Guilt, Stories from My Childhood

1963 - Lauren Holly
actress: Dumb & Dumber, All My Children, A Smile Like Yours, Picket Fences, Down Periscope, Chicago Hope, Any Given Sunday, What Women Want

1964 - Paul Wylie
Olympic medalist: figure skating

1965 - Jami Gertz
actress: Square Pegs, Sibs, The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Sixteen Candles, Alphabet City

1967 - Julia Roberts
Academy Award-winning actress: Erin Brockovich [2000]; Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Dying Young, Hook, The Pelican Brief, I Love Trouble, Mary Reilly, Blood Red, Flatliners, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Conspiracy Theory, Runaway Bride, Ocean’s Eleven

1974 - Joaquin Phoenix
actor: Parenthood, SpaceCamp, Russkies, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Walking the Dog, Return to Paradise, Clay Pigeons, 8MM, Gladiator, Buffalo Soldiers

1978 - Lauren Woodland
actress: Alien Nation, Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up, Sunset Beach, Port Charles, Undressed, The Young and the Restless

Chart Toppers
October 28th.

1944 I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
The Trolley Song - Judy Garland
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley

1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams

1960 I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Devil or Angel - Bobby Vee ;)
Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold

1976 If You Leave Me Now -Chicago
Still the One - Orleans
Rock’n Me - Steve Miller ;)
You and Me - Tammy Wynette

1984 I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Hard Habit to Break - Chicago
If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) -
Alabama


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302nd day of 2007 - 63 remaining.

Monday, October 29, 2007
DEPRESSION DAY.

Over 16 million shares were traded in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange and thousands of investors were wiped out on this day in 1929. Prices plummeted, millions lost billions, and the buying boom was over.

The market crashed. It had been preceded, by four days, with a speech by the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover, in which he said, “The fundamental business of the country ... is on a sound and prosperous basis.”

The Great Depression was longer and harsher than previous depressions, which had seen an upturn in business activity after one or two years. But, from October, 1929 until Franklin D. Rooselvelt became President in March, 1933, the economy just went from bad to worse on an almost monthly basis. Banks, factories and stores failed and unemployment soared. Millions of people lost their jobs, savings and homes.

Astrologer Evangeline Adams saw into the future and predicted the crash - along with other events that actually occurred, like Lindbergh’s flight - but didn’t listen to her own predictions. She lost $100,000.

The Great Depression was depressing, indeed!
More reading here. (http://www.variety.com/) Here. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html) And here. (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/10/sprj.80.1929.crash/)

Events
October 29th.

1930 - The tune, It Must Be True, was recorded on Victor by Bing Crosby, who sang with Gus Arnheim and his orchestra.

1945 - The first commercially-made ballpoint pens went on sale -- at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens sold for $12.50 and racked up a tidy profit of $500,000 in the first month!

1948 - Sandy Saddler surprised the boxing world by knocking out Willie Pep in the fourth round to win the world featherweight boxing title in New York City.

1956 - John Cameron Swayze and The Camel News Caravan were replaced by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC-TV. The Huntley-Brinkley Report clicked so well that the respected newsmen reported nightly until July of 1970. “Good night Chet. Good night David. And good night from NBC News.”

1958 - Russian poet Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was forced to decline the honor because of protests in his home country.

1960 - Cassius Clay won his first pro bout -- over Tunney Hunsaker -- in six rounds in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Hunsaker was never heard from again, but we heard a great deal from Clay, including, “I am the greatest!”

1961 - The top, pop song on the charts belonged to Dion (DiMucci). Runaround Sue was in its second week at the tiptop of the top-tune tabulation (it was in the top 40 for three months).

1963 - Veteran actor Adolphe Menjou died at the age of 73.

1964 - The largest star sapphire in the world, the Star of India, was stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Fortunately, the gem was later found, unharmed.

1966 - The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed.

1970 - Neil Diamond received a nice package: a gold record for the hit, Cracklin’ Rosie.

1973 - O.J. Simpson set two NFL records this day. The Buffalo Bills’ star running back ran 39 times for 157 yards -- and he rushed for a total of over 1,000 yards in only seven games.

1981 - Loretta Lynn received a gold record for her album, Greatest Hits, Vol. 2.

1983 - After four weeks at #1 on the pop music charts, Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart slipped to #2 -- replaced by Islands in the Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.

1983 - Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. The previous champ had been Johnny’s Greatest Hits, by Johnny Mathis (490 weeks: April 1958-July 1968). Dark Side of the Moon stayed on the chart for 724 consecutive weeks (740 weeks altogether) and didn’t drop off until July 13, 1988. Michael Jackson’s Thriller sold the most copies ever -- 40 million -- but it spent ‘only’ 122 weeks on the album chart.

1984 - Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title; the most won by any golfer since the award was first given in 1948. Jack Nicklaus had accumulated five of those titles.

1998 - Hurricane Mitch (Oct 22-Nov 4, 1998), one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever, made landfall, slamming into Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and other Central American countries. The real story was not the wind but the rain. Slow movement of the storm caused heavy rain, resulting in widespread flooding and mudslides. Over 10,000 people were killed, another 10,000 were missing, and some two million people were affected in some way by the storm.

1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off, returning 77-year-old U.S. Senator John Glenn to space some 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. Glenn was part of a crew of seven astronauts shepherding scientific payloads on the shuttle mission.

1999 - U.S. motion pictures opening this day: Being John Malkovich, with John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and Orson Bean; House on Haunted Hill, starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen Taye Diggs, Bridgette Wilson and Peter Gallagher; Music of the Heart, with Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett and Gloria Estefan; and Princess Mononoke, with Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Billy Bob Thornton and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Birthdays
October 29th.

1740 - James Boswell
author: biographer: Life of Samuel Johnson; died May 19, 1795

1815 - Daniel Decatur Emmett
composer: Dixie [Dixie’s Land]; died June 28, 1904

1891 - Fanny Brice (Borach)
actress: Ziegfeld Follies; comedienne: Baby Snooks; subject of film: Funny Girl; died May 29, 1951

1899 - Akim Tamiroff
actor: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anastasia, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Hotel Paradiso, Lord Jim, The Story of Louis Pasteur; died Sep 17, 1972

1907 - (Robert) Douglass Montgomery
actor: Little Women, Harmony Lane; died July 23, 1966

1921 - Bill Mauldin
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist: [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie

1922 - Neal Hefti
composer: TV’s Batman theme, The Odd Couple theme; score: Sex and the Single Girl; Neal Hefti and His Orchestra: The Kate Smith Show

1925 - Zoot (John Haley) Sims
musician: tenor/alto sax: groups: Benny Goodman Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Birdland All-Stars, Jazz at Carnegie Hall; died Mar 23, 1985

1926 - Jon Vickers
singer: opera tenor

1932 - Dick Garmaker
basketball: Univ. of Minnesota; NBA: Minneapolis Lakers

1937 - Sonny Osborne
musician: 5-string banjo, singer: baritone: group: Osborne Brothers: Up this Hill and Down, Rocky Top, Tennessee Hound Dog, Georgia Pinewoods

1938 - Ralph Bakshi
writer, director, animator: Hey Good Lookin’, Heavy Traffic, Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Streetfight; director, animator: The Lord of the Rings; writer, director: Fire and Ice; director: Cool World

1939 - Pete (Peter Gerard) Richert
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Washington Senators [all-star: 1965, 1966], Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969, 1970, 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, SL Cardinals

1941 - Andy Russell
football: Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker: Super Bowl IX, X

1944 - Denny Laine (Brian Hines)
musician: guitar, singer: groups: The Moody Blues: Go Now; Wings: My Love, Live & Let Die, Helen Wheels, Jet, Band on the Run

1945 - Melba Moore
singer: You Stepped into My Life; actress: The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show

1946 - Peter Green
musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Man of the World; solo: LP: The End of the Game

1947 - Richard Dreyfuss
Academy Award-winning actor: The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford; TV narrator: American Chronicles

1948 - Kate Jackson
actress: Charlie’s Angels, The Rookies, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Baby Boom, Killer Bees, Satan’s School for Girls, Loverboy

1950 - Ed Dyck
hockey: NHL: Vancouver Canucks

1953 - Denis Potvin
hockey: NHL: NY Islanders: shares record for most goals scored by a defenseman in a playoff game [3]: Islanders vs. Edmonton Oilers [4/17/1981]

1955 - Kevin Dubrow
singer: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head [Metal Health], Skweeze Me Pleeze Me

1955 - John (Thomas) Smith
football: NE Patriots

1959 - Jesse (Lee) Barfield
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1986/Gold Glove: 1986, 1987], NY Yankees

1960 - Michael Carter
football: San Francisco 49ers tackle: Super Bowl XIX, XXIII, XXIV

1961 - Randy (Steven Randall) Jackson
singer: group: The Jackson Five: I’ll be There; brother of Michael, La Toya, Janet, Jermaine, Tito, etc.

1967 - Joely Fisher
actress: I’ll Do Anything, The Mask, In the Loop, Inspector Gadget, Nostradamus, Normal, Ohio, Danny

1971 - Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz)
actress: Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas

Chart Toppers
October 29th.

1945 I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - Dick Haymes
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle

1953 You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
No Other Love - Perry Como
Oh - Pee Wee Hunt
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters

1961 Runaround Sue - Dion
Bristol Stomp - The Dovells ;)
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke

1969 I Can’t Get Next to You - The Temptations
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone ;)
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette

1977 You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
That’s Rock ’n’ Roll - Shaun Cassidy
Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls

1985 Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston
Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Touch a Hand, Make a Friend - The Oak Ridge Boys


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.

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303rd day of 2007 - 62 remaining.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
WAR OF THE WORLDS DAY. :)

Folks throughout the United States were pretty skittish on this night in 1938. Maybe they just wanted to believe that the world was going to come to an end. Nobody ever found out why thousands of people believed the science-fiction drama that was played out over the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his famous dramatization of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds on CBS’s Mercury Theater at 8 p.m. The show was set up as a music program interrupted by news bulletins saying that Martians had landed near Princeton, New Jersey. Though a disclaimer was broadcast several times throughout the hourlong program, most people did not pay attention to the explanation telling them that the story was fictional and a radio fabrication. Even the newspaper program guides printed the warning. But thousands paid no attention.

Some folks, in fact, got pretty desperate when they heard the ‘news’ that the world was coming to an end. They rushed out of their homes with handkerchiefs covering their mouths to guard against Martian gas. They clogged phone lines, caused traffic jams and checked into hospitals in shock.

In just one hour, Orson Welles panicked the majority of the populace with his version of War of the Worlds.
To boldly go. (http://www.otr.com/sf.html) War of the worlds. (http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/Radio/)

Events
October 30th.

1925 - If you put everything into it except the kitchen sink, you’d have the TV transmitter that beamed TV to London for the first time. To build the transmitter, John Baird used a tea chest, a biscuit box, darning needles, piano wire, motorcycle lamp lenses, old electric motors, cardboard scanning discs and glue, string and sealing wax.

1929 - It was announced that John D. Rockefeller was buying sound, common stocks to help stem the massive sell-off going on at the New York Stock Exchange. It didn’t help. More than 10.7 million shares had been dumped the previous day and the market was in a free fall. The Great Depression was on and not even a Rockefeller could stop it.

1941 - The song that would become the theme of bandleader Tony Pastor was recorded. It was Blossoms on the Bluebird label. If you don’t remember Blossoms, maybe you remember this one by Pastor: Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking).

1952 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer, missionary surgeon and founder of Lambaréné leper Hospital in République du Gabon, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. Schweitzer donated his prize to the hospital.

1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his contributions to the economic rehabilitation of Europe after WWII, the so-called Marshall Plan.

1958 - Most of us remember the quiz show, Concentration, as being on the daytime TV lineup [August 1958-March 1973]. But on this night it appeared on our TV screens at 8:30 p.m. "Concentration" was a temporary replacement for Twenty-One, which had been canceled suddenly because of the quiz show scandals of the time. Jack Barry was brought over from the Twenty-One set to host Concentration for its four-week nighttime run.

1964 - Roy Orbison went gold with his hit single, Oh, Pretty Woman.

1972 - A command performance was given for the Queen of England by Elton John.

1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the 8th round at Kinshasa, Zaire, in the first heavyweight championship fight ever held in Africa. Ali was named fighter of the year by Ring magazine.

1975 - The New York Daily News headlined, “Ford to City: Drop Dead”, following President Gerald Ford’s initial decision to veto any proposed federal funding for the city of New York (then on the brink of fiscal collapse). Ford later recanted and supported the Big-Apple bailout.

1976 - The group, Chicago, started its second (and final) week at number one on the pop singles charts with, If You Leave Me Now. The hottest LP was Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life. The album was number one for a total of 14 weeks.

1984 - Barry Manilow opened at Radio City Music Hall, New York. His concerts sold out to the tune of $1.9 million, besting (by $100,000) the record set by Diana Ross.

1984 - Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, aka The Blues Brothers (Jake and Elwood), hit the two-million-dollar sales mark with their LP, Briefcase Full of Blues.

1986 - Discover magazine reported that almost 43 million tons of dust settle on the United States each year.

1990 - Workers digging the rail tunnel under the English Channel linked up between England and France at a point forty meters beneath the seabed. The Chunnel, connecting Folkestone, England, with Calais, France, opened for traffic in May 1994.

1993 - Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II - Back Into Hell was the #1 album in the U.S. One of the album’s singles, I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That, hit #1 in twenty-five countries. Meat Loaf (his real name is Marvin Lee Aday) did a 215-show tour to promote the album.

1998 - Movies opening in the U.S.:John Carpenter’s Vampires, starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin and Sheryl Lee; and Living Out Loud, with Holly Hunter, Danny Devito and Queen Latifah.

Birthdays
October 30th.

1735 - John Adams
2nd U.S. President [1797-1801], 1st Vice President; married to Abigail Smith [two sons, three daughters]; nickname: Atlas of Independence; father of John Quincy Adams [6th U.S. President]; died July 4, 1826

1751 - Richard Sheridan
playwright: The Critic, School for Scandal, The Rivals; died July 7, 1816

1839 - Alfred Sisley
artist: impressionist: The Bridge at Hampton Court, View of Montmarte, Misty Morning, Snow at Louveciennes, The Rest by the Stream, The Church at Moret; died Jan 29, 1899

1882 - William ‘Bull’ (Frederick) Halsey Jr.
U.S. Naval Commander and Admiral: WWII: South Pacific arena; his flagship: USS Missouri; died Aug 16, 1959

1885 - Ezra Pound
poet: Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, The Pisan Cantos; died Nov 1, 1972

1893 - Charles Atlas (Angelo Siciliano)
bodybuilder: 97-lb. weakling who had sand kicked in his face advertisement; died Dec 24, 1972

1896 - Ruth Gordon (Jones)
Academy Award-winning actress: Rosemary’s Baby [1968]; Every Which Way But Loose, Harold and Maude; screenplay writer [w/Garson Kanin]: Adam’s Rib; Emmy Award-winning actress: Taxi: Sugar Mama [Jan 16, 1979]; died Aug 28, 1985

1906 - Sue Carol (Evelyn Lederer)
actress: The Lone Star Ranger, Walking Back, Captain Swagger; talent agent: discovered Alan Ladd [who became her fourth husband in 1942]; died Feb 4, 1982

1912 - Gordon Parks
photographer: Vogue, LIFE magazines, "He turned his rage against racism into a creative force."; author: To Smile in Autumn: A Memoir, Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective; poet, filmmaker, novelist, composer

1914 - Ruth Hussey (O’Rourke)
actress: Stars and Stripes Forever, Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story, Madame X, Another Thin Man; died Apr 19, 2005

1915 - Fred Friendly
broadcast journalist; TV producer: CBS, PBS; died Mar 3, 1998

1917 - Bobby (Robert Randall) ‘Nig’ Bragan
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1947]

1927 - Joe (Joseph Wilbur) Ad****
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Braves [record for total bases in a game: 18, 4 home runs, 1 double: 7/31/54/World Series: 1957, 1958/all-star: 1960], Cleveland Indians, LA Angels, California Angels; died May 3, 1999

1930 - Nestor Almendros
cinematographer: New York Stories, Places in the Heart, Sophie’s Choice, The Blue Lagoon, Kramer vs. Kramer, Love on the Run, The Green Room, Madame Rosa, ****fighter, Six in Paris; died Mar 4, 1992

1932 - Louis Malle
director: Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Aurevoir Les Enfants, Goodbye Children, Crackers, The Fire Within; died Nov 23, 1995

1935 - Jim (James Evan) Perry
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1961], Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1965/all-star: 1970, 1971/Cy Young Award-winner: 1970]], Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics

1937 - Richard Gautier
actor: Here We Go Again, Bye Bye Birdie, When Things Were Rotten, Mr. Terrific; panelist: Liar’s Club, Here We Go Again, Get Smart

1937 - Claude Lelouch
Academy Award-winning director: A Man and a Woman [1966]; Bolero, Another Man, Another Chance

1939 - Eddie Holland
songwriter: writing team: Holland-Dozier-Holland: Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, I Hear a Symphony, You Keep Me Hangin’ On, Reach Out, I’ll Be There; team inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]); singer: Jamie

1939 - Grace Slick (Wing)
singer: group: Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Rejoice, Miracles, Count on Me, Runaway, We Built This City, Sara

1940 - Ed Lauter
actor: Rattled, Mulholland Falls, Trial by Jury, Extreme Justice, Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise, Youngblood, Death Wish, Lassiter, In the Custody of Strangers, Death Hunt, King Kong, Fat Man and Little Boy, The Longest Yard, Stephen King’s Golden Years, B.J. and the Bear

1941 - Jim Ray Hart
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1966], NY Yankees

1941 - Otis Williams
singer: group: The Temptations: I Can’t Get Next to You, Cloud Nine, Runaway Child, Running Wild, Just My Imagination, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Masquerade

1943 - Joanna Shimkus
actress: The Virgin and the Gypsy, Les Aventuriers, Six in Paris

1945 - Henry Winkler
actor: Happy Days, An American Christmas Carol, The Lords of Flatbush; TV coproducer: MacGyver; director: Cop and a Half, Memories of Me, A Smokey Mountain Christmas

1946 - Glen Combs
basketball: Dallas/Texas Chaparrals

1947 - Timothy B. Schmit
musician: bass guitar, singer: group: Poco: Crazy Love, Heart of the Night; Eagles: Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight, The Long Run, I Can’t Tell You Why

1948 - J.D. Hill
football: Arizona State, Buffalo Bills WR

1950 - Phil Chenier
basketball: Washington Bullets

1950 - Levi Johnson
football: Detroit Lions

1951 - Greg Gantt
football: NY Jets punter

1951 - Harry Hamlin
actor: L.A. Law, Studs Lonigan, Laguna Heat, Clash of the Titans, Dinner at Eight, Murder So Sweet, Under Investigation, Save Me

1953 - Charles Martin Smith
actor: The Road Home, Speechless, And the Band Played On, The Untouchables, Starman, Herbie Goes Bananas, The Buddy Holly Story, American Graffiti, Fuzz, Culpepper Cattle Co.; actor, director: Fifty/Fifty; director: Boris and Natasha: The Movie, Trick or Treat

1960 - Diego Maradona
soccer: Argentina: individual record for most games played in the finals [21: 1982-1994]

Chart Toppers
October 30th.

1946 Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Rumors are Flying - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis

1954 Hey There - Rosemary Clooney
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
Smile - Nat King Cole
More and More - Webb Pierce

1962 Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket
He’s a Rebel - The Crystals ;)
Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson

1970 I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Run, Woman, Run - Tammy Wynette

1978 Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
Reminiscing - Little River Band
Let’s Take the Long Way Around the World - Ronnie Milsap

1986 True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Typical Male - Tina Turner
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
Cry - Crystal Gayle


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
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Thanks for your understanding. :)

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304th day of 2007 - 61 remaining.
Part 1 of 2.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
HOUDINI DAY.

This is the day to keep some tricks up your sleeve, much like the famous magician, illusionist and escape artist, Harry Houdini.

Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss), the greatest escape artist in history, always managed to find his way out of handcuffs, straitjackets, padlocked boxes, even a Scotland Yard jail cell. He could walk through walls, make an elephant disappear, and escape from the Water Torture Cell (suspended headfirst into a tank of water with his ankles locked in stocks). However, Harry Houdini was unable to escape fate.

His fatal destiny began on October 22, 1926 while Houdini was performing at the Princess Theater in Montreal, Canada. As he relaxed on a couch in his dressing room at the theater, Houdini was visited by a student athlete from Montreal’s McGill University. The young man asked Houdini if it was true that he could actually withstand punches to the stomach. Houdini replied in the affirmative, but before he could prepare himself for the stunt by tightening his stomach muscles, the student punched the magician several times in his mid-section.

Houdini performed that night and several more, then headed for Detroit where he did one show, then collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. At the time, it was assumed that his appendix had been ruptured by the blows from the student. Current medical knowledge leads experts to believe that Houdini already had appendicitis and only thought that the blows to his stomach were the cause of his pain.

Harry Houdini died on this day in 1926, of peritonitis. Magicians and mediums throughout the world still gather on this night, Halloween, to honor the Great Houdini.

Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve), an ancient celebration dating back to the sixth or seventh centuries, is a rather fitting time for this memorial celebration. Harry Houdini was not only a magician but one who devoted much of his time to exposing fake mediums (in fact, he was not only performing in Montreal at the time of his death, but was also in the city as a guest lecturer at McGill University. The subject of his lecture: Exposing spiritualism.) His spirit still lives on this, the holiday which combines the Druid autumn festival and the Christian celebration of Hallowtide, long associated with witches, ghosts, devils, spirits, magic ... and all scary things that go bump in the night.
HOUDINI. (http://www.geocities.com/~houdinitribute/) Click.[/URL [URL=http://www.magictricks.com/houdini/bio.htm]Click. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini) Click. (http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/halloween.html) And click. (http://forums.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?category=people&id=138) :D

Events
October 31st.

1846 - The Donner party became trapped in what is now known as Donner Pass in the Sierra Mountains. The next day they began building their winter camp at Truckee (now Donner) Lake, having failed to get through the snow-filled pass...

1864 -- When conjuring up a mental image of Nevada, which entered the United States of America on this day, snow is not usually in the picture. Yet, the 36th state garnered its name from the Spanish word meaning ‘snowy’. The founding fathers must have spent a lot of time in the northern and central regions near the capital city of Carson City, and in one of today’s gambling meccas, Reno. The Silver State is also known as the entertainment and gambling capital of the United States. Nevada is the most arid state in the Union which explains why sagebrush is the state flower. The mountain bluebird, the state bird, flies over Nevada’s mountainous terrain.

1868 - Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.

1903 - The Cleveland Theatre in Chicago welcomed the youngest member of the Barrymore family to the acting fold. Young John Barrymore made his stage debut in Magda.

1930 - In a rare recording, William ‘Count’ Basie sang with Bennie Moten’s orchestra, Somebody Stole My Gal, on Victor.

1941 - Mount Rushmore was ‘completed’ this day. Actually, the money ran out. Work on the monument, honoring Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, had begun August 10, 1927. It was dedicated March 3, 1933 although work continued. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum died in 1941 and his son, Lincoln, continued the project until funds ran out on this day. Since then , no additional carving has been done, nor is any further work (other than maintenance) on the memorial planned.

1942 - One of the great wartime radio shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to the Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the wartime programs.

1953 - NBC televised Carmen on Opera Theatre -- in living color. It was the first major opera televised in anything other than black and white.

1955 - Princess Margaret (Rose) of England announced that she would not be marrying her love, Captain Peter Townsend. The entire world had been waiting for weeks, speculating about whether the sister of the Queen would marry a commoner.

1956 - George J. Dufek of Admiral Robert Byrd’s expedition party became the first American to land by air at the South Pole.

1961 - The body of Joseph Stalin was removed from public display (in Stalin’s Tomb). The longtime dictator of the former Soviet Union was reburied in a simple grave. This incident was the beginning of the USSR’s ‘destalinization’ policy.

1964 - The Supremes Baby Love was the number one single (for four weeks), while Barbra Streisand’s People was #1 on U.S. album charts (for five weeks).

1966 - Mihir Sen of Calcutta, India swam the length of the Panama Canal on this day. Previously, the distance swimmer had conquered the Palk Strait from India to Ceylon, the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Dardanelles.

1972 - Curtis Mayfield received a gold record for Freddie’s Dead from the flick, Superfly.

1984 - Caribbean Queen became a gold record for Billy Ocean. It was Ocean’s second hit song and the only one of his 11 hits to become a million-seller. He would have two other #1 songs and a pair of #2 hits, but none as big as Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run). Billy’s from Trinidad, you know. His real name: Leslie Sebastian Charles.

1984 - India’s Indira Ghandi was assassinated -- by her security guards, two Sikh men. Her position as prime minister was filled by her son, Rajiv.

1997 - Boogie Nights opened in U.S theatres. The film, about how tough life can be in the adult entertainment industry, stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle and Heather Graham. Other debuting movies: Critical Care, with James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft and Albert Brooks; Red Corner, starring Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann and Tsai Chin; Switchback with Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, R. Lee Ermey and William Fichtner.

1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990, en route to Cairo from New York, crashed off the coast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. All 217 people on board died. Some American investigators suspected a relief co-pilot deliberately put the plane into a suicide dive, causing the crash.

Birthdays
October 31st.

1795 - John Keats
poet: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, Endymion: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”, On a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, On Melancholy, To Autumn; died Feb 23, 1821

1860 - Juliette Low
youth group founder: Girl Scouts; died Jan 17, 1927

1887 - Chiang Kai-shek
1st constitutional President of the Republic of China; Chinese army general; died Apr 5, 1975

1896 - Ethel Waters
actress: Beulah, A Member of the Wedding, Cabin in the Sky, Pinky, Mamba’s Daughters, At Home Abroad, Thousands Cheer; singer, actress: Stage Door Canteen, Rhapsody in Black, Blackbirds, Africana; ‘Sweet Mama Stringbean’; died Sep 1, 1977

1912 - Dale Evans (Frances Octavia Smith)
singer, songwriter: Happy Trails to You; actress: The Roy Rogers Show, Roy Rogers movies; wife of ‘King of the Cowboys’ Roy Rogers; died Feb 7, 2001

1920 - Dick Francis
author: Decider, Break-In, Proof, Forfeit, Whip Hand

1920 - Melina Mercouri
actress: Never on Sunday, Once is Not Enough, Topkapi; Greece’s Minister of Culture [1981-1989, 1993-1994]; died Mar 6, 1994

1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes
Emmy Award-winning actress: Dallas [1979-80]; Vertigo, I Remember Mama; died Aug 8, 2005

1922 - Illinois (Battiste) Jacquet
musician: tenor saxophone: Flyin’ Home, I Didn’t Know About You; played with Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Count Basie; in film: Jammin’ the Blues

1924 - Dee (Virgil) Fondy
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Redlegs; died Aug 19, 1999

1927 - Anita Kerr
musician: piano, singer, record producer: group: Anita Kerr Singers: The Sea, The Earth; Mexicali Singers; Anita & Th’ So-And-So’s: Joey Baby; composer: The Sky [w/poet, Rod McKuen and The San Sebastian Strings]

1927 - Lee Grant (Lyova Rosenthal)
Academy Award-winning actress: Shampoo [1975]; Emmy Award-winning actress: Peyton Place [1965-66], World Premiere Monday Night at the Movies: The Neon Ceiling [1970-71]; Fay, Backstairs at the White House, Citizen Cohen, Little Miss Marker, Airport ’77, Voyage of the Damned, Valley of the Dolls, Mod Squad, In the Heat of the Night, The Balcony, The Detective Story

1931 - Michael Collins
NASA astronaut: Apollo 11 command module pilot on first moon landing mission [he remained in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on lunar surface]; author: Apollo 11 - First Moon Landing [Countdown to Space]

1931 - Dan (Irvin) Rather Jr.
Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: The Watergate Affair [1972-73], The Agnew Resignation [10/10/73]; The CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours

1933 - Phil Goyette
hockey: NHL: Montreal Royals, NY Rangers, SL Blues, Buffalo Sabres

1936 - Michael Landon (Eugene Orowitz)
actor: Bonanza, Sam’s Son, The Loneliest Runner, I was a Teenage Werewolf, God’s Little Acre; actor, writer, producer, director: Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven; screen play writer, director: Sam’s Son, Killing Stone; Television Hall of Famer [1996]; died July 1, 1991

1937 - Tom Paxton
folk singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: I Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound, The Last Thing on My Mind, Goin’ to the Zoo, The Willing Conscript, Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation, Leaving London, All the Way Home, Is This Anyway to Run an Airline, Talking Vietnam Pot-Luck Blues, Forest Lawn

1942 - Dave (Arthur) McNally
baseball: pitcher: Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1969, 1970, 1972/World Series: 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971], Montreal Expos; died Dec 1, 2002

1942 - David Ogden Stiers
actor: The Accidental Tourist, Harry’s War, Oh, God!, M*A*S*H, North and South, Doc

1943 - Brian Piccolo
football: Chicago Bears RB; subject of movie: Brian’s Song; died of cancer at age 26 [June 16, 1970]

1944 - Kinky (Richard) Friedman
singer, bandleader: Texas Jewboys: Let Saigons be Bygones, We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You, They Ain’t Making Jews like Jesus Anymore, ******* from El Paso

1944 - Sally Kirkland
actress: Eye of the Stranger, Prime Time Murder, Heat Wave, Anna, Fatal Games, Private Benjamin, A Star is Born, The Way We Were, Cinderella Liberty, Blue

1947 - Frank Shorter
National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: gold medalist: marathon [1972], silver medalist [1976]; Sullivan Award [1972]; founded company: designs & manufactures running apparel; TV sports commentator

1947 - Russ Ballard
singer, songwriter: musician: guitar: group: Argent: Hold Your Head Up; Roulettes, Unit 4+2

1947 - Deidre Hall
actress: Our House, Days of Our Lives

1948 - Mickey (John Milton) Rivers
baseball: California Angels, NY Yankees [World Series: 1976, 1977, 1978/all-star: 1976/holds individual career record for batting average in league championship series: .386 (1976-78): 22 hits in 57 at-bats in 14 games], Texas Rangers

1950 - John (Franklin) Candy
comedian, actor: Second City, The Blues Brothers, Home Alone, JFK, Little Shop of Horrors, National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1941, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, Splash, Stripes, Uncle Buck, Who’s Harry Crumb?; Emmy Award-winning writer: SCTV Network: The Energy Ball/Sweeps Week [1982-83]; died Mar 4, 1994

1950 - Jane Pauley
TV host: Today, Real Life with Jane Pauley; news anchor: NBC Weekend News, Dateline NBC; married to cartoonist, Gary Trudeau

1951 - Dan Spring
hockey: Dallas Black Hawks, Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers, Cranbrook Royals

1952 - Bernard Edwards
musician: bass: group: Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance, Le Freak, Everybody Dance, I Want Your Love, Good Times; died Apr 18, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan: pneumonia: age 43

1952 - Joe West
baseball: umpire

1953 - Lynda Goodfriend
actress: Who’s Watching the Kids, Happy Days, Blansky’s Beauties

1955 - Xavier Roberts
toy mogul: created Cabbage Patch Dolls

1956 - Tony Bowers
musician: bass: group: Simply Red: Money’s Too Tight to Mention, Holding Back the Years, The Right Thing

1961 - Larry Mullen Jr.
Grammy Award-winning musician: drums: LP: The Joshua Tree; group: U2: Another Day, Stories for Boys, I Will Follow, New Year’s Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, With You or Without You

1963 - Johnny Marr
musician: guitar: group: The Smiths: Hand in Glove, This Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, William, It Was Really Nothing, Reel Around the Fountain, Suffer Little Children

1963 - Fred (Frederick Stanley) McGriff
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [1989 AL Home Run Champion], San Diego Padres [all-star: 1992], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1994, 1995, 1996], Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers

1963 - Dermot Mulroney
actor: Longtime Companions, Young Guns, My Best Friend's Wedding

1963 - Rob Schneider
actor: Saturday Night Live, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Beverly Hillbillies, Down Periscope, Men Behaving Badly, The Waterboy, Big Daddy, Muppets From Space

1965 - Annabella Lwin (Myant Aye)
singer: group: Bow Wow Wow: C30, C60, C90, Go!, Wild in the Country, Louis Quatorze

1966 - Adam Horovitz
musician: guitar; rapper: The Beastie Boys; son of playwright Israel Horowitz

1967 - Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle)
singer: Ice Ice Baby; 1st rap singer to have a #1 song on the Billboard singles chart

1969 - Mike O’Malley
actor: Yes, Dear, Deep Impact, Pushing Tin

[ShadowThomas]

Part 2 of 1.


Chart Toppers
October 31st.

1947 Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Perry Como
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams

1955 Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Only You - The Platters
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce

1963 Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs ;)
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens

1971 Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes ;)
How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson

1979 Rise - Herb Alpert
Pop Muzik - M
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
All the Gold in California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers

1987 Bad - Michael Jackson
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Right from the Start - Earl Thomas Conley


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

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305th day of 2007 - 60 remaining.

Thursday, November 1, 2007
FACE MASK DAY.

For as long as ice hockey has been played - since 1855 in North America, and the 16th century in the Netherlands - goalies have been getting their faces smashed by flying hockey pucks.

On this day in 1959, Jacques Plante had had enough! The goalie for the Montreal Canadiens had been hit again and had to have seven more stitches added to his face. This time, however, he returned to the ice wearing a plastic face mask. Plante had made it out of fiberglass and resin. His design was so popular, that goalies throughout the National Hockey League followed suit.

The face mask is now standard issue. Thanks to Jacques Plante, goalies have more teeth and we hardly ever know what they really look like.
More reading on this subject can be read in these links. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Plante) Click (http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?type=Player&mem=P197802&list=ByName#photo) And click. (http://members.aol.com/maskman33/classicnf.html)

Events
November 1st.

1755 - There had been no warning for the people of Lisbon, Portugal when the walls of their beautiful, tall buildings came tumbling down. A powerful ... we don’t know where it stood on the Richter scale ’cause Richter wasn’t born yet ... earthquake, felt across the European continent, rocked the city three times causing destruction of property, fires and a tsunami. Over 60,000 died, most drowning in the enormous tidal wave.

1848 - The first medical school exclusively for women opened its doors -- to twelve students. The Boston Female Medical School was founded by Samuel Gregory. Twenty-six years later, the school merged with Boston University School of Medicine becoming one of the first coed, medical colleges in the world.

1864 - Money orders were sold by the U.S. Post Office as a safe way to make payments by mail.

1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first weather observations. Up to that time, the observations had been the responsibility of the Signal Corps of the U.S. War Department. Take a weather person to lunch today.

1894 - The publication, Billboard Advertising, made it to desks for the first time. The periodical cost 10 cents. A subscription to the weekly magazine currently costs about $250 a year and is known as Billboard, the longtime bible of the radio and music industry.

1913 - Knute Rockne and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame beat Army at West Point, 35-7. Notre Dame had been an unknown in college football. What turned it around was the attention of thousands as Rockne handed Army its first loss of the season, thanks to a new secret weapon: the forward pass.

1937 - The first broadcast of Hilltop House was aired on CBS radio; while on NBC radio, the comic strip character Terry and the Pirates debuted.

1940 - One Night in the Tropics, the first movie for (Bud) Abbott and (Lou) Costello, was released.

1944 - The whimsical tale about an invisible rabbit named Harvey opened in New York City. One year later, the play by Mary Chase won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Movie fans remember the classic film, starring Jimmy Stewart in one of his most famous roles.

1947 - The famous racehorse, Man o’ War, died. His funeral was attended by over 2,500 people. Man o’ War was so famous that, while a stud in retirement, his guest book listed over 2,000,000 names!

1947 - Eddy Arnold began a 21-week run at #1 on U.S. country music charts with I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms). It was the biggest hit of Arnold’s illustrious career.

1950 - The first black man to play in the National Basketball Association hit the hardwood this day. Charles Cooper was in the Boston Celtics lineup for a game played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists attepted to assassinate President Harry S Truman at Blair House, Washington, DC (where the Truman’s were living during a three-year renovation of the White House). One of the gunman and one White House policemen were killed.

1957 - The Mackinac Straits Bridge, between Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas, opened to traffic. At the time, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge -- and is still one of the longest in the world -- at five miles long, with a main span of 3,800 feet/1,158 meters.

1968 - The current movie rating system of G, M, R, X followed by PG-13 and now NC-17, went into effect. The Production Code Administration hands out the ratings.

1968 - George Harrison’s soundtrack LP, Wonderwall, was released. It was the first solo album by one of The Beatles. The album was also the first on the new Apple label.

1969 - Abbey Road, by The Beatles, was #1 on U.S. album charts. Although Let It Be was the last Beatles album of new material to be released, Abbey Road was, in fact, the last album The Beatles recorded. The album, number one for eleven weeks, consisted of: Come Together, Something, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, Octopus’s Garden, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Here Comes the Sun, Because, You Never Give Me Your Money. Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End, Her Majesty.

1969 - And speaking of lasts, Elvis Presley hit number one in the U.S. with Suspicious Minds. It was his first #1 pop single since Good Luck Charm in 1962 and his last #1 pop single.

1971 - The first Eisenhower dollar coins were put into circulation by the U.S. Mint. The coins were minted from 1971 to 1978.

1975 - Elton John’s Island Girl hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song parked itself at the top of the hit heap for 3 weeks.

1985 - Microsoft released Windows 1.01 (on five 360kb 5.25 inch floppy disks). It ran on MS-DOS v5.0 (called MS-DOS Executive in Windows).

1986 - Boston’s Third Stage album hit the big time this day as it became the number one album in the U.S. Memorable (and not so memorable) tracks on the album: Amanda, We’re Ready, The Launch, Cool the Engines, My Destination, A New World, To Be a Man, I Think I Like It, Can’tcha Say, Still in Love, Hollyann.

1987 - Tom Watson won the first Nabisco Championship (later named the Tour Championship) of Golf by two strokes over Chip Beck. Watson scooped up $384,000 in prize money -- the biggest payoff in golf to that day.

1994 - The Chicago Bulls retired Michael Jordan’s uniform (No. 23) and put it on display at the United Center. A sculpture was later commissioned and placed outside the arena with the inscription, “The Best There Ever Was. The Best There Ever Will Be.”

1996 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Bad Moon, starring Micahel Pare, Mariel Hemingway and Mason Gamble; Larger Than Life, with Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo and Matthew Mcconaughey; and William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, with Leonardo Dicaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet.

1998 - Steve Young and Jerry Rice connected for their 80th career touchdown. That TD broke an NFL record, previously held by the Miami duo of Dan Marino and Mark Clayton.

Birthdays
November 1st.

1871 - Stephen Crane
novelist: The Red Badge of Courage; died June 5, 1900

1920 - James J. Kilpatrick
journalist, TV: 60 Minutes: Point-Counterpoint

1926 - Lou Donaldson
musician: alto saxophone: LPs: New Faces New Sounds, The Time is Right, Midnight Sun, Here ’Tis, The Natural Soul, Sweet Lou, Sassy Soul Strut; singer: Whiskey Drinkin’ Woman

1929 - Betsy Palmer (Patricia Bromek)
TV panelist: I’ve Got a Secret, What’s It For, Masquerade Party; TV host: Today; actress: Knots Landing, The Last Angry Man, It Could Happen to Jane, Mr. Roberts, Friday the 13th series; columnist: Chicago Tribune

1935 - Gary Player
World Golf Hall of Famer: British Open champion [1959, 1968, 1974]; Masters [1961, 1974, 1978]; PGA [1962, 1972]; PGA Seniors [1986, 1988, 1990]; U.S. Senior Open [1987, 1988]

1937 - ‘Whispering’ Bill (James) Anderson
songwriter: Still, City Lights, I Missed Me, Happy Birthday to Me; singer: Three Times a Lady, My Life, 8x10; [w/Jan Howard]: For Loving You, If It’s All the Same to You, Someday We’ll Be Together; member of Grand Ole Opry

1939 - Barbara Bosson
actress: Hill Street Blues, Cop Rock, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, Hooperman, The Committee, The Last Starfighter

1940 - Barry Sadler
songwriter, singer: Ballad of the Green Berets; died Nov 5, 1989

1941 - Robert Foxworth
actor: Falcon Crest, Storefront Lawyers, Double Standard, Ants, Frankenstein, Damien: Omen 2

1942 - Larry Flynt
magazine publisher: Hustler

1942 - Marcia Wallace
actress: The Bob Newhart Show, My Mom’s a Werewolf; Emmy Award-winning voice-over: Mrs. Karbappel: The Simpsons [1991-92]

1944 - Chris Morris
musician: guitar: group: Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died

1945 - Rick Grech
musician: bassist, violinist: groups: Family; Blind Faith; Traffic; Crickets; Square Dance Machine

1947 - Ted Hendricks
Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts, Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders: played 215 consecutive games in 15 seasons

1949 - Jeannie Berlin
actress: The Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy’s Complaint, In the Spirit, The Baby Maker

1950 - Dan Peek
musician: guitar, singer: group: America: A Horse with No Name; LPs: Hat Trick, Holiday, Hearts

1951 - Ronald (Kool) Bell
musician: saxophone: group: Kool & The Gang: Ladies Night, Celebration, I.B.M.C.

1957 - Lyle Lovett
Grammy Award-winning singer: Best Male Country Vocal [1989]; Cowboy Man, songwriter: This Old Porch [w/Robert Earl Keen], You Can’t Resist It, Closing Time, If I Had a Boat; actor: Ready to Wear, Short Cuts, The Player

1958 - Rachel Ticotin
actress: The Wharf Rat, Natural Born Killers, Don Juan DeMarco, One Good Cop, Total Recall, Fort Apache, the Bronx, Ohara, For Love and Honor, Crime & Punishment

1959 - Eddie MacDonald
musician: bass: group: The Alarm; Guns, Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke, The Bells of Rhymney

1960 - Fernando (Anguamea) Valenzuela
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers [Rookie of the Year: 1981/Cy Young Award: 1981/World Series: 1981/all-star: 1981-1986]], California Angels, Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies, SD Padres

1963 - Rick Allen
musician: drums: group: Def Leppard: LPs: Hysteria, Adrenalize

1962 - Mags Furuholmen
musician: keyboards, singer: group: a-ha

1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins
musician, singer: LPs [hit singles]: Tongues and Tails [Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover], Whaler [As I Lay Me Down], Timbre [Walking In My Blue Jeans]

1972 - Toni Collette
actress: The Sixth Sense, Muriel’s Wedding, Clockwatchers, Diana & Me, 8½ Women, Shaft [2000]; Broadway: The Wild Party

1972 - Jenny McCarthy
model: Playboy's Playmate of the Year [1994]; hostess of MTV's Singled Out; actress: Silk Stalkings, Baywatch, Wings, Home Improvement, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Diamonds, Scream 3

Chart Toppers
November 1st.

1948 A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold

1956 Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

1964 Baby Love - The Supremes
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers ;)
Let It Be Me - Betty Everett & Jerry Butler
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens

1972 My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Funny Face - Donna Fargo

1980 Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
He’s So Shy - Pointer Sisters
Real Love - The Doobie Brothers
Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys) - Waylon Jennings

1988 Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
Kokomo - The Beach Boys ;)
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
Gonna Take a Lot of River - The Oak Ridge Boys


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
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Thanks for your understanding. :)

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306th day of 2007 - 59 remaining.

Friday, November 2, 2007
SPRUCE GOOSE DAY.

The world’s largest and widest plane ever built -- with a wingspan of 319 feet, 11 inches -- made its only flight on this day in 1947. Its pilot, owner, and designer, Howard Hughes, flew the huge, wooden plane over Long Beach Harbor, California at an altitude of 70 feet. The flight lasted just one minute.

Hughes named the plane Hercules; but it was referred to by most as the Spruce Goose. The $25 million, 200-ton, plywood behemoth was more like a boat than a plane. Actually a seaplane, it contributed to warplane research over the next decade.

The Spruce Goose is now in the Evergreen Aviation Museum near McMinville, Oregon.
More here. (http://www.sprucegoose.org/) Evergreen Aviation Museum. (http://www.sprucegoose.org/museum/history.html)

Events
November 2nd.

1889 - North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union; the first time that two states simultaneously became a part of the United States. President Benjamin Harrison had a problem with admitting the two states on the same day. Which one would be first? He decided it was easier to mix up the admissions papers so no one would know and just list the states alphabetically. That’s why North Dakota is the 39th and South Dakota is the 40th of the United States of America. The Dakotas took their name from the Sioux Indian word for ’ally’, although the settlers and the Sioux weren’t always allies (Battle of Wounded Knee). Those searching for a route to the Pacific Ocean settled in South Dakota, Ft. Pierre being the first permanent white settlement. Pierre remains the capital of South Dakota. Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota. Both states are still essentially rural and agricultural. The western meadowlark and the ring-necked pheasant, the North and South Dakota state birds, respectively, still fly over the vast meadowlands. North Dakota’s flower is the wild prairie rose, while the pasque flower holds that title in South Dakota. North Dakota, home of several major air bases and intercontinental ballistic missile sites, is known as the Peace Garden State, while its more southern counterpart is called the Coyote State.

1929 - Newsreel Theatre opened. The newsreel films were shown at the Embassy Theatre, 1560 Broadway, between 46th and 47th Streets in New York City. This first all-newsreel theatre in the United States also holds the distinction of being the first, and we might add, only movie theater in the U.S. to have had an all-female management and staff (1925). In 1987, the Embassy Theatre was designated as a city landmark, and in 1998 it became Times Square’s Visitor Center.

1931 - Myrt and Marge was heard for the first time -- on CBS radio. The program centered on two chorus girls who competed for the same parts and the same men. The creator and writer (Cliff Thomas wrote some) of the series, Myrtle Vail, also played the role of Myrt; and the original Marge was performed by Vail’s daughter, Donna Fick. Three other performers played the part when Donna died giving birth. Myrt and Marge continued for 11 years.

1931 - The DuPont Company of Wilmington, DE announced the first synthetic rubber. It was known as DuPrene.

1935 - Notre Dame upset the Buckeyes of Ohio State, 18-13. It was their first meeting. A forward pass by Bill Shakespeare helped the Fighting Irish down Ohio State as some 81,000 fans looked on. Sports scribes called it, "The Game of the Century."

1937 - I’d Rather Be Right opened in New York City. The humorous play about the U.S. presidency satirized the high office as it related to Franklin Roosevelt.

1948 - When Harry S Truman went to bed this day, he was losing the election for president of the United States (to Thomas E. Dewey). Chicago Daily Tribune printers were out on strike and getting the newspaper to readers was no simple task. To make a long story short, the editors had to guess at the outcome of the election and picked/printed the wrong person to win. Upon arising the next morning, Truman learned he had won. On a short train stop in St. Louis, he stepped onto the back platform of the train and was presented with one of the newspapers with the infamous headline, “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”. It was at that moment that the famous photo of Truman holding up the paper was taken. When asked to comment, Truman said “This is for the books.”

1955 - The first pop song by Julie London appeared on the charts. London’s smoky and sultry rendition of Cry Me a River stayed on the pop chart for five months, reaching as high as #9. Julie was Mrs. Jack Webb (Dragnet) and Mrs. Bobby Troup (songwriter, trumpeter).

1958 - Billboard magazine introduced a new chart. It ranked the top singles in order, from number 1 to 100. Previously, only 30 records had been on the weekly hit list. It would take Casey Kasem to count ’em down backwards from #40 to #1 years later.

1963 - After giving benefit performances for years, singer Kate Smith presented her first full concert performance to a paying crowd -- at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

1968 - Another biggie for Stevie Wonder went on sale. For Once in My Life reached #2 on the pop charts on December 28, 1968.

1974 - The first of the former Beatles to try a nationwide concert tour was in Los Angeles, appearing at the Forum. Unfortunately, only half the house was filled to see George Harrison. He stopped touring soon thereafter.

1974 - So Far, the album by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, rose to #1 in the U.S. The tracks: Deja Vu, Helplessly Hoping, Wooden Ships, Teach Your Children, Ohio, Find the Cost of Freedom, Woodstock, Our House, Helpless, Guinnevere and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.

1976 - Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was the first president from the Deep South since 1844. Elected this day, Carter was supported by four out of every five African Americans who voted. He also did well with whites in the South and Americans on low incomes. He quickly made good election promises to pardon Vietnam War draft evaders and to end the production of the expensive B-1 bomber. Carter also set out to limit aid to those governments guilty of human rights violations.

1978 - John J. Riccardo, Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, hired Lee A. Iacocca as Chrysler President. Ten months later, Riccardo resigned and Iacocca was elected Chairman (September 20, 1979).

1985 - For only the second time, a TV soundtrack LP topped the album charts. Miami Vice (title track by Jan Hammer) enjoyed a run of eleven weeks. The only other TV soundtrack LP to chart at #1 was Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn in 1959. The remainder of the top-five albums of the week: 2)-Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits; 3)-Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston; 4)-Scarecrow by John Cougar Mellencamp; 5)-Songs from the Big Chair by Tears For Fears.

1986 - A record price for a poison apple was paid in New York City. The 12-by-16-inch celluloid, from Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was purchased for $30,800.

1990 - The Prince film, Graffiti Bridge opened. Prince starred in the flick, wrote and directed it.

1991 - Karyn White’s Romantic hit #1 for one week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

1997 - Denver QB John Elway reached two milestones this day. (1)He accounted for 276 total yards (in a 30-27 victory over the Seattle Seahawks) for 50,273 yards in his career. He was the third player in NFL history -- after Dan Marino and Fran Tarkenton -- to reach the 50,000 plateau. (2)And with 252 yards passing, Elway moved past Tarkenton into second place in career passing yardage with 47,019, trailing only Marino at that point. (All this during a 30-27 victory over the Seattle Seahawks.)

1999 - NBA.com TV, a 24-hour TV network, was launched by the National Basketball Association. Commissioner David J. Stern said, “"NBA.com TV represents the convergence of the Internet, television and basketball. By combining the immediacy and depth of information from NBA.com with current and historical television programming from the NBA, NBA.com TV will offer our fans complete, round-the-clock coverage of the league."



Birthdays
November 2nd.

1734 - Daniel Boone
frontiersman, explorer; captured and adopted by Shawnee Indians as Big Turtle; captured by British; died Sep 26, 1820

1795 - James (Knox) Polk
11th U.S. President [1845-1849]; Speaker of the House of Representatives, U.S. Congress; married to Sandra Childress [no children]; nickname: Young Hickory; died June 15, 1849

1865 - Warren G. (Gamaliel) Harding
29th U.S. President [1921-1923]; former newspaperman and senator from Ohio; first president to speak on radio; married to Florence De Wolfe [no children]; died Aug 2, 1923

1913 - Burt Lancaster
Academy Award-winning actor: Elmer Gantry, [1960]; Trapeze, From Here to Eternity, The Bird Man of Alcatraz, The Unforgiven, Atlantic City, Local Hero, Field of Dreams, The Phantom of the Opera, The Rainmaker, The Rose Tattoo, Scorpio, Tough Guys, Airport, Come Back Little Sheba, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg; circus acrobat; died Oct 20, 1994

1914 - Johnny (John Samuel) Vander Meer
‘Double No-Hit’, ‘The Dutch Master’: baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [only pitcher w/two consecutive no-hitters [1937]/all-star: 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943/World Series: 1940], Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians; died Oct 6, 1997

1920 - Ann Rutherford
actress: Andy Hardy series, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Gone with the Wind; TV panelist: Leave It to the Girls

1926 - Charlie Walker
singer: Pick Me Up on Your Way Down, Don’t Squeeze My Sharmon

1937 - Earl ‘Speedoo’ Carroll
singer: groups: Carnations; Cadillacs: Speedoo, Peek-A-Boo; Coasters: Let’s Go Get Stoned

1938 - Jay Black (David Blatt)
singer: group: Jay and The Americans: Only in America, Come a Little Bit Closer, This Magic Moment

1938 - Pat Buchanan (Patrick Joseph Buchanan)
outspoken conservative, speechwriter, political advisor

1940 - Jim Bakken
football: St. Louis Cardinals kicker: holds NFL Individual record: filed goals kicked in a game [7 - 9/24/67]

1941 - Brian Poole
singer: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes: Twist & Shout, Do You Love Me, Someone Someone

1941 - Dave Stockton
golf: PGA champ [1970]

1941 - Bruce Welch (Cripps)
musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper

1942 - Shere Hite (Shirley Gregory)
author: The Hite Report, Women and Love, Sexual Honesty: By Women for Women, A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

1942 - Stefanie Powers (Stefania Zofia Federkiewcz)
actress: Hart to Hart, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Feather and Father Gang, McClintock!, Die! Die! My Darling, Herbie Rides Again, The Interns

1944 - Keith Emerson
musician: keyboards: groups: Emerson, Lake & Powell; Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man, From the Beginning; solo Tonk Train Blues; film scores: The Inferno, Nighthawks

1952 - Maxine Nightingale
singer: Lead Me On; actress: Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell; Right Back Where We Started From

1961 - K.D. (Kathryn Dawn) Lang
singer: LPs: Angel with a Lariat, Shadowland, Absolute Torch and Twang, Ingenue, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, All You Can Eat, Drag, Invincible Summer, Live by Request

1963 - Bobby Dall (Robert Harry Kuykendall)
musician: guitar: group: poison: Every Rose Has It’s Thorn, Something to Believe In, Fallen Angel, Ride the Wind, Talk Dirty to Me, Nothing But a Good Time, Stand

1966 - David Schwimmer
actor: Friends, The Wonder Years, Breast Men, Band of Brothers

Chart Toppers
November 2nd.

1949 That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack
Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely

1957 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
You Send Me - Sam Cooke ;)
Silhouettes - The Rays
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers

1965 Yesterday - The Beatles
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys ;)
Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright

1973 Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond
We’re Gonna Hold On - George Jones & Tammy Wynette

1981 Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride

1989 Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears
Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
High Cotton - Alabama


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307th day of 2007 - 58 remaining.

Saturday, November 3, 2007
HOW NOW DOW JONES DAY.

The Dow Jones industrial average surged 43.41 points on this day in 1982, marking the greatest single day gain in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. (By today’s standards, fluctuations of several hundred points are not uncommon.)

Most of us are pretty happy to see any of the Dow Jones averages rise without ever giving any thought to how this financial gamble got started.

In 1897, Dow Jones & Company, a financial publishing firm, began to publish an average of the common stock prices of twelve industrial companies. It was simply a daily total of the prices of these stocks divided by 12. Over the years, this system of averaging has become a little more complicated - taking into account the distortion of averages caused by stock splitting, etc.

Computation was expanded to hourly averaging and to include 30 industrial firms. Then four different kinds of averages were included: the industrial; transportation averages (20 transportation companies); utility averages (15 utilities); and an overall average of all of the above.

That’s how it all got started. And now, for the latest Dow Jones averages...
Dow Jones averages. (http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showAverages)

Events
November 3rd.

1892 - The first successful automatic telephone system was introduced in Laporte, IN. Almond Strowger, the inventor, came up with the idea because the non-automatic system made it possible for his customers calls to be intercepted by his competitor. Strowger ran a funeral parlor.

1900 - The first National Automobile Show opened in Madison Square Garden in New York City. A total of 31 car makers put their autoware on display.

1934 - The first race track in California opened under a new parimutuel betting law. Bay Meadows, in San Mateo, is still a favorite of pony players in the Bay Area.

1941 - The classic Jerry Gray arrangement of String of Pearls was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra - on Bluebird 78s. The recording featured the trumpet of Bobby Hackett.

1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time. A supermarket in Chester, New York featured the stuff. It was an invention of a local baker who used the quick-freeze technology developed by Clarence Birdseye (of Birdseye frozen foods fame).

1953 - Nanette Fabray (Shelley’s aunt) starred in the first color TV program to be sent coast to coast. The telecast, from the Colonial Theatre in New York City, was broadcast via WNBT, New York to Burbank, CA.

1953 - The Rules Committee of organized baseball restored the sacrifice fly (credited to a batter who flies out to drive in a run). The rule had not been used since 1939.

1956 - The classic MGM film, The Wizard of Oz, was first seen on television. The film cost CBS $250,000 to show. The movie was shown 18 times between 1956 and 1976, and you can probably catch it again no matter what year it is.

1957 - Sam Phillips, owner of legendary Sun Records in Memphis, TN, released Great Balls of Fire, by Jerry Lee Lewis. Looking carefully at the original label, one will find credit to Lewis and “his pumping piano.”

1960 - The Unsinkable Molly Brown, opened on Broadway. The play would become an American theater standard and a smashing career launch for Shirley MacLaine.

1962 - Billboard magazine dropped the “Western” from its chart title. The list has been known as Hot Country Singles ever since.

1964 - For the first time, residents of the District of Columbia were permitted to vote in a presidential election. The ratification of the 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (in 1961) gave Washington, D.C. citizens the right to vote for President and Vice President of the United States (not for members of Congress, however). Before that (since 1936), D.C. residents had voted only for party officials and delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions.

1972 - Singers Carly Simon and James Taylor were married in Carly’s Manhattan apartment. The couple was said to be the highest-paid couple in the world -- next to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Carly and ‘Sweet Baby’ James would divorce years later, but we hear they are still good friends.

1975 - Actor David Hartman became coanchor of ABC’s Good Morning America. Hartman’s co-host was actress Nancy Dussault.

1979 - The Eagles had the number-one album in the U.S. The Long Run started a nine-week run at the top these tracks to remember: The Long Run, I Can’t Tell You Why, In the City, The Disco Strangler, King Of Hollywood, Heartache Tonight, Those Shoes, Teenage Jail, The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks and The Sad Cafe.

1986 - “The Fight for Fort Knox” was announced this day. ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler and ‘Sugar’ Ray Leonard agreed to duke it out in April, 1987. The two were guaranteed at least $23 million. (Leonard won in a 12-round split decision.)

1990 - Vanilla Ice was number one in the U.S. with the single Ice Ice Baby, from the album To the Extreme. “Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla...”

1992 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (and running-mate Al Gore) easily defeated President George Bush and VP Dan Quayle to win the U.S. presidential election.

1996 - George Foreman won a 12-round unanimous decision over Crawford Grimsley in Tokyo. The aging (actually the oldest heavyweight champ) collected a purse of about $5 million.

2000 - Movies making their first U.S. runs this day: Charlie’s Angels, with Camerin Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu (the angels), Bill Murray and Sam Rockwell ; and The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, J. Michael Moncrief and Bruce Mcgill.

Birthdays
November 3rd.

1718 - John Montague
4th Earl of Sandwich; inventor: the sandwich; England’s 1st Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State of the Northern Dept., Postmaster General; Sandwich Islands [Hawaii] named after him; died Apr 30, 1792

1793 - Stephen Austin
principal founder of Texas; capital city, Austin, named after him; Texas Secretary of State; died Dec 27, 1836

1794 - William Cullen Bryant
poet: Thanatopsis, To a Waterfowl, A Forest Hymn, The Prairies; editor: NY Evening Post; died June 12, 1878

1908 - Bronko (Bronislaw) Nagurski
Pro Football Hall of Famer: charter member: Chicago Bears: rushed for over 4,000 yards; world champion wrestler [1938]; College Football Hall of Famer: University of Minnesota; died Jan 7, 1990

1909 - James Reston
journalist, columnist: The New York Times; died Dec 6, 1995

1918 - Bob (Robert William) Feller
‘Rapid Robert’: Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1938-1941, 1946-1948, 1950/World Series: 1948]; won 266 games in 18 seasons: 3 no-hitters, 12 1-hitters

1921 - Charles Bronson (Buchinsky)
actor: Death Wish series, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Valachi Papers, Sandpiper, Raid on Entebbe, Miss Sadie Thompson, Battle of the Bulge, House of Wax, You’re in the Army Now; husband of actress Jill Ireland; died Aug 30, 2003

1928 - (Dixie) Wanda Hendrix
actress: My Outlaw Brother, The Admiral Was a Lady, Welcome Stranger; died 1 Feb 1981

1930 - Peggy McCay
actress: A Death of Innocence, Eleanor and Franklin, Bustin' Loose, Amityville: The Evil Escapes; TV panelist: Who’s the Boss?

1931 - Monica Vitti (Maria Louisa Ceciarelli)
actress: Immortal Bachelor, Tigers in Lipstick, An Almost Perfect Affair, Blonde in Black Leather, The Red Desert

1933 - John Barry
Academy Award-winning composer: soundtracks: Born Free [1966], The Lion in Winter [1968], Out of Africa [1985], Dances with Wolves [1990]; The Cotton Club, The Day of the Locust, Eleanor & Franklin, Indecent Proposal, Midnight Cowboy, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shampoo, Somewhere in Time, James Bond movies, The Persuaders theme

1933 - Ken Berry
actor: Mayberry RFD, F Troop, Mama’s Family, The Ken Berry “Wow” Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Ann Sothern Show, The Cat from Outer Space, Mountain Man, Herbie Rides Again; singer, dancer

1933 - Michael Dukakis
politician: Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Presidential nominee [1988]

1948 - Lulu (Marie Lawrie)
singer: To Sir with Love, Boom Bang-A-Bang, Oh Me Oh My [I’m a Fool for You Baby], I Could Never Miss You

1949 - Mike Evans (Jonas)
actor: The Jeffersons, All in the Family, The Practice, The House on Skull Mountain, The Voyage of the Yes, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book 1; died Dec 14, 2006

1949 - Larry Holmes
boxer: heavyweight: WBC Champ [1978-1985]

1952 - Roseanne (Roseanne Cherrie Barr)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Roseanne [1992-93]; Funny, She-Devil; coproducer: The Jackie Thomas Show; author: My Life as a Woman, My Lives

1953 - Kate Capshaw
actress: How to Make an American Quilt, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, Private Affairs, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Best Defense, A Little Sex, Duke of Groove, Black Tie Affair

1953 - Dennis Miller
Emmy Award-winning writer: Dennis Miller Live [1993-1994, 1995-1996]; producer-writer: HBO: Dennis Miller: Citizen Arcane [1995-1996]; actor: The Dennis Miller Show, Saturday Night Live, The Net, Disclosure, Madhouse; sports commentator: ABC: NFL Monday Night Football

1954 - Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard)
singer: Goody Two Shoes, Prince Charming, Stand and Deliver, Apollo Nine

1956 - Phil Simms
football: New York Giants quarterback: Super Bowl XXI

1957 - Dolph Lundgren
actor: Johnny Mnemonic, The Shooter, Universal Soldier, Red Scorpion, A View to a Kill, Rocky 4

1961 - Lee Montgomery
actor: Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Pete and Tillie, Ben

Chart Toppers
November 3rd.

1950 Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
All My Love - Patti Page
Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo)
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow

1958 It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Topsy II - Cozy Cole
Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
City Lights - Ray Price

1966 96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees ;)
Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens

1974 You Haven’t Done Nothin - Stevie Wonder
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Jazzman - Carole King
I Overlooked an Orchid - Mickey Gilley

1982 Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
Close Enough to Perfect - Alabama

1990 Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
You Lie - Reba McEntire


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.

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Thanks for your understanding. :)

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308th day of 2007 - 57 remaining.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
REPUBLICAN FOR PRESIDENT DAY.

Whether you’re a Republican, a Democrat, Libertarian or other, or are not even a voter in the United States, you will probably find it interesting to note that this day seems to be a lucky one for U.S. presidential nominees of the Republican party.

It all began back in 1924 when Calvin Coolidge was elected to the top office of the United States. The election was held on November 4. Calvin Coolidge was already in the office of president having to complete Warren G. Harding’s term (Harding died in office). This time, and on this day, he was voted into office by the people of the United States. He served another four years.

History repeated itself in 1952. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in World War II, was running against Democrat Adlai Stevenson. Once again, Election Day was on November 4, and Ike won - the first Republican presidential victory in 24 years. Eisenhower became the 34th U.S. President.

1980 was a good year for Republicans all around. Most of those Republicans running for seats in the U.S. Senate were victors, winning a majority of the seats. And Ronald Reagan won in his race against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter. Mr. Reagan was elected President of the United States on this day in 1980.

It was Election Day and it was November 4.

The moral of this story is that if you’re a Republican running for president of the U.S., make sure you do it in a year when Election Day falls on November 4 (next time will be in 2008).
Calvin Coolidge. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/cc30.html)

Events
November 4th.

1842 - Abe Lincoln, 33, married Mary Todd, 23, in Springfield, IL.

1846 - An artificial leg was patented by B.F. Palmer of Meredith, NH who “got a leg up” on all other competition, according to the U.S. Patent office.

1873 - Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, CA patented a gold crown for teeth.

1879 - James J. Ritty of Dayton, OH patented the cash register. Buy something today and try to remember how a cash register sounded before the age of computers.

1922 - King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt -- in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb was hidden under a house that had been erected for workers excavating the tomb of Ramesses IV. King Tut came into power at the tender age of nine. He was pharaoh of ancient Egypt until his death at the ripe old age of 18 or 19 (in 1352 BC).

1938 - You’re a Sweet Little Headache, from the movie Paris Honeymoon, was recorded by Bing Crosby -- on Decca.

1948 - T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”

1949 - One Man’s Family debuted on NBC-TV. The show continued for three seasons. It also enjoyed one of the longest runs of any program on radio (1933-1959).

1952 - America said, “I Like Ike”. The Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon ticket won a sweeping (55%-44%) victory over Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson and running-mate John J. Sparkman. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the U.S.

1954 - Florence Henderson, who was all of 20 years old, joined with Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak in Fanny. The show lit up Broadway 888 times.

1956 - The average salary of football coaches at state universities was $11,005, according to a survey released on this day.

1958 - Angelo Roncalli became Pope John XXIII. He was expected by many to be a caretaker and transitional pope, but he astonished the church and the world with his energy and reforming spirit. Pope John XXIII’s convening of the Second Vatican Council and his changing of the church’s attitudes toward those who were not Catholic were milestones.

1962 - Bob Dylan gave his first major concert outside of Greenwich Village. The Carnegie Hall solo appearance was not well attended.

1963 - The Beatles played a Royal Command Performance as part of an evening of entertainment for Queen Elizabeth at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. David Frost was the emcee.
1973 - Golfing great Ben Crenshaw won his first tournament on the pro tour by capturing the Texas Open.

1973 - The Chicago Bears set a National Football League record by holding the Green Bay Packers to a minus 12 yards passing.

1979 - 3,000 militants overran the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran. They captured 54 embassy staff members. Religious extremist and Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini praised their actions. The militants demanded that the Shah of Iran, who had ruled for decades and was now seeking medical treatment in the West, be turned over to them for trial; that the United States apologize for crimes against the Iranian people; and that the Shah’s assets be given to them. The Iran(ian) Hostage Crisis, as it came to be known, lasted 444 days, ending on President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration day, Jan. 20, 1981.

1980 - Republican Ronald Reagan won the White House defeating President Jimmy Carter. Reagan was the 40th President of the U.S., winning by a landslide (525 electoral votes to Carter’s 40).

1980 - Sadaharu Oh of the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants retired from professional baseball. The first baseman hit a record 868 home runs in his 22-year playing career.

1984 - The Artist Formerly Known as Prince kicked off his fall tour in Detroit. He broke the record for sold-out performances at the 20,000-seat Joe Louis Arena. The previous record-holder was The Artist Still Known as Neil Diamond (in 1983).

1991 - The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum was dedicated by five American presidents (the first gathering of five U.S. presidents). Reagan, President George Bush, and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon attended the ceremonies in Simi Valley, California.

1995 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was gunned down as he was about to enter his car after speaking at a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli law student Yigal Amir, confessed to killing Rabin because he opposed Rabin’s ongoing efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians, saying Rabin wanted to “to give our country to the Arabs.”


Birthdays
November 4th.

1862 - Eden Phillpotts
author: Black, White and Brindled, A Deal With the Devil, The Red Redmaynes, Saurus; died Dec 29, 1960

1879 - Will (William Penn Adair) Rogers
entertainer: The Wall Street Girl, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; humorist: “I never met a man I didn’t like.”; mayor: Beverly Hills; cowboy; subject of Broadway show: Will Rogers Follies; killed in plane crash Aug 15, 1935

1912 - Pauline Trigere
fashion designer: produced first reversible coat; Costume Designer: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

1913 - Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr)
Academy Award-winning actor: They Shoot Horses Don’t They? [1969]; Teacher’s Pet, Young at Heart, Desperate Hours, The Rogues; TV host/narrator: Warner Brothers Presents; died Oct 19, 1978

1916 - Walter Cronkite
Emmy Award-winning news anchor & news correspondent: CBS Evening News; narrator, host: The 20th Century, The 21st Century, The Facts We Face, Open Hearing, Man of the Week, It’s News to Me, Air Power; received Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governor’s Award [1979]

1917 - Virginia (Margaret Cynthia) Field
actress: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Dance, Girl, Dance, Waterloo Bridge; died Jan 2, 1992

1918 - Art (William Matthew) Carney
Academy Award-winning actor: Harry and Tonto [1974]; Last Action Hero, Izzy and Moe, House Calls, Roadie, Take this Job and Shove It, Terrible Joe Moran; Emmy Award-winner: The Jackie Gleason Show: The Honeymooners [1954, 1955, 1966-1967, 1967-1968], The Art Carney Special [1959-1960]; died Nov 9, 2003

1918 - Cameron Mitchell (Mitzell)
actor: Trapped Alive, Hollywood Cop, Swift Justice, Blood and Black Lace, How to Marry a Millionaire, Desiree, The Tall Men, Carousel, Homecoming, The High Chaparral, Swiss Family Robinson; died July 6, 1994

1919 - Martin (Henry) Balsam
Academy Award-winning actor: A Thousand Clowns [1965]; All the President’s Men, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Carpetbaggers, Death Wish 3, Delta Force, The Goodbye People, Harlow, Little Big Man, Marjorie Morningstar, Murder on the Orient Express, Psycho, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Twelve Angry Men, All in the Family; died Feb 13, 1996

1923 - Alfred Heineken
beer mogul: Heineken Brewery; died Jan 3, 2002

1930 - Dick (Richard Morrow) Groat
baseball: shortstop: Pittsburgh Pirates: [all-star: 1959, 1960, 1962/NL Batting Champ, Baseball Writers’ Award, Valuable Player, World Series: 1960]; SL Cardinals [all-star: 1963, 1964/World Series: 1964], Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants; basketball: Ft. Wayne Pistons; sportscaster: WTAE, Pittsburgh: Panthers basketball

1930 - Kate Reid
actress: Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Death Ship, Gavilan, Dallas; died Mar 27, 1993

1930 - Doris Roberts
Emmy Award-winning actress: St. Elsewhere [1983], Everybody Loves Raymond [2001, 2002, 2003, 2005]; Remington Steele, Maggie, Angie, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Ordinary Heroes, Used People

1933 - Tito (John Patsy) Francona
baseball: Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1961], SL Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers

1937 - Loretta Swit
Emmy Award-winning actress: M*A*S*H [1979-80, 1981-82]; TV host/narrator: Those Incredible Animals

1938 - Harry Elston
musician: group: Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass

1940 - Delbert McClinton
songwriter, singer: I Received a Letter [w/Glen Clark], Sandy Beaches; musician: harmonica: Hey Baby [w/singer, Bruce Channel]; solo: Giving It Up for Your Love

1941 - Walter Rock
football: Washington Redskins tackle: Super Bowl VII

1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe
photographer: known for photographs of sadomasochistic rituals, nudes, portraits, still lifes; work on exhibit: Art Institute of Chicago, New York’s Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art, Paris’ Pompidou Center, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum

1947 - Mike Smith
musician: saxophone: groups: Judas Jump; Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise Is] Half as Nice

1950 - Markie Post
actress: Night Court, Hearts Afire, Fall Guy, The Gangster Chronicles

1961 - Ralph Macchio
actor: Eight is Enough, Karate Kid series, Distant Thunder, My Cousin Vinny

[COLOR=Magenta]1963 - Shadow Thomas. ;) The big 44 today. Former program director/disc jockey for an oldies radio station. ;)

1966 - Kool Rock-Ski (Damon Wimbley)
rapper: group: Fat Boys

1969 - Matthew McConaughey
actor: Angels in the Outfield, Amistad, The Newton Boys, U-571


Chart Toppers
November 4th.


1951 Because of You - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas - Tony Martin
Down Yonder - Del Wood
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King

1959 Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
The Three Bells - The Browns

1967 To Sir with Love - Lulu
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
You Mean the World to Me - David Houston

1975 Island Girl - Elton John
Lyin’ Eyes - The Eagles ;)
They Just Can’t Stop It (Games People Play) - Spinners
(Turn Out the Lights And) Love Me Tonight - Don Williams

1983 All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair) - Sheena Easton
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton

1991 Romantic - Karyn White
Cream - Prince & The N.P.G.
Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
Anymore - Travis Tritt


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keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily
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309th day of 2007 - 56 remaining.

Monday, November 5, 2007
GUY FAWKES DAY.

The year was 1605. Eleven men, led by one Guy Fawkes, came together to find a way to return England to the Catholic faith. It seems that King James had been sending Jesuits into exile. The conspirators plotted to kill the King and all members of the Parliament by blowing up the Houses of Parliament on November 5. They had amassed 36 barrels of gunpowder and placed the barrels under the Houses of Parliament.

The plot was discovered on November 4th, and the conspirators were arrested, tried and convicted. The following January, Guy Fawkes and seven other surviving members of the group were beheaded. Their heads were then displayed on the spikes of London Bridge.

The following November 5th (1606), the same Parliament Guy Fawkes and his men had attempted to annihilate, established a national day of Thanksgiving. Guy Fawkes Day or Bonfire Night has been celebrated every year since with fireworks and the burning of Guy Fawkes’ effigy. The effigies are referred to as ‘Guys’ and as they are burned, the revelers repeat this verse:

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.
I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason
should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes twas his intent
To blow up the houses of Parliament,
With three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow.

But by God’s providence he was catched,
With darkened lantern and slow burning match.
Holloa boys, Holloa boys, ring bells ring,
Holloa boys, Holloa boys, God saved the King!

Almost four hundred years later, some wonder whether the holiday is in honor of Guy Fawkes’ attempt at removing the government, or in celebration of his execution.
Guy Fawkes. (http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/guyfawkes.html) Remember Remember the Fifth of November... (http://www.bonefire.org/guy/index.php)

Events
November 5th.

1733 - The first issue of the New York Weekly Journal was published by printer/journalist John Peter Zenger.

1911 - The first American transcontinental airplane flight was begun. Calbraith P. Rogers flew from Sheepshead Bay, NY to Pasadena, CA. It took Rogers 49 days to make the trip; 24 days were lost due to bad weather and mechanical difficulties. The rest were because he stopped at all the tourist places. Some of us have flown that route, haven’t we?

1929 - McKinney’s Cotton Pickers picked and fiddled their way to the Victor studios to record Plain Dirt. Among those pickin’ and grinnin’ were luminaries such as Fats Waller (on piano), Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins.

1930 - All was quiet in the Fiesta Room at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel this night as the Third Annual Academy Awards were about to be announced. The big winner of the evening, hosted by Conrad Nagel, was All Quiet on the Western Front (Outstanding Production - Universal, and Best Director - Lewis Milestone). The Big House also took two awards: Best Sound Recording - Douglas Shearer/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Best Writing - Frances Marion. Only four more awards were presented at the fledgling film industry’s celebration. Best Actor honors went to George Arliss for his performance in Disraeli (a remake of the 1921 silent version, also starring Arliss) and Norma Shearer copped the prize for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee. Herman Rosse won an award for his Art Direction in King of Jazz and the Best Cinematography award went to Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer for With Byrd at the South Pole. We can now break the silence. Applause! Applause!

1930 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist, playwright, and social critic, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first American to win the prize and went to him “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.” Lewis wrote 22 novels and three plays.

1934 - The first broadcast of The Gumps was heard on CBS radio. Wilmer Walter played Andy Gump, Agnes Moorehead was Gump’s wife, Min, and Jackie Kelk was son, Chester. Karo syrup and Pebico toothpaste/tooth powder sponsored.

1942 - America’s ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’, George M. Cohan, died at age 64. Cohan was a legendary songwriter whose spirited and star-spangled tunes lit up Broadway and will be a part of Americana forever.

1946 - John F. Kennedy, age 29, began his political career by getting elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a Congressman from Massachusetts.

1950 - “The greatest stars of our time on one big program” was the introduction by actress Tallulah Bankhead, who opened the 90-minute Big Show on NBC radio. It was a big show all right. The pea**** saw red as losses exceeded a million dollars in the three years the program was on the air.

1955 - The Vienna State Opera House in Austria formally reopened, celebrating the end of 17 years of foreign occupation.

1968 - Richard M. Nixon won the U.S. presidential election. He defeated Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace to become the 37th U.S. President.

1971 - The Los Angeles Lakers began the longest winning streak in the history of pro sports by winning the first of 33 consecutive basketball games.

1977 - A musical fixture for decades -- especially on New Year’s Eve -- died at the age of 75. Guy Lombardo, leader of the Royal Canadians, is fondly remembered for many songs he made famous; but his most popular remains Auld Lang Syne.

1984 - The Supreme Court ruled that the NFL could not block future franchise moves and had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop a move by the Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles.

1986 - Dick Clark registered for an initial public stock offering for his TV production company (DCP). On the registration form, he called his product ‘mind candy’.

1988 - The Beach Boys hit #1 in US with Kokomo. They set two music-chart records with this event. It was the longest span of #1 hits (24 years, 4 months since I Get Around) and the longest gap between #1 hits (21 years, 10 months since Good Vibrations).

1988 - And speaking of music trivia (thanks to Rockdate Diary): The Loco-Motion, by Kylie Minogue hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 this day, the song became the first to reach the top-5 in the U.S. for three different artists (Little Eva in 1962, Grand Funk in 1974).

1994 - George Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round in Las Vegas to become the IBF/WBA Heavyweight Champion of the World.

1994 - Murder Was the Case, the soundtrack album from the motion picture of the same name, was the number-one album in the U.S. The album ran 73 minutes. The Snoop Doggy Dogg/Dr. Dre movie which inspired it ran 18 minutes. I’ll have a small popcorn and a teeny-weeny drink please...

1996 - U.S. voters reelected President Bill Clinton but gave the Republican party another majority in both houses of Congress, trimming the margin of that majority in the House of Representatives and increasing it slightly in the Senate.

1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, in a ‘finding of fact’, declared Microsoft Corporation a monopoly. Jackson wrote, “Microsoft enjoys so much power in the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems that if it wished to exercise this power solely in terms of price, it could charge a price for Windows substantially above that which could be charged in a competitive market.”

1999 - Movies opening in the U.S.: The Bachelor, starring Chris O’donnell, Renee Zellweger, James Cromwell, Marley Shelton and Artie Lange; The Bone Collector, with Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie and Queen Latifah; and The Insider, starring Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora and Philip Baker Hall.

Birthdays
November 5th.

1855 - Eugene (Victor) Debs
politician: founded Social Democratic Party of America; Socialist Party nominee for U.S. President [1904, 1908, 1912, 1920]; died Oct 20, 1926

1857 - Ida Tarbell
author: History of the Standard Oil Company; associate editor: The Chautauquan, McClure’s Magazine, American Magazine; autobiography: All in the Day’s Work; died Jan 6, 1944

1885 - Will Durant
author, historian: The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization [w/wife Ariel]; died Nov 7, 1981

1891 - Earle ‘Greasy’ Neale
Football Hall of Famer: West Virginia Wesleyan, Canton Bulldogs; coach: Philadelphia Eagles [1941-1950], three straight eastern division crowns and NFL championships [1948, 1949]; created the 5-man defensive line; died Nov 2, 1973

1893 - Raymond Loewy
inventor, engineer, industrial designing: ‘father of streamlining’: US Postal Service logo, Air Force One and many other products such as pens, appliances, cars and trains; died July 14, 1986

1900 - Natalie Schafer
actress: Gilligan’s Island, The Survivors, Forever Darling, The Time of Your Life; died Apr 10, 1991

1905 - Joel (Albert) McCrea
actor: Ride the High Country, The Oklahoman, Four Faces West, Buffalo Bill, Barbary Coast, Wichita Town; died Oct 20, 1990

1911 - Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) ‘King of the Cowboys’: actor: 85+ westerns, The Roy Rogers Show, The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show; singer: Happy Trails to You; died July 6, 1998

1913 - Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley)
Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939], A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Ship of Fools, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Anna Karenina; died July 7, 1967

1913 - John McGiver
actor: Midnight Cowboy, The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Patty Duke Show, Mr. Terrific, Many Happy Returns, The Jimmy Stewart Show; died Sep 9, 1975

1931 - Ike Turner
musician: piano, singer: duo: Ike & Tina Turner Revue: It’s Gonna Work Out Fine, Poor Fool, Tra La La La, I Idolize You, Proud Mary; owner: recording studio

1936 - Billy Sherrill
songwriter, musician: saxophone: Tipsy; record producer: Almost Persuaded; VP/Executive Producer: CBS Nashville

1940 - Elke Sommer (Schletz)
actress: A Shot in the Dark, The Prize, The Oscar, Prisoner of Zenda; Miss Italy [1959]

1941 - Art Garfunkel
singer: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; solo: All I Know, Second Avenue, I Only Have Eyes for You, Wonderful World [w/James Taylor, Paul Simon]; actor: Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Bad Timing

1943 - Sam Shepard (Sam Shepard Rogers)
actor: Days of Heaven, The Pelican Brief, The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, Voyager; playwright: Silent Tongue, Far North, Fool for Love, Zabriskie Point, Paris Texas

1946 - Gram Parsons (Cecil Ingram Connors)
singer: group: The Byrds: LP: Sweetheart of the Rodeo; The Flying Burrito Brothers: LP: The Gilded Palace of Sin, Burrito Deluxe; songwriter: She, How Much I’ve Lied, The New Soft Shoe, Grievous Angel, Hickory Wind, Las Vegas, In My Hour of Darkness; died Sep 19, 1973

1947 - Peter Noone (Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone)
musician [guitar, piano], singer: Herman of Herman’s Hermits: Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter, I’m Henry VIII, I Am; solo: Oh You Pretty Thing; actor: The Pirates of Penzance

1952 - Bill Walton
Basketball Hall of Famer: UCLA: NCAA championship [1972, 1973]: MVP, Sullivan Award [1973]; Portland Trail Blazers: NBA Championship title [1977], MVP [1978]; San Diego Clippers; Boston Celtics: 1986 NBA championship

1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum
actor: Voyagers, Cover Up; killed Oct 18, 1984 [accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun loaded with blanks on set of Cover Up]; died Oct 18, 1984

1958 - Robert Patrick
actor: Killer Instinct, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Wayne’s World, Fire in the Sky, Rosewood, Cop Land, Renegade Force, The X Files [TV]

1959 - Bryan Adams
singer: Heaven, Summer of ’69; songwriter: Everything I Do; songwriter: Tears are Not Enough

1959 - Lloyd (Anthony) Moseby
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1986], Detroit Tigers

1963 - Andrea McArdle
actress, singer: Annie

1963 - Tatum O’Neal
Academy Award-winning actress: Paper Moon [1973]; Bad News Bears, Little Darlings

1965 - Famke Janssen
actress: Fathers & Sons, GoldenEye, The Gingerbread Man, Rounders, X-Men

1968 - Sam Rockwell
actor: Clownhouse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Strictly Business, The Search for One-eye Jimmy, Safe Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Green Mile, Charlie’s Angels

1971 - Corin ‘Corky’ Nemec
actor: Operation Dumbo Drop, Stephen King’s The Stand, Drop Zone, Solar Crisis, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Webster

Chart Toppers
November 5th.

1944 I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
How Many Hearts Have You Broken - The Three Suns
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley

1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Half as Much - Rosemary Clooney
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams

1960 Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis
You Talk Too Much - Joe Jones :D
Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky

1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots
Next in Line - Conway Twitty

1976 If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Rock’n Me - Steve Miller
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot ;)
Among My Souvenirs - Marty Robbins

1984 Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson


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
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Thanks for your understanding. :)

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310th day of 2007 - 55 remaining.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
MEET THE PRESS DAY.

Meet the longest-running series on network television: Meet the Press. The NBC public affairs program had its start back in 1945 when Martha Rountree and Lawrence Spivak created it as a radio promotion for the American Mercury Magazine. Two years later, originating from NBC’s Washington, D.C. studios, Meet the Press came to network TV.

It was on this day in 1947 that the program was first seen in the local Washington, D.C. market. Two weeks later, two stations on the network were added to the Thursday night show.

Martha Rountree served as the original moderator until 1953; then NBC newscaster Ned Brooks took over. Regular panelist Spivak served as moderator for ten years beginning in 1965. From 1975 to 1984, Bill Monroe, also a regular panelist, took over the moderator seat. He was replaced by Marvin Kalb, then Chris Wallace in 1987 and Garrick Utley in 1988. Tim Russert has been the moderator since the end of 1991.

Although Meet the Press has changed time slots many times, including moving to Sunday afternoons in 1965, it has always maintained the same format. Simply stated, the moderator hosts a panel of reporters as they question a leading public figure. Virtually every major political figure in the United States plus many foreign dignitaries have faced the journalists’ incisive questions. On the show’s 28th anniversary, U.S. President Gerald Ford faced the panel. It was the first time an incumbent president had agreed to Meet the Press.
Meet the Press . (http://www.answers.com/topic/meet-the-press?cat=technology) Tim Russert. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4459759/) And click. (http://www.nndb.com/tv/613/000050463/)

Events
November 6th.

1789 - Pope Pius VI appointed the Rt. Rev. John Carroll the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States (in the diocese of Baltimore). Carroll’s consecration took place at Lulworth Castle, England, Aug 15, 1790.

1869 - The first intercollegiate football game was played -- in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4, with each team fielding 25 men, though not all at once.

1882 - ‘The Jersey Lily of England’ made her American debut. Lily Langtry starred in An Unequal Match which opened in New York City.

1883 - The first American cross-country championships were held, sponsored by the New York Athletic Club.

1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected the 23rd President of the United States. He received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168.

1899 - William Gillette starred in Sherlock Holmes at the production’s debut in New York City. Later, Gillette would be razor sharp in the same part on the radio.

1900 - U.S. President William McKinley was reelected, beating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan. McKinley was assassinated September 6, 1901.

1905 - The original stage production of Sir James Barrie’s Peter Pan opened in New York. Who was the original Peter Pan? Maude Adams starred in the play that ran for 223 performances.

1928 - Herbert Clark Hoover was elected 31st President of the U.S. Hoover’s hopes for a ‘New Day’ tied to America’s scientific potential, were overwhelmed when the stock-market crash of October 1929 threw the U.S. into the Great Depression. Hoover was renominated in 1932, but overwhelmingly defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1928 - The first Motogram machine was installed -- on the New York Times Building in Times Square. It showed election returns via an electric flasher.

1936 - This was the day that big band icon Woody Herman played in his first recording session. He waxed Wintertime Dreams (Decca disc #1056).

1940 - Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians recorded one of their lesser-known songs for Decca. The Moon Fell in the River is no Stars Fell on Alabama, and it sure isn’t Auld Lang Syne, we’ll tell ya.

1955 - The first motion picture premiere was seen coast to coast as TV viewers watched Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton star in The Constant Husband.

1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his VP, Richard M. Nixon, were reelected, as they defeated Democrats Adlai E. Stevenson and his running mate, Estes Kefauver (by some 9.5 million votes). The campaign theme had been expanded from “I Like Ike” (used in 1952) to “I Like Ike, Peace & Prosperity”.

1962 - Richard M. Nixon lost the California election for governor to Edmund Brown. Nixon blamed the news media for his loss and promised, “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”

1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, Ohio. Later, the show moved to Chicago, was syndicated by Multimedia Productions and was highly rated for years.

1969 - A tie occurred -- for the first time -- in voting for the Cy Young Award. Pitchers Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers and Mike Cuellar of the Baltimore Orioles won equal votes for best pitcher in the American League.

1979 - The world premiere of the movie The Rose was held at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City (with party at the Roseland Ballroom). The movie starred Bette Midler as a rock singer caught in the fast lane of drugs and death. The premiere and party raised $60,000 for the Phoenix House, a drug rehab organization.

1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan defeated liberal Democrat challenger, Walter F. Mondale, in a ‘landslide’ election. Reagan won in 49 states.

1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day. Traders shouted “Boo! Boo! Boo!” in disgust, but the Dow Jones industrial average jumped almost 15 points on sales of 101.2 million shares.

1985 - Rabbits invaded the bunny hutch at the Playboy Empire Club in New York City. Sixteen males in tuxedos, minus shirts, joined with 52 bunnies for the first time in the 25-year history of the Playboy Clubs.

1986 - WOR-TV in Secaucus, NJ paid $182,000 per episode of The Cosby Show -- for the fall, 1988 season. The price was a record offering for a syndicated show. It beat the previous mark of $80,000 per show (for Cheers).

1986 - Edy’s Ice Cream Company took out a $250,000 policy to protect the taste buds of John Harrison, ice cream taste-tester.

1993 - Pearl Jam’s album Vs. rose to #1 in the U.S. The tracks on the smash (number one for five weeks) album: Go, Animal, Daughter, Glorified G, Dissident, WMA, Blood, Rearviewmirror, Rats, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Leash and Indifference.

1998 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. this day: The Siege, with Denzel Washington, Annette Bening and Bruce Willis; The Waterboy with Adam Sandler, M Kathy Bates and Fairuza Balk; and The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 classic starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton, digitally restored and remastered.

Birthdays
November 6th.

1814 - Adolphe (Antoine-Joseph) Sax
musician: inventor: saxophone, saxotromba; died Feb 4, 1894

1835 - Cesare Lombroso
professor of psychiatry: founder: criminology: identifying criminals by personality types; died Oct 19, 1909

1854 - John Philip Sousa
‘The March King’: composer, bandleader: Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis, El Capitan, King Cotton, The Thunderer, Washington Post March; died Mar 6, 1932

1860 - Ignace Jan Paderewski
composer: musician: piano: Minuet in G; Polish patriot: 1st Premier of Poland [1919]; his California Zinfandel wines won several awards with the LA Times saying, “Some of his Zinfandel was as coveted as his music.”; died June 29, 1941

1861 - James Naismith
inventor: game of basketball; died Nov 28, 1939

1892 - (John Siguard) Ole Olsen
vaudevillian: team: Olsen & Johnson: Hellzapoppin’; actor: All Over Town, Country Gentlemen; TV host: Fireball Fun-for-All [w/Johnson]; died Jan 26, 1963

1896 - Jim Jordan (James Edward Jordan)
actor: radio’s Fibber McGee and Molly; died Apr 1, 1988

1916 - Ray Conniff
choral/orchestra director: theme from Dr. Zhivago; LP: S’wonderful, Somewhere My Love; musician: trombone; died Oct 12, 2002

1921 - James (Ramon) Jones
novelist: From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, The Thin Red Line; died May 9, 1977

1931 - Mike Nichols (Michael Igor Peschkowsky)
Academy Award-winning director: The Graduate [1967]; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, The Day of the Dolphin; comedian: [w/Elaine May]

1932 - Stonewall Jackson
singer: Waterloo, Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, B.J. the D.J., Why I’m Walkin’

1937 - Eugene Pitt
singer: group: The Genies: Who’s that Knockin’; group: Jive Five: Never Never, What Time is It?, I’m a Happy Man; solo: My True Story

1938 - P.J. Proby (James Smith)
singer: Hold Me, Together, Somewhere, Maria, Niki Hoeky, Love Will Tear Us Apart; actor: ‘Jet Powers’, Catch My Soul, Elvis on Stage

1941 - Doug Sahm
singer: group: founded Sir Douglas Quintet: She’s about a Mover; died Nov 18, 1999

1943 - Mike Clifford
singer: Close to Cathy

1946 - Sally Field (Sally Mahoney)
Academy Award-winning actress: Norma Rae [1979], Places in the Heart [1984]; Gidget series, Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Smokey and the Bandit series, Hooper, Forrest Gump, Absence of Malice; Emmy Award-winner: The Big Event/NBC World Premiere Movie: Sybil [1977]; The Flying Nun, Gidget, The Girl with Something Extra, Alias Smith and Jones

1947 - George Young
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; AC/DC

1948 - Glenn Frey
musician, songwriter, singer: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, One of These Nights, Lyin’ Eyes, Hotel California, New Kid in Town, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Smuggler’s Blues; LP: No Fun Aloud, The Allnighter, The Heat is On, You Belong to the City

1949 - Nigel Havers
actor: Lie Down with Lions, The Burning Season, Farewell to the King, The Little Princess, Empire of the Sun, A Passage to India, Chariots of Fire, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1953 - John (Robert) Candelaria
‘Candy Man’: baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1977/World Series: 1979], California Angels, NY Mets, NY Yankees, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, LA Dodgers

1955 - Maria Shriver
TV news correspondent: 1986, The American Parade, Today; news anchor: NBC News; ; married to actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

1957 - Lori Singer
actress: Fame, Born Beautiful, Footloose, Summer Heat, Equinox, Short Cuts, Sunset Grill, VR.5; musician: cellist: Bach Cello Suite #4: Sarabande

1958 - Trace Beaulieu
actor, puppeteer: Mystery Science Theater 3000

1960 - Lance Kerwin
actor: James at 15, The Family Holvak, The Loneliest Runner, The Mysterious Stranger, Salem’s Lot, The Snow Queen

1966 - Peter DeLuise
actor: seaQuest DSV, 21 Jump Street, Children of the Night, Rescue Me, The Midnight Hour

1970 - Ethan Hawke
actor: Search and Destroy, Reality Bites, Alive, Waterland, A Midnight Clear, White Fang, Dead Poets Society, Dad, Explorers

1972 - Thandie Newton
actress: Mission: Impossible II, Flirting, Interview with the Vampire

1972 - Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
actress: Just Shoot Me, Dirty Work, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

1974 - Zoe McLellan
actress: Sliders, Silk Stalkings, Diagnosis Murder, Star Trek: Voyager, The Invisible Man, Dungeons & Dragons

1978 - Nicole Dubuc
actress: Our House, Major Dad

Chart Toppers
November 6th.

1945 Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
That’s for Me - Dick Haymes
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle

1953 Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters

1961 Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Fool #1 - Brenda Lee
This Time - Troy Shondell
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke

1969 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Baby It’s You - Smith
The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette

1977 You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
I’m Just a Country Boy - Don Williams

1985 Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer ;)
Head over Heels - Tears For Fears
Some Fools Never Learn - Steve Wariner


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.
Thanks for your understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

311th day of 2007 - 54 remaining.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
ELEPHANT DAY.

The mighty elephant, trumpeter of the jungle and circus entertainer -- lumbering, powerful fieldworker and mode of transportation -- became a symbol of the Republican Party on this day in 1874.

Now we know that the elephant is the mascot of the Crimson Tide, the football team of the University of Alabama; a symbolism that has never been satisfactorily explained (too many versions). But how was it that an animal who uses its nose to feed and wash itself and can form a circle with others of its kind by attaching trunks to tails, became a symbol of the Grand Old Party (G.O.P.), a political party of the United States?

Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly, created a satirical drawing of an elephant about to fall into a giant hole. The elephant represented the Republican party and was used in reference to Ulysses S. Grant’s possible bid for a third term. Grant was a Republican. The symbol stuck and has been used ever since to represent the G.O.P. both in political cartoons and by the party itself.

Roll G.O.P.? Somehow, roll Tide has a better ring...
Origin of the Elephant. (http://www.gop.com/About/AboutRead.aspx?AboutType=6) Republican Party . (http://www.gop.com/About/Default.aspx)

Events
November 7th.

1805 - “Great joy in camp we are in view of the ocean, this great Pacific Ocean which we been so long anxious to see. And the roreing or noise made by the waves brakeing on the rockey shores (as I suppose) may be heard distinctly.” These words were written by William Clark after the Lewis & Clark Expedition sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

1820 - James Monroe, the 5th President of U.S., was reelected. Monroe was unopposed for the Democratic-Republican party nomination and ran unopposed in the general election. Only one elector did not vote for him. The reason (according to legend) was so that George Washington would be the only president unanimously chosen by the electoral college.

1848 - General Zachary Taylor emerged as a hero of the Mexican War (1846-1948) and was nominated as the presidential candidate at the Whig convention in June 1848. He defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, and was elected the 12th President of the United States this day.

1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook of New York City. He probably had no idea how appropriate his name was for such an invention...

1876 - The outcome of the election of 1876 was not known until the week before the inauguration itself. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the greater number of popular votes and lacked only one electoral vote to claim a majority in the electoral college. Twenty disputed electoral votes, however, kept hopes alive for Republican Governor Rutherford B. (Birchard) Hayes of Ohio. When all was said and done, the Electoral college selected Hayes as the 19th President of the United States.

1885 - The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed when the last spike was driven at Craigellachie in British Columbia. The 2,980-mile transcontinental railroad started in Montreal, Quebec, running between Montreal and Port Moody, B.C.

1914 - The New Republic magazine was printed for the first time.

1916 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President, was reelected. The outcome of the election was one of the few in U.S. history that hinged on foreign affairs. Europe was fighting a world war, and so far, President Wilson had kept the U.S. neutral. Running with the slogan, "He Kept Us Out of War," Wilson was re-elected by a narrow margin. The very next year, Wilson’s neutrality in the European war ended. The Germans refused to curtail their submarine warfare after 120 Americans were killed aboard the British liner, Lusitania. Congress voted overwhelmingly to go to war and Wilson proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world “safe for democracy.”

1930 - The Waltz You Save for Me, by ‘The Waltz King’ himself, Wayne King, was recorded on Victor. It became King’s theme.

1932 - CBS radio presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played Buck in the serial over the years (1932-1947).

1933 - Pennsylvania’s Blue Laws meant that lots of things couldn’t be done on Sunday. Shopping was one. Drinking was another. Sports was yet another. The votes that were counted this day in the Keystone State eliminated sports from the forbidden activities. Fans in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia rejoiced!

1937 - Dr. Christian debuted on CBS radio. Jean Hersholt played the part of the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954. Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played his nurse, Judy. The Dr. Christian theme song was Rainbow on the River. Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and lip ice).

1938 - The first broadcast of This Day is Ours was heard on CBS radio. Eleanor McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.

1940 - The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in 1940 to connect the city of Tacoma and the surrounding Puget Sound with the Peninsula area. The bridge soon became a popular tourist attraction as people came from all around the area to pay their toll to ride the roller-coaster that was called Galloping Gertie. The design flaws that allowed that coaster effect were to become the bridge’s undoing, and it collapsed a mere four months and seven days after dedication. At approximately 11:00 a.m. this day, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed due to wind-induced vibrations.

1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey. F.D.R. was the only President to be elected for more than two terms; he was elected four times with three different Vice Presidents. He died in office on April 12, 1945, after serving 53 days of his fourth term. Vice President Harry Truman filled the remainder of the term and was elected President in 1948.

1946 - A coin-operated television receiver was displayed in New York City. To sneak a peak at various test patterns and a model of Felix the Cat, folks dropped in a quarter.

1947 - Billboard magazine began listing the top 15 popular records. Only 10 songs had been featured previously.

1948 - An adaptation of the mystery play, The Storm, became the first production of Studio One on CBS-TV. Margaret Sullivan starred -- for $500. Studio One continued until 1958.

1956 - Elvis Presley hit the charts with Love Me. The song was the first million-seller to make the charts without being released as a single. It was, instead, an EP (extended play) 45 rpm, with three other songs on it: Rip It Up, Paralyzed and When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again -- on RCA Victor.

1963 - Elston Howard of the New York Yankees was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player. Howard was the first black player to receive the honor.

1970 - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? was released by Columbia. It became the third tune by Chicago to hit the pop music charts. Make Me Smile and 25 or 6 to 4 were previous hits. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? made it to #7 on the charts (January 7, 1971).

1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew were reelected in a landslide victory (60.7% to 37.5%) over Democrats George McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver).

1973 - New Jersey became the first state in the U.S.A. where girls were allowed to play on Little League baseball teams.

1976 - Gone With the Wind was aired (over two nights) on NBC-TV. The showing was the highest-rated TV show in history. 65 percent of all viewers turned on their sets to watch Scarlet O’Hara and Rhett Butler.

1980 - A movie great died. Steve McQueen, famous for his roles in The Getaway, Papillon, The Sand Pebbles and so many others, died at age 50.

1984 - Joe Namath, quarterback of the New York Jets and famous for passes both on and off the field, married Deborah Lynn Mays on this day.

1986 - The longest high school football winning streak came to an end. Canyon High of Canyon Country, California lost 21-20 to Antelope Valley High of nearby Lancaster. Canyon High had 46 consecutive wins before this loss.

1987 - Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love was the #1 album in the U.S. The rest of the top-five for the week: 2)-Bad (Michael Jackson); 3)-Dirty Dancing (soundtrack); 4)-Whitesnake (Whitesnake); 5)-A Memory Lapse of Reason (Pink Floyd).

1994 - The Electrical Engineering Times ran a cover story about flaws in Intel’s Pentium computer chip. The bug, an obscure flaw that caused extremely rare computation errors when performing certain types of mathematical calculations, eventually caused Intel to replace any Pentium processor affected by the flaw, regardless of whether the user was a mathmetician or not. Intel took a $475 million charge against earnings for the quarter to cover the expense of replacing all of those chips.

1997 - Bean (“The Ultimate Disaster Movie”), starring Rowan Atkinson, Peter Macnicol and Pamela Reed; Mad City (“One man will make a mistake. The other will make it into a spectacle.”), with Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta and Alan Alda; and Starship Troopers (“A New Kind Of Enemy. A New Kind Of War.”), starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Seth Gilliam, Patrick Muldoon, Michael Ironside and Marshall Bell.

1999 - Joseph Chebet and Adriana Fernandez put the frustration of second place behind them, as they won the New York City Marathon. Chebet of Kenya, the runner-up the previous two years, used a powerful last-second kick to finish with a time of 2:09:20. Fernandez of Mexico, who also finished second the previous year, easily won the women’s division with a time of 2:25:06, the second-fastest in the race's history. “I was feeling very strong and decided to take off,” Fernandez said.

Birthdays
November 7th.

1867 - Madame Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski)
Nobel Prize-winning physicist [1903]: study of radiation; chemist: discovered radium and polonium; died July 4, 1934

1902 - Ed (Edward Benton) Dodd
cartoonist: Mark Trail; died May 27, 1991

1903 - (Ira) Dean Jagger
Academy Award-winning actor: Twelve O’clock High [1949]; Elmer Gantry, Bad Day at Black Rock, White Christmas, King Creole, The Robe, Vanishing Point, Mr. Novak; died Feb 5,1991

1913 - Albert Camus
Nobel Prize-winning writer [1957]; Le Mythe de Sisyphe; died Jan 4, 1960

1914 - Archie Campbell
CMA Comedian of the Year [1969], country singer, comedian: Trouble in the Amen Corner, Beeping Sleauty, Rindercella, The Men in My Little Girl’s Life; Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; died Aug 29, 1987

1918 - Billy Graham
evangelist: TV host: Hour of Decision, The Billy Graham Crusade

1922 - Al Hirt
musician: trumpet: Java, Sugar Lips, Flight of the Bumble Bee as theme song for TV’s The Green Hornet; played in singer Don Gibson’s band; a regular on: Make Your Own Kind of Music, Fanfare; died Apr 27, 1999

1926 - Joan Sutherland
singer: opera soprano

1938 - Dee (Delectus) Clark
singer: Just Keep It Up, Raindrops, Ride a Wild Horse; died Dec 7, 1990

1938 - Jim (James Lee) Kaat
baseball: pitcher: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1962, 1966/World Series: 1965], Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1975], Philadelphia Phillies, NY Yankees, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1982]; sportscaster: ABC Sports

1938 - Barry Newman
actor: Petrocelli, Nightingales, The Edge of Night, Vanishing Point

1942 - Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella)
singer: Poor Side of Town, Memphis, Secret Agent Man, Slow Dancin’, Baby I Need Your Lovin’

1943 - Joni Mitchell (Roberta Anderson)
songwriter: Willy, Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock; singer: Help Me, Free Man in Paris, Both Sides Now

1944 - Tommy Hart
football: San Francisco 49ers DE

1944 - Joe Niekro
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros [all-star: 1979], NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1987]; died Oct 27, 2006

1957 - Christopher Knight
actor: The Brady Bunch, Another World, A Very Brady Christmas, Good Girls Don’t, The Brady Bunch Movie

1964 - Dana Plato
actress: Diff’rent Strokes, Return to Boggy Creek, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle; died May 8, 1999

1972 - Jason London
actor: The Man in the Moon, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Mixed Signals, Broken Vessels, Alien Cargo; twin brother of Jeremy London

1972 - Jeremy London
actor: I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five, White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild, Breaking Free, The Babysitter, The Red Lion, Bad to the Bone; twin brother of Jason London

Chart Toppers
November 7th.

1946 Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Keep Coming Back like a Song - Dinah Shore
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis

1954 I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
This Ole House - Rosemary Clooney
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
More and More - Webb Pierce

1962 He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney
All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee
Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson

1970 I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me - Charley Pride

1978 You Needed Me - Anne Murray
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Double Vision - Foreigner ;)
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell

1986 True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Typical Male - Tina Turner
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
It’ll Be Me - 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.
Thanks for your understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

312th day of 2007 - 53 remaining.
Part 1 of 2
Thursday, November 8, 2007
X-RAY DAY.

Superman could see through walls with his X-ray vision; and so could Ray Milland in his title role, X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes. He played an unstable scientist.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (Röntgen), a scientist, but hardly unstable, took the first X-ray pictures on this day in 1895. It wasn’t his eyes he was using, but his brain. He had been experimenting with electricity but failed to turn off the machine. The device he was working with overheated and emitted rays. After a number of hours of head-scratching, writing equations and much hypothesis, Roentgen came upon the scientific principle that would allow him to take X-ray pictures. Other X-rays had been observed before this; but Roentgen was the only one to have performed repeated experiments -- proving that his machine worked.

Roentgen may have been a clever scientist; but he had no business savvy. He never patented his X-ray machine and never received any money for it.

Tell that to your dentist or doctor when you get the bill for your X-rays.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Conrad_R%C3%B6ntgen) Biography. (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html)

Events
November 8th.

1793 - The Louvre Museum opened in Paris.

1864 - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was reelected this day. He defeated Democrat George B. McClellan and carried all but three states, getting 212 of 233 electoral votes with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 233 electoral votes. “I earnestly believe that the consequences of this day’s work will be to the lasting advantage, if not the very salvation, of the country,” Lincoln told supporters.

1880 - Sarah Bernhardt made her American stage debut. Bernhardt appeared in Adrienne Lecouvreur in New York City.

1889 - The Treasure State or Montana entered the United States of America as number 41. And, it turned out to be quite a treasure. Coal, copper, lead, zinc and silver have all been mined in Montana. Helena is the capital of Montana; the western meadowlark is the state bird and the bitterroot is the state flower. Of course, this has nothing to do with some of Montana’s bitter history, its most notorious event: The Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand).

1892 - In a rerun of the 1888 U.S. election, it was Harrison against Cleveland. This time, however, former President Grover Cleveland defeated incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, becoming the first -- and only -- chief executive to win non-consecutive terms in the White House. And, Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th Presidents of the United States.

1904 - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, who had succeeded the assassinated William McKinley, was elected to a term in his own right this day. He defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker, 7,628,461 votes to 5,084,223 and 336 Electoral College votes to 140. Roosevelt had become know as Teddy, a name he was not crazy about, but which he kept for public purposes.

1910 - William H. Frost of Spokane, Washington patented the insect exterminator (zzzzk! zzzzk!) As you can see (zzzzzk!) by the purple light and snapping (zzzzk!) sound, the unit here (zzzk!) is working (zzzzk!) just swell. Someday, we’ll get rid of (zzzk!) all these bugs.

1932 - The team of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II debuted with their show, Music in the Air. The Broadway production continued for 342 performances.

1932 - New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated incumbent President Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt captured 22,821,857 votes to incumbent President Hoover’s 15,761,841 and 472 Electoral College votes to 59.

1939 - This day marked Frank Sinatra’s last recording session with the Harry James Band. Sides recorded were Every Day of My Life and Ciribiribin.

1939 - Life With Father premiered on Broadway in New York City. Eight years later, the show broke the existing record for longest-running stage production.

1954 - The American League approved the transfer of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team to Kansas City, MO. Charles O. Finley of Chicago would later tire of Kansas City and move the A’s to Oakland, California.

1959 - The ‘Big E’, Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers, scored 64 points and set a National Basketball Association scoring mark. The Lakers beat Boston 136-115.

1960 - Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the presidential election. The Republican insider was Richard Nixon of California, relatively young but experienced as the nation's vice-president for eight years under Dwight Eisenhower. The Democratic newcomer was John F. Kennedy, senator from Massachusetts, who at the age of 43 was the youngest person elected president. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. President, was also the first Roman Catholic to be elected president.

1964 - Judy Garland and her daughter, Liza Minnelli, appeared together at the London Palladium. The program was shown on U.S. TV; and the LP, Live at the London Palladium became a classic on Capitol Records.

1965 - “Like sands through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives...” The voice of McDonald Carey introduced the popular soap opera, Days of Our Lives, which debuted on NBC-TV this day.

1967 - The first solo movie by a Beatle opened in the U.S. It was John Lennon’s How I Won the War.

1975 - Elton John’s album, Rock of the Westies, debuted at #1 on US album charts. It was his second album to jump on the chart at number one. "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy had debuted at #1 six months earlier. Tracks on Rock of the Westies: Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly), Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future), Island Girl, Grow Some Funk Of Your Own, I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford), Street Kids, Hard Luck Story, Feed Me, Billy Bones and the White Bird.

1979 - A new late-night news program debuted on ABC-TV. The program, The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage, was expected to be on the schedule only temporarily, according to ABC News chief Roone Arledge. Instead, the program, with Ted Koppel hosting, evolved into Nightline in March of 1980.

1980 - Bruce Springsteen’s album, The River, hit #1 for four weeks in the U.S. Tracks on the album: The Ties that Bind, Sherry Darling, Jackson Cage, Two Hearts, Independence Day, Hungry Heart, Out in the Street, Crush on You, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), I Wanna Marry You, The River, Point Blank, Cadillac Ranch, I’m a Rocker, Fade Away, Stolen Car, Ramrod, The Price You Pay, Drive All Night, Wreck on the Highway.

1984 - The first attempt to rescue two crippled satellites took place as the space shuttle Discovery lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (The mission was accomplished on November 14th.)

1986 - This day saw the biggest blowout of the year happen. Oklahoma defeated Missouri, 77-0, in a college football game.

1988 - Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush and running-mate Indiana Senator Dan Quayle were elected President and Vice-President of the United States. They defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and his running-mate, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Bush was inaugurated the 41st president of the United States on January 20, 1989. He was the first incumbent vice president to win election since Martin Van Buren won in 1836.

1993 - Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was released. The operating system boasted improved support for NetWare and Windows NT, and slipped in numerous architectural changes to improve performance and stability (changes that later found their way into Windows 95).

1995 - Michael Jackson merged his ATV Music Publishing Company, and its catalog of Beatles songs, with Sony Music Publishing, creating Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Jackson retained 50% ownership of the new company and received at some $110 million dollars from Sony in the deal.

1996 - These movies had U.S. debuts: Mad Dog Time, with Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane and Ellen Barkin; Ransom, starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise and Delroy Lindo.

1997 - The mighty Yangtze River (China’s largest) was successfully diverted in preparation for the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. As engineers completed the dumping of 60,000 cubic meters (78,000 cubic yards) of rockfill and cement into the river, its flow was diverted through a canal. Boats on the river sounded horns and construction workers sent flares into the sky. Jiang Zemin, President of the People’s Republic of China, told the assembled crowd, “The damming of the Yangtze River is of great political and economic significance, and it proves to the whole world the Chinese people’s capability of building the world’s first-rate hydroelectric project.” The dam project’s target date for completion is 2009.

Birthdays
November 8th.

1656 - Edmund Halley
astronomer: first to observe the great comet of 1682 [known to us as Halley’s Comet]; died Jan 14, 1742

1845 - Edward Douglass White
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1894-1910], 9th Chief Justice [1910-1921]; died May 19, 1921

1847 - Bram (Abraham) Stoker
author: Dracula; died Apr 20, 1912

1900 - Margaret Mitchell
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Gone with the Wind [1937]; died Aug 16, 1949

1913 - June Havoc
actress: Brewster’s Millions, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Sing Your Worries Away, Willy

1914 - Norman Lloyd
actor: St. Elsewhere, Journey of Honor, Jaws of Satan, Saboteur, The Southerner

1920 - Esther Rolle
Academy Award-winning actress: Summer of My German Soldier [10/30/78]; Good Times, Maude, Scarlett, Driving Miss Daisy, A Raisin in the Sun, The Mighty Quinn; died Nov 17, 1998

1921 - Gene Saks
actor: A Fine Romance, Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Thousand Clowns; director: Barefoot in the Park, Mame, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower

1921 - Walter Mirisch
Academy Award-winning producer: The Apartment [1960]

1922 - Christiaan Barnard
surgeon, medical pioneer: performed first known heart transplant [1967]; author: Good Life, Good Death: A Doctor’s Case for Euthanasia and Suicide; died Sep 2, 2001

1924 - Joe Flynn
actor: The Tim Conway Show, McHale’s Navy, The Joey Bishop Show, The George Gobel Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Superdad, Million Dollar Duck, The Barefoot Executive, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes; died July 19, 1974

1927 - Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)
singer: Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod, I Went to Your Wedding, Doggie in the Window, Allegheny Moon, Steam Heat, Cross over the Bridge; in film: Elmer Gantry

1927 - Chris Connor
singer: I Miss You So, Trust in Me

1931 - Morley Safer
TV correspondent: CBS News: 60 Minutes

1935 - Alain Delon
actor: Nouvelle Vague, The Concorde: Airport ’79, Gypsy, Red Sun, Is Paris Burning?, Honor Among Thieves, Rocco and His Brothers, Sois Belle et Tais-Toi

1941 - Rodney Slater
musician: saxophone, trumpet: group: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: I’m the Urban Spaceman, Look at Me I’m Wonderful, Bad Blood, Straight from My Heart

1942 - Angel Cordero Jr.
National Horse Racing Hall of Famer: Jockey of the Year [1982, 1983]; winner of Breeder’s Cup [1985 Distaff, 1988 Juvenile Fillies, 1988 & 1989 Sprint), Kentucky Derby [1974, 1985], Preakness [1976, 1980, 1984], Belmont [1976]

1944 - Bonnie Bramlett
songwriter, singer: group: Delaney and Bonnie and Friends: Never Ending Song of Love, Only You Know and I Know

1944 - Ed Kranepool
baseball: NY Mets [only player to have played in each of Mets’ first 17 seasons; holds Mets’ record for most games played: 1853]

1946 - Roy Wood (Ulysses Adrian Wood)
musician, singer, songwriter: formed Electric Light Orchestra: 10538 Overture; group: Wizzard: See My Baby Jive, Angel Fingers, Dear Elaine, Forever

1947 - Minnie (Julia) Riperton
singer: Lovin’ You; LP: Come to My Garden, Adventure in Paradise; group: Wonderlove; died July 12, 1979

1949 - Alan Berger
musician: bass: group: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: I Don’t Wanna Go Home, The Fever, This Time It’s for Real, Love on the Wrong Side of Town, When You Dance, Hearts of Stone

1949 - Bonnie Raitt
Grammy Award-winning singer [1990]: Runaway, The Boy Can’t Help It, Something to Talk About, Sweet Forgiveness; actress: Urban Cowboy; musician: guitar; daughter of actor, John Raitt

1950 - Charles ‘Boobie’ Clark
football: Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Oilers; died Oct 25, 1988

1950 - Mary Hart
TV host: Entertainment Tonight

1952 - Christie Hefner
magazine executive: Playboy; daughter of magazine’s founder Hugh Hefner

1952 - Alfre Woodard
Emmy Award-winning actress: Hill Street Blues: Alice in Wonderland [1983-1984]; guest performance: L.A. Law [1986-1987]; St. Elsewhere, Tucker’s Witch, Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Bopha, Heart and Souls

1954 - Ricki Lee Jones
singer: Chuck E.’s in Love, On Saturday Afternoons in 1963

1958 - Terry Lee Miall
musician: drums: group: Adam & The Ants: Goody Two-Shoes, Apollo Nine

1961 - Leif Garrett
actor: Spirit of ’76, Thunder Alley, Kid Vengeance, Three for the Road; singer: I Was Made for Dancin’

1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith
actress: Melrose Place, Fast Times, Day by Day, Breach of Conduct, Side Out, Welcome to 18, Summer School, Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise, Lucas

1968 - Parker Posey
actress: Party Girl, The Daytrippers, You’ve Got Mail, Scream 3, Best in Show

1969 - Roxana Zal
Emmy Award-winning actress: Something about Amelia [1984]; Shattered Spirits, Under the Boardwalk, Goodbye, Miss 4th of July, River’s Edge, Testament, Table for Five

1972 - Gretchen Mol
actress: The Magnificent Ambersons, Donnie Brasco, Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground, Rounders, Finding Graceland, The Thirteenth Floor

1975 - Tara Reid
actress: The Big Lebowski, American Pie series, Body Shots, Dr. T & the Women, Josie and the Pussycats

[ShadowThomas]

Part 2 of 1

Chart Toppers
November 8th.

1947 Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
You Do - Dinah Shore
And Mimi - Art Lund
I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold

1955 Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm
That Do Make It Nice - Eddy Arnold

1963 Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs ;)
Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Washington Square - The Village Stompers
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens

1971 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Imagine - John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Here Comes Honey Again - Sonny James

1979 Pop Muzik - M
Heartache Tonight - Eagles ;)
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers

1987 I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Causing a Commotion - Madonna
Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol ;)
Am I Blue - George Strait


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.
Thanks for your understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

313th day of 2007 - 52 remaining.

Friday, November 9, 2007
INSTANT SUCCESS DAY.

On this day in 1938, 24-year-old Mary Martin made her Broadway stage debut in the musical comedy Leave It to Me. She brought down the house as she sang My Heart Belongs to Daddy. And the critics raved about New York’s bright new star.

The following year brought Martin a top-ten hit with the same song. Martin suddenly found herself singing duets with Bing Crosby; starring on Broadway in One Touch of Venus in 1943; Lute Song in 1946; touring in Annie Get Your Gun; and then taking on what would become her immortal role, that of Nellie in South Pacific. South Pacific was one of Broadway’s biggest hits and the cast album was one of the first of its kind -- also a big seller. Then came Mary’s stage and TV performances as Peter Pan. This would become her signature role -- a memorable moment as the petite actress flew through the air with Tinkerbell and fought the dangerous Captain Hook.

Broadway called to Mary Martin again in 1959 for The Sound of Music and once more in 1966 for I Do, I Do.

Back in 1951, Mary Martin recorded a duet with a young man who was also destined for instant and long-term stardom. The song they sang together was Get Out Those Old Records. The twenty-year-old was her son, Larry Hagman. Maybe you know him as J.R. Ewing. This is one man that Mary Martin didn’t want to wash out of her hair!
Mary Martin. (http://www.famoustexans.com/marymartin.htm) Leave It to Me. (http://www.geocities.com/porterguide/leave.html) Born: December 10, 1913 Died: November 3, 1990 (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/martin_m.html)

Events
November 9th.

1857 - Readers picked up a new magazine on newsstands. The Atlantic Monthly featured the first installment of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

1911 - Georges Claude of Paris, France applied for a patent on neon advertising signs. You may have seen his handiwork for advertisers that appeared at various times on the Eiffel Tower.

1912 - Pop Warner was a legendary coach of the Carlisle School for Indians in Pennsylvania (Jim Thorpe played for Warner at Carlisle). On this day, Carlisle hammered Army 27-6. Playing right halfback on the Army team was a future U.S. war hero and president: Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1938 - The kids’ magazine, Jack and Jill, was published. 40,000 of the first edition were printed. By the late 1950s, the popular magazine reached a circulation of 702,000.

1938 - On this night and into the wee hours of the next morning, glass store and house windows were smashed throughout Jewish neighborhoods in Germany. Thousands of books -- volumes of history, philosophy, poetry and religion -- fueled bonfires throughout the ghettoes. Synagogues and the Torah scrolls inside them were burned to the ground. 91 Jews were killed and over 30,000 arrested. It was Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), a sign of the unconscionable, and unforgivable death and destruction soon to come at the hands of the Nazis.

1948 - This is Your Life debuted on NBC radio. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio show for two years and for nine more (1952-1961) on television.

1953 - Maurice Richard set a National Hockey League record by scoring his 325th career goal. Most guys would have kept the record-breaking puck. Richard sent this one to Queen Elizabeth of England.

1955 - Harry Belafonte recorded Jamaica Farewell and Come Back Liza for RCA Victor. The two tunes completed the Calypso album which led to Belafonte’s nickname, ‘Calypso King’.

1965 - A huge blackout in the northeast U.S. left millions without electricity. 800,000 people wound up trapped in New York subways, elevators and skyscrapers. Rioting broke out in New York City. Dramatic photos showed the eery sight of a moonlit, electric lightless, Manhattan skyline. Power was not restored until the next morning.

1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone was published. John Lennon was on the cover. The magazine said it was not simply a music magazine but was also about “...the things and attitudes that music embraces.”

1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing, five months after having retinal surgery on his left eye. (In 1984, Leonard came out of retirement to fight one more time before becoming a fight commentator for NBC.)

1984 - There was a big fight in the NBA. Larry Bird of Boston tangled with Dr. J (Julius Erving) at the old Boston Garden. The Celtics won the game 130-119, but the two players lost $7,500 each. They were not alone: 16 other players who joined in the melee paid a total of $15,500 in fines in a game that was more like professional wrestling than pro basketball.

1984 - Donna Reed joined the cast of Dallas as J.R. Ewing’s new mamma, on CBS-TV. This was Reed’s first return to television since her own successful show ended in 1966. However radiantly beautiful, Reed would not score well with viewers who had become attached to Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie. Reed was written out of the script and Bel Geddes returned in 1985.

1984 - Three Servicemen, a sculpture by Frederick Hart, was unveiled in Washington, DC. It was the final addition to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The statue faces the wall of names of more than 58,000 Americans who were either killed or reported missing in action during the Vietnam War.

1986 - Bobby Rahal won his first national auto racing driving title. He had earned $300,000 for six victories, including an Indy 500 win.

1989 - The 27.9-mile-long Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War that separated East and West Germany for 28 years, was opened. Both East and West German citizens celebrated their freedom as they once again were able to walk freely between the two states.

1996 - Evander Holyfield joined Muhammad Ali, in making history as the second man to become the three-time World Heavyweight Champion. He accomplished this by defeating Mike Tyson at 37 seconds of the 11th round at the MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas.

Birthdays
November 9th.

1802 - Elijah Lovejoy
newspaper editor/publisher: St. Louis Observer; abolitionist; shot to death Nov 7, 1837 by pro-slavery mob as he sought to protect his newspaper’s newly delivered press

1853 - Stanford White
architect: partner in architectural firm: McKim, Mead and White: NY’s Pennsylvania Station, old Madison Square Garden, Washington Arch, Players, Century and Metropolitan Clubs, Boston Public Library; shot to death June 25, 1906 by jealous husband of former mistress

1868 - Marie Dressler (Leila Marie Koerber)
Academy Award-winning actress: Min and Bill [1930-31]; Anna Christie, Dinner at Eight; died July 28, 1934

1886 - Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold)
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Ed Wynn Show [1949]; All Star Revue, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor; actor Keenan Wynn’s father; died June 19, 1966

1913 - Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
actress: Algiers, White Cargo, Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl; died Jan 19, 2000

1918 - Spiro T. (Theodore) Agnew
U.S. Vice President under Richard Nixon [1969-1973: resigned Oct 10, 1973]; Governor of Maryland [1967-1969]; died Sept 17, 1996

1922 - Dorothy (Jean) Dandridge
actress: Island in the Sun, Carmen Jones; died Sep 8, 1965

1930 - Charlie Jones
attorney; sportscaster: NBC Sports football/golf

1931 - Whitey (Dorrel Norman Elvert) Herzog
baseball: Washington Nationals, Washington Senators, KC Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers; manager: SL Cardinals, California Angels

1934 - Carl (Edward) Sagan
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Dragons of Eden [1978]; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Broca’s Brain, Cosmos; astronomer: “Billions and billions of stars...”; died Dec 20, 1996

1935 - Bob (Pack Robert) Gibson
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: St. Louis Cardinals [all-star: 1962, 1965-1970, 1972/World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968/Cy Young Award: 1968, 1970/Baseball Writers Award: 1968/N.L. MVP: 1968]; won seven straight World Series games; no-hitter against Pittsburgh: 1971; lifetime won/lost record 251-174; 2.91 ERA over 17 seasons; career strike-outs: 3,000

1936 - Mary Travers
singer: Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary: Leaving on a Jet Plane, Blowin’ in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon, I Dig Rock ’n’ Roll Music; solo: LP: No Easy Walk to Freedom

1941 - Tom Fogerty
musician, songwriter, singer: group: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Proud Mary, Lookin’ Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend; solo: Goodbye Media Man, Lady of Fatima, Beauty is Under the Skin, Joyful Resurrection; died Sep 6, 1990

1942 - Tom Weiskopf
golf champion: British Open [1973]; shares individual record for lowest 18-hole total [63] in any round of the U.S. Open [6-12-1980]

1948 - Joe Bouchard
musician: bass, singer: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear the Reaper; LPs: Agents, Revolution by Night

1948 - Alan Gratzer
musician: drums: group: REO Speedwagon: Keep on Loving You, Take It on the Run

1951 - Lou Ferrigno
bodybuilder: Mr. Universe; actor: The Incredible Hulk

1954 - Dennis Stratton
musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Eddie the Head, Run to the Hills, Running Free; LPS: Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Power Slave, Somewhere in Time

1961 - Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton
Grammy Award-winning rap singer: Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa: None of Your Business [1994]; actress: Oz, First-Time Felon

Chart Toppers
November 9th.

1948 Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood
One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Jimmy Wakely

1956 Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
True Love - Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

1964 Baby Love - The Supremes
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers
Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las ;)
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens

1972 I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Freddie’s Dead (Theme from “Superfly”) - Curtis Mayfield
It’s Not Love (But It’s Not Bad) - Merle Haggard

1980 Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
Lady - Kenny Rogers
The Wanderer - Donna Summer
On the Road Again - Willie Nelson

1988 Kokomo - The Beach Boys ;)
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
The Loco-Motion - Kylie Minogue
Darlene - T. Graham Brown


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314th day of 2007 - 51 remaining.

Saturday, November 10, 2007
“DR. LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME” DAY.

On this day in 1871, Henry Stanley found the missing Scotsman, David Livingstone. Livingstone, an explorer and missionary, had been missing for two years. No white man had seen him in six years.

Through a promotion sponsored by The New York Herald, Stanley and several companions set out looking for Livingstone some eight months earlier. (Stanley’s fellow explorers died before this day.) Stanley’s search for Dr. Livingstone ended at Ujiji, Africa.

He greeted the doctor, not with, “Are you all right?” or “I’m so glad I found you,” but with these famous words: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.”
David Livingstone. (http://home.vicnet.net.au/~neils/africa/livingstone.htm)

Events
November 10th.

1775 - The Continental Congress of the American colonies, in preparation for their revolt against the British (The Revolutionary War), authorized the formation of two battalions of marines. Although this was the true birth of the U.S. Marine Corps, it wasn’t until 1798 that Congress recreated the Marine Corps as a separate military service.

1888 - Fritz Kreisler, a 13-year-old violinist from Vienna, made his American debut in New York City.

1900 - Floradora opened in New York City this day. The play was received by cheering audiences.

1928 - It was on this day, after Knute Rockne delivered his ‘Win One for the Gipper’ halftime speech to the Irish players, that Notre Dame upset Army, 12-6. Rockne’s speech: “The day before he died, George Gipp asked me to wait until the situation seemed hopeless, then ask a Notre Dame team to go out and beat Army for him. This is the day, and you are the team.”

1931 - For the second year in a row, Conrad Nagel hosted the Academy Awards. This year’s gala celebration, the Academy’s fourth, was at the Sala D’Oro Room at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The runaway winner was Cimarron (Outstanding Production - RKO Radio; Art Direction - Max Ree; Writing/Adaptation - Howard Estabrook). Best Actor honors went to Lionel Barrymore for his stellar performance in A Free Soul; ditto for Best Actress Marie Dressler in Min and Bill. The Best Directing Award for Skippy went to Norman Taurog, and Best Cinematography accolades were earned by Floyd Crosby for his work on Tabu. The Academy Award for Best Writing/Original Story was presented to John Monk Saunders for his script, The Dawn Patrol. Several Scientific and Technical Awards were also presented for the first time.

1939 - Muggsy Spanier and his band recorded Dipper Mouth Blues on Bluebird Records.

1939 - The first air-conditioned automobiles went on display at the Auto Show in Chicago.

1950 - Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted on NBC radio.

1956 - Billie Holiday returned to the New York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a three-year absence. The concert was called a high point in jazz history.

1956 - Billboard published its annual DJ music poll. Kaye Starr’s Rock and Roll Waltz was voted the year’s top record.

1969 - On this day, twenty years after the first release of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Gene Autry received a gold record for the single.

1969 - “Can you tell me how to get ... how to get to Sesame Street?” The classic, Sesame Street debuted on 170 Public Broadcasting stations and 20 commercial outlets. Created by the Children’s Television Workshop, the show starred endearing characters including Gordon, Susan, Bob, Bert, Ernie, the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and, of course, Big Bird!

1972 - Mickey (Arthur) McBride died on this day. McBride owned the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 1950s -- and also owned a taxicab company. Browns’ coach Paul Brown kept five non-roster players on a special squad. They could practice with the team in case a regular player was hurt, but the squad’s salaries were paid by McBride’s taxi company. Thus, the term, ‘taxi squad’. According to Terry Pluto, in his When All the World was Browns Town, taxi squad members never drove cars, they were just driven in practice by Paul Brown -- and supported by Mickey McBride.

1975 - The worst Great Lakes shipwreck of the time, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, occurred this day. It was a cold and stormy Lake Superior (Native Americans knew it as Gitche Gumee) that took the lives of 29 crew members of the ore carrier.

1984 - The Maryland Terrapins set an NCAA football record. They came from a 31-0 halftime deficit to defeat Miami’s Hurricanes, 42-40. The game broke the record (set on October 20, 1984), when Washington State came back from 28 points behind to defeat Stanford, 49-42.

1986 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85, the long-anticipated album by ‘The Boss’, hit record stores this day. Fans made the LP a one-day sellout, buying over a million copies and generating more first-day dollars than any record in 30 years. It’s a five-disc, 40-song set.

1989 - WordPerfect Corporation shipped WordPerfect 5.1. Full retail price in the U.S. was $500. And you thought today’s word-processor prices were up there...

1994 - The Codex Leicester, the only Leonardo da Vinci manuscript owned in the United States and the only one in the world still in private hands, was sold at auction. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates paid $30.8 million for it. It has been since been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Rome, Paris and New York.

1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, starring Jim Carrey, with a little help from Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi and Tommy Davidson opened. It brought in $108,360,000 in the U.S. “ALLLRIGHTY then...”

1996 - Dan Marino was first NFL quarterback to throw for 50,000 yards in his career. He reached that mark as he completed a pass to O.J. McDuffie in a game against the Indianapolis Colts this day. Marino went on to a run up a career record of 61,361 yards passing.

1999 - Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back debuted in the U.S. Described variously as “weird and wacky humor”; “truly funny, goofy and stupid”; and “hilarious lowbrow humor,” the animated kiddie flick scooped up $85.7 million in the U.S, and $155.7 million worldwide. Wacky, indeed.

2000 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Little Nicky, starring Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel and Patricia Arquette (“If your father was the devil And your mother was an angel You'd be messed up too!”); Men of Honor, with Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Charlize Theron (“History is made by those who break rules.”); and Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore (“Not a sound. Not a warning. Not a chance. Not alone.”)

Birthdays
November 10th.

1483 - Martin Luther
religious leader: founder of Protestantism: wrote 95 theses: On the Power of Indulgences, calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church; died Feb 18, 1546

1697 - William Hogarth
painter, engraver: Four Stages of Cruelty, A Rake’s Progress, A Harlot’s Progress; died Oct 26, 1764

1728 - Oliver Goldsmith
playwright: She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield; died Apr 4, 1774

1793 - Jared P. (Potter) Kirtland
physician; naturalist: found 1st Kirtland’s Warbler [now, a rare bird]; died Dec 10, 1877

1889 - Claude Rains
actor: Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia; died May 30, 1967

1907 - (Ellen) Jane Froman
singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, I’ll Walk Alone, I Believe; died Apr 22, 1980

1912 - (George Robert) Birdie Tebbetts
baseball: catcher: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1940/all-star: 1941, 1942], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1948, 1949], Cleveland Indians; manager: Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians; died Mar 24, 1999

1916 - Billy May
composer, bandleader: many of Sinatra’s Capitol hits; died Jan 22, 2004

1919 - George Fenneman
announcer: radio/TV: You Bet Your Life [w/Groucho Marx]; TV host: Your Funny, Funny Films, Anybody Can Play; died May 29, 1997

1925 - Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.)
actor: Camelot, Hamlet, Anne of the Thousand Days, Becket, The Desert Rats, The Longest Day, Look Back in Anger, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; TV narrator: Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, Ellis Island; one of Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-husbands; died Aug 5, 1984

1932 - Paul Bley
pianist, composer: LP: Open to Love, Fragments, My Standard; founding member: Jazz Composers Guild

1932 - Roy Scheider
actor: All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Jaws series, 2010, 52 Pickup, seaQuest DSV

1940 - Russell Means
activist: Native American rights

1944 - Tim Rice
lyricist: with Andrew Lloyd Weber: Jesus Christ, Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; film scores: Gumshoe, Odessa File

1947 - Dave Loggins
singer: Please Come to Boston; cousin of singer Kenny Loggins

1948 - Greg Lake
musician: bass, singer: group: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: From the Beginning, Lucky Man; solo: I Believe in Father Christmas

1949 - Ann Reinking
dancer, actress: Pippin, All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude

1949 - Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughn)
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. [1972]; Funny Face

1950 - Ronnie Hammond
singer: group: Atlanta Rhythm Section: So in to You, Imaginary Lover

1951 - Jack Scalia
actor: Pointman, The Devlin Connection, Dallas, High Performance, Berrenger’s, Hollywood Beat, Storybook, Shattered Image, Wolf, Tequila & Bonetti; TV host: Stuntmasters

1953 - Rusty Chambers
football: Miami Dolphins LB

1955 - Jack (Anthony) Clark
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1978, 1979], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1985/all-star: 1985, 1986], NY Yankees, SD Padres, Boston Red Sox

1956 - Sinbad (David Adkins)
actor, comedian: A Different World, The Sinbad Show, The Redd Foxx Show, Coneheads, The Cherokee Kid, Good Burger; TV host: Showtime at the Apollo

1959 - (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips
actress: One Day at a Time, American Graffiti, Eleanor & Franklin; daughter of singer John Phillips [The Mamas and The Papas]

1977 - Brittany Murphy
actress: Clueless, Freeway, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Cherry Falls, Riding in Cars with Boys

Chart Toppers
November 10th.

1949 That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack
Leonard)
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely

1957 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers

1965 Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones ;)
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Everybody Loves a Clown - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright

1973 Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Heartbeat - It’s a Lovebeat - The DeFranco Family
Photograph - Ringo Starr
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond

1981 Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones ;)
Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You - Bob Seger
Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys

1989 Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
Cover Girl - New Kids on the Block
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Ace in the Hole - George Strait


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

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315th day of 2007 - 50 remaining.

Sunday, November 11, 2007
ARMISTICE DAY.

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This is Armistice Day or Remembrance Day or Veterans Day or Victory Day or World War I Memorial Day. The name of this special day may be different in different places throughout many nations; but its significance is the same.

It was on this day at 11 a.m. in 1918 that World War I ceased. The Allied and Central Powers signed an armistice agreement at 5 a.m. in Marshal Foch’s railway car in the Forest of Compiegne, France.

Many still bow their heads in remembrance at the 11th hour of this the 11th day of the 11th month.
Facts are mere accessories to the truth. (http://www.worldwar1.com/) armistice agreement. (http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1918/armistice.html) in remembrance. (http://www.sherylfranklin.com/holidays/veterans_day.html)

Events
November 11th.

1817 - Senaa Samma appeared at St. John’s Hall in New York City in a lovely exhibition of juggling and sword swallowing. Admission to see the performance was $1 for adults.

1851 - The telescope was patented by Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1889 - Washington became the 42nd of the United States of America on this day. Known as the Evergreen State because of its rich stands of Douglas fir, white and ponderosa pine, and spruce trees, Washington calls the willow goldfinch its state bird. The colorful rhododendron is the official flower. Olympia, home of the famous Olympia oyster (from Puget Sound), is the state capital.

1905 - Editor William Bok of Ladies’ Home Journal called the Morris chair, which sold for $31.00, “a hideous piece of furniture.” The (very popular) Morris chair was named after William Morris, whose Morris & Company produced home furnishings. The chair had an adjustable back and loose, removable cushions. Editor Bok probably wouldn’t have been so critical had he known that the Morris chair (and others of similar design) would evolve into the big, soft, cushy, recliners we enjoy today.

1926 - The University of Wisconsin announced that women could get college credit for a dance course offered by the school.

1929 - Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy recorded Froggy Bottom -- in Kansas City.

1938 - Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in 1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time on her radio broadcast.

1940 - The chant, “invovo legem magicarum,” was heard for the first time when Mandrake the Magician debuted on WOR radio in New York City.

1944 - Frank Sinatra began a long and successful career with Columbia Records.

1944 - The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame got whipped by Army, 59-0. The shutout was the worst margin of defeat for any Notre Dame team.

1946 - A crowd of 17,205 showed up at Madison Square Garden to check out the new NBA team in town. The New York Knickerbockers, or Knicks, as they are known, played Chicago -- and lost, 78-68.

1965 - Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, declared its independence from Britain. It took until April 18, 1980 for independence to actually happen.

1981 - The first rookie baseball player to win the coveted Cy Young Award was honored. The 21-year-old honoree was LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela.

1984 - 13-year-old TV star Gary Coleman (of Diff’rent Strokes) underwent a kidney transplant in Los Angeles. He had undergone his first transplant operation at age 5.

1984 - The Houston Oilers won their first game of the season by defeating the Chiefs, 17-16, in Kansas City. It was the first Oilers victory on the road since September 1981 (23 consecutive road losses).

1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to form Unisys, becoming the #2 computer company. Changeover costs were estimated at $15 million.

1992 - For the first time, women were permitted to become priests of the Church of England. One of 28 Anglican state churches throughout the world, the Church of England voted in favor of women on this day.

1992 - Bobby Fischer won his re-match with Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia. The match was organized by banker Jedzimir Vasiljevic. Fischer had 10 wins, 5 losses, and 15 draws. He got $3.65 million for his winnings and Spassky received $1.5 million.

1995 - Smashing Pumpkins’ album Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness hit #1 on the U.S. album chart. The Smashing Pumpkins (Billy Corgan, James Iha, D’arcy and Jimmy Chamberlin) band was formed in 1988.

Birthdays
November 11th.

1744 - Abigail Smith Adams
First Lady: wife of 2nd U.S. President of the United States John Adams; died Oct 28, 1818

1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
political revolutionary, author: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot; died Feb 9, 1881

1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
author: The Story of a Bad Boy, Cruise of the Dolphin, The Sisters' Tragedy, The Wyndham Towers; died Mar 19, 1907

1885 - George S. (Smith) Patton Jr.
‘Old Blood and Guts’: U.S. Army General: commander of Third Army during drive across France in WWII: “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”; subject of film: Patton; died Dec 21, 1945

1889 - Clifton Webb (Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck)
actor: Laura, Razor’s Edge, Satan Never Sleeps, Titanic, Three Coins in the Fountain, Sitting Pretty, Mr. Belvedere series; died Oct 13, 1966

1899 - Pat (William Joseph Patrick) O’Brien
actor: Knute Rockne, All American, Ragtime, Fighting Father Dunne, Some like It Hot, Harrigan and Son; died Oct 15, 1983

1899 - Pie (Harold Joseph) Traynor
Baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman: [World Series: 1925, 1927/all-star: 1933, 1934]; playing manager, Pirates’ scout, radio announcer; died Mar 16, 1972

1909 - Robert Ryan
actor: Bad Day at Black Rock, Battle of the Bulge, The Dirty Dozen, Flying Leathernecks, The Longest Day, On Dangerous Ground; TV narrator: World War I; died July 11, 1973

1911 - Patric (Reginald Lawrence) Knowles
actor: Chisum, The Devil’s Brigade, Auntie Mame, Three Came Home, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, The Wolfman, How Green was My Valley, The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938], The Charge of the Light Brigade; died Dec 23, 1995

1918 - Stubby Kaye
actor: Cat Ballou, Guys and Dolls, Li’l Abner, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, My Sister Eileen, Love & Marriage; TV panelist: Pantomime Quiz; died Dec 14, 1997

1922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
writer: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions; died Apr 11, 2007

1925 - Jonathan (Harshman) Winters III
Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Davis Rules [1990-91]; The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, NBC Comedy Hour, The Jonathan Winters Show, Mork & Mindy, Hee Haw, And Here’s the Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Shadow, The Flintstones; character: Maude Frickert; TV panelist: Masquerade Party; commercials: Hefty trash bags

1929 - LaVern Baker
singer: Tweedle-Dee, I Cried a Tear, Jim Dandy; second woman [Aretha Franklin was first] inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1991]; died March 10, 1997

1935 - Bibi (Birgitta) Andersson
actress: Duel at Diablo, Story of a Woman, The Concorde: Airport ’79

1938 - Roger Lavern (Jackson)
musician: keyboards: group: The Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter

1939 - Denise Alexander
actress: General Hospital

1944 - Jesse Colin Young (Perry Miller)
songwriter, musician: group: The Youngbloods: Get Together

1945 - Vince Martell
musician: guitar, singer: group: Vanilla Fudge: You Keep Me Hanging On, Take Me for a Little While

1945 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra
President: Nicaragua

1946 - Chris Dreja
musician: guitar: group: Yardbirds: For Your Love, I’m a Man

1947 - Pat Daugherty
musician: bass: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Jim Dandy to the Rescue, Memories at the Window

1950 - Jim Peterik
musician: keyboard: group: Survivor: Eye of the Tiger, Burning Heart; singer: group: Ides of March: Vehicle

1951 - Paul Cowsill
singer: group: The Cowsills: Hair, Indian Lake

1951 - Fuzzy (Frank) Zoeller
golf champion: Masters [1979], U.S. Open [1984]

1956 - Ian Craig Marsh
musician: keyboards: group: Heaven 17: We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang, Ball of Confusion, Temptation, Crushed by the Wheels of Industry, Soul Deep, The Foolish Thing to Do, Steel City; Human League: LP: Reproduction

1962 - Mic Michaeli
musician: keyboard: group: Europe: The Final Countdown

1962 - Demi Moore (Demetria Guynes)
actress: Indecent Proposal, Ghost, The Seventh Sign, A Few Good Men, Color of Night, St. Elmo’s Fire, Choices, General Hospital, Striptease, G.I. Jane

1964 - Calista Flockhart
actress: Ally McBeal, The Guiding Light, Pictures of Baby Jane Doe, Telling Lies in America

1964 - Philip McKeon
actor: Alice, Red Surf, Return to Horror High

1968 - Ronnie Devoe
singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe: Poison

1968 - Wyatt Pauley
musician: guitar: group: Linear: Sending All My Love

1974 - Leonardo (Wilhelm) DiCaprio
actor: Titanic, Parenthood, Growing Pains, Critters 3, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Aviator

Chart Toppers
November 11th.

1950 All My Love - Patti Page
Goodnight Irene - The Weavers
Thinking of You - Don Cherry
I’m Moving On - Hank Snow

1958 It’s Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears ;)
City Lights - Ray Price

1966 Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees ;)
Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers
Dandy - Herman’s Hermits
Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens

1974 You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Jazzman - Carole King
Whatever Gets You Thru the Night - John Lennon with The Plastic Ono
Nuclear Band
Love is like a Butterfly - Dolly Parton

1982 Up Where We Belong - Joe ****er & Jennifer Warnes
Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) - Michael McDonald
You’re So Good When You’re Bad - Charley Pride

1990 Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Pray - M.C. Hammer
Giving You the Benefit - Pebbles
Home - Joe Diffie


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
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316th day of 2007 - 49 remaining.

Monday, November 12, 2007
LEOTARD DAY.

Whether you’re doing steps, low-impact aerobics or a plié, where would you be without the latest design in leotards?

The original leotard design was a skintight, one-piece garment with the lower portion resembling tights. On this day in 1859, the designer of the leotard, Jules Leotard, made his first public appearance as the world’s first flying trapeze artist, becoming the first to turn a somersault in mid-air and the first to jump from one trapeze to the next.

Just 21 years old, Jules had been practicing since he was a little boy. He would swing from a trapeze hanging over the swimming pool in his father’s gymnasium. The years of practice paid off ... first as the daring young man on the flying trapeze ... and second as the designer of the leotard, still worn by acrobats, dancers and exercise enthusiasts throughout the world.

OH - he floats through the air with the greatest of ease
The daring young man on the flying trapeze
His actions are graceful all girls he does please
And my love he has stolen away.
Jules Leotard. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leotard)

Events
November 12th.

1915 - Theodore W. Richards of Harvard University became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Richards was awarded the prize in Stockholm, Sweden.

1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis accepted a contract to become the first baseball commissioner. He became the czar following the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and remained commissioner for seven years.

1925 - Louis Armstrong recorded My Heart, starting a career that brought him worldwide fame.

1927 - After playing forty years in blue jerseys, Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish wore brilliant green jerseys and stockings for the first time. They took to the gridiron against Army in New York City.

1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the new home of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.

1941 - Hot Lips Page performed the vocal for Artie Shaw’s very long and very slow version of St. James Infirmary on RCA Victor.

1946 - The first drive-up banking facility opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois. There were 10 teller windows with slide-out drawers.

1967 - Pearl Bailey took over the lead in the Broadway musical, Hello Dolly!. ‘Pearlie Mae’ was a smash hit in the role.

1970 - After a successful London run, Anthony Quayle starred in the Broadway opening of Sleuth.

1980 - John Lennon’s (Just Like) Starting Over, from his Double-Fantasy album, was released. John and Yoko were seen kissing on the record cover.

1983 - Lionel Richie began the first of four consecutive weeks at the top of the music charts as All Night Long (All Night) became the most popular song in the U.S.

1984 - Spacewalker Joseph Allen became the first astronaut to rescue a satellite. The Discovery space shuttle made the $35 million rescue. When capturing the wayward satellite, Allen might have told mission control, “Hey, I can see HBO in here! The Movie Channel, too! And, look, there’s Showtime! Way cool!”

1986 - For the first time in NBA history, both head coaches were absent from the game. K.C. Jones and Don Nelson were both too sick to coach the Boston-Milwaukee game. It became the 44th straight home victory for the Boston Celtics, as they beat the Milwaukee Bucks 124-116. So who needs a coach!

1988 - Rattle and Hum, the album by U2, started a six-week run at the top of the U.S. album charts. Hum along now, as we list the tracks on the Rattle and Hum: Helter Skelter, Van Diemen’s Land, Desire, Hawkmoon 269, All Along the Watchtower, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Freedom for My People, Silver and Gold, Pride (In the Name of Love), Angel of Harlem, Love Rescue Me, When Love Comes to Town, Heartland, God Part II, The Star Spangled Banner, Bullet the Blue Sky, All I Want is You.

1999 - First-run movies in the U.S. this day: Anywhere But Here, starring Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman and Bonnie Bedelia; Dogma, starring Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Matt Damon and Linda Fiorentino; Light It Up, with Usher Raymond, Forest Whitaker, Rosario Dawson and Vanessa L. Williams; and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, starring Milla Jovovich John Malkovich Faye Dunaway Dustin Hoffman.

Birthdays
November 12th.

1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
women’s rights activist; died October 26, 1902

1840 - Auguste Rodin
sculptor: Gates of Hell, The Kiss, The Thinker, The Balzac, The Burghers of Calais, St. John the Baptist Preaching; museums in Paris and Philadelphia named for him; died Nov 17, 1917

1866 - Sun Yat-Sen
revolutionary leader: China [1911]; died Mar 12,1925

1898 - Leon Stukelj
Olympic gold medalist: gymnast [2 gold medals in 1924]; first gymnast from Slovenia to win an Olympic gold medal; died Nov 8, 1999 [four days before his 101st birthday]

1903 - Jack Oakie (Lewis Delaney Offield)
actor: Lover Come Back, The Rat Race, Song of the Islands, Tin Pan Alley, The Texas Rangers; died Jan 23, 1978

1908 - Harry Blackmun
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1970]: wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade; died Mar 4, 1999

1917 - Jo Stafford
singer: Shrimp Boats [Are A-Comin’, There’s Dancin’ Tonight], Jambalaya, Long Ago and Far Away, No Other Love, Candy, You Belong to Me, Make Love to Me; group: Pied Pipers: Dream

1920 - Sunset Carson (Winifred Maurice Harrison)
actor: Stage Door Canteen, Rio Grande Raiders, Alias Billy the Kid; died May 1, 1990

1920 - Richard Quine
actor: Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal, director: The World of Suzy Wong, Bell Book and Candle, How to Murder Your Wife, Sex and the Single Girl; died Jun 10, 1989

1922 - Kim Hunter (Janet Cole)
Academy Award-winning actress: A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes series, The Edge of Night, Backstairs at the White House; died Sep 11, 2002

1926 - George Ratterman
football: QB: Univ. of Notre Dame, Buffalo Bills, NY Yankees, Cleveland Browns

1929 - Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)
Academy Award-winning actress: The Country Girl [1954]; To Catch a Thief, High Society, High Noon, Rear Window, Dial “M” for Murder; singer: True Love [w/Bing Crosby]; died Sep 14, 1982

1931 - Bob Crewe
producer: The Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder, The Bob Crewe Generation: Music to Watch Girls By

1934 - Ann Flood
actress: The Edge of Night

1943 - Brian Hyland
singer: Sealed with a Kiss, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Let Me Belong to You

1943 - John Maus
musician: bass, singer: trio: The Walker Brothers: My Ship is Coming In, Make It Easy on Yourself, The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore

1943 - Wallace Shawn
actor: House Arrest, Clueless, The Magic Bubble, Radio Days, The Princess Bride, Micki & Maude, The Hotel New Hampshire, A Little Sex, My Dinner with Andre, Simon, All That Jazz

1944 - Booker T. Jones
musician: group: Booker T and the MG’s: Green Onions, Time is Tight

1944 - Ken Houston
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Houston Oilers safety: NFL Individual Season Record holder: 4 interceptions returned for touchdowns [1971]

1944 - Al Michaels
sportscaster: ABC Sports [Monday Night Football since 1986]; Emmy: Outstanding Sports Personality -- Play-by-Play (Host): 1986, 1989, 1995]; inducted into National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame [1998]; NSSA Sportscaster of the Year: 1980, 1983, 1986]

1945 - John Schroeder
golf: PGA, SPGA tour; commentator: NBC Sports; son of Wimbledon and Davis Cup winner, Ted Schroeder

1945 - Neil Young
singer, songwriter, musician: Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Heart of Gold, Philadelphia; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: LP: Deja Vu; Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth

1948 - Errol Brown
songwriter [w/Tony Wilson]: Think About Your Children, Bet Your Life I Do; singer: group: Hot Chocolate: Give Piece a Chance, Love is Life, I Believe in Love, Brother Louie, Cicero Park, Emma, Disco Queen, You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, I’ll Put You Back Together Again, Every 1’s a Winner, Girl Crazy, Chances

1948 - Cliff Harris
football: Dallas Cowboys safety: Super Bowl: V, VI, X, XII, XIII

1950 - Barbara Fairchild
singer: The Teddy Bear Song, Kid Stuff

1952 - Steve Bartkowski
football: QB: Univ. of California, Atlanta Falcons [NFC Rookie of the Year: 1975]

1955 - Leslie McKeown
singer: group: The Bay City Rollers: Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, I Only Wanna Be With You, Saturday Night

1961 - Nadia Comaneci
Olympic Gold Medalist: gymnastics [1976]: 7 perfect 10s

1968 - Sammy (Samuel Peralta) Sosa
baseball: Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs [joined Mark McGwire in breaking Roger Maris's record of 61 home runs in single season with 66 in 1998, 63 in 1999, 64 in 2001/all-star: 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001]

1970 - Tonya Harding
ice skater: involved in attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice

Chart Toppers
November 12th.

1951 Because of You - Tony Bennett
Sin (It’s No) - Eddy Howard
And So to Sleep Again - Patti Page
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King

1959 Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods
Don’t You Know - Della Reese
Country Girl - Faron Young

1967 To Sir with Love - Lulu
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr
You Mean the World to Me - David Houston

1975 Island Girl - Elton John ;)
Lyin’ Eyes - The Eagles
Who Loves You - Four Seasons
I’m Sorry - John Denver

1983 Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Somebody’s Gonna Love You - Lee Greenwood

1991 Cream - Prince & The N.P.G.
Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
Real, Real, Real - Jesus Jones
Someday - 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
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Thanks for your understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

317th day of 2007 - 48 remaining.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
THE SHEIK DAY.

That great romancer of the silver screen, Rudolph Valentino, starred in The Sheik, which was released on this day in 1921. The Sheik firmly established Valentino’s popular reputation as the Great Lover, and his last film, the comical Son of the Sheik (1926), sealed that title.

But the actor never thought of himself as a conqueror of women -- nor as a great actor. He found the Sheik films rather silly. Rudy’s wife, Natacha Rambova responded to her husband’s screen image: “My husband is a great lover of home life.” However, the publication of Valentino’s volume of poetry, Day Dreams (1923), further fueled the public’s imagination and drove fans into bookstores with a vengeance.

Valentino had plans to make more serious films beginning with an ambitious version of El Cid, to be called The Hooded Falcon. In town for the premiere of Son of the Sheik, he collapsed in New York on August 15, 1926. Valentino died eight days later from peritonitis -- before he could begin to work on films that would make the public forget his sheikly shenanigans.

So the grandiose romantic persona persists, and we remember Rudolph Valentino as the Great Lover, The Sheik.

Remember, too, these great films from Valentino:

The Conquering Power (1921), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Beyond the Rocks (1922), Blood and Sand (1922), The Young Rajah (1922), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), A Sainted Devil (1924), The Eagle (1925), Cobra (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926).
Rudolph Valentino. (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1265/Mptv/1265/4408_0003.jpg.html?hint=group)

Events
November 13th.

1927 - After seven years of construction and over $48 million, the Holland Tunnel, New York City’s connection to Jersey City, NJ, opened to traffic. It was named after the chief engineer of construction, Clifford Milburn Holland, who died before the tunnel was completed.

1930 - The first revolving milk platform was used -- in Plainsboro, NJ. For the first time, 1,680 cows could be milked in seven hours. Now that’s a lot of milk!

1933 - The first sit-down strike was started. The U.S. Workers at the Hormel Packing Company plant in Austin, Minnesota (the home of SPAM) took action against management.

1940 - Alice Marble turned pro. The tennis star signed for $25,000 plus a percentage of the gate receipts.

1946 - The first artificial snow was produced -- by Vincent J. Schaefer over Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts.

1955 - NBC showed the first live TV program from a foreign country (noncontiguous). Scenes from Havana, Cuba were seen by viewers of Dave Garroway’s Wide Wide World program.

1965 - Julie Harris starred in Skyscraper, which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The musical ran for seven months.

1968 - This was a good day for The Beatles. Their movie, Yellow Submarine, premiered in the U.S. and the single, Hey Jude, topped the pop music charts (it was in its 7th of 9 weeks at #1).

1975 - “Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feeeelings.” One of the great lounge-lizard songs of all time, Feelings by Morris Albert, went gold.

1977 - After 43 years as a regular feature in hundreds of newspapers, Al Capp brought his comic strip, Li’l Abner, to a final conclusion.

1982 - Business as Usual, the smash album by Men at Work, started a fifteen-week run at number one in the U.S. The tracks: Who Can It Be Now?, I Can See It in Your Eyes, Down Under, Underground, Helpless Automation, People Just Love to Play with Words, Be Good Johnny, Touching the Untouchables, Catch a Star, Down by the Sea.

1986 - The state of California put Fricot City on the auction block for $8.8 million. The ‘city’ was actually the former ranch/private estate of Desiré Fricot. It had become a California Youth Authority camp in 1945. Located about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento, Fricot City featured some twenty homes, two gymnasiums, two swimming pools, a full twelve-grade school, a fire station, an infirmary and a chapel.

1998 - These films made first runs in the U.S.: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Some Secrets Will Haunt You Forever), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Brandy Norwood; I’ll Be Home for Christmas (This Yule, be cool.), with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel and Adam Lavorgna; and Meet Joe Black (No one can die - while he loves!), starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani and Marcia Gay Harden.

1999 - “For the winner by unanimous decision and undisputed heavyweight champion of the world . . . Lennox Lewis!” Lennox Lewis tattoed Evander Holyfield for 12 rounds in Las Vegas, Nevada to earn a unanimous decision and capture the title.

Birthdays
November 13th.

1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson
author: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses; died Dec 3, 1894

1856 - Louis Brandeis
jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-1939]; died Oct 5, 1941

1913 - Alexander Scourby
actor: The Big Heat, Affair in Trinidad; died Feb 22, 1985

1916 - Jack Elam
actor: Support Your Local Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas; died Oct 20, 2003

1922 - Madeleine Sherwood
actress: The Flying Nun, Hurry Sundown, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth

1922 - Oskar Werner
actor: Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the Damned, Fahrenheit 451; died Oct 23, 1984

1924 - Linda Christian
actress: The Devil’s Hand, Athena

1928 - Steve Bilko
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals 1B, Cubs, Reds, Dodgers, Tigers, Angels; died Mar 7, 1978

1932 - Richard Mulligan
Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1979-1980], Empty Nest [1988-1989]; S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana; died Sep 26, 2000

1934 - Garry Marshall
producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: Pretty Woman, Beaches; comedy writer: Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show; actor: A League of Their Own, Lost in America; brother of actress Penny Marshall

1938 - Jean Seberg
actress: Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse That Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse; died Sep 8, 1979

1939 - Wes (Maurice Wesley) Parker
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966/Gold Glove 1967-1972]

1941 - Dack (Norman) Rambo
actor: Dallas, All My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show; died Mar 21, 1994

1941 - Mel (Melvin Leon, Sr.) Stottlemyre
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1964/all-star 1965, 1966, 1968-1970]

1947 - Joe Mantegna
Tony Award-winning actor: Glengarry Glenn Ross [1984]; House of Games, Things Change, Airheads, Queen’s Logic, The Godfather Part III, Elvis: The Movie, The Money Pit, Three Amigos, Comedy Zone

1948 - Sheila Frazier
actress: The Hitter, Three the Hard Way, I’m Gonna Git You Sucker, Super Fly, Firehouse, The Lazarus Syndrome

1953 - Tracy Scoggins
actress: Lois and Clark - The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys, Alien Intruder, Dead On, The Gumshoe Kid

1953 - Charlie Tickner
figure skater: Ice Capades, bronze medalist: Winter Olympics [1980]; U.S. Champion [1977, 1978, 1979, 1980]

1954 - Chris Noth
actor: Law & Order, Burnzy’s Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom, Sex and the City

1955 - Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson)
Academy Award-winning actress: Ghost [1990]; The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi; Grammy Award-winning comedienne: Whoopi Goldberg [1985]

1959 - Caroline Goodall
actress: Schindler’s List, Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, Hook, Cliffhanger, The Princess Diaries

1963 - Vinny Testaverde
football: QB: University of Miami [Heisman Trophy winner: 1986]; Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens

1968 - Steve Zahn
actor: Bye Bye Birdie, Sophistry, Reality Bites, Crimson Tide, That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon, You’ve Got Mail, Chain of Fools, Dr. Dolittle 2, Riding in Cars with Boys

Chart Toppers
November 13th.

1944 Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
The Trolley Song - The Pied Pipers
Smoke on the Water - Red Foley

1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher
Because You’re Mine - Mario Lanza
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams

1960 Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky

1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes ;)
I Walk Alone - Marty Robbins

1976 Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Love So Right - Bee Gees
Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) - Loretta
Lynn

1984 Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution ;)
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
I’ve Been Around Enough to Know - 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
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Thanks for your understanding. :)

[ShadowThomas]

318th day of 2007 - 47 remaining.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
MOBY DICK DAY.

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world...”

Thus begins Herman Melville’s book Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, which was first published in New York City by Harpoon & Brothers on this day in 1851. (Sorry. We meant Harper & Brothers.)

The complex, but rousing sea story tells the tale of a sea captain’s search for Moby Dick, the great white whale that had once crippled him.

The story is told by sailor-narrator Ishmael. Through the pages of Moby Dick, we meet Ishmael’s bunkmate Queequeg, a whale harpooner from Polynesia; learn everything there is to know about whaling in the nineteenth century; and, of course, about Captain Ahab and his obsession with Moby Dick.

Melville dedicated his novel to author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Director and writer John Huston adapted the high seas saga to the big screen in 1956 so all the world could see Moby Dick as big as life.

Herman Melville died at home, of a heart attack, shortly after midnight on September 28, 1891, at the age of 72. At the time, he had been almost totally forgotten by all but a small group of admirers in the United Kingdom and the United States.

(Other whale sightings on the WWW.)
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. (http://www.americanliterature.com/Melville/MobyDick;orTheWhale/2.html) whale sightings. (http://www.whalesightings.com/)

Events
November 14th.

1832 - The first horsecar (a streetcar drawn by horses) was displayed in New York City. The vehicle had room for 30 people in three compartments. The new service traveled Fourth Avenue between Prince and Fourteenth Streets.

1921 - KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a professional company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being performed at the Chicago Auditorium.

1935 - The Call Bulletin of San Francisco, CA became the first newspaper to run a life-size portrait of a human being. Larry Quinn, a two-day-old baby, was the subject.

1943 - Leonard Bernstein replaced an indisposed Bruno Walter as conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Thus began a legendary career and worldwide appreciation for Bernstein’s many compositions with the orchestra.

1944 - An outstanding array of musicians gathered in Hollywood to record a classic. Tommy Dorsey and orchestra made Opus No. 1, Victor record number 20-1608. Buddy Rich was the drummer in the session, Al Klink and Buddy DeFranco blew sax and Nelson Riddle played trombone on the Sy Oliver arrangement.

1945 - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker sold the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Former Indy winner Wilbur Shaw became the new president and manager of the speedway. The track was purchased by the Tony Holman family a short time later.

1951 - The first world lightweight title fight was telecast coast to coast. Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon in Los Angeles.

1959 - The eruption of Kilauea Iki Crater (Nov 14-Dec 20, 1959) on the Big Island of Hawaii was a relatively brief event, but produced some of Kilauea’s most spectacular lava fountains of the 20th century. (The current Pu`u `O`o-Kupaianaha eruption of Kilauea began in 1983).

1964 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings set a National Hockey League record as he scored his 627th career goal in a game against Montreal.

1966 - Boxing’s largest indoor crowd assembled in the Houston Astrodome to see Cassius Clay defeat Cleveland Williams -- by a TKO.

1967 - The Monkees received a gold record for Daydream Believer.

1972 - For the first time in its 76-year history, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1,000 mark: 1003.16.

1975 - They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play) became a gold record for the Spinners. Their other hits include Then Came You (with Dionne Warwicke), Could It Be I’m Falling in Love, The Rubberband Man, Working My Way Back to You, Cupid, It’s a Shame and I’ll Be Around -- for Motown.

1981 - Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant tied the record of Amos Alonzo Stagg for most football wins. The Alabama Crimson Tide notched win #314 for Coach Bryant. Alabama beat Penn State, 31-16.

1981 - For the second week in a row, Daryl Hall and John Oates owned the top spot on the pop music charts with Private Eyes.

1986 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Ivan Boesky would have to pay $100 million in fines and alleged profits to settle insider-trading charges against him. The settlement was just $6 million less than the entire S.E.C. budget for 1986.

1987 - The Dirty Dancing movie soundtrack was the number one album in the U.S. It was number one for a total of eighteen weeks. The remainder of the top-five that week: 2)-Tunnel of Love (Bruce Springsteen); 3)-Bad (Michael Jackson); 4)-Whitesnake (Whitesnake); 5)-A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Pink Floyd).

1993 - Don Shula was carried off the Veterans Stadium field by his Miami Dolphins after a 19-14 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. That victory was #325 in Shula’s career and made him the winningest coach in NFL history, surpassing the legendary George Halas. (Of all NFL coaches, only Shula and Halas reached 300 victories.) Shula finished his career in 1995 with a coaching record of 347-173-6. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997.

1997 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Jackal (“How do you stop an assassin who has no identity?”), starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier; The Man who Knew too Little (“He’s on a mission so secret, even he doesn’t know about it.”), with Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher and Joanne Whalley; and One Night Stand (“It was just one night that changed everything.”), starring Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski and Robert Downey Jr.

Birthdays
November 14th.

1765 - Robert Fulton
builder of first profitable steamboat: the Clermont; died Feb 24, 1815

1840 - Claude Monet
artist: Water Lilies, La Grenouillere, Impression: Sunrise, Old St. Lazare Station, Paris; died Dec 5, 1926

1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru
India’s 1st prime minister after its independence; died May 27, 1964

1896 - Mamie Doud Eisenhower
First Lady: wife of 34th U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower; died Nov 1, 1979

1900 - Aaron Copland
Academy Award-winning composer: film score: The Heiress [1948]; Of Mice and Men, Our Town, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the Common Man; ballet score: Billy the Kid; Pulitzer Prize-winner: Appalachian Spring [1945]; died Dec 2, 1990

1904 - Dick (Richard E.) Powell
actor: Too Busy to Work, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Gold Diggers of 1935, Gold Diggers of 1937, Hollywood Hotel, Murder, My Sweet, Cry Danger, Four Star Playhouse, Susan Slept Here; TV Host: The Best in Mystery, Zane Grey Theater, The Dick Powell Show (1961) TV; died Jan 2, 1963

1908 - Harrison Salisbury
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for International Reporting [1955]; Moscow correspondent for New York Times; died July 5, 1993

1910 - Rosemary DeCamp
actress: Rhapsody in Blue, On Moonlight Bay, The Bob Cummings Show, That Girl, The Life of Riley; died Feb 20, 2001

1912 - Barbara Hutton
heiress: F.W. Woolworth; died May 11, 1979

1915 - Martha Tilton
singer: And the Angels Sing, A Stranger in Town; actress: The Benny Goodman Story, Sunny

1920 - Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo de Simone)
singer: Yellow Rose of Texas, Play Me Hearts and Flowers; group: Bob-O-Links w/Bob Crosby Band; solo: ‘G.I. Sinatra’: Glenn Miller AAF band, Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club, Your Hit Parade, Face the Music; actor: Escape from San Quentin, China Doll, Hawk of the Caribbean; died Sep 6, 1985

1921 - Brian Keith (Robert Keith Richey, Jr.)
actor: Family Affair, Hardcastle & McCormick, Heartland, The Westerner, Crusader, Centennial, The Brian Keith Show, Walter and Emily, Nevada Smith, The Loneliest Runner, The Parent Trap, The Young Philadelphians, Young Guns; died June 24, 1997

1922 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali
UN Secretary-General

1924 - Phyllis Avery
actress: The George Gobel Show, Mr. Novak

1929 - Tiny (DeWayne) Lund
auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1963]; died Aug 10, 1975

1929 - Jimmy (James Anthony) Piersall
baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1954, 1956], Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, LA Angels, New York Mets, California Angels

1929 - McLean Stevenson
actor: M*A*S*H, The McLean Stevenson Show, Hello Larry, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, The Doris Day Show, Condo; died Feb 15, 1996

1933 - Fred Haise Jr.
astronaut: Apollo 13 [1970]

1935 - King Hussein bin Talal
head of state: King of Jordan; died Feb 7, 1999

1935 - Don Stewart
actor: Guiding Light, The Doomsday Flight; died Jan 9, 2006

1940 - Freddie Garrity
singer: group: Freddie and the Dreamers: I’m Telling You Now

1942 - Bryan Watson
hockey: NHL Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals

1948 - Prince Charles (of Wales) (Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor Mountbatten)
heir to British throne

1948 - Robert Ginty
actor: The Paper Chase, Hawaiian Heat, Falcon Crest, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Lady Dragon, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Madhouse, Programmed to Kill, Exterminator series, Coming Home

1949 - James Young
musician: guitar: group: Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto

1951 - Stephen Bishop
singer: It Might Be You; musician: guitar; singer, songwriter: On and On, Save It for a Rainy Day, Everybody Needs Love, This is the Night, Living in the Land of Abe Lincoln, theme for Animal House, Dream Girl, theme for China Syndrome: Somewhere In Between, Don’t You Worry, LPs: Careless, Bish

1954 - Yanni (Chrysomallis)
musician: piano: LP: Optimystique; music used on broadcasts of: Tour de France, Olympic Games, World Series; swimmer: Greek National Swim Team

1954 - Willie (Guillermo Villanueva) Hernandez
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1983], Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1984/all-star: 1984-1986/Cy Young Award: 1984/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1984

1955 - Frankie Banali
musician: group: Quiet Riot

1955 - Jack Sikma
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle Supersonics

1956 - Alec Jon Such
musician: bass: group: Bon Jovi

1962 - Laura San Giacomo
actress: Just Shoot Me, The Right to Remain Silent, Stephen King’s The Stand, Under Suspicion, Vital Signs, Pretty Woman, sex, lies and videotape, Miles from Home

1964 - Patrick Warburton
actor: Seinfeld, Dave’s World, NewsRadio, Scream 3, The Emperor's New Groove, Men in Black 2

1965 - Jeanette Jurado
singer: group: Expose: Season’s Change

Chart Toppers
November 14th.

1945 It’s Been a Long, Long Time - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty
Kallen)
Till the End of Time - Perry Como
I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers
With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle

1953 Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra ;)
Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett
Many Times - Eddie Fisher
There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce

1961 Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Fool #1 - Brenda Lee
Tower of Strength - Gene McDaniels
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke

1969 Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
Come Together - The Beatles ;)
Baby It’s You - Smith
To See My Angel Cry - Conway Twitty

1977 You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me - Barry White
More to Me - Charley Pride

1985 Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
Head over Heels - Tears For Fears
You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey
Can’t Keep a Good Man Down - Alabama


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Thursday, November 15, 2007
PIKES PEAK OR BUST DAY.


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On this day in 1806, Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike sighted a mountain peak that now bears his name. What? All right, who’s the genius out there who said, “Zebulon Peak?” Those in the know, of course, realize that we speak of Pikes Peak.

The massive, towering (elevation 14,110 feet) behemoth had been called “The Long One” by Ute Indians. Its name was changed to honor the young army lieutenant. Zebulon Pike was leading a survey party into the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase when he spotted the snowcapped peak in the distance.

“Pikes Peak or Bust!” was the familiar slogan of many a wagon train settler traveling west in the 1800s. Visitors to the Pikes Peak region (near Colorado Springs) continue to be captivated, inspired, and enthralled by Colorado’s most famous mountain.
Zebulon Pike: Hard-Luck Explorer or Successful Spy? (http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/lewisclark2/circa1804/WestwardExpansion/EarlyExplorers/ZebulonPike.htm) Zebulon Montgomery Pike An Early 19th Century Explorer. (http://www.zmoon.com/pptravel/essays/pike.html) About Pike's Peak. (http://www.cograilway.com/aboutpikespeak.htm) Pikes Peak. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikes_Peak)

Events
November 15th.

1881 - The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was formed -- in Pittsburgh, PA. Five years later the organization became the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

1884 - Samuel Sidney McClure of New York City started the first literary syndicate -- the McClure Syndicate. It bought authors’ works and then sold the right to print them to various newspapers across the U.S.

1904 - One of Broadway’s most famous phrases was uttered for the first time. Ethel Barrymore, appearing in the play, Sunday, spoke the famous line, “That’s all there is. There isn’t any more,” as the curtain fell.

1926 - Network radio was born. 24 stations carried the first broadcast from (bong-bing-bong) NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala 4½-hour broadcast from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Two remote pickups were also on the program. Opera star Mary Garden sang from Chicago and Will Rogers presented a humorous monologue from Independence, Kansas. Charles Lindbergh was among the luminaries who attended the broadcast.

1938 - Television’s first on-the-scene program took place. A fire on Ward’s Island, New York was seen by the cameras of NBC’s W2XBT. The cameras caught the unexpected fire as it broke out.

1939 - The New York Giants, formerly opposed to night baseball, made plans for a lighting system at the Polo Grounds for the 1940 season.

1948 - William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada after 21 years, 4 1/2 months, the longest anyone has served as prime minister. He was succeeded by Louis St. Laurent.

1950 - The first black man in organized hockey suited up. Arthur Dorrington became a member of the Atlantic City Seagulls of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League.

1954 - Studio One on CBS-TV featured Joan Weber singing Let Me Go, Lover. The song had enjoyed limited popularity before the TV show, but skyrocketed to fame immediately after.

1956 - Love Me Tender, the first Elvis Presley film, premiered.

1965 - The fastest man on wheels, Craig Breedlove, set a world speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with a speed of 600.601 mph.

1969 - The first album featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter was released by A&M Records. Offering would not be a big seller, but a single from the disc, a remake of The Beatles’ Ticket to Ride, would gain national attention. Their next album, however, would establish them as major international stars (Close to You).

1974 - The group, Faces, released their tune with the longest title. You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings). Whew!

1980 - After years of success on the music charts with the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition, Kenny Rogers got his first #1 song. Lady, written by Lionel Richie, stayed at the top for six weeks.

1986 - The first major operetta written by Gian Carlo Menotti in over 20 years was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Starring tenor Placido Domingo, Goya was said by critics to be only “intermittently good.”

1992 - After 200 victories, seven championships and more than 1,000 career starts, Richard Petty ended his career as a driver. In his final race, at Atlanta Motor Speedway, he drove his red and blue SIP Pontiac to a 35th-place finish in the Hooters 500.

1994 - ‘Marvelous’ Martina Navratilova ended her 19-year tennis career with a disappointing 6-4, 6-2 loss to Gabriela Sabatini in the first round of the WTA Championships at Madison Square Garden in New York. Navratilova, a Tennis Hall-of-Famer, played 380 singles tournaments and 1,650 matches. She won 167 titles and 1,438 matches, with a won-lost mark of 1,438-212. She won $20,344,061.

1996 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: TriStar Pictures’ The Mirror Has Two Faces, with Barbra Streisnad, Jeff Bridges Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro, Elle Macpherson, Austin Pendleton and Lauren Bacall.; and Warner Bros.’ Space Jam, starring Michael Jordan, Theresa Randle, Wayne Knight, Bill Murray, Billy West and Danny Devito.

1997 - Eddie Robinson coached his final home game at Grambling State University (losing 37-35 to North Carolina A&T). He was college football’s winningest coach with 408 wins. (Robinson ended his 56-year career two weeks later at the Bayou Classic against Southern University.)

Birthdays
November 15th.

1833 - Edwin Booth
actor: founded Players Club, New York; older brother of John Wilkes Booth assassin of Abraham Lincoln; died June 7, 1893

1887 - Georgia O’Keefe
artist: Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, A Cross by the Sea, Canada, Black Iris, Farmhouse Window and Door, Lake George; died Mar 6, 1986

1891 - W. Averell Harriman
U.S. diplomat, Governor of New York [1955-1959]; died July 26, 1986

1891 - Erwin Rommel
‘The Desert Fox’: WWII German field marshal and commander; accused in unsuccessful plot to assassinate Hitler: forced to commit suicide Oct 14, 1944

1919 - Carol Bruce
actress: WKRP in Cincinnati; died Oct 9, 2007

1919 - Joseph A. Wapner
judge, actor: The People’s Court

1928 - C.W. McCall (William Fries)
singer, songwriter: Convoy, Old Home, Filler-up, Keep on Truckin’ Cafe, Wolf Creek Pass, Classified, There Won’t be No Country Music, Roses for Mama

1929 - Edward Asner
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1970-71, 1971-72, 1974-75], Rich Man, Poor Man [2/1/76], Roots-Part One [1/23/77], Lou Grant [1977-78, 1979-80]; Thunder Alley, Hearts Afire, Change of Habit, The Doomsday Flight, Fort Apache The Bronx, JFK, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!; president of Screen Actor’s Guild

1932 - Petula Clark
Grammy Award-winning singer [1965]: Downtown, I Know a Place, This is My Song, My Love

1933 - Clyde (Lensley) McPhatter
singer: Treasure of Love, Long Lonely Nights, A Lovers Question, Lover Please; groups: Dominoes: Do Something for Me, Sixty Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby; Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night/Lucille, Honey Love; died June 13, 1972

1934 - Joanna Barnes
actress: The Trials of O’Brien, 21 Beacon Street, Spartacus, Parent Trap, Goodbye Charlie

1937 - Little Willie John (William Edward John)
singer: Sleep, Talk to Me Talk to Me, Fever; convicted of manslaughter, died Mar 26, 1968 in Washington State Prison

1937 - Yaphet Kotto
actor: Two If by Sea, The Puppet Masters, Extreme Justice, Midnight Run, The Running Man, Eye of the Tiger, Fighting Back, Alien, Raid on Entebbe, Shark’s Treasure, Live and Let Die, The Thomas Crown Affair, Five Card Stud, Nothing But a Man, Blue Collar, Homicide: Life on the Street, For Love and Honor

1940 - Sam Waterston
actor: The Killing Fields, Law & Order, Friendly Fire, I’ll Fly Away, The Great Gatsby, Serial Mom

1942 - Daniel Barenboim
musician: piano, conductor: English Chamber Orchestra

1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad
singer: group: Abba: Fernando, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me, Waterloo

1946 - Janet Lennon
singer: group: The Lennon Sisters: Tonight You Belong to Me

1947 - Bob Dandridge
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks forward

1950 - Otis Armstrong
football: Denver Broncos running back: AFC Leading Rusher: [1974]: Super Bowl XII

1951 - Beverly D’Angelo
actress: Coal Miner’s Daughter, Paternity, Hair, Annie Hall, Every Which Way but Loose, National Lampoon’s Vacation series, Captains and the Kings

1951 - Bo Matthews
football: Univ. of Colorado, San Diego Chargers, New York Giants, Miami Dolphins

1953 - Alexander O’Neal
songwriter, singer: The Time, Hearsay, All True Love, Lovers Again

1954 - Tony Thompson
musician: drums: group: Chic: Dance Dance Dance, Everybody Dance, Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Good Times; played with Led Zeppelin: Live Aid; drummer with Patti LaBelle

1957 - Kevin Eubanks
musician: guitar: bandleader: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; composer: film scores: Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault, Psalms from the Underground, The Dinner, The Week that Girl Died

1963 - Kevin J. O’Connor
actor: The Mummy, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Birdland, Gideon's Crossing

1967 - Mari Fernandez
singer: group: Sweet Sensation: If Wishes Came True, Love Child, Purely by Coincidence, Sad Sweet Dreamer

Chart Toppers
November 15th.

1946 Rumors are Flying - Frank Sinatra
South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
You Keep Coming Back like a Song - Dinah Shore
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis

1954 I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher
Hold My Hand - Don Cornell
Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
More and More - Webb Pierce

1962 He’s a Rebel - The Crystals
Big Girls Don’t Cry - The 4 Seasons ;)
All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee
I’ve Been Everywhere - Hank Snow

1970 I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5
We’ve Only Just Begun - Carpenters
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me - Charley Pride

1978 MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Double Vision - Foreigner
How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell

1986 Amanda - Boston ;)
Human - Human League
True Blue - Madonna
Diggin’ Up Bones - Randy Travis


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

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320th day of 2007 - 45 remaining.

Friday, November 16, 2007
SIXTEEN TONS DAY.

‘Tennessee’ Ernie Ford drove to the top spot on the record charts on this day in 1955. Sixteen Tons, where he owed his “soul to the company store,” became the fastest-selling record in history, jumping to #1 in just 3 weeks. The tune, on Capitol Records, stayed at #1 for eight weeks.

Ernie (bless his little pea-pickin’ heart) Ford is known for other classics, including: Mule Train (1949), The Shotgun Boogie (1950), The Cry of the Wild Goose (1950), I’ll Never Be Free (w/Kay Starr - 1950), Mr. and Mississippi (1951) and The Ballad of Davy Crockett (1955).

Ford was also famous for his religious albums, his NBC-TV show (1956-1961), and his many other television appearances. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1960.

But, we remember him most fondly for that 1955 smash about work, work, work: “You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...”
‘Tennessee’ Ernie Ford. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Ernie_Ford)

Events
November 16th.

1864 - To celebrate General Sherman’s march to the sea, Henry Clay wrote the song, Marching Through Georgia.

1875 - Dr. William G. Arlington Bonwill of Philadelphia, PA applied for a patent for his dental mallet used to impact gold into cavities. Noting the new invention, Bonwill’s first patient was reported to have said, “YeeeeeeeeOWWWWWWW!!!!” when the mallet hit the exposed nerve of a tooth. Dr. Bonwill replied with the well-known comeback line, “Oops!”

1901 - Henry Fournier drove a mile in 51 4/5 seconds, becoming the first auto racer to drive more than a mile-a-minute in competition -- in Brooklyn, NY.

1907 - Oklahoma, the Sooner State, was the 46th state to enter the United States of America. The word, Oklahoma, is a combination of two Choctaw words meaning red people. Then, why Sooner? Many, many Oklahoma homesteaders thought sooner was better than later, better to stake their homesteads first, before it was legal to do so. Oil wells pop up all over the Oklahoma landscape, even in the bustling state capital, Oklahoma City. And, when that wind comes sweeping down the plain, it picks up the state bird, the scissor-tail flycatcher, and spreads the parasitic state flower, the mistletoe.

1908 - Conductor Arturo Toscanini made his debut in the United States this day. He appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, conducting Aida.

1932 - The Palace in New York City closed its doors. It was the most famous vaudeville theatre in America. Later, it became a movie house with live performances preceding the flicks; most notably: the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in their heyday.

1935 - The Rodgers and Hart musical, Jumbo, opened in New York City for a run of 233 performances.

1937 - Bob Crosby and his orchestra recorded South Rampart Street Parade -- on Decca Records.

1958 - Six inches of snow fell on Tucson, Arizona, catching autumn golfers by surprise, to be sure...

1960 - The famed actor of the silver screen, Clark Gable, died at the age of 59. Gable, who played Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind and starred in so many other classic films, succumbed to a heart attack at 10:50 p.m. in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.

1967 - Retired harness racehorse Native Dancer died after stomach surgery in Philadelphia.

1970 - Anne Murray received a gold record for Snowbird. She was the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record.

1974 - NBC-TV began a two-night showing of the award-winning motion picture, The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando. The film represented the highest price paid for a movie shown on TV. NBC paid Paramount Pictures $10 million for the showing of the picture, a deal Paramount “...just couldn’t refuse.”

1975 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushed for 105 yards in a game against the San Francisco 49ers. It was Payton’s first game of 100 plus yards. He did it over 50 times throughout his career and added two 200-yard games, as well.

1982 - The 57-day strike by players in the National Football League ended. It was the first regular-season pro-football strike in the history of the NFL.

1986 - Gerber Products announced intentions to produce baby food in plastic jars, instead of glass -- a first for the industry.

1986 - The first comic miniseries was presented. Fresno poked fun at soap operas -- on CBS-TV.

1998 - TIME magazine (cover date Nov 16) reported in depth on Newt Gingrich’s resignation as Speaker of the U.S. House of Reprenstatives: Fall of the house of Newt, “An election shock ignites a Republican revolt: Gingrich is only the first victim in the growing fight for the party’s future.”

Birthdays
November 16th.

1873 - W.C. (William Christopher) Handy
composer: ‘Father of the Blues’: St. Louis Blues; died Mar 28, 1958

1889 - George S. (Simon) Kaufman
playwright: The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can’t Take It with You; died June 2, 1961

1895 - Paul Hindemith
composer: Gebrauchsmusik; operas: Cardillac, Matthias the Painter; concertmaster: Frankfurt Opera; conductor & viola soloist: Amar-Hindemith String Quartet; organized Turkey’s symphony orchestra; teacher: Berlin Conservatory, Yale University, University of Zurich; died Dec 28, 1963

1905 - Albert ‘Eddie’ Condon
musician: guitar, bandleader, promoter of Dixieland Jazz; died Aug 4, 1973

1909 - (Oliver) Burgess Meredith
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe [2-6-77], Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm’s Way, Of Mice and Men; TV host: Those Amazing Animals; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir; died Sep 9, 1997

1922 - Royal Dano
actor: Mr. Lincoln, Ghoulies 2, The Red Badge of Courage, Huckleberry Finn, The Right Stuff, Johnny Guitar, The Trouble with Harry; died May 15, 1994

1931 - Bob Gibson
singer, songwriter, leader of folk music movement in late ’50s: John Riley, Old Blue, Daddy Roll ’Em, Wayfaring Stranger; duo: Gibson and Camp; died Sep 27, 1996

1932 - Harry Chiti
baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs, KC Athletics, Detroit Tigers, NY Mets; died Jan 31, 2002

1934 - Guy Stockwell
actor: The Richard Boone Show, Beau Geste, Return to Peyton Place, Airport 1975, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College; brother of actor Dean Stockwell; died Feb 6, 2002

1935 - Elizabeth Drew
journalist, author: On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency, Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House, Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America

1935 - Clu Gulager
actor: The Killing Device, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Return of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Kenny Rogers as the Gambler series, Force of One, The Other Side of Midnight, Smile Jenny You’re Dead, The Last Picture Show, The Killers, The Virginian, The Tall Man, The Survivors, San Francisco International Airport

1942 - Joanna Pettet
actress: Best Sellers, Casino Royale, Double Exposure, Captains and the Kings, Knots Landing

1945 - Martine Van Hamel
ballet: American Ballet Theatre

1946 - Jo Jo (Joseph) White
basketball: Boston Celtics: MVP 1976 playoffs

1950 - David Leisure
actor: Empty Nest

1950 - Harvey Martin
football: Dallas Cowboys DE: Super Bowls X, XII, XIII; died Dec 24, 2001

1951 - Herb Washington
world indoor track records: 50 and 60-yard dashes: 5.0 and 5.8 seconds; baseball: Oakland A’s

1952 - Glenn (Lawrence) Burke
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977], Oakland Athletics; died May 30, 1995

1958 - Marg Helgenberger
actress: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Ryan’s Hope, China Beach, Through the Eyes of a Killer, Fallen Angels, Fire Down Below, Gold Coast, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

1959 - Larry Mize
golf champion: Masters [1987]

1959 - Corey Pavin
golf: 14 PGA Tour victories; U.S. national teams: Walker Cup [1981]; USA vs. Japan [1982]; Nissan Cup [1985]; Ryder Cup [3: 1991, 1993, 1995]; The Presidents Cup 2: 1994, 1996

1963 - Zina Garrison
tennis: Olympic Gold Medalist [Seoul, 1988, w/Pam Shriver]; founder: Zina Garrison All-Court Tennis Academy [for inner city youth, Houston]

1964 - Dwight ‘Doc’ (Eugene) Gooden
baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [Rookie of the Year: 1984/all-star: 1984-1986, 1988/Cy Young Award: 1985/World Series: 1986], NY Yankees

1966 - Dean McDermott
actor: Earth : Final Conflict, La Femme Nikita, Spenser : Small Vices, The Outer Limits, Rookies, Due South, Power Play, Brian’s Song

1967 - Lisa Bonet
actress: The Cosby Show, A Different World, Angel Heart, Bank Robber

1970 - Martha Plimpton
actress: The Goonies, Parenthood, The Mosquito Coast

Chart Toppers
November 16th.

1947 I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe
Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
You Do - Dinah Shore
I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold

1955 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
Only You - The Platters
Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce

1963 Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Washington Square - The Village Stompers
I’m Leaving It Up to You - Dale & Grace
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens

1971 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Imagine - John Lennon Plastic Ono Band
Lead Me On - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

1979 Heartache Tonight - Eagles ;)
Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer
Still - Commodores
You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers

1987 I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany
Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol ;)
(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
Maybe Your Baby’s Got the Blues - The Judds


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
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321st day of 2007 - 44 remaining.

Saturday, November 17, 2007
SUEZ CANAL DAY.

Over the years, a lot of squabbling has gone on over a 100-mile (160 kilometers) ditch called the Suez Canal. Formally opened on this day in 1869, the canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, eliminating a 4000-mile trip around Africa.

The canal first belonged to France, then to Great Britain and then Egypt. Because of the single direction of the wind in the Suez area and the narrowness of the canal, sailing ships had a hard time navigating and were eventually taken out of service in the British fleets - never to return. They were replaced by steamships. The building of the Suez Canal not only eliminated the African route, it eliminated a whole nautical tradition of sailing that had been a part of society for nearly 4800 years.

The Suez Canal has played a major wartime role. It was blockaded (by Britain) in World War I to keep enemy ships from using the waterway. Axis ships were denied use of the canal in World War II; then in 1950, because of the Arab-Israeli war, Egypt banned Israeli ships from the canal. During the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, it was blocked once again, this time by sunken ships; and didn’t reopen until 1975.

Since 1956, when Egypt seized control and claimed the sovereign right to govern its use, the Suez canal has been a national treasure to the Egyptian people -- earning the country millions of dollars daily.
Suez Canal. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal) Suez Canal. (http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/suezcanal.htm) And, Suez Canal . (http://i-cias.com/e.o/suez_can.htm) :D

Events
November 17th.

1558 - Elizabeth I became Queen of England upon the death of Queen Mary this day. ‘Good Queen Bess’ ruled Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1558 to 1603 and during her reign, England became a world power.

1877 - The first production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera, The Sorcerer, was presented -- in London.

1851 - The U.S. Post Office issued a 1-cent carrier stamp to make it easier to pay fees for delivering and collecting letters. It was the first postage stamp to depict an American eagle; and the last to make it easier to pay the fees.

1891 - Poland’s premier and premier ivory tickler, Ignace Jan Paderewski, made his American debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In later years, Paderewski, who suffered from arthritis, settled in Paso Robles, CA. The hot mineral baths located there eased his pain. He played only Steinway grand pianos custom-built to his specifications. In fact, five were made just for his use.

1938 - Orchestra leader Kay Kyser, speaking to an audience at the College of the City of New York (CCNY) told of the “inner workings and artistic features of swing music.” It marked the first of a series of lectures on swing music presented by Kyser, who went on to present The Kollege of Musical Knowledge on radio.

1950 - Roberta Peters filled in for the lead in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, making her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She would become one of the Met’s most famous stars.

1954 - Golfer Arnold Palmer signed a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods and became a pro.

1962 - The 4 Seasons, with Frankie Valli as lead singer, began a five-week run at the top of the tunedex with Big Girls Don’t Cry.

1966 - Woody Allen’s first play, Don’t Drink the Water, opened on Broadway.

1968 - The ‘Heidi Game’ happened on TV. The New York Jets/Oakland Raiders football game was cut off to begin a family show (Heidi) on NBC. The TV audience missed Oakland’s two touchdowns (in nine seconds) to win the game 43-32. NBC was flooded with calls and the concept of program delay was instituted immediately by the networks.

1970 - Elton John recorded an album live, on what was WABC-FM in New York City. It marked the first time that a concert was aired live and recorded for release as aired. The LP was titled, 11/17/70.

1980 - Roger Mudd began working as chief Washington correspondent for NBC. Mudd had left CBS after being passed over as Walter Cronkite’s replacement on The CBS Evening News.

1981 - Luke Spencer married Laura Baldwin in what was called “the wedding of the year” on the TV serial General Hospital. An audience of 14 million viewers watched as vows were exchanged on the ABC program.

1986 - Racecar driver Rick Mears set a U.S. closed-course record at the Michigan International Speedway. Mears was timed at an average speed of 233.934 mph, breaking the record set by Mark Donahue in 1975.

1986 - The creator of the term ‘baby boomer’ released the first issue of the magazine Quality this day. Landon Jones subtitled his glossy effort, America’s Guide to Excellence. There was only one problem. Most of America wasn’t buying and Quality did not last very long on newsstands.

1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), by a vote of 234 to 200. The Senate voted 60 to 38 for approval of the legislation on November 20. The bill was signed into law by President Clinton on December 8, 1993. It took effect on January 1, 1994. Under NAFTA, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico become a single, integrated market with $6.5 trillion worth of goods and services annually.

1995 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: The American President (“Why can’t the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?”), with Michael Douglas, Annete Bening, Martin Sheen and Michael J. Fox; Goldeneye (“You know the name. You know the number.”), starring Pierce Brosnan for the first time as Bond ... James Bond; and It Takes Two (“Two identical strangers. Two different worlds. One perfect match.”), with Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg.

1997 - Mario Lemieux was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame. On Nov 19 Mario Lemieux’s number 66 wasretired in a ceremony at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. And, surprise, on Dec 27, 2000 Lemieux, part-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, became a player again.

2000 - It was opening day in the U.S. for these films: Bounce (“Two strangers fell in love. One knew it wasn’t by chance.”), starring Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tony Goldwyn; Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch!”), with Jim Carrey as the Grinch, Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who, Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier and Anthony Hopkins narrating; Rugrats in Paris - The Movie (“France never had a chance!”), starring the voices of Susan Sarandon, John Lithgow, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Curry and Casey Kasem; and The 6th Day (“They picked the wrong man to clone.”), with Arnold Schwarzenneger, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport and Robert Duvall.

Birthdays
November 17th.

1799 - Titian Ramsay Peale
artist, naturalist: travelled with Wilkes Expedition to the South Pacific [1838-1842]; son of artist Charles Willson Peale; died in 1885

1887 - Field Marshal Bernard (Law) ‘Monty’ Montgomery
British Army commander of ground forces at Normandy landing [1944]; British Eighth Army; died Mar 24, 1976

1901 - Lee Strasberg (Israel Strassberg)
director; teacher of method acting at Actor’s Studio; died Feb 17, 1982

1905 - Mischa Auer (Ounskowsky)
actor: My Man Godfrey, Brewster’s Millions, Destry Rides Again, You Can’t Take It with You; died Mar 5, 1967

1916 - Shelby Foote
historian, writer: The Civil War

1925 - Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.)
actor: McMillan and Wife, Giant, A Gathering of Eagles, Ice Station Zebra, Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk, Written on the Wind; died Oct 2, 1985

1930 - Bob Mathias
Olympic & National Track & Field Hall of Famer: gold medalist decathlon [1948, 1952]; Sullivan Award; graced Wheaties boxes for years; Olympic torch lighter [1984]; U.S. congressman; played himself in The Bob Mathias Story; director: Olympic Training Center; died Sep 2, 2006

1933 - Orlando (Gregorio Quevara) Pena
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds, KC Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals, California Angels

1936 - Gary Bell
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1960, 1966], Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967/all-star: 1968], Chicago White Sox, Seattle Pilots

1937 - Jim (James Thomas) Brewer
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966, 1974/all-star: 1973], California Angels; died Nov 16, 1987

1937 - Peter Cook
actor: Beyond the Fringe, Beyond the Fringe ’64, Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe, Bedazzled, Monte Carlo or Bust; writer: Bedazzled; died Jan 9, 1995

1938 - Gordon Lightfoot
singer: Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; songwriter: Early Morning Rain, Ribbon of Darkness

1941 - Gene Clark
singer, musician: guitar: group: The Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn; New Christy Minstrels; died May 24, 1991

1942 - Bob Gaudio
singer: group: The Royal Teens: Short Shorts; The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll

1942 - Martin Scorsese
director: Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear, Michael Jackson’s Bad video

1943 - Lauren Hutton
actress: American Gigolo, Lassiter, Paper Lion

1944 - Danny DeVito
Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1980-81]; Twins, Batman Returns, Hoffa, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment, director: Throw Mama from the Train, The War of the Roses, Jack the Bear; married to actress Rhea Perlman

1944 - Lorne Michaels
Emmy Award-winning writer: The Paul Simon Special [1977], Saturday Night Live [1976, 1977, 1989], Lily [1974]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Three Amigos; Emmy Award-winning producer: Saturday Night Live [1976, 1993, 2002]; Sunday Night, The New Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Stuart Saves His Family, Lassie, The Coneheads, Wayne’s World series, Three Amigos

1944 - Tom ‘Terrific’ (George Thomas) Seaver
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Mets [World Series 1969, 1973/all-star: 1967-1973, 1975, 1976/Cy Young Award: 1969, 1973, 1975], Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1977, 1978, 1981], Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox; broadcaster: Reds, Mets, ABC

1945 - Elvin Hayes
Basketball Hall of Famer: ‘The Big E’: San Diego/Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets; 5th on list of most games played in ABA/NBA; University of Houston, All America [1967, 1968]

1946 - Martin Barre
musician: guitar: Jethro Tull: Living in the Past

1948 - Herman Weaver
football: kicker: Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks

1950 - Roland Matthes
swimmer: Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 and 200 meter backstroke [1968, 1972]

1951 - Charlie Davis
football: Pittsburgh Steelers DT [Super Bowl IX], SL Cardinals, Houston Oilers

1955 - Yolanda King
actress: Ghosts of Mississippi, America’s Dream, The Secret Path, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.

1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
actress: The Color of Money, The Abyss, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Class Action, Consenting Adults, Scarface

1959 - William R. Moses
actor: Perry Mason, Falcon Crest, Mystic Pizza, Trial by Jury, The Perfect Wife

1962 - Eric Olson
actor: Apple’s Way, Swiss Family Robinson

1966 - Daisy Fuentes
model: Revlon; TV host: MTV VJ; actress: Loving, America’s Funniest Home Videos

1966 - Sophie Marceau (Maupu)
actress: La Boum, Pacific Palisades, Braveheart, The World is Not Enough, A Midsummer Night's Dream

1967 - Ronnie DeVoe
singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe

Chart Toppers
November 17th.

1948 Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Jimmy Wakely

1956 Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Singing the Blues - Guy Mitchell
Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins

1964 Baby Love - The Supremes ;)
Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las
Come a Little Bit Closer - Jay & The Americans
I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens

1972 I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
I’d Love You to Want Me - Lobo
I’ll Be Around - Spinners
My Man - Tammy Wynette

1980 Lady - Kenny Rogers
The Wanderer - Donna Summer
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray

1988 Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
The Loco-Motion - Kylie Minogue
Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi ;)
Runaway Train - Rosanne Cash


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


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322nd day of 2007 - 43 remaining.

Sunday, November 18, 2007
STEAMBOAT WILLIE DAY.

On this day in 1928, Walt Disney debuted his talking, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theatre in New York. The short film featured a character who had been named Mortimer. Walt changed the name to Mickey Mouse.

Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon with synchronized sound. And, for those of you who don’t remember, Steamboat Willie was in black and white. Disney’s first color cartoon wasn’t released for another four years.

The star of the film has changed somewhat over the years; but Mickey Mouse is still with us, in cartoons, on TV, in books and even in his own stores. What a great success story, especially for a mouse!
Steamboat Willie. (http://www.angelfire.com/wi/SteamboatWillie/MickeyMouse.html) Walt Disney. (http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/disnehis/disn1928.htm) The first Mickey Mouse cartoon released. (http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/steamboat/steamboat.html)

Events
November 18th.

1307 - The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young son’s noggin is said to have taken place on this day. The story is of either Swiss, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, or Persian origin. In other words, Who knows?

1626 - St. Peter’s Basilica was dedicated in Rome by Urban VIII.

1894 - The New York World published the first colored Sunday comic.

1919 - One of the first ticker-tape parades was held -- to welcome the Prince of Wales to New York City. Ticker tape came from Wall Street, you know. Rolls of paper were used to record stock trades long before computers were invented. As the paper rolled over pins that punched stock information read by stock brokers, it would leave holes. When a big parade was organized, the shredded tape was scooped up and thrown out of windows on the marchers below. We now call the stuff confetti, since ticker tape isn’t used anymore.

1932 - For the first time, a tie occurred for the Best Actor Academy Award. Wallace Beery and Fredric March were only one vote apart so the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled it a tie. Both received an Oscar at the Fifth Annual Academy Awards, March for his performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beery for his role in The Champ. March thought it rather funny that the two were honored for ‘best male performance of the year’ when they each had adopted a child that year. The Champ also was honored when Frances Marion received the Writing/Original Story Academy Award for the film. There was only one Best Actress Award and it was presented to Helen Hayes for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Host Lionel Barrymore greeted the film industry this night in the Fiesta Room at LA’s grand hotel, The Ambassador. The movie, Grand Hotel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), earned the top honors as Outstanding Production. It was also a grand night for the film, Bad Girl. Its director, Frank Borzage, and its writer (adaptation), Edwin Burke, were both presented with Academy Awards. Walt Disney also received two awards: an honorary award for the creation of Mickey Mouse and for the cartoon short subject, Flowers and Trees. Short Subject awards were presented to two other well-known Hollywood talents on this evening. Hal Roach won his prize for the comedy, The Music Box and Mack Sennett for the novelty short, Wrestling Swordfish. Both were first-time Academy Award winners as were Gordon Wiles for Art Direction (Transatlantic) and Lee Garmes for Cinematography (Shanghai Express). A grand night was had by all.

1942 - Thornton Wilder’s play, The Skin of Our Teeth, opened in New York City. The play was Wilder’s sequel to Our Town. The Skin of Our Teeth starred Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Montgomery Clift and E.G. Marshall. One critic wrote, “As of last evening, the theatre was looking up.”

1949 - Alben W. Barkley married Jane Rucker Hadley in St. Louis. It was the first time a U.S. Vice President married while in office.

1951 - On this, a Sunday afternoon, Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly launched one of the most highly-praised TV productions in history. See It Now debuted on CBS. On that first program, Murrow showed a live camera shot of the Atlantic Ocean, followed by a live shot of the Pacific, then he said, “We are impressed by a medium through which a man sitting in his living room has been able to look at two oceans at once.” In April of 1952, See It Now moved into an evening time slot.

1967 - Lulu’s To Sir with Love, from the movie of the same name, started its fifth and final week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (November 3, 1948). She changed her name to Lulu (and The Luvvers) in Scotland, early in her career.

1970 - Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling declared that large doses ofVitamin C could ward off the common cold.

1975 - John Denver received a gold record for I’m Sorry.

1978 - The worst case of murder-suicide in history took place in Jonestown, Guyana. Religious-cult leader Jim Jones (Peoples Temple) directed the ingestion of Kool-Aid (laced with cyanide) by at least 900 of his followers. He and his mistress then followed suit. Earlier in the day, Jones had directed the murder of California Congressman Leo J. Ryan, three newspeople and several ‘defectors’. Ryan, on a fact-finding tour of Jonestown, was boarding a privated airplan with the small group when they were shot down.

1986 - For the first time since his departure from his own late-night TV show, Jack Paar was a guest of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. One of TV’s great lines came from the show, when Carson quipped (after one of Paar’s long, long spiels), “Why is it that I feel I’m guesting on your show?”

1986 - Roger Clemens was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player. He was the first American League starter to be so named in 15 years. The Boston Red Sox hurler won the honor one week after earning the Cy Young Award.

1995 - Tha Dogg Pound’s album Dogg Food hit #1 in the U.S. for one week. The tracks were: Intro, Dogg Pound Gangstaz, Respect, New York, New York (Tha Night I Served 2,000 M.C.s), Smooth, Cyco-Lic-No (***** Azz Niggaz) Ridin’, Slipin’ and Slidin’, U Can’t See Me, Big Pimpin 2, Let’s Play House, I Don’t Like to Dream About Gettin Paid, Do What I Feel, If We All Fuc*, Some Bomb Azz *****, A Dogg’z Day Afternoon, Reality, "One By One (Subtracting Sucka Azz Niggaz from the Face of the Earth)", Sooo Much Style. This album will make the perfect gift for grandma this Christmas.

1997 - Two Willem de Kooning paintings topped the lots at Christie’s blue-chip contemporary sale in New York City. Two Standing Women (1949), sold for $4,182,500 and Woman (Blue Eyes) (1953), which went for about $2 million.

1997 - The Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays begin taking shape with 35 selections apiece in baseball’s expansion draft. Both the Diamondbacks and Devil Rays began their baseball lives with sufficient funds to contend quickly.

Birthdays
November 18th.

1786 - Carl Weber
composer: Der Freischutz, Euryanthem Oberon, Invitation to the Dance; began the era of German romantic music; died June 5, 1826

1787 - Louis Daguerre
theater scene painter, physicist, inventor: daguerreotype photographic process; died in 1851

1836 - Sir William Gilbert
comic opera libretto writer: team: Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance; died May 29, 1911

1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci
opera soprano: “If not the greatest coloratura soprano of all time, she must surely be recognized as among the world’s finest examples of true operatic artistry.”; died Nov 26, 1963

1899 - Eugene Ormandy (Jeno Blau)
conductor: The Philadelphia Orchestra; died Mar 12, 1985

1901 - George (Horace) Gallup
pollster whose opinion polls became famous by predicting FDR’s win in 1936; died in 1984; died July 26, 1984

1901 - Craig Wood
golf champion: PGA Hall of Famer: Masters [1941], U.S. Open [1941: he had entered 15 times before the win]; died May 7, 1968

1908 - Imogene Coca
Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Your Show of Shows [1951]; Sid Caesar Invites You, It’s about Time, Grindl, Admiral Broadway Revue, National Lampoon’s Vacation; died June 2, 2001

1909 - Johnny (John Herndon) Mercer
Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962]; Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, Yo