TODAY IS ... 12 JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS -
1988 – Andy Lawrence - an American actor – the younger brother of actors Joseph Lawrence and Matthew Lawrence. He is currently playing "Jason" on "United States of Tara"
1987 - Will Rothhaar - an American actor who began acting in the mid 1990s, and appeared in several made-for-television films and series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mad About You. He had supporting roles in several feature films, including Jack Frost and Hearts in Atlantis.
1980 - Amerie - a two time Grammy nominated American singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and actress.
1974 - Melanie Chisholm - singer: group: Spice Girls: LPs: Forever, Spice, Goodbye, Spiceworld
1967 - Vendela Kirsebom - model, actress: The Parent Trap, Batman and Robin, Cuore di ladro
1964 - Jeff Bezos - the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994.
1960 - Oliver Platt - actor: Huff, Bulworth, Married to the Mob, Crusoe, Flatliners, Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers, Doctor Dolittle, Simon Birch, Bicentennial Man, Gun Shy, Ash Wednesday
1955 – Australian rocker Paul Kelly is born in Adelaide.
1954 - Howard Stern - syndicated/satellite radio talk-show host, TV host: The Howard Stern Show; actor: Private Parts
1951 - Kirstie Alley - Emmy Award-winning actress: Cheers [1991]; Look Who’s Talking
1948 - Anthony Andrews - actor: Haunted, Hands of a Murderer, Hanna’s War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ivanhoe, Brideshead Revisited
1944 - Joe Frazier - boxer: ‘Smokin’ Joe’: World Heavyweight Champion [1970-1973]
1941 – English blues singer Long John Baldry is born in London. He gave both Rod Stewart and Elton John their first breaks in the music biz by employing them to play in his band.
1936 - Ron Harper - actor: Wendy and Me, The Planet of the Apes, The Jean Arthur Show, Garrison’s Gorillas, 87th Precinct
1926 - Ray Price - singer: Crazy Arms, Make the World Go Away, For the Good Times, I Won’t Mention it Again, Nightlife
1910 - Luise Rainer - Academy Award-winning actress: The Great Ziegfeld [1936], The Good Earth [1937]
OTHER EVENTS –
2008 - Mary J. Blige was at No.1 on the US album chart with her eighth album ‘Growing Pains’.
2007 - Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes perihelion.
2006 - The U.S. Mint began shipping new 5-cent coins to the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. The coin has an image of Thomas Jefferson taken from a 1800 Rembrandt Peale portrait in which the president is looking forward. Since 1909, when presidents were first depicted on circulating coins, all presidents had been shown in profile.
2006 – Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell star in The Producers which commences screening in Australia. After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
2005- It was announced that the Strawberry Field children's home immortalised by The Beatles was to close. The home in Woolton, Liverpool was made famous when John Lennon wrote ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ after playing there as a child.
2005 - NASA launched "Deep Impact". The spacecraft was planned to impact on Comet Tempel 1 after a six-month, 268 million-mile journey.
2005 – Green Day’s American Idiot returns to the top of the U.S. album charts, knocking Eminem’s Encore down to No. 2. The highest new entry is the Beyond the Sea soundtrack, featuring actor Kevin Spacey singing Bobby Darin songs.
2005 - Britain's Prince Harry apologized after a newspaper published a photograph of the young royal wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party.
2003 – At the 29th Annual People’s Choice Awards, country act the Dixie Chicks and rock group Creed tie for the favorite group or band honor, while country superstar Faith Hill is honored as favorite female musical performer, and rapper Eminem takes the male award.
2002-The Refusenik Movement began in Israel when 53 Israeli Army officers announced they refused to enforce the Likud Government’s policy in the West Bank & Gaza.
2002 - Aaliyah had the posthumous UK No.1 single with 'More Than A Woman'. Aaliyah was killed in Aug 2001 in a plane crash in the Bahamas aged 22. The Cessna plane crashed a few minutes after take off killing everyone on board. Aaliyah had been filming a video on the island for her latest release ‘Rock The Boat’.
2000 – Sarah McLachlan is appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada on this day in rock history!
2000 – It’s announced that Bob Dylan will receive Sweden’s Polar Music Award.
1999 - Britney Spears' debut album "...Baby One More Time" was released.
1998 - The Thirteenth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York. Inductees include The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Mamas and the Papas, Lloyd Price, Santana, Lloyd Price, Allen Toussaint and Gene Vincent.
1998 – Billy Joel sells out a record-setting eighth and ninth shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. The eighth show sells out in about an hour, precipitating the addition of the ninth show.
1997 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Ouside the "Noiseland Arcade", a sign is displayed above a live gorilla: "Friday Meet Donkey Kong in Person". The gorilla throws a barrel at a man, knocking him down.
1996, AC/DC played the first date on their Ballbreaker World Tour in Greensboro, North Carolina. The world tour would last for 11 months finishing on November 30, 1996 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1995- Steven Speilberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen announced the name of their new partnership would be 'Dreamworks SKG'. Someone in Florida immediately bought the domain name “Dreamworks.com” and waited for their buyout offer reportedly only $5,000
1995 - The Tenth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York. Inductees include The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Martha and the Vandellas, Neil Young, and Frank Zappa.
1995 - Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that as of January 16 British troops would no longer carry out daylight street patrols in Belfast.
1995 – Australia’s Kylie Minogue with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia star in Street Fighter which starts screening in Australia. Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
1993 - Van Morrison failed to turn up at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction dinner, making him the first living inductee not to attend.
1993 - The Eighth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in Los Angeles. Inductees include Cream (who reunite on stage for the event), Ruth Brown, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Etta James, Van Morrison, and Sly and the Family Stone.
1992-According to Arthur C. Clarke’s "2001, a Space Odyssey", the HAL-9000 computer was booted up today.
1991 - Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 became the first album to generate seven top-five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 (four went to number one). Love Will Never Do (Without You) reached #4 this day and it hit #1 the following week.
1991 - A deeply divided Congress gave President George H.W. Bush the authority to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. (The Senate vote was 52-47; the House followed suit 250-183.)
1989 – Starting to screen in Australia is The Blob starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith. A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
1989 – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly begins screening in Australia. Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them
1986 - 24th space shuttle mission STS 61-C Columbia 7 is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz.
1985 - Bryan Adams debuts on UK chart with Run to You
1985 - After a record 24 weeks as the #1 album in the nation, Prince slipped to the #2 spot with Purple Rain. Replacing Prince at the top spot: ‘The Boss’ Bruce Springsteen’s Born In the USA, which spent 24 weeks waiting for Purple Rain to fall.
1984 - William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy star in Gorky Park which starts screening in Australia. An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park.
1984 - In London, England, Sinclair Research announces the 16/32-bit QL microcomputer. It features Motorola 68008 microprocessor, 128 kB RAM, two built-in tape drives, and multitasking ROM-based operating system. Weight is 3 pounds. Price is expected to be US$500 when marketed in the US later in the year. QL stands for Quantum Leap.
1981 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) donates several rock record albums to the Library of Congress, including Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and KISS' Alive!
1981 - "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, starring Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV
1979 - Singer "Tiny Tim" establishes a new world non-stop singing record of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds.
1977 - "Long May You Run" an LP by the Stephen Stills/Neil Young band is certified gold. The album and tour (cut short due to Young's throat problems) are Young's last professional collaborations with any of his ex-bandmates, although the other three, Stills, David Crosy and Graham Nash will reunite serveral times in the years to come.
1975 – The Warner Bros. Looney Tunes package tour kicks off in Europe, featuring the Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, Graham Central Station, Bonaroo, Montrose and Tower of Power.
1974 - Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic".
1974 - Jim Croce started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim'.
1974 - The Steve Miller Band were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Joker', the group's first of three No.1's. It reached No.1 on the UK chart in 1990.
1971- “ ALL IN THE FAMILY” Norman Lear's t.v. sitcom about racism and the 60's,debuts. Based on a successful British show it broke new ground for American sitcoms by frankly discussing prejudice, menopause, rape and other taboo subjects. It’s first show featured the sound of a toilet flushing. The networks were so worried about its explosive content ABC rejected the show twice and CBS ran the first episodes with a long apologetic disclaimer. Carrol O’Connor, the actor who played Archie Bunker was so convinced the show would flop he demanded as part of his contract a round trip plane ticket home. The show ran for 13 years, a bushel of Emmy Awards and made Archie Bunker a folk-hero. Originally, ABC had plans to broadcast the series under the title, Those Were the Days.
1970- The Boeing 747 makes it’s first flight.
1969 – The psychedelic film Wonderwall premieres in London, with a soundtrack by George Harrison. Halliwell’s Film Guide says the movie is “vapid and witless.” Oasis write a song about it.
1969 - "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 355 performances
1968 - The Doors' second album, "Strange Days," goes gold. Highlights are "People Are Strange," "Love Me Two Times," "Moonlight Drive" and "When the Music's Over."
1968 - The Beatles Film Productions changed its name to Apple Film Limited and Apple Music Limited changed its name to Apple Corps Limited.
1967 - “This is the city...” One of broadcasting’s greatest hits, Dragnet, returned to NBC-TV after being off the network schedule for eight years. Harry Morgan was Jack Webb’s sidekick in the renewed series. “Just the facts, ma’am.”
1966 - U.S. President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.
1966 - Batman debuted -- on ABC-TV. Adam West starred as Batman and Burt Ward was the Bat-Boy, Robin. Pow! Zork! Crunch! Holy hot cakes, Batman!
1965 - The Supremes guest star on an epsiode of NBC's Tarzan, playing a trio of nuns.
1965 - The NBC-TV pop-music show Hullabaloo made its debut. A competitor of ABC’s successful Shindig show, Hullabaloo tried to attract a wider audience by featuring both rock music and Las Vegas-type acts. Guests on the first show included the New Christy Minstrels, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Zombies and Woody Allen. Hullabaloo lasted on the air through Aug 29, 1966.
1963 - The Cascades make their chart debut with "Rhythm of the Rain." Their biggest hit, it will go to #3 on the pop chart and #7 on the R&B chart.
1963 - Parlophone releases, "Please Please Me" backed with "Ask Me Why," the Beatles second U.K. single. In two months, it's #2 on the U.K. charts, however, it doesn't appear on the U.S. charts for another year.
1963 - On his way back from Italy in a search for estranged girlfriend Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan records the radio play Madhouse on Castle Street in London for the BBC. It features his first recorded rendition of "Blowin' In The Wind" and his only recorded version of the original "Swan on the River." In the drama, Dylan plays a folk singer.
1963 - "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks
1962- President John F. Kennedy signed Executive order 10988, mandating federal workers had the right to join unions and bargain collectively.
1961 - "Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 100 performances
1960-” The Scent of Mystery”- the first film in Smell-O-Vision.
1959 - Berry Gordy borrows $800 from his family to start a record label and rents an eight-room house on 2648 W. Grand Blvd, the future home of Motown Records.
1958 - Eddie Cochran records Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie in Los Angeles.
1957 – Elvis Presley records “All Shook Up” at a Hollywood studio.
1955 - Etta James releases her first hit, Wallflower
1943 - The Office of Price Administration announced that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by 'Victory Sausages.'
1940 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit, “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way),” Shep Fields Orchestra.
1939 - The Ink Spots gained national attention after five years together, as they recorded "If I Didn’t Care", Decca record number 2286.
1915 – The US Congress established Rocky Mountain National Park.
1915 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time, from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1812 - First steam boat to travel down the Mississippi: The New Orleans arrives in New Orleans. It had departed from Pittsburgh in September.
1669- Buccaneer Henry Morgan convened a meeting of the Captains of the Coast, a council of pirates on board his frigate the Oxford. In their meeting they resolved to attack Cartagena Columbia, a rich Spanish port and staging area for the great treasure fleets. During the drunken celebrations someone fired a gun off in the Oxford’s powder magazine and the ensuing explosion killed 200.
1987 - Will Rothhaar - an American actor who began acting in the mid 1990s, and appeared in several made-for-television films and series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mad About You. He had supporting roles in several feature films, including Jack Frost and Hearts in Atlantis.
1980 - Amerie - a two time Grammy nominated American singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and actress.
1974 - Melanie Chisholm - singer: group: Spice Girls: LPs: Forever, Spice, Goodbye, Spiceworld
1967 - Vendela Kirsebom - model, actress: The Parent Trap, Batman and Robin, Cuore di ladro
1964 - Jeff Bezos - the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994.
1960 - Oliver Platt - actor: Huff, Bulworth, Married to the Mob, Crusoe, Flatliners, Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers, Doctor Dolittle, Simon Birch, Bicentennial Man, Gun Shy, Ash Wednesday
1955 – Australian rocker Paul Kelly is born in Adelaide.
1954 - Howard Stern - syndicated/satellite radio talk-show host, TV host: The Howard Stern Show; actor: Private Parts
1951 - Kirstie Alley - Emmy Award-winning actress: Cheers [1991]; Look Who’s Talking
1948 - Anthony Andrews - actor: Haunted, Hands of a Murderer, Hanna’s War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ivanhoe, Brideshead Revisited
1944 - Joe Frazier - boxer: ‘Smokin’ Joe’: World Heavyweight Champion [1970-1973]
1941 – English blues singer Long John Baldry is born in London. He gave both Rod Stewart and Elton John their first breaks in the music biz by employing them to play in his band.
1936 - Ron Harper - actor: Wendy and Me, The Planet of the Apes, The Jean Arthur Show, Garrison’s Gorillas, 87th Precinct
1926 - Ray Price - singer: Crazy Arms, Make the World Go Away, For the Good Times, I Won’t Mention it Again, Nightlife
1910 - Luise Rainer - Academy Award-winning actress: The Great Ziegfeld [1936], The Good Earth [1937]
OTHER EVENTS –
2008 - Mary J. Blige was at No.1 on the US album chart with her eighth album ‘Growing Pains’.
2007 - Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes perihelion.
2006 - The U.S. Mint began shipping new 5-cent coins to the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. The coin has an image of Thomas Jefferson taken from a 1800 Rembrandt Peale portrait in which the president is looking forward. Since 1909, when presidents were first depicted on circulating coins, all presidents had been shown in profile.
2006 – Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell star in The Producers which commences screening in Australia. After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
2005- It was announced that the Strawberry Field children's home immortalised by The Beatles was to close. The home in Woolton, Liverpool was made famous when John Lennon wrote ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ after playing there as a child.
2005 - NASA launched "Deep Impact". The spacecraft was planned to impact on Comet Tempel 1 after a six-month, 268 million-mile journey.
2005 – Green Day’s American Idiot returns to the top of the U.S. album charts, knocking Eminem’s Encore down to No. 2. The highest new entry is the Beyond the Sea soundtrack, featuring actor Kevin Spacey singing Bobby Darin songs.
2005 - Britain's Prince Harry apologized after a newspaper published a photograph of the young royal wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party.
2003 – At the 29th Annual People’s Choice Awards, country act the Dixie Chicks and rock group Creed tie for the favorite group or band honor, while country superstar Faith Hill is honored as favorite female musical performer, and rapper Eminem takes the male award.
2002-The Refusenik Movement began in Israel when 53 Israeli Army officers announced they refused to enforce the Likud Government’s policy in the West Bank & Gaza.
2002 - Aaliyah had the posthumous UK No.1 single with 'More Than A Woman'. Aaliyah was killed in Aug 2001 in a plane crash in the Bahamas aged 22. The Cessna plane crashed a few minutes after take off killing everyone on board. Aaliyah had been filming a video on the island for her latest release ‘Rock The Boat’.
2000 – Sarah McLachlan is appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada on this day in rock history!
2000 – It’s announced that Bob Dylan will receive Sweden’s Polar Music Award.
1999 - Britney Spears' debut album "...Baby One More Time" was released.
1998 - The Thirteenth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York. Inductees include The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Mamas and the Papas, Lloyd Price, Santana, Lloyd Price, Allen Toussaint and Gene Vincent.
1998 – Billy Joel sells out a record-setting eighth and ninth shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. The eighth show sells out in about an hour, precipitating the addition of the ninth show.
1997 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Ouside the "Noiseland Arcade", a sign is displayed above a live gorilla: "Friday Meet Donkey Kong in Person". The gorilla throws a barrel at a man, knocking him down.
1996, AC/DC played the first date on their Ballbreaker World Tour in Greensboro, North Carolina. The world tour would last for 11 months finishing on November 30, 1996 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1995- Steven Speilberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen announced the name of their new partnership would be 'Dreamworks SKG'. Someone in Florida immediately bought the domain name “Dreamworks.com” and waited for their buyout offer reportedly only $5,000
1995 - The Tenth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York. Inductees include The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Martha and the Vandellas, Neil Young, and Frank Zappa.
1995 - Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that as of January 16 British troops would no longer carry out daylight street patrols in Belfast.
1995 – Australia’s Kylie Minogue with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia star in Street Fighter which starts screening in Australia. Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
1993 - Van Morrison failed to turn up at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction dinner, making him the first living inductee not to attend.
1993 - The Eighth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in Los Angeles. Inductees include Cream (who reunite on stage for the event), Ruth Brown, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Etta James, Van Morrison, and Sly and the Family Stone.
1992-According to Arthur C. Clarke’s "2001, a Space Odyssey", the HAL-9000 computer was booted up today.
1991 - Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 became the first album to generate seven top-five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 (four went to number one). Love Will Never Do (Without You) reached #4 this day and it hit #1 the following week.
1991 - A deeply divided Congress gave President George H.W. Bush the authority to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. (The Senate vote was 52-47; the House followed suit 250-183.)
1989 – Starting to screen in Australia is The Blob starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith. A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
1989 – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly begins screening in Australia. Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them
1986 - 24th space shuttle mission STS 61-C Columbia 7 is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz.
1985 - Bryan Adams debuts on UK chart with Run to You
1985 - After a record 24 weeks as the #1 album in the nation, Prince slipped to the #2 spot with Purple Rain. Replacing Prince at the top spot: ‘The Boss’ Bruce Springsteen’s Born In the USA, which spent 24 weeks waiting for Purple Rain to fall.
1984 - William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy star in Gorky Park which starts screening in Australia. An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park.
1984 - In London, England, Sinclair Research announces the 16/32-bit QL microcomputer. It features Motorola 68008 microprocessor, 128 kB RAM, two built-in tape drives, and multitasking ROM-based operating system. Weight is 3 pounds. Price is expected to be US$500 when marketed in the US later in the year. QL stands for Quantum Leap.
1981 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) donates several rock record albums to the Library of Congress, including Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and KISS' Alive!
1981 - "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, starring Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV
1979 - Singer "Tiny Tim" establishes a new world non-stop singing record of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds.
1977 - "Long May You Run" an LP by the Stephen Stills/Neil Young band is certified gold. The album and tour (cut short due to Young's throat problems) are Young's last professional collaborations with any of his ex-bandmates, although the other three, Stills, David Crosy and Graham Nash will reunite serveral times in the years to come.
1975 – The Warner Bros. Looney Tunes package tour kicks off in Europe, featuring the Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, Graham Central Station, Bonaroo, Montrose and Tower of Power.
1974 - Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic".
1974 - Jim Croce started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim'.
1974 - The Steve Miller Band were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Joker', the group's first of three No.1's. It reached No.1 on the UK chart in 1990.
1971- “ ALL IN THE FAMILY” Norman Lear's t.v. sitcom about racism and the 60's,debuts. Based on a successful British show it broke new ground for American sitcoms by frankly discussing prejudice, menopause, rape and other taboo subjects. It’s first show featured the sound of a toilet flushing. The networks were so worried about its explosive content ABC rejected the show twice and CBS ran the first episodes with a long apologetic disclaimer. Carrol O’Connor, the actor who played Archie Bunker was so convinced the show would flop he demanded as part of his contract a round trip plane ticket home. The show ran for 13 years, a bushel of Emmy Awards and made Archie Bunker a folk-hero. Originally, ABC had plans to broadcast the series under the title, Those Were the Days.
1970- The Boeing 747 makes it’s first flight.
1969 – The psychedelic film Wonderwall premieres in London, with a soundtrack by George Harrison. Halliwell’s Film Guide says the movie is “vapid and witless.” Oasis write a song about it.
1969 - "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 355 performances
1968 - The Doors' second album, "Strange Days," goes gold. Highlights are "People Are Strange," "Love Me Two Times," "Moonlight Drive" and "When the Music's Over."
1968 - The Beatles Film Productions changed its name to Apple Film Limited and Apple Music Limited changed its name to Apple Corps Limited.
1967 - “This is the city...” One of broadcasting’s greatest hits, Dragnet, returned to NBC-TV after being off the network schedule for eight years. Harry Morgan was Jack Webb’s sidekick in the renewed series. “Just the facts, ma’am.”
1966 - U.S. President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.
1966 - Batman debuted -- on ABC-TV. Adam West starred as Batman and Burt Ward was the Bat-Boy, Robin. Pow! Zork! Crunch! Holy hot cakes, Batman!
1965 - The Supremes guest star on an epsiode of NBC's Tarzan, playing a trio of nuns.
1965 - The NBC-TV pop-music show Hullabaloo made its debut. A competitor of ABC’s successful Shindig show, Hullabaloo tried to attract a wider audience by featuring both rock music and Las Vegas-type acts. Guests on the first show included the New Christy Minstrels, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Zombies and Woody Allen. Hullabaloo lasted on the air through Aug 29, 1966.
1963 - The Cascades make their chart debut with "Rhythm of the Rain." Their biggest hit, it will go to #3 on the pop chart and #7 on the R&B chart.
1963 - Parlophone releases, "Please Please Me" backed with "Ask Me Why," the Beatles second U.K. single. In two months, it's #2 on the U.K. charts, however, it doesn't appear on the U.S. charts for another year.
1963 - On his way back from Italy in a search for estranged girlfriend Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan records the radio play Madhouse on Castle Street in London for the BBC. It features his first recorded rendition of "Blowin' In The Wind" and his only recorded version of the original "Swan on the River." In the drama, Dylan plays a folk singer.
1963 - "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks
1962- President John F. Kennedy signed Executive order 10988, mandating federal workers had the right to join unions and bargain collectively.
1961 - "Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 100 performances
1960-” The Scent of Mystery”- the first film in Smell-O-Vision.
1959 - Berry Gordy borrows $800 from his family to start a record label and rents an eight-room house on 2648 W. Grand Blvd, the future home of Motown Records.
1958 - Eddie Cochran records Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie in Los Angeles.
1957 – Elvis Presley records “All Shook Up” at a Hollywood studio.
1955 - Etta James releases her first hit, Wallflower
1943 - The Office of Price Administration announced that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by 'Victory Sausages.'
1940 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit, “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way),” Shep Fields Orchestra.
1939 - The Ink Spots gained national attention after five years together, as they recorded "If I Didn’t Care", Decca record number 2286.
1915 – The US Congress established Rocky Mountain National Park.
1915 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time, from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1812 - First steam boat to travel down the Mississippi: The New Orleans arrives in New Orleans. It had departed from Pittsburgh in September.
1669- Buccaneer Henry Morgan convened a meeting of the Captains of the Coast, a council of pirates on board his frigate the Oxford. In their meeting they resolved to attack Cartagena Columbia, a rich Spanish port and staging area for the great treasure fleets. During the drunken celebrations someone fired a gun off in the Oxford’s powder magazine and the ensuing explosion killed 200.
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