DYR Today, September 17

“Born Today”

• Wade Robson (33)
• Constantine Maroulis (40)
• Jimmie Johnson (40)
• Bobby Lee (43)
• Nate Berkus (44)
• Keith Flint (46)
• Matthew Settle (46)
• Anastacia (47)
• Malik Yoba (48)
• Doug E. Fresh (49)
• Bryan Singer (50)
• Kyle Chandler (50)
• Amy Roloff (51)
• James Urbaniak (52)
• Baz Luhrmann (53)
• Dustin Nguyen (53)
• BeBe Winans (53)
• Kevin Clash (55)
• Rita Rudner (62)
• Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson (64)
• John Ritter (RIP)
• Hank Williams (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Dred Scott (Born: 1799 / Died: September 17, 1858)
• Karl Popper (Born: July 28,1902 / Died: September 17, 1994)
• George Hamilton IV (Born: July 19, 1937 / Died: September 17, 2014)

“Movies”

• 1967 – Games
• 1969 – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• 1976 – The Front
• 1982 – Hammett
• 1993 – Airborne
• 1993 – Striking Distance
• 1993 – Into the West
• 1999 – Blue Streak
• 1999 – American Beauty
• 1999 – Breakfast of Champions
• 1999 – For Love of the Game

“Music”

• 1955 – Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded “Sixteen Tons”
• 1955 – Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene” was #1 on the R&B chart for the seventh week

• 1964 – The Supremes released “Baby Love”
• 1964 – The Beatles performed in Kansas City, Missouri
• 1966 – “Land of 1000 Dances” by Wilson Pickett was the #1 song

• 1966 – Roger Williams’s “Born Free” was the #1 song on the Easy Listening chart
• 1966 – “You Can’t Hurry Love” by The Supremes was the #1 song for the second week
• 1971 – Lynn Anderson had the #1 Country album with You’re My Man
• 1972 – The Eagles performed in Jacksonville, Florida
• 1973 – Billy Joel recorded part of “Piano Man”
• 1973 – The Carpenters released “Top of the World”

• 1975 – Silver Convention released “Fly, Robin, Fly”
• 1977 – Ronnie McDowell’s “The King is Gone” (a tribute to Elvis Presley)was #40
• 1977 – Reba McEntire performed for the first time at the Grand Ole Opry
• 1977 – Andy Gibb’s “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” was #1

• 1977 – Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was the #1 album for the 19th week
• 1983 – Paul Young’s No Parlez was the #1 album in the U.K.
• 1983 – Prince’s “Delirious” was #37

• 1983 – The Police’s Synchronicity was the #1 album
• 1988 – Peter Cetera’s “One Good Woman” was the #1 song for the third week
• 1988 – “Another Part of Me” by Michael Jackson was the #1 song on the R&B chart

• 1988 – Def Leppard’s Hysteria was the #1 album
• 1991 – Use Your Illusion I/Use Your Illusion II were released by Guns N’ Roses
• 1994 – Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You” was the #1 song
• 1997 – Fleetwood Mac started a reunion tour

“TV/Radio”

• 1931 – The first record that was 33 ⅓ rpms was played in NYC
• 1963 – ABC premiered the show The Fugitive
• 1964 – Bewitched premiered on ABC

“Other Important Events…”

• 1787 – The drafting of the U.S. Constitution finished
• 1954 – William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies was published
• 2011 – The Occupy Wall Street movement began in NYC