DYR Today, September 21

“Born Today”

• Christian Serratos (25)
• Jason Derülo (26)
• Ryan Guzman (28)
• Maggie Grace (32)
• Nicole Richie (34)
• Autumn Reeser (35)
• Liam Gallagher (43)
• Alfonso Ribeiro (44)
• Luke Wilson (44)
• Anne Burrell (46)
• Ricki Lake (47)
• Faith Hill (48)
• Lavan Davis (49)
• Abby Lee Miller (49)
• Darva Conger (50)
• Cheryl Hines (50)
• Momma Dee (52)
• Rob Morrow (53)
• Nancy Travis (54)
• David James Elliot (55)
• Dave Coulier (56)
• Ethan Coen (58)
• Bill Murray (65)
• Stephen King (68)
• Jerry Bruckheimer (72)
• Leonard Cohen (81)
• HG Wells (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Walter Brennan (Born: July 25, 1894 / Died: September 21, 1974)
• Florence Joyner (Born: December 21, 1959 / Died: September 21, 1998)

“Movies”

• 1972 –Cancel My Reservation
• 1975 – Dog Day Afternoon
• 1983 – Educating Rita
• 1984 – All of Me
• 1984 –Places in the Heart

“Music”

• 1959 – The Isley Brothers released “Shout”

• 1959 – Fats Domino held the #1 spot on the R&B chart with “I Want to Walk You Home”
• 1959 – Santo and Johnny’s “Sleep Walk” was the #1 song
• 1963 – Bobby Vinton’s “Blue Velvet” spent its 3rd week at #1 on the Easy Listening chart
• 1965 – The Who performed in The Netherlands beginning their Scandinavian tour
• 1968 – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “You’re All I Need to Get By” was #1 on the R&B chart for the 4th week
• 1968 – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s “Fire” was the #15 on the chart
• 1968 – The Bee Gees moved to #9 with “I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You”

• 1970 – Santana released Abraxas
• 1970 – Freda Payne’s “Band of Gold” was the #1 song in the U.K.

• 1974 – Carl Douglas’s “Kung Fu Fighting” was the #1 song in the U.K.
• 1974 – Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” spent its 3rd week at #1 on the R&B chart
• 1974 – Olivia Newton-John’s “I Honestly Love You” was the #1 song on the Easy Listening chart for the 2nd week
• 1976 – The Bee Gees released Children of the World
• 1978 – Chic released “Le Freak”

• 1979 – Rupert Holmes released “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”
• 1981 – Adam and the Ants’ “Prince Charming” was the #1 song in the U.K.
• 1982 – Donald Fagan released “I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World)”
• 1985 – Madonna’s Like A Virgin was the #1 album in the U.K.
• 1985 – “Money For Nothing” by the Dire Straits was the #1 song

• 1985 – Kool and the Gang’s “Cherish” was the #1 song on the Adult Contemporary chart for the 5th week
• 1988 – Def Leppard performed in New Jersey
• 1989 – U2 performed in Australia
• 1991 – Dire Straits’ album On Every Street was the #1 album in the U.K.
• 1991 – Curtis Stigers’s “I Wonder Why” was #60

• 1991 – Metallica’s Black Album was the #1 album
• 1991 – Bryan Adams’s “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” was the #1 song for the 8th week on the Adult Contemporary chart
• 1993 – Nirvana released In Utero
• 1996 – “Ready or Not” by The Fugees was the #1 song in the U.K.
• 1996 – R.E.M.’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi was the #1 album in the U.K.
• 1996 – Donna Lewis’s “I Love You Always Forever” was the #2 song

“TV/Radio”

• 1957 – Perry Mason premiered on CBS
• 1970 – Monday Night Football premiered on ABC

• 1972 – In Concert premiered on ABC with a performance by Alice Cooper

“Other Important Events…”

• 1937 – J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was published in London
• 1970 – The New York Times published the first op-ed page
• 1984 – NASA launched the satellite Galaxy-C