DYR Today, September 29

“Born Today”

• Adore Delano (27)
• Hana Mae Lee (28)
• Lo Bosworth (30)
• Stephen Laurel “tWitch” Boss (34)
• Zachary Levi (36)
• Mackenzie Crook (45)
• Russell Peters (46)
• Nicolas Winding Refn (46)
• Natasha Gregson Wagner (46)
• Erika Eleniak (47)
• Luke Goss (48)
• Jill Whelan (50)
• Les Claypool (53)
• Roger Bart (54)
• Julia Gillard (55)
• Stephanie Miller (55)
• Andrew Dice Clay (59)
• Gwen Ifill (61)
• Drake Hogestyn (63)
• Bryant Gumbel (68)
• Patricia Hodge (70)
• Ian McShane (74)
• Jerry Lee Lewis (81)
• Robert Benton (84)
• Gene Autry (RIP)
• Madeline Kahn (RIP)

“Died Today”

• W. H. Auden (Born: February 21, 1907 / Died: September 29, 1973)
• Lois Maxwell (Born: February 14, 1927 / Died: September 29, 2007)

“Movies”

• 1954 – The Barefoot Contessa
• 1977 – Handle with Care
• 1977 – Bobby Deerfield
• 1978 – Somebody Killed Her Husband
• 1978 – Death on the Nile
• 1989 – Little Monsters
• 1992 – A Bronx Tale
• 1995 – Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
• 1995 – Moonlight and Valentino
• 1995 – To Die For
• 2000 – Beautiful
• 2000 – Remember the Titans

“Music”

• 1956 – “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)” by Doris Day was the #1 song in the U.K., it would only make it to #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100

• 1958 – Tommy Edwards’s “It’s All in the Game” was the #1 song
• 1959 – The #1 song was “Sleepwalk” by Santo and Johnny
• 1969 – Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” was released on this day by Capitol Records

• 1969 – Dolly Parton released My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
• 1973 – Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100

• 1975 – Jackie Wilson, collapsed on stage in New Jersey on this date causing him to slip into a coma from which the singer did not recover
• 1975 – Elton John released “Island Girl”

• 1977 – Billy Joel’s hit album, The Stranger, was released on this date
• 1979 – “My Sharona” by the Knack was #1
• 1980 – Kenny Rogers released “Lady”
• 1984 – Prince and the Revolution’s “Let’s Go Crazy” was the #1 song

• 1986 – Madonna released “True Blue”
• 1989 – Milli Vanilli’s “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You” was the #1 song
• 1990 – Nelson’s “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection” was the #1 song

“TV/Radio”

• 1951 – The first football game to be broadcast in color aired on CBS. It was played by the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.
• 1953 – Make Room for Daddy premiered on ABC
• 1955 – Sergeant Preston of the Yukon premiered on CBS
• 1956 – The Gale Storm Show (eventually renamed Oh! Susanna) premiered on CBS
• 1957 – The DuPont Show of the Month aired on CBS
• 1958 – The Texan premiered on CBS starring Rory Calhoun
• 1959 – The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis premiered on CBS
• 1960 – My Three Sons premiered on ABC

• 1963 – The Judy Garland Show premiered on CBS
• 1963 – My Favorite Martian premiered on CBS

• 1969 – Love American Style premiered on ABC
• 1969 – Bright Promise aired on NBC
• 1969 – Game show Sale of the Century debuted on NBC
• 1985 – Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories premiered on NBC
• 1986 – Designing Women debuted on CBS

• 1987 – ABC aired Thirtysomething
• 1993 – Grace Under Fire premiered on ABC

“Other Important Events…”

• 1988 – Space Shuttle Discovery 7 was launched