DYR Today, October 20

“Born Today”

• ASAP Ferg (28)
• Candice Swanepoel (28)
• Katie Featherston (34)
• John Krasinski (37)
• Rob Cesternino (38)
• Samuel Witwer (39)
• Snoop Dogg (45)
• Dannii Minogue (45)
• Viggo Mortensen (58)
• Danny Boyle (60)
• Melanie Mayron (64)
• William Russ (66)
• Tom Petty (66) Featured Above
• Wanda Jackson (79)
• Mickey Mantle (RIP)
• Bela Lugosi (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Ronnie Van Zant (Born: January 15, 1948 / Died: October 20, 1977)
• Burt Lancaster (Born: November 2, 1913 / Died: October 20, 1994)
• Jane Wyatt (Born: August 12, 1910 / Died: October 20, 2006)

“Movies”

• 1978 – Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
• 1987 – The Hidden
• 1989 – Fat Man and Little Boy
• 1989 – Gross Anatomy
• 1989 – Next of Kin
• 1995 – Get Shorty
• 1995 – Mallrats
• 1995 – Never Talk to Strangers
• 1995 – Now and Then
• 2000 – Bedazzled
• 2000 – Pay it Forward
• 2000 – The Legend of Drunken Master

“Music”

• 1962 – “Monster Mash” was the #1 song

• 1962 – Frank Ifield’s “I Remember You” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
• 1969 – Plastic Ono Band released “Cold Turkey”

• 1973 – The Rolling Stones had the #1 song with “Angie”

• 1979 – Herb Alpert’s “Rise” was the #1 song

• 1980 – U2 released Boy
• 1980 – Donna Summer released The Wanderer
• 1984 – Purple Rain continued to reign as the #1 album
• 1990 – Garth Brooks’s “Friends in Low Places” was the #1 Country song

“TV/Radio”

• 1979 – Bob Dylan performed on SNL

“Other Important Events…”

• 1955 – J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Return of the King was published this date
• 1977 – Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines, were killed in a plane crash over Missouri.