DYR Today, January 12

“Born Today”

• Pixie Lott (26)
• Naya Rivera (30)
• Deena Nicole Cortese (30)
• Shawn Desman (35)
• Amerie (37)
• Jeremy Camp (39)
• Melanie “Sporty Spice” C (43)
• Raekwon (47)
• Rachael Harris (49)
• Heather Mills (49)
• Rob Zombie (52)
• John Bezos (53)
• Simon Russell Beale (56)
• Oliver Platt (57)
• Christiane Amanpour (59)
• John Lasseter (60)
• Howard Stern (63)
• Kirstie Alley (66)
• Rush Limbaugh (66)
• Wayne Wang (68)
• Texas Guinan (RIP)
• Joe Frazier (RIP)
• Tim Horton (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Agatha Christie (Born: September 15, 1890 / Died: January 12, 1976)
• Maurice Gibbs (Born: December 22, 1949 / Died: January 12, 2003)

“Movies”

• 1968 – Nobody’s Perfect
• 1990 – Downtown
• 1990 – Internal Affairs
• 1990 – Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• 1990 – Ski Patrol
• 1996 – Don’t Be a Menace
• 1996 – Eye for an Eye
• 1996 – Dunston Checks In
• 1996 – Bio-Dome
• 1996 – Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
• 1996 – Two If by Sea

“Music”

• 1963 – “Go Away Little Girl” by Steve Lawrence was the #1 song
• 1968 – Manfred Mann released the song “Mighty Quinn”
• 1969 – Led Zeppelin released their debut self-titled album
• 1970 – Badfinger released the single “Come and Get It”

• 1974 – “The Joker” by The Steve Miller Band was the #1 song
• 1980 – Rupert Holmes had the #1 song with the single “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”
• 1980 – “Send One Your Love” by Stevie Wonder was #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart
• 1985 – Prince and the Revolution had the #1 album with Purple Rain
• 1985 – “Like A Virgin” remained the #song

• 1989 – The duo Roxette released their single “The Look”

“TV/Radio”

• 1926 – Sam ‘n’ Henry premiered on the Chicago radio station WGN
• 1949 – “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends” was debuted on CBS-TV. The show stayed on the network for seven years.
• 1949 – “Kukla, Fran and Ollie”, the Chicago-based children’s show, made its national debut on NBC-TV.
• 1955 – Rod Serling’s career began with the TV production of “Patterns.”
• 1966 – “Batman” debuted on ABC-TV.

• 1967 – “Dragnet” returned to NBC-TV after being off the network schedule for eight years.
• 1971 – “All In the Family” debuted on CBS-TV.

“Other Important Events…”

• 1773 – The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC.
• 1896 – At Davidson College, several students took x-ray photographs. They created the first X-ray photographs to be made in America.
• 1904 – Henry Ford set a new land speed record when he reached 91.37 miles per hour.
• 1908 – A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
• 1915 – The U.S. Congress established the Rocky Mountain National Park.
• 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
• 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.
• 1986 – Space shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
• 1998 – Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
• 1999 – Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball was sold at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder.
• 2005 – NASA launched “Deep Impact”. The spacecraft was planned to impact on Comet Tempel 1 after a six-month, 268 million-mile journey.