DYR Today, January 19

“Born Today”

• Erin Sanders (26)
• Lil Scrappy (33)
• Hikaru Utada (34)
• Jodie Sweetin (35)
• Luke Macfarlane (37)
• Coral Smith (38)
• Alexis Bellino (40)
• Marsha Thomason (41)
• Drea De Matteo (45)
• Ron Killings (45)
• Shawn Wayans (46)
• Trey Lorenz (48)
• Antoine Fuqua (51)
• Paul Rodriguez (62)
• Cindy Sherman (63)
• Katey Sagal (63)
• Desi Arnaz, Jr. (64)
• Paula Deen (70)
• Dolly Parton (71) Featured Above
• Shelley Fabares (73)
• Michael Crawford (75)
• Tippi Hedren (87)
• Janis Joplin (RIP)
• Edgar Allen Poe (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Wilson Pickett (Born: March 18, 1941 / Died: January 19, 2006)
• Stan Musial (Born: November 21, 1920 / Died: January 19, 2013)

“Movies”

• 1964 – Strait-Jacket
• 1990 – Everybody Wins
• 1990 – Tremors
• 1996 – From Dusk Till Dawn

“Music”

• 1962 – Chubby Checker was #1 for the week with the single “The Twist”
• 1973 – The single “I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)” was released
• 1974 – Barbra Streisand topped the Adult Contemporary chart with “The Way We Are”

• 1974 – The #1 song was “Show and Tell” by Al Wilson
• 1980 – Michael Jackson started a four week run at #1 with “Rock With You”

1985 – Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A was the #1 album

1991 – “Love Will Never Do (Without You)” by Janet Jackson was the #1 song

1991 – Vanilla Ice continued to reign over the Billboard 200 with To the Extreme

“TV/Radio”

1951 – The animated Chip n’ Dale short Chicken in the Rough was released

1955 – For the first time a presidential news conference was filmed for TV with President Eisenhower

1988 – The first episode of 48 Hours aired

“Other Important Events…”

1937 – Cy Young was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

1960 – The United States and Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation was signed