DYR Today, January 20

“Birthdays”

• Evan Peters (29)
• Bonnie McKee (32)
• Erin Wasson (34)
• Will Young (37)
• Questlove (45)
• Gary Barlow (45)
• Skeet Ulrich (46)
• Edwin McCain (46)
• Melissa Rivers (48)
• Stacey Dash (49)
• Rainn Wilson (50)
• John Michael Montgomery (51)
• James Denton (53)
• Lorenzo Lamas (58)
• Bill Maher (60)
• Paul Stanley (64) Featured Above
• David Lynch (70)
• Buzz Aldrin (86)
• George Burns (RIP)

“Death Anniversaries”

• Audrey Hepburn (Born: May 4, 1929 / Died: January 20, 1993)
• Barbara Stanwyck (Born: July 16, 1907 / Died: January 20, 1990)
• Etta James (Born: January 25, 1938 / Died: January 20, 2012)

“Movies”

• 1966 – The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
• 1995 – Murder in the First

“Music “

• 1957 – The Everly Brothers released the single “Bye Bye Love”.

• 1966 – David Bowie’s first single, “Do Anything You Say” was released.
• 1967 – There was a new #1 song on the Easy Listening chart–“Somethin’ Stupid”, by father and daughter team Frank & Nancy Sinatra.
• 1967 – The world first heard of this great San Francisco band on this date as their first single, “Somebody To Love” debuted on the chart.  Jefferson Airplane.

• 1968 – Tommy James & the Shondells released the single “Mony Mony”.
• 1968 – The Rascals released the single “A Beautiful Morning”.
• 1972 – Dr. Hook debuted on the chart with their first single, “Sylvia’s Mother”.
• 1972 – Roberta Flack wasted no time reaching #1 on the Adult chart with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”.
• 1974 – Gordon Lightfoot released the single “Sundown”.

• 1978 – The #1 song in the U.K. was “Denis” by Blondie.
• 1978 –  Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway rose to #1 on the R&B chart with “The Closer I Get To You”.
• 1982 – John Cougar released the single “Hurts So Good” on Riva Records.
• 1989 – The Bangles went to #1 in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia with “Eternal Flame”

• 1995 – Montell Jordan had the new #1 song on the R&B chart with “This Is How We Do It”.

“TV & Radio”

• 1953 – “Studio One” became the first television show to be transmitted from the United States to Canada.
• 1965 – The Rolling Stones and the Kinks made their first appearance on ABC-TV’s “Shindig!”

• 1975 – The Bay City Rollers’ TV series Shang-A-Lang premiered on ITV in the U.K.
• 1985 – The most-watched Super Bowl game in history was seen by an estimated 115.9 million people. The San Francisco 49ers downed the Miami Dolphins, 38-16. Super Bowl XIX marked the first time that TV commercials sold for a million dollars a minute.
• 1989 – The 100th episode of “Miami Vice” aired on NBC.

• 1998 – The first episode of “Dawson’s Creek” aired on the WB network.
• 1999 – ESPN announced the creation of the Great Outdoor Games to be held in Lake Placid, NY, in 2000.

“Other Important Events…”

• 1885 – The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson.
• 1892 – The first official basketball game was played by students at the Springfield, MA, YMCA Training School.
• 1929 – The movie “In Old Arizona” was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.

• 1937 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution officially set the date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President.
• 1954 – The National Negro Network was formed on this date. Forty radio stations were charter members of the network.
• 1986 – The U.S. observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

• 1986 – New footage of the 1931 “Frankenstein” was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking.
• 1997 – Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States.