BORN TODAY
- 1986 – Daphne Oz
- 1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- 1981 – Paris Hilton
- 1980 – Jason Ritter
- 1978 – Ashton Holmes
- 1976 – Kelly Carlson
- 1974 – Jerry O’Connell
- 1974 – Bryan White
- 1973 – Billie Joe Armstrong
- 1972 – Taylor Hawkins
- 1971 – Denise Richards
- 1970 – Dominic Purcell
- 1969 – Tuesday Knight
- 1967 – Chante Moore
- 1965 – Michael Bay
- 1963 – Michael Jordan
- 1963 – Larry the Cable Guy
- 1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips
- 1957 – Loreena McKennitt
- 1954 – Rene Russo
- 1945 – Brenda Fricker
- 1940 – Vicente Fernandez
- 1934 – Dame Edna Everage (AKA Barry Humphries)
- 1925 – Hal Holbrook
MOVIES TODAY
– Check out the trailers in the links below –
MUSIC TODAY
- 1954 – Doris Day’s “Secret Love” hits #1
- 1958 – The Silhouettes stood tall at #1 for a third week on the R&B chart with “Get A Job”.
- 1960 – Paul Anka released the single “Puppy Love”.
Paul Anka “Puppy Love” (1960) by NRRArchives
- 1960 – Elvis Presley received Gold record for his debut album Elvis.
- 1960 – The Everly Brothers signed a new 10-year record-breaking contract with Warner Brothers Records for $1 million.
- 1962 – “Midnight In Moscow” by Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen was still #1 on the Easy Listening chart.
- 1962 – The Beach Boys debuted on the chart with their first single release–“Surfin'”.
- 1962 – Gene Chandler took over at #1 with “Duke Of Earl”.
- 1965 – The Kinks released the single “Tired Of Waiting For You”.
- 1966 – Sgt. Barry Sadler’s single and album “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” are both certified gold
- 1968 – Big Brother and the Holding Company signed a recording contract with the new CBS label Columbia Records.
- 1968 – Diana Ross & the Supremes’ compilation Greatest Hits was #1 on the U.K. Album chart.
- 1973 – War’s album The World Is A Ghetto hits #1
- 1973 – Anne Murray moved to #1 on the Adult chart with “Danny’s Song”.
- 1973 – Gladys Knight & the Pips took over at #1 on the R&B chart with “Neither One Of Us
- 1975 – AC/DC released their debut album, High Voltage.
- 1976 – Asylum releases The Eagles’ “Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975.” It contains one certified country hit, “Lyin’ Eyes”
- 1976 – The Eagles released their Greatest Hits album, that closed out the millennium as the best-selling album of all-time in the United States.
- 1979 – The U.K. was ahead on this group as Blondie already was #1 on the Album chart with Parallel Lines.
- 1980 – Kenny Rogers owned the #1 U.K. song–“Coward Of The County”.
- 1990 – Quincy Jones, Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, Barry White and El DeBarge combined for the new #1 R&B song–“The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)”.
- 1990 – Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville were #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with “All My Life”.
- 1995 – Atlantic releases John Michael Montgomery’s “I Can Love You Like That”
- 1996 – Joe Diffie’s “Bigger Than The Beatles” is big enough to hit the top of the Billboard country singles chart
TV/RADIO TODAY
OTHER INTERESTING EVENTS…
Did we Miss Anyone or Anything Special?
Let us Know in the Comments.