DYR Today, February 23

BORN TODAY

• 1986 – Skylar Grey
• 1983 – Aziz Ansari
• 1983 – Emily Blunt
• 1981 – Josh Gad
• 1976 – Kelly MacDonald
• 1970 – Niecy Nash
• 1966 – Mia Michaels
• 1965 – Michael Dell
• 1965 – Veronica Webb
• 1955 – Howard Jones
• 1952 – Brad Whitford
• 1951 – Patricia Richardson
• 1947 – Shakira Caine
• 1940 – Peter Fonda

MOVIES TODAY

-Check on the trailers in the links below –

• 1935 – The Band Concert
• 1944 – The Purple Heart
• 1951 – You’re in the Navy Now
• 1966 – Harper
• 1990 – Where the Heart Is
• 1996 – Mary Reilly
• 1996 – Before and After
• 1996 – Unforgettable

MUSIC TODAY

• 1959 – “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd Price made it to a third week at #1 on the Singles chart.  “Donna” from the late Ritchie Valens was next with “16 Candles” from the Crests down a spot.
• 1964 – The Dave Clark Five, featuring Clark as one of the great drummers early in the Rock Era, released the single “Bits And Pieces”.
• 1969 – ‘If Paradise Is Half As Nice’ by Amen Corner was at No.1 on the UK singles chart,
• 1978 – Three hallmark winners at the Grammys that are all some of the best of all-time in their categories – Album of the Year–to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.
• 1978 – The Eagles won Record of the Year for “Hotel California”.
• 1978 – Best Pop Vocal Performance went to the Bee Gees for “How Deep Is Your Love”.
• 1980 – “Give It All You Got” from Chuck Mangione, the theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, was the new #1 song on the Adult Contemporary chart.
• 1980 – A new rock group, Survivor debuted with their first single with “Somewhere In America”.
• 1980 – “Special Lady” by Ray, Goodman & Brown was the new #1 on the R&B chart.
• 1980 – Officially, Queen scored their first #1 song with “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, although anyone with sense reported “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a #1 song in 1976.
• 1981 – Rick Springfield released the single “Jessie’s Girl”.
• 1983 – Toto deservedly dominated the Grammy Awards with six trophies, including Record of the Year (“Rosanna”) and Album of the Year (Toto IV).
• 1985 – “Missing You”, the Diana Ross tribute to the late Marvin Gaye, hit #1 on the R&B chart.
• 1985 – Like a Virgin was #1 on the Album chart for Madonna.
• 1985 – “Careless Whisper” from Wham! was #1 on the AC chart for the third straight week.
• 1991 – C&C Music Factory reached #1 on the R&B chart with “Gonna’ Make You Sweat”.
• 1991 – Whitney Houston amazingly had her ninth career #1 in 14 releases with “All the Man That I Need”.
• 2000 – British rocker Phil Collins wins a Grammy for his work on Disney’s Tarzan soundtrack.

TV/RADIO TODAY

• 1956 – The Disneyland episode “Davy Crockett” wins a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Show.
• 1964 – The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for a third time. The show had actually been recorded on February 9, the date of their first appearance, in front of a different audience, then broadcast on February 23.
• 1970 – The 5th Dimension were guest stars on It Takes a Thief on ABC-TV.
• 1970 – Ringo Starr was a guest star on the popular television show Laugh-In on NBC, his first solo television appearance.
• 1985 – The TV show “Gimme a Break” was broadcast live before a studio audience. It was the first TV sitcom to be seen live since the 1950s.
• 1987 – The Perry Mason TV movie “The Case of the Lost Love” aired.
• 1997 – NBC-TV aired “Schindler’s List.” It was completely uncensored.

OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…

• 1939 – Walt Disney receives a special Oscar for his classic 83-minute animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at the 11th Academy Awards held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Eleven-year-old child star Shirley Temple presents Walt with one statuette and seven miniature statuettes for “a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon.”
• 1959 – Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney receiving 5. Winners were announced April 6:
  • White Wilderness – Documentary, Features
  • White Wilderness – Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
  • Paul Bunyan – Short Subjects, Cartoons
  • Grand Canyon – Short Subjects, Live-Action Subjects
  • Ama Girls – Documentary, Short Subjects
• 1972 – After nearly five years of marriage, Priscilla Presley moved out of Elvis Presley’s California home and into a two bedroom apartment near the Pacific Ocean. Their divorce would be finalized on October 9, 1973, with Priscilla being awarded an outright cash payment of $725,000 as well as spousal support, child support, 5% of Elvis’ new publishing companies and half the income from the sale of their Beverly Hills home.
• 1988 – Michael Jackson played the first of two nights at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The first shows on the second leg of his Bad World Tour.
• 1994 – The ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas occurred.
• 1998 – All members of Oasis were banned for life from flying Cathay Pacific Airlines after “abusive and disgusting behavior” during a flight from Hong Kong to Perth, Australia.
• 1999 – Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs was arrested and jailed overnight for being drunk and disorderly. Police found the guitarist outside a Tommy Hilfiger store in London.
• 2000 – Santana received a record-tying eight Grammy Awards, tying the mark set by Michael Jackson.
• 2000 – Sean “Puffy” Combs was indicted on charges of bribing a witness.

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