Do You Remember Today (DYRT) – April 12

“BORN TODAY”

“DIED TODAY”

“MOVIES TODAY”

• 1973 – The film “That’ll Be the Day,” starring David Essex and Ringo Starr, premiered in London.
• 1985 – Cat’s Eye (also known as Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye) is a 1985 American anthology horror film directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King.
• 1985 – Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a 1985 American romantic comedy dance film directed by Alan Metter and starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt.

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1969 – Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” was released.
• 1971 – Crosby, Stills Nash & Young‘s live album “Four Way Street” was certified gold by the RIAA.
• 1974 – Bad Company’s “Can’t Get Enough” was released.

• 1978 – The Four Tops performed at Aretha Franklin’s wedding.
• 1984 – “Louie Louie Day” was held in Olympia, WA.
• 1988 – Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs, CA.
• 1989 – Garth Brooks’ self-titled debut album was released.
• 1994 – Hole’s second album “Live Through This” was released.
• 1999 – Shania Twain became the first female artist in music history to sell at least 10 million units with back to back releases.

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1953 – KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1982 – Three CBS employees were shot to death in a parking lot.
• 1987 – CBS’ premiere of fact based World War II drama “Escape from Sobibor”
• 1991 – 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 buildings in town and killed 72.
• 1934 – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “Tender Is the Night” was first published.
• 1938 – The first U.S. law requiring a medical test for a marriage license was enacted in New York.
• 1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Truman becomes President.
• 1955 – The Polio vaccine by Dr. Jonas Salk in the University of Michigan is declared safe and effective.
• 1961 – Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.
• 1963 – Police used dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, AL.
• 1966 – Emmett Ashford became the first African-American major league umpire.
• 1969 – Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip “Peanuts” made the cover of “Saturday Review.”
• 1981 – The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.
• 1982 – Three CBS employees were shot to death in a New York City parking lot.