DYR Today, June 21

“BORN TODAY”

• Rebecca Black (18)
• Lana Del Rey (29)
• Kris Allen (30)
• Jujubee (31)
• Jussie Smollett (32)
• Edward Snowden (32)
• Benjamin Walker (33)
• Prince William (33)
• Brandown Flowers (34)
• Christ Pratt (36)
• Erica Durance (37)
• Juliette Lewis (42)
• Sonique (47)
• Carrie Preston (48)
• Gretchen Carlson (49)
• Lana Wachowski (50)
• Doug Savant (51)
• David Morrissey (51)
• Marcella Detroit (63)
• Meredith Baxter (68)
• Michael Gross (68)
• Mariette Hartley (75)

“DIED TODAY”

• Carol O’Connor (Born: August 2, 1924 / Died: June 21, 2001)
• John Lee Hooker (Born: August 22, 1912 / Died: June 21, 2001)
• Niccolo Machiavelli (Born: May 3, 1469 / Died: June 21, 1527)
• John Smith (Born: January 1580 / Died: June 21, 1631)

“MOVIES TODAY”

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• 1972- Frenzy
• 1972- Beware! The Blob
• 1977- New York, New York
• 1978- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Featured Above)
• 1984- The Karate Kid
• 1984- Rhinestone
• 1985- Cocoon
• 1985- Return to Oz
• 1988- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• 1990- Robocop 2
• 1990- Betsy’s Wedding
• 1991- Dying Young
• 1991- The Rocketeer
• 1991- Where Angels Fear to Tread
• 1996- Eraser
• 1996- Lone Star
• 1996- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1955- Elvis Presley played two shows in Beaumont, Texas, with bassist Bill Black and guitarist Scotty Moore
• 1955-Johnny Cash’s first single, “Cry Cry Cry,” was released

• 1963-The Rolling Stones played at Ricky Tick Club, Star and Garter Hotel, Windsor, Berks
• 1966- The Beatles Record ‘She Said She Said’

• 1968- Pink Floyd performs two shows in one day. First at the Commemoration Ball in Oxford, and the second at the Middle Earth Club in London
• 1972- The First Stonehenge Free Festival begins
• 1975-Elton John, The Beach Boys, Joe Walsh, Rufus and the Eagles all appear at Wembley Stadium, London.
• 1975-Captain and Tennille started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Neil Sedaka song ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’
• 1975- Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quit Deep Purple to form his own group, Rainbow
• 1975- James Taylor’s “How Sweet It Is” was released

• 1979-Mick Taylor released his first solo album after leaving the Rolling Stones four years before
• 1981-Donald Fagan and Walter Becker announced the breakup of Steely Dan
• 1985-Ron Howard directed his first music video for “Gravity” by Michael Sembello
• 1989-New Kids on the Block released “Hangin’ Tough”

• 1985-The first day of the Glastonbury Festival
• 1986-Genesis scored their fourth UK No.1 album with their 13th studio album ‘Invisible Touch’
• 1992-The Orb released ‘Blue Room’, a single that has a duration of 39 minutes and 58 seconds

 

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1948 – WNAC (KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA, (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1954 – NBC radio presented the final broadcast of “The Railroad Hour.”

• 1986 – President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1945 – Pan Am announced an 88-hour round-the-world flight at a cost of $700
• 1954 – The American Cancer Society reported significantly higher death rates among cigarette smokers than among non-smokers
• 1954 – Australian John Landy ran the mile in 3:58. He was the second person to achieve the feat
• 1958 – In Arkansas, a federal judge let Little Rock delay school integration
• 1958 – Linus Pauling and Detlev Bronk, both Americans, were elected to the Soviet Academy of Science
• 1960 – In Zurich, Germany, Armin Hary ran 100-meters in a record 10.0 second

• 1963 – In St. Louis, Bob Hayes set a record when he ran the 100-yard dash in 9.1 second
• 1963 – France announced that they were withdrawing from the North Atlantic NATO fleet
• 1966 – Reg Calvert, manager of The Fortunes, Screaming Lord Sutch, and the owner of offshore pirate radio station Radio City was shot dead by business rival William Smedley

• 1966 – The Rolling Stones sued 14 hotels over a booking ban in New York
• 1970 – Tony Jacklin became the second British golfer in 50 years to win the U.S. Open golf tournament

• 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
• 1974 – The U.S. Supreme Court decided that pregnant teachers could no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence
• 1980 – all members of The Stranglers arrested after a concert for starting a riot

• 1982 – John Hinckley found Not Guilty of the attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
• 1985 – Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele
• 1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment
• 1994 – George Michael lost his lawsuit against Sony Records
• 1998 – Bobby Brown was arrested on charges of sexual battery
• 1999 – Pantera rode a float in the Dallas Stars Stanley Cup victory parade in downtown Dallas