DYR Today, June 23

“BORN TODAY”

Aaron Spelling (Born: April 22, 1923 / Died: June 23, 2006)
Ed McMahon (Born: March 6, 1923 / Died: June 23, 2009)
Peter Falk (Born: September 16, 1927 / Died: June 23, 2011)
Bobby “Blue” Bland (Born: January 27, 1930 / Died: June 23, 2013)
Richard Matheson (Born: February 20, 1926 / Died: June 23, 2013)
Dick Van Patten (Born: December 9, 1928 / Died: June 23, 2015)

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1962 – Ray Charles started a 14-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music’
1962 – The film soundtrack to ‘West Side Story’ went to No.1 on the UK charts for the first time
1965 – The Supremes made the studio recording of “Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart.”

1965 – The Miracles released “Tracks Of My Tears.”
1998 – Aqua released the home video “The Diary.”
1965 – The Yardbirds appeared at The City Hall, Salisbury, England
1966 – The Beatles had their tenth consecutive UK No.1 single with ‘Paperback Writer’/’Rain’

1973 – George Harrison started a five-week run at No.1on the US album chart with ‘Living in the Material World’
1975 – Bob Marley and the Wailers played the first of 14 shows over nights at Paul’s Mall in Boston, Massachusetts
1976 – Paul McCartney and Wings played the last date on their Wings Over America tour at the Forum in Los Angeles
1984 – Duran Duran started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Reflex’

1990 – Elton John had his first UK solo No.1 single with ‘Sacrifice/Healing Hands’
1995 – Drummer Alan White made his live debut with Oasis at Glastonbury Festival
1996 – Bryan Adams went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘18-Till I Die’

1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane

1947 – The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act
1951 – Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War
1952 – The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea
1956 – Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt

1964 – Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor
1966 – Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas
1970 – Chubby Checker and 3 others were arrested in Niagara Falls after marijuana and unidentified drug capsules were found in Checker’s car
1972 – U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.

1975 – Alice Cooper fell from the stage and broke six ribs during his ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’ tour in Vancouver, Canada
1987 – Madonna was on the cover of “Cosmopolitan” magazine