DYR Today, June 23

“BORN TODAY”

• Connor Jessup (21)
• Anna Duggar (27)
• Duffy (31)
• Melissa Rauch (35)
• Memphis Bleek (37)
• Jason Mraz (38)
• Aaron Ruell (39)
• Emmanuelle Vaugier (39)
• KT Tunstall (40)
• Joel Edgerton (41)
• Selma Blair (43)
• Chico DeBarge (49)
• Joss Whedon (51)
• Frances McDormand (58)
• Randy Jackson (59)
• Glenn Danzig (60)
• Bryan Brown (68)

“DIED 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)

“MOVIES TODAY”

Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer.

• 1965 – Genghis Khan (1965 film)
• 1965 – The Hallelujah Trail
• 1965 – Harlow
• 1965 – Von Ryan’s Express
• 1965 – Willy McBean and his Magic Machine
• 1970 – Kelly’s Heroes
• 1971 – The Seven Minutes
• 1972 – Ben
• 1976 – Murder by Death
• 1978 – The Cheap Detective
• 1989 – Batman (Featured Above)
• 1989 – Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• 1994 – The Lion King
• 1994 – Wyatt Earp
• 1995 – Sister My Sister
• 1995 – Pocahontas
• 2000 – Chicken Run

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 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’

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1933 – Don McNeill’s Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35 ½ year run on NBC
• 1956 – ”Jimmy Durante Show” last airs on NBC

• 1960 – ”Pat Boone Show” last airs on ABC
• 1967 – Disney’s The Happiest Millionaire opens in Hollywood, California

• 1970 – ”Red Skelton Show” last airs on CBS
• 1980 – ”David Letterman Show” debuts on NBC

• 1986 – Tip O’Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

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

• 1934 – Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country
• 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established
• 1938 – Marineland opened near St. Augustine, Florida

• 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
  

• 1989 – George Michael received the Silver Clef Award
• 1990 – Buddy Holly’s Gibson guitar sold for $237,419 in a Sotheby’s auction