“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”
Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer.
- 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’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF92gQx8P2Q
- 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”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiwzTp-h0Nk
- 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