DYR Today, June 22

“BORN TODAY”

Judy Garland (Born: June 10, 1922 / Died: June 22, 1969)
Fred Astaire (Born:May 10, 1899 / Died: June 22, 1987)
Pat Nixon (March 16, 1912 / Died: June 22, 1993)
Anna Landers (Born: July 4, 1918 / Died: June 22, 2002)
George Carlin (Born: May 12, 1937 / Died: June 22, 2008) (Featured Above)

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1956 – Elvis Presley started a three-day run playing 10 shows at the Paramount Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia
1963 – 13-year old Stevie Wonder first entered the US singles chart as Little Stevie Wonder with ‘Fingertips Parts One and Two’
1963 – The Surfaris single “Wipe Out” was released

1964 – The Beatles played their first ever show in Zealand at Wellington Town Hall
1968 – Herb Alpert started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘This Guy’s in Love With You’

1968 – The Jeff Beck group featuring Rod Stewart make their US debut at the Fillmore East, New York
1968 – The Otis Redding album Dock of the Bay went to No. 1 in the UK
1968 – Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas” was released

1969 – Blind Faith’s first LP released
1970 – Led Zeppelin appeared at Laugardalsholl Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland
1971 – The second Glastonbury Festival in England took place
1980 – Don McLean had his second UK No. 1 single with the Roy Orbison song ‘Crying’

1985 – Bryan Adams started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Heaven’
1990 – Ry Cooder and David Lindley, The Cure, Happy Mondays, Sinead O’Connor, Deacon Blue, De La Soul, Adamski, Blue Aeroplanes, Julian Cope, Del Amitri, Jesus Jones, James and The Pale Saints all appeared on the first day of the Glastonbury Festival
1997 – Hanson went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album ‘Middle Of Nowhere’
1974 – Charlie Rich was at #1 on the US Country chart with ‘Behind Closed Doors’

1964 – The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned

1967 – The drug possession trial of Rolling Stone members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
1970 – President Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required the voting age in the United States to be 18
1973 – Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after 28 days in space
1974 – The Sears Tower Skydeck in Chicago opened

1980 – The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
1981 – Mark Chapman pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering John Lennon

1988 – Dennis Lobban was convicted of the murder of reggae star Peter Tosh
1989- the government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war
1990 – Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin
1992 – Three members of M.C. Hammer’s tour crew were wounded in a drive in shooting incident
1992 – Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain rushed to hospital after suffering from stomach pains due to ulcers

1996 – Arthur Ross (brother of Diana Ross) and his wife were murdered by suffocation