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“Born Today” Adore Delano (27) Hana Mae Lee (28) Lo Bosworth (30) Stephen Laurel “tWitch” Boss (34) Zachary Levi (36) Mackenzie Crook (45) Russell Peters (46) Nicolas Winding Refn (46) Natasha Gregson Wagner (46) Erika Eleniak (47) Luke Goss (48) Jill Whelan (50) Les Claypool (53) Roger Bart (54) Julia Gillard (55) Stephanie Miller (55) Andrew Dice Clay (59) Gwen Ifill (61) Drake Hogestyn (63) Bryant Gumbel (68) Patricia Hodge (70) Ian McShane (74) Jerry Lee Lewis (81) Robert Benton (84) Gene Autry (RIP) Madeline Kahn (RIP) “Died Today” W. H. Auden (Born: February 21, 1907 / Died: September 29, 1973) Lois Maxwell (Born: February 14, 1927 / Died: September 29, 2007) “Movies” 1954 - The Barefoot Contessa 1977 - Handle with Care 1977 - Bobby Deerfield 1978 - Somebody Killed Her Husband 1978 - Death on the Nile 1989 - Little Monsters 1992 - A Bronx Tale 1995 - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 1995 - Moonlight and Valentino 1995 - To Die For 2000 - Beautiful 2000 - Remember the Titans “Music” 1956 - “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)” by Doris Day was the #1 song in the U.K., it would only make it to #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 https://youtu.be/xZbKHDPPrrc 1958 - Tommy Edwards’s “It’s All in the Game” was the #1 song 1959 - The #1 song was “Sleepwalk” by Santo and Johnny 1969 - Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” was released on this day by Capitol Records https://youtu.be/_uiW5LEbmlk 1969 - Dolly Parton released My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy 1973 - Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 https://youtu.be/lMsIrKjSM6Y 1975 - Jackie Wilson, collapsed on stage in New Jersey on this date causing him to slip into a coma from which the singer did not recover 1975 - Elton John released “Island Girl” https://youtu.be/ml9K8K8KwpY 1977 - Billy Joel’s hit album, The Stranger, was released on this date 1979 - “My Sharona” by the Knack was #1 1980 - Kenny Rogers released “Lady” 1984 - Prince and the Revolution’s “Let’s Go Crazy” was the #1 song https://youtu.be/HJURMUtwD1o 1986 - Madonna released “True Blue” 1989 - Milli Vanilli’s “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You” was the #1 song 1990 - Nelson’s “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection” was the #1 song https://youtu.be/x1W6-ErrHls “TV/Radio” 1951 - The first football game to be broadcast in color aired on CBS. It was played by the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania. 1953 - Make Room for Daddy premiered on ABC 1955 - Sergeant Preston of the Yukon premiered on CBS 1956 - The Gale Storm Show (eventually renamed Oh! Susanna) premiered on CBS 1957 - The DuPont Show of the Month aired on CBS 1958 - The Texan premiered on CBS starring Rory Calhoun 1959 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis premiered on CBS 1960 - My Three Sons premiered on ABC https://youtu.be/D3nLLI-CilM 1963 - The Judy Garland Show premiered on CBS 1963 - My Favorite Martian premiered on CBS https://youtu.be/igMNkaxdCc4 1969 - Love American Style premiered on ABC 1969 - Bright Promise aired on NBC 1969 - Game show Sale of the Century debuted on NBC 1985 - Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories premiered on NBC 1986 - Designing Women debuted on CBS https://youtu.be/NQx2VKTwAwI 1987 - ABC aired Thirtysomething 1993 - Grace Under Fire premiered on ABC “Other Important Events...” 1988 - Space Shuttle Discovery 7 was launched