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“Born Today” Wade Robson (33) Constantine Maroulis (40) Jimmie Johnson (40) Bobby Lee (43) Nate Berkus (44) Keith Flint (46) Matthew Settle (46) Anastacia (47) Malik Yoba (48) Doug E. Fresh (49) Bryan Singer (50) Kyle Chandler (50) Amy Roloff (51) James Urbaniak (52) Baz Luhrmann (53) Dustin Nguyen (53) BeBe Winans (53) Kevin Clash (55) Rita Rudner (62) Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson (64) John Ritter (RIP) Hank Williams (RIP) “Died Today” Dred Scott (Born: 1799 / Died: September 17, 1858) Karl Popper (Born: July 28,1902 / Died: September 17, 1994) George Hamilton IV (Born: July 19, 1937 / Died: September 17, 2014) “Movies” 1967 - Games 1969 - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 1976 - The Front 1982 - Hammett 1993 - Airborne 1993 - Striking Distance 1993 - Into the West 1999 - Blue Streak 1999 - American Beauty 1999 - Breakfast of Champions 1999 - For Love of the Game “Music” 1955 - Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded “Sixteen Tons” 1955 - Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene” was #1 on the R&B chart for the seventh week https://youtu.be/v124f0i0Xh4 1964 - The Supremes released “Baby Love” 1964 - The Beatles performed in Kansas City, Missouri 1966 - “Land of 1000 Dances” by Wilson Pickett was the #1 song https://youtu.be/jbRiM26hyms 1966 - Roger Williams’s “Born Free” was the #1 song on the Easy Listening chart 1966 - “You Can’t Hurry Love” by The Supremes was the #1 song for the second week 1971 - Lynn Anderson had the #1 Country album with You're My Man 1972 - The Eagles performed in Jacksonville, Florida 1973 - Billy Joel recorded part of “Piano Man” 1973 - The Carpenters released “Top of the World” https://youtu.be/baSUO3zjneA 1975 - Silver Convention released “Fly, Robin, Fly” 1977 - Ronnie McDowell’s “The King is Gone” (a tribute to Elvis Presley)was #40 1977 - Reba McEntire performed for the first time at the Grand Ole Opry 1977 - Andy Gibb’s “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” was #1 https://youtu.be/S-xfFqWaK1s 1977 - Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was the #1 album for the 19th week 1983 - Paul Young’s No Parlez was the #1 album in the U.K. 1983 - Prince’s “Delirious” was #37 https://youtu.be/AsexxYezGdU 1983 - The Police’s Synchronicity was the #1 album 1988 - Peter Cetera’s “One Good Woman” was the #1 song for the third week 1988 - “Another Part of Me” by Michael Jackson was the #1 song on the R&B chart https://youtu.be/8vwHQNQ88cM 1988 - Def Leppard’s Hysteria was the #1 album 1991 - Use Your Illusion I/Use Your Illusion II were released by Guns N’ Roses 1994 - Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You” was the #1 song 1997 - Fleetwood Mac started a reunion tour “TV/Radio” 1931 - The first record that was 33 ⅓ rpms was played in NYC 1963 - ABC premiered the show The Fugitive 1964 - Bewitched premiered on ABC https://youtu.be/UGJ6FZ0zpZQ “Other Important Events…” 1787 - The drafting of the U.S. Constitution finished 1954 - William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies was published 2011 - The Occupy Wall Street movement began in NYC