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July 23rd:
Ice Cream Cone day
2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.
1997 - Police in Miami Beach, FL, found the body of Andrew Cunanan. He was the killer of Gianni Versace.
1984 - Miss America, Vanessa Williams, turned in her crown after it had been discovered that nude photos of her had appeared in "Penthouse" magazine. She was the first to resign the title.
1977 - Foreigner's "Cold As Ice" was released.
1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin. The dispute led to World War I.
1904 - The ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO.
1829 - William Burt patented the typographer, which was the first typewriter.
Daniel Radcliffe (plays Harry Potter) 1989
Michelle Williams (the black one, the one from Destiny's Child) 1980
Monica Lewinsky (Her affair with US President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment) 1973
Alison Krauss (folk/bluegrass singer for Union Station began recording at 14: "Lucky One", "Restless", "When You Say Nothing At All") 1971
Marlon Wayans ("In Living Color", "Scary Movie" series) 1971
Charisma Carpenter ("Buffy" and "Angel") 1970
Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Twister", "Almost Famous", "Boogie Nights", "Capote") 1967
Saul Hudson aka Slash (guitarist for Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver) 1965
Woody Harrelson ("Cheers", "The People vs Larry Flynt) 1961
Don Imus (radio personality fired for racial comments) 1940
Arthur Treacher (TV host Merv Griffin's sidekick, started Fish And Chips restaurant in the 1970s) 1894
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July 24th:
First day of astrology sign Leo
Parents' Day
2003 - It was announced that after the end of the 2003-04 season of "Friends" that Matt LeBlanc would star in a spinoff show entitled "Joey." The show has since been cancelled.
1987 - The movie biography of Richie Valens, "La Bamba," opened.
1985 - Walt Disney released their 25th full-length cartoon, "The Black Cauldron."
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Four days prior, they had walked on the moon.
1948 - Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.
1866 - Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers were the first non-natives to settle in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
Mara Wilson (annoying child actress, "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Miracle on 34th Street", "Matilda") 1987
Daveigh Chase (child actress, played Lilo in "Lilo and Stitch", Samara Morgan in "The Ring 1", currently in the HBO series "Big Love") 1990
Justin Berry (started his own website at 13 years old where he disrobed and masturbated for paying customers on his webcam, met several of his male customers and was molested and went to trial) 1986
Teagan Presley (began in porn in 2004) 1985
Anna Paquin (child actress, "The Piano", "Fly Away Home", "Amistad", "X-Men") 1982
Summer Glau (River Tam in "Firefly" series and its movie "Serenity", also in the "Terminator" series) 1981
"Gauge" (began in porn in 1999) 1980
Jennifer "J-Lo" Lopez 1970
Barry Bonds (Left fielder for the San Fransisco Giants baseball team, holds record for most home runs in a season (73), and was accused of using steroids) 1964
Karl Malone [played Basketball for 18 years for the Utah Jazz (1985-2003), then retired after one season with the LA Lakers (2003-4)] 1963
Lynda Carter (played Wonder Woman in 1975-79 TV series) 1951
Michael Richards (Kramer on "Seinfeld" series) 1949
Amelia Earhart (first woman to fly over the Atlantic, on one trip she mysteriously disappeared over the "Bermuda Triangle") 1897
Alexandre Dumas (wrote "The Three Musketeers") 1802
July 25th:
Merry-Go-Round day
1999 - Lance Armstrong won his first the Tour de France. He was only the second American to win the race.
2004 - Lance Armstrong wins his 6th Tour de France bicycle race.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury regarding the Monica Lewinsky case. The subpoena was withdrawn when Clinton agreed to give videotaped testimony with his lawyers present.
1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.
1980 - AC\DC released "Back In Black," their first album with Brian Johnson as lead singer.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1969 - Neil Young made his first appearance with Crosby, Stills and Nash.
1967 - The Beatles and other U.K. rock groups urged the British government to legalize marijuana. Their comments were made in a London Times advertisement signed by all four of the Beatles.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
Michael Alan Welch (Luke on "Joan of Arcadia" TV series) 1987
Louise Brown (the first test-tube baby) 1978
Tera Patrick (began in porn in 1998, is also a registered nurse in California) 1976
Michael Williams ("The Blair Witch Project") 1973
Billy Glide (Straight male pornstar) 1970
Matt LeBlanc (Joey on "Friends" and the short-lived "Joey" TV series) 1967
Illeana Douglas (actress: "Dummy", "Goodfellas", "The New Guy") 1965
Waltor Payton (American Football: Chicago Bears running back scored 100 touchdowns) 1954
Estelle Getty ("The Golden Girls" TV series) 1924
July 31st:
1995 - Selena's "Dreaming of You" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was her first English album. Selena became the first Latin artist to debut at No. 1.
1976 - Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper" was released
1948 - U.S. President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.
1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."
Dean Cain (played Superman on the series "Lois and Clark") 1966
J.K. Rowling (author of the "Harry Potter" novels) 1965
Wesley Snipes ("Blade") 1962
August 1st:
Sports day
MTV's birthday
1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley announced that they had been married 11 weeks earlier in the Dominican Republic.
1988 - Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" opened.
1981 - MTV made its debut at 12:01am. The first video shown was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
1979 - CBS aired the last episode of "Good Times."
1973 - The movie "American Graffiti" opened. It was Harrison Ford's first movie.
1960 - Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was released.
1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt lasted two months.
1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford.
1876 - Colorado became the 38th state to join the United States.
1834 - Slavery was outlawed in the British empire with an emancipation bill.
1291 - Switzerland was founded.
Khamani Griffin (Eddie Murphy's son in "Daddy Day Care") 1998
Tempestt Bledsoe (Vanessa Huxtable on "The Cosby Show") 1973
Adam Duritz (Counting Crows' singer: "Mr. Jones", "A Long December", "Hanging Around", "Rain King", "Einstein on the Beach", "American Girls") 1964
Coolio (rapper had a one-hit-wonder with "Gangsta's Paradise") 1963
Richard Roeper (The duo "Ebert and Roeper" rate movies with a thumbs up or down) 1959
Robert Cray (Blues/Rock guitarist) 1953
Jerry Garcia (singer for The Grateful Dead) 1942
Herman Melville (author of "Moby Dick") 1819
Francis Scott Key (wrote the poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", better known as the US anthem "The Star Spangled Banner") 1779
William Clark (The Lewis and Clark expedition explored the wild American Northwest) 1770
August 2nd:
2000 - Madonna's video "Music" premiered.
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.
1961 - The Beatles began their engagement as regular headliners at Liverpool's Cavern Club. They performed about 300 shows over the next two years.
1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue, the street of shops, was opened.
1776 - Members of the Continental Congress began adding their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
Gen Padova (Pornstar 2001-) 1981
Edward Furlong (John Edwards in "T2") 1977
Victoria Jackson ("SNL" cast member from 1986-1992) 1959
Lance Ito (Judge in OJ Simpson's murder trial) 1950
Was Craven (directed: "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "The People Under the Stairs", "Scream", "Cursed", "Red-Eye") 1939
Peter O'Toole ("Lawrence of Arabia") 1932
Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker on "All in the Family", also "In the Heat of the Night") 1924
August 3rd:
Watermelon Day
2004 - In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
1988 - The Iran-Contra hearings ended. No ties were made between U.S. President Reagan and the Nicaraguan Rebels. Several of Reagan's top staff, however, were charged.
1987 - Def Leppard released their album "Hysteria." The album contained their biggest hit: "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
1971 - Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new band Wings.
1949 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed. The league was formed by the merger between the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of Warren G. Harding.
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.
1750 - Christopher Dock completed the first book of teaching methods. It was titled "A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management."
Carmen Hayes (African-American pornstar 2002-) 1980
Evangeline Lilly ("Lost") 1979
Tom Brady (American football quarterback for the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2002) 1977
Ed Roland (singer and songwriter for Collective Soul: "Shine", "December", "Run", "Precious Declaration", "Why", "Better Now", "Counting The Days", "Hollywood") 1963
James Hetfield (singer and guitarist for Metallica: "Nothing Else Matters", "Hero of the Day", "One", "Unforgiven", "Enter Sandman") 1963
John C. McGinley ("Seven", "The Rock", "Wild Hogs", "Scrubs") 1959
Jay North (child actor played "Dennis the Menace" from 1959-63) 1951
John Landis (directed "Thriller" and "Black or White" by Michael Jackson, also: "Animal House", "Blues Brothers", "BT 2000", "Coming To America", "Trading Places", "Three Amigos") 1950
Martha Stewart 1941
Martin Sheen ("Apocalypse Now", "The West Wing") 1940
Tony Bennett (singer famous for singing standards) 1926
August 4th:
1989 - The final episode of "Highway to Heaven" aired. It was episode 111, entitled "Merry Christmas from Grandpa."
1987 - The soundtrack "Dirty Dancing" was released.
1984 - Phil Collins and Jill Tavelman were married.
1958 - Billboard Magazine introduced its "Hot 100" record chart, which was part popularity and a barometer of the movement of potential hits. The first number one song was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool."
1957 - The Everly Brothers appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and introduced their upcoming singles, "Wake Up Little Susie" and "Bye Bye Love."
1956 - Elvis Presley's song "Hound Dog" were released.
1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.
1914 - Britain declared war on Germany in World War I. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.
Cole and Dylan Sprouse (twins that played 5-year-old Julian in "Big Daddy") 1992
Jeff Gordon (Nascar racer) 1971
Barack Obama (African-American, Democrat, Illinois senator, running for U.S. President in 2008) 1961
Billy Bob Thornton ("Sling Blade", "The Man Who Wasn't There", "Monster's Ball", "A Simple Plan", "Bad Santa", "Friday Night Lights: Movie", "The Astronaut Farmer", "The Alamo") 1955
Louis Armstrong (Jazz trumpet player/singer: "What a Wonderful World", "Hello Dolly") 1901
August 5th:
1966 - The Beatles album "Revolver" was released. The album included the hits "Eleanor Rigby" and "Yellow Submarine."
1957 - American Bandstand made its network debut on ABC-TV. The show was hosted by Dick Clark. Until this day the show had been a local show in Philadelphia since 1952.
1944 - Polish insurgents liberated a German labor camp in Warsaw. 348 Jewish prisoners were freed.
Ashley Spalding aka Kaylani Lei (Chinese-American pornstar 2002-) 1980
Rita Gacs aka Rita Faltoyano (Hungarian-born pornstar 2000-) 1978
Stephany Schwarz aka Jewel De'Nyle (pornstar and adult director 1998-) 1977
Maureen McCormick (Marsha Brady on "The Brady Bunch" series) 1956
Loni Anderson ("WKRP in Cincinnati") 1946
Neil Armstrong (first man on the moon) 1930
August 6th:
1998 - The last new episode of Magic Johnson's late night talk show, "The Magic Hour," aired. The show had only lasted 2 months.
1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton
1986 - Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named "James Bond." "The Living Daylights" began filming and was released the following summer.
1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed.
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time when Auburn State Prison in New York executed convicted murderer William Kemmler.
1879 - The first Australian rules football game to be played at night took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The game was to promote the introduction of electricity to the city of Melbourne.
1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated.
Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser) (Pornstar from 1993-2003, also in the group MENSA for high IQs) 1973
Geri Halliwell (aka Ginger Spice from The Spice Girls) 1972
M. Night Shyamalan (directed "The 6th Sense", "Unbreakable", "Signs", and "The Village", "The Happening") 1970
Michelle Yeoh (acted in James Bond's "Tomorrow Never Dies", also "Crouching Tiger") 1962
Andy Warhol (Hippie artist of the 1960s) 1928
Robert Mitchum (acted in "Cape Fear", "El Dorado", "The Longest Day", "North and South") 1917
Lucille Ball ("I Love Lucy" TV series) 1911
August 7th:
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for the office of governor.
1991 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the internet. It didn't become widely used until 1995.
1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard against a possible invasion by Iraq.
1959 - The U.S. launched Explorer 6, which sent back the first picture of the Earth from space.
1914 - Germany invaded France at the start of WWI.
1888 - Jack the Ripper commits the first of his murders around London's East End.
Linsey Dawn McKenzie (British erotic model, starred in 2 hardcore films before her pregnancy, had surgery to go from 38HHH to 32DD) 1978
Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko on "Deep Space Nine" TV series) 1978
Charlize Theron (South-African actress, starred in "Men of Honor", "Sweet November", "Monster", "The Italian Job", and "Trapped") 1975
Jimmy Wales (creator of Wikipedia, an internet encyclopedia website) 1966
David Duchovny ("X-Files" TV series, also movies "House of D" and "Evolution", is married to Tea Leoni) 1960
Wayne Knight (played Newman on "Seinfeld" series and was on "3rd Rock From the Sun" TV series, movies include "Basic Instinct" "Toy Story 2", and "Rat Race") 1955
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (child star in the original short-film series "Our Gang" also known as "The Little Rascals" shorts in the 1930s) 1927
Louis Leakey (British archaeologist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa.) 1903
Billie Burke (Glinda the Good Witch on "The Wizard of Oz") 1884
Mata Hari (Dutch, exotic dancer in Paris, executed by firing squad for selling French military secrets to Germany during WWI) 1876
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August 12th:
1994 - Woodstock '94 opened in Saugerties, NY. The opening was on the 25th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
1988 - "The Last Temptation of Christ" opened.
1960 - The Silver Beetles recruited drummer Pete Best.
1898 - Hawaii was annexed by the U.S. Hawaii was later given territorial status and was given Statehood in 1959.
1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound recording.
1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph Lister.
Matt Theissen (singer for Christian/Mainstream pop/rock/punk band Relient K, "Forgiven", "Be My Escape", " Chapstick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry", "Pressing On", "Sadie Hawkins Dance") 1980
Richard Reid ("Shoe Bomber"arrested for trying to detonate explosives in his shoes on an airline in 2001) 1973
Pete Sampras (Tennis Champion) 1971
Miss Cleo (American, born as Youree Dell Harris, hosted commercials pretending to be a Jamaican tele-psychic) 1962
Mark Knopfler (guitarist for Dire Straits, "Money For Mothing", "Sultans of Swing") 1949
Jaques Tits (famous for the "Tits Alternative": if G is a finitely generated subgroup of a linear group, then G contains either a non-abelian free subgroup or a solvable subgroup of finite index, did I mention it's called the "Tits Alternative" and that his name is Jacques Tits?) 1930
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr. (country singer famous for the song "Act Naturally" in 1963, also co-hosted "Hee-Haw" with Roy Clark) 1929
Norris and Ross McWhirter (Scottish twins who created "The Guinness Book of World Records") 1925
Cecil B. DeMille (directed "The Ten Commandments") 1881
August 13th:
International Left-Handers Day
2004 - The 2004 summer Olympics opened in Athens, Greece.
1997 - Comedy Central aired the first episode of "South Park."
1994 - It was reported that aspirin not only helps reduce the risk of heart disease, but also helps prevent colon cancer.
1966 - The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" was released.
1965 - The Beatles' "Help!" was released. Singles included "Help" and "Yesterday."
1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" opened
1912 - The first radio license was issued to St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, PA.
1907 - The first taxicab started on the streets of New York City.
1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.
Fidel Castro (Communist leader of Cuba from 1959-2008) 1926
Alfred Hitchcock (directed "Psycho", "The Birds", "Lifeboat", Vertigo", "Rear Window", "Dial M For Murder", "The Man Who Knew Too Much") 1899
Bert Lahr (The Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz") 1895
Annie Oakly (American Wild West sharpshooter) 1860
August 14th:
2006 - The 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict cease fire goes into effect.
2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
1976 - The Steve Miller Band's "Keep On Rockin' Me" was released.
1971 - Rod Stewart released "Maggie May."
1959 - The first meeting was held to organize the American Football League.
1947 - Pakistan became independent from British rule.
1945 - It was announced by U.S. President Truman that Japan had surrendered unconditionally. The surrender ended World War II.
1941 - The U.S. Congress appropriated the funds to construct the Pentagon (approximately $83 million). The building was the new home of the U.S. War Department.
1935 - The U.S. Congress passed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
1917 - China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
1896 - Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.
Ashlynn Brooke (pornstar 2006-) 1985
Mila Kunis (Ukraine-born actress, plays Jackie on "That '70s Show", also Meg Griffin on "The Family Guy" animated series) 1983
Christopher Gorham (TV: "Popular", "Odyssey 5", "Party of Five", "Jake 2.0", "Felicity", "Ugly Betty") 1974
Catherine Bell ("Jag", "The Triangle") 1968
Halle Berry 1966
Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady on "The Brady Bunch" TV series) 1961
Magic Johnson (Hall of Fame Basketball player diagnosed with HIV, had a short-lived talk show in 1998) 1959
Marcia Gay Harden (starred in movies "Flubber", "Meet Joe Black", "Pollock", "Mystic River", "Space Cowboys") 1959
Gary Larson (created "The Far Side" newspaper comic) 1950
Danielle Steel (currently has written 65 bestselling romance novels) 1947
Steve Martin (got his start hosting "SNL" several times in the '70s, also in movies "Father of the Bride", "Sgt. Bilko", "The Jerk", "Bringing Down the House", "All of Me", "Roxanne", "Cheaper By the Dozen", "The Pink Panther") 1945
Lynne Cheney (wife of Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President) 1941
David Crosby (member of folk/rock group "Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young", had a hit "Hero" with Phil Collins in 1991) 1941
Connie Smith (country singer, famous for "Once A Day" in 1964, the biggest hit ever for a female country singer) 1941
August 15th:
Relaxation Day
2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper
1947 - India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British rule for about 200 years.
1939 - "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood, CA. Judy Garland became famous for the movie's song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
1918 - Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Russia were severed when the Communist Revolution takes place.
1911 - The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company.
1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone.
Tim Foreman (bassist for Switchfoot: "Awakening", "Stars", "We Are One Tonight", "Meant To Live", "This Is Your Life", "Dare You to Move", "Chem 6A", "New Way To Be Human") 1978
Natasha Henstridge (model/actress: "Species", "The Whole Nine Yards") 1974
Ben Affleck ("Dogma", "Good Will Hunting", "Pearl Harbor", "Paycheck", "Jersey Girl", "Daredevil", "Gigli", "The Sum of All Fears") 1972
Debra Messing (Grace on "Will and Grace" TV series) 1968
Debi Mazar (actress) 1964
Jimmy Webb (wrote songs "Galveston" and "MacArthur Park") 1946
Linda Ellerbee (Journalist) 1944
Napoleon Bonaparte (French general and emoperor) 1769
Julia Child (TV chef) 1912
August 16th:
Joke Day - "I got a new car for my wife. Good trade, wasn't it?"
1999 - The first episode of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" aired in the U.S. on ABC.
1977 - Elvis Presley died at the age of 42 in Memphis, TN. He died of coronary arrhythmia.
1975 - Peter Gabriel announced that he was leaving the group Genesis. Phil Collins, who was already the band's drummer, would be the new lead singer after the group auditioned more than 400 potential singers.
1966 - The Monkees' first single, "Last Train to Clarksville," was released.
Evanna Lynch (Played Luna Lovegood in "The Order of the Phoenix") 1991
Rumer Willis (the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore) 1988
Taylor Rain (pornstar known for her anal scenes, 2001-) 1981
Vanessa Carlton (pop singer known for her one-hit-wonder "A Thousand Miles") 1980
Emily Robison (leftist singer for the Dixie Chicks) 1972
Steve Carell (commedian who got his start with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", is on "The Office") 1963
Timothy Hutton ("Ordinary People" star was in the series "Kidnapped") 1960
Angela Bassett ("Waiting To Exhale") 1958
Madonna 1958
James Cameron (directed "The Terminator", "Aliens", and "Titanic") 1954
Kathie Lee Gifford (Regis' original co-host) 1953
Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow on "Family Matters", Sgt. Al Powell on "Die Hard 1&2") 1952
Richard Hunt (puppeteer on "Sesame Street" and "The Muppets") 1951
Julie Newmar (played Catwoman in the "Batman" TV series) 1933
Eydie Gorme (Sang popular hits with husmand Steve Lawrence in the 1960s-80s) 1932
Frank Gifford (US Football MVP, sportscaster, Kathie Lee's husband) 1930
Robert Culp (starred in the TV series "I Spy" with Bill Cosby) 1930
Fess Parker (starred as TV's Davey Crockett) 1925
August 17th:
1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
1997 - The first episode of VH1's "Behind the Music" aired.
1992 - Woody Allen admitted to being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn. The girl was the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen's longtime companion. He was 57, and she was 22. In 1997 they got married.
1986 - Rick Allen (Def Leppard) played his first concert with his band since losing his left arm in a car accident.
1964 - The Kinks "You Really Got Me" was released.
1903 - Joseph Pulitzer donated a million dollars to Columbia University. This started the Pulitzer Prizes in his name.
1896 - The Klondike gold rush was set off by George Carmack discovering gold on Rabbit Creek in Alaska.
1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.
Donnie Wahlberg (New Kids On the Block) 1969
Kevin Max (Smith) (one of the singers for DC Talk: "Just Between You & Me", "In the Light", solo sang: "Existence" and "Sanctuary") 1967
Sean Penn (far leftist star of "Mystic River", and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High") 1960
Belinda Carlisle (singer for The Go-Gos) 1958
Robert DeNiro ("The Godfather 2", "Taxi Driver", "Goodfellas", "Meet The Parents", "Analyze This") 1943
Maureen O'Hara ("Big Jake", "Spencer's Mountain", "Miracle on 34th Street", "How Green Was My Valley") 1920
Davey Crockett (Tennessee woodsman elected to Congress, died at the Alamo) 1786
August 18th:
1986 - Bon Jovi released their "Slippery When Wet" album.
1982 - The longest baseball game, played at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL, went 21 innings before the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cubs 2-1.
1977 - Funeral services for Elvis Presley were held at Graceland.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" was published.
Andy Samberg (Current "SNL" cast member and is in the movie "Hot Rod") 1978
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Theo on "The Cosby Show", also was on the series "Jeremiah") 1970
Edward Norton ("American History X", "Fight Club", "Death To Smoochy", "The Italian Job") 1969
Erik "Everlast" Schrody (late '90s pop/rap/rock singer "What It's Like", "Ends", "White Trash Beautiful") 1969
Christian Slater 1969
Patrick Swayze 1952
Robert Redford 1937
Roman Polanski (directed "The Pianist", fled arrest in the US to France for raping a 14 year old girl) 1933
Meriwether Lewis (with William Clark explored the North American north-west) 1774
August 19th:
Aviation day
Potato day
2002 - John Madden debuted as commentator on "Monday Night Football."
1993 - "Cheers" ended an 11-year run on NBC-TV. The show debuted on September 30, 1982.
1981 - The final episode of "Charlie's Angels was aired on ABC-TV.
1934 - Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.
1919 - Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.
Erika Christensen ("Six Degrees", "Traffic", "Swim Fan") 1982
Dave Douglas (drummer for Christian/mainstream rock band Relient K: "Be My Escape", "Forgiven", "Pressing On") 1979
Fat Joe (rapper) 1970
Clay Walker (country music singer) 1969
Matthew Perry ("Friends" TV series) 1969
Lee Ann Womack (country singer, "I Hope You Dance") 1966
Kyra Sedgwick ("Secondhand Lions", "The Closer", "Phenomenon") 1965
John Stamos ("Full House" TV series, ex-husband of Rebecca Romijin) 1963
Adam Arkin ("Chicago Hope" series) 1956
Peter Gallagher (The dad on "The OC" TV series, also "Titanic", "While You Were Sleeping", "American Beauty") 1955
Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker on "Star Trek: The Next Generation") 1952
John Deacon (bassist for Queen) 1951
Tipper Gore (wife of Al Gore, rallied for "Parental Advisory" labels on music albums after listening to Prince's "Purple Rain" in 1984) 1948
Bill Clinton (42nd US President 1993-2000, famous for his sex scandal) 1946
Jill St. John (Bond Girl in "Diamonds Are Forever") 1940
Ginger Baker (drummer for Cream and Blind Faith) 1939
Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski on the second season of Star Trek: TNG") 1938
Gene Roddenberry (created "Star Trek", "The Next Generation", and began creating "Deep Space Nine" before his death in 1991) 1921
Malcolm Forbes (created "Forbes" magazine) 1919
Orville Wright (with his brother Wilbur created the first successful airplane) 1871
August 20th:
Radio day
2001 - The anime series "Dragon Ball" aired for the first time.
1998 - U.S. military forces attacked a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan. Both targets were chosen for cruise missile strikes due to their connection with Osama bin Laden. It was the only attack on Afghanistan until 2001.
1989 - The original pilot for "Forever Knight" aired.
1989 - The first episode of "Saved By The Bell" aired on NBC.
1940 - France fell to the Germans during World War II.
1918 - The British opened its Western Front offensive during World War I.
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
1866 - It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
Sweet Amy Lee (pornstar 2001-06) 1979
Fred Durst (singer/rapper for Limp Bizkit) 1971
John Carmack (creator and lead programmer of such games as "Doom", "Quake", and "Wolfenstein") 1970
James Marsters (Spike on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") 1962
Joan Allen ("The Contender", "Pleasantville", "The Notebook", "The Bourne Supremecy/Ultimatum", "The Crucible") 1956
Don Stark (Laura Prepon's father on "That '70s Show") 1954
Al Roker ("The Today Show" weatherman) 1952
Robert Plant (singer for Led Zepplin, sang "Whole Lotta Love") 1948
Connie Chung (US TV reporter/interviewer) 1946
Isaac Hayes (sang "Shaft", played Chef on "South Park" animated series) 1942
Benjamin Harrison (23rd US President 1889-1893) 1833
August 21st:
World Youth Day, headed by the Catholic Church
2006 - FOX-TV begins airing the second season of "Prison Break."
1996 - FOX-TV began airing the seventh season of "Beverly Hills, 90210." The show lasted until 2000.
1990 - Prince released the soundtrack to "Graffiti Bridge." The first single released is "Theives in the Temple."
1991 - The hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ended. The uprising that led to the collapse was led by Russian federation President Boris Yeltsin.
1965 - The Lovin' Spoonful's "Do You Believe In Magic" was released.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state. U.S. President Eisenhower also issued the order for the 50 star flag.
1923 - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, an ordinance was passed forbidding dancers from gazing into the eyes of their partner.
1912 - Arthur R. Eldred became the first American boy to become an Eagle Scout. It is the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America.
1888 - The adding machine was patented by William Burroughs.
1841 - A patent for venetian blinds was issued to John Hampton.
1831 - Nat Turner, a former US slave, led a violent insurrection in Virginia. He was later executed.
Hayden Panettiere ("Heores", "Malcolm in the Middle",also in movies: "The Architect", "Remember the Titans", "Joe Somebody", "Raising Helen", "Ice Princess", "Bring It On 2") 1989
Paris Bennett (Finalist on the 2006 season of "American Idol") 1988
Maya Hills (Pornstar 2005-) 1987
Sarah Jane aka Sarah Blake (Started out in 2003 as Little Troublemaker, as an internet model, and then went hardcore as Sarah Blake) 1980
Kelis Rogers-Jones (rapper, famous for her one-hit wonder "Milkshake" in 2003) 1979
Alicia Witt (most famous for playing Gertrude Lang on "Mr. Holland's Opus, also: "Urban Legend, "The Upside of Anger", "88 Minutes", "Vanilla Sky", "Two Weeks Notice", "Last Holiday") 1975
Liam Howlett (Keyboardist for techno band Prodigy: "Firestarter", "Breathe", "Smack My B**ch Up") 1971
Carrie-Anne Moss ("The Matrix" trilogy, "Memento") 1969
Stephen Hillenburg (created the animated children's series "SpongeBob SquarePants") 1961
Kim Cattrall (Samantha on "Sex and the City", also in movies: "Porky's", "Police Academy", "Star Trek VI", "Crossroads", "Ice Princess") 1956
Joe Strummer (singer/guitarist for The Clash) 1952
Kenny Rogers (started a chicken restaurant, also sang "The Gambler", "Buy Me A Rose", "She Believes In Me", "Reuben James", "You Are So Beautiful", "Something's Burning", "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town") 1938
Wilt Chamberlain (NBA superstar who scored 100 points in a single game) 1936
Melvin Van Peebles (directed his 13-year-old son Marvin in a hardcore sex scene in "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song", Melvin contacted VD from one of the girls while filming this movie) 1932
Friz Freleng (created Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam) 1906
William "Count" Basie (swing/big band-era band leader, famous for "The One O'clock Jump") 1904
August 22nd:
Tooth Fairy day
1979 - Led Zeppelin released their last album together, "In Through The Out Door."
1973 - Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.
1970 - Elton John signed to MCA Records. He then released his second album "Elton John" with the singles "Your Song" and "Border Song."
1970 - Derek and the Dominoes, featuring Eric Clapton, began work on their first and only studio album, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs."
1964 - Liberty Records reported the album "The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles" was selling 25,000 copies a day.
1951 - 75,052 people watched the Harlem Globetrotters perform. It was the largest crowd ever to see a basketball game.
1932 - The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) began its first TV broadcast in England.
1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ, began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.
1902 - In Hartford, CT, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first president of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded.
1865 - A patent for liquid soap was received by William Sheppard.
1861 - The Red Cross is formed.
1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James Cook landed there.
Lacie Heart (Pornstar 2005-) 1986
Missy Monroe (pornstar 2003-) 1984
Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) 1973
Paul Coleman (singer/guitarist, solo: "Fill My Cup", "Turn", "One Thing", with Newsboys: "Wherever We Go That's Where the Party's At", "Beautiful Thing") 1968
Gary Grice aka GZA (rapper with the Wu-Tang Clan and solo) 1966
Tori Amos (Piano player/singer: "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Spark") 1963
Debbi Peterson (drummer for The Bangles: "Walk Like An Egyptian", "Eternal Flame", "Manic Monday") 1961
Roland Orzabal (singer for Tears For Fears: "Shout", "Mad World", "Everybody Wants To Rule The World") 1961
Cindy Williams (Shirley from "Laverne and Shirley" sitcom) 1947
Bill Parcells (coach for the US football team Dallas Cowboys) 1941
Valerie Harper ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Muppet Show") 1940
E. Annie Proulx (author of "The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain", both of which became successful movies) 1935
Norman Schwarzkopf (US Army commander during the Persian-Gulf War 1990-1991) 1934
Ray Bradbury (sci-fi author: "It Came From Outer Space", "Farenheit 451", "Something Wicked This Way Comes") 1920
Deng Xiaoping (Chinese leader of the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989) 1904
August 23:
Sponge Cake day
1998 - The 10th season of "The Simpsons" began on FOX.
1993 - It was confirmed by Los Angeles police that Michael Jackson was the subject of a criminal investigation.
1966 - The Beatles' movie "Help!" premiered.
1959 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Sally debuted as an infant.
1839 - Hong Kong was taken by the British in a war with China.
Carmen Luvana (pornstar 2001-) 1981
Rex Grossman (Quarterback for the American Football team Chicago Bears) 1980
Kobe Bryant (NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers) 1978
Jay Mohr (SNL comedian was in "Jerry McGuire", and on TV: "Fastlane", "Last Comic Standing" host, and "The Ghost Whisperer") 1970
Dean DeLeo (guitarist for Stone Temple Pilots: "Creep", "Interstate Love Song", "Big Bang Baby", "Sour Girl", "Down", "Days of the Week") 1961
Rick Springfield (sang "Jessie's Girl") 1949
Shelly Long ("Cheers" TV series, also played Carol Brady in two "Brady Bunch" movies) 1948
Keith Moon (drummer for The Who, died at 32) 1946
Nelson DeMille (author: "The General's Daughter", and the series of 1"Plum Island", 2"The Lion's Game", 3"Night Fall", and 4"Wild Fire") 1943
Barbara Eden ("I Dream of Genie" TV series) 1934
Vera Miles ("Psycho", "Psycho II", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Follow Me, Boys!") 1929
Gene Kelly ("Singing in the Rain") 1912
August 24th:
Peach Pie day
1999 - Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut album was released.
1999 - Warner Brothers released the album "The Vault...Old Friends 4 Sale" by Prince. The album was a collection of pre-recorded songs, in a variety of pop, rock, jazz, and big-band styles.
1995 - Microsoft's "Windows 95" went on sale.
1991 - Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Communist Party.
1991 - Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 - Sinead O'Connor refused to perform if the United States National Anthem was played before her show at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Homdel, NJ, as is custom. A patriotic uproar ensued which lead to several radio stations banning her music.
1989 - Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, was banned from baseball for life after being accused of gambling on baseball.
1981 - Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
1979 - "I Wanna Be Your Lover" by Prince was released. It was his first hit.
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1869 - A patent for the waffle iron was received by Cornelius Swarthout.
1853 - Potato chips are first prepared in England.
1814 - Washington, DC, was invaded by British forces that set fire to the White House and Capitol.
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed. It was the first book to be printed on a printing press.
79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.
Rupert Grint (Ron in the "Harry Potter" movies) 1988
Chad Michael Murray (TV's "Dawson's Creek" and movie "A Cinderella Story") 1981
Jennifer Lien ("Star Trek Voyager") 1974
Dave Chappelle (stand-up commedian, "The Dave Chappelle Show", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "Half Baked", "Con Air", "You've Got Mail", "200 Cigarettes", "Undercover Brother", "The Nutty Professor", "Block Party") 1973
Marlee Matlin (deaf actress was the Lip Reader on Seinfeld, also was on "The West Wing") 1965
Craig Kilborn (1993-96 Host of "SportsCenter" on ESPN, 1996-99 Host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, 1999-04 Host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, was also in "Old School") 1962
Vince McMahon (wrestler and head of the WWE) 1945
Yasser Arafat (Became leader of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1968) 1929
Hal Smith (Otis on "The Andy Griffith Show", also the voice of John Avery Whitaker on the radio/internet dramedy series "Adventures In Odyssey" from 1987-1994. Paul Herlinger took over the role in 1996 and the show is currently the longest running weekly half-hour series) 1916
Fred Rose (wrote many pop/country songs in the 1930s-50s for other artists: "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", "Kaw-Liga", "It'a a Sin", "Crazy Heart", "Take These Chains From My Heart") 1897
James Weddell (The first explorer of Antarctica in the 1820s) 1787
August 27th:
2001 - Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
2001 - A complaint was filed against California Congressman Gary Condit and two others for their efforts to obstruct justice in the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy. Condit was accused of conspiring to secure Anne Marie Smith's silence about an affair in their past.
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughn and three members of Eric Clapton's band were killed in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin.
1921 - USA - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL)
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs's book "Tarzan of the Apes" was published for the first time.
1883 - Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano, erupts. It wass one of the most violent volcanic events in modern times, and the blast caused a 5-year global cooling by 1.2 degrees.
Alexa Vega (Youngest daughter Carmen in 3 "Spy Kids" movies, also Jordan's love interest in an episode of "The Bernie Mac Show", also movies "The Deep End of the Ocean", "Sleepover", "State's Evidence", "The Beautiful Ordinary", "Hairspray" on Broadway) 1988
Sarah Chalke (Dr. Elliot Reed on "Scrubs" and Becky on "Rosanne" TV series) 1976
Alex Lifeson (guitarist for Rush) 1953
Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens (starred in "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" movie and a short-lived children's show based on the movie) 1952
Charles Fleischer (The voice of Roger Rabbit) 1950
Barbara Bach ("The Spy Who Loved Me", Ringo's wife) 1947
Harry Reems (porn star of the 1970s, "Deep Throat", "The Devil in Miss Jones") 1947
George W. Bailey (Rizzo on "MASH") 1945
August 28th:
Dream Day
Summer Bank Holiday (UK)
1997 - The first Genesis album in six years was premiered live in an Album Network radio special and simultaneous webcast at the Atlantic Records website.The album, "Calling All Stations," featured Ray Wilson who had replaced Phil Collins as singer. The band broke up two years later.
1996 - A divorce decree was issued for Britain's Charles and Princess Diana. This was the official end to the 15-year marriage. 1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. pled innocent to the charge of attempting to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity.
1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins. This event is depicted in the series "American Dreams."
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, DC. More than 200,000 people attended.
1961 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1916 - Italy's declaration of war against Germany took effect during World War I.
1883 - Slavery was banned by the British Parliament throughout the British Empire.
LeAnn Rimes (sang "Blue" at 13 years old, also sang "Nothin' "Bout Love Makes Sense", "Can't Fight the Moonlight", "How Do I Live", "Big Deal", "I Need You", "Life Goes On", "Commitment", "And It Feels Like", "Nothin' Better To Do", cameoed in "Coyote Ugly") 1982
Crystal Ray (pornstar 2002-2005) 1982
Matthew John Armstrong (Pete Pryor on "American Dreams", "Ted Sprague on "Heroes") 1973
Jason Priestly ("90210" TV series) 1969
Jack Black 1969
Amanda Tapping ("Stargate SG-1) 1965
Jennifer Coolidge (Stiffler's Mom on "American Pie") 1963
Daniel Stern ("Home Alone 1&2", "City Sclickers 1&2", "Very Bad Things", was the older Kevin narrator on "The Wonder years") 1957
David Soul (Hutch on "Starsky and Hutch") 1943
Ken Jenkins (Dr. Bob Kelso on "Scrubs") 1940
Paul Martin (21st Prime Minister of Canada, 2003-06) 1938
Leo Tolstoy (wrote "War and Peace") 1828
August 29th:
The first day of Thoth - which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
Aug. 29, 1997 - Judgment Day, from the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and costing over 115 billion dollars in damage.
1995 - While shooting the music video for Meat Loaf's "I'd Lie for You," a pilot and cameraman were killed in a helicopter crash in the Sequoia National Forest about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, CA.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
1984 - Prince's single "Let's Go Crazy" was released.
1970 - The Kinks' single "Lola" was released.
1967 - The final episode of "The Fugitive" aired.
1966 - The Beatles ended their fourth American tour at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA. It turned out that the show was their last public concert.
1964 - Roy Orbison's single "Oh, Pretty Woman" was released. The song was Orbison's second #1 hit.
1958 - George Harrison joined the band Quarrymen. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were also members.
1940 - Peter Goldmark of CBS announced his invention of a color TV system.
1533 - Atahualpa, the last Incan King of Peru, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The Inca Empire died with him.
Lanny Barbie (porn star since 1999) 1981
Carla Gugino (TV's "Spin City", "Karen Sisco", "Threshold", 3 "Spy Kids" movies, "Sin City", "A Night At The Museum") 1971
Me'shell Ndegeocello (sang "Wild Night with John Mellencamp, her one-hit-wonder) 1968
Michael Jackson 1958
Robin Leach (host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous") 1941
William Friedkin (director of "The Exorcist") 1939
John McCain (Republican Arizona Senator is running for US President in 2008) 1936
Richard Attenborough (acted in "The Flight of the Poenix (1965)", "Dr. Dolittle (1967)", "The Sand Pebbles", "Brannigan", "Jurassic Park", and directed "Ghandi" which won Best Picture in 1982) 1923
Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson on "The Jeffersons" TV sitcom) 1917
August 30th:
International Day of the Disappeared
Toasted Marshmallow Day
2002 - Bjork's west London flat was burglarized while she slept. Valuable recording equipment had been stolen.
1993 - Billy Joel became the first musical guest on CBS-TV's "The Late Show with David Letterman" when the show debuted. The show had moved from NBC (where it had been aired after the Tonight Show for 11 years) to CBS.
1968 - The Beatles' album "Hey Jude" was released. Singles included "Hey Jude" and "Revolution."
1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.
Andy Roddick (The #! ranked American tennis player) 1982
Lisa Ling (ex-co-host of "The View") 1973
Cameron Diaz ("The Mask", "There's Something About Mary", "Very Bad Things", "She's the One", "Charlie's Angels", "Vanilla Sky", "Shrek") 1972
Michael Chiklis ("The Shield", The Thing on "Fantastic Four") 1963
Lewis Black (stand-up comedian who mainly discusses politics) 1948
Peggy Lipton ("The Mod Squad", "Twin Peaks") 1946
Robert Crumb (creator and animator of "Fritz the Cat", the first X-rated cartoon movie) 1943
Fred MacMurray (The father on "My Three Sons") 1908
Mary Shelley (wrote "Frankenstein") 1797
August 31st:
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris.
1974 - "The Partridge Family" television show ended.
1991 - Metallica's self-titled album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's pop album chart. Often refered to as "The Black Album", singles included "Enter Sandman", "The Unforgiven", and "Nothing Else Matters."
Sara RamÃ*rez (Grey's Anatomy) 1975
Chris Tucker (annoying actor co-starred with Jackie Chan in "Rush Hour" and was in "Fifth Element") 1974
Debbie Gibson (late 1980s-early '90s pop singer: "Electric Blue", "Lost in Your Eyes") 1970
Richard Gere ("Pretty Woman", "Chicago") 1949
September 1st:
U.S. Labor Day
Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R")
Start of cold/flu season.
Start of the partridge-shooting season.
September is the start of new school year in many countries.
1995 - Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum was opened with a seven-hour concert with dozens of stars.
1985 - The ruins of the Titanic were found in the Atlantic Ocean.
1970 - The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV. It had ran for 5 years.
1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
Tianna Lynn (glasses-wearing, squirting pornstar 2003-) 1983
Jada Fire (African-American pornstar 1998-) 1976
Kristal Summers (pornstar 2000-) 1972
Mohamed Atta al-Sayed (suicide pilot who crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center) 1968
Gloria Estefan (Cuban singer: "Turn the Beat Around", "Don't Wanna Lose You Now") 1957
Dr. Phil McGraw (Talk-show host/psychologist) 1950
Barry Gibbs (Singer for the Bee Gees) 1946
Lilly Tomlin ("Laugh In", "All of Me", "Big Business", "9 To 5", "I Heart Huckabees") 1939
Conway Twitty (country/pop singer of the 1950-80s: "It's Only Make Believe", "You've Never Been This Far Before") 1933
Edgar Rice Burroughs (author who wrote "Tarzan of the Apes" in 1912) 1875
Sept. 2nd:
V-J Day (The day the Japanese surrendered at the end of WW2 in 1945)
1986 - Debbie Gibson, while still in school and only 16 years old, began recording the album "Out of the Blue."
1981 - The single "Controversy" was released by Prince from his 4th album of the same name.
1970 - An ad was run in "Melody Maker" by Genesis. Phil Collins answered the ad and eventually joined the group. He became the drummer, and then also the singer when Peter Gabriel left in 1976.
1969 - NBC-TV canceled "Star Trek." The show had debuted on September 8, 1966.
1969 – The first Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) is installed in Rockville Center, NY.
1965 - The Beatles released "Yesterday."
1963 - The integration of Tuskegee High School was prevented by state troopers assigned by Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Wallace had the building surrounded by state troopers.
1945 - Japan surrendered to the U.S. aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II. The war ended six years and one day after it began. (V-J Day)
1666 - The Great Fire of London broke out. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral. Only 6 people were killed.
MC Chris (Hesh on “Sealab 2021â€) 1975
Salma Hayek 1968
Cynthia Watros ("Titus" and Drew's fiancé Kellie on "The Drew Carey Show", Libby on "Lost") 1968
Keanau Reeves ("The Matrix", "Speed") 1964
Mark Harmon ("NCIS" TV series) 1951
Terry Bradshaw (Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who became an NFL announcer) 1948
September 3rd:
Australian flag day http://i36.tinypic.com/30nisgi.jpg
2002 - On FOX's "American Idol" Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini engaged in their final battle of the power ballads. The next evening Clarkson was named the newest pop star in the nation.
1995 - Ebay is founded.
1966 - The television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" ended after 14 years.
1954 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
1783 - The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.
1777 - The American flag was first flown during the Revolutionary War against Britain.
Jennifer Paige (had a one-hit-wonder with her song "Crush" in 1998) 1973
Charlie Sheen (movie: "Platoon", TV: "Spin City", "Two and a Half Men") 1965
Amber Lynn (pornstar) 1963
Valerie Perrine ("Diamonds are Forever", "Slaughterhouse-Five", "Superman 1&2") 1943
Mort Walker (comic strip creator: "Hi and Lois" and "Beetle Bailey") 1923
September 4th:
2006 - Steve Irwin, aka "The Crocodile Hunter," died while filming "The Ocean's Deadliest Creatures." He was stung by a stingray off the coast of Australia in the Great Barrier Reef.
2002 - FOX aired the two-hour finale of the first season of "American Idol." Kelly Clarkson was selected as the nation's newest pop star.
1971 - "The Lawrence Welk Show" was seen for the last time on ABC-TV.
1967 - "Gilligan's Island" aired for the last time on CBS-TV. It ran for 98 episodes.
1957 - The Ford Motor Company began selling the Edsel. The car was so unpopular that it was taken off the market in 1959.
1957 - The Arkansas National Guard was ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to keep nine black students from going into Little Rock's Central High School.
1917 - The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.
1888 - George Eastman registered the name "Kodak" and patented his roll-film camera. The camera took 100 exposures per roll.
1882 - Thomas Edison's Pearl Street electric power station began operations in New York City. It was the first display of a practical electrical lighting system.
1833 - Barney Flaherty answered an ad in "The New York Sun" and became the first newsboy/paperboy at the age of 10.
1781 - Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula," which translates as "The Town of the Queen of Angels."
Beyonce Knowles (singer of Destiny's Child) 1981
John DiMaggio (Bender on "Futurama") 1968
Damon Wayons ("SNL", "In Living Color", "My Wife and Kids", "Bulletproof") 1960
Dr. Drew Pinsky (host of radio's "Love Line" with Adam Carolla) 1958
Dick York (played Darren on "Bewitched" until he left the show in 1969 to go into drug rehibilitation) 1928
Paul Harvey (host of radio's "The Rest of the Story") 1918
"Ivan The Terrible" (Russian Czar) 1530
September 5th:
Be late for something day
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine entered a clear plastic box and then suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He remained there until October 19 surviving only on water. 2001 - The reality TV show "Amazing Race" aired for the first time.
1997 - Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at the age of 87.
1988 - Metallica released the album "And Justice For All" featuring the song "One."
1987 - "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark, was canceled after 30 years on television.
1964 - "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann's was released.
1958 - Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" was published for the first time in the U.S.
1914 - WWI - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.
Ariel Summers (Pornstar 2005-) 1984
Rose McGowan ("Charmed" TV series) 1973
Michael Keaton ("Batman", "My Life", "Beetlejuice", "Mr. Mom") 1951
Cathy Guisewite (created the comic strip "Cathy") 1950
Freddie Mercury (singer of Queen, died of AIDS at 45 in 1991) 1946
Raquel Welch (movie actress who wouldn't swing her arms while dancing and walking on an episode of Seinfeld) 1940
Bob Newhart (comedian who had a sitcon in the '70s) 1929
John Cage (composer who thought silence was music, so he wrote "4:33," which was 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence) 1912
Jesse James (Missouri outlaw who robbed banks and trains) 1847
September 6th:
Read a book day
1997 - More than 2 million people watched the funeral service of Princess Diana that was held at Westminster Abbey.
1972 - The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that took the lives of 11 Israelis and five Arab abductors. This was depicted in the movie "Munich."
1959 - The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation.
1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.
1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.
1620 - The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World.
Raven Riley (internet model and pornstar) 1986
Foxy Brown (rapper criticized for her explicit lyrics on her first album because she was only 16 years old, had her hearing restored in 2005 by surgery) 1979
Dolores O'Riordan (singer for The Cranberries: "Linger", "Zombie", "Free To Decide", “Animal Instinct”, “Analyze”) 1971
CeCe Peniston (dance singer known for her early '90s hit "Finally") 1969
Rosie Perez (annoying Latino movie/Broadway actress) 1964
Elizabeth Vargas (20/20) 1962
Jeff Foxworthy ("Blue Collar" comedian had a '90s sitcom, famous for "Ways to tell if you're a Redneck") 1958
Michael Winslow (commedian known as "The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects" for his ability to make sound effects with his voice, was in "Spaceballs" and all the "Police Academy" movies) 1958
Jane Curtin (starred in the '70s on "SNL," also in "3rd Rock From the Sun") 1947
Roger Waters (singer and guitarist for Pink Floyd) 1943
September 7th:
Neither Rain Nor Snow day (day to honor mail carriers)
1998 - Mark McGwire set a new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961.
1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.
1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1969 - The half hour Saturday morning cartoon "The Beatles" aired its last show. The show had debuted on September 25, 1965.
1966 - The final episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV.
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1930 - The cartoon "Blondie" made its first appearance in the comic strips.
1896 - A.H. Whiting won the first automobile race held on a racetrack. The race was held in Cranston, RI.
Evan Rachael Wood (child/teen star of independent movies: "Thirteen", "Pretty Persuasion" and was in the TV series "American Gothic" and "Once and Again") 1987
Shannon Elizabeth ("American Pie", "Scary Movie" and was in Playboy Magazine in 1999) 1973
Diane Warren (songwriter: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", "Can't Fight The Moonlight", "How Do I Live?", "Because You Loved Me", "I'd Lie For You (and That's the Truth)", "If I Could Turn Back Time", "I Could Not Ask For More", "Blame it on the Rain") 1956
Julie Kavner (voice of Marge Simpson on "The Simpsons" cartoon) 1954
Gloria Gaynor (had a one-hit-wonder with her disco hit "I Will Survive") 1949
Richard Roundtree (played the original Shaft) 1942
Buddy Holly (early ‘50s rock singer: “Peggy Sue”, “Oh Boy”, “That’ll Be the Day”, “Rave On”, “You’re So Square”, died in a plane crash in 1959) 1936
September 8th:
International Literacy Day
Christianity – Feast of the Birth of Mary, mother of Jesus.
1998 - The first episode of "Pokémon" aired.
1997 - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, OK.
1997 - The television show "Ally McBeal" debuted on Fox.
1986 - "The Oprah Winfrey Show" first airs.
1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.
1966 - NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek" entitled "The Man Trap". The show was canceled on September 2, 1969.
1952 - The Ernest Hemingway novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was published.
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 was passed by the Legislative Council. It was consented by the governor on September 19 giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1883 - The Union Pacific Railroad line was completed. The line ran from Lake Superior, Minnesota to Seattle Washington.
1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL.
Jonathon Taylor Thomas (Randy Taylor on "Home Improvement" TV series) 1981
Alecia Moore, aka P!nk, or Pink, or Pinkk (Pop singer: "Don't Let Me Get Me", "Just Like a Pill", "Get the Party Started", "God is a DJ", "Stupid Girls") 1979
Alicia Rhodes (British, Pornstar 2002-) 1978
Kiki Daire (pornstar 1998-) 1976
Henry Thomas (Elliot on "E.T.") 1971
Brooke Burke (Playboy model who starred in "Wild On!" a reality series where she went to exotic locations to party) 1971
Peter Furler [singer for The Newsboys: "Shine", "Breakfast", "Amazing Love", "A Million Pieces", "Wherever We Go (That's Where The Party's At)"] 1966
Patsy Cline (country/rockabilly singer of the 1950-60s: "Crazy", "Walking After Midnight", "Back In Baby's Arms", "I Fall To Pieces", "Faded Love", "South of the Border", "Have You Ever Been Lonely", died in a plane crash in 1963) 1932
Peter Sellers ["Dr. Strangelove", "The Pink Panther", "A Shot in the Dark"(the sequel to "The Pink Panther") and 4 more Pink Panther movies] 1925
September 9th:
Teddy Bear day
Grandparents' day
2004 - NBC debuted the TV series "Joey." The show was a spinoff of the sitcom "Friends." "Joey" ran for only two seasons before being cancelled.
1999 - The Sega Dreamcast game system went on sale. By 1:00pm all Toys R Us locations in the U.S. had sold out.
1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.
1995 - Sony's PlayStation game console was released in the US.
1994 - Los Angeles prosecutors announced that they would not seek the death penalty against O.J. Simpson.
1975 - The first episode of "Welcome Back, Kotter" aired on ABC, starring John Travolta.
1971 - John Lennon's LP "Imagine" was released. In a press conference for the album, John Lennon admitted to being a communist.
1971 - Inmates seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility (prison) near Buffalo, NY. Nine prisoners were held hostage and died along with their 32 captors when the prison was stormed four days later.
1956 - Elvis Presley performed "Love Me Tender" for his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show "Toast of the Town." He was shot from just the waist up during the performance.
1850 - California became the 31st state to join the union.
Sandra Shine (pornstar 2001-) 1981
Michelle Williams (actress: "Dawson's Creek" TV series, also "Species", "Dick", Halloween H2O", "Brokeback Mountain") 1980
Rachel Hunter (New Zealand model, posed for Playboy, played "Stacy's Mom" in a Fountains of Wayne music video) 1969
Adam Sandler (commedian known for his raunchy song/skits CDs, also "SNL", "The Wedding Singer", "Big Daddy", "Billy Madison", "Punch-Drunk Love", "50 First Dates", "Spanglish", "Click", "Chuck and Larry", "Reign Over Me") 1966
Hugh Grant 1960
Jeffery Combs (played Weyoun on "Deep Space Nine") 1954
Michael Keaton ("Beetlejuice", and the first 2 "Batman" movies) 1951
Tom Wopat (Played Luke Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV series) 1951
Billy Preston (keyboardist who played with The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, and, most famously, with The Beatles, keyboards on "Let It Be") 1946
Otis Redding (Early Motown singer "Sitting On the Dock of the Bay") 1941
Leo Tolstoy (Russian author wrote "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina") 1820
September 10th:
World Suicide Prevention Day
Hot Dog day
"10 September" was the name of a communist group in Turkey.
2002 - Florida tested its new elections system. The test resulted in polling stations opening late and problems occurred with the touch screen voting machines.
2002 - It was reported that the Cartoon Network had purchased the television rights for the FOX animated series "Futurama." The series ran for 4 seasons and ended in 2003. Comedy Central has picked up a 5th season scheduled for 2008.
1993 - The first episode of "X-Files" aired on FOX. The show ran for 9 years.
1990 - NBC began airing the series "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
1975 - The first episode of "Starsky and Hutch" was aired by ABC.
1973 - BBC Radio banned the song "Star Star" by the Rolling Stones for it's explicit sexual content and the repeated use of the F-word.
1966 - "The Last Train to Clarksville" was released by the Monkees.
1963 - Twenty black students entered public schools in Alabama at the end of a standoff between federal authorities and Alabama governor George C. Wallace.
1953 - Swanson began selling its first "TV dinner."
1919 - New York City welcomed home 25,000 soldiers and General John J. Pershing who had served in the First Division during World War I.
Sanjaya Malakar (2007 American Idol contestant) 1989
Ryan Phillipe (married Reese Witherspoon, was in "Cruel Intentions" and "Antitrust") 1974
Guy Ritchie (director who married Madonna, “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels”, “Swept Away”, “Snatch”) 1968
Colin Firth (British actor: "The English Patient", "Shakespere in Love", "Bridget Jones' Diary", "Nanny McPhee") 1960
Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson) 1958
Chris Columbus (movie director: The first 3 "Harry Potter" movies, The first 2 "Home Alone" movies, "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Jingle All the Way", "Stepmom", "Rent", "Fantastic Four", and wrote "Gremlins 1" and "The Goonies") 1958
Joe Perry (lead guitarist for Aerosmith: "What It Takes", "Living On The Edge", "Dude Looks Like a Lady", "Dream On", "Walk This Way") 1950
José Feliciano (blind Puerto Rican singer known for "Feliz Navidad") 1945
Roger Maris (Major League Basball player for the New York Yankees who, in 1961, hit 61 home runs, beating the previous record set by Babe Ruth) 1934
Arnold Palmer (Championship golfer won four Masters Tournaments) 1929
September 11th:
9/11/01 - Patriot Day – Six-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City and The Pentagon in Washington, DC.
Proclaimed 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local emergency services.
Hot Cross Buns day
Neighborhood day
2006 - Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son was found dead. The cause is unknown.
2001 - In the U.S., four airliners were hijacked and were intentionally crashed. Two airliners hit the World Trade Center, which collapsed shortly after, in New York City, NY. One airliner hit the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Another airliner crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed in all.
1974 - "Little House on the Prairie" made its television debut.
1970 - The last "Get Smart" episode aired on CBS-TV.
1954 - The Miss America beauty pageant made its network TV debut on ABC. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was the winner.
1875 - "Professor Tidwissel's Burglar Alarm" was featured in the New York Daily Graphic and became the first comic strip to appear in a newspaper.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed by U.S. President George Washington to be the first secretary of the treasury.
1609 - Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and became the first European to see Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.
1297 - Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. (But they didn't take away his freedom.)
Ariana Richards (played Lex Murphy, a young girl who escaped from dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park") 1979
Ludacris (rapper) 1977
Harry Connick, Jr. (modern singer of jazz and standards) 1967
Moby (singer famous for "Southside" with Gwen Stefani, descendent of Herman Melville who wrote "Mody Dick") 1965
Roxann Dawon (Torres on “Voyager”) 1958
Tommy Shaw (Styx) 1953
Brian DePalma (directed "Carrie", "Scarface", and "Mission Impossible") 1940
September 12th:
1995 - The first episode of "The Jeff Foxworthy Show" aired.
1993 - The pilot episode of "Lois and Clark" aired.
1984 - The first episode of "Punky Brewster" aired on NBC
1970 - CBS aired the cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats" for the first time.
1970 - "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor was released. It was his first single.
1966 - The first episode of "The Monkees" aired on NBC.
1963 - The last episode of "Leave it to Beaver" was aired. The show had debuted on October 4, 1957.
1954 - "Lassie" made its television debut on CBS. (The last show aired on September 12, 1971.)
1918 - During World War I, At the Battle of St. Mihiel, U.S. Army personnel operate tanks for the first time. The tanks were French-built.
1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed down what is now known as the Hudson River.
Emmy Rossum ("The Day After Tomorrow", "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004 movie), "Mystic River", "Poseiden") 1986
Yao Ming (plays basketball for the Houston Rockets, is from China, is 7 feet 5 inches tall) 1980
Ruben Studdard (beat Clay Aiken on "American Idol's" 2nd season) 1978
Paul Walker ("The Fast and the Furious", "Joyride", "Timeline", "Into the Blue", "Eight Below") 1973
Neal Peart (drummer for Rush: "Tom Sawyer", "Time Stands Still", "Fly By Night", "Test For Echo", "Closer To the Heart", "Limelight") 1952
Barry White (deep-voiced soul singer: "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Baby") 1944
Linda Gray (Sue Ellen on "Dallas" TV series) 1940
Henry Hudson (the first European to sail down what is now the Hudson River in Northern New York State) 1575
September 13th:
Helicopter day
Chocolate day
Computer Programmer's Day
2001 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Limited commercial flights resumed in the U.S. for the first time in two days.
1996 - CBS began airing the television series "Everybody Loves Raymond."
1993 - "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" premiered on NBC, after David Letterman moved to CBS.
1990 - The first episode of "Law and Order" aired.
1974 - The first episode of "The Rockford Files" aired on NBC.
1960 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned payola, the paying of disc jockeys (DJs) to play a particular recording, which was a common practice at the time.
1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America (LPGA) was formed.
1948 - The School of Performing Arts opened in New York City. It was the first public school to specialize in performing arts.
1788 - The Constitutional Convention decided that the first federal election was to be held on Wednesday the following February. On that day George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States. In addition, New York City was named the temporary national capital.
Ben Savage (younger brother of Fred Savage from "The Wonder Years", Ben starred as Cory Matthews in "Boy Meets World" from 1993-2000) 1980
Fiona Apple (singer's one-hit-wonder was "Criminal" in 1996) 1977
Jean Smart ("Designing Women" series, and the president's wife on the 6th season of "24", also in "Bringing Down the House") 1959
Randy Jones (The Cowboy in The Village People) 1952
Linda Wong (the first Asian-American pornstar, died of a drug overdose in 1987) 1951
Nell Carter (TV series: "Gimme a Break!" and "Hanging With Mr. Cooper") 1948
Frank Marshall (movie producer: "E.T.", "Back To the Future 1-3", all 3 "Indiana Jones" movies, "Arachnophobia", "The Color Purple", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", "The Sixth Sense", "The Poltergeist", "Paper Moon", "Congo") 1946
Jacqueline Bisset ("Murder on the Orient Express", "Bulitt", "The Deep", "Inchon", "Domino", and many French movies) 1944
Don Bluth (animator of "The Fox and the Hound", "Robin Hood", "All Dogs Go To Heaven", "An American Tail", "The Land Before Time", "Anastasia", "Thumbelina") 1937
Roald Dahl (author: "My Uncle Oswald", "Switch Bitch", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "James and the Giant Peach", "Matilda", "The Witches", "The Twits", "The BFG") 1916
Claudette Colbert (most famous for "It Happened One Night" for which she won Best Actress and the movie won Best Picture in 1934) 1903
John J. Pershing (US Military leader who helped to defeat Germany in WW1) 1860
September 14th:
Cream-Filled Donut day
2001 - The FBI released the names of the 19 suspected hijackers that had taken part in the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S.
2001 - Nintendo released the Game Cube home video game console.
1985 - The first episode of "The Golden Girls" aired on NBC.
1978 - "Mork & Mindy" premiered on ABC-TV.
1973 - The fifth, and final, season of "The Brady Bunch" began.
1972 - The series "The Waltons" began airing.
1969 - Genesis played their first gig for money in Surrey, England, at a cottage owned by a Sunday school teacher. Peter Gabriel was the lead singer, and John Mayhew was the drummer.
1965 - The sitcom, "My Mother The Car" premiered. The series, about a mother brought back to life as a car, ran for only one season that was 30 episodes long. TV Guide named it the second worst TV show ever behind Jerry Springer.
1814 - Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner." The song became the official U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931.
Adam Lamberg (Gordo on "Lizzie McGuire") 1984
Melissa McGhee ("American Idol 2007" finalist) 1984
Amy Winehouse (weird English singer) 1983
Sunrise Adams (Pornstar 2001-) 1982
Maria Silva aka Aria (Pornstar 2000-) 1975
Mark Hall (lead singer of Casting Crowns: "Lifesong", "Voice of Truth", "Who Am I?" "Praise You in This Storm", "East to West") 1970
Michael J. Cox (pornstar 1993-2004) 1969
Faith Ford (acted in many TV series: "Hope & Faith", "Another World", "One Life To Live", "Thirtysomething", "Maggie Winters", "Murphy Brown") 1964
Sam Neill (New Zealand actor: "Jurassic Park", "The Horse Whisperer", "The Dish", "Event Horizon") 1947
Walter Koenig (Chekov on "Star Trek" and Bester on "Babylon 5") 1936
Clayton Moore (played "The Lone Ranger") 1914
September 15th:
Independence Day from Spain (1821) for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, celebrated everywhere with marches from school children.
2003 - Madonna's children's book "The English Roses" went on sale.
1998 - "Mechanical Animals" was released by Marilyn Manson. It is his most successful album to date.
1995 - The first episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" aired.
1962 - The Beatles were called "a nothing group" after an interview with Peter Jones of the "London Daily Mirror."
1986 - NBC aired the pilot episode of "L.A. Law."
1965 - "Green Acres" premiered on CBS TV.
1965 - "Lost in Space" premiered on CBS TV.
1949 - "The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto.
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.
Prince Harry of the UK 1984
Dan Marino (NFL- Miami Dolphins quarterback set 20 all-time passing records) 1961
Jimmy Carr (English stand-up comedian known for his one-liners) 1972
Tommy Lee Jones ("Men In Black", "The Fugitive" and its sequel "US Marshalls", "Space Cowboys", "Double Jeopardy") 1946
Oliver Stone (director: The Vietnam War trilogy "Platoon", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Heaven & Earth", also "JFK", "Alexander", "The World Trade Center") 1946
Fay Wray (famous for her screams in the original "King Kong" movie) 1907
Roy Acuff (early country singer: "The Wabash Cannonball", "The Great Speckeled Bird") 1903
Agatha Christie (Mystery author: "Murder on the Orient Express ", "And Then There Were None (aka) Ten Little Indians") 1890
Robert Benchley (author: "Jaws", "The Deep") 1889
William Howard Taft (27th US President 1909-1913) 1857
September 16th:
Mexico Independence Day from Spain
Papua New Guinea Independence Day from Australia, 1975
Cinnamon Raisin Bread day
Collect Rocks day
2007 - The radio/web dramedy "Adventures In Odyssey" premieres its record 21st season with episode 619. The show first aired on the radio in November 1987.
1996 - The first episode of "Cosby" aired on CBS. The show starred Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad, who had previously played a different married couple on "The Cosby Show."
1993 - The first episode of "Frasier" aired on NBC. The show was a spin-off of "Cheers" which had ended earlier that year.
1984 - The first episode of "Miami Vice" aired on NBC.
1979 - The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was released. The song was the first successful rap song.
1976 - The Episcopal Church formally approved women to be ordained as priests and bishops.
1974 - U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.
1972 - "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1968 - "The Andy Griffith Show" was seen for the final time on CBS.
1963 - "She Loves You" was released by the Beatles.
1908 - General Motors was founded by William Crapo "Billy" Durant. The company was formed by merging the Buick and Olds car companies.
1893 - The "Cherokee Strip" in Oklahoma was swarmed by hundreds of thousands of settlers.
Teddy Geiger [pop singer: "For You I Will (Confidence)"] 1988 (*He actually lives in my hometown!*)
Christie Lee (pornstar 2003-) 1984
Kimberly Alexis Bledel ("The Gilmore Girls" TV series, also: "Sin City", "The Traveling Pants", "Tuck Everlasting") 1982
Amy Poehler (current host of Weekend Update on "Saturday Night Live") 1971
Mark Schultz (singer/songwriter famous for "Letters From War" which was the #1 song on Armed Forces Radio in 2004 and was performed in DC for GW Bush, also "Broken and Beautiful", "He's My Son", "I Have Been There", "I Am the Way", "Back in His Arms Again", "You Are a Child Of Mine", "I Am") 1970
Mark Anthony (ex-Puerto Rican singer, married Jennifer Lopez) 1968
Molly Shannon (annoying ex-cast member of "Saturday Night Live") 1964
Richard Marx (soft-pop singer "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", "Satisfied", "Hold Onto The Nights", "The Way She Loves Me") 1963
Jennifer Tilly (annoying cleavagey actress in the awful "Bride of Chucky") 1961
David Copperfield (magician who walked through the Great Wall of China and made the Statue of Liberty disappear) 1956
Peter Falk (played the detective "Columbo" in a 1970-80s TV series) 1927
B.B. King (blues guitarist) 1925
September 17th:
2006 - The WB Television Network goes off-the-air after eleven and a half years. The CW Television Network launches the following day as a combination of UPN and The WB.
1998 - An American Airlines flight made an emergency stop in Denver because a passenger had become violent after meeting Hootie & The Blowfish on the plane.
1991 - "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" were released simultaneously by Guns N' Roses.
1991 - The first episode of Tim Allen's sitcom "Home Improvement" aired on ABC.
1983 - Vanessa Williams, as Miss New York, became the first black woman to be crowned Miss America. However, the title was taken away after it was revealed that she had posed nude in Penthouse Magazine.
1978 - The series "Battlestar Galactica" began airing on ABC. The show only ran for one season, but was brought back in 2003.
1972 - The first episode of "M*A*S*H" aired on CBS.
1966 - "Mission Impossible" premiered on CBS-TV.
1965 - The first episode of "Hogan's Heroes" aired.
1964 - ABC began airing the series "Bewitched."
1963 - "The Fugitive" premiered on ABC-TV. The show starred David Janssen.
1955 - Capitol Records released "Magic Melody, Part Two". The song consisted only of the last two notes of the musical phrase, "Shave and a haircut, two bits." It was the shortest song to ever to be released.
1787 - The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by delegates at the Constitutional Convention.
Daniella Rush (Czech pornstar known for her anal scenes, was confined to a wheelchair in 2002 after being hit by a car) 1976
Jimmie Johnson (American race car driver) 1975
Bryan Singer (director of "House, MD" TV series, also: "The Usual Suspects", X-Men and X2", "Superman Returns") 1965
Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson (hosted horror films on TV) 1951
John Ritter ("Three's Company" star died at the time he was in "8 Simple Rules") 1948
Ken Kesey (wrote the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") 1935
Anne Bancroft (won Best Actress for her role as Annie Sulivan in "The Miracle Worker") 1931
September 18th:
Farm Animals Safety Week continues
Play-Dough day
2004 - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline were married.
2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
1991 - U.S. President Bush said that he would send warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters that were searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if it became necessary.
1983 - KISS appeared unmasked for the first time, on MTV.
1978 - The first episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati" aired on CBS.
1976 - "More than a Feeling" by Boston was released.
1970 - James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix died in his London apartment at the age of 27. The death was from an overdose of sleeping pills.
1965 - The first episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" was shown on NBC-TV.
1955 - The "Ed Sullivan Show" began on CBS-TV. The show had been "The Toast of the Town" since 1948.
1927 - Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System made its debut with a network of 16 radio stations. The name was later changed to CBS.
1851 - The first issue of "The New York Times" was published.
1850 - The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage. He never returned to Europe.
Keeley Hazell (British model who appeared nude in the British pornographic-tabloid newspaper "The Sun" as part of the Page 3 Girls) 1986
Alison Lohman ("White Oleander", "Matchstick Men", "Big Fish") 1979
Lance Armstrong (cancer survivor won 7 Tour-de-France bicycle races) 1971
Jada Pinkett Smith (actress married Will Smith) 1971
Aisha Tyler ("Talk Soup", "Friends", "CSI: Las Vegas", "24", "Ghost Whisperer") 1970
Holly Robinson-Peete (TV series: "21 Jump Street", "Hanging With Mr. Cooper", "For Your Love") 1964
James Gandolfini (plays Tony Soprano on HBO's "The Sopranos" TV series) 1961
Kerry Livgren (singer for Kansas: "Carry On My Wayward Son", "Dust In The Wind") 1949
Frankie Avalon (acted in several beach movies in the 1960s) 1939
Robert Blake (TV's "Baretta" actor arrested for murder) 1933
June Foray (voiced Rocky in "Rocky and Bullwinkle" animated series) 1920
Samuel Johnson (Compiled the first English-language Dictionary) 1709
September 19th:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (I don't make these things up!)
Butterscotch Pudding day
2006 - The Thai military stages a coup, with tanks rolling through the city of Bangkok. Thai Constitution revoked; martial law declared.
2000 - Madonna's album "Music" was released.
1999 - The first episode of "Judging Amy" aired.
1997 - Rich Mullins died in a car accident in LaSalle County, IL. He was famous for his modern worship songs including "Awesome God", "Sing Your Praise To The Lord", and "Creed."
1997 - VH1 aired "Storytellers" live for the first time. The show was a 90 minute special featuring Elton John from the House of Blues in New Orleans, LA.
1994 - NBC began airing the television series "ER."
1992 - "The One" was released by Elton John. Singles included "Simple Life", "The One", and "The Last Song."
1983 - The final episode of "M*A*S*H" was aired on CBS-TV.
1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use : ) in an online message.
1974 - Max Weinberg made his debut as the drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. He later became the drummer and band leader for the talk show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
1970 - The first episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired on CBS.
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was consented to giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds from an assassin. The 20th U.S. president lived for 11 weeks after the wounds were inflicted.
Jimmy Fallon (comedian who hosted the "Weekend Update" segment on "Saturday Night Live" in the early 2000s, movies: "Taxi", "Fever Pitch") 1974
Victoria Silvstedt (Playboy Playmate in June, 1997) 1974
Cheri Oteri (annoying cast member of "Saturday Night Live", was in "Scary Movie") 1965
Trisha Yearwood (country singer: "Walkaway Joe", "Georgia Rain", "She's in Love With the Boy", "There Goes My Baby", married Garth Brooks) 1964
Kevin Hooks (Producer and director of "Prison Break") 1958
Joan Lunden (hosted "Good Morning, America" in the 1970s-90s) 1950
Mama Cass Elliott (singer for "The Mamas And The Papas") 1943
Adam West (played Batman in the original live-action series) 1928
September 20th:
2004 - CBS News announced that they could not authenticate several documents that had been used in a "60 Minutes" story that questioned U.S. President George Bush's service in the National Guard. Two days later CBS announced that a panel would be appointed to investigate the story. The documents were found to be false.
1995 - Natalie Merchant started her first solo tour after leaving the 10,000 Maniacs. She was supporting her first solo album "Tigerlily."
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
1984 - The first episode of "Who's the Boss?" aired on ABC.
1984 - The first episode of "The Cosby Show" aired on NBC. The show ran for 8 years.
1975 - The single "Born to Run" was released by Bruce Springsteen.
1970 - Jim Morrison was found guilty, in Miami, FL, of indecent exposure and profanity. He was acquitted on charges of "lewd and lascivious" behavior. The charges were related to a performance by the Doors at which he exposed himself to the crowd.
1964 - After a charity show that finished their U.S. tour, the Beatles appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
1955 - "You'll Never Be Rich" premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to "The Phil Silvers Show." A movie based on the show was released in 1995 called "Seargent Bilko" and starred Steve Martin.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1870 - The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops, leading to the unification of Italy.
Kristen Johnston (TV: "Third Rock From the Sun", movies: "The Flinstones", "Austin Powers 2&3") 1967
Gary Cole (TV: "American Gothic", movies: Two "Brady Bunch" movies, "Office Space", "One Hour Photo") 1956
Sophia Loren (actress of the 1960s and 70s) 1934
Dr. Joyce Brothers (TV psychologist) 1928
Jay Ward (animator and designer of Cap'n Crunch, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, George of the Jungle) 1920
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (one of the first jazz musicians to become famous) 1890
Upton Sinclair (author of "The Jungle" exposed the meat-packing industry) 1878
September 21st:
International day of Peace
Miniature Golf day
2005 – Jet Blue Airways Flight 292 performs an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport following a front landing gear failure.
2001 - "America: A Tribute to Heroes" was shown on 35 separate broadcast and cable networks simultaneously. The telethon raised $150 million in pledges to benefit families of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. The pledges were made from September 21 through September 24, 2001.
1998 - The first episode of "Will & Grace" aired on NBC.
1993 - The first episode of "NYPD Blue" aired on ABC.
1981 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1974 - BTO released "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."
1970 - "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV. The game was between the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets. The Browns won 31-21.
1968 - "All Along the Watchtower" was released by Jimi Hendrix.
1957 - The first episode of "Perry Mason" aired on CBS. The show was on for 9 years.
1949 - Communist leaders proclaimed The People's Republic of China.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was first published.
1897 - The New York Sun ran the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon.
Zoe Weizenbaum (played the young girl in "Memoirs of a Geisha") 1991
Maggie Grace ("Lost" TV series) 1983
Joseph Mazello (Young boy in "Jurassic Park" and "The River Wild") 1983
Nicole Richie 1981
Mia Smiles (Asian-American pornstar 1996-, was in “Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle” music video set) 1977
Luke Wilson ("Old School", "Anchorman", "Legally Blonde") 1971
Ricki Lake (90s Talk-show host) 1968
Faith Hill 1967
Bill Murray ("Saturday Night Live", "Groundhog Day") 1950
Stephen King (author: "The Green Mile", "Carrie", "Hearts in Atlantis", "The Shining", "Cujo", "Dreamcatcher", "Christine", "Pet Cemetry") 1947
H.G. Wells (author: "War of the Worlds", "The Invisible Man", "The Time Machine", "The Island of Dr. Moreau") 1866
September 22nd:
The first day of Fall / Autumn http://i37.tinypic.com/25505xu.jpg (northern hemisphere)
or Spring http://i34.tinypic.com/255s5f4.jpg (southern hemisphere)
Elephant day
Ice Cream Cone day
2004 - CBS News announced that a panel would investigate the "60 Minutes" story that used forged documents to question U.S. President George W. Bush's National Guard Service. The segment was based on several alleged memos from Bush's days in the National Guard. The memos were found to be forged.
2004 - The first season of "CSI: New York" began.
1994 - NBC began airing the series "Friends."
1989 - NBC began airing the series "Baywatch."
1987 - ABC aired the first episode of "Full House."
1986 - The TV show "ALF" debuted on NBC.
1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted. (That's certainly changed.)
1914 - WW1 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were killed. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine.
1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
Bethany Dillon [released her first CD at 16, "All I Need", "Dreamer" (from the movie "Dreamer") "Lion" (from the movie "Narnia")] 1988
Tom Felton (plays Draco Malfoy on "Harry Potter") 1987
Bonnie Hunt ("Rain Man", "Cheaper By the Dozen", "Jumanji", TV: "Life With Bonnie") 1964
Scott Baio (Chachi on "Happy Days") 1961
Joan Jett (sang "I Love Rock and Roll") 1960
Andrea Bocelli (blind opera singer) 1958
Toni Basil (recorded her one-hit-wonder "Micky" in 1979) 1943
September 23rd:
2006 - The 20th season of the radio/web dramedy "Adventures in Odyssey" premieres with episode #596. The show began airing in November of 1987.
2002 - The web browser Firefox is released.
2002 - The first season of "CSI: Miami" began.
1997 - Elton John's single "Candle in the Wind" was released in the U.S. It was the acoustic version, played at Princess Diana's funeral.
1992 - The first episode of "Mad About You" aired, starring Helen Hunt.
1986 - The first season of "Matlock" began on NBC.
1980 - Foreigner released their second album "Double Vision."
1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.
Anneliese van der Pol (TV's "That's So Raven") 1984
Sara Stone (ponstar 2004-) 1983
Shyla Stylez (pornstar 2001-) 1982
Cory Everson (pornstar 2005-) 1977
Jaime Bergman (Playboy, Maxim, TV's "Son of the Beach") 1975
Jason Alexander ("Shallow Hal", George Costanza on "Seinfeld" TV series) 1959
Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien on "Deep Space Nine") 1957
Bruce Springsteen 1949
Mary Kay Place ("The West Wing") 1947
Julio Igelsias (sang "Feliz Navidad") 1943
Ray Charles (blind jazz/pop singer/piano player "Georgia on My Mind", "Hit the Road Jack", "I've Got a Woman") 1930
John Coltrane (Jazz saxophonist) 1926
September 24th:
Deaf Awareness week
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush froze the assets of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
1997 - ABC began airing the series "Dharma and Greg."
1993 - ABC debuted the series "Boy Meets World."
1991 - Nirvana's "Nevermind" was released.
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The children's author is better known as Dr. Seuss.
1985 - The first episode of "Growing Pains" aired on ABC.
1982 - Prince's "1999" was released.
1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV.
1977 - "Come Sail Away" was released by Styx.
1970 - The first episode of "The Odd Couple" aired on ABC.
1968 - "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS-TV.
1957 - U.S. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.
1934 - Babe Ruth played his last game as a New York Yankee baseball player.
Jessica Sweet (pornstar sometimes known as Britney Rears) 1986
Sabrine Maui (Philippine-American pornstar) 1980
Nia Vardolos (writer and star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding") 1962
Kevin Sorbo ("Kull the Conqueror" and TV's "Hercules") 1958
Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, "Sgt. Bilko" movie, was killed by his wife in 1998) 1948
Jim Henson (creator of "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show") 1936
F. Scott Fitzgerald (author of "The Great Gatsby") 1896
September 25th:
1999 - Peter Benchley's "Amazon" began airing. The show, which only lasted one season, was about 6 plane-crash survivors who must survive in the Amazon jungle.
1997 - The first episode of "Veronica's Closet" was aired starring Kirstie Alley (Cheers) and Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill).
1995 - US Presidential candidate Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independent Party.
1992 - In Orlando, FL, a judge ruled in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley. He had sought a divorce from his biological parents.
1990 - Dave Grohl, formerly with Washington DC's Scream, joined Nirvana as drummer. He later became the drummer and singer of The Foo-Fighters.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1980 - John "Bonzo" Bonham, of Led Zeppelin, died of asphyxiation on his own vomit due to consumption of alcohol. The group decided to disband when they determine that their drummer cannot be replaced.
1976 - The Rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.
1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years.
1957 - 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.
1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, CO. The speaking tour was in support of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WW1.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was "discovered" by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
Matt Hasselbeck (US Football Quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks during the 2006 Super Bowl) 1975
Catherine Zeta Jones-Douglas ("Chicago", "Zorro", "The Terminal", married Michael Douglas) 1969
Will Smith (Actor/Rapper: "Fresh Prince" TV show, also movies "Men in Black", "Bad Boys", "Enemy of the State", "I, Robot", "Wild, Wild West", "Hitch") 1968
Heather Locklear (TV: "Dynasty", "T.J. Hooker", "Melrose Place", "Spin City", "LAX") 1961
Michael Madsen (Mr. Blonde in "Reservoir Dogs", "Kill Bill", "Free Willy", "Mulholland Falls", "Sin City", "Scary Movie 4") 1958
Christopher Reeve (was paralyzed after playing Superman in 4 movies) 1952
Mark Hamill (played Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars", episodes 4-6) 1951
Michael Douglas ("Fatal Attraction", "Basic Instinct", "The Game", "Traffic", "Disclosure", married Catherine Zeta-Jones) 1944
Barbara Walters (TV host of "20/20" and "The View") 1931
Shel Silverstein [author/poet/songwriter: books: "The Giving Tree", "The Missing Piece", Poem collections: "A Light in the Attic", "Where the Sidewalk Ends", songs: "A Boy Named Sue" (Johnny Cash), "One's on the Way" (Loretta Lynn)] 1930
Phil Rizzuto (NY Yankees' shortstop, baseball sportscaster) 1918
September 26th:
Sukkot
[B]Pancake day
1995 - Prince released "The Gold Experience." Singles included "The Most Beautiful Girl", "Dolphin", and "Gold."
1991 - Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the "Biosphere II." The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies.
1993 - The eight people who had stayed in "Biosphere II" emerged from their sealed off environment.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films. NC-17 replaced the X rating.
1986 - The episode of "Dallas" that had Bobby Ewing returning from the dead was aired. Besides the final episode of "MASH", it was the most watched TV episode of the 80s.
1984 - The Prince song "Purple Rain" was released.
1982 - The first episode of "Knight Rider" was aired.
1975 - "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opened in theaters.
1969 - "Abby Road", the follow-up to the album "Hey Jude", was released by the Beatles. It was their 13th album in the U.K. It was also their last album together as a group. ("Let It Be" was recorded before "Abby Road" but was released a year later.)
1969 - "The Brady Bunch" series premiered on ABC-TV.
1964 - "Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show ran for 3 years before being cancelled.
1964 - The Kinks released the song "You Really Got Me."
1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS-TV.
1950 - U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean War.
1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.
Christina Milian (R&B singer) 1981
Serena Williams (Tennis player, younger sister of Venus) 1981
Jim Caviezel (Played Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ", also "Frequency", "The Rock", "The Thin Red Line", "GI Jane", "Pay it Forward") 1968
Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connors in "The Terminator") 1956
Shannon Hoon (singer for Blind Melon: "No Rain", "Galaxie", died of a drug overdose in 1995) 1967
Cindy Herron [singer for 90s R&B group En Vogue, best known for their rock song "Free Your Mind", also "Whatta Man", "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)", "Don' t Let Go (Love)"] 1965
Nicki French (Had a one-hit-wonder in 1995 with a dance remake of "Total Eclipse of the Heart") 1964
Melissa Sue Anderson played Mary Ingalls on "Little House on the Prarie") 1962
Olivia Newton-John ("Grease", sang " Let's Get Physical") 1948
Lynn Anderson (country/pop singer "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", "Top of the World"
Anne Robinson (host of the TV gameshow "The Weakest Link") 1944
George Gershwin (wrote many Broadway songs) 1898
Ivan Pavlov (studied natural responses in dogs) 1848
John Chapman (He was better known as Johnny Appleseed. He planted orchards, befriended wild animals, and was considered a great medicine man by Native Americans.) 1774
September 27th:
2004 - It was announced that Conan O'Brien will take over Jay Leno's position on the "Tonight" show in 2009.
1996 - The Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged the former president Najibullah.
1989 - Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls (NY/Canada) in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.
1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. The report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.
Avril Lavigne (Canadian rock singer: "Complicated", "I'm With You", "Don't Tell Me", "My Happy Ending" "Take Me Away", "I'm With You") 1984
"Cytherea" (began in porn in 2004, is known as the "Queen of Squirting") 1981
Brad Arnold (Singer for 3 Doors Down: "Kryptonite", "When I'm Gone", "Here Without You", "Away From the Sun", "Let Me Go", "Not My Time") 1978
Gwenyth Paltrow ("Seven", "Shakespere in Love", "Shallow Hal", "Sky Captain", "View From the Top") 1972
Stephan Jenkins (One-album-wonder singer for Third Eye Blnd, "Jumper", "Graduate", "How's it Gonna Be?") 1964
Shaun Cassidy ("The Partridge Family", "Hardy Boys" TV series, "Producer of TV: "Cold Case", "Invasion") 1958
Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday, sings "Bat Out of h*ll", "Objects in the Rear-View Mirror", "I'd Do Anything For Love", "I'd Lie For You", "Couldn't Have Said it Better", "The Monster's Loose") 1947
Samuel Adams (American Revolutionary Leader) 1722
September 28th:
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
1991 - Marion Barry, former mayor of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of crack cocaine. He was mayor of D.C. from 1979-91, and reelected from 1995-99.
1987 - The first episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" aired.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
Hilary Duff ("Lizzie McGuire" actress became a singer: "Coming Clean", "Fly", "Wake Up", "With Love") 1987
Brooke Banner (pornstar 2002-) 1983
Dita Von Teese (Modern vintage pin-up model and stripper) 1972
Naomi Watts (English actress: "Mullholand Drive", "The Ring", "King-Kong (2005)") 1968
Mira Sorvino ("Mighty Aphrodite", "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion") 1967
Ed Sullivan (hosted many new musical and comedy acts on his 1955-1971 variety show) 1901
Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551 BC
September 29th:
1996 - Nintendo released the Nintendo 64 video game system.
1984 - Prince's single "Let's Go Crazy" hit No. 1. He then held the No. 1 single, album (Purple Rain) and film (Purple Rain) simultaneously. Only the Beatles had accomplished the feat previously.
1963 - "My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV.
1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV.
1789 - The US Army was established.
Ariana Jollee (pornstar known for her anal and gangbangs, she holds the record for the most internal creampies (65) in one outing) 1982
Andrew Dice Clay (comedian known for his extremely graphically sexual standup act) 1952
Bryant Gumbal (host of "The Today Show") 1948
Madaline Kahn (star of many Mel Brooks' movies including: "Blazzing Saddles", "Young Frankenstein", and "History of the World Part 1") 1942
Jerry Lee Lewis (early rock star later performed country music, "Great Balls of Fire", "Whole Lotta Shaking") 1935
Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver" a movie about the bombing of London during WW2, won Best Actress and Best Picture in 1944, before the war was over) 1908
Gene Autry (country singer known for his holiday songs and was the voice of the Snowman in "Rudolph") 1907
Miguel de Cervantes (author of "Don Quixote") 1547
September 30th:
1984 - The pilot episode of "Murder, She Wrote" aired on CBS.
1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.
1971 - A committee of nine people was organized to investigate the prison riot at Attica, NY. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were killed when National Guardsmen stormed the prison on September 13, 1971.
1960 - "The Flintstones" premiered.
1958 - The first episode of "The Rifleman" aired on ABC-TV.
1955 - Actor James Dean was killed in a car accident at the age of 24 near Cholame, CA. Dean's mechanic, who was also in the vehicle, eventually recovered from his injuries.
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
Lacey Chabert (TV's "Party of Five", also movies "Daddy Day Care", “Mean Girls”) 1982
Tory Lane (pornstar 2004-) 1982
Jenna Elfman (TV's "Dharma and Greg", movies "Krippendorf's Tribe", "Keeping the Faith") 1971
Monica Bellucci ("The Matrix Trilogy", "The Passion of the Christ", several Italian movies) 1968
Robby Takac (bass player and one of the lead singers for The Goo Goo Dolls) 1964
Fran Drescher (annoying, yet sexy, actress in TV's "The Nanny", movies: "Jack", "The Beautician and the Beast") 1957
Barry Williams (played Greg Brady on "The Brady Bunch" TV show) 1954
Frankie Lyman (singer for The Teenagers: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?", died of a heroin overdose in 1968) 1942
Truman Capote (author of "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's") 1924
William Wrigley, Jr (Created Wrigley's chewing gum) 1861
October 1st:
Vegitarian day
Get Organized week begins (Oct 1-7)
In the first movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", the fictional character Willy Wonka gives an unprecedented tour of his chocolate factory on October 1 (year unspecified).
2007 - Legal age for purchasing cigarettes raised from 16 to 18 in England, Wales and Scotland.
1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb murder of an ad executive.
1996 - The Nirvana live album "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" was released. It was their last album ever released.
1995 - Nearly $1 million was raised at the Farm Aid concert in Louisville, KY. The musicians that performed were Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Dave Matthews.
1989 - 7,000 East Germans were welcomed into West Germany after they were allowed to leave by the communist government.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the Soviet presidency.
1982 - NBC aired the first episode of "Remington Steele", starring Pierce Brosnan.
1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player
1981 - EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow) Center opened in Florida. The concept was planned by Walt Disney as a community to shelter any future atomic bomb survivors.
1979 - The United States handed control of the Canal Zone over to Panama.
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL.
1968 - The classic horror movie "The Night of the Living Dead" opened.
1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season to beat Babe Ruth's major league record of 60.
1955 - The television series "Honeymooners" began airing.
1946 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms and 3 were acquitted.
1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.
Cindy Margolis (Playboy model and popular internet model) 1965
Mark McGwire (US Baseball - He raced against Sammy Sosa to hit 70 homeruns in 1988) 1963
Esai Morales (TV: "Fame", "Miami Vice", "NYPD Blue") 1962
Randy Quaid (Chevy Chase's brother in "Vacation", "Christmas Vacation", "Vegas Vacation", also: "Independence Day") 1950
Julie Andrews ("The Sound of Music", "Marry Poppins", "The Princess Diaries", "10") 1935
Richard Harris (British actor, played Dumbledore in the first 2 "Harry Potter" movies, also: "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Gladiator", "Patriot Games", "The Guns of Navarone", also had several music albums including the song "MacArthur Park") 1930
George Peppard (Leader of "The A-Team") 1928
Tom Bosley (the father Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days") 1927
Jimmy Carter (39th US President 1977-81) 1924
October 2nd:
Australia's Labor Day
2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
1976 - "Tonight's The Night" by Rod Stewart was released.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.
1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
Efren Ramirez (Pedro in "Napolean Dynomite") 1973
Kelly Ripa (Sexy soap star became co-host of "Live with Regis and Kelly", also in sitcom "Hope and Faith") 1970
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner aka Sting (singer for The Police: "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", and solo: "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You", "Fields of Gold", "Desert Rose") 1951
Mike Rutherford (Lead guitarist for Genesis: "Misunderstanding", "Land of Confusion", "Follow You Follow Me", and for Mike and the Mechanics: "The Living Years") 1950
Avery Brooks (TV: "Spencer For Hire", "Deep Space Nine", movies: "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "American History X") 1948
Don McLean (singer had a one-hit-wonder with the very long song "American Pie") 1945
Bud Abbot (along with Lou Costello performed comedy skits, including "Who's On First?") 1895
Mohandas Gandhi (nonviolent protester brought India's independence from British rule) 1865
October 3rd:
2006 - "Friday Night Lights" about small town high school life, based on the best-selling novel and movie, debuts on NBC.
2004 - The first season of "Desperate Housewives" began.
2003 - Roy Horn, of the duo "Siegfried & Roy," was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the attack after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.
1995 - O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial.
1992 - Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of the pope during her appearance on "Saturday Night Live." She was banned from the show.
1990 - A storeowner in Florida was found guilty of distributing obscene material. The material in question was 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" album. The man was later fined $1,000.
1969 - "Abbey Road" by the Beatles was released in the U.S. It was released a week earlier in England. Including the single "Come Together." It was The Beatles' best-selling album.
1961 - "The Alvin Show" debuted. This show features Alvin and the Chipmunks, based on their popular records.
1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV.
1960 - "The Andy Griffith Show" began airing on CBS.
1957 - The USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
1955 - ABC aired "The Mickey Mouse Club" for the first time.
Ashlee Simpson (Terrible pop singer who lip-synced on "SNL") 1984
Sean Williams Scott (played Stiffler on "American Pie", also "Dukes of Hazard") 1976
India.Arie (R&B singer) 1975
Neve Campbell (TV: "Party of Five", movies: "Scream", "Wild Things") 1973
Gwen Stefani (singer for No Doubt and solo sang the awful song "Hollerback Girl") 1969
Tommy Lee (singer, married Heather Locklear and Pam Anderson) 1962
Greg Proops (commedian, on both the UK and US versions of "Who's Line is it Anyway?") 1959
Stevie Ray Vaughn (Blues singer of the '70s-80s) 1954
Roy Horn (magician of Siegfried andd Roy) 1944
Chubby Checker (sang "The Twist" in 1960) 1941
October 4th:
2001 - In Washington, DC, Reagan National Airport re-opened. The airport had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
1990 - FOX began airing "Beverly Hills 90210." It ran for 10 seasons.
1976 - Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the "ABC Evening News" for the first time
1970 - Janis Joplin was found dead of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. She had just finished recording her second album "Pearl."
1962 - "Love Me Do" was released by the Beatles
1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.
1535 - The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland
Elena Katina (singer for dance/rock duo Tatu) 1984
Rachel Leigh Cook ("She's All That", "Antitrust", "Josie and the Pussycats", "11:14") 1979
Alicia Silverstone ("Clueless", "A Blast From the Past" star got her start in the mid-'90s in several Aerosmith music videos) 1976
Anne Rice (author writes mainly about Witches and Vampires) 1941
Leroy Van Dyke (country/pop singer most famous for the hit "Just Walk On By") 1929
Charlton Heston ["Ben-Hur", "The 10 Commandments", "Planet of the Apes", was 3-term President of the National Rifle Association (NRA)] 1924
Rutherford B. Hayes (19th US President 1877-81) 1822
October 5th:
World Teachers' Day
1999 - Prince released the single "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold." From the mostly rock album "Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic", it was said to be his comeback album, even though he had released albums consistantly throughout the '90s.
1989 - Jim Bakker, a televangelist, was convicted of using his television show to defraud his viewers.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was initiated by U.S. President George Bush.
1975 - "Cats in the Cradle" was released by Harry Chapin.
1974 - American David Kunst completed the first journey around the world on foot. It took four years and 21 pairs of shoes. He crossed four continents and walked 14,450 miles.
1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television.
1968 - "White Room" by Cream was released. Cream, which included Eric Clapton, were only together 5 years, releasing 4 albums.
1968 - "Magic Carpet Ride" was released by Steppenwolf.
1951 - "The Honeymooners" was introduced during Jackie Gleason's first variety series "Cavalcade of Stars."
1947 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.
Nicky Hilton (The lesser known of the Hilton Sisters) 1983
Kate Winslet (English actress best known for her topless scene in "Titanic", also was in several little-seen movies: "Eternal Sunshine", "Quills", "The Life of David Gale", "Finding Neverland", "Iris", "Romance & Cigarettes", "Hideous Kinky", "Enigma") 1975
Guy Pearce (New Zealand/English actor: "Memento", "The Time Machine", "L.A. Confidential", "The Count of Monte Cristo") 1967
Bernie Mac (born Bernard McCullough, commedian had a sitcom that ran for 5 years: "The Bernie Mac Show") 1957
Karen Allen ("Raiders of the Lost Ark") 1951
Steve Miller (singer: "The Joker", "Take the Money and Run", "Rock 'n' Me", "Fly Like An Eagle", "Jet Airliner", "Jungle Love", "Abracadabra") 1943
Bil Keane (created the Christian comic strip "The Family Circus") 1922
Donald Pleasence (Dr. Loomis in "Halloween 1-2, 4-6", "You Only Live Twice", "All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)", "Oh God") 1919
Ray Kroc (Founded McDonald's Restaurnt in 1954) 1902
Chester Arthur (21st US President 1881-85) 1829
October 6th:
2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized (made into a saint). The group was made famous in "The DaVinci Code."
2000 - The first episode of CBS's "CSI: Las Vegas" aired.
1996 - Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were married.
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
Amy Jo Johnson ("Power Rangers" pink ranger later starred in "Felicity") 1970
Matthew Sweet (guitarist/singer: solo: "Girlfriend", "We're the Same", "Where Do You Get Love?", "What Matters", "I Don't Want To Know", as singer for The Thorns: "I Can't Remember") 1964
Elizabeth Shue ("Palmetto", "Heart and Souls", "The Trigger Effect", "Molly", "Mysterious Skin") 1963
George Westinghouse (developed a train brake, AC electrical power) 1846
Oct 7th:
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 73rd home run of the season and set a new major league record.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film-rating system that ranged G, PG, PG-13, R, X. X was later changed to NC-17.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1913 - For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.
Taylor Hicks (Winner of "American Idol 2006" released the single "Do I Make You Proud?") 1976
Rachel McAdams ("The Hot Chick", "Mean Girls", "Red Eye") 1976
Toni Braxton (R&B singer: "Another Sad Love Song", "Unbreak My Heart", "Breathe Again") 1968
Thom Yorke (singer for Radiohead: "Creep", "Fake Plastic Trees", "High and Dry", "Karma Police", "No Surprises", "How to Disappear Completely", "The Pyramid Song", "There There") 1968
Simon Cowell (British judge on "American Idol") 1959
Michael W. Smith (Christian/pop singer with several mainstream hits since 1983: "I Will Be Here For You", "Place in This World", "Signs", "Healing Rain", "Missing Person", "Above All", "I'll Lead You Home") 1957
Yo-Yo Ma (classical cellist) 1955
Vladimir Putin (Russian President elected in 2000) 1952
John Cougar Mellencamp ("Jack and Diane", "Pink Houses", "R-O-C-K in the USA", "Human Wheels") 1951
Dave Hope (Bassist for Kansas: "Carry On My Wayward Son", "Dust in the Wind") 1947
Oliver North (Lt-Col in the US Marines, fired by President Reagon for selling weapons to Iran in The Iran-Contra Scandal) 1943
Joy Behar (Co-host of the talk show "The View") 1943
Oct 8th:
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.
2004 - At Alderson Federal Prison Camp, WV, Martha Stewart began her five-month prison sentence. The sentence was imposed for Stewart lying about a stock sale.
2001 - US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2000 - NBC debuted the television series "Ed." The show ran for four seasons, 83 episodes.
2000 - The first episode of "Nikki" aired on the WB network. The show only ran for 2 seasons.
1980 - Prince released the album "Dirty Mind". It was his 3rd album.
1971 - The Communist anthem "Imagine" was released by John Lennon.
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis released the song "Great Balls Of Fire."
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio. It changed over to TV in 1952 and ran for a total of 501 episodes.
1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings. About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless.
Angus Turner Jones (Jake on "2.5 Men") 1993
Nick Cannon (Drumline actor) 1980
Kristanna Loken ("Terminator 3", was added to the cast of the 4th season of "The L-Word") 1979
Matt Damon ("Good Will Hunting", "The Bourne Identity") 1970
Julia Ann (Tavella) (Began in porn in 1993) 1969
Emily Proctor (CSI Miami) 1968
Sigourney Weaver ("Aliens" movie series, "Heartbreakers") 1949
Chevy Chase ("Saturday Night Live", four "Vacation" movies) 1943
R.L. Stine (writes scary "Goosebumps" book series for children) 1943
Jesse Jackson (Baptist minister and American civil rights leader) 1941
Paul Hogan (Australian actor best known as "Crocodile Dundee") 1939
Juan Peron (President of Argentina 1946-55, 1973-74) 1895
October 9th:
2006 - North Korea announces that it has tested its first nuclear device.
2005 - Smoking is fully banned on the UK rail network.
2005 - When Tropical Depression 23 strengthens into Hurricane Vince it makes the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the first season on record to use a name beginning with V.
1994 - US President Clinton sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1967 - Doc Severinsen replaced Skitch Henderson as musical director of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1002 - The famous Viking, Leif Erikson, and his crew landed on North America. This is believed to be the first time a non-native reached the Western Hemisphere since Pangea broke apart.
Zachery Ty Bryan (The eldest son Brad Taylor on the sitcom "Home Improvement") 1981
Brandon Routh (Clark Kent in "Superman Returns") 1979
Steve Burns (Creator and original host of the popular children's show "Blues Clues") 1973
Tony Shalhoub (played the lead role on TV's "Monk") 1953
Scott Bakula (star of "Quantum Leap" series became the captain on "Enterprise") 1954
Sharon Osbourne (Ozzy's wife had a short-lived talk show) 1952
Jackson Browne (singer/songwriter of the '70s-80s: "The Pretender", "The Load-Out/Stay") 1948
Brian Lamb (founder and CEO of the American TV channel C-SPAN) 1941
John Lennon (Beatles' singer recorded the Communist anthem "Imagine") 1940
October 10:
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush presented a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
1973 - Fiji became independent after of nearly a century of British rule.
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1964 - Shangri-Las released "Leader Of The Pack."
1962 - The BBC banned the song "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.
1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by communist revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
Jodi Lynn O'Keefe ("Nash Bridges", "Prison Break") 1978
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (son of a famous NASCAR racer who died while racing became a NASCAR racer himself) 1974
Brett Favre (American Football Quarterback for the Green Bay Packers and NY Jets) 1969
Mike Malinin (drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls: "Already There", "Iris", "Slide", "Here is Gone", "Stay With Me") 1967
Tanya Tucker (country singer had her first hit at 14: "Delta Dawn", "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)", "Love Me Like You Used To") 1958
David Lee Roth (original singer for Van Halen: "Jump", "Panama") 1955
Edward D. Wood, Jr. (directed several bad B-Sci/fi and horror movies in the 1950s-60s, directed "Plan 9 From Outer Space" which won "Worst Movie Ever Made," he was portrayed by Jonny Depp in the biopic "Ed Wood" in 1993) 1924
Thelonious Monk (jazz pianist invented Bebop music) 1917
October 11th:
Coming Out Day
2006 - NY Yankees (American baseball) pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his personal plane into a high-rise condo in NY City. Cory, along with his co-pilot and 4 others in the building died.
1994 - The Colorado Supreme Court declared that the anti-gay rights measure in the state was unconstitutional.
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.
1975 - Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in Fayetteville, AR.
1932 - In New York, the first telecast of a political campaign was aired.
1881 - David Henderson Houston patented the first roll film for cameras.
Michelle Wie (Hawaiian golfer played in the LPGA at age 12) 1989
Michelle Trachtenberg (child star acted in: "Harriet the Spy", "Buffy (TV)", "Inspector Gadget", "Ice Princess", "Euro Trip") 1985
Emily Deschanel (sister of Zooey, stars in the TV series "Bones", also in movies: "It Could Happen To You", "Cold Mountain", "The Alamo", "Spider-Man 2", "Glory Road", "Boogeyman") 1976
Artie Lange ("MADtv" commedian became Howard Stern's radio co-host) 1967
"Donita Dunes" (pornstar known for her enhanced 44GG breasts) 1966
Luke Perry (TV: "90210", "Oz") 1966
Mike Nelson (head writer and human star of "Mystery Science Thearer 3000") 1964
Eleanor Roosevelt (US First Lady during the Great Depression and WW2) 1884
John Henry Heinz (Founder of "57 Varieties" of Heinz ketchup) 1844
Parson Mason Weems (Journalist remembered for his fictitious stories that he presented as fact. He was responsible for the story about George Washington cutting down his father's cherry tree.) 1759
October 12th:
2001 - A special episode of America's Most Wanted was aired that focused on 22 wanted terrorists. The show was specifically requested by U.S. President George W. Bush.
1997 - John Denver ("Rocky Mountain High", "Country Roads", "Sunshine on My Shoulder", "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy") was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed into Monterey Bay, CA. He was 53 years old.
1997 - A Backstreet Boys concert in a central Madrid square was cancelled by city officials. 300 girls had to be treated after fainting in the heat. More than 7,000 fans came to the event that expected no more than 5,000.
1970 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" debuted on Broadway.
1938 - Filming began on "The Wizard of Oz."
1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land for Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain. In all his travels, Columbus or his crews never set foot on mainland North or South America.
Josh Hutcherson ("Zathura", "RV") 1992
Kirk Cameron (TV: "Growing Pains", movie: "Left Behind") 1970
Hugh Jackman ("X-Men") 1968
Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida on "24") 1962
Sally Ride (First American woman in space) 1951
Luciano Pavarotti (sang opera with The Three Tenors) 1935
Oct 13th:
1995 - Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida admitted its 500-millionth guest.
1992 - A commercial flight record was set by an Air France supersonic jetliner for circling the Earth in 33 hours and one minute.
1963 - The Beatles appeared on the BBC's "Sunday Night at the Palladium." It was their first appearance on a major TV show.
1943 - During World War II, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany.
Christine Young (pornstar, left for Africa to do humanitarian work in April 2006) 1983
Jon Micah Sumrall (lead singer for rock band Kutless: "Run", "Tonight", "Not What You See", "Sea of Faces", "Treason", "Shut Me Out", "Smile", "Hearts of the Innocent", had a song on the "Narnia" soundtrack) 1980
Ashanti (R&B singer's debut in 2002) 1980
Marie Osmond (hosted, with her brother, a variety show and talk show) 1959
Chris Carter (creator of TV's "The X-Files", "Millenium" and 2 other, short-lived, TV series: "Harsh Realm", and "The Lone Gunmen" an X-Files spinoff) 1956
Sammy Hagar (replaced David Lee Roth as singer of Van Halen in mid-80s, most famous for singing "Right Now" and "I Can't Drive 55") 1947
Paul Simon (1/2 of Simon and Garfunkel: "The Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Boxer", "Mrs. Robinson", solo sang: "You Can Call Me Al", "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", "Graceland") 1941
Lenny Bruce (Foul-mouthed commedian arrested several times in 1950-60s, bannned from performing in several major cities in US and Australia) 1925
Margaret Thatcher (conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979-1990) 1925
October 14th:
Last Quarter Moon
2006 - Beginning on October 11, record amounts of snow fell in Buffalo and other parts of Western NY state. By Saturday, the city had 23 inches of snow (the most ever for the city in October), 3 people had died, and thousands were without electricity and water.
1981 - Prince released the album "Controversy". It was his 4th album.
1975 - "Rock & Roll All Night" was released by KISS.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. reconnaissance aircrafts photographed Soviet construction of intermediate-range missile sites in Cuba.
1957 - "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley was released.
1926 - The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, was published.
Terrence McGee (American football cornerback for the Buffalo Bills) 1980
Stacy Keibler (Female wrestler in the WWE) 1979
Usher (R&B singer: "Yeah", "Confessions", "Burn") 1979
jessica drake (born Angela Patrice Heaslet, began in porn in 1999, she chooses to have her stage name all lowercase letters) 1976
Ralph Lauren (Clothes designer) 1939
Roger Moore (replaced Sean Connery as James Bond in several films) 1929
e.e. Cummings (poet) 1894
Dwight Eisenhower (34th US President 1953-61) 1890
William Penn (US Quaker Colonial leader founded the colony of Pennsylvania) 1644
October 15th:
White Cane Safety Day, a day for blind and visually impared people
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
1977 - "Rumours," the second album from Fleetwood Mac, was released.
1951 - The first episode of "I Love Lucy" aired on CBS.
1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
Jaci Velasquez (Latina Christian/Pop singer: "I Will Rest In You", "Every Time I Fall", "God So Loved the World", "I Get on My Knees", "If This World", she was in the movie "Chasing Papi") 1979
Vanessa Marcil (starrd in the series "Las Vegas") 1969
Emeril Lagasse (TV chef "kicked it up a notch" with his short-lived sitcom) 1959
Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson (Member of The Jackson 5 and started the group T3 in the '90s) 1953
Richard Carpenter (sang with his sister Karen as The Carpenters: "Close To You", "Top of the World", "We've Only Just Begun", "Rainy Days and Mondays", "It's Going To Take Some Time", "Hurting Each Other", "Sing a Song") 1946
Penny Marshall (directed the sitcom "Laverne and Shirley" and movies such as "Big") 1942
Mario Puzo (author wrote "The Godfather" in 1969) 1920
October 16th:
World Food Day
Boss' Day
2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.
2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.
1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan.
1971 - Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" was released.
1968 - The New Yardbirds played their first concert. The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
1946 - 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.
1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia). He was looking for the government's store of weapons to use in a fight against slavery.
1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
Melissa Lauren (pornstar into bondage and S&M, caught chlamydia) 1984
Erin Dewright aka Erin Brown aka Misty Mundae (softcore/lesbian actress) 1979
John Mayer (boring singer/songwriter sings "Your Body is a Wonderland") 1977
Wendy Wilson (singer in the pop group Wilson Phillips) 1969
Flea (born Michael Peter Balzary, bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, played Needles in "Back To The Future 2&3") 1962
Tim Robbins (strongly liberal actor: "Bull Durham", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Mystic River", "High Fidelity", "Antitrust") 1958
David Zucker (director: "Airplane", The "Naked Gun" movies, "Baseketball", "Scary Movie 3, 4, & 5") 1947
Suzanne Somers (Sitcoms: "Three's Company", "Step By Step" and she sold excercise equipment) 1946
Angela Lansbury (TV: "Murder, She Wrote") 1925
Noah Webster (started the first dictionary) 1758
October 17th:
1979 - Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1933 - "News-Week" appeared for the first time at newsstands. The name was later changed to "Newsweek."
1917 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.
1888 - The first issue of "National Geographic Magazine" was released at newsstands.
1777 - American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
Marshal Mathers aka Eminem aka Slim Shady (Rapper starred in the movie "8 Mile") 1972
Wyclef Jean (rapper/R&B singer started with The Fugees, sang "Maria, Maria" with Santana) 1972
Chris Kirkpatrick (Nsync) 1971
Norm MacDonald ("SNL" comedian had his own sitcom "Norm") 1963
Mike Judge (creator of animated "Office Space" skits on "SNL" and the live-action feature movie "Office Space", also created cartoon series "Beavis and Butthead" and its spin-off cartoon series "King of the Hill") 1962
Alan Jackson (country singer: "Remember When", "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)", "Pop a Top", "It Must Be Love", "Livin' On Love", "It's 5:00 Somewhere", "Mercury Blues") 1958
Margot Kidder (Lois Lane in "Superman") 1948
George Wendt (Norm on the sitcom "Cheers") 1948
Evel Knievel (daredevil) 1938
Arthur Miller (playwright: "Death of a Salesman") 1915
October 18th:
1997 - Hanson sang the national anthem at the opening game of the World Series.
1988 - The first episode of "Roseanne" aired on ABC.
1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico only one year after the Caribbean nation won its independence from Spain.
1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre).
1767 - The Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. North of he line would contain free states, south would contain slave states.
Azlea Antistia (former Guess? model became a pornstar in 1998) 1976
Jean-Claude Van Damme (action/martial arts movie actor) 1960
Gary Richrath (singer for REO Speedwagon: "Take It On the Run", "Keep On Loving You", "Time For Me To Fly", "Can't Fight This Feeling", "Roll With The Changes") 1949
Lee Harvey Oswald (John F. Kennedy's assasin was later shot by Jack Ruby) 1939
Dawn Wells (Mary Ann on the sitcom "Gilligan's Island") 1938
Peter Boyle (Tim Allen's Boss on "The Santa Clause", Ray's father on the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond") 1935
George C. Scott (played General "Patton" in an award-winning movie, also portrayed Ebeneezer Scrooge in the most famous version of "The Christmas Carol") 1927
Chuck Berry (early rocker/guitar player: "Johnny B Goode", "No Particular Place To Go", "You Never Can Tell", "Rock and Roll Music") 1926
October 19th:
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box and then suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on September 5.
2001 - Two U.S. Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan. The deaths were the first American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a bill establishing a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
1979 - Prince's second album "Prince" was released.
1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.
Omar Gooding (younger brother of Cuba Gooding, played in TV series: "Hanging With Mr. Cooper" and "Smart Guy") 1976
Chris Kattan (annoying "SNL" cast member known for playing the characters Mango, Mr. Peepers, and Mr. Forrester, an unintelligible school sports coach, Chris starred in the movie "Corky Romano") 1970
Trey Parker (co-creator and many voices on the animated series "South Park") 1969
Evander Holyfield (boxer had hit ear bit by Mike Tyson in a pro-fight) 1962
John Lithgow ("Third Rock From The Sun" TV series) 1945
Jeannie C. Reily (young country music sex symbol had a hit with "Harper Valley PTA" in 1968) 1945
Robert Reed (The father, Mike Brady) 1932
October 20th:
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
1992 - The Madonna album "Erotica" was released.
1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve's sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane crashed in Gillsburg, MS. The other four members of the band were seriously injured but survived the crash.
1973 - "The Joker" was released by the Steve Miller Band.
1973 - The Sydney Opera house officially opened.
1962 - The Four Seasons released "Big Girls Don't Cry."
1961 - Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was recorded.
1955 - "Day-O" was recorded by Harry Belafonte.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.
Willis McGahee (Running back for American Football's (NFL) Buffalo Bills) 1981
Thomas Wisniewski (Guitarist for Christian speed-punk band MxPx) 1971
Dannii Minogue (Australian pop singer, Kylie's younger sister, released her first single in 1991) 1971
Snoop Dogg (rapper: "Gin and Juice", "Drop It Like It's Hot") 1970
Tom Petty ("American Girl", "Walls", "Free Falling", "Don't Come Around Here No More", "Into the Great Wide Open", "Running Down a Dream", "Room at the Top", "Breakdown", "Refugee", "You Wreck Me") 1950
Wanda Jackson (rockabilly singer of the 1950s-80s: "Let's Have a Party", "Window Up Above", "Kansas City", "Making Believe", "Mean Mean Man", "Cool Love") 1937
Bela Lugosi (Hungarian actor was the title role in the original 1931 movie version of "Dracula") 1882
October 21:
Mother-in-Law Day
New Moon
2006 - The 600th episode of the radio/web dramedy series "Adventures in Odyssey" airs. This episode makes "Odyssey" the longest running weekly, scripted, non-variety series. The show has been on the radio since Nov. 1987.
1995 - Shannon Hoon, the singer of Blind Melon ("No Rain", "Galaxie") died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 28. They had only rleased 2 albums at that time, and several unreleased songs later became their 3rd and final album.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1992 - The erotic photograph book, "Sex," was released by Madonna. The first run of 500,000 copies sold out.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1964 - The movie based on the musical "My Fair Lady" premiered.
1961 - Bob Dylan recorded "Bob Dylan," his first album. He was 20 years old when he did the recording for Columbia Records. The cost to produce the session was $400.
1958 - Buddy Holly recorded his last studio session. Holly and the Crickets recorded "True Love Ways," "Moondreams," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," and "Raining in my Heart."
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1908 - A "Saturday Evening Post" advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia. This was the first time records were sold.
Brian Pittman (bassist for two Christian rock bands: Relient K and his new band Inhale Exhale) 1980
Will Estes (movie "U-571", JJ Pryor on TV's "American Dreams", and was Will on the unfinished/cancelled TV series "Reunion") 1978
Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia in "Star Wars") 1956
Rich Mullins (wrote many popular worship/gospel songs: "Awesome God", "Sing Your Praise To The Lord", "Creed", died in a car crash in 1997) 1955
Benjamin Netanyahu (President of Israel 1996-99) 1949
Judy Sheindlin ("Judge Judy", TV's tough family court Judge) 1942
Dizzy Gillespie (jazz trumpeter) 1917
Alfred Nobel (Swedish inventor established a peace prize) 1833
October 22nd:
"CAPS LOCK" DAY
Used Cars Day
1990 - Seminal grunge band Pearl Jam, then named Mookie Blaylock, play their first show as a band at the Off Ramp club in Seattle, WA. A year later, they released the classic album "Ten" as the newly formed Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder joined the band after Temple of the Dog broke up, his old band with Chris Cornell, later of Soundgarden.
1969 - Led Zeppelin release the classic album Led Zeppelin II, featuring the hit single "Whole Lotta Love."
1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go). The single that hit #1 was "You Can't Hurry Love."
1966 - The Beach Boys released the single "Good Vibrations."
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1938 - Xerox Co, based in Rochester NY, produced their first image.
Jonathan Lipnicki (child with glasses in "Jerry McGuire", also: "Like Mike", "Stuart Little", "The Little Vampire") 1990
Zac Hanson (drummer with his brothers' band Hanson) 1985
Orville Richard "Shaggy" Burrell (Reggae singer: "It Wasn't Me", "Angel", "In The Summertime", "Boombastic") 1968
Toby Mac (McKeehan) (Singer/rapper in landmark Christian/mainstream rap/rock group DC Talk: "Jesus Freak", "Colored People", "In the Light", "Just Between You and Me", "Consume Me", and recently solo: "Irene", "Gone", "Atmosphere", "Burn For You." He also performed "New World," the theme to the movie "Narnia") 1964
Jeff Goldblum ("Jurassic Park", "Independence Day", "The Fly") 1952
Bobby Fuller (singer's one-hit-wonder was "I Fought The Law" before his death in 1966) 1942
Christopher Lloyd (TV: "Taxi", "Stacked", Movies: "Back To The Future 1-3", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Angels in the Outfield" "The Adams Family") 1938
Jerome Lester "Curly" Horwitz ("The 3 Stooges") 1908
October 23rd:
Eid ul-Fitr (end of Ramadan, the month of fasting in Islam)
Labor Day (New Zealand)
First day of astroligical sign Scorpio
Mole Day
Canning Day
2001 - Apple Computer releases the first iPod.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule
1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1965 - "Turn! Turn! Turn!" was released by the Byrds.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.
"Weird" Al Yankovic (known for his parodies of popular songs) 1959
Sam Raimi (director: "Spider-Man 1-3", "The Quick and the Dead", "The Gift", "The Evil Dead") 1959
Dwight Yoakam (country singer was in the movies "Sling Blade" and "Panic Room") 1956
Ang Lee (directs Taiwanese and American movies: "Brokeback Mountain", "Crouching Tiger", "The Ice Storm", "Ride With The Devil", "Hulk") 1954
Michael Crichton (author: "Jurassic Park", "The Lost World", "Congo", "Sphere", "The Great Train Robbery", "Timeline") 1942
Philip Kaufman (director/writer: "Raidrs of the Lost Ark (writer)", "The Right Stuff", "Henry & June", "Rising Sun", "Quills", "Twisted") 1936
Johnny Carson (Host of "The Tonight Show" 1961-1992) 1925
October 24th:
United Nations Day
Bologna Day
2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that gave police the power to secretly search homes, tap all of a person's telephone conversation and track people's use of the Internet.
1992 - The Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series.
1992 - Madonna's album "Erotica" was released.
1965 - NBC became the first TV network to carry 30 minutes of nightly news seven days a week.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went on the highest alert in the postwar era in preparation for a possible full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The U.S. blockade of Cuba officially began on this day.
1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
1939 - Nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened for traffic between New York and New Jersey.
1929 - In the U.S., investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as "Black Thursday."
Kevin Kline [actor: "Dave", "Wild Wild West", "The Big Chill", "The Road To El Dorado (voice)"] 1947
J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson [early rock'n'roll singer/songwriter ("Chantilly Lace", "White Lightning", "Running Bear") who died on the same plane as Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in 1959] 1930
October 25th:
End of the hurricane season
Grenada Day (Thanksgiving)
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. Smith was later convicted of drowning her children in a nearby lake.
1994 - The Madonna album "Bedtime Stories" was released.
1983 - U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government. The small Caribbean island's government subsequentky became Democratic.
1982 - The first episode of "Newhart" aired on CBS.
1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
Ciara Princess Harris (R&B singer: "Goodies", "1,2 Step", "Oh", "Promise") 1985
Sarah Thompson ("Angel", "7th Heaven") 1979
Michael Boatman (TV: "China Beach" a Vietnam War drama series, and Carter on "Spin City") 1964
Nancy Cartwright (Voice on "The Simpsons": (Bart, Nelson, Todd Flanders, Ralph Wiggum) 1957
Richard Byrd (The first person to see the North Pole) 1888
Pablo Picasso (artist famous for his stick figure people) 1881
Oct 26th:
1998 - Marilyn Manson began its Mechanical Animals tour in Kansas City, MO. "Mechanical Animals" is his best selling album to date.
1992 - Pearl Jam sets a new record for first week sales when the LP "Vs." sold 950,000 copies. Singles included "Daughter", "Dissident", and "Elderly Woman..."
1981 - Queen and David Bowie record "Under Pressure" in Montreaux, Switzerland.
1970 - "Doonesbury," the Liberal comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the U.S.
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.
1825 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
Jon Heder ("Napolean Dynomite", "Just Like Heaven", "The Benchwarmers") 1977
Seth MacFarlane (Creator/animator/writer for: "The Family Guy", "American Dad", "Johnny Bravo", "Cow and Chicken", "Dexter's Laboratory") 1973
Keith Urban (New Zealand/Australian country singer had his first hit in 1991: "You'll Think of Me", "Days Go By") 1967
Natalie Merchant (singer for the 10,000 Maniacs, they didn't have their first hit until the band had broken up: "These Are The Days", and the remake of a Patti Smith song "Because The Night", solo: "Wonder, "Carnival", "Kind and Generous") 1963
Cary Elwes ("The Princess Bride", "Robin Hood-Men In Tights", "The Crush", "Saw") 1962
Hillary Clinton (former US First Lady, current NY state senator) 1947
Pat Sajak (host of "Wheel of Fortune" for over 20 years) 1947
Charles William Post (started Post Cereal Co.) 1854
]October 27th:
Potato Day
1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Reagan.
1982 - Prince's album "1999" was released. Singles were "1999" and "Little Red Corvette."
1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.
1904 - The New York subway system officially opened.
1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.
Kelly Osbourne (daughter of Ozzy and Sharon tried unsuccessfully to be a singer) 1984
Scott Weiland (singer for Stone Temple Pilots: "Plush", "Interstate Love Song", "Creep", "Lady Picture Show", "Sour Girl", "Days of the Week", and for Velvet Revolver: "Slither", "Fall To Pieces") 1967
Ivan Reitman (movie director: "Ghostbusters", "Twins", "Junior", "Kindergarten Cop", "Stripes", "Private Parts", "Dave", "Evolution") 1946
John Cleese ["Monty Python", "Rat Race", "Harry Potter", "James Bond (as Q)"] 1939
Theodore Roosevelt (26th US President 1901-09) 1858
Isaac Singer (founded Singer Sewing Machine Co.) 1811
James Cook (British Explorer mapped many Pacific Islands, most notably Hawaii and New Zealand) 1728
October 28th:
Daylight Savings Time ends [clocks go back an hour tonight(Sunday) at 1:00am]
"Make a Difference" Day
1996 - The Dow Jones Industial Average gained a record 337.17 points (or 5%). The day before the Dow had dropped 554.26 points (or 7%).
1990 - Iraq announced that it was halting gasoline rationing.
1977 - "Nevermind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols" was released in America.
1965 - The Gateway Arch along the waterfront in St. Louis, MO, was completed.
1919 - The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the passing of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World."
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin.
Joaquin Phoenix ("Ladder 49", "I Walk The Line", "Gladiator", "Buffalo Soldiers") 1974
Julia Roberts ("Pretty Woman", "Erin Brockovich") 1967
Jami Gertz ["Twister", "Still Standing (TV series)", "Square Pegs (TV)"] 1965
Daphne Zuniga [Princess Vespa in "Spaceballs", TV: "Melrose Place", "American Dreams (season 3)"] 1962
Bill Gates (CEO of Microsoft Computer Co created the original Windows Operating System) 1955
Dennis Franz ("Hill Street Blues" star known for showing his naked butt on "NYPD Blue") 1944
Jonas Salk (developed a Polio Vaccine) 1914
October 29th:
Oatmeal Day
2002 - Christina Aguilera's album "Stripped" was released. Singles included "Fighter" and "Beautiful."
2001 - KTLA broadcasted the HDTV network telecast.
1996 - In Pasadena, California, a judge drops drug possession charges against Scott Weiland, the singer for the Stone Temple Pilots. The judge concluded that Weiland had made significant progress in rehab.
1977 - "Bat Out Of Hell" was released by Meat Loaf. Singles included "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and "2 Out of 3 Ain't Bad." In addition to other albums Meat Loaf has recorded, two sequels to "Bat" have been released.
1957 - "Oh Boy!" by Buddy Holly & the Crickets was released.
1956 - Videotape was used for the first time in network television programming. CBS recorded the evening news and fed the tape to West Coast stations three hours later.
1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
1936 - Country singer Hank Snow made his first recordings, "Lonesome Blue Yodel" and "Prisoned Cowboy." He later became known in the 1950s for the dance craze "Rhumba Boogie" and "I'm Moving On."
1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.
1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.
Winona Ryder (actress arrested for shoplifting thousands of dollars worth of clothes: "Mr. Deeds", "The Crucible", "Mermaids", "A Scanner Darkly", "Simone") 1971
"Serenity" (Pornstar in 1990s-2000s) 1969
Randy Jackson (Jackson 5 member) 1961
Dan Castellaneta (Plays Homer Simpson and other characters on that cartoon) 1957
Kate Jackson (TV's "Charlie's Angels") 1948
Richard Dreyfuss (outspoken liberal actor: "Jaws", "Mr. Holland's Opus", "Close Encounters", "What About Bob?", "Poseidon (2006)", "Krippendorf's Tribe") 1947
October 30th:
Buy-A-Doughnut Day
National Candy Corn Day (US)
International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
2001 - Michael Jackson's album entitled "Invincible" was released. It was his first full-length album since "Dangerous" in 1991. It was supposed to be his comeback album, but the album sold poorly.
1986 - The Beastie Boys released the LP "License To Ill." Singles included "Fight For Your Right To Party", "Brass Monkey", and "Girls."
1970 - Jim Morrison was sentenced to 6 months in jail and fined $500 for exposing himself in Miami, FL.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
Ivanka Trump (Donald Trump's daughter) 1981
Gavin Rossdale (Singer for Bush: "Come Down", "Glycerine", "Swallowed", "The Chemicals Between Us") 1967
Kevin Pollak (actor/commedian famous for his impressions of Christopher Walken and William Shatner) 1957
Henry Winkler (The Fonz on "Happy Days", movies: "Click", "The Waterboy", "Holes") 1945
Grace Slick (Hipee singer for Jefferson Airplane & Starship) 1939
Emily Post (wrote a popular instructional book "Etiquette" in 1922) 1873
Fyodor Dostoevsky (author of "Crime and Punishment") 1821
John Adams (2nd US President 1797-1801) 1735
October 31st:
Halloween (All Hallow's Eve)
Samhain (Irish-Celtic holiday celebrated Oct.31-Nov.2 marking the end of the Harvest)
National Caramel Apple Day (USA)
Magic Day
Halloween in the US is in second place for the most pizzas delivered. In first place is Superbowl Sunday (the final game for American Football).
2006 - Meat Loaf released "Bat Out of Hell 3."
1992 - Prince and the New Power Generation released the album titled with the symbol that was to become Princes alias throughout the 1990s while disputing music rights with his record label. Singles included: "7", and "The Morning Papers."
1956 - Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek become the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole. Dufek also became the first person to set foot on the South Pole.
1941 - Mount Rushmore was declared complete after 14 years of work. At the time the 60-foot busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were finished.
1926 - Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. His appendix had been damaged twelve days earlier when he had been punched in the stomach by a student unexpectedly. During a lecture Houdini had commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows.
1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.
1868 - Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.
1864 - Nevada became the 36th state to join the U.S.
1517 - Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace Church. The event marked the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
Eddie Kaye Thomas (Paul Finch in the "American Pie" Trilogy and on TV's "Til Death") 1980
Piper Parabo ("Coyote Ugly") 1976
Malin Sofia Katarina Berggren (singer for Ace of Base: "The Sign", "Don't Turn Around", "All That She Wants", "Beautiful Life") 1970
Robert Matthew "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle (rapper/rocker famous for "Ice Ice Baby") 1968
Peter Jackson (directed "The Lord of the Rings") 1961
Larry Mullen, Jr. (Drummer for rock band U2) 1961
John Candy (commedian/actor died of a heart attack in 1994: "Uncle Buck", "Vacation", "Spaceballs", "Home Alone", "Splash", "Brewster's Millions") 1950
David Ogden Stiers (Major Charles Winchester on TV's "MASH") 1942
Barbara Bel Geddes (TV's "Dallas") 1922
Chiang Kai-Shek (the first constitutional President of the Republic of China) 1887
Juliette Low (founded Girl Scouts in 1913) 1860
November 1st:
Samhain (Irish-Celtic holiday celebrated Oct.31-Nov.2 marking the end of the Harvest)
All Saints' Day
Start of National Novel Writing Month
1994 - Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" performance was released as "MTV Unplugged in New York."
1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG, PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.
1884 - A meeting of world leaders in Washington, DC set Greenwich, England as the center of the Prime Meridian.
1800 - U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1611 - "The Tempest," Shakespeare's romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London
1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
Jenny McCarthy 1972
Sophie B. Hawkins [pop singer: "As I Lay Me Down", "Damn (I Wish I was Your Lover)"] 1967
Rick Allen (One-armed drummer for Def Leppard) 1963
Larry Flynt (controversial founder of Penthouse Magazine) 1957
Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf's song partner and co-writter, Jim also wrote "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "It's All Coming Back To Me Now") 1947
November 2nd:
Samhain (Irish-Celtic holiday celebrated Oct.31-Nov.2 marking the end of the Harvest)
All Souls' Day
El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) (Mexico)
2003 - Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs ran in the New York City Marathon. He finished in 4 hours, 14 minutes and 54 seconds. He raised $2 million dollars for children.
2001 - The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.
1990 - "Graffiti Bridge," Prince's third film, co-starring Tevin Campbell and Mavis Staples opened.
1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers.
1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.
Nelly (rapper) 1974
Burt Lancaster (actor: "From Here to Eternity") 1913
Warren G. Harding (29th US President 1921-23) 1865
James K. Polk (11th US President 1845-49) 1795
Marie Antoinette (French Queen said, "Let them eat cake.") 1755
Daniel Boone (blazed wilderness trail in Kentucky) 1734
November 3rd:
Sandwich Day
2003 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, a post-Taliban draft constitution was unveiled.
1998 - Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro wrestler, as its governor.
1993 - The first episode of "The Nanny" was aired by CBS.
1978 - The first episode of "Different Strokes" was aired on NBC.
1957 - "At the Hop" was released by Danny & the Juniors.
1957 - The first Earthling in space, a dog named Laika, Russian for Barker, was aboard Sputnik.
1957 - Sun Records released "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis
1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain erupted.
1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President.
Avy Scott (Pornstar) 1981
Aria Giovanni (born Cindy Renee Volk) (pornstar) 1977
Dennis Miller (Annoying "SNL" commedian briefly co-hosted America's "Monday Night Football" as a commentator) 1953
Rosanne Barr (commedian starred in a long-running sitcom "Rosanne") 1952
Michael Dukakis (Democrat Presidential candidate lost to George Bush in 1988) 1933
Charles Bronson (starred in a series of "Death Wish" movies) 1927
November 4th:
1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focused exlusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1939 - At the 40th National Automobile Show the first air-conditioned car was put on display.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter discovered the entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
1880 - James and John Ritty patented the first cash register.
1846 - The patent for the artificial leg is granted to Benjamin Palmer.
1842 - Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, IL.
Audrey Hollander (Pornstar known for her triple-anal scenes :crying:) 1979
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs (rapper) 1970
Matthew McConaughey ("Frailty", "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days", "Sahara", "The Wedding Planner", "Failure To Launch") 1969
Rachel Aziani (Pornstar who only porns with her husband) 1969
Ralph Macchio ("The Karate Kid", "My Cousin Vinny") 1962
Jeff Probst (host of "Survivor") 1962
Laura Bush (First lady of the US) 1946
Loretta Swift (Major Houlihan on "MASH") 1937
Doris Roberts ("Christmas Vacation", Marie on "Everybody Loves Raymond") 1930
Art Carney ("The Honeymooners") 1918
Will Rogers (played a cowboy in many movies from 1918-1935) 1879
November 5th:
National Donut Day (US)
2008 - Barack Obama is elected the 44th, and first black US President.
1960 - Johnny Horton was killed in an auto accident in Milano, Texas at the age of 33. He had the hits "Battle of New Orleans" and "North To Alaska."
1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office. An ammendment was later made to the US Constitution limiting the President's terms to two 4-year terms only.
1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company. Real money was originally used..
1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.
1872 - In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.
Brittney Skye born Brandie Rae Rothwell (Pornstar) 1977
Bryan Adams (rock singer: "Summer of '69", "Heat of the Night", "Cuts Like A Knife", "East Side Story") 1959
Tatum O"Neil (Starred in "Paper Moon" at age 10) 1963
Ryan Adams (country singer) 1974
Art Garfunkel (co-singer of Simon and Garfunkel, frequent guest star on "American Dreams") 1941
Vivien Leigh (Scarlet O'Hara on "Gone With The Wind") 1913
Roy Rogers (starred on many cowboy movies) 1911
November 6th:
2006 - The 100th episode of the weekly radio/web dramedy "Down Gilead Lane" airs.
1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
1984 - Ronald Reagan(R) defeats Walter Mondale(D) to be re-elected in one of the largest electoral landslides in United States election history. The only state Mondale won was his home state of Minnesota.
1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.
1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on the air for 29 years.
1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
Rebecca Romijn (Model/actress) 1972
Ethan Hawke (actor: "Before Sunrise", "Before Sunset", "Assault on Precinct 13", "Tape", "Gattaca") 1970
Maria Shriver (TV News Correspondent, married Arnold S.) 1955
Sally Field [actress got her start on the 1960s sitcom "The Flying Nun", also movies: "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Sybil", "Forrest Gump", "Homeward Bound (voice)"] 1946
James Naismith (Canadian Gym Teacher invented Basketball) 1861
John Philip Sousa (composer "The Stars and Stripes Forever") 1854
Charles Henry Dow (founder of Dow Jones & Company) 1851
Adolphe (Antoine) Sax (Inventor of the saxophone) 1814
November 7th:
2006 - The game "Guitar Hero II" for Playstation 2 was released in North America.
2000 - Hillary Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.
1995 - Madonna's album "Something to Remember" was released, featuring the singles "I'll Remember", "This Used To Be My Playground", "You'll See", and "Take a Bow."
1991 - Magic Johnson (NBA) announced that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he was retiring from basketball.
1989 - David Dinkins was elected and become New York City's first African-American mayor.
1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS).
1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor in Cleveland, OH, becoming the first black mayor of a major city.
1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuted in television commercials.
1963 - The comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" premiered in Hollywood.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first (and only) person to win a fourth term as president.
1932 - "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was broadcast for the first on CBS Radio.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Lenin.
1916 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1893 - The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
Jason and Jeremy London ("7th Heaven") 1972
Donna Plato ("Diff'rent Strokes") 1964
Christopher Knight (Played Peter Brady) 1957
Joni Mitchell (Folk/jazz singer: "Both Sides Now") 1943
Billy Graham (Christian evangelist) 1918
Leon Trotsky (Russian revolutionary helped establish Communist rule) 1879
Madame Marie Currie (discovered radioactivity, isotopes, Polonium, Radium, and Mercury) 1867
November 8th:
National Young Reader's Day (USA)
2000 - In Florida, a statewide recount began to decide the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election. George W. Bush was named the winner.
1991 - Magic Johnson appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show." It was his first appearance after announcing that he was HIV positive.
1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national force fighting against Iraq.
1979 - The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into "Nightline" in March of 1980.
1979 - U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1965 - The soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted on NBC-TV.
1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with electricity discovered the scientific principle involved and took the first Xray pictures.
1889 - Montana became the 41st U.S. state.
Jack Osbourne (Ozzy's son) 1985
Tara Reid (Famous for her bad boob-job and for being in "American Pie") 1975
Parker Posey (Indie film actress) 1968
Courtney Thorne-Smith (actress, TV: "Melrose Place", "Ally McBeal", "According To Jim") 1967
Bonnie Raitt (Soft rock/blues singer: "Something to Talk About", "I Can't Make You Love Me") 1949
Earl Boen (The voice of Regis and Edwin Blackgaard on the weekly radio/web dramedy series "Adventures In Odyssey", Dr. Peter Silberman in all 3 Terminator movies) 1945
Patti Page (1950-60s pop singer: "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?", "Old Cape Cod") 1927
Margaret Mitchell (author of "Gone With The Wind") 1900
November 9th:
2004 - U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians for the first time since the Washington, DC terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001.
1999 - Prince released his comeback album "Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic." Singles included: "So Far So Pleased (with Gwen Stefani)" and "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold."
1998 - Michael Jackson settled a lawsuit over stories and pictures in the London Daily Mirror that said his face had been disfigured by cosmetic surgery. A lawyer for the publisher said, "The photographs were taken honestly and were not tampered with, but the Mirror has since met with the plaintiff in person and acknowledges that the photographs do not accurately represent the plaintiff's true appearance."
1989 - Communist East Germany opened its borders, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany.
1973 - The album "Piano Man" was released by Billy Joel.
1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published in San Francisco. John Lennon was on the cover.
1965 - The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
1963 - "Louie, Louie" was released by the Kingsmen.
1962 - Motown Records released "You've Really Got a Hold on Me," by the Miracles.
1961 - The Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) eliminated its "caucasians only" rule.
1911 - George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president.
1872 - A fire destroyed about 800 buildings in Boston, MA.
Sisqo (Singer for R&B/Soul/Gospel group Dru Hill, had a solo hit "The Thong Song") 1978
Nick Lachey [singer for dance group 98 Degrees married (and divorced) Jessica Simpson] 1973
Susan Tedeschi (Rock/Blues singer/guitarist) 1970
Lou Ferrigno (Former Mr. Universe bodybuilder played "The Incredible Hulk" from 1977-82) 1951
Tom Fogerty (Guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival) 1941
Mary Travers (member of folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary) 1936
Spiro Agnew (US Vice President under Richard Nixon was forced to resign in 1973) 1918
November 10th:
Wheat Day
1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband.
1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.
1970 - The Great Wall of China opened for tourism.
1969 - "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry received a gold record. The song had been released 20 years earlier by Autry.
1969 - "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.
1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States
1885 - The first motorcycle was created.
1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.
Josh Peck (child actor starred in "The Amanda Show" with Amanda Bynes) 1986
Miranda Lambert (country singer) 1983
Eve (rapper) 1978
Brittany Murphy (actress: "Clueless", "Don't Say a Word", "8 Mile", "Just Married", "Spun", "Uptown Girls", "Little Black Book", "Sin City") 1977
Warren "G" Griffin, III (rapper) 1970
Ellen Pompeo (TV's "Grey's Anatomy") 1969
David "Sinbad" Adkins (actor/stand-up commedian) 1959
Tim Rice (wrote lyrics for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Evita", "The Road To El Dorado", "The Lion King", "Aida", "Aladdin") 1944
Roy Scheider (Police chief in "Jaws") 1935
Martin Luther (German theologist sparked the Protestant Reformation)1483
November 11th:
Veteran's Day (US) / Rememberance Day (Canada) (Marks the end of WW1 on Nov. 11, 1918, and remembers all war veterans)
Sausage Pizza Day
1997 - The Eastman Kodak Company announced that they were laying off 10,000 employees.
1997 - Metallica played a free concert in Philadelphia, PA.
1965 - Walt Disney announced a project in Florida that was to become Disney World.
1952 - The first video recorder was demonstrated by John Mullin and Wayne Johnson in Beverly Hills, CA.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.
1918 - Poland was reestablished shortly after the surrender of Germnay.
1889 - Washington became the 42nd state of the United States.
1851 - The telescope was patented by Alvan Clark.
1831 - Nat Turner, a slave and educated minister, was hanged in Jerusalem, VA, after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal laws.
Noah Gray-Cabey (The son on the sitcom "My Wife and Kids") 1995
Leonardo DiCaprio ("Titanic", "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?", "The Beach", "Catch Me If You Can", "Gangs of NY", "The Aviator", "Romeo and Juliet") 1974
Calista Flockhart (TV's "Ally McBeal") 1964
Demi Moore 1962
Marc Summers (hosted "Double Dare" and is now a host on the Food Network) 1951
Kurt Vonnegut (His book "Slaughterhouse Five" became a movie) 1922
George Patton (WW2 commander led attacks in France, Italy, and Germany, and his life became an oscar-winning movie) 1885
November 12th:
Rememberance Day (UK)]
2002 - Stan Lee filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil.
1996 - The album "Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack," featuring music sung by Madonna, was released.
1984 - Madonna released the album "Like A Virgin."
1970 - The Doors made their last appearance with Jim Morrison, in New Orleans.
1966 - Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" was released.
1954 - Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892.
1946 - The first drive-up banking facility opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, IL.
1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.
1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia."
1933 - In Philadelphia, the first Sunday football game was played.
1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party leading to Stalin coming to power.
1918 - Austria was declared an independent republic only one day after the end of World War I.
1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.
1799 - The first meteor shower to be recorded, the Leonid Shower, is recorded.
Macey Cruthird (plays Haley on the sitcom "Hope and Faith) 1992
Anne Hathaway ("Brokeback Mountain", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Ella Enchanted", "Havoc", "The Princess Diaries") 1982
Avena Lee (Thai-Chinese-American Pornstar) 1982
Tevin Campbell (had R&B hits as a teen in the early '90s, his biggest being "Round and Round" with Prince from Prince's soundtrack album "Graffiti Bridge") 1976
Tonya Harding (Olympic skater involved in an attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan) 1970
Sammy Sosa (American Baseball player who battled Mark McGwire for a home run record) 1968
David Schwimmer (Ross on the sitcom "Friends") 1966
Megan Mullally (TV's "Will and Grace") 1958
Neil Young (member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young) 1945
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Women suffragist) 1815
November 13th:
International Day of Kindness
Sadie Hawkins Week (Girls ask the guys)
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order that would allow for military tribunals to try any foreigners captured with connections to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. It was the first time since World War II that a president had taken such action.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, without an apology or admission of guilt, to throw out her sexual harassment lawsuit.
1968 - The Beatles' animated movie "Yellow Submarine" premiered in the U.S.
1961 - The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was released.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter", now also known as a "hot dog" or a "wiener."
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Jimmy Kimmel (American late-night talk-show host) 1967
Whoopi Goldberg (commedian/actress: "Ghost", "Sister Act", "The Color Purple", "Star Trek: The Next Generation") 1955
Chris Noth (TV's "Law and Order" and "Sex and the City") 1954
Will Ryan (The voice of Eugene Meltzner on the radio/web weekly dramedy "Adventures in Odyssey") 1939
Robert Louis Stevenson (author of: "Treasure Island," "Kidnapped," and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") 1850
November 14th:
Teddy Bear Day
Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
2000 - Marilyn Manson's released "Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)." The cover of the album was banned by several retail chains due to the cover art. The banning chains released an alternate cover. The cover depicts Manson on a crucifix. Tha album dealt with the Columbine shootings, and therefore was Manson's poorest selling album.
1998 - Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman were married in Las Vegas, NV.
1988 - The first episode of "Murphy Brown" aired on CBS.
1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.
1969 - During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, commander of the Third Marine Division, became the first general to be killed in Vietnam by enemy fire.
1968 - Yale University announced it was going co-educational.
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau's trial began for the assassination of U.S. President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published.
Joy Williams (pop/rock singer: "Every Moment", "Hide", "We") 1984
Nina Gordon (singer for Veruca Salt: "Seether", solo had a one-hit-wonder with "Tonight and the Rest of My Life" in 2003) 1967
Patrick Warburton (David Puddy on "Seinfeld" and Joe Swanson on "The Family Guy") 1964
Condoleezza Rice (US President George W. Bush's National Security Advisor and Secretary of State) 1954
Yanni (New-Age keyboardist) 1954
Prince Charles (Prince of Wales married Princess Diana in 1981) 1948
Joseph McCarthy (US Senator who accused many Government employees and noteworthy people of being communist in the 1950s. As it was revealed in a 1980s investigation, most of the people he accused actually were communist) 1909
Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India 1947-64) 1889
Claude Monet (French painter known for his colorful landscapes) 1840
Robert Fulton (Inventor of the steamboat) 1765
November 15th:
American Recycling Day
2006 - 5,000 people met in Washington Dc for the laying of the cornerstone of the future Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, presented by George W. Bush.
2005 - In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year.
1990 - Frank Farian, producer of Milli Vanilli, publicly admitted that Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus never sang a note on the Milli Vanilli album and that they lip-synch when they perform live.
1969 - In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.
1956 - Elvis Presley made his acting debut in the premiere of the "Love Me Tender" movie.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.
1889 - Brazil's monarchy was overthrown.
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.
1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
Ace Young (7th place contestant on "American Idol 2006") 1980
Russell Jones aka Ol' Dirty Bastard or ODB (rapper in the group Wu-Tang Clan died in 2004) 1968
Sam Waterston (Jack McCoy on "Law and Order") 1940
Petula Clark (In 1965 she sang her biggest hit "Downtown") 1932
Ed Asner ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the spinoff series "Lou Grant", "Crossing Jordan", was Santa in the movie "Elf") 1929
Joseph Wapner (Judge on "People's Court") 1919
Georgia O'Keeffe (American painter known for her flowers and deserts) 1887
November 16th:
Button Day
International Day for Tolerance
The Annual Great American Smokeout (Day for quitting smoking)
2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam.
1988 - Stan Love, former Beach Boys manager and the brother of lead singer Mike Love, was sentenced to 5 years probation for embezzling more than $300,000 from the band.
1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time.
1907 - Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.
Maggie Gyllenhaal (actress: "Secretary", "World Trade Center", Stranger Than Fiction", "Donnie Darko", "Mona Lisa Smile") 1977
Oksana Baiul (Ukranian figure skater won the Gold in the 1994 olympics) 1977
Lisa Bonet (Denise on "The Cosby Show") 1967
Diana Krall (Canadian Jazz singer) 1964
Marg Helgenberger ("CSI: Las Vegas", "China Beach", movies: "Species 1&2", "Bad Boys") 1958
Shigeru Miyamoto (Japanese video game creator, works for Nintendo, creator of: "Donkey Kong", "The Legend of Zelda", "Mario") 1952
Burgess Meredith (played the trainer of "Rocky" and the Penguin on the "Batman" TV series) 1908
November 17th:
2006 - Sony's PlayStation 3 went on sale in the United States.
1998 - Jewel released "Spirit" featuring the single "Hands."
1997 - Metallica released the album "ReLoad" featuring the singles "The memory Remains" and "Unforgiven II."
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
1970 - Elton John recorded a show in New York City which was later released as his 11-17-70 album.
1904 - The first underwater submarine journey was taken, from Southampton, England, to the Isle of Wight.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
1800 - The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, DC, in the partially completed Capitol building.
Isaac Hanson (music group Hanson) 1980
Daisy Fuentes (Model, "America's Funniest Videos" Host) 1966
RuPaul (Guy-turned Gal became a MTV talk-show host in the 90s) 1960
Danny DeVito ("Taxi", "Batman Returns", "Twins", "Matilda") 1944
Lorne Michaels (Executive Producer and head of SNL since the beginning) 1944
Martin Scorsese (Director: "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "Goodfellas", "Casino", "Bringing Out the Dead", "Gangs of NY", "The Aviator", "The Departed") 1942
November 18th:
2005 - "Walk the Line" opened in theaters. The film focused on the early years of Johnny Cash.
2001 - Nintendo released the GameCube home video game console in the United States.
1996 - The Metallica single "Mama Said" was released.
1988 - Phil Collins made his debut on the big screen starring in "Buster" when it opened.
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1928 - The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon premiered in New York. It was Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse.
1883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first Westerner to sight the continent of Antarctica.
Owen Wilson (actor: "Shanghai Noon", "Shanghai Knights", "Meet the Parents", "Starsky and Hutch", "I Spy", "Zoolander) 1968
Fabolous (rapper) 1977
Kirk Hammett (lead guitarist for Metallica: "Nothing Else Matters", "One", "Hero of the Day", "The Unforgiven 1&2") 1962
Alan Shepard (first American in space) 1923
November 19th:
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.
1998 - The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 - Prince released the 3 CD set "Emancipation." The release was on his record label NPG Records. Singles included "Betcha By Golly Wow" and "The Holy River."
1993 - Nirvana recorded their "MTV unplugged concert in New York."
1990 - Milli Vanilli was stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the "Girl You Know It's True" album.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr. was involved in a serious auto accident in San Bernardino, CA. Three days later, Davis lost the ability see with his left eye.
1928 - "Time" magazine presented its cover portrait for the first time. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was the magazine's first cover subject.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Jodie Foster (actress) 1962
Meg Ryan 1961
Calvin Klein (Fashion designer) 1942
Ted Turner [Started the Cable News Network (CNN)] 1938
Larry King (Political talk show host on radio and TV for over 50 years) 1933
James Garfield (20th US President died while in office 1881) 1831
November 20th:
2003 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation.
1995 - Princess Diana admitted being unfaithful to Prince Charles in an interview that was broadcast on BBC Television.
1992 - A fire seriously damaged the northwest side of Windsor Castle in England.
1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.
1987 - "Sign 'O' The Times," Prince's concert movie, opened.
1962 - The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" was released.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.
1923 - The red, yellow, and green traffic light was patented.
1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.
1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights, the original 10 ammendments to the US Constitution.
Josh Turner (Country singer: "The Long Black Train", Would You Go With Me", "Your Man") 1977
Bo Derek ("10", "Tommy Boy") 1956
Joe Walsh (Guitarist for The Eagles: "Hotel California", and solo: "All Night Long", "Life's Been Good", "Ordinary Average Guy") 1947
Duane Allman (Guitarist for The Allman Brothers) 1946
Norman Greenbaum (had a one-hit-wonder in 1970: "Spirit In The Sky") 1942
Robert Kennedy (JFK's brother, assassinated in 1968) 1925
Alistar Cook (host of "Masterpiece Theater") 1908
November 21st:
World "Hello" Day
World Television Day
2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential vote recounts going. George W. Bush was found to be the official winner.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state.
1983 - In Los Angeles, movie theatres premiered Michael Jackson's 11-minute "Thriller" video.
1980 - CBS aired the "who shot J.R.?" episode of "Dallas."
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas.
1877 - Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.
1871 - M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris.
1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.
Bjork (Icelandic Pop/Rock/Dance singer: "Army of Me", "Human Behavior", "I Miss You", "Joga", "Hidden Place", "Oceania", "Who Is It?", was in the musical/movie "Dancer in the Dark") 1965
Steven Curtis Chapman (Pop/rock singer had hits on Christian and mainstream radio: "I Will Be Here", "Dive", "Live Out Loud", "Burn the Ships", "All About Love", "All Things New", "Cinderella") 1962
Goldie Hawn (actress/commedian: "Overboard", "The Out of Towners", mother of Kate Hudson) 1945
William Beaumont (studied human digestion) 1785
November 22nd:
First day of Astrological sign Sagittarius
JFK is assassinated in 1963
2005 - Microsoft's XBOX 360 went on sale.
2005 - Ted Kopple appeared on "Nightline" for the last time.
1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.
1994 - "The Black Album" was released by Prince. It consisted of unreleased dance/funk songs from the past 15 years.
1990 - U.S. President Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old.
1968 - The Beatles released their double album called "The Beatles" (a.k.a. "The White Album").
1965 - The musical "Man of La Mancha (Don Quixote)" opened on Broadway. It ran for 2,328 performances.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President.
1927 - The snowblower is patented.
1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal that means "Save Our Souls."
1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times.
Scarlett Johansson (Began her career as a child actress: "North", "The Horse Whisperer", "Manny & Lo", "Ghost World", "The Island", "Girl With a Pearl Earring", "The Black Dahlia") 1984
Kate Ground(Internet model whose site is called "Kate's Playground") 1984
J.R. Carrington ('90s pornstar) 1968
Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween 1, 2, H2O, Resurrection", "Freaky Friday") 1958
Rodney Dangerfield (commedian that "gets no respect") 1928
Abagail Adams (wife of the 2nd US President John Adams) 1744
November 23rd:
Cashew Day
1998 - Dennis Rodman filed for an annulment from Carmen Electra. The two had been married for 9 days on November 14, 1998.
1990 - MTV banned Madonna's "Justify My Love" video.
1961 - The Dominican Republic changed the name of its capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Domingo.
1958 - The radio drama "Have Gun Will Travel" debuted. The show began after the end of the TV show of the same name.
1948 - The zoom lens is patented.
1945 - The U.S. wartime rationing of most foods ended.
1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published.
1889 - The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.
Miley Cyrus (Daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus plays hannah Montana on the Disney Channel and is a singer popular with young teens) 1992
Ken Block (singer for Sister Hazel: "All For You", "Happy", "Change Your Mind", "Champagne High", "Your Mistake", "Sword and Shield", "World Inside My Head") 1966
Bruce Hornsby (Pianist for The Greatful Dead before going solo in the 80s and 90s: "Mandolin Rain", "The Way It Is") 1954
Johnny Mandel (composer of the "MASH" theme) 1925
Boris Karloff (Famous for many horror movies from 1916-1969, including "Frankenstein" in 1931) 1887
Billy the Kid (American Western outlaw shot at age 21) 1859
Franklin Pierce (14th US President 1853-57) 1804
November 24th:
1991 - Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock band Queen, died of AIDS complications at the age of 45.
1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was published for the first time.
1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.
1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.
1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.
1871 - The National Rifle Association (NRA) was incorporated in the U.S.
1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old.
Katherine Heigel (TV: "Roswell") 1978
Colin Hanks [Son of Tom, TV: "Roswell", Movies: "Orange County", "11:14", "King Kong (2005)"] 1977
Brad Sherwood (Commedian on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?") 1964
Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar on Season 1 of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", also on the series "Lois and Clark") 1957
Ted Bundy (American serial killer) 1946
Pete Best (original drummer for The Beatles before Ringo Starr) 1941
Zachary Taylor (12th US President 1849-50, died of dysentery while still in office) 1784
November 25th:
1998 - The final episode of "Babylon 5" aired.
1998 - The first episode of the Japanese/American cartoon "The Powerpuff Girls" aired.
1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
1985 - Bobby Brown announced that he was leaving New Edition for a solo career.
1984 - Several British and American stars got together as Band-Aid, and recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas". The project was planned by Bob Geldof. The proceeds of the record went to Ethiopian famine relief.
1955 - In the U.S., the Interstate Commerce Commission banned racial segregation on interstate trains and buses.
1949 - Gene Autry released the first recorded version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
1884 - J.B. Meyenberg received the patent for evaporated milk.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1783 - During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S.
Barbara and Jenna Bush (US President George W. Bush's twin daughters) 1981
Christina Applegate (The daughter Kelly on the sitcom "Married With Children") 1971
Jill Hennessey (TV's: "Crossing Jordan") 1968
Amy Grant (Christian pop singer also had mainstream hits: "Out In the Open", "Simple Things", "Baby, Baby", "Lucky One") 1960
Ricardo Montalban (was in several "Planet of the Apes" movies and the first "Naked Gun" movie) 1920
Joe DiMaggio (US Baseball star - With Yankees went to 10 World Series, married Marilyn Monroe) 1914
November 26th:
Day of the Covenant Bahá'í Faith (Persian religion)
1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.
1950 - China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.
1943 - The slinky is invented. Richard James was a naval engineer trying to develop a meter designed to monitor horsepower on naval battleships. Richard was working with tension springs when one of the springs fell to the ground. He saw how the spring kept moving after it hit the ground and an idea for a toy was born.
1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1922 - King Tut's tomb is opened.
1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1861 - West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) over a dispute of slavery. West Virginia was against slavery.
1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.
Aurora Snow (Pornstar) 1981
Tina Turner 1939
Robert Goulet (Las Vegas lounge singer) 1933
Charles Schultz (creator of the comic strip "Peanuts") 1922
November 27th:
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2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
1980 - The sitcom series "Bosom Buddies" debuted on ABC, kicking off the career of Tom Hanks.
1976 - Queen's "Somebody To Love" was released.
1973 - The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
1967 - Capitol Records released the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album in the U.S.
1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress after the death of President John F. Kennedy.
1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
"Shy Love" (Began in porn in 2003) 1978
Mika Okinawa aka Mika Tan (pornstar began in 1999) 1977
Jaleel White (Played Steve Urkel on the '90s sitcom "Family Matters") 1976
Twista aka Tung Twista (born Carl Terrell Mitchell) (Fastest rapper in the world, famous for the song "Overnight Celebrity") 1973
Brooke Langton (Samantha on the American primetime soap "Melrose Place") 1970
Caroline Kennedy (JFK's daughter) 1957
William Fichtner (Tom Underlay on the series "Invasion" and Agent Alexander Mahone on "Prison Break") 1956
Rick Rockwell (star of "Who Wants To Marry a Millionaire" reality show, married (and divorced) Darva Conger from the show) 1956
Jimi Hendrix (Guitar wizard played at the Woodstock music festival) 1942
Eddie Rabbit (country/pop singer sang "I Love a Rainy Night") 1941
Bruce Lee (Martial Arts actor: "Enter The Dragon", died in 1972 at age 32) 1940
"Buffalo" Bob Smith (Hosted 1950s-60s children's series "Howdy Doody" for 13 years) 1917
Anders Celsius (inventor of the Celsius temperature system) 1701
November 28th:
1989 - Prince's song "Scandalous," from the Batman Soundtrack, was released.
1984 - Prince's "I Would Die 4 U" became the fourth single from the album "Purple Rain."
1970 - Elton John's "Your Song" was released.
1582 - William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway (not that one) were married.
Cody Lane (Pornstar began in early 2006) 1986
Hakeem Seriki aka Chamillionaire (rapper known for the song "Ridin' Dirty" and known for not doing drugs) 1979
Anna Nicole Smith (Playboy Playmate, was in "Naked Gun 3", married a 90-year-old billionare, had a reality show) 1973
Clifton Todd Britt aka Lexington Steele 1969
[b]Stephnie Weir ("MadTV") 1967
Jon Stewart (host of the comedy news program "The Daily Show") 1962
Paul Shaffer (Talk show host David Letterman's bandleader and sidekick got his start as the bandleader of "Saturday Night Live" in the 1970s-early 80s) 1949
November 29th:
2004 - Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1963 - The Beatles' fifth single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was released in Britain.
1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.
Krystal Steal (Pornstar began in 2001) 1982
Jon Knight (New Kids on the Block) 1968
Kim Delaney (Star of several TV series: "Tour of Duty", "NYPD Blue", "Philly", "The O.C.") 1961
Madaline L'Engle (Author of the Christian Young Adult series that began with "A Wrinkle In Time") 1918
C.S. Lewis (Christian author of the "Narnia" series and "The Screwtape Letters") 1898
Louisa May Alcott (Author of "Little Women" and "Little Men") 1832
November 30th:
2000 - David Spade was assaulted with a stun gun by his longtime personal assistant, David Warren Malloy. Malloy attacked Spade during a burglary of Spade's home in Beverly Hills.
1982 - The motion picture "Ghandi" had its world premiere in New Delhi. The movie starred Ben Kingsly as Ghandi and went on to win the Best Picture oscar of 1982.
1958 - Coed Records released "16 Candles" by the Crests.
1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban D esi Arnaz were married.
1897 - Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition.
1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
Elisha Cuthbert (played Kim Bauer on the series "24") 1982
Clay Aiken (2nd place finalist on the second season of "American Idol") 1978
Ben Stiller (commedian had a very short lived show and was in the movie "Meet The Parents") 1965
Billy Idol (sang "Mony, Mony" in 1987) 1955
G. Gordon Liddy (Watergate conspitator) 1930
Dick Clark (Host of American Bandstand for 40 years, hosted New Years shows, produced the series "American Dreams") 1929
Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister during WW2) 1974
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Author's pen name was Mark Twain: "Tom Sawyer", "Huckelberry Finn") 1835
Jonathon Swift (wrote "Gulliver's Travels") 1667
December 1st:
2004 - NBC anchor Tom Brokaw made he final appearance as anchor on "NBC Nightly News". He began his run on the show in April 1982. It was planned that Brokaw would host at least three documentaries a year for NBC.
1994 - The Game Show Network was launched.
1992 - Amy Fisher was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
1990 - Iraq accepted a U.S. offer to talk about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis.
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel finally met under the English Channel.
1987 - Prince decided to cancel the release of "The Black Album." It was only a week away from release. Prince felt the album lacked a hit single. The album was a collection of unreleased dance and funk songs from 1978-1987. It was finally released in 1993.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan said he would welcome an investigation of the Iran-Contra affair.
1982 - Epic Records released the album "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. It went on to become the biggest selling album ever.
1960 - Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee were married.
1913 - Ford Motor Co. began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production.
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
Avy Lee Roth (Pornstar beginning in 2003) 1979
Bart Millard (singer for rock band MercyMe: "I Can Only Imagine", "Spoken For", "Here With Me", "Homesick", "So Long Self", "Hold Fast") 1970
Bette Midler (sang "The Rose" and "The Wind Beneath My Wings") 1945
Richard Pryor (controversial black commedian of the 1970s and 80s) 1940
Woody Allen 1935
December 2nd:
1998 - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates donated $100 million to help immunize children in developing countries.
1995 - The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed that Ace of Base's "The Sign" was the best-selling debut of all time, with 19 million copies sold.
1983 - MTV aired Michael Jackson's 11-minute "Thriller" video for the first time in its entirety.
1972 - "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon was released.
1967 - Jimmie Rodgers was found in his car with a fractured skull after a serious accident. He recovered from the auto accident, but his singing career ended. He was famous for singing "Honeycomb", "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine", and "Uh-Oh, "I'm Falling in Love Again."
1949 - Gene Autry's song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," hit the record charts.
1939 - New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at 12:01 a.m.
1901 - Gillette patented the first disposable razor.
1859 - John Brown, a militant abolitionist, was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the previous October. He was trying to get at the US Government's store of military weapons.
1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
Isabella Soprano (In 2004, she worked in both porn and at the Bunny Ranch brothel in Las Vegas; now she works exclusively in porn) 1981
Britney Spears 1981
Nelly Furtado (sang "I'm Like a Bird") 1978
Lucy Liu (TV: "Alley McBeal", movies: "Charlie's Angels", "Kill Bill") 1968
Charles Ringling (Started the Ringling Circus) 1862
December 3rd:
International Day of Disabled Persons
1990 - Nightline aired Madonna's video for "Justify My Love." The previous week MTV had banned the video.
1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast. His famous catch phrase is "...and now you know the rest of the story."
1947 - The Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
1818 - Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the union.
Holly Marie Combs (TV's "Charmed") 1973
Brendan Fraser ("Bedazzeled", "The Mummy", "The Quiet American", "A Blast From the Past", "George of the Jungle", "Airheads") 1968
Daryl Hannah ("Splash", "Blade Runner", "Roxanne", "Kill Bill", "Grumpy Old Men") 1962
Julianne Moore ("The Shipping News", "Boogie Nights", "Far From Heaven", "Evolution", "The Forgotten", "The Hours") 1960
Ozzy Osbourne (reality show star began with rock band Black Sabbath: "Iron Man", and solo "Crazy Train", "Mama I'm Coming Home") 1948
December 4th:
Cookie Day
International Hug Day.
Wear Brown Shoes Day
2000 - O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses.
1990 - Madonna appeared on "Nightline" to defend her "Justify My Love" video. She denied the video's explicit contents were intended to stir up controversy and get her publicity. The video was banned by MTV.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that said that Prince did not steal the song, "U Got The Look" from his half-sister. Lorna Nelson claimed the lyrics were similar to ones she had written.
1988 - Roy Orbison gave his final concert in Akron, OH. He died two days later.
1980 - Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones made the announcement of their decision not to re-form Led Zeppelin in the wake of the death of drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham.
1961 - Gene Chandler's "Duke of Earl" was released.
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference, ending WW1. Woodrow became the first chief executive to travel outside the U.S. while in office.
1877 - The phonograph is patented.
1812 - Peter Gaillard patented the power mower.
Tyra Banks (Victoria's Secret model has her own daytime talk show) 1973
Nikki Tyler (Penthouse Pet in Dec. 1995, pornstar from 1996-99) 1972
Penelope Pumpkins (Pornstar in the mid '90s known for her giant breasts) 1971
Shawn Corey "Jay-Z" Carter (famous for his rap version of "It's A Hard Knock Life") 1969
Fred Armisen (Commedian currently on "Saturday Night Live") 1966
Marissa Tomei (actress won an Oscar for her role in "My Cousin Vinny") 1964
Jeff Bridges ("K-PAX", "Tron", "Starman", "Tucker", "The Big Lebowski", "Seabiscuit", "Stick It") 1949
Dennis Wilson (drummer for The Beach Boys) 1944
December 5th:
International Volunteer Day
2001 - In Germany, Afghan leaders signed a pact to create a temporary administration for post-Taliban Afghanistan. Two women were included in the cabinet structure. Hamid Karzai and his Cabinet were planned to take over power in Afghanistan on December 22.
1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC.
1933 - Prohibition came to an end when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1848 - U.S. President James Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California.
1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered Hispaniola (now Haiti).
Frankie Muniz (Played the lead character on the sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle", also movies: "Agent Cody Banks", "Stay Alive") 1985
Phoenix Ray (Pornstar) 1981
Margaret Cho (Korean-American commedian) 1968
Gary Allen (Country singer) 1967
Johnny Rzeznik (one of the singers for The Goo Goo Dolls: "Iris", "Black Balloon", "Slide", "Name", "Already There", "Better Days", "Here is Gone", "Stay With You") 1965
"Little" Richard Wayne Penniman (early rock and roll singer: "Tutti-Frutti", "Bama Lama Lama Loo", "Lucille") 1932
Strom Thurmond (S. Carolina senator for 48 years) 1902
Walt Disney 1901
General George Custer (He and his US army were killed by the native Cheyenne tribe at The Battle of Little Bighorn) 1839
Martin Van Buren (8th US President 1837-41) 1782
December 6th:
St Nicholas Day
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada)
2002 - Winona Ryder was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 480 hours of community service stemming from her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue. She was also ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and restitution.
1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
1923 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge became the first president to give a presidential address that was broadcast on the radio.
1917 - Finland proclaimed independence from Russia.
1884 - The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
1492 - Columbus discovered Hispaniola (now Haiti) and the Dominican Republic.
Peter Buck (Guitarist for REM wrote "The Man On The Moon") 1956
Steven Wright (commedian known for his dead pan delivery of one-liners) 1955
Agnes Moorehead (played Endora on "Bewitched") 1906
Ira Gershwin (with his brother George wrote many Broadway show-tunes) 1896
December 7th:
Pearl Harbor Day 1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
Cotton Candy Day
1991 - "Achtung Baby" by U2 debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's pop albums chart. Singles included "Mysterious Ways" and "One."
1985 - The 200th episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired on NBC.
1963 - CBS introduced the first-ever "Instant Replay" during the Army-Navy college (American) football game.
1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.
1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. He went on to play "Tarzan" in several movies.
1842 - The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.
1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
Shiri Appleby (Liz Parker on "Roswell" series) 1978
Terrell Owens (Plays American football for the Dallas Cowboys) 1973
Chasey Lain (pornstar) 1971
Ed Hall (the original announcer for "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno") 1958
Barry Byrd (Basketball Boston Celtics star became the coach of the Indiana Pacers) 1956
Harry Chapin (sang "The Cat's In The Cradle", died in a car accident in 1981) 1942
December 8th:
Brownie Day
2004 - It was announced that Martha Stewart would revive her daily homemaking show in September 2005.
1998 - The FBI opened its files on Frank Sinatra to the public. The file contained over 1,300 pages.
1994 - In Los Angeles, 12 alternate jurors were chosen for the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
1982 - Marty Robbins died of heart failure at the age of 57. He was famous for singing "El Paso", "Singing the Blues" and "Come a Little Bit Closer."
1980 -In New York City, Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon to death. Earlier in the day, Lennon had autographed an album for Chapman.
1961 - "Surfin'," the Beach Boys first recording, was released.
1952 - On the show "I Love Lucy," a pregnancy was acknowledged in a TV show for the first time when Lucille Ball became pregnant in real life. She had a son on the show.
1941 - The United States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan.
1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South after the US Civil War.
1776 - George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.
Sinead O'Connor (Bald singer had a one-hit-wonder with a remake of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U") 1966
Teri Hatcher (TV: "Lois and Clark", "Desperate Housewives") 1964
Ann Coulter (Conservative political commentator and author) 1961
Kim Basinger ("Cellular", "L.A. Confidential", "9 1/2 Weeks", "Batman", "8 Mile") 1953
Greg Allman (singer/guitarist for The Allman Brothers) 1947
Jim Morrison (singer for The Doors) 1943
David Carradine (TV's "Kung Fu", Bill in "Kill Bill") 1936
Sammy Davis, Jr. (Singer, actor, member of The Rat Pack, including Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin) 1925
Richard Fleicher (directed "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" movie) 1916
Eli Whitney (Invented the cotton gin) 1765
Mary Queen of Scots (Became Queen of Scotland at 6 years old) 1542
December 9th:
2002 - United Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing $4 billion in the previos two years. It was the sixth largest bankruptcy filing.
1995 - "Free as a Bird," debuted on a six-hour ABC miniseries documentary on the Beatles'. It was their first new song in 25 years.
1992 - Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.
1978 - "Soul Man," John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's version, was released under the name, "The Blues Brothers."
1972 - Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" was released from the album "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player."
1962 - The movie "Lawrence of Arabia," book by David Lean, had its world premiere in London.
1884 - Ball-bearing Roller Skates were pantented
1803 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
Jesse Metcalf (John Rowland on TV's "Desperate Housewives") 1978
Tre Cool (drummer for Green Day) 1972
Jakob Dylan (Bob's son, singer for The Wallflowers: "One Headlight", "Sleepwalker", "When You're On Top", "How Good it Can Get", "The Beautiful Side Of Somewhere", he released a solo album) 1969
Brian Bell (guitarist for Weezer) 1968
Felicity Huffman (TV: "Sports Night" and "Desperate Housewives") 1962
Donny Osmond (pop singer had a talk show with his sister) 1957
Judy Dench (English Actress: M on several 90s-2000s James Bond movies, and "The Shipping News", "Shakespeare In Love", "Chocolat") 1934
Redd Foxx (African/American commedian on TV's "Sanford and Son") 1922
Joel Chandler Harris (author of the satirical slavery story "Uncle Remus and Brier Rabbit") 1848
December 10th:
Human Rights Day
1984 - The single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was released by Band-Aid. The group was assembled to aid in famine relief. The group included: Sting (Police), Bono (U2), Paul McCartney (Beatles), Boy George (Culture Club), Duran-Duran members, and Phil Collins on drums, among others.
1991 - 1950s disc jockey Alan Freed was posthumously awarded a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star. He is accreditted with coining the phrase "Rock & Roll."
1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600. Marylin Monroe was the first featured Playmate.
1927 - The Grand Old Opry made its first radio broadcast from Nashville, TN.
1901 - The first Nobel prizes were awarded.
1817 - Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th American state.
Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman (child actress on TV: "The Cosby Show", "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper", "That's So Raven", was also in "Dr. Doolittle 1&2") 1985
Patrick Flueger (TV: "The 4400") 1983
Alexa Rae (Pornstar from 1998-2004) 1980
Michael Clarke Duncan ("The Green Mile", "Daredevil", "Brother Bear", "Armmegedden", "The Island", "Sin City", "The Whole Nine Yards") 1957
Clive Anderson (host of the original British version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?") 1952
Melvil Dewey (American librarian who created the "Dewey Decimal Classification" system) 1851
Emily Dickinson (poet) 1830
December 11th:
1998 - The House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton.
1990 - Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of marriage.
1985 - The rap single "Superbowl Shuffle" by Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew was released.
1972 - Genesis played their first show in the U.S. at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Peter Gabriel was the lead singer at the time.
1964 - Sam Cooke was shot to death at a the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, CA. He sang, "Twisting the Night Away", "What A Wonderful World it Would Be (Don't Know Much About Biology)" and "A Change Is Gonna Come."
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis secretly married his 13-year-old third cousin Myra Gale Brown. It was his third marriage.
1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries.
1928 - In Buenos Aires, police thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.
1894 - The world's first motor show opened in Paris with nine exhibitors.
1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1816 - Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th American state.
Nikki Benz (Pornstar) 1981
Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter on the '90s sitcom "Boy Meets World") 1979
Dave Schools (bassist for Rock/Jam band Widespread Panic: "Fishing", "Hope In a Hopeless World", "Radio Child") 1964
Jermaine Jackson (Michael and Janet's brother became a Muslim) 1954
Teri Garr ("Young Frankenstein", "Tootsie", "Mr. Mom") 1949
Brenda Lee (1960s pop singer: "I'm Sorry", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree") 1944
John Kerry (lost to George W. Bush in the US Presidential election of 2004) 1943
December 12th:
Full Moon
Virgin of Guadalupe (Mexico)
2002 - North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons.
2000 - Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 and injured 500.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
1970 - Steven Stills' "Love The One You're With" was released.
1964 - The Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" was released.
1955 - Bill Haley and the Comets recorded "See You Later Alligator."
1925 - The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA.
1899 - George Grant patented the wooden golf tee.
1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States. The previous capital was New York City.
1787 - Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Keiko (Orca whale in "Free Willy") 1976
Mayim Bailik (played the title role in the '90s sitcom "Blossom") 1975
Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind", "The House of Sand and Fog") 1970
Regina Hall (Brenda Meeks in all 4 "Scary Movie" films) 1970
Sheila E. (Escovedo) (dance pop musician whose career began as the drummer for Prince in the '80s) 1957
Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts (Guitarist for The Allman Brothers) 1943
Dionne Warwick (singer and Psychic Friends spokeswoman) 1941
Conie Francis (pop singer sang "Who's Sorry Now?") 1938
Ed Koch (Mayor of New York City from 1978–1989) 1924
Bob Barker ("The Price is Right" host) 1923
Bob Dorough (jazz musician composed music for the "Schoolhouse Rock" series) 1923
Frank Sinatra 1915
Edvard Munch (artist known for "The Scream" painting) 1863
December 13th:
2001 - The U.S. government released a video tape that showed Osama bin Laden and others discussing their knowledge of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
2000 - U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the 2000 Presidential election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The Florida electoral votes were won by only 537 votes, which decided the election. The election had been contested up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which said that the Florida recount (supported by the Florida Supreme Court) was unconstitutional.
1996 - The movie "Jerry Maguire," starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Renee Zellweger, opened.
1994 - Prince performed the song "Dolphin" on the David Letterman show. It was a single from his "Gold" album.
1985 - Phil Collins made his U.S. TV acting debut on "Miami Vice" playing a drug dealer.
1975 - Foghat's "Slow Ride" was released.
1966 - Jimi Hendrix recorded "Foxy Lady."
1918 - U.S. President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit a European country while holding office.
1843 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published.
1809 - The first abdominal surgical procedure was performed in Danville, KY, on Jane Todd Crawford. The operation was performed without an anesthetic.
1642 - New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.
Amy Lee (singer of Evanescence) 1981
Tom DeLonge (singer and guitarist for punk/rock band Blink-182) 1975
Eric Marlon "Jamie Foxx" Bishop ("Ray", "Collateral", "Bait, "Ali", "Stealth", "Jarhead") 1967
Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trap on "The Sound of Music") 1927
Dick Van Dyke (commedian had a sitcom named after him, was also in "Mary Poppins") 1925
December 14:
2001 - European Union leaders agreed to dispatch 3,000-4,000 troops to join an international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
1999 - Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the "Peanuts" comic strip. The last original "Peanuts" comic strip was published on February 13, 2000.
1997 - Cuban President Fidel Castro declared Christmas 1997 an official holiday to ensure the success of Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit to Cuba.
1995 - Classified documents from the White House were released that revealed the FBI had spied on John Lennon and his anti-war activities during the early '70s in a possible attempt to have Lennon deported. The reason was that John Lennon was a self-proclaimed communist.
1991 - Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's pop albums chart. Singles included "Heal the World", "Will You Be There?", and "Black or White."
1980 - Yoko Ono called for a 10-minute silent vigil around the world for John Lennon, her husband, who was shot to death six days earlier. Over 100,000 people went to Central Park in New York to honor the request.
1977 - "Saturday Night Fever" premiered in New York City.
1974 - Styx' "Lady" was released.
1968 - Tommy James and the Shondells released "Crimson & Clover."
1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole.
1903 - Orville Wright made the first attempt at powered flight. The engine stalled during take-off and the plane was damaged in the attempt. Three days later, after repairs were made, the modern aviation age was born when the plane stayed aloft for 12 seconds and flew 102 feet.
1819 - Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state.
1798 - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented the nut and bolt maker.
1799 - The first president of the United States, George Washington, died at the age 67.
Vanessa Hudgens (star of "High School Musical" on the Disney Channel) 1988
Ginger Lynn Allen (pornstar in the 1980s and 90s) 1962
Patty Duke ("The Patty Duke Show" ran 104 episodes from 1963-66) 1946
Charlie Rich (rockabilly singer of the 1960s and 70s: "Lonely Weekends", "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World") 1932
Spike Jones (band leader added quirky sounds to popular songs for comedic effect) 1911
James H. Doolittle (General led the first air raid against Japan during WW2) 1896
Nostradamus (French poet who foretold the future) 1503
December 15th:
Bill of Rights Day (US Constitution)
Lemon Cupcake Day
1983 - The last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew. It was just over seven weeks after the U.S.-led invasion of the Caribbean island.
1966 - Walter Elias "Walt" Disney died in Los Angeles at the age of 65.
1944 - A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major and band leader Glenn Miller disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel while en route to Paris. The true fate of the plane and its passengers has never been determined.
1939 - "Gone With the Wind," produced by David O. Selznick based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. The movie starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
1938 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presided over the ground-breaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
1877 - Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.
1791 - In the U.S., the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect following ratification by the state of Virginia.
Stuart Townsend (Irish actor: "Trapped", "Queen of the Damned", "Wonderland") 1972
Ginger Lynn Allen (pornstar) 1962
Don Johnson (TV's "Nash Bridges" and "Miami Vice") 1949
Tim Conway (commedian played Dorf, a fumbling how-to sports guide instructor) 1933
December 16th:
Chocolate-Covered Day
2002 - VH1 began airing a 10-hour, five-night miniseries entitled "I Love the '80s."
2001 - In Tora Bora, Afghanistan, tribal fighters announced that they had taken the last al-Quaida positions. More than 200 fighters were killed and 25 captured. They also announced that they had found no sign of Osama bin Laden.
2000 - U.S. President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to be the first African-American secretary of state. Powell was sworn in January 20, 2001.
1993 - MTV aired Nirvana's New York "Unplugged" performance. It was their last televised performance together.
1977 - The "Saturday Night Fever" film debuted.
1972 - The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL team to go unbeaten and untied in a 14-game regular season. The Dolphins went on to defeat the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII.
1971 - Don McLean’s eight-minute-plus version of "American Pie" was released.
1967 - The Lemon Pipers released "Green Tambourine."
1966 - Jimi Hendrix released his first single, "Hey Joe."
1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet." The series continued Jan. 3, 1952.
1901 - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time.
1773 - Boston Tea Party - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
Benjamin Bratt (TV's "Law and Order") 1963
William "Refrigerator" Perry (NFL Chicago Bears defensive tackle weighed 400 pounds) 1962
Katie Leigh (Has voiced Connie Kendall on the radio/web dramedy "Adventures in Odyssey" since 1988) 1958
Billy Gibbons (guitarist for ZZ-Top) 1949
Steven Bochco (TV series creator: "Hill Street Blues", "L.A. Law", "N.Y.P.D. Blue") 1943
Arthur C. Clarke (Author of Sci-Fi novels, including "2001: Space Odyssey") 1917
Jane Austen (wrote "Pride and Prejudice") 1775
Ludwig von Beethoven 1770
December 17:
Maple Syrup Day
Wright Brothers' day
2004 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence gathering in 50 years. The bill aimed to tighten borders and aviation security. It also created a federal counterterrorism center and a new intelligence director.
2002 - Congo's government, opposition parties and rebels signed a peace agreement that ended four years of civil war.
1994 - Richie Sambora (from Bon Jovi) and Heather Locklear were married.
1992 - U.S. President Bush Sr, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari signed the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1989 - The first episode of "The Simpsons" aired on FOX.
1975 - Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of U.S. President Ford.
1969 - The U.S. Air Force closed its Project "Blue Book" by concluding that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.
1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
1955 - Carl Perkins wrote "Blue Suede Shoes." Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it in Memphis, TN.
1953 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to approve RCA’s color television specifications.
1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the flight.
1892 - Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" was first performed in St. Petersburg by the Russian Imperial Ballet.
1791 - A traffic regulation in New York City established the first street ever to go "one way" only.
Jaimee Foxworth (For the first 4 seasons she was the youngest daughter Judy on "Family Matters" then was mysteriously written out of the show, and in 2000 she became pornstar "Crave") 1979
Milla Jovovich ("Zoolander", "Resident Evil", "The Fifth Element") 1975
Sarah Paulson (TV: "American Gothic", "Jack & Jill", movies: "Down With Love", "What Women Want", "The Other Sister", "Serenity") 1974
Laurie Holden ("The Majestic", "Silent Hill", "Fantastic 4", "The Mist") 1972
Tracy Byrd (Country singer) 1966
Mike Mills (plays bass and keyboards for REM) 1958
Peter Farrelly (directs movies with his brother Bobby: "There's Something About Mary", "Dumb and Dumber", "Kingpin", "Shallow Hal", "Me Myself and Irene", "The Heartbreak Kid", "Fever Pitch") 1956
Bill Pullman ("Spaceballs", "While You Were Sleeping", "Independence Day", "The Grudge", "Scary Movie 4") 1953
Chris Matthews (Host of the political talk show "Hardball") 1945
Bob Guccione (began publishing Penthouse Magazine in 1969) 1930
December 18th:
Bake Cookies day
Wear a plunger on your head day (For real!)
2006 - 1 of the 3 climbers on Oregon's Mt. Hood was found dead in a cave after being missing for a week. The other 2 climbers are still missing as a snowstorm rages.
2003 - In Santa Maria, CA, Michael Jackson was charged with seven counts of molesting a child under 14 and two counts of supplying the child with "an intoxicating agent." Jackson's lawyer denounced the allegations and said they were driven by money and revenge.
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives began the debate on the four articles of impeachment concerning U.S. President Bill Clinton. It was only the second time in U.S. history that process had begun.
1998 - South Carolina proceeded with the U.S.' 500th execution since capital punishment was restored.
1997 - Comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his Chicago apartment. He was 33 years old.
1984 - Madonna's "Like a Virgin" became the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit. The song was Madonna's first No. 1 hit.
1975 - Rod Stewart announced that he was leaving Faces for a solo career.
1971 - Jerry Lee Lewis and his cousin Myra Brown were divorced. She was 27. They had married in 1957 when she was 13 years old and he was 23.
1970 - Divorce became legal in Italy.
1969 - Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder. :thumbdown:
1898 - A new automobile speed record was set at 39 mph (63 kph).
1865 - Slavery was abolished in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution being ratified.
1787 - New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Dave Luetkenhoelter (Bassist for rock band Kutless: "Run", "Tonight", "Treason", "Sea of Faces", "Not What You See", "Shut Me Out", "Smile", "Hearts of the Innocent") 1982
Christina Aguilara 1980
Katie Holmes (TV's "Dawson's Creek") 1978
Trish Stratus (Wrestler) 1975
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin (Wrestler) 1964
Brad Pitt 1963
Ron White (Commedian on The Blue Collar Comedy Tour) 1965
Ray Liotta ("Field of Dreams", "Heartbreakers", "Goodfellas", "Narc", "Turbulance") 1963
Steven Spielberg (Directed: "AI", "ET", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "Indiana Jones", "Minority Report", "The Terminal", "Saving Private Ryan", "Schindler's List", "Catch Me If You Can", "The Color Purple") 1946
Keith Richards (Guitarist for The Rolling Stones) 1943
December 19th:
Oatmeal Muffin Day
1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.
1997 - "Titanic" opened in movie theaters and became the best-selling movie of all time.
1997 - The 100th episode of "Boy Meets World" aired. The sitcom then ran for 3 more years.
1996 - The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "ebonics." The board later reversed its stance.
1980 - The film "9 to 5," with Dolly Parton, opened.
1971 - The pilot television movie of "The Waltons" aired. The movie was titled "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story."
1960 - Neil Sedaka’s song "Calendar Girl" was released.
1955 - Carl Perkins recorded his hit song "Blue Suede Shoes."
1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column in "The New York Globe".
1843 - Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published in England. A week before, it was released in America.
1777 - General George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, PA, to camp for the winter.
Jake Gyllenhaal (actor: "Brokeback Mountain", "Donnie Darko", "Jarhead") 1980
Nikki Hunter (Pornstar) 1979
Kristanna Loken (The female Terminator in "T3") 1979
Alyssa Milano (TV's "Who's the Boss?" and "Charmed") 1972
Jennifer Beals ("Flashdance") 1963
December 20th:
Board Games Day
1991 - Oliver Stone's film "JFK" opened in the U.S.
1957 - Elvis Presley received his U.S. Army draft notice.
1946 - The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its "official" world premiere. James Stewart and Donna Reed star in the film.
1879 - Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ.
1880 - New York's Broadway became known as the "Great White Way" when it was first lighted by electricity.
1860 - South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union.
1803 - The United States Senate ratified a treaty that included the Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million. The transfer was completed with formal ceremonies in New Orleans.
Joanna Levesque aka JoJo [pop singer: "Leave (Get Out)", "Too Little Too Late", was in "Aquamarine" and "RV"] 1990 (She's now 18, guys!)
Lucy Pinder (British model) 1983
Chris Robinson (singer for the Black Crowes, released several solo albums and was married to Kate Hudson) 1966
Mike Watt (bassist with several bands, solo sang "Against the '70s" with Eddie Vedder in 1995) 1957
Peter Criss (Drummer for Kiss) 1945
George Roy Hill (Directed "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") 1922
Harvey Firestone (started Firestone Tire Co. and supplied the first Ford cars) 1868
December 21st:
1993 - Shaquille O'Neal's rap song "I Know I Got Skillz" single was certified Gold by the RIAA.
1978 - Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing. The TV series "Prison Break" was filmed in Gacy's prison cell.
1968 - Crosby, Stills and Nash performed together in public for the first time.
1937 - Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature in Hollywood, CA. The movie was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
1913 - The crossword puzzle is invented. (Arthur Wynne had the job of devising the weekly puzzle page for Fun, the eight-page comic section of the New York World. When he devised what he called a Word-cross for the Christmas 1913 edition, published on 21 December he could have no idea that he would be starting a worldwide craze.)
1620 - The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in what is now the state of Massachusetts.
Lexi Matthews (pornstar, was in "Pump Friction") 1981
Keifer Sutherland (Jack Bauer on the TV series "24" and was in "Phone Booth") 1966
Andy Dick (Annoying "commedian" had an MTV series) 1965
Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond") 1957
Jane Kaczmarek (The mother Lois on the sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle") 1955
Samuel L. Jackson ("Pulp Fiction", "Star Wars 1-3", "Jurassic Park", "The Negotiator", "Snakes on a Plane") 1948
Frank Zappa 1940
Jane Fonda (American actress who gave American war secrets to the Vietnamese) 1937
Phil Donahue (talk-show host) 1935
Joseph Stalin (Soviet leader from 1929-53) 1879
December 22nd:
First day of Winter (Northern hemisphere)
First day of Summer (Southern hemisphere)
Astrology: First day of sun sign Capricorn
2001 - Thirty Afghans, including two women, were sworn in as part of the new interim government in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai was the head of the post-Taliban government.
1994 - The 100th episode of "Beavis and Butt-head" aired on MTV.
1984 - CBS Records announced the upcoming release of Mick Jagger’s first solo album, set for February, 1985. The album was titled "She's the Boss."
1976 - Isaac Hayes filed for bankruptcy.
1976 - Production ended for "Let's Make a Deal."
1975 - Mike and Gloria Stivic had a baby on CBS-TV's "All In The Family."
1714 - Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer.
Crissy Moran (Pornstar and model, left porn in Oct. 2006 as she converted to Christianity) 1975
Heather Donahue ("The Blair Witch Project") 1974
Robin and Maurice Gibb (members of The Brothers Gibb, aka The Bee Gees: "Staying Alive") 1949
Diane Sawyer ("Good Morning, America" co-host) 1945
Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver on the 1950s-60s sitcom "Leave It To Beaver", she also played a jive-talking translator in "Airplane!") 1922
Lady Bird Johnson [President Lyndon Johnson's first lady (wife)] 1912
December 23rd:
1997 - Terry Nichols was convicted by a Denver jury on charges of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the 1995 federal building bombing in Oklahoma City. The bomb killed 168 people.
1978 - Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" was released.
1977 - Cat Stevens converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusef Islam.
1969 - Elton John and Bernie Taupin began writing songs together.
1967 - Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" was released.
1959 - The Drifters recorded "This Magic Moment."
1954 - The live-action Walt Disney movie "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was released.
1951 - A National Football League (NFL) championship game was televised nationally for the first time. The Los Angeles Rams beat the Cleveland Browns 24-17. The DuMont Network had paid $75,000 for the rights to the game.
1942 - Bob Hope agreed to entertain U.S. airmen in Alaska. It was the first of the traditional Christmas shows.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began daily news broadcasts.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas") was published.
1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government. About two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.
Estella Warren [Canadian swimmer, became a model and actress: "Planet of the Apes (2001)"] 1978
Sky Lopez (Pornstar who retired to become a Christian hip-hop artist) 1975
Eddie Vedder (singer for Temple of a Dog and Pearl Jam) 1964
Anthony Phillips [played bass guitar on Genesis' first 2 albums: "From Genesis to Revelation (1969)" and "Trespass (1970)" and on several solo albums] 1951
Harry Shearer (voice actor on "The Simpsons") 1943
December 24th:
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Christmas Eve
2000 - 36 minutes after the end of an NFL game, both the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins were called back to the playing field. The teams had to play the final 3 seconds of the game which the Dolphins had won 27-24. The end result did not change.
1990 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married.
1818 - Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.
1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
Ryan Seacrest (host of "American Idol") 1974
Ricky Martin ("Living La Vida Loca" and "She Bangs") 1971
Mary Higgins Clark (suspense and mystery author) 1929
Howard Hughes (Aviation millionaire became a movie director) 1905
Johnny Gruelle (creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy) 1880
December 25th:
Merry Christmas!
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.
1914 - During World War I, British and German troops observed an unofficial truce and even playing football together on the Western Front.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War.
1818 - "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.
Circa 0 AD – Jesus Christ is born to the virgin Mary. Jesus is the son of God according to Christianity.
Dido Armstrong (British pop singer "White Flag", "Thank You") 1971
Mac Powell [singer of rock band Third Day: "Call My Name", "Cry Out To Jesus (the Katrina tibute song)", "Come Together (the 9/11 tribute song)", "I've Always Loved You", "It's Alright", "I Believe", "Come Back To Me") 1970
Annie Lennox (with The Eurhythmics: "Sweet Dreams", solo: "No More I Love Yous") 1954
Sissy Spacek ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "Carrie") 1949
Jimmy Buffett ("Margaretaville") 1946
Rod Serling (hosted "The Twilight Zone") 1924
Humphrey Bogart ("Casablanca") 1899
Robert Ripley (Created "Believe It Or Not") 1893
Conrad Hilton (started Hilton Hotels) 1887
Clara Barton (American Civil War nurse started The Red Cross) 1821
Sir Isaac Newton (Formed 3 laws of motion) 1642
December 26th:
Boxing Day (Australia, New Zealand, UK)
Kwanzaa (African-American holiday)
Candy Cane Day
2004 - Asian Tsunami - Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent 500-mph waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The tsunami killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand and India.
2002 - The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement was made the December 27 by Clonaid.
1991 - The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out of existence.
1963 - Capitol Records released the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed with "I Saw Her Standing There."
1955 - Bill Haley and the Comets' "See You Later Alligator" was released by Decca Records.
1947 - Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths.
1944 - Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" was first performed publicly, at the Civic Theatre in Chicago, IL.
1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
1776 - The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.
1620 - The Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to found Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor.
Chris Daughtry (Rock singer, 4th place finalist of "American Idol 2006") 1979
Lars Ulrich (Drummer for Metalica who sued Napster.com for music sharing rights) 1963
John Walsh (Host of "America's Most Wanted") 1945
Steve Allen (Creator and original host of "The Tonight Show" in 1953) 1921
Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Communist leadr of China from 1949-76) 1891
December 27th:
Visit the Zoo day
2007 - 16th Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto assassinated by suicide bomb.
2002 - Clonaid announced the birth of the first cloned human baby. The baby had been born December 26.
1979 - The pilot episode of "Knots Landing" aired on CBS.
1978 - Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
1975 - The Four Seasons, "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" was released.
1971 - The "Sonny & Cher Show" began airing on CBS.
1947 - The children's television program "Howdy Doody," hosted by Bob Smith, made its debut on NBC.
1918 - The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
1932 - Radio City Music Hall opened its doors to the public for the first time.
1845 - Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth for the first time. The event was the delivery of his own child in Jefferson, GA.
1831 - Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution.
James Mead (guitarist for rock band Kutless: "Run", "Tonight", "Sea of Faces", "Hearts of the Innocent", "Shut Me Out", "The Feeling") 1982
Emilie de Ravin (Australian actress in "Lost") 1981
Matt Slocum (Guitarist for Christian and mainstream bands Sixpence None the Richer and Switchfoot) 1972
Shayla LaVeaux (pornstar 1992-) 1969
Joan Marie Laurer aka Chyna (wrestler) 1969
Eva LaRue (CSI: Miami) 1966
John Amos ("Good Times", "Roots", "Coming To America") 1939
Louis Pasteur (studied germs and came up with pasteurization of food) 1822
December 28th:
2000 - Shannen Doherty was arrested for driving under the influence.
2000 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch held a hearing to ensure that confessed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh understood that he was dropping his appeals. McVeigh said that he wanted an execution date set, but wanted to reserve the right to seek presidential clemency.
1983 - Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys drowned while swimming near his boat in the harbor at Marina del Ray, CA.
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, VA.
1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of Allegiance."
1912 - The first municipally-owned street cars were used on the streets of San Francisco, CA.
1908 - An earthquake killed over 75,000 at Messina in Sicily.
1869 - William E. Semple, of Mt. Vernon, OH, patented chewing gum.
1846 - Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
1836 - Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.
John Legend (R&B singer and pianist) 1978
Shayla LaVeaux (Pornstar) 1969
Denzel Washington 1954
Maggie Smith (British actress in "Godsford Park" and "Harry Potter") 1934
Nichelle Nichols (Uhura on the original "Star Trek" series) 1933
Stanley Martin Lieber aka Stan Lee (comic book writer, creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men, and Daredevil) 1922
Woodrow Wilson (28th US President 1913-1921, got the U.S. into, and out of, WW1) 1856
Apocalypsegene's GF's birthday (year unknown)
Apocalypsegene
28-12-08, 22:37
December 28th:
And it's my GF's birthday! :zu:
Ha ha, added! :dance:
December 28th:
2000 - Shannen Doherty was arrested for driving under the influence.
2000 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch held a hearing to ensure that confessed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh understood that he was dropping his appeals. McVeigh said that he wanted an execution date set, but wanted to reserve the right to seek presidential clemency.
1983 - Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys drowned while swimming near his boat in the harbor at Marina del Ray, CA.
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, VA.
1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of Allegiance."
1912 - The first municipally-owned street cars were used on the streets of San Francisco, CA.
1908 - An earthquake killed over 75,000 at Messina in Sicily.
1869 - William E. Semple, of Mt. Vernon, OH, patented chewing gum.
1846 - Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
1836 - Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.
John Legend (R&B singer and pianist) 1978
Shayla LaVeaux (Pornstar) 1969
Denzel Washington 1954
Maggie Smith (British actress in "Godsford Park" and "Harry Potter") 1934
Nichelle Nichols (Uhura on the original "Star Trek" series) 1933
Stanley Martin Lieber aka Stan Lee (comic book writer, creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men, and Daredevil) 1922
Woodrow Wilson (28th US President 1913-1921, got the U.S. into, and out of, WW1) 1856
Apocalypsegene's GF's birthday (year unknown)
December 29th:
1940 - During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London.
1911 - Sun Yat-sen became the first president of a republican China, following the Revolution.
1851 - The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was organized, in Boston, MA.
1848 - U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.
1845 - U.S. President James Polk and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.
1813 - The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.
Alexis Amore (Pornstar 1999-) 1978
Jude Law (British actor: "AI", "Sky Captain", "Alfie", "Closer", "Cold Mountain", "The Holiday") 1972
Blake Mitchell (Pornstar 1993-2000) 1962
Ted Danson (TV: "Cheers", "Becker", movies: "3 Men and a Baby", "Gulliver's Travels", "Saving Private Ryan") 1947
Jon Voight (Angelina Jolie's father, "Midnight Cowboy", "Deliverance", "Coming Home", "Ali", "Pearl Harbor", "Holes", "The Enemy of the State") 1938
Mary Tyler Moore (TV: "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "The M.T.M. Show") 1936
Andrew Johnson (17th US President 1865-69) 1808
Charles Goodyear (Inventor discovered a way to strengthen rubber on tires and started Goodyear Tire Co.) 1800
December 30th:
Freedom Day for Scientologists
1953 - The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
Haley Paige (Pornstar 2002-2007, died of a drug overdose in 2007) 1981
Eliza Dushku (TV's "Tru Calling") 1980
Tiger Woods (Golfer) 1975
Tracey Ullman (British commedian introduced "The Simpsons" on her American show) 1959
Davey Jones (In The Monkees, he sang "Daydream Believer") 1945
Michael Nesmith (Was also in The Monkees) 1942
Mercer Mayer (Children's picture book author of the "Little Critter" books) 1943
Charles "Del Shannon" Westover (early rock-n-roll singer: "Runaway", "Hats Off To Larry", "Handy Man", "From Me to You", "Two Kinds of Teardrops") 1936
Russ Tamblyn ("West Side Story", TV: "Twin Peaks", "Nash Bridges", is the father of Amber) 1936
Rudyard Kipling (Author of "The Jungle Book") 1865
December 31st:
New Year's Eve (The last day of 2008)
1999 - The United States Government handed Panama Canal control over to Panama.
1995 - The last strip of the popular comic "Calvin and Hobbes" is published.
1985 - Ricky Nelson and six others died in an airplane crash near DeKalb, TX. A fire had broken out on the plane.
1984 - Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in an auto accident in England. He remained as their drummer.
1972 - "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" special aired for the first time.
1971 - The Beatles broke up.
1946 - U.S. President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
1897 - Brooklyn, NY, spent its last day as a separate entity before becoming part of New York City.
1879 - Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of incandescent lighting to an audience in Menlo Park, NJ.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln signed an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.
1857 - Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.
Val Kilmer (Played Batman in "Batman Forever") 1959
George Thorogood (turned Hank Williams' folk song "Move It On Over" into a rock song, also sang "Bad To The Bone") 1952
John Denver (Country/folk singer sang "Rock Mountain High" and "Country Roads") 1943
Ben Kingsley (Played "Ghandi" and in "Species") 1943
Anthony Hopkins (British actor played Hannibal Lector in 3 movies, was also in "Hearts in Atlantis") 1937
January 1, 2009:
New Year's Day (the first day of 2009)
Z Day (Those whose last names start with Z go first, and so on in reverse order.)
Haiti Independence Day
2007 - Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union.
2007 - Slovenia is the thirteenth country to adopt Euro currency.
2000 - As the world celebrates, no major crisis arises from the dreaded Y2K computer 'millennium bug'.
1999 - The euro became currency for 11 Member States of the European Union. Coins and notes were not available until January 1, 2002.
1998 - A new anti-smoking law went into effect in California. The law prohibiting people from lighting up in bars. The law later went into effect in several more states, including New York State.
1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.
1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.
1993 - Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had been engineered in 1992.
1987 - A pro-democracy rally took place in Beijing's Tiananmen Square (China).
1985 - VH-1 premiered as an adult contemporary music video channel with Marvin Gaye's "Star Spangled Banner" video.
1971 - Tobacco ads representing $20 million dollars in advertising were banned from TV and radio broadcast.
1966 - The final episode of "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" (with Rick Nelson) was filmed.
1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
1956 - Sudan gained its independence.
1953 - Folk/country singer Hank Williams died of drug and alcohol overdose at the age of 29. He was known for the songs: "I Saw the Light", "Move It On Over", "Your Cheating Heart," and "There's a Tear In My Beer."
1945 - France was admitted to the United Nations.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a declaration called the "United Nations." It was signed by 26 countries that vowed to create an international postwar World War II peacekeeping organization.
1934 - Alcatraz Island officially became a Federal Prison.
1901 - The Commonwealth of Australia was founded. Lord Hopetoun officially assumed the duties as the first Governor-General.
1898 - Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were consolidated into New York City.
1892 - Brooklyn and New York merged to form the single city of New York.
1892 - Ellis Island Immigrant Station formally opened in New York.
1887 - Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.
1808 - The U.S. prohibited import of slaves from Africa.
1804 - Haiti gained its independence.
1797 - Albany became the capital of New York state, replacing New York City.
1622 - The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of the New Year (instead of March 25th).
404 - The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.
Verne Troyer (Played Mini-Me in "Austin Powers") 1969
Don Novello (played Father Guido Sarducci on "Saturday Night Live") 1943
J.D. Sallinger (Author of the pretentious "Catcher in the Rye") 1919
Barry Goldwater (Arizona Governor ran for US President in 1964) 1909
J. Edgar Hoover (FBI director from 1924-1972) 1895
Betsy Ross (Seamstress who designed the first American flag) 1752
Paul Revere (Patriot in the American Revolutionary War) 1735
January 2nd:
Bank Holiday (Scotland)
Cream Puff Day
Science Fiction Day (to honor author Isaac Asimov's birthday)
2007 - US President Gerald Ford's national funeral takes place.
1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC. She was the first black woman to head a city of that size and prominence.
1983 - The final edition of Garry Trudeau’s liberal comic strip, "Doonesbury", appeared in 726 newspapers. "Doonesbury" began running again in September 1984.
1968 - In Newark, NJ, police confiscated a shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's mostly spoken-word album "Two Virgins". The album's cover featured a nude John and Yoko. The album had been recorded the night before they first had sex.
1968 - Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant.
1960 - U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1788 - Georgia became the 4th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Kate Bosworth [Actress was in "The Horse Whisperer" at 15, also: "Blue Crush", "Beyond the Sea (as Sandra Dee)", and "Superman Returns (as Lois Lane)"] 1983
Flower Tucci (Pornstar 1996-) 1978
Cuba Gooding, Jr. ("Jerry McGuire", "Rat Race", "Pearl Harbor", "What Dreams May Come", "Snow Dogs") 1968
Tia Carrere ("Wayne's World 1&2" and TV's "The Relic Hunter") 1967
Dennis Hastert (US Speaker of the House from 1999-2007) 1942
Roger Miller [Folk singer: "King of the Road", "Chug-a-Lug", "Dang Me", "When Two Worlds Collide", "Old ToyTrains (a Christmas song)"] 1936
Dr. Isaac Asimov (Russian Sci-fi author: "I Robot", "Bicentennial Man") 1920
January 3rd:
Drinking Straw Day
Chocolate Covered Cherries Day
2004 - NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars. The craft was able to send back black and white images three hours after landing.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's final original daily comic strip appeared in newspapers.
1993 - The first episode of "Deep Space Nine" aired.
1970 - Davy Jones announced he was leaving the Monkees.
1970 - "I Me Mine" was recoreded by the Beatles. It was the last song that the band would record together.
1967 - Jack Ruby died in a Dallas, TX, prison hospital. He had shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, who in turn had shot and killed US President John F. Kennedy
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.
1961 - The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1959 - In the U.S., Alaska became the 49th state.
1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
1957 - Fats Domino recorded "I'm Walkin'."
1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet."
1947 - In Trenton, NJ, Al Herrin, passed away at age 92. He had claimed that he had not slept at all during his life.
1925 - In Italy, Mussolini announced that he would take dictatorial powers.
1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
1888 - The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone.
Nicole Nordeman (Pop/rock singer/piano player had hits on both the Christian and mainstream charts: "Brave", "Legacy", "This Mystery", "To Know You") 1972
Danica McKellar (played Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years") 1975
Mel Gibson 1976
John Paul Jones (Led Zepplin) 1946
Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young) 1945
J.R.R. Tolkien (Author of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and their prequel "The Hobbitt") 1892
January 4th:
Spaghetti Day
Tennis Day
1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
1984 - The first episode of the sitcom "Night Court" aired on NBC.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1961 - The first episode of "Mr. Ed" aired on CBS.
1950 - RCA Victor announced that it would manufacture long-playing (LP) records.
1936 - The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine.
1930 - The comic strip "Blondie" first appeared in newspapers.
1901 - The first road sign was erected.
1896 - Utah became the 45th U.S. state.
Bobbi Eden (Pornstar 2002-) 1980
Deanna Carter (country singer had a hit with the song "Strawberry Wine") 1966
Dave Foley (commedian in the Canadian sketch comedy show "Kids in the Hall") 1963
Michael Stipe (Lead singer for rock band R.E.M.) 1960
Bernard Sumner (Keyboardist and guitarist for 80s-90s rock band New Order: "Bizzare Love Triangle", "Blue Monday", "Regret") 1956
Sterling Holloway (voiced Winnie-the-Pooh on several cartoons) 1905
Louis Braille (invented a method of "writing" for blind people) 1809
Sir Isaac Newton (came up with the law of gravity) 1643
January 5th:
George Washington Carver Recognition Day (African-American slave who invented peanut butter)
Bird Day
Whipped Cream Day
2002 - A 15 year-old student pilot, Charles Bishop, crashed a small plane into a building in Tampa, FL. Bishop was about to begin a flying lesson when he took off without permission and without an instructor. The US Government concluded that it was not a terrorist attack once they had learned all the facts.
1998 - U.S. Representative, ex-singer, ex-Cher's husband, Sonny Bono, died in skiing accident.
1978 - Prince made his solo performance debut in Minneapolis, MN. His first album, "For You" was released a few months later.
1970 - The US soap opera "All My Children" premiered on ABC.
1965 - The Supremes recorded "Stop! In the Name of Love."
1959 - "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" backed by "Raining in My Heart" was released by Coral Records. It was the last release of Buddy Holly before his death.
1956 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy walked on two legs for the first time.
1940 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave its very first demonstration of FM radio.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began.
1896 - It was reported by The Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that became known as Xrays.
Sydney Moon (Playboy and nude internet model) 1975
Marilyn Manson (Controversial rock singer's best-selling album was 1998's "Mechanical Animals") 1969
Diane Keaton (Actress in "Annie Hall") 1946
Robert Duvall ("The Godfather", "The Apostle", "Secondhand Lions") 1931
Walter Mondale (Minnesota Governor became US Vice-President under Jimmy Carter; in 1984, he ran for President against Ronald Reagon and lost 49/50 states) 1928
George Reeves (played "Superman" in the 1950s-60s TV series) 1914
January 6th:
Epiphany (the day the 3 Magi reached the baby Jesus)
Shortbread Day
Apple Tree Day
2003 - ABC began airing "Joe Millionaire."
1999 - The 106th U.S. Congress opened. The first item on the agenda was the impeachment proceedings of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The trial was set to begin January 7, 1999.
1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
1987 - Elton John cancelled all live performances for a year after having throat surgery.
1952 - "Peanuts" debuted in Sunday papers across the United States.
1942 - The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place. Pan American Airlines was the company that made history with the feat.
1912 - New Mexico became the 47th U.S. state.
1838 - Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time.
1759 - George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.
Rowan Atkinson [Commedian in several short-lived British series: "Not the 9:00 News (ran for 28 episodes)", "The Black Adder (28 episodes)", "The Thin Blue Line (14 episodes)", "Mr. Bean (18 episodes)", "Mr. Bean's Animated Show (26 episodes)", was in the movie "Rat Race"] 1955
Kahlil Gibran (author of "The Prophet") 1883
Joan of Arc (Catholic saint disguised herself as a man to fight for the French) 1412
January 7th:
1999 - U.S. President Clinton went on trial before the Senate. It was only the second time in U.S. history that an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1896 - The first "Fannie Farmer Cookbook" was published.
1894 - W.K. Dickson received a patent for motion picture film.
Dustin Diamond (Played Screech on the sitcom "Saved By The Bell", and recently released a sex tape) 1977
Nicholas Cage 1964
Katie Couric 1957
David Caruso (Horatio on "CSI Miami") 1956
Kenny Loggins (sang "Danger Zone" in the movie "Top Gun") 1948
William Blatty (Author of "The Exorcist") 1928
Charles Addams (Cartoonist who created "The Addams Family") 1912
Millard Fillmore (13th US President 1850-53) 1800
January 8th:
World Literacy day
Postal Service day
English Toffee day
Clean-Off-Your-Desk day
1997 - Mister Rogers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1994 - Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Association later took the title from Harding because of her involvement in the attack.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu.
1973 - The trial opened in Washington, of seven men accused of bugging Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, DC.
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points as the basis for peace upon the end of World War I.
1889 - The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1790 - In the United States, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
Rachael Lampa [Christian/Mainstream pop/dance singer who released her first album at 15: "Live For You", "You Lift Me Up", "No Greater Love", "If You Believe (from "A Walk to Remember)"] 1985
Rachel Nichols (played Rachel Gibson on the TV series "Alias") 1980
Amber Benson (TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as Tara Maclay) 1977
Robert Kelly aka R. Kelly (R&B singer: "I Believe I Can Fly", "Trapped in the Closet") 1969
David Bowie 1947
Stephen Hawking (Brilliant author of "A Brief History of Time") 1942
Shirley Bassey (Jazz singer who sang the theme for the James Bond film "Goldfinger") 1937
Elvis Presley 1935
January 9th:
Static Electricity Day (Today, rub a balloon on your head and stick it to the wall.)
Apricot Day
2000 - ABC-TV began airing "The Mole."
1999 - The first episode of "Providence" aired on NBC. The show ran for 96 episodes and ended in the fall of 2002.
1996 - The first episode of "3rd Rock from the Sun" aired on NBC.
1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.
1955 - The western TV series "Rawhide" premiered. The show ran for 11 years.
1951 - The United Nations headquarters officially opened in New York City.
1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.
1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the U.S.
A.J. McLean (The Backstreet Boys) 1978
Dave Matthews 1967
Crystal Gale (sister of Loretta Lynn, and cousin of Patty Loveless, she is a country/pop singer: "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") 1951
Jimmy Page (Led Zepplin) 1944
Bob Denver (TV's "Dobie Gillis", he also played Gilligan) 1935
Richard Nixon (37th US President 1969-74, resigned from office) 1913
January 10th:
Volunteer Firemen's Day
2005 - CBS fired four executives following the release of an independent investigation about a "60 Minutes Wednesday" story about U.S. President George W. Bush's military service. The investigation said a "myopic zeal" led to the story being aired that was neither fair nor accurate. Forged documents had been used for proof in the story.
2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.
1999 - HBO began airing the series "The Sopranos."
1994 - In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband John (cutting off his penis). She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
1980 - The final episode of "The Rockford Files" aired on NBC.
1971 - "Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke. The introduction drama series was "The First Churchills."
1969 - The final issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" appeared after 147 years of publication.
1949 - Vinyl records were introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).
1920 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
1870 - Barbed wire was patented.
1776 - Thomas Paine published his famous pamphlet "Common Sense" about the 13 American colonies becoming free from England's rule.
Brad Roberts (Singer for The Crash Test Dummies) 1964
Pat Benatar (1980s-90s rock singer: "Heartbreaker", "We Belong", "Love is a Battlefield", "Hit Me With Your Best Shot") 1953
Linda Lovelace (1970s Pornstar in "Deep Throat" the first porn movie) 1949
George Foreman (Boxer who sells a grill) 1949
Rod Stewert 1945
Ray Bolger (Played the scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz") 1904
January 11th:
Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day
International Thank You Day
2002 - Thomas Junta, 44, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for beating another man to death at their sons' hockey game.
2001 - Whitney Houston was stopped for possessing marijuana at Keahole-Kona International Airport.
1995 - Michael Jackson released a statement saying, "I will no longer stand by and watch reckless members of the media try to destroy my reputation." The statement was a response to unsubstantiated rumors of a video depicting Jackson fooling around with a young boy.
1964 - "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash became the first country album to top the U.S. pop album chart.
1964 - U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite health hazard.
1958 - "Seahunt" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was aired on the network for four years.
1902 - "Popular Mechanics" magazine was published for the first time.
1878 - In New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time by Alexander Campbell.
1861 - Alabama seceded from the United States.
1815 - U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieved victory at the Battle of New Orleans. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1805 - The Michigan Territory was created.
Kim Chambers (Pornstar 1993-2005) 1974
Amanda Peet ("She's the One", "One Fine Day", "The Whole Nine Yards", "Saving Silverman", "Igby Goes Down", "Identity") 1972
Mary J. Blige (R&B singer and rapper) 1971
Alexander Hamilton (First US Secretary of the Treasury, aide to George Washington) 1755
January 12th:
Marzipan Day (a cookie and cake filling with sugar and almonds)
2004 - NBC announced that the series "Frasier" would end the following May after 11 seasons.
2002 - Conan O'Brien and Liza Powel were married. The two had met when Powel appeared on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in a skit about advertising a year earlier.
1998 - Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1997 - The first episode of "King of the Hill" was aired.
1991 - The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait.
1985 - After a record 24 weeks as the #1 album in the nation, Prince slipped to the #2 spot with "Purple Rain". Replacing Prince at the top spot: ‘The Boss’ Bruce Springsteen’s "Born In the USA".
1971 - "All In the Family" debuted on CBS-TV.
1967 - "Dragnet" returned to NBC-TV after being off the network schedule for eight years.
1966 - "Batman" debuted on ABC-TV.
1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
1932 - Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1915 - The U.S. Congress established the Rocky Mountain National Park.
1915 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1896 - At Davidson College, several students took Xray photographs. They created the first Xray photographs to be made in America. :)
"Cherokee" (pornstar who really is partly from the Native American Cherokee tribe) 1982
Melanie Chisholm (Mel C. was the Sporty Spice Girl) 1974
Dan Haseltine [singer for Jars of Clay: "Flood", "Crazy Times", "Unforgetful You", "I Need You", "Fly", "Sunny Days", "Show You Love", "Dean Men (Carry Me)"] 1973
Lee Stone (Straight male pornstar 1999-) 1968
Rob Zombie (Singer for White Zombie: "More Human Than Human") 1966
Jeff Bezos (Founder and CEO of Amazon.com) 1964
Kirstie Alley (TV: "Cheers", "Veronica's Closet" also "Look Who's Talking") 1955
Howard Stern (Shock-jock radio talk-show host, wrote the book "Private Parts" and created the TV sitcom "Son of the Beach") 1954
Rush Limbaugh (Conservative radio talk-show host) 1951
Joe Frazier (boxer) 1944
Jack London (author of "The Call Of The Wild") 1876
Charles Perrault (wrote "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty") 1628
January 13th:
1998 - One of the 110 missing episodes of the British TV show "Doctor Who" was found in New Zealand. The show had aired more than 700 episodes.
1997 - The first episode of "La Femme Nikita" aired. The show ran for 5 seasons, 96 episodes, ending in 2001.
1993 - Georgia police arrested Bobby Brown for an overly sexually suggestive stage performance It was the second time that he had been arrested by the Augusta police department for the same offense.
1979 - The Y.M.C.A. filed a lawsuit against the Village People over their song, "Y.M.C.A." The suit was later dropped.
1973 - ABC aired the final episode of "Alias Smith and Jones." The western series had lasted 3 seasons and 50 episodes.
1966 - Elizabeth Montgomery’s character, Samantha, on "Bewitched," had a baby. The baby's name was Tabitha.
1964 - The Beatles released "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in the U.S.
1957 - Wham-O began producing "Pluto Platters." This marked the true beginning of production of the flying disc that were later most famously sold by Frizbee Toy Co.
1942 - Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile, which allowed for a 30% decrease in car weight.
1928 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television.
1854 - Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, patented the accordion.
1794 - U.S. President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.
Orlando Bloom ("The Lord of the Rings", "The Pirates of the Caribbean", "Kingdom of Heaven", "Troy") 1977
Nina Ferrari (pornstar 2000-) 1975
Nicole Eggert ("Baywatch") 1972
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine on the sitcom "Seinfeld", also "The New Adventures of Old Christine", movie: "Christmas Vacation") 1961
January 14th:
Dress Up Your Pet Day
Bald Eagle Day
Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
2001 - The final episode of "The Jamie Foxx Show" aired.
1999 - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton began in Washington, DC.
1993 - Television talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.
1990 - "The Simpsons" began airing regularly.
1976 - "Bionic Woman" debuted on ABC.
1972 - NBC-TV debuted "Sanford & Son."
1970 - Diana Ross performed for the last time with the Supremes during a show in Las Vegas, NV.
1966 - David Jones changed his last name to Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones from the Monkees.
1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months.
1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. He flew from Miami, FL, to French Morocco where he met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss World War II.
1907 - An earthquake killed over 1,000 people in Kingston, Jamaica.
1878 - Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Britain's Queen Victoria.
1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
Katerina Strougalova aka Ashley Lightspeed (nude model and pornstar) 1984
Austin Kincaid (pornstar 2001-) 1980
Dave Grohl (drummer for Nirvana, singer for The Foo Fighters) 1969
L.L. Cool J. (rapper/actor) 1968
Faye Dunaway (actress in "Network" and "Bonnie and Clyde") 1941
Andy Rooney ("60 Minutes") 1919
Bennedict Arnold (America's most famous traitor spied for the British during the American Revolutionary War) 1741
January 15th:
Hat Day
Strawberry Ice Cream Day
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection.
1998 - Lance Carvin, a stalker of radio talk-show host Howard Stern, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for threatening to kill Stern and his family.
1995 - The first episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" aired.
1981 - The first episode of "Hill Street Blues" aired.
1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace negotiations as the reason.
1967 - The Rolling Stones performed on TV's "Ed Sullivan Show" and were forced to change their lyrics of "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together."
1967 - The first National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10.
1953 - Harry S. Truman became the first U.S. President to use both radio and television to give his farewell as he left office.
1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball.
1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.
Kobe Tai (Pornstar 1996-2003) 1972
Teanna Kai (pornstar 1999-) 1971
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1960s American civil rights leader who was assassinated) 1929
Lloyd Bridges (actor in "Sea Hunt") 1913
January 16th:
Fig Newton Day
Religious Freedom Day (USA)
2007 - Tri-Centenial of the United Kingdom.
2002 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that John Walker Lindh would be brought to the United States to face trial. He was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorist organizations, and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban of Afghanistan.
1997 - Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, 27, was shot to death while changing a flat tire on a dark road in Los Angeles, CA.
1995 - UPN begins broadcasting.
1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
1976 - The TV show "Donny & Marie" premiered on ABC-TV.
1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.
1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1863 - The roller skates are patented. Originally, they clamped onto the shoes.
1547 - Ivan "the Terrible" was crowned Czar of Russia.
Aaliyah (R&B singer died in a plane crash in 2001) 1979
Kate Moss (model) 1974
Josie Davis ("Charles in Charge", "90210") 1973
Danni Ashe (pornstar and adult model) 1968
Sade (pronounced Shar-day, sang "Smooth Operator") 1959
John Carpenter (directed horror movies such as "Halloween") 1948
Dr. Laura Schlessinger (radio advice show host) 1947
Super BIG Thanks.. Keep it up..
January 17th:
Pig Day
2003 - It was announced that FOX had renewed "The Simpsons" for two more seasons. The extension pushed the show past "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" as the all-time longest-running situation comedy (which was later surpassed by the radio/web dramedy series "Adventures in Odyssey.")
1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against him. He was the first U.S. President to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil lawsuit.
1997 - A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.
1975 - The television show "Baretta" debuted on ABC.
1969 - Led Zeppelin's debut album was released.
1969 - "Lady Samantha" was released in England. It was one of the very first recordings by Reginald Kenneth Dwight, better known as Elton John. It was from his first album "Empty Sky."
1945 - Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.
1934 - Ferdinand Porsche submitted a design for a people's car, a "Volkswagen," to the new German Reich government.
1913 - All partner interests in 36 Golden Rule Stores were consolidated and incorporated in Utah into one company. The new corporation was the J.C. Penney Company.
1893 - Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.
Kid Rock (Rapper/rocker/counter singer: "Only God Knows Why", "Picture", "Cowboy") 1971
Jim Carrey ("Liar, Liar", "Ace Ventura", "The Truman Show", "Eternal Sunshine", "Bruce Almighty", "The Majestic", "The Man on the Moon") 1962
Susanna Hoffs (singer for The Bangles: "Walk Like An Egyptian", "Eternal Flame") 1959
Andy Kauffman (Crazy commedian from "Taxi" and "Sat. Night Live" wrestled women) 1949
Muhammad Ali (Boxer) 1942
Maury Povich (Talk-show host) 1939
Shari Lewis (Puppeteer created the children's series "Lambchop's Playalong") 1934
James Earl Jones ("Coming To America" actor played Darth Vader on "Star Wars") 1931
Vidal Sassoon (British hair stylist created hair products) 1928
Betty White ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Golden Girls") 1922
Al Capone (1920's gangster) 1899
Ben Franklin 1706
January 18th:
Winnie The Pooh Day (A.A. Milne's birthday)
Jazz Music Day
2001 - The Cartoon Network exclusively aired the last episode of "Batman Beyond."
1996 - Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson.
1993 - The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in all 50 U.S. states for the first time.
1990 - In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.
1975 - "The Jeffersons" debuted on CBS-TV. The series ran for 11 seasons and 253 episodes.
1974 - The first episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" began. The show ran for 5 seasons and 105 episodes.
1973 - Pink Floyd began recording "Dark Side Of The Moon."
1939 - Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded "Jeepers Creepers."
1919 - The World War I Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France.
1896 - The Xray machine was exhibited for the first time. :)
1788 - The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.
1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
Zooey Deschanel ("Elf", "Almost Famous", "The Good Girl", "Big Trouble", "All the Real Girls", "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "Eulogy") 1980
Kevin Costner ("Dances With Wolves", "Field of Dreams", "The Untouchables", "The Postman", "Waterworld", "Message in a Bottle", "Dragonfly") 1955
Carey Grant ("Bringing Up Baby", "North By Northwest", "The Philidelphia Story", "His Gal Friday", "The Bishop's Wife", "An Affair To Remember") 1904
Oliver Hardy (worked in silent movies with his partner San Laurel) 1892
A.A. Milne (author of Winnie the Pooh) 1882
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (First African-Ameican doctor, performed first heart surgery in 1893) 1856
January 19th:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Popcorn Day
Archery Day
1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. The investigation was concerning the discovery of billing records related to the Whitewater real estate investment venture.
1988 - Metallica began recording their fourth full-length release, "And Justice For All." The album included the single "One."
1957 - Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, did a half-hour TV show without saying a single word of dialogue.
1953 - 68% of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV, as Lucy Ricardo, of "I Love Lucy," gave birth to a baby boy for the first time on TV.
1937 - Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record. He flew from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. 1915 - George Claude, of Paris, France, patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising signs.
1883 - Thomas Edison's first village electric lighting system using overhead wires began operation in Roselle, NJ.
Shawn Wayans (with his brother Marlon, wrote and acted in "Scary movie") 1971
Katey Segal (Peg Bundy on "Married With Children", the voice of Leela on "Futurama", also "8 Simple Rules") 1954
D esi Arnaz, Jr. (D esi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's child was born on the series) 1953
Robert Palmer [rocker: "Addicted To Love", "Simply Irresistable", "Every Kinda People", "Get It On(Bang a Gong)"] 1949
Dolly Parton (Busty country singer: "I Will Always Love You", "Coat of Many Colors", "Jolene", "Islands In The Stream") 1946
Janis Joplin (1960s rocker died young: "Piece Of My Heart", "Me and Bobby McGee") 1943
Phil Everly (recorded "Bye, Bye Love" with his brother Don) 1939
Tippi Hedren (blond actress in "The Birds") 1931
Jean Stapleton (played Edith Bunker on "All in the Family") 1923
Edgar Allen Poe (dark author wrote "The Raven") 1809
Robert E. Lee (Confederate general during the American Civil War) 1807
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That Is Weird,
But I Wanted to Tell You Thank You For All The Time
You Put in To Making These Posts everyday.
Allen
January 20th:
Cheese Day
Basketball Day
Roller-Coaster Day (1885)
2009 - Barak Obama is inaugurated as the 44th (and first African-American) President of the United States.
1999 - The China News Service announced that the Chinese government was tightening restrictions on internet use.
1998 - The first episode of "Dawson's Creek" aired on the WB network.
1997 - Bill Clinton was inagurated for his second term as president of the United States.
1986 - Britain and France announced their plans to build the Channel Tunnel.
1986 - New footage of the 1931 "Frankenstein" was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking.
1986 - The U.S. observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1985 - The most-watched Super Bowl game in history was seen by an estimated 115.9 million people. The San Francisco 49ers downed the Miami Dolphins, 38-16. Super Bowl XIX marked the first time that TV commercials sold for a million dollars a minute.
1981 - Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
1969 - Elvis Presley recorded "In the Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds." It was the first time he had recorded in Memphis since 1956.
1964 - The album "Meet the Beatles" was released in the U.S. on Capitol Records. It was their U.S. debut LP.
1958 - Elvis Presley got his orders to report to duty from the U.S. Army. He was allowed a 60-day deferment so he could finish the film "King Creole".
1937 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution officially set the date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President.
1929 - The movie "In Old Arizona" was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
1887 - The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
1885 - The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson.
1265 - The first English parliament met in Westminster Hall.
Claire Robbins (pornstar 2004-, known for her short hair and anal scenes) 1986
Rob Bourdon (drummer for Linkin Park: "Breaking the Habit", "In the End") 1979
Gary Barlow (singer for Take That: "Back For Good") 1971
Bill Maher (Liberal talk-show host of "Politically Incorrect") 1956
Paul Stanley (Guitarist for Kiss) 1952
David Lynch (Directed the 2 seasons of "Twin Peaks", also "Eraserhead", "Dune", Lost Highway", "Mullholland Drive") 1946
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (One of the first to walk on the moon in 1969) 1930
DeForest Kelley (played Dr. McCoy on the original "Star Trek" series) 1920
January 21st:
Granola Bar day
Hugging day
1998 - A former White House intern said on tape that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1994 - A jury in Manassas, VA, acquitted Lorena Bobbitt by reason of temporary insanity of maliciously wounding (severing his penis) her husband John. She accused him of sexually assaulting her.
1977 - U.S. President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1965 - The Byrds recorded "Mr. Tambourine Man."
1846 - The first issue of the "Daily News," edited by Charles Dickens, was published.
1793 - During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was executed on the guillotine. He had been condemned for treason.
Emma Lee Bunton (Baby Spice) 1976
Robby Benson (Voice of Disney's Beast in "Beauty and the Beast") 1956
Geena Davis ("The Fly, "Beetlejuice", "A League of Their Own", "Thelma & Louise", TV: "Commander-In-Chief") 1956
Benny Hill (British commedian known for his sexy girls and fast motion chases on his TV show) 1925
January 22nd:
Eat an apple day
Blond Brownie Day (A blond brownie is a chocolate chip cookie bar)
2002 - K-Mart Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy making it the largest retailer in history to seek legal protection from its creditors.
2002 - Lawyers suing Enron Corp. asked a court to prevent further shredding of documents due to the pending federal investigation.
1998 - Theodore Kaczynski plead guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.
1990 - Guns 'N' Roses guitarist Slash used profanity numerous times on live television while accepting an American Music Award. He was fined over $1 million.
1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh. It was the first computer to use point-and-click technology.
1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", debuted on NBC TV.
1966 - The Beach Boys recorded "Wouldn't It Be Nice".
1963 - The Drifters recorded "On Broadway."
Ava Devine 1974
[b]Diane Lane ("Unfaithful") 1965
Linda Blair (played possessed Regen in "The Exorcist") 1959
Steve Perry (Singer for Journey: "Don't Stop Believing", "Wheels in the Sky", "Any Way You Want It", "Open Arms") 1949
Sam Cooke [Pop/R&B singer was shot: "A Change Is Gonna Come", "Twisting the Night Away", "Wonderful World (Don't Know Much)"] 1935
Bill Bixby (played TV's "Incredible Hulk") 1934
Piper Laurie (the crazy mother in "Carrie") 1932
January 23rd:
Handwriting Day
Pie Day
Measure your feet day
1995 - The first episode of "Platypus Man" aired. The comedy series lasted 13 episodes.
1986 - The first annual induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was held in New York City. The Hall has since moved to Cleveland, OH.
1985 - The proceedings of the House of Lords in Britain were televised for the first time.
1985 - O.J. Simpson became the first Heisman Trophy winner to be elected to pro football’s Hall of Fame in Canton, OH.
1983 - "The A-Team" debuted on TV.
1980 - Prince's single "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad" was released.
1977 - The TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on ABC. The show was based on the Alex Haley novel, and introduced LeVar Burton.
1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1964 - Ratification of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was completed. This amendment eliminated the poll tax in federal elections.
1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Gina Lascano aka Gina Ryder (pornstar 1998-2005) 1977
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (TV: "Saved By the Bell", "90210", "Fastlane") 1974
Mariska Hargitay ("Law and Order SVU") 1964
Gail O'Grady (Helen Pryor on "American Dreams", also "NYPD Blue") 1963
Édouard Manet (French painter) 1832
John Hancock (The first and largest signer of the American Declaration of Independence from England) 1737
January 24th:
Peanut Butter Day
2003 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security began operations under Tom Ridge.
2002 - John Walker Lindh appeared in court for the first time concerning the charges that he conspired to kill Americans abroad and aided terrorist groups. Lindh had been taken into custody by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
1995 - Van Halen released their "Balance" LP. Singles included "Can't Stop Loving You" and "Not Enough." It was the last album recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar.
1995 - The prosecution gave its opening statement at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
1989 - James Brown was sentenced to 6 years in jail for drug and and assault charges.
1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
1962 - Brian Epstein signed with the Beatles as their manager and began to direct their image away from leather jackets. He led them toward a smarter stage presentation, with matching suits and bows to the audience.
1957 - Elvis Presley recorded "Teddy Bear."
1916 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that income tax was unconstitutional.
1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.
1888 - The typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman.
Mischa Barton ("The O.C.") 1986
Tatyana Ali (Muhommad's daughter was on "The Fresh Prince") 1979
Tabitha Stern (pornstar 2000-2005) 1977
Phil LaMar ("MadTV" commedian played the voice of Hermes on "Futurama") 1967
John Belushi ("SNL" commedian was in "Blues Brothers" and "Animal House") 1949
Neil Diamond (pop singer sang "Solitary Man") 1941
Aaron Neville (sang with his brothers Charles and Cyril) 1941
Ernest Borgnine ["Marty", "All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)", "McHale's Navy"] 1917
January 25th:
1999 - In Louisville, KY, a man received the first hand transplant in the United States.
1999 - At least 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit western Columbia. The quake registered 6.0 on the Richter Scale.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States and were reunited with their families.
1971 - Charles Manson and three female members of his "family" were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder and seven counts of murder in the first degree. They were all sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1969 killings.
1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival released the "Proud Mary" LP.
1962 - Sam Cooke's song "Twistin' the Night Away" was released.
1961 - John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news conference from Washington, DC. The event was carried on radio and television.
1961 - "101 Dalmations" was released by Walt Disney.
1949 - The first Emmys (TV awards) were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1937 - NBC radio presented the first broadcast of "The Guiding Light." The soap opera remained on radio until 1956 and began on CBS-TV in 1952. With 15,000+ episodes, the show is still on the air.
1924 - The first Winter games were played in Chamonix in the French Alps.
1917 - The U.S. purchased the Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands) for $25 million.
1915 - In New York, Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental telephone service.
1858 - Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia. (dun DUN da-dun)
Alicia Keys (R&B piano player sang "Falling") 1981
"Deauxma" (pornstar started at 44, 2004-) 1960
Robert Burns (poet who wrote "Aud Lang Syne") 1759
January 26th:
Australia Day
Peanut Brittle Day
2003 - Billy Joel was hospitalized for several hours after crashing his car into a tree in Sag Harbor, NY. He was released early the next morning.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning the Whitewater probe.
1994 - "Babylon 5" began airing on TNT. The series ran for 110 episodes over 5 seasons.
1984 - CBS television debuted Mickey Spillane's "Mike Hammer." The series ran for 51 episodes over 3 seasons
1979 - The first episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard" aired on CBS. The series ran for 147 episodes over 7 seasons.
1970 - John Lennon wrote and recorded "Instant Karma." ("Well we all shine on.")
1934 - The Apollo Theatre opened in New York City.
1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.
1841 - Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.
1837 - Michigan became the 26th united state.
1788 - The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day.
Sara Rue (TV: "Popular", "Less Than Perfect") 1979
Kirk Franklin (Gospel singer) 1970
Ellen DeGeneres (commedian who "came out" on her comedy series now has a daytime comedy talk show) 1958
Eddie Van Halen 1955
Gene Siskel (ex movie critic with Roger Ebert) 1946
Paul Newman ("Cool Hand Luke", "Hud", "The Sting") 1925
January 27th:
Chocolate Cake Day
Tom Petty Day
Holocaust Rememberance Day
2002 - Stephen King's three-part, six-hour miniseries "Rose Red" began airing on ABC-TV.
1999 - The U.S. Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Clinton and voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses.
1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
1990 - "Tom Petty Day" was declared in the musician's hometown of Gainsville, FL.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
1977 - The Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's ban on female priests.
1976 - The TV series "Laverne and Shirley" debuted. The "Happy Days" spin-off ran for 178 episodes over 8 seasons.
1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
1968 - Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was released. The release came 6 weeks after he was killed in a plane crash.
1956 - Elvis Presley released "Heartbreak Hotel."
1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1926 - John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television.
1927 - United Independent Broadcasters Inc. started a radio network of 16 stations. The company later became Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
1931 - NBC radio debuted "Clara, Lu ’n’ Em" on its Blue network (later, ABC radio).
1900 - In China, foreign diplomats in Peking, fearing a revolt, demanded that the imperial government discipline the Boxer rebels.
1888 - The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC. Nine months later, they published their first issue of the magazine.
1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
Bailey Brookes (pornstar 2005-) 1986
Rosamund Pike (Brittish actress in James Bond's "Die Another Day" and "Pride and Prejudice") 1979
Mark Trojanowski (Drummer for Sister Hazel: "All For You", "Change Your Mind", "Your Mistake", "World Insde My Head", "Mandiolin Moon", "What Kind of Living") 1970
Bridget Fonda (grandfather: Henry, Father: Peter, Aunt: Jane, Husband: Danny Elfman, Bridget was in "The Godfather 3", "It Could Happen To You", "Jackie Brown", "A Simple Plan") 1964
Peter Laird (In 1983, he and Kevin Eastman came up with "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles") 1954
Mikhail Baryshiknov (Russian ballet dancer) 1948
Lewis Carroll (author of "Alice in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking Glass") 1832
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Classical composer) 1756
January 28th:
Blueberry Pancake and Waffle day
Kazoo day
Daisy day
1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed.
1985 - "We Are The World" was recorded. More than 40 artists were involved. The proceeds went toward worldwide hunger prevention.
1983 - The first season of "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" began on CBS. The detective series, starring Stacy Keach, ran for 51 episodes over 3 seasons.
1979 - The 200th episode of "All In The Family" aired. The series then ran for 10 more episodes, was remaned "Archie Bunker's Place", and then ran for 97 more episodes over 4 more years.
1973 - CBS-TV debuted "Barnaby Jones." The detective series ran for 178 episodes over 8 seasons.
1935 - Iceland became the first country to introduce legalized abortion.
1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT.
1807 - London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight.
1547 - England's King Henry VIII died. He was succeeded by his 9 year-old son, Edward VI.
Elijah Wood (Frodo in "Lord of the Rings") 1981
Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) 1980
Joey Fatone (NSync) 1977
Kathryn Morris (TV: "Cold Case", movies: "Minority Report, "Paycheck", "Mindhunters") 1969
Maurice Alberto Rocca aka Mo Rocca (Political humorist, correspondant for "The Daily Show", a comedy/news program, from 1998-2003, Rocca now hosts "The Mo Rocca Show" on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 119) 1969
Sarah McLachlan (Piano player released her first album in 1988: "Adia", "Building a Mystery", "Sweet Surrender", "Angel", "I Will Remember You") 1968
Ernie (lives with Bert on "Sesame Street") 1968
Alan Alda (Hawkeye on the series "MASH") 1936
January 29th:
Puzzle Day
Corn Chip Day
Carnation Day
1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.
1996 - Garth Brooks refused to accept his American Music Award for Favorite Overall Artist. Brooks said that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
1966 - Bobby Fuller's "I Fought The Law" was released. It was the only hit he had.
1916 - In World War I, Paris was bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
1886 - The first successful gas-powered motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.
1861 - In America, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror."
Marquetta Jewel (Pornstar 2005-) 1986
Johnny Lang (Blues guitarist began at 12) 1981
Sara Gilbert (Darlene on "Roseanne") 1975
Heather Graham ["Boogie Nights", "Austin Powers", "Scrubs (TV)"] 1970
Oprah Winfrey ("The Color Purple", "Beloved", "Charlotte's Web") 1954
Tom Selleck ["3 Men and a Baby" and "Magnum PI (TV)"] 1945
William McKinley (25th US President 1897-1901) 1843
January 30th:
Croissant Day
2007 - Microsoft releases its next operating system, Windows Vista, and 2007 Microsoft Office System, a major milestone for the company.
1998 - Elton John recieved a knighthood in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's first New Year's Eve Honours List.
1972 - In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "Bloody Sunday."
1969 - The Beatles made their last-ever public appearance as a group. The performance of "Get Back" was filmed for the movie "Let It Be."
1968 - The Tet Offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded "Blue Suede Shoes." The song was written and performed by Carl Perkins a year earlier. Perkins' recording would come to sell more copies.
1956 - Jerry Lee Lewis played piano for Billy Lee Riley's recording of "Red Hot."
1950 - NBC-TV debuted "Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre." The show ran until 1957, with 312 episodes over 8 seasons.
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955. On TV, the show ran from 1949-57 over 221 episodes.
1847 - The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
Khleo Thomas (Played Zero in the movie "Holes") 1989
Wilmer Valderrama ("That '70s Show") 1980
Brett Butler (Commedian played the title role in the series "Grace Under Fire") 1956
Phil Collins (drummer, with Genesis: "Land of Confusion", "Follow You Follow Me", solo: "In the Air Tonight", "Don't Lose My Number", "You'll Be In My Heart", he wrote the songs for Disney's "Tarzan" and "Brother Bear", as well as the '80s series "Miami Vice") 1951
Dick Cheney (US Vice-President under George W. Bush) 1941
Gene Hackman ("The French Connection", "Enemy of the State", "Heartbreakers", Lex Luthor in "Superman 1, 2, and 4") 1930
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Only US President to be elected 4 times: 1933-45) 1882
January 31st:
2005 - The child molestation trial of superstar Michael Jackson begins in California.
2004 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 ends its run on the Sci-Fi Channel. The comedy spoof show had run for 209 episodes over 9 seasons.
2000 - John Rocker (Atlanta Braves) was suspended from major league baseball for disparaging foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in an interview published by Sports Illustrated.
1998 - The Presidents of the United States of America ("Peaches", "Lump", "Mach 5") played their final show in Seattle, WA. The show benefited the Chicken Soup Brigade. They reunited in 2004 for a new album, but didn't tour extensively.
1990 - McDonald's Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow, Russia.
1988 - The pilot episode of "The Wonder Years" aired on ABC. The show ran for 115 episodes over 5 seasons.
1985 - The final Jeep rolled off the assembly line at the AMC plant in Toledo, OH.
1983 - The wearing of seat belts in cars became compulsory in Britain.
1971 - Telephone service between East and West Berlin was re-established after 19 years.
1963 - The Beach Boys recorded "Surfin' U.S.A."
1950 - U.S. President Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
1949 - The first TV daytime soap opera was broadcast from NBC's station in Chicago, IL. It was "These Are My Children." It later became "All My Children."
1946 - A new constitution in Yugoslavia created six constituent republics (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia) subordinated to a central authority, on the model of the USSR.
1940 - The first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. Government.
1917 - Germany announced its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare during WW1.
1876 - All Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations.
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Charlie Lane (pornstar 2002-) 1984
Lisa Marie (Pornstar 2002-) 1983
Justin Timberlake (N'Sync) 1981
Amanda Lee Rogers aka Portia de Rossi (lesbian actress in "Ally McBeal" and "Aressted Development") 1973
Minnie Driver (English actress: "Disney's Tarzan", "Sleepers", "Good Will Hunting", "Ella Enchanted") 1970
Anthony LaPaglia (Australian actor plays Jack Malone on the American series "Without a Trace") 1959
Suzanne Pleshette ("The Bob Newhart Show") 1937
Jackie Robinson (first African-American major league baseball player) 1919
February 1st:
Baked Alaska Day (cake covered with ice cream and meringue that is browned quickly in the oven)
Robin Crusoe Day
2009 - NFL Super Bowl XLIII - Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.
2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere over Texas. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
2002 - "Late Night" with David Letterman had its 20th anniversary show. Regis Philbin made his 61st appearance on "Late Night."
2002 - Winona Ryder was charged with four felony counts that stemmed from her shoplifting arrest on December 12, 2001. She was charged with theft, burglary, vandalism and possession of a controlled substance.
1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.
1994 - Jeff Gillooly plead guilty in Portland, OR, for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding.
1982 - "Late Night" with David Letterman premiered on NBC TV following "The Tonight Show."
1964 - The governor of Indiana declared that the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen was pornographic. He requested that the state's radio stations not play the song.
1960 - Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They had been refused service.
1954 - CBS-TV showed "The Secret Storm" for the first time. The soap ran until 1974.
1953 - CBS-TV debuted "Private Secretary." The sitcom ran for 104 episodes over 5 seasons.
1951 - The first X-ray moving picture process was demonstrated. :)
1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
1913 - Grand Central Station opened in New York City, NY. It was the largest train station in the world.
1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.
Big Boi (member of Outkast, sang "Hey Ya") 1975
Adrianne Moore aka Jill Kelly (Pornstar 1993-) 1971
Lisa Marie Presley (Elvis' daughter, married (and divorced) Michael Jackson and tried unsuccessfully to be a singer herself) 1968
Pauly Shore (actor in terrible movies such as "Encino Man" and "Bio Dome") 1968
Sherilyn Fenn (TV: "Twin Peaks") 1965
Rick James (sang "Super Freak") 1948
Sherman Hemsley (played George Jefferson on the TV series "The Jeffersons") 1938
Don Everly (with his brother Phil, sang: "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie") 1937
Garett Morris (Black comedian on "SNL" in the 1970s) 1937
Boris Yeltsin (President of the new Russia 1990-1999) 1931
Clark Gable ("Gone With the Wind") 1901
February 2nd:
Groundhog Day
Frozen Food Day
1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.
1978 - Van Halen signed with Warner Brothers Records.
1949 - The first 45 RPM record was released.
1935 - Leonard Keeler conducted the first test of the polygraph machine (lie-detector test), in Portage, WI.
1887 - The beginning of groundhog day in Punxsutawney, PA.
1863 – Author Samuel Clemens used a pseudonym for the first time: Mark Twain.
Brandy Taylor (Pornstar 2004-, known for her big natural breasts) 1982
Shakira Ripoll (Columbian singer) 1977
Christie Brinkley (Supermodel was in “Vacation” and married Billy Joel) 1954
Farrah Fawcet (TV’s “Charlie’s Angels”) 1947
Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young) 1942
James Dickey (author of “Deliverance”) 1923
February 3rd:
Carrot Day
Wedding Ring Day
2008 - NFL Superbowl XLII - NY Giants vs. New England Patriots
1991 - Sinead O'Connor announced that she wouldn't accept any Grammy Awards or attend the ceremony because the show reflects "false and destructive materialistic values."
1961 - In New York, Bob Dylan made his first recording, taping "San Francisco Bay Blues".
1959 - Buddy Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17), and the Big Bopper (28) died in a plane crash in Iowa.
1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1916 - In Ottawa, Canada's original parliament buildings burned down.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax.
1809 - The territory of Illinois was created.
Hilary Scott (pornstar 2004-) 1983
Jessica Harp (with Michelle Branch, she formed the country music duo The Wreckers) 1982
Elmo Monster (Red furry muppet from "Sesame Street") 1980
Julie Meadows (pornstar 1998-2005) 1974
Morgan Fairchild ("Falcoln Crest") 1950
Dave Davies (Guitarist for the Kinks) 1947
Joey Bishop (Rat Pack) 1918
Norman Rockwell (Sat. Evening Post illustrator) 1894
February 4th:
Carl Perkins Day (He wrote and recorded "Blue Suede Shoes")
2004 - Facebook is created.
2003 - Yugoslavia was formally dissolved by lawmakers. The country was replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
1997 - A civil jury in California found O.J. Simpson liable in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Goldman's parents were awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages.
1977 - "American Bandstand" celebrated its 25th anniversary with an ABC-TV special hosted by Dick Clark.
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" was released. Singles included "Dreams", "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)", and "Go Your Own Way."
1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany's defeat.
1941 - The United Service Organizations (USO) was created.
1932 - The first Winter Olympics were held in the United States at Lake Placid, NY.
1930 - Snickers were first sold. It is the best selling candy bar in the U.S.
1861 - Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, AL, to form the Confederate States of America.
1789 - Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
Natalie Imbruglia (Australian soap star became a singer with her pop hit "Torn") 1975
Oscar De La Hoya (Boxer and Olympic gold medalist) 1973
Gumby 1955
Alice Cooper (Shock-rock singer of "School's Out") 1948
Dan Quayle (US Vice-President under George Bush 1989-93) 1947
Rosa Parks (black woman who started a boycott of the public buses in Montgomery, AL when she refused to give up her seat to a white man) 1913
Clyde W. Tombaugh (Astronomer discovered the ex-planet Pluto) 1903
Charles Lindbergh (made the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927) 1902
February 5th:
Weather Announcer's day
2003 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence to the U.N. concerning Iraq's material breach of U.N. Resolution 1441.
2001 - It was announced the Kelly Ripa would be Regis Philbin's co-host. The show was renamed to "Live! With Regis and Kelly."
2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced their separation.
1986 - Prince released the song "Kiss" from his movie "Under the Cherry Moon."
1953 - The Walt Disney’s film "Peter Pan" opened at the Roxy Theatre in New York City.
1917 - Mexico's constitution was adopted.
Velicity Von (pornstar 2005-) 1979
Jennifer Jason Leigh ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High", "Easy Money", "Road To Perdition", "Single White Female") 1962
Christopher Guest ("SNL" comic created the mock-umentaries "This Is Spinal Tap", "A Mighty Wind", and "Best In Show") 1948
Henry "Hank" Aaron (Hall of fame baseball player hit 755 home runs) 1934
Aaron "Red Buttons" Chwatt (actor/comedian had his own show 1952-55) 1919
February 6th:
Frozen Yogurt day
2002 - A federal judge ordered John Walker Lindh to be held without bail pending trial. Lindh was known as the "American Taliban."
2002 - Celine Dion's "A New Day Has Come" was released
2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day and became the oldest U.S. President in history.
1966 - The final episode of "Mr. Ed" aired on CBS.
1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.
1899 - The U.S. Senate ratified a peace treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
1788 - Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Rick Astley (Late 80s-90s pop singer: "Together Forever", "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Hopelessly") 1966
Axl Rose (Guns N Roses' singer) 1962
Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill on "King of the Hill", also "Sister Act", "Rat Race") 1957
Bob Marley (Reggae singer was killed in 1981) 1945
Tom Brokaw (American news anchorman) 1940
Mike Farrell (Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on "MASH") 1939
Elmore Rual Torn aka Rip Torn ("Men In Black", "The Larry Sanders Show", "The Cincinnati Kid", "Cross Creek", "Freddy Got Fingered", "Down Periscope") 1931
Ronald Reagan (early actor became the 40th US President 1981-1988) 1911
George Herman "Babe" Ruth (Often called the greatest baseball player ever) 1895
February 7th:
Chinese New Year
Fettuccine Alfredo Day
1988 - The first episode of "America's Most Wanted" aired.
1978 - The "Mork & Mindy" pilot movie aired for the first time.
1940 - "Pinocchio" world premiered at the Center Theatre in Manhattan.
1795 - The 11 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. "The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State."
Ashton Kutcher ("That 70s Show", "The Butterfly Effect", "Dude Where's My Car?") 1978
Chris Rock (SNL Comedian) 1965
Garth Brooks (Country singer: "The Dance", "Thunder Rolls") 1962
Sinclair Lewis (Author of "Main Street", "Arrowsmith") 1885
Laura Ingalls Wilder ("Little House on the Prarie" author) 1867
Charles Dickens ("A Christmas Carol", "Oliver Twist", "A Tale of Two Cities", "Great Expectations") 1812
John Deere (developed a steel farm plow) 1802
February 8th:
Boy Scout Day
1985 - "The Dukes of Hazzard" ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television.
1975 - Queen's single "Killer Queen" was released. It was their first hit single.
1974 - CBS aired the first episode of "Good Times."
1973 - U.S. Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal.
1969 - The last issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" was published.
1969 - The announcement of the formation of the band "Blind Faith" was made. Eric Clapton was the singer.
1965 - The Supremes' "Stop in the Name Of Love" was released.
1964 - The Kingsmen ("Louie Louie") offered $1,000 to anyone would could find suggestive lyrics in the song.
1956 - Buddy Holly signed a recording contract with Decca Records. He left the "e" out of his last name (Holley) and dropped it from his stage name as well.
1936 - The first National Football League (NFL) draft was held. Jay Berwanger was the first to be selected. He went to the Philadelphia Eagles.
1922 - The White House began using radio after U.S. President Harding had it installed.
1910 - William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.
1861 - The Confederate States of America was formed.
Bridgette Kerkove (Pornstar 1998-) 1977
Josh Keaton (Played Hercules in the Disney movie) 1979
Seth Green ("Buffy", "Austin Powers", "The Italian Job", "Enemy of the State", "Rat Race") 1974
Gary Coleman ("Different Strokes") 1968
Joshua Kadison (piano player/singer-songwriter: "Jessie", "Beautiful In My Eyes", "Cherry Bowl Drive-In", "El Diablo Amor") 1963
Mary Steenburgen ("Back to the Future 3", "Gulliver's Travels", "Elf", the mother on the series "Joan of Arcadia", is married to Ted Danson) 1953
John Williams (movie music composer) 1932
Jack Lemon ("The Apartment", "The Odd Couple") 1925
Jules Verne (author of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea")
February 9th:
Bagel Day
Toothache Day (The day to schedule a trip to the dentist)
2001 - "Hannibal," the sequel to "Silence of the Lambs", opened in theaters.
1997 - "The Simpsons" became the longest-running prime-time animated series. "The Flintstones" held the record previously.
1983 - Prince's "Little Red Corvette" was released. The song was a single from the album "1999."
1964 - The Beatles made the first of three record-breaking appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show." 73 million people watched the show. It was their American TV debut.
1950 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism." (It later came out in the 1980s that most of the people accused of being Communists really were Communist.)
1895 - Volleyball was invented by W.G. Morgan.
1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president.
Camille Winbush (Vanessa on "The Bernie Mac Show") 1990
David Gallagher (TV's "7th Heaven") 1985
Mena Suvari ("American Pie", "American Beauty", "Loser", "Factory Girl") 1979
Ziyi Zhang ("Crouching Tiger") 1979
Travis Tritt (Country singer) 1963
Mia Farrow ("Rosemary's Baby") 1945
Alice Walker (African American who wrote "The Color Purple" book) 1944
Joe Pesci ("Goodfellas", "Home Alone", "My Cousin Vinny", "Leathel Weapon") 1943
William Henry Harrison (9th US President, elected in 1841, but died after less than a month in office) 1773
February 10th:
Umbrella Day
School Day
2005 - North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future.
1992 - Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black American contestant.
1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.
1978 - Van Halen's debut album was released. Singles included "Running With The Devil" and "Jamie's Crying."
1870 - In New York City, the YWCA was founded.
1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.
1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.
Emma Roberts (Julia's neice: "Unfabulous", "Aqumarine", "Nancy Drew", "Wild Child", "Hotel For Dogs")
Roberta Flack (sang "Killing Me Softly") 1939
Robert Wagner [#2 on "Austin Powers", also "The Longest Day", "The Pink Panther" "Hart to Hart (TV)"] 1930
Lon Chaney ("The Wolf Man") 1906
Jimmy Durante (Big-nosed commedian said "That's not a banana, that's my nose.") 1893
Boris Pasternak (author of the book "Dr. Zhivago") 1890
February 11th:
National Inventor's Day (Thomas Edison's birthday)
Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
1994 - Prince premiered his song "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" on the 1994 Miss USA Pageant.
1993 - Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position.
1990 - Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
1986 - The single "Superbowl Shuffle" by the Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew was certified gold by the RIAA.
1982 - ABC-TV’s presentation of "The Winds of War" concluded. The 18-hour miniseries cost $40 million to produce and was the most-watched television program in history at the time.
1963 - The Beatles recorded "Twist & Shout" and "I Saw Her Standing There."
1943 - General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America.
Kelly Rowland (Destiny's Child) 1981
Robert Kelly Slater (Professional surfer) 1972
Jennifer Aniston ("Friends") 1969
Sheryl Crow ("All I Wanna Do", "Every Day Is a Winding Road", "If It Makes You Happy", "Soak Up the Sun") 1963
Jeb Bush (Governor of Florida, George's brother) 1953
Bobby "Boris" Pickett ("Monster Mash") 1940
Burt Reynolds [actor: "Deliverance", "Smokey and the Bandit", "The Longest Yard (1974)", "Heat", "Boogie Nights"] 1936
Tina Louise (Ginger on "Gilligan's Island") 1926
Leslie Neilsen ("Naked Gun", "Airplane", "The Poseidon Adventure", "Wrongfully Accused", "Scary Movie 3&4") 1926
Sidney Sheldon (Best-selling novelist also created "I Dream of Jeanie", "Hart To Hart", and "The Patty Duke Show") 1917
Thomas Edison (Invented the lightbulb, phonograph, and movie camera) 1847
February 12th:
http://celebsandgirls.com/forum/images/smilies/candg/Happy%20Birthday.gif Dusty86 aka Wayngie
Abraham Lincoln Day
Plum Pudding Day
National Freedom to Marry Day (In the US, it celebrates marriages of same and different sexes)
2002 - Kenneth Lay, former Enron CEO, exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify to the U.S. Congress about the collapse of Enron.
2001 - The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Napster to stop its users from trading copyrighted material without charge.
1999 - U.S. President Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice.
1973 - American prisoners of war were released for the first time during the Vietnam conflict.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential political speech on radio.
1915 - The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, DC.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
was founded.
1892 - In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday.
Christina Ricci ("The Adams Family", "Casper", "Gold Diggers", "Sleepy Hollow, "Monster", "Cursed", "The Man Who Cried", "Prozac Nation") 1980
Jesse Spencer (TV: "House") 1979
Silvia Saint (Czech and U.S. Pornstar 1997-) 1976
Arsenio Hall ("Coming To America" actor hosted his own late-night talk show in the early 1990s) 1955
Steve Hackett (Bassist for Genesis in the 1970s: "The Musical Box", "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight", "Horizons", "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", he also had some semi-successful solo albums) 1950
Judy Blume (The author with the most books on the wanted-banned list: "Forever", "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing", "Then Again, Maybe I Won't", "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret") 1938
Charles Darwin (wrote "The Origin of Species" in 1859 about evolution) 1809
Abraham Lincoln (16th US President 1861-65, freed slaves and was assassinated) 1809
February 13th:
Friday the 13th
2002 - In Alexandria, VA, John Walker Lindh plead innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
2000 - On "The Simpsons," Maude Flanders was "killed off."
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.
1988 - Michael Jackson bought a ranch in Santa Ynez, California that he called "Neverland."
1970 - Black Sabbath's self-titled first LP was released.
1967 - The Beatles' "Penny Lane" backed with "Strawberry Fields Forever" was released in the U.S.
1937 - The comic strip "Prince Valiant" appeared for the first time.
1867 - Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz" was played for the first time at a public concert in Vienna, Austria.
Robbie Williams (singer for Take That: "Back For Good") 1974
Kelly Hu ("The Scorpion King") 1968
Peter Gabriel (singer for Genesis from 1969-76: "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "The musical Box", solo: "Sledgehammer", "Big Time", "Salsbury Hill", "In Your Eyes") 1950
Stockard Channing (Rizzo in "Grease") 1944
Jerry Springer (Outlandish talk-show host) 1944
Peter Tork (singer and guitar player with "The Monkees") 1942
"Tennessee" Ernie Ford (sang "Sixteen Tons") 1919
Grant Wood (painted the often-parodied "American Gothic") 1892
L.L. Bean (Outdoorsman founded a mail-order clothing company) 1873
Thanks for the Birthday wish Xray.....:D
February 14th:
St. Valentine's Day :zu:
Read To Your Children Day
Fastelavn (In Denmark, children dress up, much like Halloween in the U.S.)
1980 - Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News."
1977 - The B-52's perform their first concert together in Athens, GA.
1972 - "Grease" opened off-Broadway, where it ran for the next decade for a total of 3,388 performances.
1967 - Aretha Franklin recorded her song "Respect" in New York
1929 - The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.
1918 - The silent motion picture "Tarzan of the Apes" was released.
1912 - Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1899 - The U.S. Congress approved voting machines for use in federal elections.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. It was officially issued on March 7, 1876.
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd member of the Union.
1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President, while in office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the picture.
Julie Ann White aka Jules Asner (Fashion model and former host of "Wild On E!") 1968
Raymond Joseph Teller (The silent half of the comedy/magic duo "Penn and Teller") 1948
Carl Berstein (Washington Post reporter "Woodward and Berstein" who broke the Watergate scandal) 1944
Flornce Henderson (Played the mother Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch" TV show) 1934
Jimmy Hoffa (Teamsters Union leader vanished mysteriously) 1913
February 15th:
Gumdrop Day
Do a Grouch a Favor Day
2005 - YouTube, a popular video-sharing website, is established.
2004 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the Daytona 500, six years to the day when his father won his only Daytona 500.
2002 - The movie "Cross Roads," starring Britney Spears, opened in theaters.
1998 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 after 20 years of disappointment.
1995 - Metallic began recording their sixth album "Load." Singles included "Hero of the Day", "Mama Said", and "Until It Sleeps."
1965 - Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard.
1964 - The Beatles released the single "Eight Days a Week" from the album "Meet The Beatles."
1764 - The city of St. Louis was established.
Matt Hoopes (rock band Relient K) 1981
Chris Farley ("Sat. Night Live", "Tommy Boy" comedian died in 1997) 1964
Matt Groening (Creator of "The Simpsons" and "Futurama") 1954
Jane Seymour (British actress known as "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") 1951
Susan B. Anthony (women's rights activist) 1820
Gaileo Galilei (scientist invented the thermometer and telescope) 1564
February 16th:
US Presidents' Day
Almond Day
2005 - The NHL (hockey) announced the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute. It was the first time a major sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute.
1991 - The 300th episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired on NBC.
1968 - In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.
1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.
1946 - The first commercially designed helicopter was tested in Connecticut.
Tabitha Stevens (Pornstar 1995-2005) 1970
John McEnroe (Tennis champ) 1959
Tracy Marrow aka Ice-T (rapper and actor on "Law and Order: SVU") 1958
LeVar Burton ("Roots", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Reading Rainbow") 1957
Kim Jong-il (North Korean dictator) 1941
Sonny Bono (married Cher, sang "I Got You Babe", and died in a skiing accident) 1935
Hugh Beaumont (Played the dad Ward Cleaver on "Leave It To Beaver") 1909
February 17
2000 - Microsoft released Windows 2000.
1996 - The 400th episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired on NBC.
1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. He was later beaten to death in prison.
1990 - Aerosmith appeared on "Saturday Night Live." The performed the Wayne's World theme song while appearing in the skit as themselves.
1976 - The Eagles released their "Greatest Hits." The album has since become one of the biggest-selling albums of all-time.
1966 - The Beach Boys began recording "Good Vibrations."
1965 - Comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" on NBC-TV.
1960 - The Everly Brothers signed with Warner Bros. Records in a 10-year contract worth $1 million. Their hits included "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie", and "All I Have To Do Is Dream."
1955 - Little Richard sent his first audition tape to Specialty Records.
1933 - Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young’s popular strip first debuted.
1933 - "Newsweek" was first published.
1876 - Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.
1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.
Poppy Morgan (Pornstar 2004-) 1983
Paris Hilton 1981
Vivian West (Pornstar 2005-) 1981
Kelly Carlson ("Nip/Tuck" series) 1976
Jerry O'Connell [starred in 3 TV series: "My Secret Identity (1988-91)", "Sliders (1995-99)", and "Crosong Jordan (2002-2008)"] 1974
Denise Richards ("Starship Troopers", "Wild Things", "James Bond's The World Is Not Enough") 1972
Billie Joe Armstrong (singer and guitarist for Green Day) 1972
Dominic Purcell (Australian actor starred in 2 American series: "John Doe" and currently plays Lincoln Burrows on "Prison Break") 1970
Michael Jordan (Basketball player for the Chicago Bulls) 1963
Loreena McKennitt (sings modern New Age and Celtic music and has had several mainstream hits: "The Mummer's Dance", "All Soul's Night", "The Old Ways", "Huron Beltane Fire Dance") 1957
Rene Russo (Former model turned actress: "Lethal Weapon", "Ransom", "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Big Trouble", "Showtime") 1954
February 18th:
Crab Stuffed Flounder Day
2001 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race.
1987 - The song "Sign O' The Times" was released by Prince.
1959 - Ray Charles recorded "What'd I Say."
1930 - Pluto was discovered.
1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published.
Rhianna (R&B singer of "Pon de Replay") 1988
Molly Ringwald (Actress in the '80s: "16 Candles" and "The Breakfast Club") 1968
Dr. Dre (rapper) 1965
Matt Dillon ("Wild Things", "There's Something About Mary") 1964
Vanna White ("Wheel of Fortune") 1957
John Travolta 1954
Yoko Ono (married John Lennon) 1933
February 19th:
1987 - A controversial, anti-smoking ad aired for the first time on television. It featured Yul Brynner who died shortly after of lung cancer.
1985 - Cherry Coke was introduced by the Coca-Cola Company.
1968 - The children's series "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood" debuted. The show ran for 895 episodes and ended in 2001.
1945 - During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
1942 - Approximately 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin.
1881 - Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (the phonograph).
Haylie Duff (Hilary's lesser-talented sister) 1985
Sunset Thomas (Pornstar 1991-2004 later worked at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel in Las Vegas) 1972
Justine Bateman (TV's "Family Ties") 1966
Seal Samuel (Pop-rock singer: "Crazy", "Kiss from a Rose", "Don't Cry", married Heidi Klum) 1963
Jeff Daniels ("Dumb and Dumber", "Gettysburg", "Arachnophobia") 1955
Amy Tan (Chinese-American author of "The Joy Luck Club") 1952
Tony Iommi (Guitarist for Black Sabbath: "Iron Man", "Paranoid", "War Pigs") 1948
Smokey Robinson (singer for The Miracles helped define the Motown sound of the 1960s) 1940
Nicolas Copernicus (Scientist who was the first to say that the Earth travels around the Sun) 1473
February 20th:
Cherry Pie day
1992 - Paula Abdul and actor Emilio Estevez ("The Mighty Ducks", "The Breakfast Club") announced their engagement.
1970 - John Lennon's "Instant Karma" was released in the U.S.
1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1872 - The toothpick is patented.
1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act thereby creating the U.S. Post Office.
Chris Thile (Mandolin/guitar player for Nickel Creek: "When You Come Back Down", "This Side", "When in Rome") 1981
Ed Graham (drummer for The Darkness: "I Believe in a Thing Called Love") 1976
Brian Littrell (Backstreet Boys member has released a popular Christian album: "Welcome Home", "Wish") 1975
Brendon Small (Creator of the cartoon/comedy series "Home Movies" and "Dr. Katz") 1975
Kurt Cobain (Lead singer of Nirvana, married Courtney Love, committed suicide) 1967
Cindy Crawford (model) 1966
French Stewart ("3rd Rock From the Sun") 1964
Charles Barkley (Basketball player) 1963
Joel Hodgson (creator and human star of the movie spoof series "Mystery Science Theater 3000") 1960
Sidney Poitier (The first African-American to win an Oscar for "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?", also "In The Heat Of The Night") 1924
Harry Goz (played Captain Murphy on the cartoon/comedy series "Sealab 2021") 1932
February 21st:
2000 - David Letterman returned to his Late Night show about five weeks after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass operation.
1981 - Prince appeared on "Saturday Night Live" and performed "Party Up." It was his first appearance on the show.
1970 - The Jackson 5 made their TV debut on "American Bandstand."
1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
1958 - The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
1947 - Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in about 60 seconds. The photos were black and white. The camera went on sale the following year.
1878 - The first telephone directories issued in the U.S. were distributed to residents in New Haven, CT. It was a single page of only fifty names.
1858 - The first electric burglar alarm was installed in Boston, MA.
1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
1804 - The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was demonstrated in Wales.
Ellen Page ("Juno", "Hard Candy") 1987
Charlotte Church (Welsh child star opera singer) 1986
Bob Burton, Jr. (World's fastest Rubik's Cube solver, can solve it in under 20 seconds) 1985
Jennifer Love Hewitt ("Party of 5", "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "The Tuxedo", "Heartbreakers", "Ghost Whisperer") 1979
Nicole Parker (MADtv) 1978
Chuck Palahniuk (Author of "Fight Club") 1962
Kelsey Grammer ("Cheers", "Frasier") 1955
William Louis Petersen (Gil Grissom on "CSI: Las Vegas") 1953
Alan Rickman (Snape on "Harry Potter", also "Die Hard 1" "Sweeny Todd", "Love Actually", "Galaxy Quest", "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves") 1946
Rue McClanahan (Blanche on "The Golden Girls") 1935
Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe brought much suffering to his country) 1923
February 22nd:
2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest ever robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly, the first cloned sheep to be born was born in July 1996.
1989 - Milli Vanilli won a Grammy for Best New Artist. It was admitted later that they were not the vocalists on the album.
1968 - Genesis released its first single, "The Silent Sun" from their debut album "From Genesis to Revolation." Peter Gabriel was the singer and Phil Collins joined 2 albums later.
1956 - Elvis Presley entered the music charts for the first time with "Heartbreak Hotel."
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
Penny Flame (Pornstar 2002-) 1983
Jenna Haze (born Jennifer Corrales, pornstar 2001-) 1982
Drew Barrymore 1975
Jeri Ryan ("Star Trek Voyager", "Boston Public") 1968
Steve "Crocodille Hunter" Irwin 1962
Lady Baden Powell (married Lord B-P and founded Girl Scouts) 1889
Lord Baden-Powell (married Lady B-P and founded Boy Scouts) 1857
Frederic Chopin (Classical pianist and composer) 1810
George Washington (American General during the American Revolutionary War and 1st US President 1789-97) 1732
February 23rd:
Banana Bread Day
Dog Biscuit Day
2005 - The New York, NY, city medical examiner's office annouced that it had exhausted all efforts to identify the remains of the people killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, due to the limits of DNA technology. About 1,600 people had been identified leaving more than 1,100 unidentified.
1997 - NBC-TV aired "Schindler's List." It was completely uncensored.
1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, ground forces crossed the border of Saudi Arabia into the country of Iraq. Less than four days later the war was over due to the surrender or withdraw of Iraqi forces.
1974 - Columbia Records released Billy Joel's "Piano Man."
1963 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.
1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA.
1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio" was released.
1919 - The Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.
1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
Dakota Fanning (Child actress: "Trapped", "Taken", "War of the Worlds", "Uptown Girls", "Dreamer", "The Cat in the Hat", "I Am Sam") 1994
Kristin Davis ("Sex and the City") 1965
Michael Dell (Founded his company at 19 from his dorm room) 1965
Patricia Richardson (Tim Allen's TV wife on "Home Improvement") 1951
Johnny Winter (White-haired blues/rock guitarist) 1944
George Handel (Wrote the "Hallelujah chorus" in his famous classical piece "Massiah") 1865
Johannes Gutenberg (Invented the printing press and printed the Bible) 1400
February 24th:
1998 - Elton John was knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
1992 - Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were married in Hawaii.
1993 - Eric Clapton won six Grammy Awards for the song "Tears In Heaven."
1992 - "Wayne's World," the movie based on a recurring "Sat. Night Live" skit, opened in U.S. theaters.
1980 - NBC premiered the TV movie "Harper Valley P.T.A." The movie was based on the 1968 hit song by Jeannie C. Riley and was the pilot for a TV show a year later. The comedy series ran for 31 episodes over 2 seasons.
1979 - "Roxanne" was released by The Police.
1965 - The Beach Boys recorded "Help Me Rhonda".
1848 - The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx was published.
1839 - Mr. William S. Otis received a patent for the steam shovel.
1821 - Mexico declared independence from Spain.
1803 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled itself to be the final interpreter of all constitutional issues.
Steven Jobs (Co-founder of Apple computers) 1955
Joe Lieberman (Connecticut senator was Al Gore's running mate in 2000) 1942
Abe Vigoda ("The Godfather" and TV's "Barney Miller" actor is often in sketches on Conan O'Brien's late night talk show) 1921
February 25th:
1928 - The Federal Radio Commission issued the first U.S. television license to Charles Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, DC.
1963 - The Beatles released their first U.S. single "Please Please Me."
1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded "That'll Be The Day." The song would be their first hit.
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" debuted on NBC. The variety/sketch show ran for 109 episodes over 4 years.
1919 - The state of Oregon became the first state to place a tax on gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.
1836 - Samuel Colt received a patent for the Colt 45.
Justin Berfield (Reese on "Malcolm in the Middle") 1986
Sean Astin ("The Goonies", "Lord of the Rings", "Rudy", "24") 1971
T.J. Hart [Pornstar (1997-) known for playing milf characters] 1967
George Harrison (Guitarist for the Beatles whose biggest solo hit was "I've Got My Mind Set On You") 1943
Anthony Burgess (author of "A Clockwork Orange") 1917
Jim Backus (Played Thurston Howell III on "Gilligan's Island" and the voice of "Mr. Magoo") 1913
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French impressionist painter) 1841
February 26th:
Pistachio Day
2002 - Alanis Morissette's third album "Under Rug Swept" was released. The single was "Hands Clean."
1998 - Tommy Lee of Motley Crue was formally charged with abusing his wife Pamela Anderson Lee, and one of their sons, Dylan.
1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops were being withdrawn from Kuwait.
1995 - Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (Led Zepplin) began a world tour to support their reunion album "No Quarter."
1977 - The Eagles' "Hotel California" was released.
1970 - The Beatles album "Hey Jude" aka "Beatles Again" was released in the U.S. It contained the songs "Revolution" and "Hey Jude," and was their next-to-last album.
1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.
1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
Julia Bond [Pornstar (2005-) She appeared on The Jerry Springer Show in 2006 and revealed to her mother that she was in porn] 1987
Erykah Badu (R&B singer often wears African head wraps) 1972
Michael Bolton (soft rock/pop singer: "When a Man Loves a Woman", "I Said I Loved You But I Lied") 1952
Johnny Cash (pop/country singer: "Ring of Fire", "Ballad of a Teenage Queen", "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Hurt", "A Boy Named Sue", "Jackson", "Ghost Riders", "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "The Long Black Veil") 1932
Antoine "Fats" Domino ("Blueberry Hill", "I'm Walking", "Ain't That A Shame", "Poor Me") 1928
Tony Randall (TV's "The Odd Couple") 1920
Jackie Gleason ("The Honeymooners) 1916
William Frawley (Fred Mertz on "I Love Lucy") 1887
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (his wild west show glorified the American frontier) 1846
Levi Strauss (invented demin pants) 1829
Victor Hugo (wrote the book "Les Miserables") 1802
February 27th:
Polar Bear day
1997 - In Ireland, divorce became legal.
1991 - U.S. President George Bush announced live on television that "Kuwait is liberated."
1974 - "People" magazine was first issued by Time-Life (later known as Time-Warner).
1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.
1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.
1827 - New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
Josh Groban (classical/pop singer sang a remake of Selah's hit "You Raise Me Up", also "Remember When It Rained") 1981
Chelsea Clinton (daughter of former US President Bill and Hilary Clinton) 1980
Bonita Saint (Pornstar 1999-2003) 1974
Ralph Nadar (advocate for seatbelts in cars, ran for US President in 2004 & 2008) 1934
Ariel Sharon (Prime Minister of Israel since 2001) 1928
John Steinbeck (author of "Of Mice and Men", "The Winter of Our Discontent", "The Pearl", "The Grapes of Wrath") 1902
February 28th:
2004 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins the Best Picture Oscar, along with 10 other awards, at the 76th Annual Academy Awards. (Feb. 29)
1984 - Michael Jackson won a record eight Grammy awards connected to the album "Thriller."
1983 - "M*A*S*H" became the most watched television program in history when the final episode aired.
1979 - Mr. Ed, the talking horse from the TV show "Mr. Ed", died.
1944 - Smokey the Bear became the symbol for "Only you can prevent forest fires."
1885 - AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) was incorporated. The company was capitalized on only $100,000 and provided long distance service for American Bell.
1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.
Karolína Kurková (Czech/American Victoria's Secret model) 1984
Ali Larter ("Heroes") 1976
Patrick Monahan (singer for Train: "I Am", "Meet Virginia", "Drops of Jupiter", "Calling All Angels", "Cab") 1969
Gilbert Gottfried (loud, squinty commedian often on "The Tonight Show", was the voice of the parrot Iago in "Aladdin") 1955
Mario Andretti (race car driver) 1940
February 29th (can't forget these people) -
Jeffrey "Ja Rule" Atkins (rapper) 1976 (He'll be 8!)
Tony Robbins (motivational speaker) 1960 (He'll be 12!)
March 1st:
2006 - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2003 - In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22 different organizations around the government became part of the Department of Homeland Security. This completed the largest government reorganization since the beginning of the Cold War.
2002 - Operation Anaconda began in eastern Afghanistan. Allied forces were fighting against Taliban and Al Quaida fighters.
2001 - The final episode of "La Femme Nikita" aired. The series ran for 96 episodes over 5 seasons.
1998 - Prince released the 3-CD set "Crystal Ball." The album was full of previously unreleased songs.
1974 - Seven people were indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in. The charge was conspiring to obstruct justice.
1969 - Jim Morrison of the Doors was arrested and officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness in Miami. Morrison was later sentenced. Morrison died while the sentence was under appeal.
1968 - Johnny Cash and June Carter were married.
1968 - Elton John's first single, "I've Been Loving You," was released in England. It was a single-only release.
1957 - The Everly Brothers signed with Cadence Records and then recorded "Bye Bye Love."
1941 - The first FM Radio station opened in Nashville, TN.
1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
1867 - Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state.
1803 - Ohio became the 17th U.S. state.
1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. 7 years later they abandonded it for the US Constitution.
1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar (played Zach on the series "Saved By The Bell") 1974
Russell Wong (starred in the 17-episode action series "Vanishing Son" in 1994) 1963
Ron Howard ("Andy Griffith", "Happy Days" star is now a movie director) 1954
Harry Belafonte [pop/calypso singer: "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)", "Jump In The Line (The Conga Line)"] 1927
Pete Rozelle (NFL commissioner originated the Super Bowl) 1926
Glenn Miller (Swinging band leader) 1904
March 2nd:
Banana Cream Pie Day
2004 - NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.
1996 - The first episode of "Pacific Blue" aired. The series about a bike patrol unit ran for 101 episodes over 5 seasons.
1996 - John Howard is elected Prime Minister of Australia.
1995 - Yahoo! is incorporated.
1964 - "Twist and Shout" by the Beatles was released in the U.S.
1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
1933 - "King Kong" premieres in New York City.
1877 - In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress.
1807 - The U.S. Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
Ben Roethlisberger (NFL quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers) 1982
Chris Martin (singer for Coldplay) 1977
Daniel Craig (British actor cast as James Bond in the 2006 movie "Casino Royale") 1968
Jon Bon Jovi 1962
Lorainne Newman (Original castmember of "Saturday Night Live" known as the daughter of the Coneheads) 1952
Karen Carpenter (pop singer died of anorexia: "We've Only Just Begun", "Sing", Rainy Days and Mondays", "Hurting Each Other", "Close To You") 1950
Eddie Money (sang "Two Tickets To Paradise") 1949
Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet leader 1985-91) 1931
D esi Arnaz (Ricky Ricardo on "I Love Lucy") 1917
Theodore Geisel aka Dr. Seuss ("The Cat in the Hat", "Hop on Pop", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas") 1904
March 3rd:
US National Anthem Day
2007 - The Iditarod begins. The dogsled race begins in Anchorage, Alaska, and ends in Nome, Alaska, several days later.
1998 - Madonna's album "Ray of Light" was released. Singles included "Ray of Light", "The Power of Goodbye", and "Frozen."
1991 - Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers. The scene was captured on amateur video.
1986 - The pilot episode of "Matlock" aired on NBC. The series ran for 195 episodes over 9 seasons.
1985 - The TV show "Moonlighting" premiered. The series, starring Cybill Shepherd and introducing Bruce Willis, ran for 67 episodes over 5 seasons.
1956 - Morocco gained its independence.
1931 - The "Star Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as "Defense of Fort McHenry."
1923 - The first issue of Time magazine was published.
1918 - The Treaty of Brest Litovsky was signed by Germany, Austria and Russia. The treaty ended Russia's participation in World War I.
1915 - The motion picture "Birth of a Nation" debuted in New York City.
1845 - Florida became the 27th U.S. state.
Jessica Biel ("7th Heaven") 1982
Rio Mariah (pornstar 2002-) 1980
Ronan Keating [member of Boyzone: "Love Me For a Reason", solo: "Last Thing on My Mind (with LeAnn Rimes)", he is popular in Europe] 1977
Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer (TV's "Ed") 1970
Anthony Terrell Smith aka Tone Loc (early '90s rapper: "Wild Thing", "Funky Cold Medina") 1966
Duncan Phillips [drummer for The Newsboys: "Wherever We Go (That's Where the Party's At)", "A Million Pieces", "Shine", "Breakfast"] 1964
James Doohan (played Scotty on the original series of "Star Trek") 1920
Alexander Graham Bell (While experimenting in ways for the deaf to hear he came up with the telephone) 1847
March 4th:
Poundcake Day
1999 - Monica Lewinsky's book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton went on sale in the U.S.
1997 - The first episode of "The Practice" aired on ABC. The legal drama ran for 168 episodes over 8 seasons.
1997 - The first episode of "Just Shoot Me" was aired. The comedy ran for 148 episodes over 7 seasons.
1950 - Walt Disney’s "Cinderella" was released.
1933 - U.S. President Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
1925 - Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Washington, DC. The presidential inauguration was broadcast on radio for the first time.
1908 - The New York board of education banned the act of whipping students in school.
1902 - The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded in Chicago.
1877 - Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
1794 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. The Amendment limited the jurisdiction of the federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well.
1791 - Vermont was admitted as the 14th U.S. state. It was the first addition to the original 13 American colonies.
1789 - The first Congress of the United States met in New York and declared that the U.S. Constitution was in effect.
1766 - The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, which had caused bitter and violent opposition in the U.S. colonies.
Summer Cummings (pornstar 1990-) 1968
Dav Pilkey (author of the popular children's series "Captain Underpants") 1966
Jason Curtis Newsted (Bass player for Metallica) 1963
Patricia Heaton (played Debra on "Everybody Loves Raymond") 1958
Steve Burns (voices Rodney and Mitch on the long-running weekly radio/web dramedy series "Adventures In Odyssey") 1956
Antonio Vivaldi (clasical composer of "Four Seasons") 1678
March 5th:
2004 - Martha Stewart was found guilty of lying about the reason for selling 3,298 shares of ImClone Systems stock, conspiracy, making false statement and obstruction of justice.
2002 - MTV began airing "The Osbournes." The reality television show followed the daily activities of rock musician Ozzy Osbourne and his family.
1836 - Samuel Colt manufactured the first pistol (.34-caliber).
1783 - Sebastien Lenormand demonstrated the first parachute he designed based on old Leonardo da Vinci drawings.
Jake Lloyd (played the child Anikan Skywalker in "The Phantom Menace") 1989
Melanie Jagger (Pornstar 2002-) 1980
Jolene Blalock (Star Trek Enterprise) 1975
Eddy Grant (sang "Electric Avenue") 1948
Dean Stockwell (Played the hologram Al on the series "Quantum Leap") 1936
March 6th:
Oreo Cookie day
Chocolate Cheesecake day
2007- Former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was found guility on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
1992 - The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired. The series had aired 201 episodes over 8 seasons.
1988 - The first episode of "In the Heat of the Night" aired. The series, based on a novel and Sidney Portier movie, starred Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker on "All in the Family" and "Archie's Place") and ran for 168 episodes over 8 seasons.
1976 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon" was released.
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
1970 - Charles Manson released his folk album "Lie: The Love And Terror Cult" to finance his defense against murder charges.
1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
1912 - Oreo Cookies were first sold.
1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.
Sarah Twain (Pornstar 2003-) 1981
Shaquille O'Neal (Basketball player) 1972
D.L. Hughley (commedian) 1963
Tom Arnold (Rosanne's ex-husband became a movie actor) 1959
Pauline Matthews aka Kiki Dee (sang "Don't Go Breaking My heart" with Elton John) 1947
Rob Reiner (Meathead on "All in the Family") 1945
Marion Barry (Mayor of Washington DC arrested for cocaine) 1936
Ed McMahon (Johnny Carson's partner and announcer, hosted "Star Search") 1923
Lou Costello (Abbet and Costello) 1906
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian artist painted the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel) 1475
March 7th:
2002 - A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.
1986 - The final episode of "Different Strokes" was aired. The show had aired 189 episodes over 8 seasons.
1985 - The song "We Are the World" was heard on the radio for the first time.
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) began broadcasting.
1975 - The final episode of "The Odd Couple" aired on ABC. The show had aired 114 episodes over 5 seasons.
1967 - Sandra Dee received a divorce from Bobby Darin.
1933 - During the Great Depression, the board game Monopoly was invented. Originally, real money was used.
1908 - Cincinnati's mayor, Mark Breith announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."
1906 - Finland granted women the right to vote.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
1854 - Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine.
Olesya Rulin ("High School Musical") 1988
Dani Woodward (Pornstar 2003-) 1984
Kate Michael [Miss District of Columbia (D.C.) 2006] 1982
Gabriella Banks (Redhead pornstar 2001-) 1981
Laura Prepon (Redhead on "That '70s Show") 1980
Faith Adams (Pornstar 2000-) 1980
Katie Gold (Pornstar 1997-) 1978
Judith Grant (Pornstar 1997-2003) 1977
Devon Michaels (Pornstar 2002-) 1976
Jenna Fischer (Plays Pam Beesly on the US version of "The Office") 1974
Rachel Weiss (sexy English actress in "The Mummy", "The Constant Gardener", "Confidence", "Runaway Jury") 1971
Wanda Sykes (Commedian) 1964
Bill Brochtrup ("NYPD Blue") 1963
Tammy Faye Bakker (Televangelist caught in embezzlement scandal) 1947
Daniel Travanti ("Hill Street Blues") 1940
Luther Burbank (Experimented in plant breeding) 1849
March 8th:
"Spring ahead" as Daylight Saving Time begins.
Farmers Day
International Women's day
Peanut Clusters day
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
1996 - The first episode of "Muppets Tonight!" aired. The 22-episode series was supposed to be the next generation of the 1970s "Muppet Show."
1993 - "Beavis and Butthead" premiered on MTV as a series. The animated series ran for 199 episodes over 8 seasons.
1974 - The last episode of "The Brady Bunch" aired. The series ran 117 episodes over 5 seasons.
Devon Werkheiser (Plays the title character on "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide") 1991
James van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek") 1977
Freddie Prinze, Jr. (Leading man in several '90s romantic comedies) 1976
Kathy Ireland (Sports Illustrated model) 1963
Micky Dolenz (The Monkees) 1945
Claire Trevor (won best supporting actress for "Key Largo") 1909
March 9th:
2005 - Dan Rather appeared for the last time on "The CBS Evening News".
1993 - Rodney King testified at the federal trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused of violating his civil rights.
1987 - U2 released the album "The Joshua Tree". The album, including the singles "With Or Without You", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", and "Where The Streets Have No Name", is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums ever recorded.
1965 - The first U.S. combat troops arrived in South Vietnam.
1964 - The first Ford Mustang rolled off of the Ford assembly line.
1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North America.
1788 - Connecticut became the 5th state to join the United States.
Niki Blond (Pornstar 1999-) 1981
Brittany Snow (Meg Pryor on "American Dreams", also "John Tucker Must Die", "The Pacifier") 1986
Howard Bailey, Jr aka Chingy (rapper) 1980
Juliette Binoche ("The English Patient") 1964
March 10th:
1997 - The series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" began airing. The series ran for 144 episodes over 7 seasons.
1991 - "Phase Echo" began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000 U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.
1978 - CBS begaan airing the series "The Incredible Hulk." The series ran for 83 episodes over 5 seasons.
1971 - The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.
1969 - James Earl Ray plead guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published. It outlined why the American colonies should be freed from England's rule.
Olivia Wilde ("The OC", "The Black Donnellys") 1984
Carrie Underwood (country singer won "American Idol 2005" and sang "Jesus Take the Wheel") 1983
Prince Edward of England 1963
Sharon Stone ("Basic Instinct") 1958
Osana Bin Laden 1957
Shannon Tweed (Playboy model) 1957
Chuck Norris ("Walker, Texas Ranger") 1940
James Earl Ray (shot Martin Luther King, Jr.) 1928
March 11th:
1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1969 - Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
1966 - Three men were convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
Thora Birch ("American Beauty") 1982
Nina Hartley [Pornstar (1984-) who advocates for 1st ammendment rights] 1959
Douglas Adams (British author of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy") 1952
Bobby McFerrin (sang "Don't Worry, Be Happy") 1950
Lawrence Welk (bandleader ran a long-running music/variety series) 1903
March 12th:
1997 - Police in Los Angeles arrested Mikail Markhasev for the shooting of Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis. Markhasev was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
1994 - The Church of England ordained its first women priests.
1993 - Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female U.S. attorney general.
1985 - The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. began arms control talks in Geneva.
1980 - In Chicago, IL, a jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (His actual cell was the setting of the first season of "Prison break.")
1974 - "Wonder Woman" debuted on ABC-TV. The show later went to CBS-TV. The series ran 59 episodes over 3 seasons.
1959 - The U.S. House joined the U.S. Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1933 - U.S. President Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation. It was the first of the "Fireside Chats."
1930 - Ghandi began his 200-mile march to the sea that symbolized his defiance of British rule over India.
1923 - Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated phonofilm. It was his technique for putting sound on motion picture film.
1912 - The Girl Scout organization was founded. The original name was Girl Guides.
1894 - Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
1789 - The U.S. Post Office was established.
Ron Jeremy (Pornstar 1979-) 1953
James Taylor (singer/songwriter: "You've Got a Friend", "Fire and Rain", "How Sweet It Is", "Shower The People", "Carolina In My Mind", "Handy Man", "Your Smiling Face") 1948
Jack Kerouac (Hippie poet and author of "On The Road") 1922
March 13th:
Friday the 13th
1987 - Bryan Adams' "Heat of the Night" became the first commercially released cassette single in the U.S.
1975 - Rush released "Fly By Night".
1974 - The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
1973 - Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of the Moon".
1951 - The comic strip "Dennis the Menace" appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country.
1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory. (Although it has since been demoted.)
1852 - The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.
1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
Ed Sloan (guitar player for Christian/Mainstream rock band Crossfade and the single "Cold") 1973
Adam Clayton (Bass player for U2) 1960
William H. Macy ["E.R." (1994-1998), "Mr. Holland's Opus", "Door To Door", "Fargo", "Wild Hogs", "Cellular", "Air Force One"] 1950
Neil Sedaka (Pop singer of 1960s: "Calandar Girl", "Happy Birthday Sweet 16", "Breaking Up is Hard To Do") 1939
L. Ron Hubbard (Sci-Fi author invented Scientology) 1911
March 14th:
Potato Chips day
1968 - The final episode of "Batman" aired on ABC. The half-hour action/comedy series had aired 120 episodes over 3 years.
1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
1958 - Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star" was certified as the first gold record.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.
1923 - President Harding became the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
Eva Angelina [Pornstar (2003-) known for wearing glasses] 1985
Taylor Hanson (Keyboardist for teen rock band Hanson) 1983
Monica Mayhem (Pornstar 2000-) 1978
Brooke Hunter (Pornstar 1999-) 1970
Billy Crystal (actor started in the comedy series "Soap" and movies: "When Harry Met Sally", "Monsters, Inc.", "City Slickers", "Analyze This") 1947
Michael Caine (British actor: "Secondhand Lions", "The Cider House Rules", "The Quiet American", "A Bridge Too Far", "Miss Congeniality", "Batman Begins", "The Prestige") 1933
Hank Ketcham (Created the comic strip "Dennis The Menace") 1920
Les Brown (Big-band leader famous for "Sentimental Journey") 1912
Albert Einstein (Theory of Relativity and atom bomb creator) 1879
March 15th:
The Ides of March (The day Julius Caesar was assassinated, and is associated with doom)
2002 - In Texas, Andrea Yates received a life sentence for drowning her five children on June 20, 2001.
1991 - Four Los Angeles police officers were indicted in the beating of Rodney King on March 3, 1991.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1985 - The first episode of "Mr. Belvedere" aired on ABC. The sitcom ran for 117 episodes over 6 seasons.
1977 - The first episode of "Eight is Enough" was aired on ABC-TV. The comedy ran for 112 episodes over 5 seasons.
1892 - Jesse W. Reno patented the Reno Inclined Elevator. It was the first escalator.
1820 - Maine was admitted as the 23rd state of the Union.
44 B.C. - Julius Caesar was assassinated.
Jeremy Camp (rock singer: "There Will Be a Day", "Understand", "Right Here", "Take You Back", "This Man", "What It Means") 1978
Eva Longoria ("Desperate Housewives") 1975
Kim Raver ("24", "A Night At The Museum") 1969
Fabio (Male model is often on the cover of romance novels) 1961
Judd Hirsch (TV's "Taxi") 1935
Andrew Jackson (7th US President 1829-37) 1767
March 16th:
Artichoke Hearts day
Automobile Association of America (AAA) Day
1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.
1994 - Tonya Harding plead guilty in Portland, OR, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1980 - The first closed captioned television series were broadcasted. The shows were The ABC Sunday Night Movie (ABC), The Wonderful World of Disney (NBC) and Masterpiece Theatre (PBS).
1964 - Capitol released the Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" backed with "You Can't Do That."
1963 - "Puff The Magic Dragon" was released by Peter, Paul and Mary.
1945 - Iwo Jima was declared secure by the Allies. However, small pockets of Japanese resistance still existed.
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty between Germany and the US after WW1.
1850 - The novel "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time.
Alan Tudyk (Wash on "Firefly"/"Serenity", Steve the Pirate in "Dodgeball") 1971
Lauren Graham (Sexy actress plays the mother on "The Gilmore Girls") 1967
Gore Verbinski (directed "Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3" and "The Ring 1") 1964
William Jonathan Drayton Jr. aka Flavor Flav (rapper from Public Enemy apparently had a reality show) 1963
Nancy Wilson (Singer for rock band Heart) 1954
Erik Estrada (TV: "CHIPS", "Sealab 2021") 1949
Jerry Lewis (Commedian, actor, muscular distrophy telethon host) 1926
Pat Nixon (US President Nixon's faithful wife) 1912
James Madison (4th US President 1809-17) 1751
March 17th:
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Submarine day
1992 - White South Africans approved constitutional reforms to give legal equality to blacks.
1956 - Carl Perkins appeared on "Ozark Jubilee." It was his first television appearance. A year earlier he had his first hit with his famous "Blue Suede Shoes."
1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act that had caused resentment in the North American colonies.
461 - Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. Ireland celebrates this day in his honor.
Katie Morgan (Pornstar 2001-) 1980
Nicole Austin aka Coco (Playboy model married rapper Ice-T) 1979
Justin Hawkins (Singer for The Darkness: "I Believe in a Thing Called Love") 1975
Mia Hamm [Led the US soccer (football) team to Olympic gold in 1996] 1972
Billy Corgan (Singer for Smashing Pumpkins) 1967
Gary Sinese (Lt. Dan in "Forrest Gump", also "Apollo 13", "Of Mice and Men", "Imposter", "CSI: N.Y.") 1955
Kurt Russell ("Breakdown", "Miracle", "Overboard", "The Thing", "Stargate: The Movie") 1951
Patrick Duffy (TV: "Dallas", "Step By Step") 1949
John Sebastian (Singer for The Lovin' Spoonful: "Do You Believe In Magic?") 1944
John Wayne Gacy (American seriel killer, the first season of "Prison Break" was filmed in his cell) 1942
Nat "King" Cole 1919
Shemp Howard (the fourth stooge) 1895
March 18th:
2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
2003 - US enters war in Iraq.
1998 - Michael Jackson and his son went shopping at a toy store in Munich, Germany. Jackson was dressed as an Arab woman.
1985 - Australian long running series, "Neighbours" aired its first episode. The daily soap opera still airs and has over 5100 episodes.
1981 - The first episode of "The Greatest American Hero" aired on ABC. The sci-fi/hero/comedy ran for 44 episodes over 3 seasons.
1961 - The Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy was introduced.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill, making Hawaii the 50th State.
1931 - Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1905 - Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married.
1881 - Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens.
1874 - Hawaii signed a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the U.S.
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo founded American Express.
Adam Levine (Sang "Harder to Breathe" by Maroon 5) 1979
Tawny Roberts (Pornstar 2000-) 1979
Dane Cook (comedian) 1972
Vanessa Williams (Stripped of Miss America for posing in Playboy, became a soft rock singer: "Save the Best For Last", acted in "The Odyssey") 1963
Charley Pride (The only black country singer: "Kiss An Angel Good Morning") 1938
Grover Cleveland (22nd US President 1885-89, 24th US President 1893-97) 1837
March 19th:
Agriculture Day
Chocolate Caramel Day
1984 - The TV show "Kate and Allie" premiered. The comedy aired 122 episodes over 6 seasons.
1977 - The last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired. The comedy aired 168 episodes over 7 seasons.
1957 - Elvis Presley bought the mansion he called Graceland.
1953 - The Academy Awards aired on television for the first time.
1931 - The state of Nevada legalized gambling.
1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.
Bruce Willis 1955
Glenn Close ("Fatal Attraction", "101 Dalmations") 1947
Ursela Andress (the first Bond Girl in "Dr. No") 1936
Wyatt Earp (American western marshall in famous gunfight at the OK Coral) 1848
March 20th:
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First day of Spring (Northern Hemisphere)
First day of Fall (Southern Hemisphere)
2003 - U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait.
2002 - Actress Pamela Anderson disclosed that she had hepatitis C.
2002 - Arthur Andersen plead innocent to charges that it had shredded documents and deleted computer files related to the energy company Enron.
1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in Gibraltar.
1961 - Ricky Nelson recorded "Hello Mary Lou."
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," about escaped slaves, was first published.
Christy Carlson Romano (the sister on "Even Stevens") 1984
David Thewlis (Professor Lupin on "Harry Potter") 1963
Big Bird 1969
John de Lancie (played Q on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", also was in "Stargate SG1") 1948
Lois Lowry (author of "The Giver" and "Number the Stars") 1937
Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood") 1928
Ozzie Nelson (The father on the long running 1950-60s sitcom "The Nelsons") 1906
Thanks X-Ray for the hard work. But you missed one yesterday - Vida Guerra 3-19-74. Have you seen her all photoshopped up in playboy? That's what my next wife is gonna look like.......in my dreams!!!!!
Oh, yeah, I don't really know her, so that must be why I missed it. Glad you like the thread.
March 21st:
French Bread Day
Children's Poetry Day
2001 - Nintendo released Game Boy Advance.
1994 - Steven Spielberg won his first Oscars. They were for best picture and best director for "Schindler's List."
1989 - Dick Clark announced that he would no longer be hosting the show "American Bandstand." He had been the host since 1956.
1989 - Madonna's LP "Like a Prayer" was released. Singles included: "Like a Prayer", "Cherish", "Express Yourself", and "Oh Father."
1986 - "Parade" (the soundtrack for "Under the Cherry Moon") by Prince was released. The single was "Kiss."
1982 - The movie "Annie" premiered.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow.
1980 - On the TV show "Dallas", J.R. Ewing was shot.
1970 - "ABC" by the Jackson Five was released.
Matthew Broderick ("Farris Bueller") 1962
Rosie O'Donnell (Annoying talk show host is now on "The View") 1962
Gary Oldman (Sirius Black in "Harry Potter", Lee Harvey Oswald in "JFK", also "The Fifth Element", "Air Force One", "Hannibal") 1958
Timothy Dalton (Played James Bond in "The Living Daylights" and "License to Kill") 1944
Johann Sebastian Bach (German classical composer) 1685
March 22nd:
1963 - The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," which included "Twist and Shout" and "Love Me Do" was released in the UK.
1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.
1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.
1765 - The Stamp Act was passed. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists.
1457 - The Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.
Britney Madison (Pornstar 2003-5) 1984
Elisha Winters (Pornstar 2005-) 1984
Reese Witherspoon ("Legally Blonde", "I Walk The Line") 1976
Jessica Darlin (Pornstar 1997-) 1976
Bob Costas (Sportscaster and talk show host) 1952
Andrew Lloyd Webber (wrote songs for "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats") 1948
William Shatner (Capt. Kirk on the original "Star Trek", also "T.J. Hooker", "The Practice", "Boston Legal", Movies: "Miss Congenialty", "Showtime") 1931
Louis L'Amour (author of American Western fiction novels: "Hondo", "How the West Was Won", "Flint") 1908
March 23rd:
Toast Day
1998 - The movie "Titanic" won 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards.
1963 - The Beach Boys released "Surfin' U.S.A."
1961 - Elvis Presley recorded "Can't Help Falling in Love."
1912 - The paper Dixie Cup was invented.
1903 - The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent.
1889 - U.S. President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization.
1858 - Eleazer A. Gardner patented the cable streetcar.
1839 - The first recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] was used in Boston's Morning Post.
1775 - American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Memphis Monroe (pornstar 2005-) 1985
Keri Russell ("Felicity", "We Were Soldiers", "Mission Impossible 3") 1976
Michelle Monaghan ("MI3", "Eagle-Eye") 1976
March 24th:
Chocolate Raisins day
1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.
1981 - "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premiered.
1898 - The first automobile was sold.
1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.
Keisha Castle-Hughes (Austrailian/New Zeland actress: "Whale Rider", "Star Wars Episode 3", she was actually pregnant while filming her role as Mary in "The Nativity Story") 1990
Peyton Manning (NFL Quarterback led the Indianapolis Colts to the Super Bowl in 2007) 1976
Chad Butler (Drummer for Christian/Mainstream rock band Switchfoot: "Meant To Live", "Stars", "We Are One Tonight", "Oh Gravity", "I Dare You To Move") 1974
Alyson Hannigan ("Buffy", "American Pie", "Date Movie", "How I Met Your Mother") 1974
Lara Flynn Boyle ("Twin Peaks", "The Practice") 1970
Star Jones Reynolds (Co-host of "The View") 1962
Kelly LeBrock (British model, was in "Weird Science" and was married to Steven Segal) 1960
Tommy Hilfiger (Fashion designer) 1951
Steve McQueen (Star of action movies "Bullitt", "Papion") 1930
Joseph Barbera (with Bill Hannah, created "The Flintstones", "The Jetsons", "The Smurfs", "Scooby-Doo", "Yogi Bear") 1911
Harry Houdini (Magician) 1874
March 25th:
1994 - United States troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1986 - The first episode of "Perfect Strangers" aired on ABC.
1985 - Prince won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the soundtrack for the movie "Purple Rain."
1979 - Van Halen released the album "Van Halen II."
1977 - The final episode of "Sanford and Son" was aired.
1972 - The final episode of "Bewitched" was aired on ABC.
1968 - The 58th and final episode of "The Monkees" TV show was aired.
1960 - Roy Orbison recorded "Only the Lonely."
1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production.
1807 - British Parliament abolished the slave trade.
421 AD - The city of Venice was founded.
Katherine McPhee (2nd place finalist on "American Idol 2006", sings "Over It") 1984
Danica Patrick (sexy Indy race car driver) 1982
Natasha Yi (Korean-American Playboy model) 1979
Sarah Jessica Parker ("Sex and the City") 1965
Marcia Cross (The redhead on "Desperate Housewives") 1962
Sir Elton John ("Crocodile Rock", "Sat. Night's Alright For Fighting", "Candle In the Wind", "Believe", "I'm Still Standing", "Rocket Man", "I Want Love") 1947
Paul Michael Glaser (Played Dave Starsky on the series "Starsky and Hutch") 1943
Aretha Franklin (sang "R-E-S-P-E-C-T") 1942
Howard Cosell (Sportscaster for "Monday Night Football" and Muhammad Ali) 1920
Jack Ruby (Strip club owner killed Lee Harvey Oswald, who had killed US President John F. Kennedy) 1911
March 26th:
2000 - In Russia, acting President Vladimir Putin was elected president outright. He won a sufficient number of votes to avoid a runoff election.
1995 - The cartoon "Johnny Bravo" was aired for the first time.
1989 - The first episode of "Quantum Leap" aired on NBC.
1982 - Ground breaking ceremonies were held in Washington, DC, for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1957 - Ricky Nelson recorded his first song, a cover of Fats Domino's "I'm Walking."
1945 - The battle of Iwo Jima ended.
1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
1885 - Eastman Kodak (Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co.) produced the first commercial motion picture film in Rochester, NY.
Keira Knightly ("Pirates of the Caribbean") 1985
Brandi Lyons (Pornstar 1999-) 1979
Sandra Romain (Pornstar 2001-) 1978
Amy Smart ("Road Trip", "Rat Race", "The Butterfly Effect") 1976
Kenny Chesney (Country singer) 1968
Steven Tyler (Father of Liv and singer for Aerosmith: "What It Takes", "Dream On", "Walk This Way", "Sweet Emotion") 1948
Diana Ross (singer for The Supremes) 1944
Bob Woodward (reporter "Woodward and Berstein" that broke the Watergate scandal) 1943
James Caan ("The Godfather", "Elf", "Las Vegas") 1939
Leonard Nimoy (Spock on "Star Trek") 1931
Sandra Day O'Connor (First woman on the US Supreme Court) 1930
Robert Frost (poet wrote "The Road Not Taken") 1874
Today is a good day for babes. It is also Jennifer Grey (Dancing with the Stars with Patrick Swayze!) 3-26-60 also.
March 27th:
1984 - Cyndi Lauper released "Time After Time." An article in 1985 claimed that "in the long run, Cyndi Lauper would be bigger and more successful than Madonna."
1981 - AC/DC released "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap."
1976 - Washington, DC, opened its subway system.
1972 - Elvis Presley recorded what "Burning Love." It would turn out to be his last major hit.
1945 - Ella Fitzgerald and the Delta Rhythm Boys recorded "It's Only a Paper Moon."
1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made. The call went from Boston to New York.
1860 - The corkscrew was patented by M.L. Byrn.
1512 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.
Taylor Atelian (plays the eldest daughter on "According To Jim") 1995
Red Heaven (pornstar 2002-) 1980
Violet Blue [Pornstar (2000-), she is a Wiccan Witch and a member of Ordo Templi Orientis, a sect of the group made famous in "The DaVinci Code"] 1977
Stacy Ferguson (singer for rap group The Black Eyed Peas) 1975
Mariah Carey 1975
Brendon Hill (Drummer for Blues Traveler) 1970
Elizabeth Mitchell ("Lost") 1970
Quentin Terentino (Directed "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", "Four Rooms", "Jackie Brown", "Kill Bill") 1963
Tony Banks (Keyboardist for Genesis) 1950
David Janesson (on TV he played "The Fugitive") 1933
March 28th:
Black Forest Cake (cherry cake) day
1996 - Phil Collins announced that he was leaving Genesis to concentrate on his solo career. Ray Wilson became the singer and they released their latest album "Calling All Stations" a year later.
1986 - More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties played "We are the World" simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST.
1976 - Genesis began its first North American tour since Peter Gabriel's departure. Phil Collins was the new lead singer. They were touring to support the album "A Trick of the Tail."
1967 - Van Morrison recorded "Brown Eyed Girl."
1962 - Jack Paar made his final appearance on "The Tonight Show." Johnny Carson took over as host.
1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions, and schools.
Jarrell "J-Kwon" Jones (rapper performed "Tipsy" at 17) 1986
Julia Stiles ("Save the Last Dance", "10 things I hate About You", The "Bourne" Trilogy, "A Guy Thing", "Mona Lisa Smile") 1981
Chloe Dior (Pornstar 2001-) 1978
Reba McEntire (country singer had a sitcom) 1955
March 29th:
2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
1993 - Clint Eastwood won his first Oscars. He won them for best film and best director for the film "Unforgiven."
1984 - The Baltimore Colts NFL team move to Indianapolis, Indiana.
1973 - Vietnam War: The last United States soldiers leave South Vietnam.
1961 - The 23rd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment allowed residents of Washington, DC, to vote for president.
1901 - The first federal elections were held in Australia.
Lucy Lawless ("Xena the Warrior Princess") 1968
John Popper (singer and harmonica player for Blues Traveler: "Run-Around", "But Anyway", "Hook", "Most Precarious", "Unable To Get Free", "Amber Awaits") 1967
Elle Macpherson (Sports Illustrated supermodel) 1964
Marina Sirtis (British actress played Deanna Troi on "Star Trek The Next Generation") 1955
John Major (British Prime Minister 1990-97) 1943
Eric Idle ("Monty Python") 1943
Sam Walton (created Sam's Club and Wal-Mart) 1918
John Tyler (10th US President 1841-41) 1790
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