and Peter Taylor for
A Summons to Memphis (fiction).
1991 - Director David Lean died in London
at age 83. Sir David directed The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia,
Doctor Zhivago and many other films.
1992 - Actor Neville Brand died of emphysema. Brand played a gravelly-voiced tough guy in dozens of films, including Stalag 17,
The Birdman of Alcatraz, All the King’s Men, The George Raft Story,
The Scarface Mob and the TV series The Untouchables.
1993 - Bosnian Croats took part in a
killing spree in the village of Ahmici. 116 Muslims were
massacred as the village was burned.
1994 - Bonnie
Raitt’s Longing in Their Hearts was the #1 album in the U.S
for one week. The tracks were: Love Sneakin’ Up On You, Longing in Their
Hearts, You, Cool, Clear Water, Circle Dance, I Sho
Do, Dimming of the Day, Feeling of Falling, Steal Your Heart
Away, Storm Warning, Hell to Pay, and Shadow of Doubt.
1996 - Oprah Winfrey
hosted her syndicated show and included a segment on mad cow disease. A group of Texas cattle ranchers later sued her for her comments.
1999 - These movies opened in U.S.
theatres: Goodbye,
Lover, starring Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker,
Ellen Degeneres, Ray Mckinnon, Alex Rocco and Don Johnson; and Life, with
Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac, Miguel A. Nunez
Jr., Clarence Williams Iii, Bokeem Woodbine, Nick Cassavetes, Michale ‘Bear’ Taliferro
And Rick James.
2000 - Seven people were killed in a stampede
at the Luanda
nightclub in Lisbon, Portugal after canisters containing pepper gas were released.
2001 - The Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize
for its coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents taking custody of Elian Gonzalez.
The story also produced the breaking news photography award for Alan Diaz of the
Associated Press. Michael Chabon won the Prize for his novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. David Auburn won a
Pulitzer for his play Proof. And The Oregonian (of
Portland) won the public service award for its examination of widespread
abuses by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
2002 - The Supreme Court overturned two major
provisions of the Child Pornography Prevention Act, saying the U.S.
government went too far in trying to ban virtual child pornography.
2002 - Actor Robert Urich died in Thousand Oaks, CA at 55 years of age. Urich was
best-known as private-eye Spenser in the TV series Spenser: For Hire.
2003 - Bulletproof Monk opened
in the U.S. The sci-fi action adventure flick stars Yun-Fat Chow, Seann William Scott,
James King, Karel Roden and Victoria Smurfit.
2003 - Super-star Michael Jordan
played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia
76ers, 107-87.
2004 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Connie and
Carla, with Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella,
Alec Mapa, Chris Logan, Robert Kaiser, Ian Gomez, Nick Sandow, Dash Mihok, Robert John
Burke, Boris McGiver, Don Ackerman, Debbie Reynolds and Veena Sood; Kill Bill:
Volume 2, starring Uma Thurman and David Carradine; and The
Punisher, with Thomas Jane and John Travolta.
2005 - Kay Walsh, British character actress, died in London. She was 93 years old. Walsh made her screen debut in
Get Your Man [1934]. Her final film was Night Crossing [1982].
2005 - Cardinals meeting at the Vatican
destroyed the late Pope John Paul II’s ring and lead seal, formally ending his reign.
2007 - Shootings at
Virginia Tech University left 32 people dead. Gunman Cho Seung-Hui killed two people
in a dorm and 31 others, including hmself, at Norris Hall.
At least 15 people were hurt, some seriously. Two professors from India and Israel were
among the dead in the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history.
2008 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the combination of drugs used in death chambers of
most states
did not create a substantial risk of severe pain and therefore was constitutional.
2009 - General
Growth Properties Inc, the second largest U.S. mall owner, along with 158 of
its properties, filed the largest real estate bankruptcy in U.S. history. GGP
had about $29.6 billion in assets at the end of 2008, and $27.3 billion in debt.
2009 - Nine U.S. universities reported having
received gifts totaling more than $45 million. The schools said they had to
promise not to try to discover the donor’s identity.
2010 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres:
Death at a
Funeral, with Zoe Saldana, James Marsden, Keith David, Luke Wilson, Martin
Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Danny Glover, Columbus Short and Peter Dinklage;
and Kick-Ass,
starring Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse,
Jason Flemyng, Lyndsy Fonseca, Clark Duke, Tamer Hassan and Xander Berkeley.
2010 - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into
law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit.
2010 - Volcanic ash from Iceland’s erupting Eyjafjallajökull Volcano blanketed
parts of rural Iceland and left a widening arc of grounded aircraft across Europe as thousands of planes were kept on the
ground to avoid the hazardous ash.
2011 - Cuba and its leader
Raul Castro kicked off a four-day Communist Party congress with a big military and civilian
parade to mark 50 years since the defeat of CIA-backed exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
2012 - Half of England was in drought after the Environment Agency
declared another 17
counties short of water, and warned the situation would continue until the end of the
year.
2013 - A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Sistan and Baluchestan Province,
Iran. It was the strongest Iran earthquake in 40 years and killed 35 people.
2014 - 295
people were killed in the sinking of the Sewol passenger ferry in the Yellow Sea off South Korea.
It carried 475 passengers and crew, mostly high school students from Danwon High School
in Ansan, on an overnight trip from Incheon to Jeju island. Only 174 were rescued.
2015 - Fish continued to die in huge numbers in
a Rio de Janeiro lake that was slated
to host 2016 Olympic rowing events. This, while city authorities and biologists argued
about the cause of the die-off. Rio’s Comlurb waste management company said that it had
collected more than 37 tons of dead fish from the contaminated Rodrigo de Freitas lake.
2016 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed 660 people in Ecuador, causing
devastation in coastal towns. An unknown number of victims were trapped in ruins.
More than 700 aftershocks soon followed.
2016 - Pope Francis brought a message of hope to
thousands of people facing expulsion from Greece. The pontiff critisized
the world community for failing to end the wars that were fueling the crisis. Francis
returned hom with three families of Syrian refugees.
2017 - A North Korean medium-range missile exploded seconds after it was launched.
The missile failed hours before the arrival of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in South
Korea. “It could have failed because the system is not competent enough to make it work, but
there is a very strong belief that the U.S. - through cyber methods - has been successful on
several occasions in interrupting these sorts of tests and making them fail,” former
Conservative foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind told the BBC.
2017 - In an Easter Sunday message, Pope Francis denounced
“oppressive regimes”, but urged world leaders to prevent the spread of conflicts. This, as
tensions rose in North Korea and Syria.
2018 - The Government Accounting Office reported that the
Environmental Protection Agency had violated U.S. spending laws by
purchasing a $43,000 soundproof privacy booth for Administrator Scott Pruitt.
According to EPA, the booth “not only enables the Administrator to make and receive
phone calls to discuss sensitive information, but it also enables him to use this area
to make and receive classified telephone calls (up to the top secret level) for the
purpose of conducting agency business.”
2018 - Weibo.com, one of China’s top social networking sites,
announced that it would no longer censor content related to gay issues. This, is response to a loud public
outcry about the website’s crackdown on content related to gay-oriented content.
2019 - Pledges from French businesses, billionaires and the public
sector to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral reached some 700 million euros (790 million dollars).
This, amid an outpouring of public support for the iconic building that was destroyed by fire.
2019 - Germany officially switched on the biggest offshore wind park in the Baltic Sea, designed to supply 400,000
households with electricity. In 2018 more than 40% of Germany’s electricity had been generated
using renewable sources.
2020 - Donald Trump and friends gutted an Obama-era rule that required coal plants to cut emissions of mercury and other human health
hazards. EPA chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, said the rollback was reversing what he
thought was regulatory overreach. The (EPA) then issued a final recommendation that it was no longer
“appropriate and necessary” to regulate the emissions of mercury and other toxins from coal and/or
oil-fired power plants.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The Hearst Foundations announced a special
grant totaling $50 million to more than a hundred medical, humanitarian and cultural
organizations impacted by the epidemic. Recipients included Saint Peter’s Foundation, which supports Saint
Peter’s Health Partners in Albany, New York; Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore; and the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra. 2)Israel’s military said it had begun converting common home-use respirators into ventilators capable of providing potentially
life-saving breathing support. Israel had suffered nearly 12,600 cases of the coronavirus and 140 deaths.
3)The U.N. warned that hundreds of thousands of children could die due to the global economic downturn
sparked by the pandemic -- and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included:
For the Sake of
Vicious, starring Lora Burke, Nick Smyth and Dorian Allen; Jakob’s Wife,
with Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden and Bonnie Aarons; Killer Among Us,
starring Yasha Jackson, Andrew Richardson and Bruce MacVittie; Monday, with
Sebastian Stan, Denise Gough and Dominique Tipper; and Vanquish,
starring Ruby Rose, Morgan Freemanand Patrick Muldoon.
2021 - President Biden welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House. It was Biden’s
first presidential face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader -- and appeared to be a clear signal
to an increasingly aggressive China about the shared commitment to strategic cooperation between
the U.S. and Japan.
2021 - Jon Schaffer, a founding member of the far-right group the
Oath Keepers, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his participation in the riot
at the Capitol building on Jan. 6. He was the first Capitol riot suspect to plead guilty.
(Prosecutors agreed to a sentence of 3.5-4.5 years in prison, depending on Schaffer’s
cooperation in prosecuting other rioters. And because of that cooperation, he was to also be
granted sponsorship in the Federal Witness Protection Program.)
2021 - South Africa started a COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign
by accepting online registrations for the elderly to receive shots.
2022 - Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth after 183 days in space,
completing the country’s longest crewed space mission to that time.
2022 - Russia’s 8th Army commander, Major General Vladimir Frolov, killed
earlier in the week, was buried in St. Petersburg. Believed to have been deployed in the area around
besieged Mariupol, Ukraine, Frolov was the 8th Russian General to die in the Ukraine invasion.
2022 - New bird flu cases were detected in a commercial chicken flock in
Pennsylvania and a backyard flock in Utah, with the outbreak having spread to
more than 30 states in the U.S.
2023 - Finland was building a fence along its 800-plus-mile border with
Russia, just two weeks after it became a member of NATO and more than a year after
Russia invaded Ukraine. Finish Brigadier General Jari Tolppanen said, “A border barrier
fence was no kind of political topic before the war. And actually, it was not a kind of
plan of the Finnish border guard. All changed after the attack.” Finnish authorities said
the main purpose of the fence was to prevent illegal immigration from Russia and,
when finished, will cover roughly 120 miles near key crossing points.
and more...
Birthdays on This Day
April 16
1660 - Hans Sloane
doctor, naturalist,
collector: instrumental in the founding of the British Museum [the national museum
and library of the United Kingdom]: Sloane left his personal collection to Great Britain
upon his death; died Jan 11, 1753
1741 - Charles Willson Peale
artist: portrait painter, primarily of colonial and American Revolutionary War figures; died Feb 22, 1827
1866 - José de Diego
patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico; April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto
Rico in honor of de Diego; died July 17, 1918
1867 - Wilbur Wright
aviator: one of the Wright Brothers; died May 30, 1912
1871 - John Millington Synge
poet,
playwright: The Playboy of the Western World, The Aran Islands,
Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints;
died Mar 24, 1909
1889 - Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin
‘The Little Tramp’: producer, actor: The Tramp, The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, The
Great Dictator Limelight; formed United Artists Corporation [w/Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks,
D.W. Griffith; died Dec 25, 1977
1911 - Christine McIntyre
actress: The Gunman
from Bodie, Riders of the West, Forbidden Trails, Dawn on the Great
Divide, Ranger’s Roundup, Border Buckaroo; w/The Three Stooges: Idle
Roomers, Open Season for Saps, No Dough Boys, Three Pests in a
Mess, etc.; died July 8, 1984
1912 - Catherine Scorsese
actress: Moonstruck,
It’s Not Just You, Murray!, Wise
Guys, Casino; mother of director Martin Scorsese; died Jan 6, 1997
1913 - Les Tremayne (Henning)
actor: The War of the
Worlds, Francis Goes to West Point, The Slime People, I Love
Melvin; died Dec 19, 2003
1914 - John Hodiak
actor:
The Miniver Story, Conquest of Cochise; died Oct 19, 1955
1917 - William ‘Billy’ Benedict
actor: Computercide, The Dead Don’t Lie, The Over-the-Hill
Gang, Let’s Go Navy!, Bowery Bombshell, Janie, Perils of Nyoka;
died
Nov 25, 1999
1917 - Barry Nelson (Nielsen)
actor: Airport, The Shining, Pete ’n’ Tillie,
The Human Comedy, Island Claw, Shadow of the Thin Man;
died Apr 7, 2007
1918 - Spike Milligan
actor:
Gormenghast, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, The
Big Freeze, Yellowbeard, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, The Great
Bong; died Feb 27, 2002
1919 - Merce Cunningham
dancer, choreographer: films: Changing Steps, Beach Birds
for Camera; died Sep 26, 2009
1921 - Sir Peter Ustinov
Academy Award-winning actor:
Spartacus [1960], Topkapi [1964]; Quo Vadis, Death on the Nile,
Beau Brummel; died Mar 28, 2004
1922 - Kingsley Amis
novelist:
The Crime of the Century, Lucky Jim; died Oct 22, 1995
1923 - Bennie Green
musician: trombone,
lyricist: The Diamond and the Goose; journalist; died Mar 23, 1977
1924 - Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini)
Academy Award-winning composer:
Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962], Breakfast at
Tiffany’s score [1961], Victor/Victoria score [1982]; composed themes for
The Pink Panther, Mr. Lucky, Peter Gunn, Charade, NBC
Mystery Movie, NBC Nightly News, Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet; 20
Grammy Awards; died June 14, 1994
1927 - Edie Adams
Tony Award-winning (supporting) actress: Daisy Mae in Li’l Abner [1957]; The Apartment,
The Oscar, Love with the Proper Stranger, Tales of the City,
Portrait of an Escort, The Seekers, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,
Under the Yum Yum Tree, The Ernie Kovacs Show; spokesperson for Muriel
Cigars: “Hey big spender, spend a little time with me.”; widow of TV pioneer Ernie
Kovacs; died Oct 15, 2008
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius
Ratzinger)
265th Pope
of the Roman Catholic Church [2005-2013]; died Dec 31, 2022
1928 - Dick ‘Night Train’ Lane
Pro
Football Hall of Famer [cornerback]: Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals, Detroit
Lions; career: 68 interceptions [an NFL-record 14 in his rookie year] for 1,207 yards and
5 touchdowns; played in 5 Pro Bowls; died Jan 29, 2002
1929 - Roy Hamilton
singer: You’ll Never Walk Alone, If I Loved You, Ebb
Tide, Unchained Melody, Don’t Let Go, You Can Have Her; died
July 20, 1969
1929 - Ed Townsend
composer, singer: For
Your Love, If You Can’t Take Me Higher, I’m With You, Where Did
Those Signs Go, The More I See You; died Aug 13, 2003
1930 - Herbie Mann (Soloman)
jazz
musician: flautist: Hijack, Superman, Comin’ Home Baby,
Bang! Bang!, Violets Don’t be Blue; died July 1, 2003
1933 - Ike Pappas
newsman: CBS News; died Aug 31, 2008
1935 - Bobby Vinton (Stanley
Vintulla)
singer: Roses are Red [My Love], Blue on Blue, Blue
Velvet, Mr. Lonely, There! I’ve Said It Again, My Melody of Love
1936 - Judy Lynn
country singer: Footsteps of a Fool; entertainer: Las
Vegas; The Judy Lynn Show; Snake Valley Jamboree Queen [1952]; U.S. Champion
Yodeler [1953]; Miss Idaho [1955]; died May 26, 2010
1939 - Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien)
singer: Wishin’
and Hopin’, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, The Look of Love,
Son-of-a-Preacher Man, The Windmills of Your Mind, A Brand New Me;
group: The Springfields: Silver Threads and Golden Needles; inducted into Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-99]; died Mar 2, 1999
1940 - Queen Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid)
Queen
of Denmark: eldest child of Frederick IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden; she succeeded
her father upon his death [Jan 14, 1972])
1942 - Jim (James Reynold) Lonborg
baseball:
pitcher: Boston Red Sox [Cy Young Award: 1967/World Series: 1967/all-star:
1967], Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies
1947 - Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
Basketball
Hall of Famer: LA Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks: NBA career record: games played [1.560],
points [38,387], field goals [15,387], blocked shots [3,189] cameo role: Airplane!;
more
1947 - Gerry Rafferty
singer, songwriter:
Stuck in the Middle with You, Star, Baker Street; died Jan 4, 2011
1949 - Bill Spooner
musician: guitar:
group: The Tubes: LPs: Young and Rich, T.R.A.S.H., Love Bomb
1952 - Bill Belichick
football
coach: NFL: Cleveland Browns [1991-1995], New England Patriots [2000- ]: Super Bowl
champs: Super Bowls XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, LIII; lost Super Bowls XLII, XLVI, LII
1953 - Jay O. Sanders
actor: Tucker: The Man
and His Dream, Crime Story, Aftermash
1954 - Ellen Barkin
Emmy Award-winning actress:
Before Women Had Wings [1997 miniseries]; Diner, Tender Mercies,
Wild Bill, Bad Company, Daniel, Sea of Love, Eddie and
the Cruisers; Tony Award: The Normal Heart [2011]
1955 - Bruce Bochy
baseball
[catcher]: Houston Astros [1978–1980], New York Mets [1982], San Diego Padres [1983–1987];
manager: San Diego Padres [1995–2006] San Francisco Giants [2007–2019]: 2010, 2012,
2014 World
Series champs
1955 - Saki St. Jermaine
actress [1989-2008]: X-rated films: Titillation 2: The More Than Equal Sequel, Will
and Ed’s Bogus Gang Bang, The Joy Suck Club, Old Enough to Be My Mom
1963 - Garry Galley
hockey:
Bowling Green State Univ; NHL: LA Kings, Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins, Philadelphia
Flyers, Buffalo Sabres, NY Islanders
1963 - Jimmy Osmond
singer: group: The Osmonds: the youngest Osmond
1964 - Dave Pirner
lead vocalist for Soul Asylum:
Just Like Anyone, Cartoon, Closer to the Stars, Somebody to
Shove, Close, String of Pearls, Tied to the Tracks; more
1965 - Jon Cryer
actor: Two and a Half
Men, Heads, Hot Shots!, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace,
Pretty in Pink, No Small Affair, Partners, The Famous Teddy
Z
1965 - Martin Lawrence
actor: What’s Happening
Now! [TV series], House Party, Martin [TV series], Bad Boys,
Bad Boys II, Black Knight, National Security
1970 - Bonnie Bernstein
TV sportscaster:
CBS: The NFL Today, Super Bowl XXXV, U.S. Open Tennis Championships [2000],
Hambletonian [2000]; more
1970 - Walt Williams
basketball
[guard, forward]: Univ of Maryland; NBA: Sacramento Kings, Miami Heat, Toronto Raptors,
Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks
1971 - Selena (Quintanilla Perez)
singer: My Love, I
Could Fall in Love, Captive Heart, I’m Getting Used to You, God’s
Child, Dreaming of You, Missing My Baby; shot to death Mar 31, 1995 by Yolanda Saldivar [head of Selena’s fan club]
1971 - Peter Billingsley
actor: A
Christmas Story, Elf, No Deposit, No Return, The Writing on the
Wall, The Sacred Fire, Beverly Hills Brats
1973 - Akon (Thiam)
R&B, hip hop songwriter, singer: I Wanna Love You, Smack That, Locked Up,
Don’t Matter, Sorry, Blame It on Me, Right Now [Na Na Na]
1974 - Mattias Timander
hockey:
Boston Bruins, Columbus Blue Jackets, NY Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers
1975 - Jim Nelson
football
[linebacker]: Penn State Univ; NFL: GB Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Indianapolis Colts
1976 - Lukas Haas
actor: Boys,
Leap of Faith, Rambling Rose, The Lady in White, Witness,
Mars Attacks!
1976 - Kelli O’Hara
songwriter, singer, actress:
Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, Follies, Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical,
Dracula, the Musical, The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game
[2006], South Pacific [2008], Nice Work If You Can Get It [2012] films, TV:
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical, Blue Blood, Sex and the City 2, Blue
Bloods; more
1977 - Hayes MacArthur
actor: Life as We
Know It, The Gameplan, Homo Erectus, Perfect Couples, Mad
TV, Pushing Daisies, Medium
1978 - Boyd Devereaux
hockey
[center]: Edmonton Oilers, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes
1979 - Kelly Smith
actress: Boston
Legal, Manfast, Lena’s Spaghetti, Boston Public, The
Practice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1982 - Gina Carano
mixed martial
artist [MMA], actress:
Ring Girls, Fight Girls, American Gladiators Ultimate Workout, I
Am Bruce Lee, Haywire, Fast & Furious 6
1982 - Boris Diaw
basketball
[power forward]: NBA: Atlanta Hawks [2003–2005]; Phoenix Suns [2005–2008]; Charlotte
Bobcats [2008–2012]; San Antonio Spurs [2012–2016]: 2014 NBA champs; Utah Jazz [2016–2017]
1984 - Claire Foy
actress:
The Crown, Unsane, First Man, Season of the Witch, The
Promise, Crossbones, Wolf Hall, The Girl in the Spider’s Web
1993 - Chance the Rapper
Grammy Award-winng rapper: Coloring Book; Acid Rap; featured on Justin
Bieber song Confident
2002 - Sadie Sink
actress:
Stranger Things, American Odyssey, Blue Bloods, The Americans,
All Too Well: The Short Film, Fear Street; Broadway: Annie, The Audience
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day
April 16
1946
Oh, What It Seemed to Be
(facts) -
The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
You Won’t Be Satisfied
(facts) -
The Les Brown
Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
(facts) -
Betty Hutton
Guitar Polka
(facts) -
Al Dexter
1955The Ballad of Davy Crockett
(facts) -
Bill Hayes
The Ballad of Davy Crockett
(facts) -
Fess Parker
Cherry Pink and Apple
Blossom White
(facts) - Perez Prado
In the Jailhouse Now
(facts) -
Webb Pierce
1964Can’t Buy Me Love
(facts) -
The Beatles
Suspicion
(facts) -
Terry Stafford
Hello, Dolly!
(facts) -
Louis Armstrong
Understand Your Man
(facts) -
Johnny Cash
1973The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
(facts) -
Vicki Lawrence
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round
the Ole Oak Tree
(facts) - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
Sing
(facts) -
Carpenters
A Shoulder to Cry On
(facts) -
Charley Pride
1982I Love Rock ’N Roll (facts) - Joan Jett &
The Blackhearts
We Got the Beat
(facts) -
Go-Go’s
Chariots of Fire - Titles
(facts) - Vangelis
The Clown
(facts) -
Conway Twitty
1991I’ve Been Thinking About You
(facts) -
Londonbeat
You’re in Love
(facts) -
Wilson Phillips
Hold You Tight
(facts) -
Tara Kemp
Down Home
(facts) -
Alabama
2000Bye Bye Bye
(facts) - ’N Sync
Maria Maria
(facts) - Santana featuring The Product G&B
Say My Name
(facts) - Destiny’s Child
How Do You Like Me Now?!
(facts) -
Toby Keith
2009Poker Face
(facts) - Lady Gaga
Right Round
(facts) - Flo Rida
Dead and
Gone (facts) -
T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake
It Won’t Be Like This
for Long
(facts) - Darius Rucker
2018Nice for What
(facts) - Drake
God’s Plan
(facts) -
Drake
I Like It
(facts) - Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
Meant to Be
(facts) - Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
and even more...
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
TWtD Calendar
Events on This Day