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Jun 6 10 3:11 PM

On This Day June 6

Boulder/Hoover Dam

1933 - Boulder/Hoover Dam
The first concrete was poured today on creating the Boulder Dam and work is expected to last for a further 3 years to create the tallest dam in the world , The base of the Dam will be 660 ft thick and will rise over 700 ft when completed.

Boulder/Hoover Dam History

The first concrete was placed into the dam on June 6, 1933. Since no structure of the magnitude of the Hoover Dam had been constructed, many of the procedures used in construction of the dam were untried. Since concrete heats up and contracts as it cures, uneven cooling and contraction of the concrete posed a serious problem. The Bureau of Reclamation engineers calculated that if the dam were built in a single continuous pour, the concrete would have taken 125 years to cool to ambient temperature. The resulting stresses would have caused the dam to crack and crumble. To solve this problem the dam was built in a series of interlocking trapezoidal concrete pours. To further cool the concrete each form contained cooling coils of 1 inch (25 mm) thin-walled steel pipe. River water was circulated through these pipes to help dissipate the heat from the curing concrete. After this, chilled water from a refrigeration plant on the lower cofferdam was circulated through the coils to further cool the concrete. After each layer had sufficiently cooled, the cooling coils were cut off and pressure-grouted by pneumatic grout guns. John L. Savage, who supervised the design and construction of the dam, was also responsible for developing the process used to cool the concrete.

Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest hydroelectric power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. It was surpassed in both these respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently the world's 38th-largest hydroelectric generating station.

This dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, is named after Herbert Hoover, who played an instrumental role in its construction, first as the Secretary of Commerce, and then later, as the President of the United States. Construction began in 1931 and the dam was

Constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s, Hoover Dam was the largest federal project of its time. Building the dam was hot, dirty and often dangerous work, but more than 20,000 men were happy to be working on the Hoover Dam, the biggest dam project in the world when it was completed.

Decades after proposals were made to build a dam to control flooding and provide water for farms in Southern California and the Southwest, then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover served on a commission charged with finding an equitable way to divide the waters of the Colorado River among the seven basin states. The result of this commission’s deliberations – the Colorado River Compact of 1922 – finally cleared the way for the dam to be built. President Calvin Coolidge authorized the Boulder Canyon Project in 1928. The next year, as the new president, Hoover took an active part in settling engineering problems that moved the dam from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon. The dam, referred to as Boulder Dam in the 1930s, was officially named Hoover Dam, a name that was restored by a resolution signed by President Truman in 1947.

Six Companies, Inc. a consortium of six smaller contractors, won the construction bid. General Superintendent Frank Crowe devised lights for working at night so that 24-hour shifts were possible, as well as other construction innovations. A fleet of special dump cars were built by these Six Companies for use on the railroad that aided construction. Today, one of these cars survives at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. The Western Pacific Railroad acquired several of the cars following the end of construction and used them in company service.

The river first had to be diverted from the work site, and four diversion tunnels were cut into the canyon. High scalers worked on the canyon walls, removing loose rock to make sure the walls were smooth so the dam’s concrete would adhere. After a year, the river was routed through the tunnels, and the main work began. The dam was built in interlocking blocks, and concrete was poured in sections from four- and eight-cubic-yard buckets suspended from cables.

While working in the tunnels, many workers suffered from the carbon monoxide generated by the machinery there. The contractors claimed that the sickness was pneumonia and was not their responsibility. When Nevada officials tried to enforce state mining air-quality laws, the contractors took them to court.Officially, only 96 workers died constructing Hoover Dam.Some of the workers sickened and died because of the so-called "pneumonia". Most are uncounted on the official death list. "The Bureau of Reclamations fatality statistics show that 42 deaths were attributed to pneumonia during the construction period, more than any other cause." In January, 1936, the Six Companies made out-of-court settlements, in undisclosed amounts, with fifty gas-suit plaintiffs.

Six Companies, Inc. were allowed seven years to build the dam, beginning in 1931, but the dam was completed five years two years ahead of schedule, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the dam on September 30, 1935.

Other History

1674 - Sivaji crowned himself King of India.

1716 - 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana

1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.

1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.

1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.

1865 - Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill died from shot in the back that he received while escaping from a Union patrol near Taylorsville, KY.

1890 - The United States Polo Association was formed in New York City, NY.

1904 - The National Tuberculosis Association was formed in Atlantic City, NJ.

1924 - The German Reichtag accepted the Dawes Plan. It was an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1932 - In the U.S., the first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon.

1934 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act, which established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
1936 - The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany.

1938 - Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red radio network. The serial was “the true to life story of mother love and sacrifice.” Stella Dallas continued to do this and so much more until 1955.

1941 - The U.S. government authorized the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.
1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.
1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.
1944 - CBS radio saluted America’s war doctors with The Doctor Fights, presented for the first time this day.
1946 - Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip
1942 - The first nylon parachute jump was made by Adeline Gray in Hartford, CT.

1966 - James Meridith was shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.
1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1982 - Israel invaded southern Lebanon in an effort to drive PLO guerrillas out of Beirut.
1983 - Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death."
1985 - The U.S. Senate authorized nonmilitary aid to the Contras. The vote authorized $38 million over two years.

1993 - Mongolia held its first direct presidential elections.

2001 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch rejected a request to delay the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The date was left at June 11.

2005 - The United States Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities could prosecute sick people who smoke marijuana on doctor's orders. The ruling concluded that state medical marijuana laws did not protect uses from the federal ban on the drug.
2005 - Apple Computer announces they will switch to Intel processors in 2006

Patents

Electric Iron
The electric iron was invented in 1882, by Howard Seeley. Seeley patented his "electric flatiron" on June 6, 1882 (U.S. Patent no. 259,054).
The iron is the small appliance used to remove wrinkles from fabric. It is also known as a clothes iron, flat iron, or smoothing iron. This iron was heated by a detachable wire. The iron took longer to heat up and cooled down faster while using it. By the year 1892, brands like Crompton and Co. and General Electrics invented handheld electric resistant irons. As the years passed by the technology of iron also advanced.

Special Events

1639 - Massachusetts G

unpowder Mill
The first reference to the establishment of a gunpowder mill in America is found in an order of the General Court of Massachusetts¹ which granted, on June 6, 1639, 500 acres of land at Pecoit to Edward Rawson "so as he goes on with the powder if the saltpeter comes." The matter was brought up again in 1649, but the enterprise miscarried, as well as various other attempts. This was the period of household or "homespun" industries, when each household made most of the articles required in the primitive pioneer life, and there is little doubt but that some colonists added powdermaking to their accomplishments, or that a mill owner here and there made a little gunpowder with the waterpower at his disposal. The General Court of Massachusetts at any rate encouraged such attempts, as may be seen from two orders passed in 1666. The first of May 23 recites that "whereas, there is necessity of having supply of gunpowder in this jurisdiction, and forasmuch as Sergt. Richard Wooddey, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and Mr. Henry Russell, of Ipswich, in the county of Essex, have been and are upon the work, and in preparation for saltpetre, for their future encouragement, or any other that shall appear to attend the promoting thereof, this Court doth declare and order that the said Richard Wooddey and Henry Russell are impowered to go on and proceed in the said work"; and then follow provisions giving them very large powers to facilitate their operations. The second order, passed October 10 of the same year, provides that "whereas the Court hath encouraged and authorized some persons to make gunpowder, and have promised to enable them thereunto by such public and necessary orders as may conduce to the effecting of the same, the consideration whereof hath moved the Court hereby to order and enact, that the selectmen of every town (where the powdermakers authorized by this Court shall desire it) be authorized and required hereby to make and execute such orders in their respective towns as they shall judge meet, with the advice of skilful men, for increasing and procuring of saltpetre, and to impose such penalties as the selectmen shall deem meet, not exceeding ten shillings for one offence, upon all persons that shall neglect or refuse to perform such order or orders for the propagating and increasing of saltpeter in their respective towns; and moreover, the said selectmen are further impowered to choose and appoint an officer or officers, and to allow him a convenient stipend annually for his pains out of the fines or otherwise, to look to the executing such orders as they shall make in their behalf." The order further provides fines, not exceeding five pounds for one offence, for such selectmen as failed to carry out the same.

Blue Jeans Invention - 1850
No item of clothing is more American than the blue jeans invented in 1873 by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss. These two visionary immigrants, turned denim, thread and a little metal into the most popular clothing product in the world. Waist overalls, was the traditional name for work pants, which is what these first jeans were called. The word jeans became more popular around 1960 when the baby-boom generation adopted the term for its favorite type of pants, blue jeans..

Holding a patent on this process meant that for nearly twenty years, Levi Strauss & Co. was the only company allowed to make riveted clothing until the patent went into the public domain.. Around 1890, these pants were assigned the number 501, which they still bear today. When the patent expired, dozens of garment manufacturers began to imitate the original riveted clothing made popular by Levi Strauss & Co.

1923 - One Piece Swimming Suits
Much debate and laws occur when one-piece swimming suits become the fashion for beach-bound women. Various cities ban the new style while others will allow it but only if the new suits are appropriate for swimming and not just for fashion. In Classical antiquity swimming and bathing was most often done nude. In some settings coverings were used. Murals at Pompeii show women wearing two-piece suits covering the areas around their breasts and hips in a fashion remarkably similar to a bikini of ca. 1960. After this, the notion of special water apparel seems to have been lost for centuries. In various cultural traditions one swims, if not in the nude, in a version in suitable material of a garment or undergarment commonly worn on land, e.g. a loincloth such as the Japanese man's fundoshi.

In the Victorian era, popular beach resorts were commonly equipped with bathing machines designed to avoid the exposure of people in swimsuits, especially to people of the opposite sex.

In 1907 the swimmer Annette Kellerman from Australia visited the United States as an "underwater ballerina", a version of synchronized swimming involving diving into glass tanks. She was arrested for indecent exposure because her swimsuit showed arms, legs and the neck. Kellerman changed the suit to have long arms and legs and a collar, still keeping the close fit that revealed the shapes underneath. She later starred in several movies, including one about her life.

1933 - First Drive-in Movie Theatre
In Camden, NJ, the first drive-in movie theater opened.

Richard Hollingshead was a young sales manager at his dad's Whiz Auto Products, who had a hankering to invent something that combined his two interests: cars and movies.

Richard Hollingshead's vision was an open-air movie theater where moviegoers could watch from their own cars. He experimented in his own driveway at 212 Thomas Avenue, Camden, New Jersey. The inventor mounted a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car, projected onto a screen he had nailed to trees in his backyard, and used a radio placed behind the screen for sound.

The inventor subjected his beta drive-in to vigorous testing: for sound quality, for different weather conditions (Richard used a lawn sprinkler to imitate rain) and for figuring out how to park the patrons' cars. Richard tried lining up the cars in his driveway, which created a problem with line of sight if one car was directly parked behind another car. By spacing cars at various distances and placing blocks and ramps under the front wheels of cars that were further away from the screen, Richard Hollingshead created the perfect parking arrangement for the drive-in movie theater experience.

The first patent for the Drive-In Theater (United States Patent# 1,909,537) was issued on May 16, 1933. With an investment of $30,000, Richard opened the first drive-in on Tuesday June 6, 1933 at a location on Crescent Boulevard, Camden, New Jersey. The price of admission was 25 cents for the car and 25 cents per person.

The design did not include the in-car speaker system we know today. The inventor contacted a company by the name of RCA Victor to provide the sound system, called "Directional Sound." Three main speakers were mounted next to the screen that provided sound. The sound quality was not good for cars in the rear of the theater or for the surrounding neighbors.

The largest drive-in theater in patron capacity was the All-Weather Drive-In of Copiague, New York. All-Weather had parking space for 2,500 cars, an indoor 1,200 seat viewing area, kid's playground, a full service restaurant and a shuttle train that took customers from their cars and around the 28-acre theater lot.

The two smallest drive-ins were the Harmony Drive-In of Harmony Pennsylvania and the Highway Drive-In of Bamberg, South Carolina. Both drive-ins could hold no more than 50 cars.

An interesting innovation was the combination drive-in and fly-in theater. On June 3, 1948, Edward Brown, Junior opened the first theater for cars and small planes. Ed Brown's Drive-In and Fly-In of Asbury Park, New Jersey had the capacity for 500 cars and 25 airplanes. An airfield was placed next to the drive-in and planes would taxi to the last row of the theater. When the movies were over, Brown provided a tow for the planes to be brought back to the airfield.

The drive-in theater movie experience cannot be beat.

Sports Events

1941 - Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
1944 - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion

1946 - The Basketball Association of America was formed in New York City, NY.

1982 - The "Peace Sunday: We Have a Dream" rally took place at the Rose Bowl.

Golf Events

1924 - 28th U.S. Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Michigan

1936 - 40th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey

1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational

1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1976 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1977 - Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic and Concert for United Way

1993 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic

Plays, Operas and Musicals Premiers and Events

1885 - Opera "Lakme" is produced, Paris

1945 - "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam

Motion Picture Events

1995 - 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

TV Events

1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1949 - "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on CBS-TV

1971 - "The Ed Sullivan Show" aired for the last time. It was canceled after 23 years on the air. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests on show.

1978 - "20/20" debuted on ABC.

1991 - NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992

Music Events

1931 - "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1

1955 - Bill Haley and Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1

1956 - Gogi Grant (born Audrey Brown) reached the top spot on the Billboard singles chart for the first and only time in her career. Her hit, The Wayward Wind, stayed at the top of the top-tune tabulation for eight weeks and on the music charts for 22 weeks. It was her second record release. The first, in October, 1955, was Suddenly There’s a Valley which climbed to number nine.

1960 - Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely" was released in the U.S.
1962 - Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums
1969 - Rod Stewart signed a solo recording contract with Mercury Records.

1970 - CSN&Y's "Teach Your Children" was released.
1972 - David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" was released.

1973 - Barry White was awarded a gold record for I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby. It was his first hit and his first of five number one million-sellers. White began recording in 1960. He formed the group, Love Unlimited, in 1969 and married one of the group’s singers, Glodean James. He also formed the 40-piece Love Unlimited Orchestra which had the number-one hit, Love’s Theme in 1973. I’m Casey Kasem. Now back to the count down...

1990 - A Federal judge in Florida declared that 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" LP was obscene.

1995 - Pink Floyd released its two-CD live album, "Pulse."

1998 - The Boy is Mine, by Brandy and Monica, zoomed to number 1 on the Billboard pop chart. It ruled the Hot 100 roost for 13 weeks -- putting it in the top ten of longest-running #1 singles in the modern rock era

Chart Toppers
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams

1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenagers Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold

1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett

1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Friends - Razzy Bailey

1989
Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Where Did I Go Wrong - Steve Wariner

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On This Day June 7

1494 - Spain and Portugal divided the new lands they had discovered between themselves.

1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.

1546 - Peace of Ardes ended the war between France and England.

1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France.

1712 - The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the importation of slaves.

1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky

1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.

1860 - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
1860 - 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens
1863 - Mexico City was captured by French troops.

1903 - Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium.

1912 - US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane

1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
1930 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

1932 - Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, DC, demanding their bonuses.
1935 - Pierre Laval received emergency powers to save the franc.
1937 - The cover of "LIFE" magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times, which included saddle shoes.
1939 - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the U.S. It was the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch.

1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
1942 - Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year later.
1944 - Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.

1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)

1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape recorder. The black and white only unit sold for $995.
1965 - In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.

1981 - Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq’s only nuclear reactor.

1994 - The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declared the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS Titanic.

1998 - James Byrd Jr., at age 49, was murdered in Jasper, TX. Byrd had been dragged to death behind a pickup truck. On February 25, 1999 William King was sentenced to the death penalty for the racial crime while two other men charged awaited trial.

2000 - U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.

2002 - Michael Skakel was convicted of beating his neighbor Martha Moxley to death in 1975. The two were 15 years old at the time.

Special Events

British Museum
In 1753, the British Museum was founded, the world's oldest public national museum, when King George II gave his royal assent to an Act of Parliament to accept the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, a London-based physician, following his death. In his will, he had offered the British nation the collection he built over his lifetime: 71,000 objects, mostly plant and animal specimens. In return, he asked a sum of £20,000 for his heirs (which today would be more than £2,000,000). The museum opened to the public 15 Jan 1759 at Bloomsbury. Its current buildings there date from the mid-19th century. The natural history collection moved to its own museum in 1881. The British Museum set up a laboratory in 1920 for scientific study of objects.

1954 - Ford Edsel
Ford Motor Company formed a styling team to take on the project of designing an entirely new car that would later be named the Edsel .

1982 - Graceland opened to the public
Graceland is opened to the public for the first time, almost five years after the death of Elvis Presley.
Rare Elvis At Graceland (June, 1957)

Patents

Monotype Type-casting Machine patented
In 1887, Tolbert Lanston of Washington, D.C., patented the monotype typesetting machine. This cast new type as individual pieces of type for each character from matrices which were sorted after use and used again. His invention was covered by five patents (U.S. Nos. 364,521 - 25). It came about three years after Ottmar Mergenthaler obtained his first patent for the Linotype machine that cast solid lines of type from matrices. The first U.S. patent on any kind of typesetting machine was issued to two French men on 22 Jun
1841, although it was a machine patented 15 Sep 1857 that was the first to actually operate.

Cord Bicycle Tire
In 1892, J. F. Palmer of Chicago, Ill., was granted the first bicycle tyre patent for a self-healing cord tyre design (U.S. No. 476,680). By designing the tread portion of the tyre to operate under compression, any puncture there would tend to close rather than open. It was the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio that began its manufacture the same year. This patent came about one year after the first pneumatic bicycle tyre was patented in the U.S.

Sports Events

1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game

1936 - Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout

1989 - 1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2

Plays, Operas and Musicals Premiers and Events

1933 - Balanchine/Weills "7 Deadly Sins," premiers in Paris
1938 - 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"

1970 - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center

1972 - The musical "Grease" opened on Broadway. It had been playing off-Broadway for about 4 months.

Motion Picture Events

1909 - Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in "The Violin Maker of Cremona."

TV Events

1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color, (Boston Mass)

1955 - "The $64,000 Question" premiered.
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)

1963 - 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"
1969 - Johnny Cash debuted his own network show on CBS-TV.
1969 - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special

1976 - "The NBC Nightly News", with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time.

Music Events

1939 - Larry Clinton and his orchestra recorded "In a Persian Market."

1963 - The Rolling Stones' first record, "Come On," was released.
1969 - Tommy James & Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

1975 - "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," by John Denver hits #1

1976 - Capitol Records released the Beatles package "Rock 'N' Roll Music."
1978 - Prince's first single "Soft and Wet" was released.
1979 - Chuck Berry performed at the White House at the request of U.S. President Carter.

1980 - "Cars," by Gary Numan hits #9
1986 - Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1

Chart Toppers

1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Third Man Theme - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley

1958
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers

1966
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves

1974
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Pure Love - Ronnie Milsap

1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Finally - T.G. Sheppard

1990
Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
I’ve Cried My Last Tear for You - Ricky Van Shelton

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On This Day June 8

0452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.

0632 - The prophet Mohammed died.

0793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England.

1783 - Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted and continued to spew lava for eight months. 9,350 people were killed and famine started and lasted until 1790.

1786 - In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time.

1790 - The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.

1861 - Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy.

1872 - The penny postcard was authorized by the U.S. Congress.

1886 - 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)

1896 - 1st car is stolen

1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG

1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.

1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.

1942 - The comic soap opera "Clara, Lu ’n Em" was revived on CBS radio (the original show began in 1931 on NBC). Clara, Lu and Em were together again for just a short while before vanishing into radio oblivion. 1947 - "Lassie" debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute show.
1949 - FBI report on Hollywood Stars
An FBI report names a number of Hollywood stars including Edward G. Robinson members of the Communist Party.

1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC.

1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

1965 - U.S. troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin fighting offensively.
1967 - Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 U.S. Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident.
1968 - James Earl Ray was captured at the London Airport. He was suspected of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1969 - U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August.

1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled that the "Mormon will," was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes.

1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line

1982 - U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
1987 - Fawn Hill began testifying in the Iran-Contra hearings. She said that she had helped to shred some documents.

1991 - A victory parade was held in Washington, DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
1994 - The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire.
1995 - U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2.
1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.
1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.
1998 - In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.
1998 - Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti-pollution devices in 1.6 million cars.
1998 - The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending America's three-year partnership with Russia.

2000 - The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.

2001 - Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.
2001 - In Japan, a knife-wielding man murdered eight children at an elementary school.

2004 - Nate Olive and Sarah Jones began the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They completed the trek at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28.

Patents

Suction Vaccuum Cleaner

1869 - Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.
Daniel Hess appears to have been the first to patent (#29,077 U.S. issued July 10, 1860) a vacuum cleaner. Hess, a resident of West Union, Iowa, called his invention a carpet sweeper, not a vacuum. The machine did, in fact, have a rotating brush like other sweepers, however, the machine also possessed an elaborate bellows mechanism on top of the body to generate suction. The amazing thing about his machine was that it incorporated two "water chambers" to capture the dust and fine dirt. He states that the air is cleansed as it passes through the device. There is no record that this machine was every produced.

Inventions

Parking Meter
1935: An entrepreneurial politician files a patent application for a device that will elicit curses and contempt from generations of motorists: the parking meter. It was 75 years ago that Carl C. Magee of Oklahoma City sought a patent for the world’s first parking meter. Many will come to see the invention as a bane of urban living.Industrial production started in 1936 and expanded until the mid ’80s. The first models were based on a coin acceptor, a dial to engage the mechanism and a visible pointer and flag to indicate expiration of paid period..."

Soon after Magee filed to protect his intellectual property, the world’s first installed parking meters were put into nickel-gulping service right there in Oklahoma City in July 1935. Your five cents (about $US0.80 in today’s money) got you anywhere from 15 minutes’ to an hour’s worth of parking, depending on location. Some would say things have been going downhill ever since. Who among us has not realised a minute too late that we forgot to feed the meter, or been walking back to our cars on a beautiful spring day just in time to see a ticket being slapped onto our windshield?

Magee’s brainwave was to install a device that had a coin acceptor and a dial to engage a timing mechanism. A visible pointer and flag indicated the expiration of the paid period, meaning you either had to move, put in more money or face the wrath of the local constabulary. The design continued largely unchanged for more than 40 years.

Carl Magee’s new parking meter not only solved Oklahoma City’s parking problems, it also got a new revenue stream flowing in to city coffers. Magee mentioned money in the patent application for “meters for measuring the time of occupancy or use of parking or other space, for the use of which it is desirous an incidental charge be made upon a time basis”.

US Patent No. 2,118,318 was granted for the device May 24, 1938. The idea spread to other cities around the country and the world. Magee managed to make money manufacturing meters and selling them to many municipalities, starting at $US23 a pop ($US365 in current cash).

No one seems to like parking meters, but they do serve their intended purposes of controlling parking and generating revenue. On top of that, they provided the central plot point for Paul Newman’s 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. Newman’s character Luke Jackson, was sent to a chain gang for drunkenly cutting the tops off several parking meters.

Sports Events

1961 - The Milwaukee Braves set a major league baseball record when four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning.
1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's number (7).
1969 - It was announced that there would be a single schedule for both the NFL and AFL.

1986 - The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship.

Plays, Operas and Musicals Premiers and Events

1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 perfs

Motion Picture Events

1961 - Elvis Presley's seventh film, "Wild in the Country" premiered.
1966 - The Elvis Presley film "Paradise Hawaiian Style" premiered.

1983 - "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," & "Gremlins," premieres

1999 - "The Hits Collection" home video, by Prince, was released.

TV Events

1948 - Milton Berle hosted "Texaco Star Theater" NBC-TV. It was the show's debut.

1969 - "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV

1990 - "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV

Music Events

1927 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded "When Day is Done."

1942 - Bing Crosby recorded "Adeste Fideles" and "Silent Night."

1963 - The Essex released "Easier Said Than Done."

1968 - The Rolling Stones released "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
1968 - Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"

1990 - Mariah Carey released her self-titled debut album.

Chart Toppers - June 8
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) - Engelbert Humperdinck
Creeque Alley - The Mamas & The Papas
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

1975
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
Sister Golden Hair - America
Bad Time - Grand Funk
Window Up Above - Mickey Gilley

1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men At Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Lucille (You Won’t Do Your Daddy’s Will) - Waylon Jennings

1991
More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Meet in the Middle - Diamond Rio

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'HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES DARREN...................AND MORE TO COME"

James William Ercolani born June 8, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania�began his career as a teen idol, having been discovered by talent agent and casting director Joyce Selznick.

Tall, good-looking James Darren was a student of acting coach Stella Adler and made his name in the 1950s in a series of teenage-themed films. A better actor than most of his contemporary teenage heartthrobs, he nevertheless found it difficult to escape the teen-idol image he got most notably by his role as Moondoggie in pictures like Gidget (1959) and Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963), all with different Gidgets: Sandra Dee; Deborah Walley and Cindy Carol.

He also gained fame in the early and mid-1960s as a singer, with several hits to his credit.

In 1959 he had a string of pop hits for Colpix Records, the biggest of which was "Goodbye Cruel World" (#3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961). It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

Darren dated Barbara Bouchet after she won the "Miss Gidget" contest in 1959. He has been married twice:

His first wife was Gloria Terlitzky was a childhood sweetheart with whom he had one son, Jim Moret (Jimmy)who for nearly a decade worked as a CNN reporter and anchor, and is currently Chief Correspondent for the syndicated news program Inside Edition.

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His second wife is Evy Norlund, with whom he has two sons, Christian Darren, a writer, and Tony Darren, a musician and singer-songwriter, a former Miss Denmark of 1958.

Darren and his wife are godparents to Nancy Sinatra's daughter Angela Jennifer Lambert (Frank Sinatra's first grandchild).

Another sizeable hit with "Her Royal Majesty" (#6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962). He is also featured in one of the Scopitone series of pop music video jukebox films ("Because You're Mine").

Darren's role in the 1961 World War II film The Guns of Navarone was an attempt to break out of his teen image. He then achieved success co-starring as impulsive scientist and adventurer Tony Newman in the science fiction television series, The Time Tunnel (1966–1967).

In the 1970s, Darren appeared as a celebrity panelist on Match Game.

Later, Darren had a regular role as Officer James Corrigan on the television police drama T.J. Hooker from 1983–1986. Subsequently he worked as a director on many action-based television series, including Hunter, The A-Team, and Nowhere Man, as well as dramas such as Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place.

In 1998 he achieved renewed popularity as a singer through his appearances on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the role of holographic crooner and advice-giver Vic Fontaine; many of his performances on the show were recorded for the album This One's From the Heart (1999). The album showed Darren, a close friend of Frank Sinatra, comfortably singing in the Sinatra style; the 2001 follow-up Because of You showed similar inspiration from Tony Bennett.

Some animation fans may know him as the singing voice of Yogi Bear in the 1964 animated film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, on the song "Ven-e, Ven-o, Ven-a". Prior to that, he was the singing and speaking voice of "Jimmy Darrock" on an episode of The Flintstones.

Some trivia:

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "I Talked with a Zombie" (McFarland & Co., 2008).

He is the only actor to appear in all three "Gidget" films: Gidget (1959), Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963).

Also known as a singer and his singing talents are revealed as the portrayal of the hologram Vic Fontaine on a couple of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) episodes.

Father of CNN anchorman Jim Moret.

His wife, Evy Norlund, is the former Miss Denmark of 1958.

His current surname, Darren, since 1959, was inspired by the famous automobile of the 1950s.

He is of Italian ancestry.

At one time in the 1970s he toured the country with comedian Buddy Hackett as a singer.

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1935: An entrepreneurial politician files a patent application for a device that will elicit curses and contempt from generations of motorists: the parking meter
Kitten
Now this is something that I had no idea of either. Think this politician was way ahead of his time. He knew how to get the money every day not just once a year. Wonder if he shouldn't be in the top ten of revenue producing politicians.

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Dusty wrote:
1935: An entrepreneurial politician files a patent application for a device that will elicit curses and contempt from generations of motorists: the parking meter
Kitten
Now this is something that I had no idea of either. Think this politician was way ahead of his time. He knew how to get the money every day not just once a year. Wonder if he shouldn't be in the top ten of revenue producing politicians.
Dusty

Way back in 1935 yet............not too long after the Ford Car was introduced............Way before I was even thought of...............Ha, Ha Oh well, how far before you were thought of????

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On This Day June 10

1190 - Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army of the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem.

1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan

1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware

1652 - In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America

1720 - Mrs. Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1720 - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!

1760 - New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine

1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.
1793 - Washington replaced Philadelphia as U.S. capital

1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.

1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first U.S. newspaper to cover the sport of harness racing.

1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, held its first graduation.

1889 - Hattie McDaniel was born. She, for her role in "Gone With the Wind," was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

1898 - U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.

1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.

1921 - US Naval Dirigible
The US Naval Dirigible made a forced landing on a San Diego high School Campus after the under work collapsed under the Air Ship and narrowly missed the school flagpole 1924 - The Republican National Convention was broadcast by NBC radio. It was the first political convention to be on radio.

1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.

1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass

1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.

1942 - The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.

1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.

1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

1954 - General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced successfully

1963 - John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women .

1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

1971 - The U.S. ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.

1977 - James Earl Ray escaped with 6 others from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee. Ray was recaptured June 13, 1977
1977 - .Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II

1984 - The U.S. Army successfully tested an antiballistic missile.

1985 - Frank Sinatra was portrayed as a friend of organized crime in a "Doonesbury" comic strip. Over 800 newspapers carried the panel.
1985 - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula

1987 - An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to South Carolina.

1988 - Author Louis L'Amour died at age 80.

1991 - Mother of All Parades - New York City welcomes desert storm troops

1993 - It was announced by scientists that genetic material was extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.
1995 - 26 people were killed in Medellin, Columbia, by a bomb blast that was blamed on drug traffickers.

1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers in a 1-0 triple overtime game. The win ended a four-game sweep for the Stanley Cup.
1996 - Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.
1996 - Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip

1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed his defense chief Son Sen and 11 members of his family. He then fled his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.

1998 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.
1999 - NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.

Patents

1846 - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
The pneumatic rubber tire uses rubber and enclosed air to reduce vibration and improve traction. It was first patented by Robert W. Thomson, a Scottish civil engineer; however, it was not a commercial success until the Scottish inventor John Dunlop patented a pneumatic bicycle tire in 1888 and started a tire company.

1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan
A.F. Callahan of Chicago, Illinois, filed a patent for the "window envelope" on June 10, 1902. He described his invention as an envelope which would have holes for viewing the paper inside.

1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist
A Hungarian newspaper editor, was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore his pages of newsprint. Bíró had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free.

Bíró, with the help of his brother George, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens. Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper.

Sports Events

1921 - Babe Ruth becomes all time home run champ with number 120, Gavvy Cravath

1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).

1972 - Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 home run hitter (649)
1974 - Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof
1975 - Yankees sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire
1978 - Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
1979 - Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play, 5-4-3 vs. Cleveland

1981 - Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
1983 - Johnny Bench announced his plans to retire. He was a catcher in the major leagues for 16 years.

Operas, Plays and Musicals Premiers and Events

1761 - Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport.

Rhode Island

1818 - Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"

1992 - "Price" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 47 performances

1993 - "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances

TV Events

1968 - "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV

1982 - "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall

1989 - "Tales From The Crypt," TV Anthology, debuts on HBO

1991 - "Twin Peaks" airs on ABC-TV

Music Events

1865 - Richard Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" premiered in Munich, Germany.

1964 - Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
1964 - Capitol Records released the Beatles' single "A Hard Days Night" and the album of the same name.
1966 - The Beatles were first heard using reversed tape in the song "Rain." It was a 'B' side to the song "Paperback Writer."
1966 - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert, Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco
1966 - Mamas and Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"

1967 - Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made To Love Her" was released.

1972 - Sammy Davis Jr. earned his place at the top of the popular music charts for the first time, after years in the entertainment business. His number one song, "The Candy Man", stayed at the top for three consecutive weeks. "The Candy Man" was truly a song of fate for Sammy. He openly did not want to record the song, but did so as a favor to MGM Records head Mike Curb, since it was to be used in the film, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Davis said he would give the tune one take, “and that’s it!” Sure enough, in that one-time recording, Sammy nailed it. "The Candy Man" stayed on the pop charts for 16 weeks. The best the legendary performer had done before was 12 weeks for "Love Me or Leave Me" in 1955 and 11 weeks for "I’ve Gotta Be Me" (from "Golden Rainbow") in 1969. After "The Candy Man" became a hit, Davis included it in his stage shows and concerts -- and collected huge royalties from it.

1976 - Paul McCartney and Wings set a record for an indoor concert crowd when 67,100 fans gathered in Seattle, WA.
1978 - Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" was released.

1981 - Andy Gibb opened in the role of Frederic in a Los Angeles production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."

Chart Toppers - June 10
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Pretend - Nat King Cole
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Moody River - Pat Boone
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Grazing in the Grass - The Friends of Distinction
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette

1977
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Suddenly - Billy Ocean
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Natural High - Merle Haggard

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"NEVER FORGOTTEN" "BONES" MCCOY of STAR TREK

Jackson DeForest Kelley was delivered at home in Atlanta, Georgia January 20, 1920 by his uncle, a prominent local physician. Kelley is well known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.

Kelley lived all over the South as the son of Clara Casey Kelley and Rev. Ernest D. Kelley, a Baptist minister.

After singing in the church choir, Kelley discovered that he enjoyed singing and was good at it. Eventually this led to solos and later performing on radio station WSB in Atlanta. As a result of his radio appearances, he won an engagement with Lew Forbes and his orchestra at the Paramount Theater. It was Kelley's first taste of being an entertainer, and he liked it.

Kelley moved to Long Beach, California after he had saved enough money working as an usher in a local theater to live with his uncle. Kelley found that he loved the sun, surf and excitement of Long Beach and told his parents he was going to stay and get a job. Mopping floors soon gave way to operating an elevator in a hotel near the ocean.

One day, Kelley was sitting in a restaurant when Rohn Hawke, who was doing local theater, came over and asked if he had any acting experience. Hawke worked with him to smooth out his Georgia accent, wanting Kelley to appear in a play he was directing. He auditioned and won the part. During the run of the play, a talent scout caught his performance and felt he had a future in acting. In the evenings, Kelley continued to appear with the Long Beach Theater Group to gain experience, while operating an elevator and 'roughnecking' for Richfield Oil during the day. Sometime later, Kelley and some friends from the group started writing and staging plays at a local radio station. This led to other radio work for him.

He was tested for the baby-faced killer in "This Gun for Hire" and was assured, after 13 takes, that he had the role. Unfortunately, it ultimately went to Alan Ladd and Kelley went back to the Theater Group.

In 1942, Kelley appeared as a beach bum in "The Innocent Young Man" with the Long Beach Theater Group. His co-star was a blonde, blue-eyed beauty named Carolyn Dowling. Toward the end of the play, Carolyn was to hand him a five dollar bill and say, "Here, Bill, take this money and buy yourself a drink." Carolyn used her own five dollars, with Kelley giving it back at the end of each performance. When the play closed, Kelley "forgot" to return the money and called her from the bar where he was having a drink. "I've got your five dollars, so you'd better come down here and help me spend it, or it's all going to be gone."

Their budding romance was interrupted by war and Kelley went into the Army Air Corps in New Mexico, where Carolyn visited often. Finally he was transferred to Culver City to act in a Navy training film. That was when the couple decided to get married. They found a judge that married servicemen free of charge, bought two Indian rings for 25 cents and were married on September 7, 1945.

A Paramount talent scout spotted Kelley in the Navy film and it led to a three year contract. His first film was a starring role in "Fear in the Night." It was a low-budget project, but it caught the attention of the public and became a box-office sleeper—a real hit—and Kelley was established as a respected actor. Shortly after that he made "Variety Girl" and he was on his way.

A couple of years later Kelley and Carolyn decided to try their luck on the New York stage. While Kelley sought work, Carolyn got a job in the main office of Warner Brothers. He found work on stage and in live television, and after three years they returned to Hollywood. He landed a part in a "You Are There" episode. That part led to another and another. Kelley's exceptional performance as Ike Clanton in the episode "Last Gunfight at OK Corral" was his first role as a heavy and it brought him three movie offers.

Nicknamed 'Bones' by his longtime friend and commander, Captain James T.Kirk, McCoy replaced Mark Piper as chief medical officer in 2266 on the original five-year mission but clearly became the most renowned. By that first year he had already won the commendations of Legion of Honor, awards of valor, andwas decorated by Starfleet Surgeons.

For nine years Kelley primarily played heavies and found them interesting and challenging. He built up an impressive list of credits, alternating between television and motion pictures. Afraid of being type-cast, DeForest broke out of that mold by doing "Where Love Has Gone" and a television pilot called "333 Montgomery," the latter written by an ex-cop named Gene Roddenberry. A few years later, Kelley would appear in another Roddenberry pilot "Police Story." That didn't sell either, but it led to Star Trek and the unforgettable role of Dr. Leonard McCoy.

After Star Trek ended production, Kelley took a long, well-deserved vacation. He made a few movies and did some television, but primarily went into retirement. "Acting has become my hobby and my home has become my heart," Kelley was once quoted as saying. Kelley went on to write the poem "The Big Bird's Dream," as well as its sequel, "The Dream Goes On."

Kelley passed away on June 11th, 1999. His wife Carolyn died in October 2004

Trivia you may not know:

Before landing the role of Dr. McCoy, he was offered the choice to play Mr. Spock. Years later, he played both for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).

Is one of only 32 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original "Star Trek" (1966) up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and then in one of the spin-offs.

He was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.

Made both his first (Episode "The Corbomite Manoeuvre") and last (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)) Star Trek appearances with Nichelle Nichols.

Shortly before his death he won the "Golden Cowboy Boot" award, honoring his earlier work in westerns.

Was the only original "Star Trek" (1966) cast member never to write an autobiography.

The "Enterprise" (2001) character, Admiral Maxwell Forrest played by Vaughn Armstrong, is named after him.

Of the four main "Star Trek" (1966) cast members (the others being William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and James Doohan), he is the only one who never appeared in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964) or "The Outer Limits" (1963).

Reportedly disliked doing the animated "Star Trek" (1973) series because he was never recording his lines at the same time as William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Kelley did not like this because he never got to interact with them and develop any rapport, which made reading his lines all the more difficult.

He told close friends that he always felt more comfortable in westerns then he did in science fiction.

Was the first primary cast member from "Star Trek" (1966) to pass away.

A veteran of television and film westerns, he has portrayed two different participants in the legendary 1881 OK Corral gunfight between the Earps and the Clantons. In 1955 he played Ike Clanton in an episode of the TV show "You Are There" (1953), and in 1957 he played Morgan Earp in the film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). On "Star Trek" (1966) the USS Enterprise away team beam onto a planet and he again finds himself at the OK Corral, playing Tom McLaury.

Shortly after Mr. Kelley's passing, "He's dead, Jim" was forever memorialized by being added in tribute to Dr. McCoy for two 1999 video games: StarCraft Expansion Set: Brood War (1998) (VG) and Shatner-oids, a spoof of the classic Atari game "Asteroids".

The tagline "I'm a doctor, not a..." has been quoted in almost every incarnation of "Star Trek" (1966) on film and television.

Had a great love of poetry, both reading and writing it. Later in life, he used to charm Star Trek convention audiences with three poems about Gene Roddenberry ("The Great Bird of the Galaxy") and the Star Trek franchise. They were called "The Big Bird's Dream," "The Dream Goes On," and "The Dream Forever.".

Inspired many fans to take up medicine. He and his wife visited one of them after graduating from medical school, after receiving an invitation.

He plays a medic in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956). Foreshadowing things to come, his character says, "This man is dead, Captain".

Often mistakenly billed as Kelly de Forrest.

His personal favorite episode of "Star Trek" (1966) was "The Empath".

Graduated from Decatur High School in Decatur, Georgia when he was only 16 years old.

Some personal trivia quotes :

[on why he chose to play Dr. McCoy instead of Mr. Spock on "Star Trek" (1966)] I wouldn't have been anywhere near Leonard Nimoy. He's marvelous.

[on his life] I'd wanted to become a doctor and couldn't ~ yet became the best known doctor in the galaxy.

[on Star Trek fans] They're the most devoted group of people and contrary to what people think, they don't have antennae coming out of their heads.

I'm very grateful for the career that I've had. And I'm very grateful for the experiences that "Star Trek" has afforded me along with my past background. When I look back and think how fortunate I've been to work with some wonderful people and had some marvelous experiences, then I can look at "Star Trek" and think it's almost like the cream on the coffee. I don't approach it as anything but a magnificent plus.

I thoroughly enjoyed those years. I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.

[to William Shatner, on his deathbed] Let's make just one more "Star Trek" movie! I sure miss making those movies!

On This Day June 11

1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.

1488 - James III of Scotland was murdered after his defeat at the Battle of Sauchieburn, Stirling. He was succeeded by his son James IV.

1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.

1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.

1776 - In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.

1816 - Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded

1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.

1847 - Sir John Franklin died in Canada while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage. Franklin was an English naval officer and an Arctic explorer.

1889 - The Washington Business High School opened in Washington, DC. It was the first school devoted to business in the U.S.

1895 - 1st auto race
1896 - US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized

1903 - King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup by members of the Serbian army.

1912 - Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.

1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.

1927 - Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross.

1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

1934 - The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.
1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 - The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.
1937 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.
1939 - King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party

1940 - The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.

1942 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.
1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.
1947 - The U.S. government announced an end to sugar rationing.

1950 - Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near fatal car accident. He won the U.S. Open.

1955 - In France, 80 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when three cars crashed on the Le Mans racetrack. The cars had ploughed into the spectator's grandstand.
1959 - Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover

1962 - President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
1963 - Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.

1967 - Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.

1973 - After a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.
1977 - In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.

1981 - In Iran, more than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.8 on the Richter ScaleRichter Scale. The town of Golbaf in the Kermin province was destroyed.
1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan died at age 31. Quinlan was a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision.
1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.

1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag
1990 - UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
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1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.
1991 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.
1994 - A car bomb blew up in Guadalajara, Mexico killing five people. The bombing was believed to be drug related.

1998 - Mitsubishi of America agreed to pay $34 million to end the largest sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. government. The federal lawsuit claimed that hundreds of women at a plant in Normal, IL, had endured groping and crude jokes from male workers.
1998 - Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.
1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed by the U.S. federal government for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.

Special Death Event

John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison)
1979 - One of America’s greatest legends, both as a movie star and as a symbol of patriotism, died this day. Marion Michael Morrison, known as John Wayne, died following a courageous fight with cancer. ‘The Duke’ was 72. He had been a Hollywood hero for almost 50 years and with some 200 movies to his credit, including "The Alamo", "Island in the Sky", "The Longest Day", "Rio Bravo", "The Sons of Katie Elder" and "True Grit" (his only Oscar-winning performance). Wayne was born in 1907 and went to school at North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.

His box-office popularity rose steadily through the 1940s, and by the beginning of the 1950s he'd also begun producing movies through his company Wayne-Fellowes, later Batjac, in association with his sons Michael and Patrick (who also became an actor). Most of these films were extremely successful, and included such titles as Angel and the Badman (1947), Island in the Sky (1953), The High and the Mighty (1954), and Hondo (1953). The 1958 Western Rio Bravo, directed by Howard Hawks, proved so popular that it was remade by Hawks and Wayne twice, once as El Dorado and later as Rio Lobo. At the end of the 1950s, Wayne began taking on bigger films, most notably The Alamo (1960), which he produced and directed, as well as starred in. It was well received but had to be cut to sustain any box-office success (the film was restored to full length in 1992).

Patents

1793 - Robert Haeterick was issued the first patent for a stove

1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

Inventions

1644 - Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer

1742 - Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove

2002 - Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

Special Events

1977 - Main Street Electrical Parade premiers [Disneyland? WDW?]

1978 - Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop

Sports Events

1927 - Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs

1938 - Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0

1961 - Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
1961 - Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium
1967 - Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game

1972 - Hank Aaron tied the National League record for 14 grand-slam home runs in a career.

1981 - The first major league baseball player's strike began. It would last for two months.
1988 - Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)

1990 - Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)

1992 - US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0

1995 - Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings

Golf Events

1919 - 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass

1938 - 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver

1949 - 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL

1950 - Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament

1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational

1972 - 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern

1978 - 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez

1989 - 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
1989 - Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International

1995 - Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic

Motion Picture Events

1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

1928 - Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released

1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released

1978 - "Grease" starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens

1982 - The movie "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" opened. Steven Spielberg directed this classic. It dazzled audiences with state-of-the-art special effects and a touching, humorous, story line, grossing over $100 million in its first 31 days of theatrical release.

1993 - Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.

1999 - "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" premiered at theatres across the U.S. Dr. Evil (played by Mike Myers) travels back to 1969 to steal Austin Powers’ (also played by Mike Myers) mojo. Powers (now “shagless”) must travel to ’69 to get his mojo back (can you dig it?). Big stars in the movie include the not-so-big Mini-Me (Verne Troyer), CIA agent Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), Basil Exposition (Michael York), Number Two (Robert Wagner), Young Number Two (Rob Lowe) and Fat Bastard (that Myers guy again). All this silliness was taken very seriously by fans at the box office. "Austin Powers II", as the flick is also known, opened to the tune of $54.92 mil the first weekend. As of May 2001 it had grossed $205.4 million. Yeah, baby! (One other film opened in the U.S. this day: "The Red Violin", starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli and Don Mckellar.)

TV Events

1953 - "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS

1961 - "Winston Churchill," last airs on ABC-TV

1976 - "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV

1986 - "Blacke's Magic," last airs on NBC-TV

1993 - "Scattergories," game show; last airs on NBC-TV
1993 - "Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV

Music Events

1928 - King Oliver and his band recorded "Tin Roof Blues" for Vocalion Records.

1940 - The Ink Spots recorded "Maybe" on Decca Records. By September, 1940, the song had climbed to the number two position on the nation’s pop music charts.
1949 - Hank Williams sang a show-stopper on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. He sang the classic "Lovesick Blues", one of his most beloved songs.

1961 - Roy Orbison was wrapping up a week at number one on the "Billboard" record chart with "Running Scared", his first number one hit. Orbison recorded 23 hits for the pop charts, but only one other song made it to number one: "Oh Pretty Woman" in 1964. He came close with a number two effort, "Crying", number four with "Dream Baby" and number five with "Mean Woman Blues". Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987; but suffered a fatal heart attack just one year later.

1964 - Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy

1966 - "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
1966 - "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3

1966 - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1966 - "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK

1966 - Janis Joplin made her first onstage appearance at the age of 23. She performed at the Avalon ballroom in San Francisco with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The band was a sensation at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. "Piece of My Heart" was the only hit to chart for the group (1968). At the end of 1968, Janis Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company (they disbanded in 1972). Her solo career that followed included hits such as "Down on Me" and "Me and Bobby McGee". Janis ‘Pearl’ Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Hollywood in October 1970. The movie "The Rose", starring Bette Midler, was inspired by the life of the rock star.

1969 - David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1969 - "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK

1976 - Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain

1977 - "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12
1977 - "Dance & Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1977 - "I Need A Man" by Grace Jones peaks at #83
1977 - "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & Sunshine Band peaks at #1
1977 - "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
1977 - "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
1977 - "Watch Closely Now" by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
1977 - ELO releases "Telephone Line"

1983 - "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1983 - "Cool Places" by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
1983 - "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12
1983 - "My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5
1983 - "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59
1983 - "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61

1988 - "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3
1988 - "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
1988 - "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14

1994 - "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33

Chart Toppers - June 11
1946
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954
Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely - Johnnie & Jack

1962
I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970
Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty

1978
You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Georgia on My Mind - Willie Nelson

1986
Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap

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Jun 11 10 6:02 PM

Well, Dusty,

Is the board back to normal??? Not certain why it went out of wack.....I did not use anything special.

If you see it still out, just do what you have to do to get it back to where it should be.

I do not mind.

kittencaboudle

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Jun 11 10 9:29 PM

"NEVER FORGOTTEN" "BONES" MCCOY of STAR TREK

Indeed, 'De' was one of my favorite actors... and, I agree with him that "The Empath" was a spectacular episode. I always quite enjoyed the constant sparring between Bones and Spock.
De was one of a kind, and quite an actor.

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Jun 11 10 10:47 PM

gainmorey3 wrote:

"NEVER FORGOTTEN" "BONES" MCCOY of STAR TREK

Indeed, 'De' was one of my favorite actors... and, I agree with him that "The Empath" was a spectacular episode. I always quite enjoyed the constant sparring between Bones and Spock.
De was one of a kind, and quite an actor.

Yes I agree with that they did make a good 'odd couple'. I also think he was right about Leonard Nimoy making a better Spock then he would have.

Good job getting the margins back inline Kitten.

Dusty

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Jun 11 10 10:58 PM

Dusty wrote:

gainmorey3 wrote:

"NEVER FORGOTTEN" "BONES" MCCOY of STAR TREK

Indeed, 'De' was one of my favorite actors... and, I agree with him that "The Empath" was a spectacular episode. I always quite enjoyed the constant sparring between Bones and Spock.
De was one of a kind, and quite an actor.

Yes I agree with that they did make a good 'odd couple'. I also think he was right about Leonard Nimoy making a better Spock then he would have.

Good job getting the margins back inline Kitten.
Dusty

Now this might screw the margins up, but we will see....

Thank you so kindly Dusty......kittencaboudle

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On This Day June 12

1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.

1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.

1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.

1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.

1838 - The Iowa Territory was organized.

1898 - Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain.

1900 - The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the expansion of the German navy.

1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.

1903 - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city

1912 - Lillian Russel retired from the stage and was married for the fourth time.

1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.

1921 - U.S. President Warren Harding urged every young man to attend military training camp.

1923 - Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.

1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.

1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
1935 - The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932.

1937 - The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.

1941 - In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.

1942 - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam

1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan.
1944 - 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
1944 - British 12th airborne batallion/13th & 18th Hussars conquer and 12th battalion conquers Bréville

1947 - People gathered around the radio to listen to "Sergeant Preston of The Yukon" for the first time. The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his
trusty dog, King, continued on the radio until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958). "Sgt. Preston" was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who
also created "The Lone Ranger" and "The Green Hornet".

1955 - Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
1955 - The first network radio show to be produced with no script, "The University of Chicago Round Table", was heard for the final time after 24 years
on NBC radio. The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted George Foster Peabody Award.

1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS.

1967 - State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

1971 - Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.

1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971.

1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of six killings.

1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.

1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.

1985 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras.

1986 - South Africa declared a national state of emergency. Virtually unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were put on news coverage of the unrest.

1987 - Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa was sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1989 - Graceland opened the Elvis Presley Autoland Museum, which contains over 20 cars owned by Presley.

1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.

1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

1992 - In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.

1996 - In Philadelphia a panel of federal judges blocked a law against indecency on the internet. The panel said that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.

1997 - The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.

1998 - Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corp. in largest high-tech acquisition.
1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, MS, convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.

1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia.

2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.

Patents

Electromagnetic Telegraph Patent - 1837
In 1837, British inventors William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone received a patent for their electromagnetic telegraph. Their invention was put in public service in 1839, five years before the more famous Morse telegraph. The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-invented by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. Cooke and Wheatstone patented it in May 1837 as an alarm system, and it was first successfully demonstrated on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. It entered commercial use on the Great Western Railway over the 13 miles (21 km) from Paddington station to West Drayton on 9 April 1839.

Gas Mask Patent
The gas mask was patented by L.P. Haslett - 1849 The forerunner of modern gas masks is patented by Lewis Phectic Haslett of Louisville, Ky. His "inhaler or lung protector" design used woolen fabric (or other porous material) to filter dust and other material from the air (U.S. No. 6,529). The filter material — wool or other porous substance moistened with water — was suited to keeping out dust or other solid particulates, but would not have been effective against poison gas.In 1849, Haslett's Lung Protector was granted the first US patent for an air-purifying respirator.

Penknife Patent - 1897
Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife. At the end of 1891 Elsener took over production of the Modell 1890 knives, but Elsener was not satisfied with its first incarnation. In 1896, after five years of hard work, Elsener managed to put the blades on both sides of the handle using a special spring mechanism, allowing him to use the same spring to hold them in place, an innovation at the time. This allowed Elsener to put twice as many features on the knife; he added a second cutting blade and a corkscrew.

Karl Elsener used the cross and shield to identify his knives, the symbol still used today on Victorinox-branded versions. When his mother died in 1909, Elsener decided to name his company "Victoria" in her memory. In 1921 the company started using stainless steel to make the Swiss Army Knife. Stainless steel is also known as "inox", short for the French term acier inoxydable. "Victoria" and "inox" were then combined to create the company name "Victorinox". Victorinox's headquarters and show room are located in the Swiss town of Ibach.

Sport Events

1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. However, evidence has surfaced that indicates that the game of baseball
was played before 1800.

1880 - John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0

1928 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7

1939 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. This was exactly one hundred years to the day on which
the game was invented by Abner Doubleday.
1939 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY

1950 - Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
1954 - Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1957 - Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
1959 - SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game

1967 - Wash Senators beat Chic White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings

1970 - Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
1975 - Billy Williams's 400th career HR
1975 - Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965

1981 - Major league baseball players began a 49 day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation.
1985 - Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky was named winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy. The award is given to the the league Most Valuable Player.
1988 - The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a
major football tournament.

1990 - NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning
1991 - 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one

1997 - Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series
1997 - 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3

2002 - Los Angeles Lakers beat New Jersey Nets 4-0 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.

Golf Events

1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn

1937 - 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1939 - 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila

1948 - Ben Hogan won his first U.S. Open golf classic.
1948 - 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA

1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational

1977 - 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi

1983 - 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1988 - 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
1988 - Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
1988 - Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International

1991 - 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1
1994 - 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika and Passion win

Motion Picture Events

First Animated Cartoon In US
"Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released - 1913
Animated Films are ones in which individual drawings, paintings, or illustrations are photographed frame by frame (stop-frame cinematography). Usually,
each frame differs slightly from the one preceding it, giving the illusion of movement when frames are projected in rapid succession at 24 frames per second.
The earliest cinema animation was composed of frame-by-frame, hand-drawn images. When combined with movement, the illustrator's two-dimensional
static art came alive and created pure and imaginative cinematic images - animals and other inanimate objects could become evil villains or heroes.
Animations are not a strictly-defined genre category, but rather a film technique, although they often contain genre-like elements.

And John Randolph Bray's first animated film, The Artist's Dream(s) (1913) (aka The Dachshund and the Sausage), the first animated cartoon made in the
U.S. by modern techniques was the first to use 'cels' - transparent drawings laid over a fixed background

1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

1963 - Elizabeth Taylor starred in the $40,000,000 film epic, "Cleopatra". The movie certainly gave ticket buyers their money’s worth. It lasted for four
hours, three minutes. "Cleopatra" opened at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on this day. Richard Burton starred as Marc Antony, Rex Harrison played
Julius Caesar, Hume Cronyn played Sosigines, Carroll O’Connor was Casa and Roddy McDowell appeared as Octavian. We were at a loss, however, to
find the name of the asp that bit Cleopatra. We do know where she was bitten -- just not what happened to the little snake. Sorry.

1981 - "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres

1992 - "Batman Returns" is released in USA
1997 - MTV Movie Awards

TV Events

1965 - Sonny & Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand"
1966 - Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan

1989 - "Doctor Doctor," TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV

2009 - TSC: All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission.

Music Events

1909 - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1

1935 - At age 17, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first songs. The two songs were "Love and Kisses" and "I'll Chase the Blues Away."

1942 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded "Travelin’ Light" on Capitol Records of Hollywood, California. On the track with Whiteman’s orchestra
was the vocal talent of ‘Lady Day’, Billie Holiday.
1948 - "William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6

1954 - Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released
1955 - "Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
1958 - "Make Me Laugh," TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979
1959 - The album "Chuck Berry on Top" was released by Chuck Berry.
1959 - Bo Diddley released "Go Go Bo Diddley."

1965 - The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was released.
1965 - Beatles are awarded MBE

1972 - John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"

1976 - "Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46

1982 - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam

1990 - Miriah Carey's self-titled debut album was released.
1993 - "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17

Chart Toppers - June 12
1947
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Sugar Moon - Bob Wills

1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963
It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins

1971
Want Ads - The Honey Cone
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
You’re My Man - Lynn Anderson

1979
Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers

1987
You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Will Be There - Dan Seals

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On This Day June 13

MIRANDA DAY

When reading this description of this day in history, you have the right to remain silent...

On this day in 1966, the Miranda Decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision regarded the rights of individuals to remain silent because “...anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law.” It held that the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States “required warnings before valid statements could be taken by police.”

If you are held for questioning, you will hear police read you your rights or read you the Miranda, the more common reference to the Miranda Decision. The card imprinted with the Miranda Decision, and carried by the police, put some money in the pockets of then, 23-year-old Ernesto Miranda. The subject of Miranda vs. Arizona, he signed the cards, selling his autograph. Some ten years later, a man, suspected of stabbing Miranda to death during a card game, was released after being read his Miranda rights. A warrant was later issued for his arrest; but he was never seen again.

Without notifying suspects of their Miranda Rights, law enforcement in the U.S. has little basis for prosecution. What a criminal defendant says if not informed, before being questioned, that he/she has the right to remain silent and speak with an attorney or other legal counsel present, will not be admitted in court.

Book ’em, Danno ... and read ’em their rights.

Other History This Day

1415 - Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa.

1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.

1789 - Ice cream was served to General George Washington by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.

1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.

1888 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Labor.

1898 - The Canadian Yukon Territory was organized.

1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.

1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.

1922 - Charlie Osborne started the longest attack on hiccups. He hiccuped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991, 11 months after his hiccups ended.

1923 - The French set a trade barrier between the occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.

1927 - Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

1927 - For the first time, an American Flag was displayed from the right hand of the Statue of Liberty.

1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)

1943 - German spies landed on Long Island, New York. They were soon captured.

1944 - Germany launched 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from a position near the Channel coast. Of the 10 rockets only 5 landed in Britain and only one managed to kill (6 people in London).

1949 - Bao Dai entered Saigon to rule Vietnam. He had been installed by the French.

1951 - U.N. troops seized Pyongyang, North Korea.

1953 - Heatwave
A Heatwave has been affecting many states with unofficial temperatures recorded in Pittsburgh of 112 degrees and an overall temperature across many states of 100 degrees plus, The Heatwave is forecast to end in the next few days with severe storms predicted as the cool air from the Rockies hits the hot air .

1966 - The landmark "Miranda vs. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.

1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers". The articles were a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.

1977 - James Earl Ray was recaptured after his escape from prison 3 days earlier.

1979 - Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of their Black Hills in South Dakota.

1981 - At a parade in London a teen-ager fired six-blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1983 - The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in March 1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by Pioneer 10.
1988 - The Liggett Group, a cigarette manufacturer, was found liable for a lung-cancer death. They were, however, found innocent by the federal jury of misrepresenting the risks of smoking.
1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush exercised his first Presidential veto on a bill dealing with minimum wage.

1991 - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication

1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Exxon Corp. and Captain Joseph Hazelwood to be reckless in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1994 - O.J. Simpson was questioned by Los Angeles police concerning the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1995 - France announced that they would conduct eight more nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
1996 - In Montana, the 81-day standoff between the Freemen and the FBI ended when the anti-government group surrendered.
1997 - The same Denver jury that convicted Timothy McVeigh of the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahama City recommended the death penalty for his crime.

2000 - Julius "Dr. J." Erving issued a public appeal for help finding his 19-year-old son, Cory. Cory had been missing since May 28, 2000. His body was found July 6, 2000.
2000 - In Pyongyang, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South Korea's President Kim Dae for a three-day summit. It was the first such meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea.

2002 - Colorado Fires
After nearly 1 week forest fires which began in Pike National Forest on Saturday in Colorado have destroyed nearly 100,000 acres of land are coming under control by the 2,800 firefighters fighting the fires but some homes are still in danger near the main city of Denver.

Patents

1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.

1944 - Marvin Camras patented the wire recorder.

Sports Events

1905 - New York Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0

1913 - Yankees win 13th game of year after losing 36 games

1921 - Yankees' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs beating Tigers 11-8

1924 - Yankees win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win

1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns

1947 - 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 - Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th

1957 - Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season

1986 - Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1988 - Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win the AL East
1988 - 45th time opposing pitchers hit home runs, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title. They beat the L.A. Lakers in four games.
1989 - 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps Los Angeles Lakers in 4 games

1997 - 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls

Golf Events

1953 - 53rd U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA

1959 - 59th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot Golf Club New York

1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1971 - 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth

1982 - 1982 - 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson

1991 - In the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament a spectator was killed when lightning struck.
1993 - 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1997 - 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2

Plays, Operas and Musicals Premiers and Events

1956 - "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 21 performances

1961 - "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 8 performances

1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps New York City for 86 performances

1990 - Les Miserables opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary

Motion Picture Events

1967 - "You Only Live Twice" premieres in U.S.

1980 - Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres

TV Events

1959 - "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV

1962 - "Bob Newhart Show," last airs on NBC-TV

1964 - The Rolling Stones made a television appearance on "Hollywood Palace." The was show hosted by Dean Martin.

1975 - John Lennon made his last TV appearance to sing "Imagine."

1981 - Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"

Music Events

1930 - Lionel Hampton and his band recorded Memories of You for Victor Records.

1960 - "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59

1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1970 - The song Make It with You, by David Gates and Bread, was released. It turned out to be a number-one hit (8/22/70). Though Bread had a dozen hits, including one other million-seller (Baby I’m-A Want You, 1971); Make It with You was the soft-pop group’s only number-one tune.

1971 - Singer Francis Albert Sinatra made an attempt to retire from show business following a performance this night at the Music Center in Los Angeles, CA. ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ got a bit restless in retirement, however, and was back in Sinatra - The Main Event at Madison Square Garden in November 1973.

1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 - Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1

The Jacksons' "State of Shock," was released. Mick Jagger did guest vocals.

1988 - George Harrison releases "This is Love"
1989 - Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites.

Chart Toppers June 13

1948

Nature Boy - Nat King Cole

Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters

Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra

Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold

1956The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - Elvis Presley
Crazy Arms - Ray Price

1964Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
Together Again - Buck Owens

1972The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo

1980Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap

1988One More Try - George Michael
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Everything Your Heart Desires - Daryl Hall John Oates
I Told You So - Randy Travis

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Hard-Knock Life: 'Annie' Has Final Day in the Funnies

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(June 13) -- Nearly 86 years after her newspaper debut, it really is the hard-knock life for "Annie."

In her final appearance in the funny pages today, the gutsy redheaded orphan didn't receive a happy ending or a warm reunion with her deep-pocketed benefactor, Daddy Warbucks. Instead, the last "Annie" comic strip left readers with a murky cliffhanger: the plucky, pupil-less girl is stuck "somewhere in Guatemala" with a dangerous war criminal named the Butcher of the Balkans.

"And this is where we leave our Annie," the final frame reads. "For now -"

A pained Daddy Warbucks is "resigning himself to Miss Annie's being lost forever," but the comic strip's syndicator, may have other ideas. When it canceled "Annie" last month, Tribune Media Services announced in a news release that it plans to upload the forever-young "Annie" into the digital age.

"Annie is not dying, she's moving into new channels," Steve Tippie, vice president of licensing and new markets development at Tribune Media, which owns the license to "Annie," told The Associated Press, saying graphic novels, film, TV, games and even an "Annie" cell phone are possibilities.

The company will continue to license "Annie" even as she and her trusty dog Sandy disappear from print pages. The little girl prone to shouting "Leapin' Lizards!" appeared to fall victim to the shrinking newspaper industry: After attaining pop culture icon status in hundreds of newspapers and spawning a ubiquitous musical theater adaptation, "Annie" the comic strip was running in less than 20 outlets in 2010.

"We want to pay the creators a decent wage for the work they do. And Ted Slampyak and Jay Maeder did terrific work -- some of the best in the 'story strip' line. That need combined with the production costs of getting a strip distributed just crossed the profit-loss curve this year," Tippie told the Washington Post's Comic Riffs last month. "This wasn't a decision we took lightly."

Though trapped in Guatemala until her story potentially continues in a new media realm, the sun will come up on "Annie" in 2012, with a new production of the Tony-winning musical.

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On This Day June 14

1381 - The Peasant’s Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxed when rebels marched on London. They plundered, burned and captured the Tower of London and killed the Archbishop of Canterbury. The revolt was in response to a statute intended to hold down wages during a labor shortage.

1775 - The Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army. On June 15, George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief.
1777 - The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as the national flag of the United States. The Flag Resolution stated "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation."

1789 - Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a small boat.

1841 - The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.

1846 - A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.

1864 - Alois Alzheimer was born. He was a psychiatrist/pathologist, and in 1907 he wrote an article describing the disease that is named for him.

1893 - Philadelphia observed the first Flag Day.

1900 - Hawaii became a U.S. territory.

1907 - Women in Norway won the right to vote.

1917 - General John Pershing arrived in Paris during World War I.
1919 - The first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight began. Captain John Alcot and Lt. Arthur Brown flew from Newfoundland to Ireland.

1922 - Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be heard on radio. The event was the dedication of the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.
1927 - Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz signed a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.

1932 - U.S. Representative Edward Eslick died on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill.

1940 - The Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.
1940 - German troops entered Paris. As Paris became occupied loud speakers announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 p.m.

1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut

1943 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schoolchildren could not be made to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicted with their religious beliefs.
1944 - Sixty U.S. B-29 Superfortress' attacked an iron and steel works factory on Honshu Island. It was the first U.S. raid against mainland Japan.
1945 - Burma was liberated by Britain.
1949 - The state of Vietnam was formed.

1951 - "Univac I" was unveiled. It was a computer designed for the U.S. Census Bureau and billed as the world's first commercial computer.
1952 - The Nautilus was dedicated. It was the first nuclear powered submarine.
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.

1954 - Americans took part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.

1965 - A military triumvirate took control in Saigon, South Vietnam.
1965 - John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1967 - Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy, FL. The space probe's flight took it past Venus.

1982 - Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands.
1983 - Five people were killed in a wing of a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, TX. The fire began in stacked rolls of carpet and padding, the fumes that ensued were toxic.
1985 - The 17-day hijacking of TWA flight 847 began. The hijackers were Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists.

1989 - Former U.S. President Reagan received an honorary knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested in Beverly Hills for slapping a motorcycle policeman.

1989 - Ground breaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall

1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld police checkpoints that are used to examine drivers for signs of intoxication.

1995 - Chechen rebels took 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia.
1996 - The FBI released that the White House had done bureau background reports on at leat 408 people without justification.

2002 - Twelve people were killed and 50 were injured when a car bomb was used to attack the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.

Patents

1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine

1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer, Jr., Springfield, Vermont
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1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass)

1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

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Special People Events

1998 - "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show

2002 - Actor Kirk Douglas received the UCLA Medal. The award is presented to people for cultural, political and humanitarian achievements

Sport Events

1933 - Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games

1987 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA title by defeating the defending Boston Celtics.

1992 - The Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship beating the Portland Trailblazers.

1994 - The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Vancouver Canucks. It was the first time the Rangers had won the cup in 54 years

Plays, Operas and Musicals, Events and Premiers

1951 -"Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances

1956 - "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 221 performances

Motion Picture Events

1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released

1980 - The movie "Roadie," starring Meat Loaf, debuted.

1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens

1996 - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released

TV Events

1967 - Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV

1976 - "Gong Show" premieres on TV, syndication

1985 - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV

1987 - "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years

1995 - Michael Jackson appeared on TV with his wife Lisa Marie Presley in a live interview with Diane Sawyer.

Music Events

1923 - Fiddlin' John Carson recorded "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane".

1965 - Paul McCartney recorded "Yesterday."
1965 - Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 - Bob Dylan recorded "Like A Rolling Stone."

1970 - Eric Clapton's band, "Derek and The Dominoes," made their live debut in Britain.
1970 - The Grateful Dead released their "Workingman's Dead" LP.

1971 - In London, the first Hard Rock Cafe opened.
1975 - Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands

1980 - Theme From New York, New York by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 - The "No Nukes" concert took place at The Hollywood Bowl.

Chart Toppers - June 14
1949
Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold

1957
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenager’s Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965
Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold

1973
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me) - Johnny Rodriguez

1981
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
What are We Doin’ in Love - Dottie West with Kenny Rogers

1989
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
Better Man - Clint Black

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On This Day June 15

1215 - In a meadow called Ronimed, between Windsor and Staines, England, King John of England sealed the Magna Carta, the first charter of English liberties. The Magna Carta is considered one of the most important historical documents defining political and human freedoms.

1607 - Colonists in North America completed James Fort in Jamestown.

1664 - N.J. established

1667 - Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully-documented human blood transfusion.

1775 - George Washington was appointed head of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.

1836 - First acquired by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase, Arkansas officially became the 25th of the United States of America. The Land of Opportunity as Arkansas is called, was founded in the late 17th century by Frenchman Henri de Tonti. His intrepretation of Quapaw, the Indian tribe that lived in the area, was Arkansas. Little Rock, the state’s largest city is also its capital. The state bird and the state flower are the mockingbird and apple blossom, respectively.

1846 - The United States and Britain settled a boundary dispute concerning the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, by signing a treaty.
1864 - An order to establish a military burial ground was signed by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The location later became known as Arlington National Cemetery.
1877 - Henry O. Flipper became the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1
picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

1911 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the state of New York. The company was later renamed International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.

1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
1917 - Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.
1919 - Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur W. Brown won $50,000 for successfully completing the first, non-stop trans-Atlantic plane flight.

1924 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI

1927 - Ku Klux Klan
The growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the southern states and the increase in floggings of Negroes including women and children by the Klan has many in the north demanding the Klan be disbanded, in the latest incident in Gainsville Georgia a woman and her son were dragged from their bed and taken out of town where they were flogged and told to leave the area or more would follow, when admitted to the hospital 82 lash marks were found on the womans body. 1932 - Gaston Means was sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.

1936 - Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in "Burlesque" on the "Lux Radio Theatre".

1944 - American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II.

1951 - 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila
1953 - New York City Transit Authority forms

- UK World's First Hovercraft Show Opens 
The world's first Hovercraft Show has opened to promote export sales of hovercraft for ferry operators, and military craft. 
- The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced its position on abortion by striking down state and local restriction on abortions. 
- U.S. Navy diver Robert D. Stethem was killed by the hijackers of Flight 847. 

- 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years 
- It was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court that the government could kidnap criminal suspects from foreign countries for prosecution. 
- U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell "potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student's teacher. 
- During the O.J. Simpson murder trial, O.J. was asked to put on a pair of gloves. The gloves were said to have been worn by the killer on the night of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. The gloves appeared not to fit. 
- The Irish Republican Army set of a truck bomb in a retail district in Manchester England. The explosion wounded more than 200 people. 
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state prison inmates are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

- In northeast London, a trailer was stolen that contained thousands of copies of J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix." The empty trailer was discovered two days later. 

- The U.S. Supreme Court said that judges cannot throw out evidence collected by police who have search warrants but do not properly announced their arrival. 

Patents

- Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for the process that strengthens rubber. 

1909 - Benjamin Shibe patented the cork center baseball.

Special People Events

Benjamin Franklin
1752 - It was a dark and stormy night. Since there was nothing on TV worth a darn and, since he had been wondering if there really was electricity up in those dark clouds, Benjamin Franklin tied an iron wire to his kite and let it sail. He flew the kite from a long piece of twine tied to a silk ribbon on the end. Franklin attached a metal key where the twine and silk met. Ben, not being a total dummy, flew the kite high in the wind, but stood in a doorway so the silk ribbon (and he) would not get wet. His idea was that any electricity overhead would be attracted to the wire on top of the kite. Lucky for Franklin, no actual lightning bolt struck the wire or Ben would have been toast! However, as lightning began to flash, he put his hand near the key and sparks flew. The test was a success!

Sports Events

1887 - NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1

1902 - Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game

1925 - Philadelphia A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland 17-15

1938 - 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red
Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecident 2nd consecutive no-hitter

1947 - 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)

1957 - Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran

1965 - Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced and record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts

1976 - Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore
for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
1976 - Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium

Golf Events

1901 - 7th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts

1947 - 47th U.S. Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St. Louis CC in MO

1957 - 57th U.S. Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo

1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1969 - 69th U.S. Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs Golf Club in Houston, Texas

1970 - 16th LPGA Championship

won by Shirley Englehorn

1975 - Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic

1980 - Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1980 - 80th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey

1986 - Raymond Floyd wins U.S. Open golf tournament
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1986 - 86th U.S. Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club New York

1997 - Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions
1997 - 97th U.S. Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md

Operas, Plays and Musicals Premiers and Events

1980 - "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 12 performances

1995 - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth New York City for 55 performances

Motion Picture Events

1973 - "American Graffiti" opens in NYC

1990 - "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premiers

1994 - Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million

TV Events

1958 - The Platters sang "Twilight Time" on Ed Sullivan.

1969 - "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV

1984 - "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndicatio

1985 - "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV

Music Events

1963 - Jan & Dean's "Surf City" was released.

1963 - Kyu Sakamoto from Kawasaki, Japan, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts with "Sukiyaki". The popular song captivated American music buyers and was at the top of the "Billboard" pop chart for three weeks. In Japan, where Sakamoto was enormously popular, "Sukiyaki" was known as "Ue O Muite Aruko" (I Look Up When I Walk). The entertainer met an untimely fate in 1985. Kyu (cue) Sakamoto was one of 520 people who perished in the crash of a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 near Tokyo. He was 43 years old.

1965 - Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"
1966 - The Beatles album, "Yesterday & Today" was released by Capitol Records.
1968 - Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4

1974 - "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on U.K. pop chart

1989 - Nirvana's first album "Bleach" was released.

1998 - The Spice Girls began their first North American tour in Miami.

1999 - Epic Records released "No Boundaries", a compilation album created for the benefit of refugees of Kosovo.

Chart Toppers - June 15
1950
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
The Third Man Theme - Alton Karas
Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams

1958
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Yakety Yak - The Coasters
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers

1966
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin’ Spoonful
I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves

1974
Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore - Charlie Rich

1982
Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
For All the Wrong Reasons - The Bellamy Brothers

1990
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe
It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait

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On This Day June 16

632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1624 - Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown
1775 - Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress
1779 - In support of the US, Spain declares war on England
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1784 - Holland forbids orange clothes
1794 - 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1823 - King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
1836 - London Working Men's Assn forms
1842 - Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
1871 - The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1873 - Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians
1880 - Salvation Army forms in Londo
1882 - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children
1896 - Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif
1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1899 - Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's
1903 - Ford Motors incorporates
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1903 - Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 - Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1904 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1909 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1913 - South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1915 - The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1917 - 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1917 - 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1925 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
1929 - Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1931 - Austrian govt of Ender falls
1932 - Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
1932 - Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention
1932 - Sutcliffe & Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks v Essex
1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1935 - US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"
1936 - Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
1936 - Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
1938 - Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns

1941 - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1944 - Iceland adopts constitution
1944 - King George VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
1944 - US bombs Kyushu Japan
1945 - 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8

1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa

1951 - 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
1955 - Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron
1956 - 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8
1960 - Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
1961 - Discoverer 25 launched
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1962 - 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1964 - Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
1964 - Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1966 - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
1969 - Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
1970 - Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
1970 - Race riots in Miami Florida
1971 - Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen
1971 - Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
1972 - The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
1975 - Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1975 - Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
1977 - Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1979 - Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
1980 - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1983 - USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1984 - Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
1985 - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
1987 - Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

1988 - In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins

1991 - NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR

1992 - Diana: Her True Story Published
A controversial book has been published about Princess Diana entitled "Diana: Her True Story". The author Andrew Morton insists he has reliable sources for the the book including claims about her attempted suicide on several occasions over the last decade. But Buckingham Palace has said Princess Diana did not co-operate with the biography in any way whatsoever.

1992 - Great Brit postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1992 - Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
1995 - Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002
2000 - Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.

Special Events

1884 - First Roller Coaster
The first American roller coaster ( switchback railway ) in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York.

Inventions

1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack

Sports Events

1883 - 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)

1903 - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox

1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals

1916 - Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0

1938 - St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row

1945 - Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins

1953 - Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1956 - 56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY
1957 - White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6

1975 - Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1977 - Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1978 - Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit

1981 - The "Chicago Tribune" purchased the Chicago Cubs baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million. The Wrigley family had controlled the team for over 60 years. The sale ended the longest continuous ownership of a team that stayed put in its original city.

1991 - Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
1991 - Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
1991 - With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5

1992 - Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
1992 - Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning
1992 - Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0)

1993 - Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's

1994 - Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy

1995 - Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)

1996 - 50th NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2

Golf Events

1927 - 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa

1946 - 46th US Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve
1951 - 51st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich

1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament

1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1968 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic
1968 - 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY
1968 - Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par

1974 - 74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open

1985 - 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1985 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1985 - T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open

1991 - 91st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn
1991 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

1996 - 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
1996 - 96th US Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic

Plays, Operas and Musicals Premiers and Events

1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1890 - A glittering program of music and ballet, featuring composer Edward Strause, opened the second Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs

1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris

1977 - "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

1979 - The musical "Evita" opened on Broadway. The work was the third collaboration of Tim Rice and Andre Lloyd Weber.

1991 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 perfs

Motion Picture Events

1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA

1960 - "Psycho," opens in NY

1978 - Grease Opens
The Movie Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opened

1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, formerly of NBC’s "Saturday Night Live", starred. The pair played Jake and Elwood Blues. James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin performed. Cab Calloway also appeared with a rendition of his classic "Minnie the Moocher".

1989 - "Ghostbusters II" premieres

1995 - "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend

TV Events

1952 - Gale Storm (Margie Albright) and Charles Farrell (Vernon Albright) starred in "My Little Margie" which debuted on CBS-TV on this day. Fans of the popular comedy will remember that "My Little Margie" was based at the Carlton Arms Hotel, Apartment 10-A. Vern Albright was a very eligible widower who worked for the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd. Margie Albright, his 21-year-old daughter, was continually scheming to help dad and continually causing big trouble while helping.

1954 - Elvis Presley appeared live on "Grand Ole Opry" and performed "Blue Moon of Kentucky."

1961 - Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1965 - The half hour Saturday morning cartoon "The Beatles" premiered on ABC-TV. The show ran until September 7, 1969.

1966 - "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV

Music Events

1934 - Henry Busse recorded "Hot Lips" with his orchestra.

1956 - "Be-Bop-A-Lula", by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, was released on Capitol Records. Vincent was called Capitol’s answer to Elvis Presley. The tune became Vincent Eugene Craddock’s biggest hit of three ("Lotta Lovin’", "Dance to the Bop") to make the pop music charts. Vincent died in 1971. 1958 - "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46

1967 - Monterey International Pop Music Festival
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival opens in Monterey, California, which will run for three days starts on June 16th and end on June 18th. Over 200,000 people attended, and it is often regarded as the precursor to Woodstock.
Performers at the festival included some truly great pop music legends.

1967 - The Beatles record "Fool On The Hill" in London at Abbey Road Studios.
1969 - John Lennon recorded "Cold Turkey." The backing band included Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr and Klaus Voorman.

1970 - Ringo Starr released "Beaucoups of Blues."
1971 - "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens was released.
1975 - Jackie Wilson collapsed while performing "Lonely Teardrops" at the Latino Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ. He had suffered a heart attack that caused brain damage. He was 41 years old. He died in 1984 after spending the rest of his life in hospitals.

1978 - Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1979 - The LP "The Long Run" was released by the Eagles.
1979 - The single "I'm The Man" was released by Joe Jackson
1979 - "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6

1981 - A concert by the Rolling Stones was recorded at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. The footage from the tour was later released as "Lets Spend the Night Together."
1983 - Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1989 - Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)

1990 - Little Richard Boulevard is named for the star in Macon, GA.
1990 - "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8

1995 - Miriah Carey's "Fantasy" became only the second single to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first artist to accomplish this feat was Michael Jackson with "You Are Not Alone."

1997 - 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes

Chart Toppers - June 16
1951
Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Syncopated Clock - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Him or Me - What’s It Gonna Be? - Paul Revere & The Raiders
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

1975
Sister Golden Hair - America
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt

1983
Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
My Love - Lionel Richie
Our Love is on the Faultline - Crystal Gayle

1991
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Love is a Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets) - Joe Diffie

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On This Day June 17

0362 - Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.

1579 - Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England.

1775 - The British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

1789 - The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly, and began to frame a constitution.

1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte incorporated Italy into his empire.

1848 - Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushed a Czech uprising in Prague.

1854 - The Red Turban revolt broke out in Guangdong, China.
1856 - The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.

1861 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hydrogen balloon.
1863 - Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)

1872 - George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.
1876 - General George Crook’s command was attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.

1879 - Thomas Edison received an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the trustees of Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ.

1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

1912 - The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burned in its hanger in Friedrichshafen.
1913 - U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
1917 - The Russian Duma met in a secret session in Petrograd and voted for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.

1919 - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiers

1924 - The Fascist militia marched into Rome.
1926 - Spain threatened to quit the League of Nations if Germany was allowed to join.
1928 - Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

1930 - The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill became law. It placed the highest tariff on imports to the U.S.
1931 - British authorities in China arrested Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
1932 - The U.S. Senate defeated the bonus bill as 10,000 veterans massed around the Capitol.

1942 - Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began publication. The term "G.I. Joe" was first used in a comic strip by Dave Breger.

1942 - "Suspense" debuted on CBS Radio.

1944 - The republic of Iceland was established.
1946 - SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
1947 - 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
1947 - Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline

1950 - Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.

1953 - Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were rioting against the East German government.

1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.
1965 - Twenty-seven B-52’s hit Viet Cong outposts but lost two planes in South Vietnam.
1969 - Boris Spasky became chess champion of the world after checkmating former champion Tigran Petrosian in Moscow.

1972 - Five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men all worked for the reelection of President Nixon. The event was the beginning of the Watergate affair.

1985 - Judy Norton-Taylor, who played the role of Mary Ellen on "The Waltons", saw her good-girl image tarnished as she was photographed nude for "Playboy" magazine.

1987 - American journalist Charles Glass was kidnapped. He was held captive for 62 days until he escaped on August 18, 1987.
1988 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0

1991 - The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans for classified by race at birth.
1994 - O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Los Angeles with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Patents

1837 - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1970 - Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera

Sports Events

1876 - 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
1880 - John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo

1930 - Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games

1948 - Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader

1953 - Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)

1960 - Ted Williams hit his 500th home run

1978 - Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs

Golf Events

1961 - 61st U.S. Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Michigan

1962 - 62nd U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA

1973 - 73rd U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA
1973 - 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa

1979 - 79th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic

1990 - 90th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il
1990 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic

Motion Picture Events

1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY

Plays, Operas and Musicals Premiers and Events

1904 - The opera "Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini had its world premiere at La Scala in Milan.

1967 - Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed

TV Events

1941 - WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S.

1971 - James Taylor made his prime-time television debut on ABC's the "Johnny Cash Show."

1982 - Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on "The CBS Morning News."

1990 - Aerosmith appeared on "Saturday Night Live". The performed the Wayne's World theme song while appearing in the skit as themselves.

Music Events

1955 - Little Richard sent his first audition tape to Specialty Records.
1957 - "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2

1960 - The Everly Brothers signed with Warner Bros. Records in a 10-year contract worth $1 million.

1964 - The first Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass concert was held, in Los Angeles, CA.
1966 - Brian Wilson began recording the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations."
1967 - "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
1968 - Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold

1969 - Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan had a recording session in Nashville, TN. "Girl from the North Country" was the only duet released from the session.

1970 - Maurice Gibb (Bee Gee's) opened in the London stage musical "Sing a Rude Song."

1972 - Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
1972 - "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
1972 - Pink Floyd began a 4-night stand in London. During the stand they premiered "The Dark Side of the Moon" a full year before it was released.
1975 - John Lennon released "Rock n' Roll." It was his last record before he left the music business for 5 years.
1976 - The Eagles released their "Greatest Hits."
1976 - Bette Midler was awarded the "Woman of the Year" award from Harvard's University's Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society.
1978 - "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32

1978 - "Shadow Dancing", by Andy Gibb, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts for the first of seven weeks. Gibb had two other number one hits: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" and "(Love is) Thicker than Water". Gibb, the youngest of the Gibb brothers who made up the Bee Gees, hosted TV’s "Solid Gold" in 1981-82. Andy scored nine hits on the pop music charts in the 1970s and 1980s. He died of an inflammatory heart virus in Oxford, England in 1988.

1979 - The Clash opened its first U.S. tour in New York City.

1998 - Destiny Child's self-title debut album was released.

Chart Toppers - June 17
1944
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Be Seeing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952
Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
I’m Yours - Eddie Fisher
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson

1960
Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin

1968
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondells
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

1976
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
I’ll Get Over You - Crystal Gayle

1984
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Self Control - Laura Branigan
I Got Mexico - Eddy Raven

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"HAPPY BIRTHDAY'"
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Born 1942 Liverpool, England

Paul, along with John Lennon, was one of the singers and writers of the Beatles' songs. They initially played (barring Ringo) in the clubs of Liverpool and Hamburg, and continued performances in the former (at the Cavern Club among other venues) on their return. They recorded their work at the Abbey Road Studios in London. Two weeks before the group released Let It Be McCartney announced that the group was breaking up (much to the irritation of the others). It is likely that they split was a result of McCartney's 1969 marriage to Linda Eastman. He went solo with Wings, and has spent a long period of music production since 1970. He is the only Beatle to have had a successful solo career. Linda's death in 1998 created a period of mourning in which he was quiet, and his work has since then been relatively lackadaisical. In 2002 he married Heather Mills, but this has ended in a degree of acrimony, and concluded with their 2008 divorce. Paul had two children with Linda and one by Heather.

On This Day June 18

1155 - Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome.

1429 - French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had been retreating after the siege of Orleans.

1621 - The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

1667 - The Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames toward London.

1778 - Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary War.

1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.
1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.
1817 - London's Waterloo Bridge opened. The bridge, designed by John Rennie, was built over the River Thames.

1861 - The first American fly-casting tournament was held in Utica, NY.

1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.

1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii

1915 - During World War I, the second battle of Artois ended.
1918 - Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest counter-attack against the German army.

1923 - First Checker Cab

First Checker Cab is produced by the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. By 1925 the Checker Cab Company is the largest manufacturer of Cabs in the country . In 1956 Checker made a passenger vehicle for the first time the Chequer Marathon but never really took off.

1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.
1927 - The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."
1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales.

1935 - the Rolls Royce trademark was registered in the U.S.
1936 - Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.
1936 - The first bicycle traffic court was established in Racine, WI.
1939 - The CBS radio network aired "Ellery Queen" for the first time.

1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1951 - General Vo Nguyen Giap ended his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.
1953 - Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as its first president.
1959 - A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.

1961 - "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio. The show had been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star of "Gunsmoke" was William Conrad, who would become a major TV star ("Cannon", "Jake and the Fatman"), as well. When "Gunsmoke" moved to TV, James Arness filled Conrad’s boots.

1966 - Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.

1972 - A BEA Trident crashed just after takeoff from London Airport. All 118 people on board were killed.
1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747

1979 - In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2.

1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 - Alan Berg was shot to death outside his home. Two white supremacists were convicted of civil rights violations in the murder.

1996 - Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.
1997 - Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole for the 10th time. He had assissinated presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968.
1998 - The Walt Disney Co. purchased a 43% stake in the Web search engine company Infoseek Corp.
1998 - Nine commemorative U.S. postage stamps were reissued. The stamps were considered to be classically beautiful examples of stamp engraving.

1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

2000 - In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.

2002 - In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

2009 - NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS probes to the Moon. It was the first American lunar mission since Lunar Prospector in 1998.
2009 - Greenland assumed control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources from the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenlandic became the official language.

Special Events

1898 - Atlantic City, NJ opened its Steel Pier to a large summertime seashore crowd. The world-famous Steel Pier over the Atlantic Ocean offered 9-1/2 miles of amusements, concerts, food, beverages, concessions and more. The Steel Pier once featured a horse that would dive into a pool at the end of the pier, in fact. The summer resort gave many a youngster their start in show biz, like Ed McMahon, who used to be a barker on the ocean pier.

Patents

Children's Carriage Patent - 1889

In 1889, black American inventor W.H. Richardson was issued two patents for a "Child's Carriage" (U.S. Nos. 405,599 - 600) In 1886, he had already also patented a "Cotton Chopper".

In June 1889, William Richardson patented his idea of the first reversible stroller. The bassinet was designed so it could face out or in towards the parent. He also made structural changes to the carriage. Until then the axis did not allow each wheel to move separately, Richardson’s design allowed this, which increased maneuverability of the carriages.

Sports Events

1953 - Seventeen major league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.

1975 - Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox hit three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers

Golf Events

1915 - Jerome Travers becomes the 2nd amateur to win golf's US Open

1989 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

1990 - lst sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin

1995 - 95th U.S. Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1995 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament

2000 - 100th U.S. Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links California

Plays, Operas and Musicals Premiers and Events

1821 - Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischutz" was first performed in Berlin.

1993 - Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England

Motion Picture Events

1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers

1999 - Walt Disney's "Tarzan" opened featuring Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Chris Phillips and Rosie O’Donnell.

1999 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: "An Ideal Husband", starring Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, and Jeremy Northam; "The General’s Daughter", with John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III and James Woods.

TV Events

1956 - Nanette Fabray bid audiences farewell in her final appearance on "Caesars Hour" after two years as a regular on the popular TV program

1959 - The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.

Music Events

1948 - Long Playing Phonograph Record / LP
Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record, the 33 1/3, in New York City. Today, Columbia Records is the oldest record brand in the industry, dating back to 1888 when sound was recorded on black cylinders rather than albums, and begin mass production.

1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience made its debut performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in California.

1977 - Fleetwood Mac worked "Dreams" to the number one spot on the pop music charts this day. It would be the group’s only single to reach number one. Fleetwood Mac placed 18 hits on the charts in the 1970s and 1980s. Nine were top-ten tunes.

1996 - Beck's fourth album "Odelay" was released.

1998 - David Cassidy began selling a two-CD set exclusively on the cable TV shopping network QVC.

Chart Toppers - June 18
1945
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953
Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961
Moody River - Pat Boone
Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969
Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
Running Bear - Sonny James

1977
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Country Boy - Ricky Skaggs

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