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Born on this day in history: 1810 - P.T. Barnum (American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus; died 1891) 1889 - Jean Cocteau (French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker; died 1963) 1911 - Georges Pompidou (President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974) 1920 - Smiley Lewis (singer-songwriter, "I Hear You Knockin'"; died 1966) 1934 - Katherine Helmond 72/actress, TV's Soap, Who's the Boss; The Time Machine) 1936 - Shirley Knight (actress, As Good As It Gets) 1943 - Robbie Robertson (guitarist-songwriter, The Band) 1948 - Julie Nixon Eisenhower (daughter of former President Richard Nixon) 1950 - Michael Monarch (guitar, Steppenwolf) 1950 - Huey Lewis (singer, Huey Lewis and the News) 1951 - Rich "Goose" Gossage (retired baseball pitcher) 1960 - Marc Cohn (singer, "Walking In Memphis") 1963 - Edie Falco (actress, Carmela on TV's The Sopranos) 1966 - RZA (American producer, rapper and the de facto leader of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan) 1981 - Jason Wade (singer, Lifehouse) On this day in music history: 1954 - Elvis Presley had his first commercial recording session at Sun Records in Memphis. The song he recorded was "That's All Right (Mama)." 1958 - Atlantic Records recorded Ray Charles' gig at the Newport Jazz Festival for a live album. 1965 - The Beach Boys released their album, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). 1968 - Bill Graham opened The Fillmore West in San Francisco, California. 1969 - The Rolling Stones played a free memorial concert in London's Hyde Park for their former guitarist, Brian Jones. Jones's replacement, Mick Taylor, made his public debut with the Stones at the show. Mick Jagger wore a white dress. 1975 - Bad Company's "Feel Like Making Love" was released. 1978 - The EMI record pressing plant in Britain stopped printing the Rolling Stones album cover for Some Girls, because of complaints from celebrities. 1980 - Proto-goth rockers Bauhaus played their farewell concert in London. The band reunited for a brief tour in 1999. 1983 - Jazz trumpeter Harry James died of cancer at age 67. 1998 - New age artist Yanni finally ended his almost year-long tour with a sold-out show at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. 2001 - Singer Ernie K-Doe died of liver failure. He was 65. Ernie's biggest hit was "Mother-In-Law," which hit #1 on the pop and R&B charts in 1961. 2002 - Jimi Hendrix's family won an injunction against a New York-based music production company from releasing recordings that Hendrix had performed on. On this day in history: 1811 - Venezuela became the first South American country to declare its independence from Spain. 1865 - William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London. 1935 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law. 1947 - Larry Doby became the first African-American to play baseball for the American league when he signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians. 1975 - Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title after he beat Jimmy Connors. 1989 - Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison sentence for his Iran-Contra convictions. 1994 - Clinton announced the U.S. was refusing the entry of Haitian boat people because there was a surge of refugees and it needed to stop. 1998 - Pete Sampras won Wimbledon for the fifth time in six years when he beat Goran Ivanisevic. 1999 - President Clinton began a four-day, cross-country tour to promote a plan for drawing jobs and investments to areas that had not shared in the prosperity of the 1990's. 2001 - President Bush named veteran prosecutor Robert Mueller to take over the FBI. 2002 - In Algeria, 35 people were killed in violent attacks on the day that the country celebrated its 40 years of independence from France. 2002 - Former Nazi SS officer Friedrich Engel was convicted of 59 counts of murder stemming from massacre of Italian resistance fighters on May 19, 1944. |
