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Sunday, August 1, 2010
MTV DAY
MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on this day in 1981. The first music video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, Video Killed the Radio Star, by the Buggles. MTV’s original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
Since MTV is targeted to 18- to 24-year-olds, its music videos feature rock, rap, R&B and heavy metal. Today, the radio-with-pictures TV channel does more than play wall-to-wall music. Watch MTV and you’ll see news, drama, game shows, comedy, dance shows and inaugural balls.
In 1987, having reached the near-saturation point on U.S. cable systems, MTV expanded internationally with MTV Europe. Two years later, and just two days before the Berlin Wall came down, MTV went on the air in East Berlin. A big push into Asia was launched in September of 1991, and in the fall of 1993, MTV went Latin with MTV Latino.
Events August 1
1291 - A pact was made to form the Swiss Confederation. The anniversary of this founding has been celebrated as National Day in Switzerland since 1891, the 600th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation.
1873 - The first cable streetcar in America began operation on Clay Street Hill in San Francisco, CA.
1876 - Colorado, the 38th state, entered the United States of America this day. It is the only state to enter the union in the one hundredth year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Consequently, Colorado is called the Centennial State. The Rocky Mountains are Colorado’s most famous feature; which explains why the Rocky Mountain columbine is the state flower. The lark bunting is the state Bird . Denver, Colorado’s largest city, is also the state capital.
1893 - Henry Perky and William Ford of Watertown, NY woke up early and found their patent sitting on the breakfast table. They had invented shredded wheat. Pass the bananas and milk, please...
1894 - George Samuelson and Frank Harbo completed a 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean -- in a rowboat! They landed in England after having left New York on June 6th. We can think of easier ways to cross the ocean...
1927 - One of country music’s most influential groups, The Carter Family, made their first recordings for Victor Records at a makeshift studio in Bristol (to be known as the Bristol Barn Sessions). Among the six titles recorded was Single Girl, Married Girl.
1937 - Mutual radio debuted The Goodwill Hour, with its familiar phrase, “You have a friend and advisor in John J. Anthony.”
1940 - The first book written by 23-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy was published. It was titled, Why England Slept. Later, Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage would become a best-seller for the man who would become the United States’ 35th President.
1941 - Parade magazine called it “...the Army’s most intriguing new gadget.” The gadget was “a tiny truck which can do practically everything.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America couldn’t have won World War II without it. The tiny truck was the Jeep, built at the time by the Willys Truck Company. Parade was so enthusiastic about the Jeep that it devoted three pages to the vehicle.
1942 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded Charleston Alley, on Decca Records.
1942 - The American Federation of Musicians went on strike. Union president James C. Petrillo told musicians that phonograph records were “a threat to members’ jobs.” As a result, musicians refused to perform in recording sessions over the next several months. Live, musical radio broadcasts continued, however.
1943 - This day marked the groundbreaking ceremony in Oak Ridge, TN for the first uranium 235 plant. (Uranium 235 was needed to build the A-bomb.) The uranium manufacturing facility cost $280,000,000 to build and was completed in the summer of 1944.
1944 - 13-year-old Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary; a diary she had kept for two years while hiding with her family to escape Nazi deportation to a concentration camp. Three days later the Grune Polizei raided the secret annex in Amsterdam, Holland, where the Jewish family was in hiding. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
1946 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Fulbright Act into law. The law authorized the scholarship program named for Senator William J. Fulbright (D-AR).
1950 - Pitcher Curt Simmons of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first major-league baseball player to be called to active military duty during the Korean War.
1950 - The U.S. Territory of Guam was created. In 1949, U.S. President Harry S Truman had signed the Organic Act making Guam an unincorporated territory of the United States with limited self-governing authority, and granting American Citizenship to the people of Guam.
1953 - The first aluminum-faced building constructed in America was completed. It was the Alcoa (Aluminum Corporation of America) Building in Pittsburgh, PA.
1957 - The United States and Canada reached an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1958 - After 26 years at 3 cents, the cost of mailing a first-class letter in the United States went up a penny.
1960 - Chubby Checker’s The Twist was released. The song inspired the dance craze of the 1960s. Round and around and around...
1966 - 25-year-old sniper Charles Joseph Whitman ascended to the observation deck of the University of Texas Tower and let loose a fusillade that left 13 killed and many more wounded. Whitman had also killed his wife and mother the night before.
1971 - The Concert for Bangladesh was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston performed. A multirecord set commemorating the event was a super sales success. Together, the concert and the album raised over $11 million to help the starving minions of Bangladesh.
1976 - Games of the XXIst Olympiad ended in Montreal. They were among the most controversial in Olympic history. Thirty-two nations withdrew from the games, six East European athletes defected to Canada, a Soviet athlete was dismissed for cheating, three other participants were disqualified for steroid use, and a Soviet sprinter reported a death threat.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds failed to get a hit in five times at bat in Atlanta. As a result, his consecutive hitting streak ended at 44 games -- just 12 short of Joe DiMaggio’s major-league baseball record with the New York Yankees.
1981 - Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Network, Hospital) died of cancer at 58 years of age.
1984 - Singer Jermaine Jackson made a guest appearance on the TV soap opera, As the World Turns.
1987 - Mike Tyson ‘out-pointed’ Tony Tucker in 12 rounds at Las Vegas, Nevada. He won the right to call himself the “Undisputed world heavyweight champion” as he won the IBF heavyweight title and retained the WBA/WBC heavyweight titles.
1993 - St. Louis was besieged by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which had swelled to record levels after months of flooding in nine Midwestern states.
1994 - The Rolling Stones started their 43-city Voodoo Lounge world tour before 55,000 fans at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.
1996 - Here’s today’s Olympic wrap-up: Michael Johnson left his fellow runners in the dust to win gold in the 200 meters in a record 19.32 seconds. He was the first male Olympian to complete the 200/400-meter Olympic double. And French sprinter Marie-Jose Perec became only the second woman in history to win gold medal in both the 200-meter and the 400-meter runs at the same Olympics. Perec joined American Valerie Brisco-Hooks, who won both the 200 and 400 races in 1984 in Los Angeles. The U.S. women’s soccer team claimed the gold medal and capped the first women’s soccer competition at the Olympics, beating China 2-1. And last, but certainly not least, decathlon, four years after failing to make the U.S. sOlympic team.
1996 - MTV launched a sister channel, MTV2. The channel debuted with Where It’s At, by Beck (Hansen).
1996 - Bill Buchanan of the novelty duo, Buchanan and Goodman, died in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 66 years old. Buchanan originated the ‘break-in’ recording technique with ****ie Goodman, where they used bits of original top-40 hits for a humorous ‘interview’. Questions would be asked of celebrities, etc., and their ‘answers’ would be pieces lifted from popular tunes. Buchanan and Goodman first used the concept on The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 and 2) in 1956. The following year brought the hits Flying Saucer the 2nd and Santa and the Satellite (Parts 1 and 2).
1997 - These motion pictures opened in the U.S.: Air BUD , with Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Eric Christmas, Brendan Fletcher, Norman Browning and Bill Cobbs; Picture Perfect, starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Olympia Dukakis and Kevin Dunn; Spawn, with Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Nicol Williamson, Theresa Randle, D.B. Sweeney, Miko Hughes and Melinda Clarke.
1999 - A heat wave that had gripped the U.S. since mid-July finally eased. Nearly 200 deaths were attributed to the heat and humidity.
2000 - A U.S. military court in Germany sentenced U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi to life in prison without parole for sexual assault and murder. Ronghi, while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo, raped and murdered an eleven-year-old ethnic Albanian girl.
2001 - Robert Henry Rimmer, author of the 1960s novel The Harrad Experiment, died at 84 years of age.
2002 - Two teenage girls were abducted from their dates at a lovers’ lane outside Lancaster, Calif. The girls were rescued about 100 miles away after their kidnapper crashed his getaway car and was shot to death by sheriff’s deputies.
2003 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: American Wedding, with Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy and January Jones; and Gigli, with Ben Affleck, Terry Camilleri, David Backus, Lenny Venito, Robert Silver, Luis Alberto Martínez, Justin Bartha, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Todd Giebenhain, Brian Sites, Brian Casey, Les Bradford, David Bonfadini and Dwight P. Ketchum.
2004 - Karen Stupples won the Women’s British Open. It was her first major championship.
2005 - A survey of the world’s strongest brands by Anholt-GMI (marketing research firm) placed Australia as the leading ‘nation brand’, ahead of Canada, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The 2004 top brand, Sweden, dropped to fifth place, while the U.S. fell from fourth to eleventh.
2006 - The United Kingdom launched its first public terror alert system, with the government announcing that the U.K. faced the ‘severe’ risk of more terrorist attacks.
2006 - Fidel Castro was in seclusion after undergoing intestinal surgery on July 31. Castro had turned over power to his brother Raul.
2006 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and mayors of some of the world’s largest cities announced an initiative to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency in everything from street lights to building materials.
2007 - British Airways was fined a record £121.5 million (€180 million, $246 million) after admitting collusion with Virgin Atlantic over fuel surcharges on tickets.
2007 - A highway bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis, NN during afternoon rush hour. 13 people died and hundreds were injured.
2008 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Midnight Meat Train, starring Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields, Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart, Peter Jacobson, Barbara Eve Harris and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson; The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, with Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, Luke Ford and Isabella Leong; and Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Judge Reinhold, Willie Nelson, Mare Winningham and Richard Petty.
2008 - U.S. and state regulators Closed First Priority Bank of Bradenton, Florida, the 8th U.S. bank to fail in 2009.
2009 - The Post-9/11 GI Bill took effect in the U.S., to reimburse veterans for their full undergraduate tuition at public colleges. The law also made an amount equivalent to that tuition available for vets who choose private schools or graduate programs.
Birthdays August 1
1770 - William Clark
explorer: Lewis and Clark Expedition; died Sep 1, 1838
1779 - Francis Scott Key
attorney, poet: The Star-Spangled Banner: U.S. national anthem; died Jan 11, 1843
1818 - Maria Mitchell
astronomer: 1st woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1st U.S. woman to become a professor of astronomy; died June 28, 1889
1819 - Herman Melville
author: Moby ****, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, White-Jacket; died Sep 28, 1891
1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln
son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; rescued from train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of man who assassinated President Lincoln; died Jul 26, 1926
1912 - Henry Jones
actor: stage: My Sister Eileen, Hamlet, The Time of Your Life, They Knew What They Wanted, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Sunrise at Campobello; films: The Bad Seed, Picture Windows, Grass Roots, Arachnophobia, **** Tracy, The Leftovers, Deathtrap, California Gold Rush; died May 17, 1999
1914 - Lloyd Mangrum
golf champ: winner of 36 professional tournaments including 1946 U.S. Open; died Nov 17, 1973
1916 - James Hill
producer: Vera Cruz, The Kentuckian, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, The Unforgiven, The Happy Thieves; writer: His Majesty O'Keefe; died Jan 11, 2001
1921 - Jack Kramer
tennis champion: Wimbledon [1947], U.S. Open [1946, 1947]; died Sep 12, 2009
1922 - Arthur Hill
actor: Harper, The Andromeda Strain, Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Futureworld, Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, Glitter; died Oct 22, 2006
1923 - George (Irvin) Bamberger
baseball: pitcher: NY Giants, Baltimore Orioles; manager: KC Royals; died Apr 4, 2004
1929 - Michael Stewart (Rubin)
playwright: Midnight Edition, Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!; died Sep 20, 1987
1930 - Geoffrey Holder
dancer, actor: Live and Let Die, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex [But were Afraid to Ask], Doctor Dolittle
1931 - Tom Wilson
cartoonist: Ziggy
1932 - Bobby Isaac
International Motorsports Hall of Famer: In a race in 1973, Bobby Isaac heard a ghostly voice telling him to stop immediately or suffer the consequences. He pulled out of the race and, until the day he died of a heart attack (Aug 14, 1977), he believed that he had pulled out just in time.
1933 - Dom Deluise
comedian, actor: Dean Martin Show, Loose Cannons, Cannonball Run 1 & 2, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, Smokey and the Bandit, Part 2, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; host: New Candid Camera; died May 4, 2009
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent (Henry Mathieu)
fashion designer; died Jun 1, 2008
1937 - Alfonse M. D’Amato
U.S. Senator from New York
1939 - Robert James Waller
author: The Bridges of Madison County, Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend; professor of economics, business management
1941 - Ronald Brown
U.S. Secretary of Commerce [Clinton Administration]; Democratic National Committee chairman: 1st African-American to head a major political party; killed in plane crash Apr 3, 1996
1942 - Jerry Garcia
guitarist, banjo, lyricist: group: The Grateful Dead: Dark Star, Truckin’, Alabama Getaway; died Aug 9, 1995
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini
actor: A Walk in the Clouds, Once Upon a Crime, Goodnight Michael Angelo, Swept Away...by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
1943 - Geoff Britton
musician: drums: group: Wings: Silly Love Songs, Live and Let Die, Junior’s Farm, With a Little Luck
1947 - Rick Anderson
musician: bass: group: The Tubes
1947 - Rick Coonce
singer, drummer: group: The Grass Roots: Let’s Live for Today, Midnight Confessions
1948 - Cliff Branch
football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XI, XV; LA Raiders: Super Bowl XVIII
1950 - Milt (Milton Scott) May
baseball: catcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, SF Giants
1952 - Greg (Gregory Eugene) Gross
baseball: Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1980, 1983]
1953 - Robert Cray
singer: group: Robert Cray Band: albums: Showdown, Strong Persuader; in film: Animal House
1958 - Taylor Negron
comedian, actor: Hope & Gloria, Angels In The Outfield, Young Doctors In Love, Easy Money, Punchline, The Last Boy Scout
1959 - Joe Elliot
singer: group: Def Leppard: Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin’
1963 - Coolio (Artis Ivey Jr.)
rapper: LPs: It Takes a Thief, Gangsta’s Paradise, My Soul
1964 - Adam Duritz
musician: piano, record producer, lead singer and founding member of Counting Crows: Mr. Jones, Round Here, Einstein on the Beach [For an Eggman], Rain King, A Murder of One, Angels of the Silences
1967 - Gregg Jefferies
baseball [outfield, first, second, third base]: New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Anaheim Angels, Detroit Tigers
1968 - Stacey Augmon
basketball: Nevada-Las Vegas; NBA: Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers, Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, Orlando Magic
1969 - Kevin Jarvis
baseball [pitcher]: Wake Forest Univ; NFL: Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies, SD Padres, Seattle Mariners, SL Cardinals
1970 - Jennifer Gareis
actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, Escape, Boat Trip, Downward Angel, Miss Congeniality, The 6th Day, Gangland, Private Parts
1971 - Christina Angel
actress: X-rated films: Animal Instinct, Sleeping Single, Intercourse with the Vampire
1971 - Carrie Bittner
actress: X-rated films: twin Cheeks, Positions Wanted, Sweet Licks, Nurse Nancy, A Little Christmas Tail, Private Dancer, One Million Years DD, Business and Pleasure
1972 - Todd Bouman
football [quarterback]: Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers
1972 - Devon Hughes aka D-Von Dudley
pro wrestler/actor: Extreme Championship Wrestling, Raw Is War, Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania 2000, WWF Judgement Day, Armageddon
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe
actress: The Cosby Show, Dream Date, Monsters, Fire & Ice
1977 - Marc Denis
hockey [goalie]: Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Tampa Bay Lightning
1978 - Edgerrin James
football [running back]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Indianapolis Colts
1979 - Honeysuckle Weeks
actress: Foyle’s War, Red Mercury, Lorna Doone [2000], Close Relations, Have Your Cake and Eat It, Ruth Rendell: The Strawberry Tree
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Chart Toppers August 1
1949Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
Again - Gordon Jenkins
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1958Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Patricia - Perez Prado
Splish Splash - Bobby Darin
Alone with You - Faron Young
1967Light My Fire - The Doors
I was Made to Love Her - Stevie Wonder
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Tonight Carmen - Marty Robbins
1976Kiss and Say Goodbye - The Manhattans
Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
Teddy Bear - Red Sovine
1985Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
Shout - Tears For Fears
You Give Good Love - Whitney Houston
Love Don’t Care (Whose Heart It Breaks) - Earl Thomas Conley
1994I Swear - All-4-One
Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Fantastic Voyage - Coolio
Summertime Blues - Alan Jackson
2003Crazy In Love - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Jay-Z
Are You Happy Now? - Michelle Branch
Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake
My Front Porch Looking In - Lonestar
Born On This Date 1942...Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead...R.I.P.
enjoy all
Sunday, August 1, 2010
MTV DAY
MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on this day in 1981. The first music video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, Video Killed the Radio Star, by the Buggles. MTV’s original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
Since MTV is targeted to 18- to 24-year-olds, its music videos feature rock, rap, R&B and heavy metal. Today, the radio-with-pictures TV channel does more than play wall-to-wall music. Watch MTV and you’ll see news, drama, game shows, comedy, dance shows and inaugural balls.
In 1987, having reached the near-saturation point on U.S. cable systems, MTV expanded internationally with MTV Europe. Two years later, and just two days before the Berlin Wall came down, MTV went on the air in East Berlin. A big push into Asia was launched in September of 1991, and in the fall of 1993, MTV went Latin with MTV Latino.
Events August 1
1291 - A pact was made to form the Swiss Confederation. The anniversary of this founding has been celebrated as National Day in Switzerland since 1891, the 600th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation.
1873 - The first cable streetcar in America began operation on Clay Street Hill in San Francisco, CA.
1876 - Colorado, the 38th state, entered the United States of America this day. It is the only state to enter the union in the one hundredth year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Consequently, Colorado is called the Centennial State. The Rocky Mountains are Colorado’s most famous feature; which explains why the Rocky Mountain columbine is the state flower. The lark bunting is the state Bird . Denver, Colorado’s largest city, is also the state capital.
1893 - Henry Perky and William Ford of Watertown, NY woke up early and found their patent sitting on the breakfast table. They had invented shredded wheat. Pass the bananas and milk, please...
1894 - George Samuelson and Frank Harbo completed a 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean -- in a rowboat! They landed in England after having left New York on June 6th. We can think of easier ways to cross the ocean...
1927 - One of country music’s most influential groups, The Carter Family, made their first recordings for Victor Records at a makeshift studio in Bristol (to be known as the Bristol Barn Sessions). Among the six titles recorded was Single Girl, Married Girl.
1937 - Mutual radio debuted The Goodwill Hour, with its familiar phrase, “You have a friend and advisor in John J. Anthony.”
1940 - The first book written by 23-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy was published. It was titled, Why England Slept. Later, Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage would become a best-seller for the man who would become the United States’ 35th President.
1941 - Parade magazine called it “...the Army’s most intriguing new gadget.” The gadget was “a tiny truck which can do practically everything.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America couldn’t have won World War II without it. The tiny truck was the Jeep, built at the time by the Willys Truck Company. Parade was so enthusiastic about the Jeep that it devoted three pages to the vehicle.
1942 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded Charleston Alley, on Decca Records.
1942 - The American Federation of Musicians went on strike. Union president James C. Petrillo told musicians that phonograph records were “a threat to members’ jobs.” As a result, musicians refused to perform in recording sessions over the next several months. Live, musical radio broadcasts continued, however.
1943 - This day marked the groundbreaking ceremony in Oak Ridge, TN for the first uranium 235 plant. (Uranium 235 was needed to build the A-bomb.) The uranium manufacturing facility cost $280,000,000 to build and was completed in the summer of 1944.
1944 - 13-year-old Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary; a diary she had kept for two years while hiding with her family to escape Nazi deportation to a concentration camp. Three days later the Grune Polizei raided the secret annex in Amsterdam, Holland, where the Jewish family was in hiding. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
1946 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Fulbright Act into law. The law authorized the scholarship program named for Senator William J. Fulbright (D-AR).
1950 - Pitcher Curt Simmons of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first major-league baseball player to be called to active military duty during the Korean War.
1950 - The U.S. Territory of Guam was created. In 1949, U.S. President Harry S Truman had signed the Organic Act making Guam an unincorporated territory of the United States with limited self-governing authority, and granting American Citizenship to the people of Guam.
1953 - The first aluminum-faced building constructed in America was completed. It was the Alcoa (Aluminum Corporation of America) Building in Pittsburgh, PA.
1957 - The United States and Canada reached an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1958 - After 26 years at 3 cents, the cost of mailing a first-class letter in the United States went up a penny.
1960 - Chubby Checker’s The Twist was released. The song inspired the dance craze of the 1960s. Round and around and around...
1966 - 25-year-old sniper Charles Joseph Whitman ascended to the observation deck of the University of Texas Tower and let loose a fusillade that left 13 killed and many more wounded. Whitman had also killed his wife and mother the night before.
1971 - The Concert for Bangladesh was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston performed. A multirecord set commemorating the event was a super sales success. Together, the concert and the album raised over $11 million to help the starving minions of Bangladesh.
1976 - Games of the XXIst Olympiad ended in Montreal. They were among the most controversial in Olympic history. Thirty-two nations withdrew from the games, six East European athletes defected to Canada, a Soviet athlete was dismissed for cheating, three other participants were disqualified for steroid use, and a Soviet sprinter reported a death threat.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds failed to get a hit in five times at bat in Atlanta. As a result, his consecutive hitting streak ended at 44 games -- just 12 short of Joe DiMaggio’s major-league baseball record with the New York Yankees.
1981 - Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Network, Hospital) died of cancer at 58 years of age.
1984 - Singer Jermaine Jackson made a guest appearance on the TV soap opera, As the World Turns.
1987 - Mike Tyson ‘out-pointed’ Tony Tucker in 12 rounds at Las Vegas, Nevada. He won the right to call himself the “Undisputed world heavyweight champion” as he won the IBF heavyweight title and retained the WBA/WBC heavyweight titles.
1993 - St. Louis was besieged by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which had swelled to record levels after months of flooding in nine Midwestern states.
1994 - The Rolling Stones started their 43-city Voodoo Lounge world tour before 55,000 fans at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.
1996 - Here’s today’s Olympic wrap-up: Michael Johnson left his fellow runners in the dust to win gold in the 200 meters in a record 19.32 seconds. He was the first male Olympian to complete the 200/400-meter Olympic double. And French sprinter Marie-Jose Perec became only the second woman in history to win gold medal in both the 200-meter and the 400-meter runs at the same Olympics. Perec joined American Valerie Brisco-Hooks, who won both the 200 and 400 races in 1984 in Los Angeles. The U.S. women’s soccer team claimed the gold medal and capped the first women’s soccer competition at the Olympics, beating China 2-1. And last, but certainly not least, decathlon, four years after failing to make the U.S. sOlympic team.
1996 - MTV launched a sister channel, MTV2. The channel debuted with Where It’s At, by Beck (Hansen).
1996 - Bill Buchanan of the novelty duo, Buchanan and Goodman, died in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 66 years old. Buchanan originated the ‘break-in’ recording technique with ****ie Goodman, where they used bits of original top-40 hits for a humorous ‘interview’. Questions would be asked of celebrities, etc., and their ‘answers’ would be pieces lifted from popular tunes. Buchanan and Goodman first used the concept on The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 and 2) in 1956. The following year brought the hits Flying Saucer the 2nd and Santa and the Satellite (Parts 1 and 2).
1997 - These motion pictures opened in the U.S.: Air BUD , with Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Eric Christmas, Brendan Fletcher, Norman Browning and Bill Cobbs; Picture Perfect, starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Olympia Dukakis and Kevin Dunn; Spawn, with Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Nicol Williamson, Theresa Randle, D.B. Sweeney, Miko Hughes and Melinda Clarke.
1999 - A heat wave that had gripped the U.S. since mid-July finally eased. Nearly 200 deaths were attributed to the heat and humidity.
2000 - A U.S. military court in Germany sentenced U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi to life in prison without parole for sexual assault and murder. Ronghi, while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo, raped and murdered an eleven-year-old ethnic Albanian girl.
2001 - Robert Henry Rimmer, author of the 1960s novel The Harrad Experiment, died at 84 years of age.
2002 - Two teenage girls were abducted from their dates at a lovers’ lane outside Lancaster, Calif. The girls were rescued about 100 miles away after their kidnapper crashed his getaway car and was shot to death by sheriff’s deputies.
2003 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: American Wedding, with Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy and January Jones; and Gigli, with Ben Affleck, Terry Camilleri, David Backus, Lenny Venito, Robert Silver, Luis Alberto Martínez, Justin Bartha, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Todd Giebenhain, Brian Sites, Brian Casey, Les Bradford, David Bonfadini and Dwight P. Ketchum.
2004 - Karen Stupples won the Women’s British Open. It was her first major championship.
2005 - A survey of the world’s strongest brands by Anholt-GMI (marketing research firm) placed Australia as the leading ‘nation brand’, ahead of Canada, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The 2004 top brand, Sweden, dropped to fifth place, while the U.S. fell from fourth to eleventh.
2006 - The United Kingdom launched its first public terror alert system, with the government announcing that the U.K. faced the ‘severe’ risk of more terrorist attacks.
2006 - Fidel Castro was in seclusion after undergoing intestinal surgery on July 31. Castro had turned over power to his brother Raul.
2006 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and mayors of some of the world’s largest cities announced an initiative to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency in everything from street lights to building materials.
2007 - British Airways was fined a record £121.5 million (€180 million, $246 million) after admitting collusion with Virgin Atlantic over fuel surcharges on tickets.
2007 - A highway bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis, NN during afternoon rush hour. 13 people died and hundreds were injured.
2008 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Midnight Meat Train, starring Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields, Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart, Peter Jacobson, Barbara Eve Harris and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson; The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, with Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, Luke Ford and Isabella Leong; and Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Judge Reinhold, Willie Nelson, Mare Winningham and Richard Petty.
2008 - U.S. and state regulators Closed First Priority Bank of Bradenton, Florida, the 8th U.S. bank to fail in 2009.
2009 - The Post-9/11 GI Bill took effect in the U.S., to reimburse veterans for their full undergraduate tuition at public colleges. The law also made an amount equivalent to that tuition available for vets who choose private schools or graduate programs.
Birthdays August 1
1770 - William Clark
explorer: Lewis and Clark Expedition; died Sep 1, 1838
1779 - Francis Scott Key
attorney, poet: The Star-Spangled Banner: U.S. national anthem; died Jan 11, 1843
1818 - Maria Mitchell
astronomer: 1st woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1st U.S. woman to become a professor of astronomy; died June 28, 1889
1819 - Herman Melville
author: Moby ****, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, White-Jacket; died Sep 28, 1891
1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln
son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; rescued from train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of man who assassinated President Lincoln; died Jul 26, 1926
1912 - Henry Jones
actor: stage: My Sister Eileen, Hamlet, The Time of Your Life, They Knew What They Wanted, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Sunrise at Campobello; films: The Bad Seed, Picture Windows, Grass Roots, Arachnophobia, **** Tracy, The Leftovers, Deathtrap, California Gold Rush; died May 17, 1999
1914 - Lloyd Mangrum
golf champ: winner of 36 professional tournaments including 1946 U.S. Open; died Nov 17, 1973
1916 - James Hill
producer: Vera Cruz, The Kentuckian, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, The Unforgiven, The Happy Thieves; writer: His Majesty O'Keefe; died Jan 11, 2001
1921 - Jack Kramer
tennis champion: Wimbledon [1947], U.S. Open [1946, 1947]; died Sep 12, 2009
1922 - Arthur Hill
actor: Harper, The Andromeda Strain, Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Futureworld, Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, Glitter; died Oct 22, 2006
1923 - George (Irvin) Bamberger
baseball: pitcher: NY Giants, Baltimore Orioles; manager: KC Royals; died Apr 4, 2004
1929 - Michael Stewart (Rubin)
playwright: Midnight Edition, Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!; died Sep 20, 1987
1930 - Geoffrey Holder
dancer, actor: Live and Let Die, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex [But were Afraid to Ask], Doctor Dolittle
1931 - Tom Wilson
cartoonist: Ziggy
1932 - Bobby Isaac
International Motorsports Hall of Famer: In a race in 1973, Bobby Isaac heard a ghostly voice telling him to stop immediately or suffer the consequences. He pulled out of the race and, until the day he died of a heart attack (Aug 14, 1977), he believed that he had pulled out just in time.
1933 - Dom Deluise
comedian, actor: Dean Martin Show, Loose Cannons, Cannonball Run 1 & 2, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, Smokey and the Bandit, Part 2, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; host: New Candid Camera; died May 4, 2009
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent (Henry Mathieu)
fashion designer; died Jun 1, 2008
1937 - Alfonse M. D’Amato
U.S. Senator from New York
1939 - Robert James Waller
author: The Bridges of Madison County, Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend; professor of economics, business management
1941 - Ronald Brown
U.S. Secretary of Commerce [Clinton Administration]; Democratic National Committee chairman: 1st African-American to head a major political party; killed in plane crash Apr 3, 1996
1942 - Jerry Garcia
guitarist, banjo, lyricist: group: The Grateful Dead: Dark Star, Truckin’, Alabama Getaway; died Aug 9, 1995
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini
actor: A Walk in the Clouds, Once Upon a Crime, Goodnight Michael Angelo, Swept Away...by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
1943 - Geoff Britton
musician: drums: group: Wings: Silly Love Songs, Live and Let Die, Junior’s Farm, With a Little Luck
1947 - Rick Anderson
musician: bass: group: The Tubes
1947 - Rick Coonce
singer, drummer: group: The Grass Roots: Let’s Live for Today, Midnight Confessions
1948 - Cliff Branch
football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XI, XV; LA Raiders: Super Bowl XVIII
1950 - Milt (Milton Scott) May
baseball: catcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, SF Giants
1952 - Greg (Gregory Eugene) Gross
baseball: Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1980, 1983]
1953 - Robert Cray
singer: group: Robert Cray Band: albums: Showdown, Strong Persuader; in film: Animal House
1958 - Taylor Negron
comedian, actor: Hope & Gloria, Angels In The Outfield, Young Doctors In Love, Easy Money, Punchline, The Last Boy Scout
1959 - Joe Elliot
singer: group: Def Leppard: Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin’
1963 - Coolio (Artis Ivey Jr.)
rapper: LPs: It Takes a Thief, Gangsta’s Paradise, My Soul
1964 - Adam Duritz
musician: piano, record producer, lead singer and founding member of Counting Crows: Mr. Jones, Round Here, Einstein on the Beach [For an Eggman], Rain King, A Murder of One, Angels of the Silences
1967 - Gregg Jefferies
baseball [outfield, first, second, third base]: New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Anaheim Angels, Detroit Tigers
1968 - Stacey Augmon
basketball: Nevada-Las Vegas; NBA: Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers, Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, Orlando Magic
1969 - Kevin Jarvis
baseball [pitcher]: Wake Forest Univ; NFL: Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies, SD Padres, Seattle Mariners, SL Cardinals
1970 - Jennifer Gareis
actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, Escape, Boat Trip, Downward Angel, Miss Congeniality, The 6th Day, Gangland, Private Parts
1971 - Christina Angel
actress: X-rated films: Animal Instinct, Sleeping Single, Intercourse with the Vampire
1971 - Carrie Bittner
actress: X-rated films: twin Cheeks, Positions Wanted, Sweet Licks, Nurse Nancy, A Little Christmas Tail, Private Dancer, One Million Years DD, Business and Pleasure
1972 - Todd Bouman
football [quarterback]: Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers
1972 - Devon Hughes aka D-Von Dudley
pro wrestler/actor: Extreme Championship Wrestling, Raw Is War, Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania 2000, WWF Judgement Day, Armageddon
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe
actress: The Cosby Show, Dream Date, Monsters, Fire & Ice
1977 - Marc Denis
hockey [goalie]: Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Tampa Bay Lightning
1978 - Edgerrin James
football [running back]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Indianapolis Colts
1979 - Honeysuckle Weeks
actress: Foyle’s War, Red Mercury, Lorna Doone [2000], Close Relations, Have Your Cake and Eat It, Ruth Rendell: The Strawberry Tree
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Chart Toppers August 1
1949Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
Again - Gordon Jenkins
I’m Throwing Rice (At the Girl that I Love) - Eddy Arnold
1958Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Patricia - Perez Prado
Splish Splash - Bobby Darin
Alone with You - Faron Young
1967Light My Fire - The Doors
I was Made to Love Her - Stevie Wonder
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Tonight Carmen - Marty Robbins
1976Kiss and Say Goodbye - The Manhattans
Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
Teddy Bear - Red Sovine
1985Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
Shout - Tears For Fears
You Give Good Love - Whitney Houston
Love Don’t Care (Whose Heart It Breaks) - Earl Thomas Conley
1994I Swear - All-4-One
Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Fantastic Voyage - Coolio
Summertime Blues - Alan Jackson
2003Crazy In Love - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Jay-Z
Are You Happy Now? - Michelle Branch
Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake
My Front Porch Looking In - Lonestar
Born On This Date 1942...Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead...R.I.P.
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