8/1 Ramadan begins 8/1/12 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room 8/1/42 Jerry Garcia born, singer 8/2/1892 Escalator patent granted 8/2/61 The Beatles begin a 2 year run at The Cavern Club in Liverpool 8/3/49 NBA founded 8/3/71 Ringo Starr's 1st solo hit goes gold: It Don't Come Easy. Paul McCartney forms new group Wings 8/4/1901 Louis Armstrong born 8/5/62 Marilyn Monroe born 8/5/1861 First Income Tax imposed, as a war measure 8/5/1961 Warmest temperature on record for state of Washington, 118 degrees F. at Ice Harbor Dam 8/6/38 Isaac Hayes born, singer 8/6/82 movie "Pink Floyd The Wall" premieres in New York starring "near-catatonic" Bob Geldof in a film with no plot or dialogue, directed by Alan Parker 8/6/70 An antiwar concert on the anniversary of Hiroshima is cancelled in Philadelphia after disappointing turnout in New York's Shea Stadium of just 20,000 paid tickets 8/7/1782 George Washington creates first US military award 8/7/1560 Countess Elizabeth Bathory born, said to have tortured and killed over 600 girls in Hungary before being placed under house arrest in a tower room 8/7/71 The Bee Gees have their 1st number one hit of 7 in the US, their only US hit without faletto singing style 8/8/21 Esther Williams born 8/8/1786 Congress approved the Dollar for US monetary system 8/8/1829 Stourbridge Lion locomotive first run, in Pennslvania 8/8/80 The Plasmatics on tour are refused permission to blow up a car onstage in London 8/8/81 Soul backup singer/songwriter Luther Vandross gets his 1st solo hit album & single 8/9/74 President Ford inaugurated 8/9/1930 Warmest day on record for state of Tennessee, 113 degrees F. in Perryville 8/9/78 blues legend Muddy Waters performs at the White House for a presidential picnic 8/9/82 themesong of movie Rocky 3 "Eye Of The Tiger" goes gold as both single and album 8/10/1846 Smithsonian created, with a donated collection of kites 8/10/1999 Russia President Yeltsin replaced the Prime Minister with virtually unknown former KGB agent Vladimir Putin 8/10/1936 Warmest temperature on record in state of Arkansas, 120 degrees F. in Ozark, and in state of Louisiana, 114 degrees in Plain Dealing 8/10/1898 Warmest temperature on record in state of Oregon, 119 degrees in Pendleton 8/10/09 Leo Fender born, founder of Fender Guitars, sold to CBS Records for $13,000,000 in 1965 8/10/43 Ronnie Bennett of The Ronettes, singer wife of Phil Spector 8/11/1909 First SOS emergency signaled radioed 8/11/72 San Antonio declares Cheech & Chong Day 8-12-12 Two-day annual Perseid meteor shower starts, up to 50 per minute in the northeast sky 8/12/81 First personal computer (IBM) 8/12/1936 Warmest day on record in state of Texas, 120 degrees in Seymour 8/13/80 Masked thieves tie up Todd Rundgren and strip hi house of valuables, one of them humming Rundgren's hit "I Saw The Light" 8/13/71 King Curtis of The Coasters (Yakety Yak) stabbed to death outside his New York apartment 8/13/81 President Reagan signs the biggest tax cut in US history, The Economic Recovery Act 8/13/51 Dan Fogelberg born, singer 8/14/45 V-J Day, Japan surrenders, though not recognized by Japanese forces in mainland asia 8/14/40 Dash Crofts born, singer/instrumentalst with Jim Seals, their 1st was "Tequila" by another name 8/14/41 David Crsoby born, of Crosby Stills & Nash (which is not a law firm) 8/14/74 Paul Anka's "Having My Baby" goes gold despite boycott by feminists 8/15/1769 Napoleon born, refered to by Nostradamas as the 1st of 3 antichrists (his 2nd was Hitler) 8/15/79 movie Americathon premieres, a hit satire in which America goes bankrupt billions of dollars in debt & has a telethon to raise money 8/16/1896 Gold discovered up north in Canada & Alaska, starting the Klondike gold rush 8/16/53 James Taylor born, singer and anti-nuke activist 8/16/79 one-hit wonder "My Sharona" by The Knack goes gold, with #1 single & album the following week 8/16/77 Elvis Presley found dead of natural causes at home on the bathroom floor 2 weeks after ex-bodyguards released a tell-all book about him 8/17/12 New Moon, werewolf threat level green 8/17/77 FTD (Florists Transworld Delivery) reports the most flowers ever ordered in one day, by fans to be delivered to Graceland, home of Elvis 8/17/1807 First steamboat trip 8/18/1872 First mail-order catalog issued 8/18/77 75,000 fans show up for the funeral of Elvis, 150 people inside Graceland includ Col. Parker in shirtsleeves and a baseball cap 8/19 National Aviation Day, also Orville Wright's birthday 8/19/40 Johnny Nash born, singer "I Can See Clearly Now" 8/19/80 Debut album of Christopher Cross goes platinum as well as the single "Sailing" 8/20/42 Plutonium first weighed for some project in Manhattan 8/20/48 Robert Plant born, lead vocalist for Led Zeppelin 8/20/69 Frank Zappa disbands the Mothers Of Invention because people at concerts "clap for all the wrong reaons" 8/20/81 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band perform a benefit for Vietnam veterans in Los Angeles 8/21/1581 Spain founds city of Pueblo, naming it "New Mexico" 8/21/41 Kenny Rogers born, country singer/actor "The Gambler" 8/22/1865 Liquid soap patent issued 8/23/12 Gene Kelly born, just singin' & dancin' in the rain 8/23/47 Keith Moon born (died 1978), of The Who 8/23/49 Rick Springfield born, Grammy-winning singer 8/24/49 North American Treaty Org (NATO) established 8/24/81 Mark David Chapman sentenced to "20 years to life" for murder of John Lennon 8/25/54 Elvis Costello born, no relation to Elvis Presley though I'm not sure of Lou Costello 8/25/1877 Joshua Lionel Cohen born, founder of Lionel Trains 8/25/79 jazz bandleader Stan Kenton died, his horn charts were also used in the rock music of "Chicago" 8/26 Laylat al-Qadr 8/26/50 Bob & Dick Cowsill born, of the singing Cowsill Family 8/26/48 Valerie Simpson born, music composer "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with Nickolas Ashford 8/26/81 Lee Hays died, cofounder of The Weavers and cowriter of "If I Had A Hammer" 8/26/1765 Protests against the Stamp Act imposed only on colonies turn violent 8/27/10 Mother Teresa born 8/27/42 B.J. Thomas born, Grammy-winning singer "Hooked On A Feeling" 8/27/42 Daryl Dragon born, singer "The Captain & Tennille" 8/27/82 Robert Plant's 1st solo album since Led Zeppelin broke up goes gold 8/28/1753 The Liberty Bell set up in Pennsylvania Assembly 8/28/1864 US Post Office establishes 1st permanent Railway Post Office route 8/28/1830 First B&O train pulled by a steam engine, the Tom Thumb 8/28/51 Wayne Osmond born, singer 8/28/72 David Bowie & the Spiders From Mars perform at Carnegie Hall 8/28/73 Monster Mash hits the Top 10 elevin years after original release by Bobby "Boris" Pickett, by then working as a cab driver 8/29/66 Beatles have their final live concert 8/29/1911 Ishi, last survivor of the California Yahi tribe, walked into Oroville and learned English, then demonstrated Indian customs & wilderness skills 8/29/58 Michael Jackson born, singer with his older brothers in The Jackson 5 8/30 Cleopatra died this day in 30 BC 8/30/35 John Phillips born, singer the Mamas & the Papas, which in 1982 included daughter MacKenzie Phillips 8/31 Eid-al-Fitr 8/31/12 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room again 8/31/83 Pres. Reagan talks to astronauts in orbiting space shuttle Challenger 8/31/1888 The body of Mary Ann Nichols found, 1st victim of Jack the Ripper 8/31/45, Van Morrison born, singer9/1/59 Elizabeth Taylor agrees to make Cleopatra for $1 million, a sum she's sure is so high it will be refused so she can take a vacation without breaking contract but Fox agrees, it will be a costly mistake for them
October dates for 2010 and October 2011
10/1/47 USAF launches first intercontinental missile
10/2/42 First flight of a turbojet aircraft, a Bell P-59A
10/2/77 Bodies of Elvis Presley & his mother are moved to Graceland after someone tried to steal them from Forest Hill in L.A.
10/3/67 Record speed of 4,534 mph set by secret X-15 flight
10/4/22 Canada nationalizes railroads & creates Canadian National Railway
10/4/57 Sputnik launched into orbit by Russia, the CIA assures Preident Eisenhower that it is not a weapon
10/5/65 First successful USAF launch of an orbiting satellite
10/5/62 The Beatles release their 1st single, Love Me Do/PS, I Love You, and it's heard on Radio Luxembourg
10/5/69 Art Linkletter's daughter leaps to her death, he says she was on LSD "It isn't suicide, it's murder"
10/6/1913 First military aviator badges awarded
10/6/1866 Reno Gang first robs train, Jackson County, Indiana
10/6/76 Rick Dees' spoof of disco, "Disco Duck" goes gold and eventually hits platinum, only the 4th record to ever do so
10/7/57 RCA gets a million orders for Elvis Presley's Christmas album, but had only made 200,000 copies
10/7/49 USAF reports availability of atomic bombs for immediate use if needed
10/7/57 Russia announces it has tested a hydrogen bomb
10/8/12 Yom Kippur and Columbus Day, US government offices closed, Thanksgiving Day in Canada
10/8/40 RAF announces formation of first WW2 squadron composed of US volunteers, the Eagle Squadron
10/8/66 LSD is made illegal in the US as "a dangerous & illegal substance"
10/9/1883 US Congress sets transcontinental railroad gauge at 4 feet 8-1/2 inches, matching wagon wheel axles
10/9/1918 Over 250 bombers & 100 pursuit planes attach enemy in France
10/10/47 Patent issued for Norden Bombsight invented in 1930 but kept secret for 17 years
10/10/62 BBC bans Boris Pickett's Monster Mash as "offensive" to minorities or the handicapped
10/11/11 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room
10/11/58 Pioneer 1 lunar probe launched by USAF
10/11/75 1st broadcast of NBC's Saturday Night Live, host George Carlin.
The following week Simon & Garfunkel reunite to sing on the show
10/12/1918 First night air pusuit operations by American pilots in France
10/12/62 A local group known as The Beatles open for headliner Little Richard in Liverpool
10/12/69 "Turn me on, dead man" is heard by playing a Beatles song backwards on the air
10/12/73 Elton John album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road goes gold, his 3rd hit album
10/13/25 Margaret Thatcher born
10/13/57 Little Richard flies to Los Angeles to be baptised after renouncing "rock & roll" music
10/14/47 First Mach One flight, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in secret tests
10/14/72 The themesong of horror movie "Ben" by 13-year-old Michael Jackson hits #1 on the popchart
10/15/58 The X-15 research aircraft unveiled
10/15/64 British rock star Screaming Lord Sutch runs for Parliament
10/15/73 The Supreme Court refuses to rule on the FCC's right to order radio stations to censor song lyrics
10/16/1917 Final tests of Army's airplane radio at distance of 25 miles, maximum due to curviture of Earth
10/17/11 Boss's Day, thank yours for your job
10/18/84 First flight of the B-1b bomber
10/18/59 Russia announced the 1st photos of the Moon's far side by their Lunik III
satelite 3 weeks after the US announced TV video of Earth from Explorer VI
10/20/1911 Wright Army plane delivered to Smithsonian Institute
10/20/76 Born-again Christian Cliff Richard get his first solo Top-10 hit, with "Devil Woman"
10/20/77 3 days after releasing an album showing the Lynyrd Skynyrd band in flames, 3 band members are killed in a plane crash
10/20/79 Born-again Christian Bob Dylan sings his new Gospel-rock song "Serve Somebody" on Saturday Night Live
10/21/61 Bob Dylan records his 1st album at a cost of $400, accompanied only by his guitar & harmonica, he signs his tax form Blind Boy Grunt
10/21/66 The Who performs songs from their latest album including "Batman Theme" with smoke & flash powder
10/21/59 US Army space research & activites turned over to NASA
10/22/52 Patricia Ann Reagan born
10/22/55 The F-105A hit Mach One on its first flight
10/23/83 President Reagan is informed of Marine base bombed in Beirut by Islamic extremists
10/23/58 Nobel Prize awarded to author of "Doctor Zhivago"
10/24/11 United Nations Day
10/25/42 US planes bomb Japanese occupied Hong Kong
10/26/11 New Moon, werewolf threat level green
10/26/1909 First US Army officer solos in an airplane after 3 days of lessons by Wilbur Wright
10/27/1904 First New York subway opens
10/27/56 Frogman Clarence Henry's Ain't Got No Home is released and become a hit
10/27/57 Devaluation of the French franc extended to all imports
10/28/1924 US Army planes broke up cloud formation with electrified sand
10/28/63 Demolition of New York's impressive Penn Station begins, after it is gone a Historic Buildings committee
is formed, saving New York's Grand Central Station from the same fate just 5 years later
10/30/1919 Reversible pitch propeller tested
10/30/72 Elton John becomes the 1st rocker to give a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II since the Beatles in 1963, he would later get $1,000,00 to sing at Rush Limbaugh's wedding
10/30/78 Animated primetime movie KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park airs on NBC
10/31 Halloween, lock your doors, lock your windows
10/31/68 President Johnson orders suspension of bombing in North Vietnam
11/1 All Saints Day
11/1/54 Last B-29 bomber retired by the USAF
11/1/66 Three Elvis Presley albums go Gold today, his 1956 debut album and its 2 sequels
11/1/80 CSX Corporation formed, merging several railroads
11/2/43 The 15th Air Force flew its 1st mission of WW2
11/3/54 Singer Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) born
11/2/67 British group Move sued for promotional postcard showing the Prime Miniter nude, cards confiscated
11/3/57 Great Balls Of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis released, hits #1, 2 & 3 on C&W, Pop, and R&B charts
11/3/59 C133 cargo plane made its 1st delivery of an Atlas intercontinental missile
11/3/61 Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) unanimously elected as 1st member of Country Music Hall of Fame
11/4/31 Ike Turner, singer
11/4/60 USAF revealed use of a C-97 as an airborne command post
11/4/76 Presented with a BeeGees platinum record, NY Mayor Beame says he looks forward to playing it
11/4/80 Ronald Reagan elected President
11/4/81 Private Eyes by Hall & Oates goes platinum, as does 9 Tonight by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
11/5/1912 1st artillery adjustments made from a plane in USA
11/5/42 Art Garfunkel, singer
11/5/47 Peter Noone born, singer
11/5/46 Gram Parsons born (died 1973)
11/6/11 Daylight Savings ends, turn your clocks upside-down
11/6/30 Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker awarded the Medal of Honor for WW1 action
11/6/65 New York hit by massive blackout
11/6/73 2 men are fined $300 each for stealing Gram Parsons' body to cremate in the desert
11/7/1885 Canadian Pacific Railway completed, Canada's 1st transcontinental railroad
11/7/1907 US Signal Corps alloted $25,000 to procure an airplane
11/7/43 born Joni Mitchell, singer
11/7/70 MGM Records drops 18 acts who "exploit & promote hard drugs" including Connie Francis and Judy Garland
11/7/74 Ted Nugent wins Nat. Squirrel-Shooting Archery Contest, at 150 yards
11/8/49 born Bonnie Raitt singer
11/8/50 1st jet plane vs. jet plane combat in history, over Korea
11/8/61 Leif Garrett
11/8/66 Ronald Reagan elected Governor of CA
11/9/1918 Last US air unit assigned to Army in WW1
11/9/61 Record shop manager Brian Epstein goes to Cavern Club to hear the Beatles
11/9/66 rumor spreads that Paul McCartney is killed in auto accident & replaced by a look-alike
11/9/89 Fall of the Berlin Wall
11/10/11 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room
11/10/58 Billboard says Beechnut gum's sales have doubled as sponsor of Dick Clark's American Bandstand
11/10/60 Gregg Allman gets a guitar for 13th birthday, forms group with his brother within the year
11/10/88 USAF announces exsistence of F-117A, the Stealth Fighter
11/11/11 Veteran's Day, originally observing the end of WW1 on the 11th day of the 11th month
11/11/56 1st flight of the world's supersonic bomber, the B-58 Hustler
11/12/42 Ninth Air Force established in Middle East
11/12/45 born Neil Young, singer
11/13/43 Heaviest raid on New Guinea in WW2, 119 B24s & B25s
11/13/65 James Brown's I Got You (aka I Feel Good) released, hits #1 on R&B and #3 on Pop charts
11/14/66 1st jet aircraft to land in Antarctica, a C141 Starlifter
11/14/60 Elvis Presley's It's Now Or Never sells a British record of 780,000 copies its 1st week there
11/15/32 Petula Clark, singer
11/15/47 1st test flight of a ram-jet helicopter, by McDonell Aviation
11/16/59 Capt. J.W. Kittinger parachuted from altitude of 76,400 feet
11/16/56 Elvis Presley's 1st movie debuts, Love Me Tender, grossing over $4 million in 2 months
11/16/1892 Dr. Thomas Neill Cream executed for 9 murders and numerous backstreet abortions, calling himself Jack the...
11/17/38 born Gordon Lightfoot
11/17/44 US fighter fly over Philippines for 1st time since evacuation of 1942
11/17/47 Actor Ronald Reagan elected president of the Screen Actors Guild
11/17/53 born Dino Martin, Jr.
11/18/1883 US & Canada begin using Standard Time to standardize railroad time schedules
11/18/49 USAF C-74 aircraft carried a record 103 people
11/18/54 Mambo Italiano by Rosemary Clooney banned as offensive by ABC Radio
11/18/56 Fats Domino sings Blueberry Hill on Ed Sullivan Show
11/18/68 Glen Campbell gets his 1st gold record, for Wichita Lineman
11/18/80 The B-52s' self-titled record album goes gold
11/19/52 World speed record of 698.5 mph set, by a F-86D
11/20/63 1st two F-4C jet fighters delivered to USAF
11/20/54 Singing cowboy Gene Autry 1st appearance on Grand Ole Opry
11/20/55 Bo Diddley does his own "Bo Diddley" live on Ed Sullivan Show instead of song he rehearsed for Ed
11/20/59 Alan Freed fired by WABC New York, refused to sign affidavit about payola
11/21/57 1st of several balistic missile bases to be erected at Frances E. Warren AFB in Wyoming
11/21/60 Ray Charles has 4 songs in top 100 inc. Georgia On My Mind and Ruby
11/22/88 Rollout of the B-2 "stealth" bomber
11/22/55 RCA signs singer Elvis Presley for $5000, which he uses to buy a Cadillac, & buys out his previous contracts
11/22/77 You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone goes platinum, from a movie of the same name
11/23/47 1st flight of world's largest land plane, the XC-99
11/23/64 Rolling Stones banned by BBC after showing up late for live radio show "Top Gear"
11/23/76 Jerry Lee Lewis arrested outside Graceland, demanding to see Elvis, drunk & waving a pistol
11/24/11 New Moon completely dark, werewolf threat low, enjoy your Thanksgiving tofurky
11/24/44 1st large bombing raid on Tokyo, by 88 B-29s
11/25/36 Nazi Germany & Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact to "safeguard their common interests"
11/25/56 T/Sgt R.J. Patton made 1st successful polar parachute jump
11/26/38 Tina Turner born, singer
11/26/56 Big Band leader Tommy Dorsey found dead from a simple home accident
11/26/57 RF-101 established a transcontinental round trip record of 6 hours,42+ minutes
11/26/75 Rev. Boykin of Tallahassee (FL) burns $2000 of rock & roll records, the Devil's music
11/26/82 Miles Davis marries Cicely Tyson, with Bill Cosby as Best Man
11/27/11 Advent
11/27/1897 Jenny Coupler patented to make coupling railroad cars safer
11/27/1912 US Army accepts 1st flying boat, Curtiss Aviation
11/27/42 Jimi Hendrix born (died 1970)
11/27/44 born Eddie Rabbitt singer
11/27/74 "Kung Fu Fighting" becomes a gold record though sequel "Dance The Kung Fu" bombs
11/28/1729 300 French soldiers & settlers killed by Natchez Indians over settlements in their sacred burial grounds
11/28/29 Berry Gordy, Jr
11/28/42 1st US bombing raid on Japanese-occupied Thailand
11/28/44 Randy Newman born, he really does like short people
11/28/64 Leader Of The Pack by the Shangri-Las girl group becomes a #1 hit song
11/28/66 The Monkees get their 3rd gold record "I'm A Believer," their 2nd was Last Train To Clarkesville
11/29/51 USAF announces development of 1st all-jet heavy bomber, the B-52
11/30/29 Dick Clark born, America's oldest teenager
11/30/56 TM-61 Matador became USAF's 1st completely tactical missile
12/1/59 Essential systems were eliminated from the B-70 program, essentially ending it
12/1/45 born Bette Midler, singer/actress
12/1/35 born Lou Rawls singer
12/1/76 Bill Grundy uses the F word on the British "Today Show," The Sex Pistols are banned
from performing live shows in U.K.
12/1/82 Michael Jackson album "Thriller" released, with Vincent Price narration on title track
12/2/1763 1st Jewish center in America opens, in Newport
12/2/35 Flight of 20 bombers flew Calif to FLA in less than 22 hours
12/3/1909 Camas Prairie Railroad begins operation (google it)
12/3/45 P-80 becomes USAF's 1st jet fighter
12/3/66 Gov. Ronald Reagan tells Berkeley students "Observe the rules or get out"
12/3/71 Montreux Casino burns down while Frank Zappa's performing, inspiring song Smoke On The Water
12/3/79 Several fans are trampled to death at a general-seating rock concert in Cincinnati
12/3/48 born Ozzy Osbourne singer
12/4/65 Two astronauts launched in Gemini VII
12/4/44 born Dennis Wilson singer, of the Beach Boys
12/4/68 The Soviet Union calls the Beatles "rich idols of the Philistines"
12/5/1907 Wilbur Wright offers US govt a 2 person airplane for $25,000
12/6/49 USAF funds diverted to build Alaska radar defense system
12/6/69 A free rock & roll concert in Livermore, CA, turns disasterous, released theatricly as "Gimme Shelter"
12/6/79 "Highway To Hell" album by AC/DC goes gold, lead singer Ron Scott dies 2 months later
12/7/41 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bombed by Japan without declaring war first
12/7/42 born Harry Chapin (died 1981) singer/song writer, gold record for Cat's In The Cradle
12/7/49 Tom Waits, singer
12/7/72 Final Moon landing, Apollo 17, with little public interest
12/8/43 born Jim Morrison (died 1971) singer
12/8/47 born Gregg Allman, the Allman Brothers Band
12/8/48 B-36 completed a 9,400 mile nonstop flight without refueling
12/8/61 "Surfin" released, 1st song by The Beach Boys
12/8/80 John Lennon is shot by a Beatles fan after signing an album for him, dying within 30 minutes
12/8/82 Singer/song writer Marty Robbins died, his "That's All Right" outsold the Elvis Presley version
12/9/41 1st use of US bombers in WW2, bombing enemy ships off Philippines
12/9/57 born Donny Osmond, singer
12/10/11 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room
12/10/54 Greatest G-force sustained by man set by Col. J.P. Stapp
12/10/67 Singer/writer Otis Redding killed in plane crash (26) "Dock Of The Bay" is released posthumously
12/11/1914 Radio message received by a US plane in flight at distance of ten miles
12/11/26 born Big Mama Thornton "Hound Dog" (later also done by Elvis Presley in 1956)
12/11/44 born Brenda Lee singer
12/11/54 Billboard magazine predicts that 78 rpm records are doomed due to 45 rpm popularity
12/11/64 Popular R&B singer Sam Cooke shot to death under bizaar circumstances wearing only shoes & a sports coat
12/12/1887 US Congress passes the Interstate Commerce Act, putting the ICC in charge of regulating railroads
12/12/35 an amphibian plane flies record 1033 miles
12/12/38 born Connie Francis singer
12/12/49 born Dionne Warwick, singer
12/12/68 The Rolling Stones film "Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus" with real clowns, but it's never released
12/13/62 USAF balloon reaches record 82,000 feet
12/13/48 born Ted Nugent singer
12/14/47 Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman seperate
12/14/84 1st flight of X-29
12/14/63 Dinah Washington died (39, sleeping pills od) What A Difference A Day Makes, "Unforgetable"
12/15/22 born Alan Freed (died1965) super DJ
12/15/64 1st USAF gunship, the AC-47 enters combat in Vietnam
12/15/42 born Dave Clark, singer
12/15/55 Folsom Prison Blues song released, album later recorded by Johnny Cash live inside the prison
12/15/77 The Sex Pistols are denied U.S. visas to appear on Sat. Night Live for multiple reasons
12/16/1773 Patriots disguised as Indians dump tea off British ships, The Boston Tea Party
12/16/44 Nazi Germany, thought near collapse, starts all-out Battle of the Bulge
12/16/70 5 singles & 5 albums by Creedence Clearwater are certified gold the same day
12/17/1903 1st sustained controlled flight in a powered aircraft, by the Wright Brothers
12/17/55 "16 Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford tops both C&W and pop charts, #1 on pop chart since November
12/18/41 Buzz Wagner becomes 1st American ace of WW2
12/18/43 born Keith Richards (born in India as Harry Rodger Webb) singer, TV & movie actor,
most recently in Pirates Of The Caribbean At Worlds End
12/19/72 Massive 11 day air strike begins to convince North Vietnam to conclude Paris Peace Talks
12/19/44 born Zal Yanovsky singer "Do You Believe In Magic" with the Lovin Spoonful
12/19/55 Carl Perkins records his most popular song "Blue Suede Shoes"
12/20/11 Erev Chanukah begins at sunset, light one candle
12/20/41 1st combat between the Flying Tigers and Japanese over China
12/20/67 Jethro Tull band formed, named after an 18th century inventor of farm implements
12/20/73 Bobby Darin (37) "Mack The Knife" dies during open-heart surgery
12/21/11 1st day of winter & 1st full day of Hanukkah, light 2nd candle tonight
12/21/44 Hap Arnold becomes General of the US Army
12/21/46 born Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, guitar
12/21/40 born Frank Zappa, singer "Baby Snakes"
12/21/70 "Jesus Christ Superstar" studio-recorded album of the play goes gold
12/22/11 Winter Solstice, shortest day of year north of the Equator & longest south of it
12/22/49 born Robin Gibb, singer with brothers Barry & Maurice as The Bee Gees
12/22/49 born Maurice Gibb, twin of Robin
12/22/64 1st flight of SR-71 supersonic spy plane
12/22/62 "Telstar" by the Tornadoes is 1st song by a British group to hit #1 in US
12/22/81 Sotheby's rock & roll auction sells Tom Jones jacket for $12 and a John Lennon self-portrait for $15,000
12/23/1907 Signal Corps issues 1st specs for the 1st military airplane
12/24/11 New Moon, werewolf threat level green, Christmas Eve
12/24/24 born Lee Dorsey singer, Working In A Coal Mine (top 10 hit 1966)
12/24/1928 Great Northern Railroad completes longest railway tunnel, Cascade Tunnel
12/24/43 Over 600 US bombers attack Nazi Germany's V1 & V2 weapons sites, destroying them
12/24/44 born Mike Curb, president of MGM Records, Republican Lt. Gov of California
12/24/54 popular R&B singer Johnny Ace (25) kills self playing Russian Roulette backstage in Houston
12/24/61 "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is the 1st African song to hit #1 in US, based on native folk song translated into English
12/24/74 James Taylor, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell sing Christmas carols on streets of L.A.
12/25 Christmas Day observed, written by early Greek Christians as Xmas to signify the cross later carried by Christ
12/25/32 born Little Richard (Richard Penniman) singer
12/25/46 born Jimmy Buffett, singer
12/25/45 born Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier) Welcome To My Nightmare
12/25/40 born Phil Spector record producer
12/25/59 Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr, age 18) gets 1st drum set, for Christmas
12/25/49 USAF reveals development of a ceramic with resistance of 2000 degrees heat
12/25/76 "Hotel California" album by The Eagles with Joe Walsh goes gold. You can check out anytime you want...
12/26 Kwanzaa observed, created in the 1960s by a college profesor combining various African customs
12/26 Boxing Day observed in UK & Canada, giving presents to servents & the poor
12/26/63 Capitol/EMI releases its 1st Beatles single, I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There
12/26/43 Bombing of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, completely destroys enemy defenses against invasion
12/27/35 Lava flow diverted by Army aerial bombardment, Hawaii
12/27/80 "Starting Over" by John Lennon hits#1 in UK & US simultaneously 3 weeks after his death
12/28/11 Hanukkah ends
12/28/46 born Edgar Winter, singer
12/28/48 C-47 with rocket boosters rescues 12 USAF pilots from ice in Greenland
12/29/42 born B.J. Thomas "Hooked On A Feeling" (later a gold record for Blue Swede in 1974)
12/29/39 1st flight of B-24 bomber, the 1st of over 18,000 B-24s produced by 1945
12/30/1914 US Signal Corps accepts the first Burgess-Dunne stable armored plane
12/30/28 Bo Diddley born, singer
12/30/42 born Michael Nesmith singer with The Monkees
12/30/45 born Davy Jones of The Monkees, and stay out of his locker
12/31 New Year's Eve, party like it's 1999
12/31/45 World War 2 officially declared over
12/31/43 born John Denver, singer/song writer, died flying his own plane
12/31/48 born Donna Summer singer
12/31/42 born Andy Summers singer
12/31/55 "Unchained Melody" named #1 tune of the year, later used in Demi Moore movie Ghost
12/31/70 Paul McCartney files a writ in London against the Beatles, breaking up the group, naming the other 3
12/31/74 "Cat's In The Cradle" by Harry Chapin, words by his wife, is a gold #1 hit. He says,
"This one is scaring fathers from coast to coast; I suspect wives are buying it as zingers for their husbands."
January 1 New Year's Day. If you still celebrate New Year's Day in April you're a fool
1/1/42 born Country Joe McDonald, singer & Vietnam War protestor
1/1/44 US Strategic Air Forces in Europe activated
1/1/62 The Beatles audition for Decca Records in London but Decca decides to sign another
group instead, the Tremeloes
1/1/80 Keith Richards awarded MBE by Queen of England. A singer since 1957 with 22 hits in England, his
biggest in America were Devil Woman (1976) and We Don't Talk Anymore the previous year (1979)
1/3/66 Experimental B-70 bomber hit 2000 mph for 3 minutes
1/3/64 The Jack Paar Show plays a video clip of The Beatles, predating their 1st live US appearence by a month
1/3/45 born Stephen Stills singer
1/4/41 Maureen Reagan born on Jane Wyman's 27th birthday
1/4/42 born John McLaughlin, singer
1/4/57 Military Air Transport Service brings 10,000 refugees to US
1/4/54 Truck driver Elvis Presley meets Sam Phillips & records a 2-sided demo record in Memphis
1/5/23 born Sam Phillips, record producer who met truck driver Elvis Presley in 1954
1/5/75 The Wiz, a soul-music version of The Wizard Of Oz, opens on Broadway
1/5/79 Briefcase Full of Blues by the Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi) inc. the song
Soul Man goes platinum, reviving sales of the original version by Sam & Dave
1/6/1893 Great Northern Railway drives last spike at Scenic, WASH
1/6/57 Elvis Presley sings 7 songs in 20 minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show
1/7/29 "Question Mark", a Fokker C-2, flies a refueled record 150 hours 45 minutes
1/7/48 born Kenny Loggins, singer "Sittin' In"
1/7/82 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gets a platinum record in America for "Hooked On Classics,"
a blend of 18th, 19th and early 20th century music to a disco beat
1/8/33 Ronald Reagan gets 1st job as radio announcer, Davenport, Iowa
1/8/35 born Elvis Presley (died 8/16/77) gold records for rock, gospel and Christmas music
1/8/41 "Little Anthony" Gourdine born, 1950s singer
1/8/57 Elvis Presley passes the Army pre-induction exam
1/8/64 Air Force Cross awarded posthumously to Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr., shot down during 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1/8/47 David Bowie born, dropped real last name Jones to avoid confusion with actor Davy Jones of The Monkees
1/9/12 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room
1/9/15 born Les Paul, record holder for shortest song ever released, 2 notes long, as "Magic Melody, Part 2"
1/9/44 born Jimmy Page, singer and a founding member of Led Zeppelin
1/10/1863 London Underground opens
1/10/43 born Jim Croce singer (died 9/20/73, just 1 year after his 1st hit) Time In A Bottle went gold in 1973
1/10/45 born Rod Stewart singer
1/10/46 Army sets world helicopter high altitude record, 21,000 feet
1/10/81 Pirates Of Penzance, the only operetta written specificly for America by Gilbert & Sullivan, reopens
on Broadway starring pop singers Linda Ronstadt & Rex Smith, who later reprise their roles for a movie version
1/12/62 USAF begins spraying defoliants over Vietnam in Operation Ranch Hand
1/12/63 Bob Dylan records a play for BBC Radio as a hobo, including a song never released on a record
1/13/42 Army Air Force test flies its 1st helicopter, the XR-4
1/13/79 Donny Hathaway (34) fell or jumped from 15th floor hotel room, sang themesong for TV-series "Maude."
He had been attempting a comeback by singing duets with Roberta Flack but suffered from psychological problems
1/14/66 David Bowie releases his 1st single since dropping his last name Jones
1/16/12 Martin Luther King Day observed
1/16/1756 French & Indian War turns into the Seven Years War between Britain & France
1/16/1868 William Davis patents the refrigerator car to ship perishables by railroad
1/16/57 The Cavern Club opens in a former wine cellar in Liverpool, England
1/16/72 David Sevile (Ross Bagdasarian) died, creator & voice of "The Chipmunks" and Witch Doctor novelty records
1/17/1871 The cable car patented, and still going in San Francisco
1/17/1957 BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) formed in San Francisco
1/17/74 Singer Dino Martin, son of Dean Martin, arrested for selling an AK47 machine gun to an undercover cop
1/17/82 Song writer Tommy Tucker (48) is overcome by fumes & found dead, refinishing floors in his home
1/17/91 Gulf War starts with F-117A fighters and B-52 bombers at night
1/18/41 born Bobby Goldsboro, one of opening acts for Rolling Stones in 1964
1/18/57 Three B-52s make world's 1st nonstop jet flight around the world
1/18/82 L.A. Mayor Bradley declares Bob & Doug McKenzie Day in honor of the comic SCTV characters
1/19/1910 First bomb run by an airplane, using 3 two-pound sand bags
1/19/39 born Phil Everly, singer with his brother Don, "Wake Up Little Suzie,"
smashed his guitar onstage when Don quit
1/19/43 born Janis Joplin singer (died 10/4/70) Ball & Chain
1/19/49 born Robert Palmer, singer with Genesis before he and Phil Collins went solo
1/19/46 born Dolly Parton, singer/actress "9 to 5"
1/20/1889 born Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter, died 12/6/49) singer "Goodnight Irene"
1/20/65 Alan Freed (42), the top ten DJ destroyed by the payola scandal hearings, dies of uremia
1/21/41 born Richie Havens, singer
1/21/59 Civil War folksong "Tom Dooley" becomes a gold record for the Kingston Trio, their 1st
1/21/66 George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd, for whom Eric Clapton later wrote "Layla"
1/21/82 Blues guitarist B.B. King donates his 7,000 rare records collection dating back 40 years
to the University of Mississippi
1/22/35 born Sam Cooke (died 12/11/64) singer equally popular on R&B and Pop charts "You Send Me"
1/22/59 USAF determines that less than 1% of UFO sightings are of unknwn origin in report
later known as Operation Bluebook
1/22/66 These Boots Are Made For Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra hits the Top 100 pop chart, & eventually #1
1/23/12 New Moon completely dark, werewolf threat low
1/23/73 Philadelphia radio station WMMR plays 12 minute of bells tolling to observe the Vietnam War cease-fire
1/24/41 Neil Diamond born singer
1/24/78 Randy Newman's "Short People" goes gold, his musical spoof of prejudice
1/25/55 British Railways announce plan to abandon steam engines
1/25/71 Charles Manson & 3 female followers convicted of murdering Sharon Tate and 6 others in 1969
1/25/76 An all-star Houston rock concert to benefit huricane victims produces no net proceeds after expenses
1/25/90 The SR-71 "spy planes" retired by Strategic Air Command, replaced by satellites in orbit
1/26 Australia Day
1/26/40 Ronald Reagan marries Jane Wyman
1/26/57 Last P-51 fighter plane retired from service, donated to Air Force Museum
1/26/57 Eddie Van Halen born, called "the 1st guitar hero of the Eighties" by David Lee Roth
1/26/81 Autoamerican album by Blondie goes platinum, inc. singles The Tide Is High and Rapture,
introducing reggae & vamp rap to the Top 100
1/27/67 Apollo 1 catches fire inside capsule on launchpad, killing all 3 astronauts
1/27/58 Singer Little Richard enrolls in college after finding God when his plane caught fire over the Philippines
1/28/45 The 8th Air Force launches 1000 plane raid on Nazi Germany
1/29/58 Instrumental "Tequila" by Jim Seals & Dash Crofts, as The Champs, released
1/29/79 A San Diego teenager shoots up her high school, killing 2, saying only "I don't like Mondays."
It is immortalized in song by the Boomtown Rats
1/30/69 The Beatles last appearence, on the rooftop of Apple Studios playing for the movie Let It Be,
is cut short by police due to complaints of the noise by neighbors
1/30/73 KISS plays its 1st live concert, though Paul Stanley says that 1st makeup looked more like New York Dolls
1/30/82 I Can't Go For That by Hall & Oates hits #1 on the Disco, Pop and R&B charts, only
the 4th record by white singers to hit #1 on the R&B chart since 1965
1/31/35 Union Pacific's M-10000 enters service as City of Salina, a 3-car V-12 diesel powered train
1/31/51 Phil Collins born, his Genesis began in 1972
1/31/58 1st US satellite launched, Explorer 1
1/31/81 "Sukiyaki" the only Japanese song to hit #1 in America (1963) hits #1 again, this time by
female duo "A Taste Of Honey"
1/31/56 born John Lydon, singer (known as Johnny Rotten only when he was with The Sex Pistols)
February 1 National Freedom Day
2/1/59 Ballistic Missile Early Warning System becomes operational
2/1/39 born Don Everly, singer with brother as The Everly Brothers until he announced onstage that he was quitting
2/1/52 born Rick James, singer
2/1/53 Holland's famous earthen dikes breached by storm surge, 1800 people drowned, newer dikes never breached again, and hundreds more drowned in southern England along the Thames
2/2 Groundhog Day, just ask Bill Murray
2/2/55 Petula Clark has her 1st hit record in UK, but won't catch on in America for a decade
2/3/59 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) killed in a plane crash while on tour
2/6/1911 Ronald Reagan born in Illinois
2/6/50 born Natalie Cole, singer
2/9/13 New Moon, werewolf threat level green
2/9/42 born Carole King, singer
2/10/13 Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake
2/10/1908 1st Army contract with Wright Bros. for airplane, they thought view from air would prevent all future wars
2/10/39 born Roberta Flack, singer
2/10/54 The Glenn Miller Story starring Jimmy Stewart premieres, movie soundtrack of actual Miller music is also
a best-selling album
2/12/13 Mardi Gras
2/12/1809 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday, no longer an official holiday
2/12/1934 Union Pacific's diesel-powered 110 mph M-10000 passenger train begins national tour
2/12/1973 USAF C-141 lands in Hanoi to pick up 1st returning POWs
2/13/13 Ash Wednesday, Ted Turner's least favorite observance
2/13/1741 First magazine published in American colonies
2/14 Valentine's Day
2/14/1855 CB&Q (Chicago Burlington & Quincy) railroad formed
2/14/1564 Galileo born
2/15/51 born Melissa Manchester, singer
2/16/35 born Sonny Bono, singer. Though Sonny & Cher ended after their divorce, Cher spoke at his funeral service
2/16/1923 King Tut's tomb opened, despite warnings of a curse
2/17/63 Michael Jordan born basketball player
2/18/13 President's Day, replacing Washington & Lincoln Birthdays as government holidays, Family Day in Canada
2/19/1912 First Cracker Jack prize
2/20/46 born Jerome Geils, of the J. Geils Band
2/20/62 born John Glenn, astronaut and later Senator and later Space Shuttle astronaut
2/22/1732 George Washington's birthday, no longer an official holiday
2/23/13 Purim begins at sundown
2/23/1896 First Tootsie Roll candies
2/24/49 USAF reveals new jet rocket plane, XF-91
2/25/13 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room
2/25/45 B-29s begin night bombing of Tokyo, destroying 28,000 buildings the 1st night
2/25/43 born George Harrison, singer with the Beatles and a fan of the Beach Boys and Spinal Tap
2/25/1841 born Pierre-August Renoir, artist
2/26/32 born Johnny Cash, singer
2/27/1879 artificial sweetener Saccharin discovered
2/28/1827 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad chartered
2/28/1854 Republican Party founded
2/28/47 F-82 set record, flying non-stop Hawaii-New York in 14 hours 33 minutes
2/28/42 born Brian Jones (drowned 7/3/69, less than a month after leaving the Rolling Stones)
2/29/12 Davy Jones died, British rock & roll singer with The Monkees
3/1/1918 Congress finally passes Standard Time Act, recognizing Standard Time Zones created by railroads5/1/12 Holocaust Remembrance Day 5/1/25 Astronaut Scott Carpenter born
5/1/39 Judy Collins born singer
5/1/44 Rita Coolidge born singer
5/1/67 Tim McGraw born, Country singer
5/1/41 Orson Welles' Citizen Kane premieres in New York
5/1/57 Larry King's 1st day on the radio, is the caller there?
5/1/65 Nine records were set by a YF12A interceptor that hit 2062 mph at 80,000 foot altitude
5/1/71 Amtrak begins operations
5/1/54 Alan Freed hosts his 1st rock concert inc. the Clovers and Muddy Waters, sells out at $2 per ticket
5/1/67 Elvis Presley marries Priscilla, daughter of an army colonel he met while serving in Germany. She had moved to Graceland at age 16, in a separate house
5/1/79 Elton John becomes the first pop music star to perform in Israel5/2/36 Engelbert Humperdinck born singer 5/2/23 1st non-stop transcontinental flight NY to San Diego started 5/2/56 "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley hits top 10 on R&B chart and #1 on both Pop and Country charts 5/2/80 Pink Floyd's song Another Brick In The Wall banned in South Africa after black children begin chanting it 5/2/2011 Navy SEALs assassinate Osama bin Laden at his secret compound in Pakistan 5/2/1519 Leonardo da Vinci died (67) in France 5/3/1919 Pete Seeger born, folk & pop singer 5/3/26 Ann B. Davis born, the maid in TV's The Brady Bunch 5/3/33 Alex Cord born, actor Air Wolf TV-series as the agency's boss 5/3/37 Frankie Valli born singer 5/3/50 Peter Gabriel born singer 5/3/52 World's 1st successful landing at the North Pole, by a USAF C-47 5/3/68 The Beach Boys play a concert then have Maharishi Yogi lecture the audience for the 2nd half, it is not received well and half their concert dates cancel 5/3/77 Eric Church born, country singer 5/4/59 Dick Clark announces his 1st movie production, Harrison High, with himself playing a teacher 5/4/59 winners of the 1st annual Grammy Awards inc. Peter Gunn by Mancini, Tequila by the Champs, Tom Dooley by the Kingston Trio, and 3 Grammys to David Seville for The Chipmunk Song 5/4/70 Nat. Guard troops fire on Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University, killing 4. Studebt unrest closes down 400 colleges by May 7 and 2 more students are killed by police at Jackson State University (Mississippi) May 14 5/5/12 Cinco de Mayo in US, though not official holiday in Mexico 5/5/62 Cliff Richards gets a Gold Record for the title song for movie The Young Ones 5/6/1912 1st group cross-country flight, by 3 Army planes 5/6/32 President of France assassinated in Paris 5/6/37 German airship "Hindenburg" burst into flame and fell like a lead zeppelin (later used as one of Led Zeppelin's album covers) 5/6/41 Stalin became Premier of Soviet Russia 5/6/31 Willie Mays born, Baseball Hall of Famer 5/6/61 George Clooney born, actor "ER" sitcom, "ER" dramatic TV-series, several movies 5/7/1763 Chief Pontiac rallies Great Lakes tribes against colonial incursions, Pontiac is killed in 1769 5/7/15 German U-boat sank the British passenger liner Lusitania, dead include Americans 5/7/45 Germany signed unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in France 5/7/63 US launched communications satellite Telstar 2 5/7/75 Pres. Ford announced end to Vietnam War as Viet Cong took over Siagon & renamed it Ho Chi Minh City 5/7/71 Eagle-Eye Cherry born singer 5/8/45 VE Day, Germany surrenders 5/8/40 Rick Nelson born singer "Garden Party" 5/8/43 Toni Tennille born singer 5/9/49 Billy Joel born singer 5/10/13 New Moon completely dark, werewolf threat low 5/10/1869 Last spike of 1st US transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific & Central Pacific, in Utah 5/10/29 Fats Domino born singer 5/10/46 Donovan born, singer "Sunshine Superman" , "Mellow Yellow" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" 5/11/61 Soviet bandleader Alexander Utyosov claims that Dixieland music was invented in his Socialist Motherland. Variations of the claim later become a running joke by Chekhov in TV's Star Trek 5/12/49 Russia ends blockade of West Berlin 5/12/29 Burt Bacharach born singer 5/12/48 Steve Winwood born singer 5/12/62 Billboard Mag. reports the top 2 most played jukebox songs are Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John and Chubby Checker's The Twist 5/12/64 Dominique by the Singing Nun wins Grammy for Best Gospel Record, Allan Sherman for Best Comedy "Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh" 5/12/13 Mother's Day (2nd Sunday in May) 5/13/1911 1st 2 Army graduate pilots from Wright School 5/13/41 Ritchie Valens born (died 1959) singer 5/13/43 Mary Wells born, singer from age 17 "My Guy" 5/13/50 Little Stevie Wonder born, singer since age 12 5/13/77 Hustler publisher Larry Flint offers Linda Ronstadt $1 million to pose nude. She tells reporters she threw the offer "in the wastebasket" 5/14/1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane, at Kitty Hawk 5/14/36 Bobby Darin born, singer/actor (Died 1973) The Time Tunnel TV-series, hit song Mack The Knife 5/14/52 David Byrne born, founding member of Talking Heads pop group, singer/composer 5/14/55 "Bo Diddley" sung by Bo Diddley released, will go on to be his biggest hit single 5/14/55 "Mambo King" Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink" sells a million records, one of the Cuban's 4 big hits in America 5/15/1918 US govt. establishes 1st permanent Air Mail route 5/15/69 Gov. Reagan orders end to riot in Berkeley, CA 5/15/71 Yoko Ono's The Fly is screened at Cannes Film Festival, reviewers include Joe Bob Briggs 5/16/80 Dr. Nick is indicted in Memphis for over-prescribing drugs to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis 5/17/42 Taj Mahal born, singer 5/17/1958 Last run of a steam engine on Baltimore & Ohio, for a Cleveland railroad club 5/18/13 Armed Forces Day 5/19/45 Pete Townshend born singer 5/19/52 Grace Jones born singer 5/19/98 Galaxy 4 communications satellite carrying wire news services, CBS & NPR networks, and 80% of beepers, suddenly failed. It was eventually permanently replaced by Galaxy VI 5/20/46 Cher born singer/actress "Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" and drama movies 5/20/44 Joe Cocker born singer 5/20/60 Sue Cowsill born, youngest of the singing Cowsill Family 5/20/51 Capt. James Jabara became 1st USAF jet ace, over Korea 5/20/77 Blondie makes first U.K tour, with fellow New York rock group Television 5/21/41 Ronald Isley born, one of the singing Isley Brothers "Twist & Shout" (1962 hit, two years before The Beatles) 5/21/48 Leo Sayer born singer 5/21/56 1st H-bomb exploded, over Bikini Atoll 5/21/61 Every Beat Of My Heart enters the Top 100, one version by Gladys Knight and another by The Pips on a different record label, of which she is a member. Motown will later sign them as Gladys Knight & the Pips 5/21/69 Yoko & John Lennon begin a ten-day "Bed-in" in a Montreal hotel 2 week after his visa is revoked by the U.S. Embassy in London 5/21/79 Elton John becomes the first pop music star to tour Russia 5/22/58 Jerry Lee Lewis and his wife Myra arrive in London for a tour, reporters are shocked when he admits she is his 14 year old 3rd cousin 5/23/64 British hit My Boy Lollipop by Millie Small hits America's Top 100 and eventually #2 5/24/1918 US Army Air Service organized 5/24/55 Rosanne Cash born singer 5/24/41 Bob Dylan born singer 5/25/13 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbot in his room 5/25/26 Miles Davis born singer 5/25/42 Bill Young born, singer 5/26/34 First nonstop run of the Zephyr (CB&Q railroad) Denver to Chicago 5/26/33 Jimmie Rodgers died, "The Singing Brakeman." 5/26/48 Stevie Nicks born singer 5/26/49 Hank Williams Jr. born singer, Are You Ready For Some Baseball? 5/26/58 Jerry Lee Lewis 37-date tour is cancelled after just 3 concerts due to hostile crowds, the London Evening Star calls for his deportation 5/27/57 That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly & the Crickets is released 5/27/13 Memorial Day observed (last Monday in May) 5/28/44 Gladys Knight born singer 5/28/45 John Fogerty born singer 5/28/48 Ray Laidlaw born singer 5/28/58 Ronald P. Reagan born to Ronald & Nancy Reagan 5/28/55 Billboard Mag. reports "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" has sold 18 million records in 6 months, with versions sung by Fess Parker, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Steve Allen, Burl Ives, Roy Rogers Sons Of The Pioneers, and others 5/30/58 A fatal 5-car accident at Indy changes rules: rollbar required on all cars and medical-certified helmets 5/31/38 Peter Yarrow born, of the singing trio Peter Paul & Mary 5/31/69 Rolling Stone mag. reports that Frank Zappa has become a paid lecturer on the college circuit inc. UCLA on the topic of "Pigs, Ponies and Rock & Roll" 5/31/76 Guinness Book of World Records says The Who is world's loudest rock band, with live performances at 120 decibels 6/1/59 Billboard mag. says some teens are using the latest technology to tape music off radio instead of buying it 6/1/67 First non-stop trans-Atlantic flight by a helicopter, by two HH3Es, New York-Paris 6/2 Ascension Day 6/2/1865 US Civil War ends 6/3/1808 Jefferson Davis born 6/4/1917 First Pulitzer Prizes 6/5/2004 Former President Ronald Reagan died 6/6/44 D-Day landing begins before dawn 6/6/19 Canadian National Railways (CN) incorporated 6/7/13 Mt McKinley's highest peak reached 6/8/13 Moon completely dark, werewolf threat level low 6/9/34 Donald Duck born 6/10/15 Saul Bellow born 6/11/13 Vince Lombardi born 6/11/76 San Francisco Latin/rock-fusion group Santana's album AMIGOS goes gold 6/12/29 Anne Frank born 6/12/1973 Dismantling of the Reader RR began, America's last all-steam freight railroad 6/12/87 President Reagan in Berlin says, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! 6/14/76 Beatles album "Rock N Roll Music" released by Capitol after expiration of agreements with Apple, goes gold 6/16/1884 First roller coaster completed, relied on gravity alone to keep wheels on rails 6/17/70 Poleroid camera patented, self-developing photos 6/18/1815 Napoleon has his Waterloo 6/19/64 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begins construction in California 6/19/76 Blue Oyster Cult gets their 1st hit album, containing song Don't Fear The Reaper 6/20/77 Alaskan Pipeline 6/21 First day of Summer 6/21/66 The Rolling Stones sue 14 New York city hotels for publicly banning them 6/21/2001 Australia sets current record heaviest train ever operated 6/22/44 GI Bill Of Rights signed 6/23/13 Full Moon, lock Larry Talbut in his room 6/24/47 First UFO sighting reported as "saucer-shaped" 6/26/45 UN charter signed 6/27/1880 Helen Keller born 6/28/19 WW1 officially ended 6/29/56 Federal Aid Highway Act, to connect all 50 states by Interstate Highways 6/30/53 First Corvette 6/30/1977 US Post Office ends regular Railway Post Office (RPO) service on passenger trains 6/30/71 Indian Reservation by Paul Revere & the Raiders become a hit Gold Record 7/1/11 New Moon, werewolf threat low 7/1/82 WABC-AM radio switches from rock music to talk radio format 7/2/64 Civil Rights Act 7/2/81 Stars On 45 by a group of Dutch studio musicians hits #1 and is quickly followed by other medley singles 7/3/1886 First automobile test drive 7/3/71 Jim Morrison (27) of The Doors dies of heart attack in Paris, complicated by years of drugs & alcohol 7/3/81 The Doors give fans a Morrison graveside tribute in Paris 7/4/1828 B&O Railroad laid first stone (later switched to wooden crossties under the rails) 7/5/46 Bikini introduced, named for atom bomb tests at Bikini Atoll 7/6/1911 Devil's Postpile Nat Monument in California 7/6/46 Sylvester Stallone born 7/7/1802 First comic book printed 7/7/1862 Congress passes Pacific Railway Act to build a railroad to California 7/9/71 Jim Morrison secretly buried in France to avoid the "circuslike atmosphere" of the Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix funerals 7/9/1893 First open-heart surgery 7/10/43 Arthur Ashe born 7/11/14 Babe Ruth's Major League Baseball debut 7/12/1817 Henry David Thoreau born 7/13/30 First World Cup soccer 7/14/11 Full Moon 7/14/1789 Bastille Day in France and all French territories 7/15/1853 Grand Trunk Railway formed 7/16/45 First successful atom bomb test 7/17/55 Disneyland opens 7/17/61 The Supremes release their 1st single: Buttered Popcorn/Who's Loving You. 7/17/82 The Valley Girl craze starts when Valley Girl by Moon Unit Zappa hits the top 100 Pop Chart. The song i 7/18/21 astronaut John Glenn born 7/19/46 Norma Jean (Marilyn Monroe) screen test 7/20/69 First manned Moon landing 7/21/1899 Ernest Hemingway born 7/22/40 Alex Trebek born, what is Host of Jeopardy 7/25/78 First "test-tube" baby born after fertilization outside the womb 7/26/1908 FBI founded 7/26/76 Ted Nugent's self titled album goes gold 7/27/53 Korean War ends with an armistice, a permanent treaty has never been signed. US flag may be flown at half-mast until sunset in recognition of Korean War vets 7/28/29 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born 7/28/76 Fly Like An Eagle album by The Steve Miller Band goes gold, and eventually platinum 7/29/58 NASA founded 7/30/11 New Moon completely dark, werewolf threat lowReturn to TV Listings page at Monstervision