B-Days: Orville Wright, Ring
Lardner, Ogden Nash, Alfred Lunt, George Enesco, jockey Willie Shoemaker, Malcolm
Forbes, Tipper Gore, Gene Roddenberry, Colleen Moore the It Girl, Jill St.
John, Ginger Baker, Dawn Steel, John Stamos, Peter Gallagher is 60, Kyra
Sedgwick is 50, Matthew Perry is 46, Jonathan Frakes is 63, Bill Clinton is 69
1929- the Amos and
Andy show premiered on radio.
1955 - WINS radio, announces it
will not play "copy" white cover versions of black R&B . DJs must
play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's. In 1957
Little Richards “Tuttie-Fruitie” never got higher than 17th in the
Billboard Charts while Pat Boones version, by his own admission awful, went to
number one.
1973 - Kris Kristofferson wed Rita Coolidge.
1977- Groucho Marx, the last surviving Marx Brother, died
at age 86. In his final years Groucho had rewrote his will in favor of his
young personal secretary Erin Fleming. This spawned a furious legal battle
between Fleming and the Marx family.
2004- Google stock first went public on the stock market.
2012- Director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) jumped
to his death off a bridge in Los Angeles. He was 68.
2335 –
According to Star Trek the Next Generation, this is the birthday of William T
Riker, in V43aldez Alaska, first officer of the Enterprise.
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