B-Days: Roman Emperor Probus (232AD), 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 61, Kyra
Sedgwick is 52, Matthew Perry is 48, Jonathan Frakes is 65, Bill Clinton is 71
1909- The Brickyard is born. The first Indianapolis 500
autorace.
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 Valdez Alaska, first officer of the Enterprise.
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