DYR Today, October 7

“Born Today”

• Shiba Inu 6 (8)
• Holland Roden (30)
• Bree Olson (30)
• Amber West (30)
• Edison Chen (36)
• Aaron Ashmore (37)
• Shawn Ashmore (37)
• Alesha Dixon (38)
• Omar Benson Miller (38)
• Taylor Hicks (40)
• Nicole Ari Parker (46)
• Thom Yorke (48)
• Toni Braxton (49)
• Dan Savage (52)
• Ann Curless of Expose (53)
• Matthew Roloff (55)
• Dylan Baker (57)
• Simon Cowell (57)
• Judy Landers (58)
• Michael W. Smith (59)
• Jayne Torvill (59)
• Yo-Yo Ma (61)
• Tico Torres (63)
• John Mellencamp (65)
• Jill Larson (69)
• Oliver North (73)
• Joy Behar (74)
• Desmond Tutu (85)
• June Allyson (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Edgar Allan Poe (Born: January 19, 1809 / Died: October 7, 1849)
• Leo Durocher (Born: July 27, 1905 / Died: October 7, 1991)
• Ed Blackwell (Born: October 10, 1929 / Died: October 7, 1992)
• Agnes de Mille (Born: September 18, 1905 / Died: October 7, 1993)

“Movies”

• 1959 – Pillow Talk
• 1964 – Fail-Safe
• 1965 – The Agony and the Ecstasy
• 1968 – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
• 1977 – Oh, God!
• 1977 – A Piece of the Action
• 1983 – Never Cry Wolf
• 1983 – Never Say Never Again
• 1987 – Baby Boom
• 1987 – Like Father Like Son
• 1988 – Alien Nation
• 1988 – Clara’s Heart
• 1988 – Punchline
• 1994 – Only You
• 1994 – The Specialist
• 1994 – A Troll in Central Park

“Music”

• 1967 – The Box Tops had the #1 song with “The Letter”
• 1967 – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass had the #1 Adult Contemporary song with “A Banda”
• 1969 – “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5 was released on this date
• 1971 – Michael Jackson released the single “Got to Be There”
• 1972 – Three Dog Night’s “Black and White” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
• 1974 – Barry Manilow released “Mandy”

• 1974 – Helen Reddy released “Angie Baby”
• 1978 – The Dire Straits released their first album Birmingham at Barbarella
• 1991 – Garth Brooks’s “Ropin’ the Wind” was the #1 Country song

“TV/Radio”

• 1952 – Bandstand was broadcast in Philadelphia (An earlier version of the later popular American Bandstand with Dick Clark)
• 1960 – Route 66 premiered on CBS

“Other Important Events…”

• 1982 – Cats made its Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theater
• 1993 – Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature