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TODAY

DYR Today, October 21

by Kelsey Cassetta

Published October 21, 2016

DYR Today, October 18

“Born Today”

  • Amber Rose (33)
  • Aaron Tveit (33)
  • Matt Dallas (34)
  • Kim Kardashian (36)
  • Will Estes (38)
  • Jeremy Miller (40)
  • Jade Jagger (45)
  • William Zabka (51)
  • Melora Walters (57)
  • Ken Watanabe (57)
  • Charlotte Caffey (59)
  • Julian Cope (59)
  • Carrie Fisher (60) Featured Above
  • Catherine Hardwicke (61)
  • LaTanya Richardson (67)
  • Judge Judy (74)
  • Manfred Mann (76)
  • Joyce Randolph (92)
  • Celia Cruz (RIP)
  • Alfred Nobel (RIP)
  • Dizzy Gillespie (RIP)

“Died Today”

  • Jack Kerouac (Born: March 12, 1922 / Died: October 21, 1961)
  • Jesús Blasco (Born: November 3, 1919 / Died: October 21, 1995)
  • Marty Ingels (Born: March 9, 1936 / Died: October 21, 2015)

“Movies”

  • 1966 – Way…Way Out
  • 1970 – Little Fauss and Big Halsy
  • 1977 – Damnation Alley
  • 1983 – All the Right Moves
  • 1983 – The Dead Zone
  • 1983 – The Right Stuff
  • 1983 – Rumble Fish
  • 1983 – Under Fire
  • 1988 – Bat*21
  • 1988 – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
  • 1988 – Little Dorrit
  • 1988 – Mystic Pizza
  • 1988 – Tapeheads
  • 1994 – Bullets Over Broadway
  • 1994 – Love Affair
  • 1994 – The Puppet Masters
  • 1994 – Radioland Murders

“Music”

  • 1967 – Lulu’s “To Sir with Love” was the #1 song
  • 1967 – Vikki Carr’s “It Must Be Him” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
  • 1972 – Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-Ling” was the #1 song

  • 1977 – Meatloaf released Bat Out of Hell
  • 1978 – Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
  • 1980 – Don Williams’s “I Believe In You” was the #1 Country song

Related:

  1. DYR Today, October 3
  2. DYR Today, October 26
  • 1986 – Janet Jackson released “Control”
  • 1988 – Michael Jackson released “Smooth Criminal”

    • 1989 – Babyface’s Tender Love was the #1 R&B album
    • 1989 – Ricky Van Shelton’s “Living Proof” was the #1 Country song
    • 1995 – Mariah Carey’s Daydream was the #1 album and “Fantasy” was the #1 song
    • 1995 – The #1 song on the Latin chart was Gloria Estefan’s “Abriendos Puertas”

“Other Important Events…”

  • 1959 – The Guggenheim opened to the public
  • 1976 – Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for Literature
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