DYR Today, January 23

“Birthdays”

Anna Pavlova (Born: February 12, 1881/ Died: January 23, 1931)
Edvard Munch (Born: December 12, 1863 / Died: January 23, 1944)
Kid Ory (Born: December 25, 1886 / Died: January 23, 1973)
Salvador Dali (Born: May 11, 1904 / Died: January 23, 1989)
Johnny Carson (Born: October 23, 1925 / Died: January 23, 2005)

1971 – George Harrison reached #1 in the U.K. with his solo hit “My Sweet Lord”.
1971 – Gladys Knight & the Pips reached #1 on the R&B chart with their great song “If I Were Your Woman”.
1971 – Dawn & Tony Orlando topped the chart with “Knock Three Times”
1978 – Van Halen released their first single “You Really Got Me”, a remake of the Kinks’ classic.
1978 – Yvonne Elliman released the single “If I Can’t Have You”
1982 – “Yesterday’s Songs” by Neil Diamond was #1 for a sixth week.
1982 – George Benson was the man on the R&B chart with the new #1–“Turn Your Love Around”.
1984 – Kenny Loggins released the single “Footloose”.
1984 – Michael Jackson released the single “Thriller”.
1988 – Tiffany took over the #1 spot on the Album chart with her self-titled release.
1988 – Michael Jackson hit #1 for the ninth time as a solo artist with “The Way You Make Me Feel”.

1993 – Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with “A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme)”.

1935 – The first radio tube to be made of metal was announced.
1949 – “Happy Pappy” premiered. It was the first all-black-cast variety show.
1955 – “One Man’s Family” was seen on TV for the final time after a six-year run on NBC-TV.
1963 – The Soap operas “General Hospital” and “Doctors” premiered on television.

1975 – “Barney Miller” made its debut on ABC-TV.
1977 – The TV mini-series “Roots,” began airing on ABC. The show was based on the Alex Haley novel.
1983 – “The A-Team” debuted on TV.

1985 – The proceedings of the House of Lords were televised for the first time.
1988 – At the Quaker State Open, Bob Benoit won a $100,000 bonus and became the first bowler to win a televised tournament by rolling a perfect 300 game.
1995 – The first episode of “Platypus Man” aired.
2002 – CNN announced that it had hired Connie Chung away from ABC News.

1748 – The ruins of Pompeii were found.
1778 – Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the “$” symbol.
1872 – The first edition of “The Standard” was published.
1891 – The William Wrigley Jr. Company was founded in Chicago, IL. The company is most known for its Juicy Fruit gum.
1929 – Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.
1930 – Leo Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke the altitude record for a catch by catching a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, CA.
1931 – Jackie Mitchell became the first female in professional baseball when she signed with the Chattanooga Baseball Club.

1938 – The first commercially successful fluorescent lamps were introduced.
1945 – U.S. forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II.
1946 – Weight Watchers was formed.
1946 – A tidal wave (tsunami) struck the Hawaiian Islands killing more than 170 people.
1952 – The Big Bang theory was proposed in “Physical Review” by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.
1953 – The U.S. Congress created the Department of Health Education and Welfare.
1960 – The U.S. launched TIROS-1. It was the first weather satellite.
1970 – U.S. President Nixon signed the bill, the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, that banned cigarette advertisements to be effective on January 1, 1971.
1976 – Apple Computer began operations.
1987 – Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the world. The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.
1987 – U.S. President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, “We’ve declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1.”
1992 – Players began the first strike in the 75-year history of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1997 – David Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.