Friday’s “DYRT” April 14

“BORN TODAY”

“DIED TODAY”

“MOVIES TODAY”

Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer.

• 1989 – Disorganized Crime
• 1989 – Say Anything…
• 1989 – She’s Out of Control
• 1989 – Winter People

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1958 – Van Cliburn appeared on national TV for the first time. He was on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” with Jack Paar.
• 1960 – The musical “Bye Bye Birdie” opened in New York City.
• 1963 – The Beatles met the Rolling Stones after a Stones concert in Richmond, England.
• 1967 – The Bee Gees released their first English single. It was “New York Mining Disaster 1941.”

• 1970 – Stephen Stills broke his wrist in an auto accident.
• 1970 – The 5th Academy of Country Music Awards was hosted. Merle Haggard and Tammy Wynette won.
• 1976 – Motown Records and Stevie Wonder held a news conference to announce he had signed a “$13 million-plus” contract with the label.
  

• 1976 – Bay City Rollers singer Eric Faulkner almost died after swallowing Seconal and Valium tablets.
• 1980 – A New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” the official state song. Springsteen also decided if this song wasn’t going to be a hit, he would quit his musical career forever.

• 1980 – Iron Maiden’s self-titled debut album was released.
• 1983 – Pete Farndon died of a drug overdose at the age of 29. He had been fired from the band the year before due to his drug problem.
• 1989 – Tom Petty released his first solo album “Full Moon Fever.”

• 1999 – It was reported that Prince intended to re-record the entire catalog of his music and re-release it.

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1953 – WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
• 1955 – WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1959 – KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961 – 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
• 1969 – 41st Academy Awards is hosted.
• 1969 – KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1910 – U.S. President William Howard Taft threw out the first ball for the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
• 1939 – John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published.
• 1956 – Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture.
• 1959 – The Taft Memorial Bell Tower was dedicated in Washington, DC.
• 1969 – For the first time, a major league baseball game was played in Montreal, Canada.
• 1981 – America’s first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission.
• 1984 – The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state’s public school textbooks describe the evolution of human beings as “theory rather than fact”.
• 1986 – U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on military and terrorist related targets in Libya.
• 2008 – Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were merging.