DYR Today, June 22

“BORN TODAY”

• Portia Doubleday (27)
• Porsha Williams (33)
• Jai Rodriguez (36)
• Donald Faison (41)
• Lecy Goranson (41)
• Carson Daly (42)
• Mary Lynn Rajskub (44)
• Laila Rouass (44)
• Kevin Aviance (47)
• Emmanuelle Seigner (49)
• Uwe Boll (50)
• Amy Brenneman (51)
• Dan Brown (51)
• Randy Couture (52)
• Erin Brockovich (55)
• Tracy Pollan (55)
• Bruce Campbell (57)
• Cyndi Lauper (62)
• Lindsay Wagner (66)
• Meryl Streep (67)
• Klaus Maria Brandauer (72)
• Michael Lerner (74)
• Kris Kristofferson (79)
• Prunella Scales (83)

“DIED TODAY”

• Judy Garland (Born: June 10, 1922 / Died: June 22, 1969)
• Fred Astaire (Born:May 10, 1899 / Died: June 22, 1987)
• Pat Nixon (March 16, 1912 / Died: June 22, 1993)
• Anna Landers (Born: July 4, 1918 / Died: June 22, 2002)
• George Carlin (Born: May 12, 1937 / Died: June 22, 2008) (Featured Above)

“MOVIES TODAY”

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• 1966 – Around the World Under the Sea
• 1966 – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1967 – The Honey Pot
• 1971 – Scandalous John
• 1977 – The Rescuers
• 1979 – Escape from Alcatraz
• 1979 – The Main Event

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1956 – Elvis Presley started a three-day run playing 10 shows at the Paramount Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1963 – 13-year old Stevie Wonder first entered the US singles chart as Little Stevie Wonder with ‘Fingertips Parts One and Two’
• 1963 – The Surfaris single “Wipe Out” was released

• 1964 – The N played their first ever show in Zealand at Wellington Town Hall
• 1968 – Herb Alpert started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘This Guy’s in Love With You’

• 1968 – The Jeff Beck group featuring Rod Stewart make their US debut at the Fillmore East, New York
• 1968 – The Otis Redding album Dock of the Bay went to No. 1 in the UK
• 1968 – Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas” was released

• 1969 – Blind Faith’s first LP released
• 1970 – Led Zeppelin appeared at Laugardalsholl Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland
• 1971 – The second Glastonbury Festival in England took place
• 1980 – Don McLean had his second UK No. 1 single with the Roy Orbison song ‘Crying’

• 1985 – Bryan Adams started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Heaven’
• 1990 – Ry Cooder and David Lindley, The Cure, Happy Mondays, Sinead O’Connor, Deacon Blue, De La Soul, Adamski, Blue Aeroplanes, Julian Cope, Del Amitri, Jesus Jones, James and The Pale Saints all appeared on the first day of the Glastonbury Festival
• 1997 – Hanson went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album ‘Middle Of Nowhere’
• 1974 – Charlie Rich was at #1 on the US Country chart with ‘Behind Closed Doors’

• 1990 – Billy Joel became the first rock artist to perform at Yankee Stadium

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1951 – Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC Radio
• WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (NBC) suspends broadcasting
• 1984 – The film, Rhinestone, is released

• 1990 – Adam Sandler joins “Saturday Night Live”

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1964 – The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned

• 1967 – The drug possession trial of Rolling Stone members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
• 1970 – President Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required the voting age in the United States to be 18
• 1973 – Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after 28 days in space
• 1974 – The Sears Tower Skydeck in Chicago opened

• 1980 – The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
• 1981 – Mark Chapman pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering John Lennon

• 1988 – Dennis Lobban was convicted of the murder of reggae star Peter Tosh
• 1989- the government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war
• 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin
• 1992 – Three members of M.C. Hammer’s tour crew were wounded in a drive in shooting incident
• 1992 – Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain rushed to hospital after suffering from stomach pains due to ulcers

• 1996 – Arthur Ross (brother of Diana Ross) and his wife were murdered by suffocation