DYR Today, June 24

“BORN TODAY”

• Mick Fleetwood (68)
• Candace Patton (27)
• Stassi Schroeder (27)
• Kaitlin Cullum (28)
• Solange Knowles (29)
• Minka Kelly (35)
• Mindy Kaling (36)
• Petra Nemcova (36)
• Kelly Wiglesworth (38)
• Sherry Stringfield (48)
• Hope Sandoval (49)
• Iain Glen (54)
• Joe Penny (59)
• Betsy Randle (60)
• Peter Weller (68)
• Michele Lee (73)
• Robert Downey Sr. (79)
• Chuck Taylor (RIP)
• Roy O Disney (RIP)

“DIED TODAY”

• Grover Cleveland (Born: March 18, 1837 / Died: June 24, 1908)
• Kenny Washington (Born: August 31, 1918 / Died: June 24, 1971)
• Jackie Gleason (Born: February 26, 1916 / Died: June 24, 1987) (Featured Above)
• Chris Benoit (Born: May 21, 1967 / Died: June 24, 2007)

“MOVIES TODAY”

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

• 1965 – Cat Ballou
• 1969 – Chastity
• 1977 – Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
• 1977 – Sorcerer
• 1983 – Twilight Zone: The Movie
• 1983 – Porky’s II: The Next Day
• 1983 – Yellowbeard
• 1970 – Myra Breckinridge
• 1987 – Spaceballs

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1964 – The Beatles played the first of two nights at Auckland Town Hall, New Zealand
• 1965 – The Hollies were at No.1 on the UK Singles Chart with ‘I’m Alive’
• 1966 – The Rolling Stones began their fifth North American Tour
• 1967 – The Monkees went to No.1 on the US Album Chart with ‘Headquarters
• 1969 – The Top 5 singles this week: No.5, ‘Living in the Past’, Jethro Tull, No.4, ‘Time is Tight’, Booker T and the MG’s, No.3, ‘Dizzy’, Tommy Roe, No. 2, Oh Happy Day, Edwin Hawkins Singers, and at No.1, ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ by The Beatles
• 1974 – Lynard Skynard’s ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ was released

• 1977 – The Jacksons were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with “Show You the Way to Go’
• 1978 – Genesis, Jefferson Starship, Jeff Beck, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Devo, Brand X and the Atlanta Rhythm Section all appeared at Knebworth Park, England
• 1989 – Paul McCartney scored his seventh UK No.1 solo album with ‘Flowers in the Dirt’
• 1989 – Soul To Soul started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Back to Life’
• 1990 – Perry Bamonte replaced Roger O’Donnell in The Cure
• 1991 – Frank Zappa took part at the concert “Adieu Soviet Army’

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1940 – TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
• 1969 – Led Zeppelin recorded ‘Whole Lotta Love’, ‘What is and What Should Never Be’, ‘Traveling Riverside Blues’ and ‘Communication Breakdown’ for BBC Radio 1 at Maida Vale Studios, London

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1896 – Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.

• 1922 – The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
• 1931 – The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
• 1940 – France signed an armistice with Italy.
• 1941 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
• 1947 – Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
• 1948 – The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
• 1953 – John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.

• 1955 – Soviet MIG’s down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
• 1962 – The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
• 1964 – The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
• 1965 – John Lennon’s second book of poetry and drawings, ‘A Spaniard in the Works’, was published

• 1968 – “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
• 1970 – The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
• 1971 – The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
• 1982 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as President of the United States.
• 1985 – Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.

• 1986 – The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic Landmark.
• 1997 – The U.S. Air Force released a report titled “The Roswell Report, Case Closed” that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947.
• 1998 – AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
• 1998 – Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.