DYR Today, August 6

“Born Today”

• Geri Halliwell (43)
• Charlotte McKinney (22)
• Adrianne Curry (33)
• Romola Garai (33)
• Travie McCoy (34)
• Marissa Miller (37)
• Melissa George (39)
• Soleil Moon Frye (39)
• Ever Carradine (41)
• Asia Carrera (42)
• Vera Farmiga (42)
• Merrin Dungey (44)
• Night Shyamalan (45)
• Michelle Yeoh (53)
• Faith Prince (58)
• Catherine Hicks (64)
• Barbara Windsor (78)
• Lucille Ball (RIP)
• Andy Warhol (RIP)
• Elliott Smith (RIP)

“Died Today”

• John Hughes (Born: February 18, 1950 / Died: August 6, 2009)
• Rick James (Born: February 1, 1948 / Died: August 6, 2004)

“Movies”

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

• 1969 – The Learning Tree
• 1971 – Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
• 1993 – The Fugitive
• 1993 – The Meteor Man
• 1993 – My Boyfriend’s Back
• 1993 – The Wedding Banquet
• 1999 – Mystery Men
• 1999 – The Sixth Sense
• 1999 – The Thomas Crown Affair

“Music”

• 1965 – The Beatles released their fifth album and soundtrack to their second film ‘Help!’ which included the title track, ‘The Night Before’, ‘You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away’, ‘You’re Going to Lose That Girl’, ‘Ticket to Ride’ and ‘Yesterday’.
• 1974 – ABBA scored their first US top 10 hit when ‘Waterloo’ went to No.6.
• 1977 – This week’s UK Top 5 singles: No.5 ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’, ELP. No.4, ‘Pretty Vacant’, the Sex Pistols. No.3, ‘Angelo’ Brotherhood Of Man’. No.2, ‘Ma Baker’, Boney M and No.1, ‘I Feel Love’ Donna Summer.

• 1982 – Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” had its U.S. premiere in New York City.
• 1988 – Appetite For Destruction Guns N’ Roses debut album went to No.1 in the US.
• 1988 – Yazz and the Plastic Population started a five week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘The Only Way Is Up’.
• 1994 – Lisa Loeb started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Stay (I Missed You)

“TV/Radio”

• 1939 – Dinah Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue radio network.
• 1960 – Chubby Checker performed “The Twist” on American TV for the first time on “American Bandstand.”
• 1964 – Rod Stewart made his television debut on the British show “The Beat Room.”
• 1998 – The last new episode of Magic Johnson’s talk show, “The Magic Hour,” aired.

“Other Important Events…”

• 1969 – The first fair ball to be hit completely out of Dodger Stadium occurred. Willie “Pops” Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit the ball 506 feet from home plate.
• 1986 – Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named “James Bond.”

• 1987 – Madonna’s movie “Who’s That Girl” premiered in New York.

• 1996 – NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica.