DYR Today, April 8

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1988 – Bad Dreams is a 1988 American horror film directed and co-written by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott and E.G. Daily. It was produced by Gale Anne Hurd. The plot follows a young woman who awakens from a thirteen-year-long coma and finds herself being stalked by the ghost of a cult leader who led a mass suicide by fire that she survived as a young girl.

1998 – 18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident.
1988 – Above the Law (also known as Nico) is an American action film written, produced and directed by Andrew Davis, and also produced by and starring Steven Seagal in his film debut.

1994 – Threesome is an American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Andrew Fleming. The film is an autobiographical comedy mixed in with some social commentary, and is based on the college memories of Fleming.

1970 – In London, the U.K. premiere of the Woodstock movie took place. The film was a documentary of the August 1969 festival that took place in Bethel, NY.
1971 – Chicago became the first rock group to sell out a week of shows at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1974 – Barbra Streisand records album “Butterfly”

1989 – Lol Tolhurst, keyboardist and founding member of the Cure, left the band.
1994 – Kurt Cobain was found dead at the age of 27 three days before he committed suicide.
1994 – The RIAA announced that Pink Floyd’s 1973 album “Dark Side of the Moon” had become the fourth biggest-selling album in U.S. history. It had passed the 13 million mark in sales.
1997 – KISS released the album “Greatest Kiss.”
1998 – Tommy Lee was jailed (for 6 months) after breaking a probation order.
1998 – Ronnie Woo was rescued along with 11 others after a fire broke out aboard a small boat in the islands south of Rio de Janneiro
1998 – George Michael was released on bail. The arrest was for engaging in lewd conduct in a park restroom.

1911 – The first squash tournament was played at the Harvard Club in New York City.
1913 – The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators.
1946 – The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.

1952 – U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1994 – Smoking was banned in the Pentagon and all U.S. military bases.
1998 – The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an appeal for new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband.
2001 – Microsoft Corp. released Internet Explorer 6.0