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"March 13" "BORN TODAY" Neil Sedaka (1939) Charo (1941) William H.Macy (1950) Glenne Headly (1955) Dana Delany (1956) Kathy Hilton (1959) Adam Clayton (1960) Corey Miller (1967) Annabeth Gish (1971) Leigh-Allyn Baker (1972) Common (1972) David Draiman (1973) Danny Masterson (1976) Molly Stanton (1980) Toccara Jones (1981) Noel Fisher (1984) Natalie and Nicole Albino (1984) Emile Hirsch (1985) Joshua Allen (1989) Kaya Scodelario (1992) "DIED TODAY" Benjamin Harrison (Born: August 20, 1833 / Died: March 13, 1901) Ronald Fraser (Born: April 11, 1930 / Died: March 13, 1997) Maureen Stapleton (Born: June 21, 1925 / Died: March 13, 2006) "MOVIES TODAY" -Check out the clips in the links below - 1930 - Cannibal Capers 1937 - Woodland Cafe 1942 - Popeye the Sailor - Fleets of Stren'th 1954 - The Bugs Bunny Show: Bugs and Thugs 1968 - Live A Little, Love A Little 1969 - Charro! 1969 - The Love Bug https://youtu.be/ay3GgrYEa1M 1971 - Vanishing Point 1975 - The Great Waldo Pepper 1981 - Back Roads 1981 - Modern Romance 1992 - American Me 1992 - Article 99 1992 - Howard's End 1992 - My Cousin Vinny 1998 - The Man in the Iron Mask "MUSIC TODAY" photo: wikimediacommons.com 1954 - Jo Stafford's "Make Love To Me!" hits #1 1956 - Elvis Presley released his self-titled debut album on RCA Records, believed to be the first album to sell one million copies. 1961 - Rick Nelson recorded "Travelin' Man". 1961 - "Pony Time" by Chubby Checker was #1 for a third week overall with Elvis Presley waiting behind with "Surrender". 1964 - Mary Wells released the single "My Guy". 1965 - Freddie and the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" enters the charts 1965 - Meet the Beatles became the #1 album in U.S. history, topping 3.5 million units. 1965 - "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All-Stars was the new #1 song on the R&B chart. 1965 - The Soundtrack to "Mary Poppins", which had hung around the top for several weeks, finally became the #1 album. 1965 - "Eight Days A Week" became the seventh #1 song for the Beatles in just over a year. 1966 - Pink Floyd debuted live at the Marquee Club in London. 1966 - Rod Stewart left the group Steampacket to start a solo career. 1967 - Six members of Sounds, Incorporated (three saxophones, two trombones and one french horn) recorded the parts for "Good Morning Good Morning" for the Beatles' upcoming album. 1971 - Pearl by the late Janis Joplin was #1 on the Album chart for the third week. 1971 - Brewer and Shipley's "One Toke Over The Line" enters the charts 1971 - The Carpenters remained at #1 on the Adult chart for the third week with "For All We Know". 1971 - The Osmonds incredibly remained at #1 a fourth week with "One Bad Apple", even though most radio stations had other songs at #1 by now 1972 - Cat Stevens released the single "Morning Has Broken". 1976 - Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady" hits #1 R&B 1976 - The Jackson 5 left Motown Records for Epic and changed their name to the Jacksons. 1976 - The Captain & Tennille took a second Neil Sedaka song to #1 on the Adult chart--"Lonely Night (Angel Face)". 1976 - The Four Seasons, one of the groups affected (they all were, to some extent) by the onset of the Beatles, hit #1 for the first time in 12 years with "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)". 1976 - Eagles/Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, which debuted at #4 the previous week, was the new #1 album. Very few groups could put out a greatest hits package after five years and have it be the top-selling album of all-time but that is what happened with this release. 1980 - Willie Nelson was at #1 on the country chart with "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys", the title of a song from the soundtrack to the 1979 film The Electric Horseman, (starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack). Written by Sharon Vaughn, it become his fifth #1. 1981 - The single "Watching The Wheels" by John Lennon was released posthumously. 1982 - Most people wouldn't hear of this Canadian until the following year, but on this date, he first entered the chart with his debut single--"Lonely Nights". Bryan Adams no doubt celebrated heartily. 1982 - The J. Geils Band held on to #1 for a sixth week with "Centerfold" while Journey's "Open Arms", which was a better record, stayed at #2. 1984 - The Cars released the album Heartbeat City. 1987 - George Strait was at #1 on the country chart with Ocean Front Property, his seventh studio album and Strait's first to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. It was ranked #5 on CMT's list of 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music in 2006. 1987 - Bryan Adams released "Heat Of The Night" as a cassette single (or a cassingle, as it was called), the first of its kind. 1989 - Madonna released the single "Like A Prayer". 1993 - Unplugged, the new album from Eric Clapton, was the new #1, taking over for "The Bodyguard" Soundtrack. 1993 - "Freak Me" by Silk took over at #1 on the R&B chart. 1993 - Canada's Snow moved to #1 with "Informer". 1999 - Cher became the oldest woman to ever have a #1 song when "Believe" reached the top. "TV/RADIO TODAY" 1959 - The TV series Walt Disney Presents airs "Highway to Trouble." 1965 - Tom Jones made his television debut on The Billy Cotton Band Show on BBC-TV. 1962 - James Darren was a guest star on the television show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea on ABC. "OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS" 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovers the ninth planet Pluto. 1936 - The Tulsa Tribune quotes writer Thornton Wilder as telling a lecture audience, "The two presiding geniuses of the movies are Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin." 1947 - At the 19th Annual Academy Awards (held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles), the Walt Disney Studio Sound Department wins an Oscar for innovations in locating noise in sound tracks. 1947 - 19th Academy Awards 1936 -Work on the Boulder Dam is now complete two years ahead of schedule. 1949 - Imperial Records is created in Los Angeles, California. 1959 - On Friday the 13th, the Kingston Trio are nearly killed when their plane makes an emergency landing on a turkey farm in South Bend, IN. 1972 - Winners at the Academy of Country Music Awards hosted by Dick Clark from Knott's Berry Farm Buena Park included: Top Female Vocalist of the Year - Loretta Lynn, Top Male Vocalist of the Year - Freddie Hart, Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year - Barbara Mandell, Top Television Personality of the Year - Glen Campbell and Song of the Year - Freddie Hart "Easy Lovin'". 1979 - Olivia Newton-John received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire medal from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London. 1980 - A case brought against The Ford Motor Co. of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto, ends with The Ford Motor Co. being found innocent. 1987 - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1990 - This was an event that usually would only happen in a fantasy movie. An off-duty policewoman and her dog were “sucked up” by a tornado and carried 25 feet, along with other debris such as tree branches and mud. 1997 - Thousands of people report seeing a huge carpenter's square-shaped UFO including the Arizona Republican governor Fife Symington the phenomena is known as the Phoenix Lights and although many theories have been put forward for what the lights were, many of those that saw them are still convinced they were a V-shaped UFO. 1999 - Trisha Yearwood joins the Grand Ole Opry.

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