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"BORN TODAY" Darin Brooks 1984 - Actor (Days Of Our Lives) Ben Feldman 1980 - Actor (Mad Men) Jamie Oliver 1975 - Celebrity Chef Ethan Dampf 1994 - Actor ("American Dreams") Chris Colfer 1990 - Actor ("Glee") Jadakiss 1975 - Rapper Denise Van Outen 1974 - Actress (The Big Breakfast) André 3000 (André Lauren Benjamin) 1975 - Rapper (Outkast), also known as Dre Jack McBrayer 1973 - Actor ("30 Rock") Left Eye 1971 - Singer (TLC) Paul Bettany 1971 - Actor Joseph Fiennes 1970 - Actor (Shakespeare In Love) Dondre Whitfield 1969 - Actor Sean Kinney 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains) Monika Schnarree 1971 - Actress (Bold And Beautiful) Todd Bridges 1965 - Actor ("Diff'rent Strokes") Adam Carolla 1964 - Comedian Peri Gilpin 1961 - Actress ("Frasier") Cathy Silvers 1961 - Actress ("Happy Days") Neil Finn 1958 - Musician (Crowded House, Split Enz) Siouxsie Sioux 1957 - Singer (Siouxsie & the Banshees) Eddie Harsch 1957 - Musician (The Black Crowes) Richard Schiff 1955 - Actor ("The West Wing") Bruce Cockburn 1945 - Singer Bruce Weitz 1943 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues") Louis Gossett, Jr. 1936 - Actor Lee Ann Merriwether 1935 - Actress ("Barnaby Jones") Christopher Lee 1922 (Featured Above) Actor, (Hound of Baskervilles) Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond Vincent Price 1911 (RIP) - Actor Lucile Watson 1879 (RIP) - Actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance) Julia Ward Howe 1819 (RIP) - Abolitionist, social activist, poet ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 (RIP) millionaire (B & O railroad) Click "Next" to see more nostalgic news... "DIED TODAY" Robert Ripley (Born: December 25, 1890 / Died: May 27, 1949) Ruth McDevitt (Born: September 13, 1895 / Died: May 27, 1976) Florida Friebus (Born: October 10, 1909 / Died: May 27, 1988) Paul Xavier Gleason (Born: May 4, 1939 / Died: May 27, 2006) Gretchen Wyler (Born: February 16, 1932 / Died: May 27, 2007) Jeff" Conaway (Born: October 5, 1950 / Died: May 27, 2011) William Desmond Anthony Pertwee (Born: July 21, 1926 / Died: May 27, 2013) "MOVIES TODAY" Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer. 1967 - The War Wagon 1969 - Popi 1970 - Watermelon Man 1970 - Zig Zag 1977 - Smokey and the Bandit 1983 - Chained Heat 1988 - Killer Klowns from Outer Space 1994 - Beverly Hills Cop III 1994 - Little Buddha 1994 - The Flintstones 1998 - I Get the Hook Up Click "NEXT" to see what happened in MUSIC today "MUSIC TODAY" 1957 - "That'll be the Day" b/w "I'm Looking For Someone To Love" by the Crickets was released. 1963 - The album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released by Columbia in the USA. Establishing Bob Dylan as a leader in the singer-songwriter genre and a supposed spokesman for the youth-orientated protest movement, it reached No.22 in the US charts and No.1 in the UK charts. 1963 - Bob Dylan released album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan." 1963 - The Chiffons released the single "One Fine Day". 1964 - Eleven boys were suspended from a school in Coventry, England for having Mick Jagger haircuts. 1965 - Sandie Shaw posted her second U.K. #1 song--"Long Live Love". Want to see what happened in 1968 on? Click "NEXT" 1968 - The 5th Dimension released the single "Stoned Soul Picnic". 1972 - "I'll Take You There", the great soul song from the Staple Singers, was #1 for the fourth week in a row on the R&B chart. 1972 - David Bowie appeared at Ebbisham Hall, Epsom, England in his Ziggy Stardust tour. 1977 - Declan McManus made his 'live' debut at the Nashville in London as Elvis Costello. 1977 - The Sex Pistols single 'God Save The Queen' was released in the UK. Banned by TV and radio, high street shops and pressing plant workers refused to handle the record. It sold 200,000 copies in one week and peaked at No.2 on the UK charts behind Rod Stewart's 'I Don't Want to Talk About It'. 1978 - Bob Seger released the classic album Stranger in Town. 1978 - "Even Now" by Barry Manilow was the new #1 Adult Contemporary song. 1978 - "Use Ta Be My Girl" by the O'Jay's took over as the #1 R&B song. For news from 1978 to date, Click "NEXT" 1978 - The Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever" was the #1 album for the 19th week in a row. 1983 - The Smiths were at No.1 on the UK independent chart with their debut single 'Hand In Glove.' 1983 - Metallica finished recording the album "Kill 'Em All." 1988 - Van Halen's "Monster Of Rock" touring festival opened at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin. 1988 - Def Leppard kicked off the third leg of their North American Hysteria world tour at George M. Sullivan Arena, Anchorage, Alaska. 1989 - Cliff Richard released his one hundredth single, 'The Best Of Me', which became his 26th Top 3 UK hit. 1989 - "My First Love" by Atlantic Starr gained the #1 spot on the R&B chart. 1989 - "Forever Your Girl" by Paula Abdul was the #1 song for a second week 1989 - Stevie Wonder was given the Badge Of Solidarity from the Polish Labor Movement in Warsaw. 1990 - The Stone Roses played at Spike Island, Widnes, Cheshire, England to a capacity crowd of 30,000. The event, considered a failure at the time due to sound problems and bad organization, has become legendary over the years as a "Woodstock for the baggy generation." 1991 - Wilson Phillips released the single "The Dream Is Still Alive". 1994 - The Eagles played their first show in fourteen years when they played a show in Burbank, California. The two-and-a-half-hour show ended with two encores, closing with 'Desperado'. 1999 - Winners at the Ivor Novello song writing awards included Rod Stewart who won a Lifetime Achievement Award, Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers won songwriters of the year and Chrissie Hynde won outstanding contribution to British Music. 2003 - Liza Minelli sang an a cappella version of "Liza With a Z" with Luciano Pavarotti live via satellite for a charity show on Italian television. She had been hospitalized two days early after falling and breaking her right kneecap. Check out TV & Radio News "NEXT" "TV/RADIO TODAY" 1950 - Frank Sinatra made his TV debut on NBC's "Star-Spangled Review." 1961 - Johnny Cash appeared on NBC's "The Deputy." 1977 - In the U.K., the Sex Pistols single "God Save the Queen" was released. The song was banned on May 31 by the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority. 1982 - The final episode of "Bosom Buddies" aired on ABC. 1982 - The final episode of "Mork and Mindy" aired on ABC. 1987 - Jim and Tammy Bakker appeared on "Nightline" following the PTL scandal. 1988 - The final episode of "Punky Brewster" aired on NBC. 1994 - "The Arsenio Hall Show" aired for the last time. The show was revived for a single season in 2013. "OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS..." 1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency" amid rising world tensions. 1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida. 1998 - Charlie Sheen was admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles for a drug overdose. 2000 - Paula Yates was awarded £400,000 ($680,000) in an out-of-court settlement from her boyfriend Michael Hutchence fortune. Hutchence had died in 1997 INXS singer Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney in 1997 aged 37. 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