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“BORN TODAY” Portia Doubleday (27) Porsha Williams (33) Jai Rodriguez (36) Donald Faison (41) Lecy Goranson (41) Carson Daly (42) Mary Lynn Rajskub (44) Laila Rouass (44) Kevin Aviance (47) Emmanuelle Seigner (49) Uwe Boll (50) Amy Brenneman (51) Dan Brown (51) Randy Couture (52) Erin Brockovich (55) Tracy Pollan (55) Bruce Campbell (57) Cyndi Lauper (62) Lindsay Wagner (66) Meryl Streep (67) Klaus Maria Brandauer (72) Michael Lerner (74) Kris Kristofferson (79) Prunella Scales (83) “DIED TODAY” Judy Garland (Born: June 10, 1922 / Died: June 22, 1969) Fred Astaire (Born:May 10, 1899 / Died: June 22, 1987) Pat Nixon (March 16, 1912 / Died: June 22, 1993) Anna Landers (Born: July 4, 1918 / Died: June 22, 2002) George Carlin (Born: May 12, 1937 / Died: June 22, 2008) (Featured Above) “MOVIES TODAY” Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer. 1966 - Around the World Under the Sea 1966 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967 - The Honey Pot 1971 - Scandalous John 1977 - The Rescuers 1979 - Escape from Alcatraz 1979 - The Main Event “MUSIC TODAY” 1956 - Elvis Presley started a three-day run playing 10 shows at the Paramount Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia 1963 - 13-year old Stevie Wonder first entered the US singles chart as Little Stevie Wonder with ‘Fingertips Parts One and Two’ 1963 - The Surfaris single “Wipe Out” was released 1964 - The N played their first ever show in Zealand at Wellington Town Hall 1968 - Herb Alpert started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘This Guy's in Love With You’ 1968 - The Jeff Beck group featuring Rod Stewart make their US debut at the Fillmore East, New York 1968 - The Otis Redding album Dock of the Bay went to No. 1 in the UK 1968 - Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas” was released 1969 - Blind Faith’s first LP released 1970 - Led Zeppelin appeared at Laugardalsholl Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland 1971 - The second Glastonbury Festival in England took place 1980 - Don McLean had his second UK No. 1 single with the Roy Orbison song ‘Crying’ 1985 - Bryan Adams started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Heaven’ 1990 - Ry Cooder and David Lindley, The Cure, Happy Mondays, Sinead O’Connor, Deacon Blue, De La Soul, Adamski, Blue Aeroplanes, Julian Cope, Del Amitri, Jesus Jones, James and The Pale Saints all appeared on the first day of the Glastonbury Festival 1997 - Hanson went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ 1974 - Charlie Rich was at #1 on the US Country chart with ‘Behind Closed Doors’ 1990 - Billy Joel became the first rock artist to perform at Yankee Stadium “TV/RADIO TODAY” 1951 - Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC Radio WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (NBC) suspends broadcasting 1984 - The film, Rhinestone, is released 1990 - Adam Sandler joins “Saturday Night Live” dvddirect.com “OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…” 1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned doctorhugo.org 1967 - The drug possession trial of Rolling Stone members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards 1970 - President Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required the voting age in the United States to be 18 1973 - Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after 28 days in space 1974 - The Sears Tower Skydeck in Chicago opened wikipedia.org 1980 - The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan 1981 - Mark Chapman pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering John Lennon biography.com 1988 - Dennis Lobban was convicted of the murder of reggae star Peter Tosh 1989- the government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war 1990 - Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin 1992 - Three members of M.C. Hammer’s tour crew were wounded in a drive in shooting incident 1992 - Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain rushed to hospital after suffering from stomach pains due to ulcers biography.com 1996 - Arthur Ross (brother of Diana Ross) and his wife were murdered by suffocation