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BORN TODAY 1986 - Skylar Grey 1983 - Aziz Ansari 1983 - Emily Blunt 1981 - Josh Gad 1976 - Kelly MacDonald 1970 - Niecy Nash 1966 - Mia Michaels 1965 - Michael Dell 1965 - Veronica Webb 1955 - Howard Jones 1952 - Brad Whitford 1951 - Patricia Richardson 1947 - Shakira Caine 1940 - Peter Fonda MOVIES TODAY -Check on the trailers in the links below - 1935 - The Band Concert 1944 - The Purple Heart 1951 - You're in the Navy Now 1966 - Harper 1990 - Where the Heart Is 1996 - Mary Reilly 1996 - Before and After 1996 - Unforgettable MUSIC TODAY 1959 - "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price made it to a third week at #1 on the Singles chart. "Donna" from the late Ritchie Valens was next with "16 Candles" from the Crests down a spot. 1964 - The Dave Clark Five, featuring Clark as one of the great drummers early in the Rock Era, released the single "Bits And Pieces". 1969 - 'If Paradise Is Half As Nice' by Amen Corner was at No.1 on the UK singles chart, 1978 - Three hallmark winners at the Grammys that are all some of the best of all-time in their categories - Album of the Year--to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. 1978 - The Eagles won Record of the Year for "Hotel California". 1978 - Best Pop Vocal Performance went to the Bee Gees for "How Deep Is Your Love". 1980 - "Give It All You Got" from Chuck Mangione, the theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, was the new #1 song on the Adult Contemporary chart. 1980 - A new rock group, Survivor debuted with their first single with "Somewhere In America". 1980 - "Special Lady" by Ray, Goodman & Brown was the new #1 on the R&B chart. 1980 - Officially, Queen scored their first #1 song with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", although anyone with sense reported "Bohemian Rhapsody" as a #1 song in 1976. 1981 - Rick Springfield released the single "Jessie's Girl". 1983 - Toto deservedly dominated the Grammy Awards with six trophies, including Record of the Year ("Rosanna") and Album of the Year (Toto IV). 1985 - "Missing You", the Diana Ross tribute to the late Marvin Gaye, hit #1 on the R&B chart. 1985 - Like a Virgin was #1 on the Album chart for Madonna. 1985 - "Careless Whisper" from Wham! was #1 on the AC chart for the third straight week. 1991 - C&C Music Factory reached #1 on the R&B chart with "Gonna' Make You Sweat". 1991 - Whitney Houston amazingly had her ninth career #1 in 14 releases with "All the Man That I Need". 2000 - British rocker Phil Collins wins a Grammy for his work on Disney's Tarzan soundtrack. TV/RADIO TODAY 1956 - The Disneyland episode "Davy Crockett" wins a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Show. 1964 - The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for a third time. The show had actually been recorded on February 9, the date of their first appearance, in front of a different audience, then broadcast on February 23. 1970 - The 5th Dimension were guest stars on It Takes a Thief on ABC-TV. 1970 - Ringo Starr was a guest star on the popular television show Laugh-In on NBC, his first solo television appearance. 1985 - The TV show "Gimme a Break" was broadcast live before a studio audience. It was the first TV sitcom to be seen live since the 1950s. 1987 - The Perry Mason TV movie "The Case of the Lost Love" aired. 1997 - NBC-TV aired "Schindler's List." It was completely uncensored. OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS... 1939 - Walt Disney receives a special Oscar for his classic 83-minute animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at the 11th Academy Awards held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Eleven-year-old child star Shirley Temple presents Walt with one statuette and seven miniature statuettes for "a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon." 1959 - Academy Award nominations are announced with Disney receiving 5. Winners were announced April 6: White Wilderness - Documentary, Features White Wilderness - Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Paul Bunyan - Short Subjects, Cartoons Grand Canyon - Short Subjects, Live-Action Subjects Ama Girls - Documentary, Short Subjects 1972 - After nearly five years of marriage, Priscilla Presley moved out of Elvis Presley's California home and into a two bedroom apartment near the Pacific Ocean. Their divorce would be finalized on October 9, 1973, with Priscilla being awarded an outright cash payment of $725,000 as well as spousal support, child support, 5% of Elvis' new publishing companies and half the income from the sale of their Beverly Hills home. 1988 - Michael Jackson played the first of two nights at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The first shows on the second leg of his Bad World Tour. 1994 - The ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas occurred. 1998 - All members of Oasis were banned for life from flying Cathay Pacific Airlines after "abusive and disgusting behavior" during a flight from Hong Kong to Perth, Australia. 1999 - Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs was arrested and jailed overnight for being drunk and disorderly. Police found the guitarist outside a Tommy Hilfiger store in London. 2000 - Santana received a record-tying eight Grammy Awards, tying the mark set by Michael Jackson. 2000 - Sean "Puffy" Combs was indicted on charges of bribing a witness. Did we Miss Anyone or Anything Special? Let us Know in the Comments

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