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BORN TODAY 1984 - Trevor Noah 1978 - Lauren Ambrose 1978 - Jay Hernandez 1978 - Chelsea Peretti 1975 - Brian Littrell 1975 - Kurt Cobain (RIP) 1967 - Andrew Shue 1967 - Lili Taylor 1966 - Cindy Crawford 1964 - French Stewart 1963 - Charles Barkley 1954 - Patty Hearst 1954 - Anthony Head 1953 - Poison Ivy 1949 - Ivana Trump 1947 - Peter Strauss 1946 - Sandy Duncan 1946 - Brenda Blethyn 1943 - Mike Leigh 1937 - Nancy Wilson 1927 - Sidney Poitier 1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt MOVIES TODAY -Check out the the trailers in the links below - 1928 - Oswald the Lucky Rabbit 1937 - Moose Hunters 1961 - Aquamania 1963 - How the West Was Won 1986 - 9½ Weeks 1987 – Square Dance MUSIC TODAY 1958 - Buddy Holly & the Crickets, the Everly Brothers, Bill Haley & the Comets, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmie Rodgers opened up the Big Gold Record Stars Tour in Florida. 1964 - The Bachelors scored a #1 U.K. hit with "Diane". 1965 - The Moody Blues debuted on the chart with their first career single--"Go Now". 1965 - Gary Lewis & the Playboys had the new #1 song with "This Diamond Ring". 1970 - John Lennon released the single "Instant Karma". 1971 - Australian Helen Reddy first appeared on the radio with her first career hit--"I Don't Know How to Love Him". 1971 - The Soundtrack to "Jesus Christ Superstar" moved to #1 on the Album chart. 1971 - Gordon Lightfoot reached #1 on the Adult chart with his first hit--"If You Could Read My Mind". 1977 - At tonight's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Stevie Wonder cleans up with a Best Album win (Songs In The Key Of Life) and Best Vocal Performance ("I Wish"). Most infamous is the Best New Artist award for the Starland Vocal Band, of "Afternoon Delight" fame, which is sometimes cited as the beginning of that award's "curse" of quick anonymity. 1978 - ABBA had another #1 song in the U.K. with "Take A Chance On Me". 1982 - Stevie Wonder notched his 14th #1 of his career on the R&B chart with 1982 - Barry Manilow hit #1 for the 12th time in 22 releases on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Somewhere Down The Road". 1982 - Freeze-Frame had a lock on #1 on the Album chart for the J. Geils Band for a third week. 1988 - Pebbles had the top R&B song with "Girlfriend". 1988 - Expose took over at the top of the AC chart with "Seasons Change". 1993 - Whitney Houston released the single "I Have Nothing". 1993 - The compilation album of Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Words of Love, was the #1 album in the U.K., 34 years after Holly's death. 1994 - Tori Amos owned the top U.K. album with Under the Pink. TV/RADIO TODAY 1949 - Ricky Nelson joined his parents, Ozzie and Harriet, on their radio show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. click for more Beatles / pinterest.com 1963 - The Beatles drove all night from Liverpool to London to perform "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me" on the live lunchtime BBC radio show Parade of the Pops, an appearance that lasted just over four minutes. They then drove 160 miles for a concert that night at the Swimming Baths in Doncaster, Yorkshire. 1986 - Stevie Wonder was a guest on The Cosby Show on NBC-TV. 1991 - At tonight's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Bob Dylan receives the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award and gives the following puzzling speech, quoted here in its entirety: "Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say: 1996 - Alan Jackson makes a guest appearance on "Home Improvement," singing "Mercury Blues" on the fictitious handyman show "Tool Time" 2000 - The movie Little Richard was shown by ABC-TV. cartoonresearch.com OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS... 1982 - Pat Benatar married her guitarist, Neil Geraldo in Maui, Hawai'i. 1985 - Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash passed away he was an American voice actor best known for voice Disney's Donald Duck (December 7, 1904 / February 20, 1985) Click to Learn More About Alan / americantheatrewing; org_.flickr.com 1991 - The 33rd Grammy Awards are held at Radio City Music Hall. Best Recording for Children goes to The Little Mermaid—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. Did we Miss Anyone or Anything Special? Let us Know in the Comments