Hey, K-Froggers, welcome to the first Sunday of April, 2014. Can you believe we are already into April? Amazing. Looks like it is another beautiful day in the IE. I hope you all enjoy the day. April 6. Your birthday? If so, have a great day. It’s Merle Haggard’s birthday, so you share it with some country music royalty. Here are some other folks who share your birthday… 1884 - Walter Huston, Tor, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre) 1928 - James Watson, American chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA) 1931 - Ivan Dixon, NYC, actor (Car Wash, Hogans Heroes) 1937 - Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back) 1937 - Merle Haggard is born in Bakersfield, California. After imprisonment in San Quentin, he becomes a legendary singer/songwriter with his blue-collar observations and rich vocal style sending him into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994 (scored 38 US country No.1s including Okie From Muskogee’). 1947 - John Ratzenberger, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers) 1952 - Marilu Henner, Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shade) 1953 - Janet Lynn, ice skater (Olympics-bronze-1972) 1960 - Warren Haynes, Asheville, North Carolina, rock and blues guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band) 1969 - Paul Rudd, Passaic, New Jersey, American actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) 1972 - Jason Hervey, actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years) 1978 - Tim Hasselbeck, American football player And, here are some of the things that happened on your birthday… 1889 - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time 1896 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history 1906 - 1st animated cartoon copyrighted 1909 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson 1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars 1924 - 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight 1925 - 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air) 1930 - Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar 1931 - 1st broadcast of Little Orphan Annie on NBC-radio 1938 - Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett 1947 - 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281 1954 - TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons 1956 - Capitol Records opens its new Hollywood headquarters, the worlds first round office building, at the corner of Hollywood & Vine. Among the artists who record in the studio: Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Dwight Yoakam and Merle Haggard 1956 - Elvis Presley signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. 1957 - Ferlin Husky reaches the top of the Billboard country chart with Gone 1960 - The Everly Brothers started their first UK concert tour at Londons New Victoria Theatre, supported by The Crickets. 1967 - The first master tape of The Beatles new album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was made. The song order on side one is different from the final product at this point, the last five songs on that side being initially ordered as follows: ‘Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite’, ‘Fixing a Hole’, ‘Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds’, ‘Getting Better’, and ‘Shes Leaving Home’. The Beatles had specified that there were to be no gaps between songs - a unique idea at the time. 1973 - Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn 1974 - The California Jam 1 festival took place in Ontario, California, featuring The Eagles, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Earth Wind and Fire, ELP, Black Oak Arkansas and Seals & Croft. Over 200,000 fans attended (I was there. Davey) 1984 - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched. It’s the 1st time there are 11 people in space 1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler 1987 - Randy Travis claims four trophies--Top Male Vocalist; Album of the Year, for Storms Of Life; and Single Record and Song, for On The Other Hand--in the 22nd Academy Of Country Music awards, aired by NBC from Knotts Berry Farm in California 1989 - Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak 1991 - Garth Brooks hits #1 on the Billboard country chart with Two Of A Kind, Workin On A Full House 1992 - Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0 1992 - Mercury releases Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart 1998 - American country singer Tammy Wynette died aged 55. She scored 12 hit singles including Stand By Your Man, and sold over 30 million records world-wide, married five times and once filed for bankruptcy. Known as the first lady of country music. Wynette had the 1991 hit with The KLF Justified and Ancient which became a No. 1 hit in eighteen countries. 1999 - An all star tribute to singer, songwriter Johnny Cash took place in New York City with Sheryl Crow, Chris Isaak and U2 all performing for the TV special. 1999 - Columbia releases Montgomery Gentrys debut album, Tattoos & Scars 2004 - Guitarist and singer Niki Sullivan, died suddenly of a heart attack, at his home in Independence, Missouri aged 66. Sullivan was one of the three original members of Buddy Hollys backing group, The Crickets. He co-wrote a number of his hit songs and sang back-up vocals on 27 of the 32 songs Buddy recorded over his brief career. 2007 - Luke Bryan sings All My Friends Say in his Grand Ole Opry debut 2009 - George Strait is hailed as the Academy of Country Musics Artist of the Decade during a taping for a CBS-TV special at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Strait closes the night with the rest of the cast backing him on “Troubadour 2013 - George Jones performs at the Knoxville Coliseum in Tennessee in what turns out to be the last concert of his life. It marks his final public performance of He Stopped Loving Her Today So, theres the day in a nutshell. Go out and have a great day.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:01:06 +0000
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