Fifteen Happy Birthdays to the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY 15"!!!
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May this year be blessed with all things wonderful!!!
On this day:
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
1939 - Orrin Tucker’s orchestra recorded "Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!"
1960 - Connie Francis begins working on the film "Where the Boys Are."
1966 - The Temptations' "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" was released.
1967 - The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.
1969 - Frank Zappa disbanded the Mothers of Invention right after an eight-day tour in Canada. Zappa said that he was "tired of playing for people who clap for all the wrong reasons."
1973 - The Rolling Stones released "Angie."
1997 - Alabama Governor Fob James joined the mayors of Montgomery and Georgina, AL in the Alabama State Capitol to dedicate a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 65 to the memory of Hank Williams. The section of roadway was renamed the "Hank Williams Memorial Lost Highway."
1641 - Scotland and Britain signed the Treaty of Pacification.
1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska.
1862 - Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" was published.
1866 - The National Labor Union in the U.S. advocated an eight-hour workday.
1866 - It was formally declared by President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
1885 - "The Mikado", by Gilbert and Sullivan, opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City.
1923 - The first American dirigible, the "Shenandoah," was launched in Lakehurst, NJ. The ship began its maiden voyage from the same locatoin on September 4.
1939 - Johnny Weissmuller married Beryl Scott.
1939 - The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI.
1945 - Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league ball game. Brown was 17 years, 8 months and 14 days old.
1949 - Cleveland’s Indians and Chicago’s White Sox played at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland before the largest crowd, 78,382 people, to see a nighttime major-league baseball game.
1955 - Col. Horace A. Hanes, a U.S. Air Force pilot, flew to an altitude of 40,000 feet. Hanes reached a speed of 822.135 miles per hour in a Super Sabrejet.
1955 - Bo Diddley made his first appearance at the Apollo Theater in New York City.
1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1967 - The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.
1977 - Voyager 2 was launched by the U.S. The spacecraft was carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1985 - The original Xerox 914 copier was presented to the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Chester Carlson was the man who invented the machine.
Born on this day:
Bernardo O’Higgins 1778
Emily Bronte 1818
Edgar Guest 1881
H.P. Lovecraft 1890
Van Johnson 1916
Walter Bernstein 1919
Jacqueline Susan 1921
Jim Reeves 1924
Frank Rosolino 1926
Joya Sherrill 1927
Don King 1931
Frank Capp-Pierce (Capp-Pierce Juggernaut) 1931
Ron Paul 1935
Justin Tubb 1935
Sam Melville 1936
Isaac Hayes 1942
Rahiv Ghandi (India) 1944
Connie Chung 1946
Jim Pankow 1947 - Musician (Chicago)
Robert Plant 1948 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
Phyl Lynott 1951 - Musician (Thin Lizzy)
John Hiatt 1952
Michael Jeter 1952
Doug Fieger 1952 - Musician (The Knack)
Rudy Gatlin 1952 - Musician (The Gatlin Brothers)
Peter Horton 1953
Al Roker 1954
Quinn Buckner 1954
Jay Acovone 1955
Joan Allen 1956
KRS-One 1965
Darrell Abbott 1966 - Guitarist (Pantera)
Jonathan Ke Quan 1971
Monique Powell 1975 - Musician (Save Ferris)
Demi Lovato 1992 - Actress and singer