On this day the most beautiful celebrity was born. She was named Elisha Cuthbert.
What else happened throughout the world on this very day are written here, below:
Birthdays
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Jonathan Swift 1667
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835
Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874
Brownie McGhee 1915
Efren Zimbalist, Jr. 1918
Virginia Mayo 1920
Richard Crenna 1926
Dick Clark 1929
G. Gordon Liddy 1930
Teddy Wilburn 1931
Bob Moore 1932
Abbie Hoffman 1936
Jimmy Bowen 1937
Robert Guillaume 1937
Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul & Mary) 1937
Luther Ingram 1944
Rob Grill (The Grassroots) 1944
Roger Glover (Deep Purple) 1945
David Mamet 1947
Margaret Whitton 1950
Mandy Patinkin 1952
Shuggie Otis 1953
June Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1954
Jeannie Kendall (The Kendalls) 1954
Billy Idol 1955
John Ashton (Psychedelic Furs) 1957
Bo Jackson ( NFL, MLB ) 1962
Jalil (Whodini) 1963
Ben Stiller 1965
Paul Wheeler (Icehouse) 1965
Frank Ifield 1975
Allan Sherman 1975
Mindy McCready 1975
Music
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1634 - Composer Andres de Sola was born.
1813 - Composer Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan was born.
1859 - Composer Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov was born.
1958 - Coed Records released "16 Candles" by the Crests.
1965 - The Colorado State government declared this day to be Rolling Stones Day.
1968 - Sly & The Family Stone's "Everyday People" was released.
1969 - Simon & Garfunkel's first TV special, "Songs of America," aired.
1969 - The Save Rave '69 benefit concert, to aid the youth culture magazine Rave, took place in London.
1982 - Metallica played their final concert with Ron McGovney.
1988 - LL Cool J performed the first rap concert held in Africa.
1992 - The video "NFL Country," by various artists, was certified Gold by the RIAA.
1994 - Tupac Shakur was shot five times during a robbery outside a New York City recording studio. He survived the shooting, but was killed two years later in Las Vegas. Two days later a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing a woman, but acquitted him of the more serious sex and weopons charges.
1996 - Mark Wills and Kelly Mangus were married.
1996 - Tiny Tim died after collapsing after ending a show early because he felt ill.
1998 - Inga Vainshtein, Jewel's former manager, filed suit claiming she was fired after Jewel's mother intentionally caused a rift between them.
1998 - The album "Across the Bridge of Hope" was released in Britain. The money was raised for victims of the bombing in Northern Ireland on August 15, 1998.
1999 - Jomato Records released an early collection of Shania Twain's work and called it "Beginnings (1989-90)." The material predates Twain's earliest Nashville demos. |
