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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPIDER!!
Posted by
PEGASUS
(moderator) 17 Oct 2007 9:50am
October 17 The Day Spider - Leggggs - Jan came into the world!!! Look at some of the notable things that happened in previous years on her special day.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPIDER!!
Events
1919 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed. The company became a giant in electronics, especially radios and TVs. It would later own its own TV network (NBC) and other broadcast interests.
1938 - This was a big day in Tinseltown. NBC moved to the corner of Sunset and Vine, the ‘Crossroads of the World’. The new Hollywood Radio City drew thousands of visitors ready to fill studio-audience seats for popular radio programs.
1940 - One year before recording that memorable song, "Fry Me Cookie, with a Can of Lard", Will Bradley’s orchestra recorded "Five O’Clock Whistle", also on Columbia Records.
1945 - Actress Ava Gardner made news. She married bandleader Artie Shaw.
1962 - Though the ‘Fab Four’ would appear on both radio and television, on what they would call ‘Auntie Beeb’ (the BBC), The Beatles made their first appearance this day on Great Britain’s Granada TV Network. The show from Manchester, England was "People and Places".
1967 - “Gimme a head with hair. Long, beautiful hair...” The rock musical "HAIR" opened at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater for a limited run. After much trial and error, involving several openings and closings, "HAIR" eventually opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater on April 29, 1968. It closed on July 1, 1972 after 1,742 performances.
1971 - Roberto Clemente’s bat, Steve Blass’ pitching, and the leadership of Willie Stargell made the Pittsburgh Pirates World Series winners. After losing the first two games, the Bucs came back to win three consecutive -- and eventually their fourth world championship. Steve Blass hurled a four-hitter and Roberto Clemente homered as the Pirates won Game 7, 2-1.
1978 - The New York Yankees were pounded 11-to-5 in the opening game of the World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers also took game two 4-to-3. No American League team had ever recovered from an 0-2 deficit in the World Series -- until then. The Yankees won the next four games to clinch their 22nd world championship.
1979 - After being down three games to one, Willie ‘Pops’ Stargell’s third World Series homer gave the Pittsburgh Pirates their third straight win, 4-1, and the world championship, four games to three. Stargell was Series MVP.
1985 - Intel introduced the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip. It was the first Intel/*86 chip to handle 32-bit data sets. It ran at ‘clock speeds’ of up to 33 MHz -- blazingly fast in 1985.
1989 - Millions were watching the third game of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, when much to their horror, the seats at Candlestick Park began to rock, light towers swayed, and 58,000 fans became eerily quiet. An earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, had hit the San Francisco Bay area at 5 4 p.m. Homes crumbled, gas lines ruptured, ‘earthquake-safe’ structures fell and the upper section of a two-tiered freeway collapsed onto the lower level at the height of rush hour -- trapping commuters in flattened cars. The tremor and its aftershocks reached north to Sacramento and south to Los Angeles, causing an estimated 270 deaths, 3,000 injuries, and damages up to $3 billion. TV audiences stayed glued to their sets as fires burned, rescue workers went about their jobs and real stories unfolded. At the World Series game (postponed because of earth shaking), the fans cheered when the tremor stopped. They were the victors of nature’s game.
1998 - The single, "One Week", by Barenaked Ladies, was number one -- for one week.
Chart Toppers - October 17
1949
You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Keep a Knockin’ - Little Richard
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
Yesterday - The Beatles
Treat Her Right - Roy Head
A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
Behind the Tear - Sonny James
1973
Half-Breed - Cher
Ramblin’ Man - The Allman Brothers Band
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
Party Time - T.G. Sheppard
1989
Miss You Much - Janet Jackson
Love Song - The Cure
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
Killin’ Time - Clint Black
happy birthday
Posted by
texasroseV
(VIP) 20 Oct 2007 7:23pm
Happy Birthday Spider, hope it was a good one. Added another leg for me to pull off.
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