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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPIDER!! Posted by PEGASUS (moderator) Oct 17 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 Bradleys orchestra recorded "Five OClock 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 Britains 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 Clementes 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 Stargells 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 5:04 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 natures game. 1998 - The single, "One Week", by Barenaked Ladies, was number one -- for one week. Chart Toppers - October 17 1949 Youre 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 Lovers 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 Arthurs 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) Oct 20 2007 7:23PM Happy Birthday Spider, hope it was a good one. Added another leg for me to pull off. |
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