Like Page History of today. 191st day of 2013 - 174 remaining Wednesday, July 10, 2013 SATISFACTION DAY It was on this day in 1965 that The Rolling Stones, who took their name from a Muddy Waters song, hit the top spot on the Billboard chart. It was their first time at the top. The hit, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, stayed at number one for 4 weeks. And as fate would have it, Betty Brenneman, music director at 93/KHJ, Los Angeles in 1965, had assigned the number ‘440’ to the KHJ control room copy of the single, Satisfaction. Just think ... our DJ database site, 440: Satisfaction, could have been named, 216: Satisfaction, had that number been next in line. It just wouldn’t have had the same ring to it, would it? The Stones recorded a total of 41 hits over the next 13 years, with seven more making the number one spot: Ruby Tuesday, Honky Tonk Women, Angie, Miss You, Paint it, Black, Get Off of My Cloud, and Brown Sugar. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor and Ron Wood were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1986. The group, founded in 1964, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Considered by many to be the greatest rock band in the world, Satisfaction remains the Stones’ signature. Events July 10 1866 - Edison P. Clark of Northampton, MA patented his indelible pencil. 1890 - Wyoming, the state with the smallest population entered the Union this day. The 44th state was named after an Algonquin Indian word meaning ‘large prairie place’. Appropriately, the Indian paintbrush that covers much of the large prairie is the state flower and the meadowlark, frequently seen circling the prairie land, is the state bird. Another Indian term, Cheyenne, is also the name of the state capital. Wyoming is called the Equality State because it is the first state to have granted women the right to vote (1869). 1900 - One of the most famous trademarks in the world, ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Talking Machine Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine. 1913 - It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and while you are baking at the beach or lake, keep this factoid in mind: The highest temperature ever recorded in the continental United States was 134 degrees which melted thermometers this day in Death Valley, California. 1920 - One of the greatest horse races in America was run as Man o’ War defeated John P. Grier in the Dwyer Stakes. Man o’ War set a world-record time of 1 minute, 49-1/5 seconds in the 1-1/8 mile event. 1929 - The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the small size we currently carry. 1934 - Carl Hubbell threw three strikeouts in the first inning of the All-Star baseball game held at New York’s Polo Grounds. Hubbell faced the American League’s best power hitters: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Fox. In the second inning, Hubbell remained strong, fanning Al Simmons, Joe Cronin and Lefty Gomez. From then on, however, it was all up hill for the National League which lost by a score of 9-7. Hubbell’s nicknames, incidentally, were Meal Ticket and King Carl. 1936 - Billie Holiday recorded Billie’s Blues for Okeh Records in New York. Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw and Cozy Cole supported Holiday, instrumentally, on the track. 1938 - Howard Hughes started his flight around the world. It took him 91 hours to complete the odyssey. 1944 - The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS radio. 1949 - The first practical rectangular television picture tube was presented. The tube measured 12 by 16 inches and sold for $12. 1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights. 7-2 underdog Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown from Robinson in a 15-round referee’s decision in London, England. (Sugar Ray took the title back September 12th at the Polo Grounds in New York.) 1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. Telstar would usher in a new age of communication via telephone and TV, with voice and picture transmission from Europe to America and back. Signals were picked up by a 38-ton antenna in Andover, Maine. To commemorate the event, an instrumental hit by the Tornadoes, an English surf-rock group, made it to number one for three weeks in November, 1962. It was titled, Telstar, of course. 1969 - The National League was divided into two baseball divisions (wacky as the realignment turned out to be). For example, the Atlanta Braves were placed in the West Division, while the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs were Eastern Division teams. Cincinnati was also placed in the National League West. The Chicago Cubs sued to stay out of the west and remain in the east in the 1990s, when three divisions were formed. They ended up in the new Central division. 1971 - Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox announced his retirement from major-league baseball. Conigliaro had suffered a vision impairment in his left eye after being hit in the head by a thrown fastball during a game. Despite efforts to make a comeback, Tony C. never regained the form he once brought to the game. 1984 - Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. Gooden was 19 years, 7 months and 24 days old. He led the National League to a 3-1 win at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA. 1985 - The Coca-Cola Company announced that the former (regular) Coke was coming back to share shelf space with the New Coke, after a consumer furor. The original formula was renamed Coca-Cola Classic. 1991 - After 1,000 years, the Russian people were finally permitted to elect a president. Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office this day, after he had resoundingly defeated the Communist Party candidate. 1998 - Lethal Weapon 4 premiered, garnering $34,048,124 box-office bucks its opening weekend. Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are on the hit list of the nasty Chinese Triads. Riggs and Murtaugh are helped(?) by Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) and Lee Butters (Chris Rock). Lorna Cole (played by Rene Russo) is Riggs’ sweetie this time around. Birthdays July 10 1834 - James (Abbott McNeill) Whistler artist: Whistler’s Mother [The Artist’s Mother], Arrangement in Gray, Black No. 1; died July 17, 1903 1839 - Adolphus Busch brewer: founder of Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest beer brewery; died Oct 10, 1913 1871 - Marcel Proust author: The Past Recaptured; died Nov 18, 1922 1875 - E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley journalist, author: Trent’s Last Case; invented humorous voice form of two rhymed couplets of unequal length: the clerihew; died Mar 30, 1956 1899 - John Gilbert (Pringle) silent film star: Bullets and Brown Eyes, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade; died Jan 9, 1936 1915 - Milt Buckner musician: piano, organ, composer: Hamp’s Boogie Woogie, The Lamplighter, Count’s Basement; died July 27, 1977 1915 - Saul Bellow Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Humboldt’s Gift [1976]; Nobel Prize for Literature [1976]; The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, The Bellarosa Connection; died Apr 5, 2005 1916 - Dick Cary jazz musician: trumpet, arranger; 1st pianist in Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars [1947-48]; died Apr 6, 1994 1917 - Don Herbert science teacher, actor: Mr. Wizard; died June 12, 2007 1920 - David Brinkley TV journalist: The Huntley-Brinkley Report, This Week with David Brinkley; died June 12, 2003 1921 - Jeff (Jean Marie) Donnell actress: The George Gobel Show, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Gidget Goes to Rome, My Man Godfrey; died Apr 11, 1988 1923 - Earl Hamner Jr. writer: Palm Springs Weekend, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story; creator: Falcon Crest; executive producer, narrator: The Waltons 1923 - Jean Kerr (Collins) author: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Finishing Touches; died Jan 5, 2003 1926 - Fred Gwynne actor: The Munsters, Car 54 Where are You?, My Cousin Vinny, Fatal Attraction, Pet Sematary, Ironweed; died July 2, 1993 1931 - Nick Adams actor: The Rebel, Mister Roberts, Picnic, Our Miss Brooks, No Time for Sergeants, Hell is for Heroes; died Feb 6, 1968 1933 - Jerry Herman composer, lyricist: Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Dear World, Mack and Mabel 1937 - Sandy Stewart (Galitz) singer: My Coloring Book; vocalist: The Perry Como Show, Sing Along with Mitch 1939 - Lawrence Pressman actor: The Late Shift, Fire and Rain, The Hanoi Hilton, On Wings of Eagles, For Love or Money, The Winds of War, The Gathering series, Rich Man, Poor Man, The Man in the Glass Booth, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Mulligan’s Stew, Ladies’ Man, Doogie Howser, M.D. 1941 - Ian Whitcomb singer: You Turn Me On 1943 - Arthur Ashe International Tennis Hall of Famer: 33 career titles: Australian Open [1970], Wimbledon [1975], U.S. Open [1968]; author: A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, Days of Grace; died Feb 6, 1993 1943 - Jerry Miller musician: guitar: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live; The Jerry Miller Band: LP: Life is like That 1945 - Ron Glass actor: Barney Miller, Deep Space, Houseguest 1945 - Hal (Harold Abraham) McRae baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970, 1972], KC Royals [all-star: 1975, 1976, 1982/World Series: 1980, 1985] 1945 - Virginia Wade tennis champion: Australian Open [1972], Wimbledon [1977], U.S. Open [1968] 1946 - Sue Lyon actress: The Invisible Strangler, The Flim Flam Man, The Night of the Iguana, Lolita 1947 - Arlo Guthrie folk singer: The City of New Orleans, Alice’s Restaurant; son of legendary folk singer, Woody Guthrie 1949 - Ronnie James Dio (Padavona) singer, songwriter: groups: Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio: Mystery, Stars, LPs: Holy Diver, The Last in Line, Dream Evil 1949 - Winston Rekert actor: Agnes of God, Droids, Adderly, Glory! Glory!, Neon Rider, Moonlight Becomes You, Murder at the Cannes Film Festival 1954 - Andre (Nolan) Dawson baseball: Montreal Expos [Rookie of the Year: 1977/all-star: 1981, 1982, 1983], Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991], Boston Red Sox, Florida Marlins 1954 - Neil Tennant singer: group: Pet Shop Boys: LP: What Have I Done to Deserve This 1960 - Roger Craig football: SF 49ers, LA Raiders, Minnesota Viking 1972 - Sofía Vergara model, actress: Acapulco, cuerpo y alma, Big Trouble 1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas actor: Radio Flyer, A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, American Pie, Party of Five, Halloween: The Homecoming Chart Toppers July 10 1951 Too Young - Nat King Cole Mister and Mississippi - Patti Page On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson) I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell 1959 Lonely Boy - Paul Anka Dream Lover - Bobby Darin Bobby Sox to Stockings - Frankie Avalon The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton 1967 Windy - The Association Little Bit o’ Soul - The Music Explosion Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli All the Time - Jack Greene 1975 Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille The Hustle - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony Listen to What the Man Said - Wings Lizzie and the Rainman - Tanya Tucker 1983 Every Breath You Take - The Police Never Gonna Let You Go - Sergio Mendez Too Shy - Kajagoogoo Highway 40 Blues - Ricky Skaggs 1991 Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul Unbelievable - EMF Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones Don’t Rock the Jukebox - Alan Jackson
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