Today in History:
1934 Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1959 Ed Wood’s cult classic “Plan 9 From Outer Space”, called one of the worse films ever, premieres.
1963 The Beach Boys released the single “Surfer Girl.”
1967 The Vanilla Fudge rock cover of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” peaks at #67 in America as the band play their first concert, supporting The Byrds at the Village Theater (later the Fillmore East) in New York City.
1969 Elvis Presley’s NBC-TV Special soundtrack (a/k/a “The ’68 Comeback Special”) is certified gold.
2019 Marvel superhero film “Avengers: Endgame” becomes the world’s highest-grossing film overtaking “Avatar” earning $2.9 billion
Birthdays:
1930 Boxer Sonny Liston. (d. 1970)
1934 Actress Louise Fletcher. (d. 2022)
1940 Game show host Alex Trebek (d. 2020) Hosted Jeopardy for 36 years (1984 -20200
1941 Estelle Bennett (of The Ronettes) is born in New York. Her younger sister is Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector. She’s 83.
1941 George Clinton, American funk-rock singer, songwriter, producer and bandleader (Parliament-Funkadelic), born in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
1943 Bobby Sherman is born in Santa Monica, California. He becomes a teen idol in the late ’60s with a string of pop hits, including the million-selling “Little Woman.” He’s 81.
1944 Supertramp vocalist/keyboard player Rick Davies is born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. He’s 80.
1946 Actor Danny Glover is 78.
1947 Albert Brooks, comedian (Broadcast News, Lost in America), born in Los Angeles, California, is 77.
1947 Don Henley, American rock drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles – “Desperado”; “Hotel California”; solo – “Boys Of Summer”), born in Linden, Texas, is 77.
1955 Willem Dafoe, American actor (Platoon; The Last Temptation of Christ; Mississippi Burning), born in Appleton, Wisconsin, is 69.
1964 David Spade, American comedian and actor (SNL; Tommy Boy; Black Sheep; : Just Shoot Me!), born in Birmingham, Michigan, is 60.
1992 Actress Selena Gomez is 32.