April
1 - The yo-yo was introduced as an April Fools joke in 1929
The his soap opera General Hospital premiered
in 1963
The Beatles recorded the song "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts
Club Band (Reprise)" at EMI Studios, London in 1967
Marvin Gaye died in Los Angeles in 1984, one day before
his 45th birthday
2 - The first movie theater in America was opened in Los Angeles in 1902
Marvin Gaye was born in 1939 (singer)
Dana Carvey was born in Missoula Montana in 1955
(actor/comedian - Saturday Night Live/Wayne's World)
Kirk Sullivan was born in 1959 (singer - 4Him)
Frank Sinatra released his biggest hit ever "My Way"
in 1969
Selena Quintanilla married Chris Perez in 1992
3 - Marlon Brando was born in Omaha Nebraska in 1924 (actor)
TV Guide first came out in 1953, selling for
fifteen cents a copy. Desi Jr., the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz,
was the first cover
Alec Baldwin was born (actor - Ghost Of
Mississippi)
Eddie Murphy was born in Brooklyn New York in 1961
(actor/comedian - Holy Man)
David Hyde Pierce was born (actor -
Frasier)
Selena Quintanilla Perez was burried in 1995 (singer)
4 - NBC canceled Star Trek after its five-year, 79-episode run in
1965
Radiohead's sophmore album "The Bends" was released
in 1995
5 - Eldred Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla California in 1916 (actor -
To Kill A Mockingbird)
Paula Cole was born in 1968 (singer)
Kurt Cobain died in 1994 at the age of 27. His body was
found April 8 (singer - Nirvna)
6 - The first Tony Awards tok palce in the Grang Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria
in 1947
Hanson made their second appearence on The Tonight
Show With Jay Leno in 1998
7 - Eleanora Fagan (a.k.a. Billie Holiday) was born in Baltimore in
1915 (singer)
John Wayne won his first Academy Award for his role in
True Grit in 1970
4 Him's seventh album "Obvious" was released in 1998
8 - John and Cynthia Lennon's first son Julian Lennon was born in 1963
(singer)
Toran Noah Smith was born (actor - Home
Imporvements)
9 - Dennis Quaid was born in Houston Texas in 1954 (actor - The Big Easy/The Right Stuff)
11 - Rocker Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli were married in 1981
12 - David Letterman was born in Indianapolis in 1947 (comedian/talk show
host)
David Cassidy was born in New York City in 1950
(singer/actor - The Partridge Family)
13 - Al Green was born in Forest City Arkansas in 1946 (singer)
Max Weinberg was born in South Orange New Jersey
in 1951 (drummer - The Conan O'Brien Show)
The Beatles recorded their hit song "Help" in
1965
Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley separated in
1994
14 - Loretta Lynn was born in Butcher's Holler Kentucky in 1935 (singer)
Emma Thompson was born in 1959 (actress - Much
Ado About Nothing/Sense And Sensablillity)
Sarah Michelle Gellar was born in 1977 (Actress
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
15 - Savage Garden's Debut album "Savage Garden" was released in 1997
16 - The Beatles recorded their hit song "A Hard Days Night" in 1964
17 - Daffy Duck made his debut in Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937
Bill Kreutzman was born in Palo Alto California
in 1946 (drummer - The Greatful Dead)
Rick Moranis was born in 1953 (actor -
Honey I Shrunk The Kids)
Conan O'Brien was born in 1963 (talk show
host/writer)
Victoria Caroline Addams (a.k.a. Posh Spice)
was born in 1974 (singer - Spice Girls)
Lisa Loeb's 3rd album, Firecracker was released
in 1997
4Him's seventh album "Obvious" was released in
1998
18 - Albert Einstien died in 1955 (scientist)
19 - Tim Curry was born (actor - Three Musketeers)
Christine Dente was born (singer - Out Of The
Grey)
The Simpsons made their debut on The
Tracy Ulman Show in 1987 with "Goodnight"
20 - Shirley Temple's first movie Stand Up And Cheer was released
in 1932. She was only three years old
Luther Vandross was born in 1951
(singer/songwriter)
Radiohead's debut album "Pablo Honey" was released
in 1993
Barbara Streisand began a concert tour at London's
Wembley arena in 1994. It was her first tour in twenty-seven
years, and
the tickets were from $50 to $350.
22 - John "Jack" Joseph Nicholson was born in 1937 (actor - The Shining/As
Good As It Gets)
Peter Frampton was born in 1950 (singer)
Will Geer died in 1978 (actor - The Waltons)
23 - William Shakespear was born in 1564 (author - Roemo And Juliet/A
Comedy Of Errors)
Shirley Temple Black was born in Santa Monica
California in 1928 (actress)
Elvis gave his first Las Vegas concert at the
Frontier Hotel in 1956, it went miserably
24 - Barbara Streisand was born in Brooklyn in 1942 (singer/actress)
25 - Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" hit number one on the charts in 1956. It was his first number on record and his first to sell one million copies
26 - Carol Burnett was born in San Antonio Texas in 1936 (comedian/actress)
The Rolling Stones released their first album
The Rolling Stones in 1964
Lucille Ball died in 1986 at the age of 77 (actress
- I Love Lucy)
Clay Crosse's debut album "My Place Is With You"
was released in 1994
27 - Casey Kasem was born in Detroit in 1932 (radio host)
Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach
"Mrs. Robinson" by Simon And Garfunkle was released
in 1968. It was used in the movie The Graduate
John James was born (singer - former member of
the Newsboys)
28 - Ann-Margaret Olsson (a.k.a. Ann-Margaret) was born in Stockholm Sweden
in 1941 (actress - Grumpy Old Men)
Jay Leno was born in New Rochelle New York in
1950 (comedian/talk show host)
The Beatles began recording the song "Elenor Rigby"
in 1966. It wouldn't be completed until June 6, 1966
29 - Jerry Seinfeld was born in 1954 (comedian - Seinfeld)
Michelle Pfeifer was born in Santa Ana California
in 1957 (actress - One Fine Day)
Mark Nash was born in 1971 (singer/drummer -
PFR)
Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980 at the age of 80
(director - Psycho/Rear Window)
Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson were married at
his horse ranch in Jupiter Florida in 1988
30 - Willie Nelson was born in Abbott Texas in 1933 (singer)
The final episode of The Cosby Show aired
in 1992, ending their eith smash season. Over 44 million people watched
If you have any birth dates, release dates for movies or albums, or anything else of interest, please e-mail me and I'll be happy to add them to the calendars.
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