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On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. The hijackers crashed two of the airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City, resulting in the collapse of both buildings soon afterward. A third airliner wasContinue reading “It started out a day just like any other day …”

September 11, 1967 –The Carol Burnett Show premiered on CBS-TV on this date. Vicki Lawrence wrote a fan letter to Carol Burnett while still in High School, Carol received the letter on the day that Vicki was going to be in a Miss Fireball contest, having a feeling about her. Carol found her dad’s number,Continue reading “The first time we had with Carol on her own show”

September 11, 1932 –MGM released the Edmund Goulding classic Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford, on this date. John Barrymore was so thrilled at the prospect of appearing in the film with Greta Garbo that he accepted a three picture deal with MGM.

September 11, 1971 –The Jackson 5 cartoon series, called The Jackson 5ive, premiered on ABC on this date. Each episode shows various adventures with animated versions of the group, along with Michael’s pet mice Ray and Charles, and his snake Rosie. The cartoon ran from 1971-1973.

September 11, 1982 –Frank Zappa’s song Valley Girl (featuring his daughter Moon Unit Zappa,) reaches its chart peak of #32 on the Billboard Hot 100, on this date. Frank Zappa released 62 albums in his lifetime (many more appeared after his death), but Valley Girl is his only song to crack the US Top 40.Continue reading “Like – totally entered the lexicon”

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unguarded, it will slip away. Hold every moment sacred. Give each one clarity and meaning, each one its true and due fulfillment. – Thomas Mann I have found the following poems helpful in absorbing the enormity of the events of this dayContinue reading “Shape without form, shade without colour”

September 10, 1966 –The Beatles’ Revolver album goes #1 and stays #1 for six weeks, on this date. Revolver is the only album on which George Harrison wrote three of the songs. On all the others he only has two or less cuts. On The White Album he had four, but it was a doubleContinue reading “Revolver topped the charts”

September 10, 1966 –The Supremes started a two-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Charts with You Can’t Hurry Love, their sixth No. 1 single, on this date. This was written by the prolific songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. It was based on a gospel song entitled You Can’t Hurry God, which was sung byContinue reading “You Can’t Hurry Love topped the charts”

September 10, 1972 –The USA suffered its first loss of an Olympic basketball game on this date, in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the Munich, Germany Olympic Games. The Soviets won the game by a single point, making the winning basket as time expired and igniting vociferous American objections questioning the legitimacyContinue reading “They’re still talking about it”

September 10, 1985 –The film adaptation of the David Hare play Plenty, directed by Fred Schepisi, and starring Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, Ian McKellen, and Sam Neill debuted at the Toronto Film Festival on this date. Many critics dismissed this movie as being just a filmed version of David Hare’sContinue reading “The film Plenty premiered”