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August 14, 1995 –The Foo Fighters made their network television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman when they performed their single This Is A Call, on this date. The single peaked at Number Two on the Modern Rock Track chart, though they wouldn’t have a crossover hit until Big Me in early 1996.

August 14, 1978 –The Police released their third single, from their debut album Outlandos d’Amour, Can’t Stand Losing You on this date. For publicity purposes, The Police claimed that this song and Roxanne were banned by the BBC. They weren’t, but the story got out and helped boost their credibility with the punk crowd.

August 14, 1975 –Time is Fleeting! The science fiction comedy horror musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, directed by Jim Sharman, and starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and many of cast members from the original stage productions, opened in the UK, on this date. The set had no heat and no bathrooms. WhenContinue reading “The first time you did the Time Warp”

Today is International Lefthanders Day. The U.S. has had eight left-handed presidents; James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

August 13, 2012 –Taylor Swift released the first single, from her fourth studio album, Red, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, on this date. The song was written by the singer with the Swedish hitmaking duo of Shellback and Max Martin. Taylor told fans worldwide in a webchat on August 13, 2012 that theContinue reading “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together was dropped”

August 13, 1969 –The Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong, Lt. Col. Michael Collins, and Col. Buzz Aldrin, were released from their three-week quarantine and were given a ticker-tape parade in New York, on this date. It would be a hectic day for the astronauts. After the three and a half hour ticker-tape parade inContinue reading “A very busy day for the Apollo 11 crew”

August 13, 1967 –One of the defining movies of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, had its US opening on this date. When Warren Beatty was on-board as producer only, his sister Shirley MacLaine was a strong possibility to play Bonnie. But when Beatty decided to play Clyde himself, forContinue reading “Bonnie and Clyde premiered”

August 13, 1942 –Walt Disney’s Bambi, (arguably Disney’s first horror film,) premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York on this date. Unusual for the time, Walt Disney insisted on children providing the voices for the animals when they were young, instead of using adults mimicking youngsters.

August 13th, 2008 –Michael Phelps won his 11th career gold medal on this date. With 11 gold medals, Phelps had officially won more gold medals than any other Olympic athlete in history. Between the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics, Phelps has 28 medals in total – 23 of them gold medals, moreContinue reading “Phelps went for the gold, again”

August 13, 1997 – Trey Parker and Matt Stone decide to become millionaires many times over when their program South Park debuted for the first time on Comedy Central on this date. To date, South Park still holds the Guiness World Record for “Most Swearing in animated series.”