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March 1, 1981 –NBC-TV aired the made-for-TV film Elvis and the Beauty Queen, starring Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist on this date. The color scheme seen when Elvis is first showing Linda Thompson around Graceland is inaccurate. Linda and Elvis worked together to come up with the red theme. Also, Linda designed the stained glassContinue reading “Elvis and the Beauty Queen premiered”

March comes in like a the Spiny Lumpsucker and goes out like a Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko. The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and called Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first monthContinue reading “The March winds are the morning yawn”

February 29, 1968 –At the Grammy Awards on this date, the Fifth Dimension’s Up, Up and Away won record of the year for 1967, the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category is given for the first time, and Aretha Franklin won it for Respect. (She won the award again each of the next seven years.)Continue reading “Big Award’s night”

February 29, 1584 –Due to the Gregorian Calendar adjustment of two years earlier, much of Europe’s population lived through its first Leap Day on this date. But let’s take a step back – Roman Emperor Julius Caesar took a break from being the dictator of the known world and took a stab at fixing theContinue reading “Leap into the future with confidence and courage.”

February 29, 1988 –The sitcom, Day by Day, starring Douglas Sheehan, Linda Kelsey, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Thora Birch aired on NBC on this date. Christopher Daniel Barnes’ character has a dream in A Very Brady Episode in which he is Chuck Brady, an additional brother to the three famous brothersContinue reading “Day by Day premiered”

February 29, 1980 –The coming-of-age drama, Foxes, directed by Adrian Lyne, in his directorial debut, and starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, and Cherie Currie, opened on this date. Rosanna Arquette, Diane Lane, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kristy McNichol all auditioned and/or tested for the role of Annie which in the endContinue reading “Foxes premiered”

February 28, 1844 –Julia Gardiner met her future husband, President John Tyler, on this date. The USS Princeton departed Alexandria, Virginia on a pleasure and trial trip down the Potomac with President John Tyler, his Cabinet and approximately two hundred guests on board. Upon the final firing of Captain Robert F. Stockton’s Peacemaker (a newlyContinue reading “Isn’t love grand”

Since it’s a leap year, this isn’t the end of February – there’s one more day this month There are 20 days until Spring! (Christmas is in 301 days)

February 28, 1983 –Produced by Steve Lillywhite, U2 released their third studio album War, on this date. It’s their first album to sell a million copies in America.

February 28, 1963 – Patsy Cline made the final TV appearance on this date, when she’s on The Glenn Reeves Show, performing San Antonio Rose and I Fall To Pieces. She died tragically in a plane crash just five days later at the age of 30.