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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.”

August 12, 1981 –IBM introduced its Personal Computer (PC) also known as the IBM Model 5150 on this date. Developed in less than a year, using existing off-the-shelf components, it proved a runaway success in the small business market, and launched the era of the personal computer. IBM’s first PC ran with a 4.77 MHzContinue reading “The first PC went on sale”

August 12, 1939 – The Bugs Bunny everyone knows takes another step forward when Hare-um Scare-um debuted on this date. It was during production of this cartoon that Bugs Bunny’s name originated. Designer Charles Thorson redesigned the rabbit character and labeled the model sheet “Bug’s Bunny,” after co-director Ben Hardaway’s nickname, Bugs. It’s also theContinue reading “Hare-um Scare-um premiered”

Today is National Vinyl Day (and not Record Store Day which was April 22nd this year.) National Vinyl Record Day is celebrated every year on August 12 (commemorating the day Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877) to remember the culture, art, the very sound of the vinyl record. Don’t forget, whatever you do today,Continue reading “Fire, water, gravel and vinyl.”

August 12, 1939 –Considered one of the highlights of the Golden Age of Hollywood, The Wizard of Oz debuted on this date in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Judy Garland had to wear a painful corset-style device around her torso so that she would appear younger and flat-chested, as she was 16 years old at the time ofContinue reading “The Wizard of Oz premiered”