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Passover starts tonight – please bone up on those four questions. Remember you will not be graded on a curve! While it’s not as bad as not finding the missing easter egg, by all means, please find the Afikoman, (no one wants to accidentally eat a piece of exceptionally stale cracker.) Demand better kosher wine!

April 5, 2063 –Earth makes its first contact with the Vulcan race on this date. This meeting laid the foundation for what would eventually become the United Federation of Planets. The first Vulcan who interacts with humans is named Solkar. Solkar is the grand father of Sarek, and subsequently the great-grandfather of Spock, (in caseContinue reading “First Contact (with the Vulcans)”

April 5, 1975 –Minnie Riperton (Maya Rudolph’s mom) had her only No. #1 hit with Lovin’ You on this date. Riperton worked with Stevie Wonder as a backup singer, and Stevie produced this track for her. Due to contractual obligations, Wonder’s name could not appear on the credits, so he’s listed as “Black Bull Productions”Continue reading “Lovin’ You topped the charts”

April 5, 1987 –One of the first prime time television series to air on Fox (besides Married … With Children,) The Tracy Ullman Show debuted on this date. Besides being the jumping off point for the cartoon series, The Simpsons, the show featured many musical numbers, choreographed by Emmy Award-winner Paula Abdul.

April 5, 1978 – Marvel Comics‘ first live-action Spider-Man based TV series, The Amazing Spider-Man debuted on CBS TV on this date. Stan Lee, Spider-Man’s co-creator, disliked the show and was vocal about his dissatisfaction with it; he had stated in interviews that he felt the series was “too juvenile” and that the Spider-Man characterContinue reading “The Amazing Spider-Man premiered”

April 4th, 1984 –To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man… greetings. Winston Smith began his secret diary on this date.

April 4, 1968 –55 years ago today, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a rifleman (possibly James Earl Ray) while standing on the second-story balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had come to Tennessee to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. The night before he died,Continue reading “Early evening, April four, a shot rings out in the Memphis sky”

April 4, 1964 –The Beatles set an all-time record on the Top 100 chart of Billboard magazine this day, holding an unprecedented twelve positions on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on this date. The Beatles accounted for 60 percent of the entire singles record business during the first three months of 1964. Those singles byContinue reading “The Beatles owns the Hot 100 singles chart this week”

April 4, 1975A television pilot, Black Bart, based on Andrew Bergman’s original story for Blazing Saddles, starring Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, premiered on CBS TV on this date. Many more episodes were filmed after this pilot, apparently four seasons worth, but never aired because, while the studioContinue reading “A very obscure TV pilot”

April 4, 1953 –While not quite in the same league as Plan 9 from Outer Space, and shot in just four days, the Ed Wood Jr. ‘classic‘, Glen or Glenda, premiered on this date (or maybe it didn’t, but does it really matter.) While the film had no sequel, Edward D. Wood Jr. used theContinue reading “Glen or Glenda”