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August 6, 1960 –Chubby Checker performs his version of The Twist on American Bandstand starting a worldwide dance craze. The song soon reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart—and then, again, for a second time in 1962, making it the only song to hit No. 1 twice. This started a dance craze that gotContinue reading “The Twist craze goes nationwide”

August 6, 2015 – This show isn’t ending. This is just a pause in the conversation … Jon Stewart gave up his very reluctant mantle as the ‘most trusted man on television‘ when he hosted his final episode (of his more than a decade long career) on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, on this date.

(Not to be confused with National Beer Day, celebrated annually on April 7th.) International Beer Day, founded in 2007, is a global celebration of the second most popular beverage in the world: Beer! International Beer Day festivities usually takes place in pubs, clubs, bars, restaurants, breweries, backyards and anywhere else you can enjoy a coldContinue reading “He was a wise man who invented beer”

August 5, 1966 – The Beatles released their Revolver album in UK on this date. and they also released Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby as a double A single in UK. A lot of kids weekly allowance must have flown out the door on this date.

unencumbered by the whole copyright issue thing, to the Curiosity Rover parked on Mars, at the moment. NASA has programmed the Curiosity Rover to sing itself Happy Birthday every year, on the anniversary of it’s landing date on Mars at 10:32 p.m. PDT on August 5, 2012. And so it goes

On August 4, 1955, Carmen Miranda suffered a heart attack during a segment of the live TV show The Jimmy Durante Show, although she did not realize it. After completing a dance number, she fell to her knees, and Durante instinctively told the band to “stop da music!“. He helped Miranda up to her feetContinue reading “The Death of Carmen Miranda”

August 5, 1998 –The American spin-off of the British series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, hosted by Drew Carey and starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, premiered on ABC-TV, on this date. The Whose line crew was such a well-oiled machine that they could shoot 9 to 12 episodes on a single weekend.Continue reading “Whose Line Is It Anyway? premiered”

It’s St. Sithney Day. He is the patron saint of mad dogs. Make of this what you wish: A Breton folk story, states that God asked Sithney to be the patron saint of girls seeking husbands, but Sithney said he would rather be the patron saint of mad dogs and get some rest. (And youContinue reading “To his dog, every man is Napoleon”

August 4, 1901 –Louis Armstrong (medicinal marijuana and laxative enthusiast) always stated that his birthday was on the Fourth of July, a date that has been noted in many biographies. During the 1980’s, Louis Armstrong’s baptismal certificate was discovered in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in New Orleans, showing his actual birth date wasContinue reading “Louis Armstrong”

August 4, 1693 –Oh, great day in the morning (this day should be a great religious and national holiday), Blind Benedictine Dom Perignon invents champagne on this date. He has been quoted as saying, “Come quickly, brothers, I’m drinking stars!” upon tasting his accidental brew. (Or maybe the story is apocryphal – what the hellContinue reading “It’s plain to you and me”