Back to the Future – Time Rewind

On This Day April 20

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On This Day October 22

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Celebrity Birthdays

1903 – Comedian-vaudevillian actor Curly Howard, born Jerome Lester Horwitz, of The Three Stooges comedy trio (d. 1952)

1938 – Actor Christopher Lloyd, best known as the eccentric Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown in the “Back to the Future” movie series and “Reverend” Jim Ignatowski on the hit TV sitcom “Taxi”

1939 – Actor Tony Roberts, a fixture of several Woody Allen films, most notably “Annie Hall”

1942 – Singer-actress Annette Funicello, one of the original Mouseketeers (d. 2013)

1943 – Actress Catherine Deneuve (“Repulsion,” “Belle du Jour,” “Indochine”)

1947 – Mind-body healing expert and motivational speaker and author Deepak Chopra

1952 – Actor Jeff Goldblum (“The Big Chill,” “The Fly,” “Jurassic Park,” “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Independence Day,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” “Le Week-End,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Independence Day: Resurgence”)

1963 – U.S. Olympic gold medal figure skater Brian Boitano

History Highlights

1934 – A lengthy manhunt comes to an end in an Ohio cornfield as FBI agents gun down Public Enemy No. 1 — Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd. Floyd was sought in connection with a slew of bank robberies and the 1933 Kansas City Massacre in which three police officers and an FBI agent were killed.

1962 – In a nationally broadcast address, President John F. Kennedy informs Americans that the Soviet Union is stockpiling offensive missiles just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, in Cuba. The U.S. imposes a naval blockade, and so begins the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1968 – Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting Earth 163 times.

1976 – The Food and Drug Administration bans Red Dye No. 2 after studies show it causes tumors in dogs.

1992 – Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Red Barber (radio voice of the Reds, Dodgers and Yankees) dies at age 84.

2012 – A fall from grace for a one-time international cycling icon. Lance Armstrong is stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won from 1999 to 2005 and banned for life from competitive cycling after being charged with systematically using illicit performance-enhancing drugs and for making his teammates dope to help him win races.

Musical Milestones

1966 – Motown darlings, The Supremes, become the first all-female group to top the U.S. album chart, as “The Supremes A’ Go-Go” begins two weeks at No. 1. The album contains the chart-topping single “You Can’t Hurry Love” and No. 9 hit “Love Is Like an Itch in My Heart.”

1966 – The Four Tops begin their second and final week atop the pop chart with “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” which becomes a Motown classic and the band’s signature song.

1969 – In a BBC interview, Paul McCartney publicly denies rumors that he was dead. The most recent of many clues of this “death hoax” was the fact that he was the only barefoot Beatle on the cover of the newly released “Abbey Road” album.

1977 – “You Light Up My Life,” by Debby Boone, begins the second of 10 weeks as a No. 1 single.

1988 – Phil Collins rules the singles chart with his cover of The Mindbenders’ “A Groovy Kind Of Love,” his sixth No. 1 single.

1994 – “I’ll Make Love to You,” by Boyz II Men, is midway through a 14-week domination of the pop chart.

2005 – “Gold Digger,” by Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx, is in the midst of a 10-week reign over the Billboard Hot 100. The track contains samples of Ray Charles’ “I Got a Woman.”

On this Day August 24

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Celebrity Birthdays

1947 – Golden Globe-winning actress Anne Archer (“Paradise Alley,” “Short Cuts,” “Patriot Games,” “Clear and Present Danger,” “Man of the House,” “Fatal Attraction”)

1958 – Actor-comedian Steve Guttenberg (“Diner,” “The Day After,” “Police Academy,” “Cocoon,” “Short Circuit,” “Three Men and a Baby,” “The Big Green”)

1960 – Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr., a.k.a. “Iron Man”

1961 – Actor Jared Harris (“Mad Men,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” “Lincoln,” “Man From U.N.C.L.E.”)

1962 – Talk show host-turned-actor Craig Kilborn (“Old School,” “The Benchwarmers,” “Cursed”)

1965 – Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actress Marlee Matlin (“Children of a Lesser God,” “Switched at Birth,” “The West Wing”)

1973 – Stand-up comedian-screenwriter-actor Dave Chappelle (“Chappelle’s Show”)

1988 – Actor Rupert Grint, best known for playing Ron Weasley in the “Harry Potter” movie series

History Highlights

79 A.D. – Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing about 20,000 people. Buried under a thick layer of volcanic ash and mud, the cities are never rebuilt.

1814 – British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June of 1812.

1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of musical great John Lennon eight months earlier.

1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as secretary-general of the Soviet Communist Party after a failed coup attempt against him.

2012 – Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in a 2011 bombing and shooting attack in Norway, is sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum allowed under Norwegian law.

Musical Milestones

1963 – Stevie Wonder becomes the first artist ever with both a No. 1 album and single in the same week. His No. 1 album is “Little Stevie Wonder / The 12 Year Old Genius” and No. 1 single is “Fingertips Part 2.” And if that’s not enough, it’s also the first ever live recording to top the singles chart.

1968 – Diana Ross and the Supremes go their separate ways.

1974 – Paul Anka begins three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with “(You’re) Having My Baby,” his first No. 1 hit since 1959’s “Lonely Boy.”

1985 – “The Power of Love,” by Huey Lewis and the News — featured in the movie “Back To The Future” — kicks off two weeks on top of the singles chart. The track receives an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song at the 58th Academy Awards, but loses to Lionel Richie’s “Say You, Say Me.”

1991 – Bryan Adams holds on to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You,” from the soundtrack to “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.”

1996 – “Macarena,” by Los Del Rio, is in the midst of a 14-week domination of the pop chart.

2009 – The Los Angeles County Coroner rules Michael Jackson’s death a homicide caused by a mix of drugs meant to treat insomnia.

On this Day July 3

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Celebrity Birthdays

1878 – Composer and playwright George M. Cohan (“Over There,” “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy”) (d. 1942)

1883 – Author Franz Kafka (“Amerika,” “The Trial,” “The Castle”) (d. 1924)

1937 – Playwright Tom Stoppard (“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour”)

1947 – Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Dave Barry

1956 – Emmy-winning TV talk show host Montel Williams

1962 – Golden Globe-winning actor-producer Tom Cruise (“Risky Business,” “Top Gun,” “The Color of Money,” “Cocktail,” “Rain Man,” “Days of Thunder,” “A Few Good Men,” “The Firm,” “Jerry Maguire,” the “Mission: Impossible” movie franchise, “Edge of Tomorrow”)

1980 – Actress Olivia Munn (“Beyond the Break,” “Magic Mike,” “The Newsroom,” “Mortdecai,” “X-Men: Apocalypse”)

History Highlights

1775 – George Washington rides out in front of the American troops gathered at Cambridge Common in Massachusetts and draws his sword, formally taking command of the 16,000-member Continental Army.

1863 – On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end.

1958 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Rivers and Harbors Flood Control Bill, which allocates funds to improve flood-control and water-storage systems across the United States.

1985 – The sci-fi adventure/comedy “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd and directed by Robert Zemeckis, opens in U.S. theaters. It becomes a cult classic, spawning two sequels, an animated series, a theme park ride, several video games, a series of comic books and a stage musical.

1986 – President Ronald Reagan, with First Lady Nancy Reagan by his side, presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. It re-opens to the public two days later during Liberty Weekend, celebrating the monument’s centennial.

1988 – While sailing through the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes shoots down an Iranian passenger jet that it mistakes for a hostile fighter plane. All 290 people on board are killed. The U.S. government admits to the error a month later, and in 1996, agrees to pay $62 million in damages to the families of the Iranians that perished in the attack.

Musical Milestones

1969 – The Newport Jazz Festival features huge musical acts not typically associated with jazz: Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Blood Sweat & Tears and more.

1969 – Shortly after leaving The Rolling Stones, band founder and guitarist Brian Jones is found dead in his swimming pool at the age of 27.

1970 – An audience of more than 300,000 gathers for the second annual Atlanta Pop Festival, featuring the Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Johnny Winter, Mountain, Procol Harum and Rare Earth.

1971 – The No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 is Carole King’s “It’s Too Late,” off her legendary, Grammy-winning “Tapestry” album.

1971 – The body of 27-year-old Doors frontman Jim Morrison is discovered by his girlfriend in the bathtub of their rented apartment in Paris, France. The cause of death was officially labeled heart failure, thus averting an autopsy under French law.

1974 – The “Tony Orlando & Dawn” variety show premieres on CBS.

1982 – The Human League capture the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Don’t You Want Me,” from their “Dare” album. The track holds at No. 1 for three weeks.

1999 – Jennifer Lopez is in the middle of a five-week domination of the pop chart with “If You Had My Love.”

2004 – “Burn,” by Usher, begins the last of a seven-week run at No. 1 on the singles chart.

On this Day May 31

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Celebrity Birthdays

1819 – Poet Walt Whitman (d. 1892)

1908 – Actor Don Ameche ( “Trading Places,” “Cocoon”) (d. 1993)

1930 – Oscar-winning actor-director Clint Eastwood (“A Fistful of Dollars,” “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” and the “Dirty Harry” movies, “Unforgiven,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Gran Torino,” “American Sniper,” “Sully”)

1938 – Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary

1943 – Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath, who was a star quarterback for the New York Jets

1949 – Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Tom Berenger (“Platoon,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Rough Riders,” “Training Day,” “Inception,” “Hatfields & McCoys”)

1960 – Emmy-winning actor-comedian-writer Chris Elliott (“The David Letterman Show,” “Get a Life,” “Groundhog Day,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “How I Met Your Mother”)

1961 – Actress Lea Thompson (“Back to the Future” trilogy, “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “Caroline in the City”)

1965 – Actress-model Brooke Shields (“Pretty Baby,” “The Blue Lagoon,” “Endless Love,” “Suddenly Susan”)

1976 – Golden Globe-winning actor Colin Farrell (“Tigerland,” “American Outlaws,” “Phone Booth,” “Minority Report,” “In Bruges,” “Horrible Bosses,” “Crazy Heart,” “Miami Vice,” “True Detective”)

History Highlights

1790 – The first U.S. copyright law is enacted to protect books, maps and other original materials.

1889 – Heavy rains cause the South Fork Dam to collapse, sending 20 million tons of water into Johnstown, Pennsylvania and claiming the lives of more than 2,200 people.

1911 – An estimated 100,000 people gather in Belfast, Ireland for the launch of the RMS Titanic into the River Lagan. The ill-fated passenger liner, still missing its distinctive smokestacks, is towed to a berth where its engines, stacks and superstructure are installed and the interior is fitted out. Less than a year later, in one of the world’s greatest disasters, the ship sinks on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. More than 1,500 passengers are crew are killed.

1921 – In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a White mob begins a horrific two-day attack on Black residents of the city’s thriving Greenwood district, burning homes and businesses to the ground and killing at least 300 Black Americans. Long misrepresented as a race riot rather than mass murder, the Tulsa Race Massacre becomes one of the bloodiest incidents of racial violence in American history.

1962 – The architect of the Holocaust is executed in Israel. Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question,” hangs for his crimes against humanity.

1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline is completed. Built after the 1973 oil crisis caused a sharp rise in oil prices in the United States, it is one of the largest pipeline systems in the world.

1996 – Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is narrowly defeated in national elections by Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Musical Milestones

1966 – British vocalist Lulu and actor Sidney Poitier begin shooting scenes for the movie “To Sir, With Love” at England’s Pinewood Studios. Poitier plays a teacher in London’s tough East End and Lulu is one of his students.

1969 – “Get Back,” by The Beatles with Billy Preston, is in the midst of a five-week ride on top of the Billboard Hot 100.

1975 – Freddy Fender claims the No. 1 slot on the singles chart with “Before the Next Teardrop Falls.”

1980 – “Funkytown,” by Lipps Inc., is the No.1 single and holds the top spot for four weeks. The track, off the band’s “Mouth to Mouth” album, is considered the swan song for the disco era.

1997 – The sibling trio, Hanson, rules the pop chart with “MMMBop.”

2000 – Soul singer Johnnie Taylor dies of a heart attack shortly after his 62nd birthday. Taylor had been a member of The Highway QCs and The Five Echoes, and in 1957, replaced Sam Cooke in The Soul Stirrers. He is best known for his 1976 chart-topper, “Disco Lady.”

2008 – “Lollipop,” by Lil Wayne featuring Static Major, kicks off four weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100.