Herb Alpert – Time Rewind

On this Day July 13

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On this Day July 6

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Celebrity Birthdays

1907 – Artist Frida Kahlo (d. 1954)

1921 – Actress and U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan (d. 2016)

1925 – Rock and Roll pioneer Bill Haley (d. 1981)

1935 – The Dalai Lama, born Tenzin Gyatso, leader of Tibet and best-selling author

1945 – Actor Burt Ward, most remembered for playing Robin in the 1960s “Batman” TV series

1946 – Golden Globe-winning actor-director-producer Sylvester Stallone (“Rocky” and “Rambo” movie series, “Cliffhanger,” “Demolition Man,” “Judge Dredd,” “Cop Land,” “The Expendables”)

1946 – George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. president

1951 – Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush (“Shine,” “The King’s Speech,” “Pirates of the Caribbean”)

1975 – Grammy-winning rapper-actor 50 Cent, born Curtis James Jackson III

1979 – Actor-comedian Kevin Hart (“Paper Soldiers,” “Think Like a Man,” “Grudge Match,” Ride Along,” “About Last Night,” “Get Hard,” “Real Husbands of Hollywood”)

History Highlights

1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League beats the National League by a score of 4-2.

1946 – FBI agents arrest Chicago gangster George “Bugs” Moran in Kentucky. During the Prohibition era, Moran was one of the biggest organized crime figures in America, and has been credited with popularizing the drive-by shooting.

1957 – Althea Gibson cracks the color barrier in professional tennis, defeating Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2 to become the first African American to win Wimbledon. Gibson is honored with a ticker tape parade when she returns home to New York City.

1976 – Women are admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy for the first time.

1994 – “Forrest Gump” opens in U.S. theaters. It receives 13 Academy Award nominations and captures six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Hanks) and Best Director (Robert Zemeckis).

Musical Milestones

1957 – Beatles co-founders John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time as teenagers as Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen, gets set to perform at St. Peter’s Church in Liverpool, England.

1964 – The Beatles’ movie, “A Hard Day’s Night,” premieres at the London Pavilion with the Fab Four and 12,000 fans, including the Rolling Stones, in attendance. The film is widely regarded as the forefather of the music video and launched the career of director Richard Lester. It also garnered two Oscar nominations.

1968 – Herb Alpert holds the top spot on the singles chart with “This Guy’s in Love with You.” A nine-time Grammy-winning trumpeter, Alpert takes on additional duties singing lead vocals in the track, which remains at No. 1 for four weeks,

1971 – The world mourns the death of an entertainment giant, with the passing of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (a.k.a. “Satchmo”) at the age of 69.

1974 – “Rock The Boat,” by The Hues Corporation, drops anchor at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

1996 – “Tha Crossroads,” by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, wraps up eight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.

2002 – Nelly dominates the singles chart with “Hot in Herre,” which holds at No. 1 for seven weeks.

2013 – “Blurred Lines,” by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell is in the midst of a 12-week reign over the Billboard Hot 100.

On this Day June 22

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Celebrity Birthdays

1936 – Golden Globe-winning singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson ( “Me and Bobby McGee” and “For the Good Times,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” “A Star Is Born”)

1949 – Emmy-winning actress Lindsay Wagner of TV’s “The Bionic Woman”

1949 – Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep (“Kramer vs. Kramer,” “Sophie’s Choice,” “Silkwood,” “Out of Africa,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “The Iron Lady”)

1953 – Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (“Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Time After Time,” “She Bop,” “True Colors”)

1954 – Comedian Freddie Prinze, best known for starring in the TV series “Chico and the Man” (d. 1977)

1971 – Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub, best known for her role as Chloe in the FOX-TV action series “24”

History Highlights

1944 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the GI Bill to provide financial aid to veterans returning from World War II.

1950 – Prominent figures in the music industry, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Pete Seeger and Artie Shaw, are named publicly as suspected Communist sympathizers as part of America’s infamous Red Scare.T Their names appear in Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television.

1966 – Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton grace the big screen with the release of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” It’s the first movie to contain certain four-letter words and adult content, but still receive the production code seal of approval.

1969 – Award-winning actress-singer Judy Garland, best known for playing Dorothy in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz,” is found dead of a drug overdose in her London home just days after her 47th birthday.

1981 – Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to the murder of music legend and former Beatle John Lennon.

2001 – There’s plenty of burning rubber on the screen as the action movie “The Fast and the Furious,” starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez, debuts in U.S. theaters. The film becomes a blockbuster — grossing $200 million worldwide — and spawns several sequels.

2011 – After 16 years on the run from law enforcement, James “Whitey” Bulger, a violent Boston mob boss wanted for 19 murders, is arrested in California. Bulger was among the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives. He dies in prison in 2018 at the age of 89.

Musical Milestones

1963 – “Fingertips, Part 2,” by 13-year-old singing sensation ‘Little’ Stevie Wonder, becomes the now-legendary Motown artist’s first of 61 chart records through 1988.

1968 – Trumpeter Herb Alpert finds success as a vocalist when he starts four weeks on top of the singles chart with “This Guy’s In Love With You” — his first No. 1 hit. The track is a Burt Bacharach-Hal David composition.

1974 – “Billy Don’t Be a Hero,” by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods,” enters its second and final week on top of the Billboard Hot 100.

1985 – The soundtrack from the Eddie Murphy action comedy “Beverly Hills Cop” tops the Billboard album chart. It spawns the hits “Axel F” by Harold Faltermeyer and “The Heat is On” by Glenn Frey.

1985 – Bryan Adams scores his first chart-topping single with “Heaven,” which holds at No. 1 for two weeks.

1991 – Paula Abdul conquers the pop chart with “Rush Rush,” which remains at No. 1 for five weeks.

1996 – “Tha Crossroads,” by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, tops the Billboard singles chart.

2002 – Ashanti wraps up a 10-week domination of the pop chart with “Foolish.”

2013 – “Blurred Lines,” by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell, begins a 12-week reign over the Billboard Hot 100. The track samples Marvin Gaye’s 1977 smash, “Got to Give It Up.”