Keith Moon – Time Rewind

On This Day September 29

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On This Day September 7

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Celebrity Birthdays

1860 – Folk artist Grandma Moses (d, 1861)

1936 – Rock and roll legend Buddy Holly (d. 1959)

1949 – Singer Gloria Gaynor, best known for her disco smash “I Will Survive”

1950 – Actress and voice artist Julie Kavner, best recognized as the voice of TV’s Marge Simpson

1951 – Pretenders founder and lead singer Chrissie Hynde

1954 – Actor Corbin Bernsen (“L.A. Law,” “Psych”)

1956 – Singer-pianist Michael Feinstein, known for his interpretation of the Great American Songbook

1987 – Actress Evan Rachel Wood (“Thirteen,” “Across The Universe,” “The Wrestler,” “Whatever Works,” “The Ides of March”)

History Highlights

1813 – The United States gets its nickname, “Uncle Sam.” The name is linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Wilson stamped the barrels with “U.S.” for United States, but soldiers began referring to their rations as “Uncle Sam’s.”

1965 – Hurricane Betsy churns across extreme southern Florida en route to Louisiana where it kills 76 people and triggers widespread flooding. She’s the first hurricane to cause more than a billion dollars in damage, earning the nickname “Billion-Dollar Betsy.”

1968 – Fifty women led by the New York Radical Women feminist group stages the first protest against the Miss America pageant.

1977 – President Jimmy Carter signs a treaty granting Panama control over the Panama Canal beginning in the year 2000. The treaty ends an agreement signed in 1904 between then-President Theodore Roosevelt and Panama, which gave the U.S. the right to build the canal and a renewable lease to control five miles of land along either side of it.

1979 – The sports network ESPN debuts on cable TV.

1980 – The 33rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony takes place, with statues going to the producers of “Taxi” and “Lou Grant” and performers Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes — Asner for his starring role as newspaper editor Lou Grant, and Bel Geddes for her role as Miss Ellie, the Ewing family matriarch in the prime time soap “Dallas.”

1986 – Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

Musical Milestones

1936 – Rock ‘n’ roll legend Buddy Holly is born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas. He produces a string of hits before his death at age 22 in a 1959 plane crash that also claims the lives of musical greats Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” (J.P. Richardson).

1968 – The Rascals are in the midst of a five-week domination of the Billboard Hot 100 with “People Got to Be Free.”

1974 – “(You’re) Having My Baby,” by Paul Anka and Odia Coates, wraps up three weeks on top of the singles chart.

1978 – Acclaimed drummer Keith Moon of the British rock band The Who dies of a drug overdose at the age of 32.

1985 – The theme from the movie “St. Elmo’s Fire” (“Man In Motion”), by John Parr, is the No. 1 single.

1994 – With TV host David Letterman as her escort, Madonna hands Aerosmith the Best Video award for “Cryin’” during the MTV Video Music Awards at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

2001 – Michael Jackson is reunited onstage with the Jackson Five at his 30th Anniversary Celebration in New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

2002 – “Dilemma,” by Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland, rules the Billboard Hot 100.

2003 – Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Warren Zevon (“Werewolves of London,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money”) dies of lung cancer at the age of 56. Ironically, Zevon earned the Grammys posthumously for his final album, “The Wind,” which was released just two weeks before his death.

2013 – “Blurred Lines,” by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell, enters its 12th and final week as a Billboard chart-topper.

On this Day August 23

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Celebrity Birthdays

1912 – Actor-dancer-singer Gene Kelly (d. 1996)

1929 – Actress Vera Miles, best known for her role as Lila Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”

1931 – Actress Barbara Eden, who starred in TV’s “I Dream of Jeannie” from 1965-1970

1946 – The Who drummer Keith Moon (d. 1978)

1949 – Actress Shelley Long (“Cheers,” “The Money Pit,” “The Brady Bunch Movie”)

1949 – Singer-songwriter and actor Rick Springfield, who starred in the ABC soap opera “General Hospital” in the early 1980s and won a Grammy for his 1981 smash “Jessie’s Girl”

1970 – Actor-comedian Jay Mohr (“Saturday Night Live,” “Jerry Maguire,” “200 Cigarettes,” “Pay It Forward,” “Scrubs,” “The Jeff Foxworthy Show”)

1970 – Actor River Phoenix (“Explorers,” “Stand By Me,” “Running On Empty”) (d. 1993)

1978 – NBA legend Kobe Bryant, who devoted his entire 20-year playing career to the Los Angeles Lakers (d. 2020)

1988 – NBA star point guard Jeremy Lin, who unexpectedly led a winning turnaround with the New York Knicks in 2012 that generated a global following known as “Linsanity”

History Highlights

1926 – Silent film idol Rudolph Valentino dies in New York at the age of 31.

1927 – Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed in Massachusetts for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

1966 – NASA’S Lunar Orbiter 1 captures the very first image of Earth from the moon’s orbit. The unmanned spacecraft was launched to survey the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo 11 moon landing.

1989 – Former Cincinnati Reds star player and manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for life as punishment for betting on the sport. The ban robs Rose of any future employment in Major League Baseball and, despite a stellar playing career, renders him ineligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

1999 – Health officials report an encephalitis outbreak in New York City that turns out to be the earliest cases of West Nile virus in the U.S. Seven people die.

Musical Milestones

1966 – A little over a year after their first appearance at New York’s Shea Stadium, The Beatles return for a second time, however this performance fails to draw a sell-out crowd.

1969 – The Rolling Stones kick off four weeks on top of the singles chart with “Honky Tonk Women.”

1969 – Johnny Cash begins a four-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart with “Johnny Cash At San Quentin” — the recording of a live concert for inmates of San Quentin State Prison. It is the follow-up to Cash’s critically acclaimed and commercially successful “At Folsom Prison.”

1975 – “Fallin’ in Love” by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds is the hottest single in America.

1986 – Madonna rules the Billboard Hot 100 with “Papa Don’t Preach,” off her “True Blue” album.

1997 – The Grammy-winning “I’ll Be Missing You” by Puff Daddy with Faith Evans and 112 tops the singles chart.