WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – February 4
1798 – First US Electoral College chooses George Washington as the first US President and John Adams as the first Vice-President
1923 – Actor Conrad Bain, best known as the next-door neighbour on “Maude” and later Mr. Drummond on “Diff’rent Strokes” was born in Lethbridge, Alberta
1940 – Father of the modern Zombie era, American-Canadian Director George A. Romero is born in New York, New York
1955 – James Brown records “Please Please Please” for radio station WIBB in Macon, Ga.
1967 – The Monkees self-titled debut album started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart.
1970 – “Patton” starring George C. Scott and directed by Franklin J. Schaffner premieres in New York. It would go on to win “Best Picture” at the 43rd annual Academy Awards
1972 – In a memo to Attorney General John Mitchell, South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond suggests that John Lennon be deported.
1977 – Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” is released. The album shoots to the top of Chart Toppers’s chart staying there for 31 weeks. More than 17 million copies have been sold in the U.S. Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (1977) is not only the product of great writing but also nearly unheard of cooperation
1983 – Karen Carpenter dies of cardiac arrest, caused by anorexia nervosa, at her parents’ Downey, Calif., home. Age 32.
1987 – Pianist Liberace dies of AIDS. Age 67. Walter Valentino Liberace, world renowned pianist and entertainer, died after falling into a comma. The official cause of death was: complications as a result of AIDS, though those close to him refused to acknowledge that he ever had AIDS.
1991 – Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time. Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration and To Tell the Truth
2001 – Jimmy Buffett is thrown out of a New York Knicks-Miami Heat after verbally abusing a referee.
2003 – Courtney Love is arrested upon arrival at London’s Heathrow Airport for alleged threatening and abusive behavior on a Virgin Atlantic flight from L.A. Love is detained at the airport’s police station.
2004 – Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room. Not too surprisingly, the website was born out of another site that compared and ridiculed students on campus. So… the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree, as it were.
And the Top 10 Singles chart on this day in 1985 looked like this…
1 – I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS – Foreigner
2 – EASY LOVER – Philip Bailey & Phil Collins
3 – CARELESS WHISPER – Wham! Featuring George Michael
4 – LOVERBOY – Billy Ocean
5 – THE BOYS OF SUMMER – Don Henley
6 – YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION – Chicago
7 – METHOD OF MODERN LOVE – Daryl Hall & John Oates
8 – NEUTRON DANCE – The Pointer Sisters
9 – LIKE A VIRGIN – Madonna
10 – I WOULD DIE 4 U – Prince & The Revolution
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