"Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are games to be won!
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all!" ~Dr. Seuss
Thirteen "HAPPY BIRTHDAYS" to the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY 13"!!!
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ENJOY!
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On this day in music:
1957 - American Bandstand made its network debut on ABC-TV. The show was hosted by Dick Clark.
Until this day the show had been a local show in Philadelphia since 1952.
1966 - The Beatles album "Revolver" was released in the U.K.
1975 - Stevie Wonder signed a $13 million contract to cover seven years.
The contract was the largest contract in the recording industry at the time.
1976 - NBC-TV aired "The Beach Boys: It's O.K." The show was a 15th anniversary special for the group.
1980 - The Osmonds split up.
1981 - Olivia Newton-John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1986 - Lionel Richie released the album "Dancing on the Ceiling."
1990 - Madonna ended her Blond Ambition Tour in Nice, France. The show was aired on HBO via a tape delay.
1999 - Music written Johann Sebastian Bach was found in the Ukraine.
The music was thought to have been destroyed over 50 years ago during World War II.
The material was found in the musical estate of Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach, who was on of J.S. Bach's children.
On this day:
1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250.
1861 - The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800.
The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872.
1884 - On Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid.
1914 - The electric traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
1921 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a baseball game was done by Harold Arlin.
KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA described the action between the Pirates and Philadelphia.
1921 - The cartoon "On the Road to Moscow", by Rollin Kirby, was published in the "New York World".
It was the first cartoon to win a Pulitzer Prize.
1923 - Henry Sullivan became the first American to swim across the English Channel.
1924 - In the New York "Daily News" debuted the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray.
1944 - Polish insurgents liberated a German labor camp in Warsaw. 348 Jewish prisoners were freed.
1960 - For the first time two major league baseball clubs traded managers. Detroit traded Jimmy Dykes for Cleveland's Joe Gordon.
1962 - Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home. Monroe was 36 at the time of her death.
1963 - The Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.
The treaty banned nuclear tests in space, underwater, and in the atmosphere.
1969 - The Mariner 7, a U.S. space probe, passed by Mars. Photographs and scientific data were sent back to Earth.
1974 - "Tank McNamara", the comic strip, premiered in 75 newspapers.
1984 - Toronto’s Cliff Johnson set a major league baseball record by hitting the 19th pinch-hit home run in his career.
1986 - It was revealed that artist Andrew Wyeth had secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor.
The works of Helga Testorf had been created over a 15-year period.
1989 - In Honduras, five Central American presidents began meeting to discuss the timetable for the dismantling of the Nicaraguan Contra bases.
1999 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) hit his 500th career homerun. He also set a record for the fewest at-bats to hit the 500 homerun mark.