2 posts tagged “birthday”
Mama Told Me Not to Come by Three Dog Night is apparently the birth hit. Take that as you will.
Much more significant than the top 40, since I was in college, let's go with the KROQ top 106.7 countdown.
- R.E.M.: Losing My Religion
- Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Jesus Jones: Right Here, Right Now
- EMF: Unbelievable
- Siouxsie and the Banshees: Kiss Them For Me
August 20 (1970)
Three Events
1882 - Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice axe. He will die the next day.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. Estonia reclaimed its independence and seceded from the Soviet Union. Estonia had been occupied by the Soviets for more than 50 years.
Two Births
1601 - Pierre de Fermat (the theorem guy)
1890 - H. P. Lovecraft
Triple Pope-Death Special !!!
984 - Pope John XIV
1823 - Pope Pius VII
1914 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
Holiday
Estonia - Restoration Day (see event above)
