On This Day in History
1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.
1821 - "The Saturday Evening Post" was published as a weekly.
1830 The city of Chicago was planned.
1927 - Radio station 2XAG, later named WGY, in Schenectady, NY, began experimental operations from a 100,000-watt transmitter.
1944 - Nazi police discovered Anne Frank and her family, hiding in secret quarters above her father's factory in Amsterdam, Holland.
1956 - Wilhelm Herz was clocked at 210 miles per hour becoming the first person to race a motorcycle over 200 mph.
Birthdays - August 4
1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Admiral during WWII: planned attack on Pearl Harbor; killed when U.S. 13th Air Force shot down his plane Apr 18, 1943)
1901 - (Daniel) Louis Armstrong (Satchmo: jazz musician: trumpet; Grammy Award-winning singer: Hello, Dolly! [1964], Lifetime Achievement Award [1971]; It's a Wonderful World, Mack the Knife, Blueberry Hill; appeared in films: The Five Pennies, The Glenn Miller Story, Hello Dolly!, High Society; American ambassador of good will; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; died July 6, 1971)
1910 - William Schuman (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Secular Cantata No. 2, A Free Song [1943]; President: Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; died Feb 15, 1992)
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg (architect; humanitarian: rescued at least 100,000 Jews from certain death in World War II; honored posthumously by the U.S. government: U.S. House of Representatives voted to award Mr. Wallenberg with honorary American citizenship [1981]: only the second person to receive such recognition [Winston Churchill was the first]; died in a Russian prison July 17, 1947)
1913 - Wesley Addy (actor: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, Seconds; died Dec 31, 1996)
1915 - Luke Easter (Luscious Luke: baseball: Cleveland Indians; died Mar 29, 1979)
1920 - Helen Thomas (journalist: UPI White House correspondent [from Kennedy to Clinton: 1961-2000]; author: Front Row at the White House)
1921 - Herb (Mitchell) Ellis (musician: guitarist, singer: group: Soft Winds: I Told You I Love You, Now Get Out; Oscar Peterson Trio; died Mar 28, 2010)
1939 - Frankie Ford (Guzzo) (singer: Sea Cruise; in film: American Hot Wax)
1940 - Timi (Rosemarie) Yuro (singer: Hurt, What's A Matter Baby [Is It Hurting You], Gotta Travel On, Down in the Valley; died Mar 30, 2004)
1944 - Richard Belzer (comedian, actor: Mad Dog and Glory, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Big Picture, The Groove Tube)
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton (actor: One False Move, Tombstone, On Deadly Ground, Primary Colors, Armageddon, Pushing Tin, Franky Goes to Hollywood)
1961 - Barack Hussein Obama II (44th U.S. President [2009- ], U.S. Senator from Illinois [2005-2009]; Illinois State Senator [1997-2004]; president of Harvard Law Review [1990]; married [Jun 1989] to Michelle Robinson; two daughters: Malia Ann and Natasha [‘Sasha'])
Top of the Charts - August 4
1947
Peg o' My Heart - The Harmonicats
That's My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1955
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Ain't That a Shame - Fats Domino
Learnin' the Blues - Frank Sinatra
I Don't Care - Webb Pierce
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