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This Week in Music Chart History (October 7)

From Billboard Top 100!
Number One Songs this Week in History
October 7 - 13

1983 - Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler
1980 - Another One Bites the Dust, Queen
1977 - Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band, Meco
1976 - A Fifth of Beethoven, Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band
1973 - Half-Breed, Cher
1972 - Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me, Mac Davis
1971 - Maggie May / Reason to Believe, Rod Stewart
1967 - The Letter, Box Tops
1961 - Hit the Road Jack, Ray Charles
1959 - Mack the Knife, Bobby Darin

Today's Dose of Humour (October 10)

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
- Milton Berle

Thinking Cap (October 10)

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Today In History (October 10)

1979
The group Fleetwood Mac received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition by proclamation of Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles it was 'Fleetwood Mac Day' and before the day was over, the group had released their double-album "Tusk" following thirteen months to complete at a cost of over a million dollars.

Born on this Date (October 10)

1982 - Dan Stevens (actor; Downton Abbey)
1974 - Christopher Robert Pronger (Canadian former hockey defenceman; was a senior advisor of hockey operations for the Florida Panthers of the NHL)
1959 - Bradley Whitford (actor; The West Wing, Scent of a Woman)
1958 - Tanya Tucker (singer)
1954 - David Lee Roth (singer; solo and group Van Halen)
1946 - Peter Joseph Mahovlich (Canadian former hockey player, coach, executive; younger brother to Frank)
1946 - Ben Vereen (singer, dancer, Tony Award-winning actor, TV host)