From Billboard Top 100!Number One Songs this Week in HistoryOctober 18 - 241983 - Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler1979 - Rise, Herb Alpert1976 - Disco Duck, Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots1974 - Nothing From Nothing, Billy Preston1960 - Save the Last Dance for Me, The Drifters
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."- Unknown
1842Samuel Finley Breese Morse laid his first telegraph cable in New York Harbor between the Battery and Governor's Island. Mr. Morse is the Sam Morse of Morse Code fame.
1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme 'Varenberg' (actor)1960 - Erin Moran (actress; Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi; died April 22, 2017)1958 - Thomas Hearns (boxer)1956 - Martina Navratilova (tennis champion; International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame)1951 - Pam Dawber (actress; Mork & Mindy)1947 - Joe Morton 'Joseph Thomas Morton Jr.' (American stage, television, film actor)1939 - Mike Ditka (Pro & College Football Hall of Famer; TV sports analyst; NBC Sports)1935 - Peter Boyle (Emmy Award-winning actor; Everybody Loves Raymond; died December 12, 2006)1928 - Keith Jackson (American Sportscasters Hall of Famer; ABC Sports, Wide World of Sports; died January 12, 2018)1927 - George C. 'Campbell' Scott (Academy Award-winning actor; died September 22, 1999)1926 - Chuck Berry 'Charles Edward Anderson Berry' (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; singer, songwriter; died March 18, 2017)1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada; died September 28, 2000)1918 - Bobby Troup 'Robert Wesley Troup Jr.' (actor: Emergency with his wife singer Julie London; singer, songwriter, jazz pianist, TV host; died February 7, 1999)
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