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Today's Dose of Humour (August 17)

"I'd never been in a play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."
- Mercedes McCambridge

This Week in Music Chart History (August 17)

From Billboard Top 100!
Number One Songs this Week in History
August 17 - 23

1963 - Fingertips (Part II), Little Stevie Wonder
1981 - Endless Love, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
1979 - Good Times, Chic
1978 - Three Times a Lady, Commodores
1974 - The Night Chicago Died, Paper Lace
1971 - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Bee Gees
1968 - People Got to Be Free, The Rascals
1967 - All You Need Is Love, The Beatles
1966 - Summer in the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
1965 - I Got You Babe, Sonny & Cher

Thinking Cap (August 17)

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

Today In History (August 17)

1939
There was a gala premiere of "The Wizard of Oz" as theatre goers would see this film for the first time. This movie was the first to use the combination of black and white and colour film.

Born on this Date (August 17)

1970 - Jim Courier (tennis champion; Australian Open, French Open)
1969 - Donnie Wahlberg (singer; group, New Kids on the Block)
1960 - Sean Penn (Academy Award-winning actor)
1958 - Belinda Carlisle (musician, guitar, singer)
1952 - Guillermo Vilas (tennis champion; Australian Open, French Open, U.S. Open)
1943 - Robert De Niro (Academy Award-winning actor, director)
1933 - Glenn 'Glenn Edwin Rothenburg' Corbett (actor; replaced George Maharis on Route 66; died January 16, 1993)
1920 - Maureen O'Hara 'FitzSimons' (actress; Miracle on 34th Street; died October 24, 2015)
1879 - Samuel 'Schmuel Gelbfisz' Goldwyn (movie pioneer; the ‘G’ of MGM; Academy Award-winning producer; died January 31, 1974)
1786 - Davy Crockett (frontiersman, soldier, defender of the Alamo; killed at the Alamo March 6, 1836)

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