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This Week in Music Chart History (August 10)

From Billboard Top 100!
Number One Songs this Week in History
August 10 - 16

1995 - Waterfalls, TLC
1994 - Stay (I Missed You), Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
1992 - This Used to Be My Playground, Madonna
1989 - Right Here Waiting, Richard Marx
1984 - Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr.
1976 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Elton John and Kiki Dee
1971 - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Bee Gees
1962 - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Neil Sedaka
1960 - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Brian Hyland
1959 - A Big Hunk o' Love, Elvis Presley

Today's Dose of Humour (August 12)

'A handyman went down to the hardware store for some bolts. "How long do you want them?" inquired the salesman. "Well, to tell you the truth," replied the handyman, "I was sort of hoping to keep them."'
- The Little Book of Jokes, Robert Frederick Ltd., Montague House, Lambridge Street, Bath, BA16RX

Thinking Cap (August 12)

"If they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable."
- Gabourey Sidibe

Today In History (August 12)

1981
IBM introduced the Model 5150 PC, a personal computer. It ran on the Intel 8088 microprocessor at 4.77 mHz. It sported one or two 160K floppy disk drives. Its RAM was only 16K but was expandable to 256k. Its operating system was MS-DOS 1.0/1.1. IBM would later release its own operating system, PC-DOS.

Born on this Date (August 12)

1971 - Pete Sampras (tennis champion; Australian Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open)
1959 - Suzanne Vega (musician, singer, songwriter: Luka)
1954 - Sam J. 'Samuel Gerald' Jones (actor; Flash Gordon, The Highwayman)
1949 - Mark Knopfler (musician, guitar, songwriter, singer; group Dire Straits)
1944 - Bernard Finkelstein (Canadian music executive, talent manager, founded True North Records, inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in 2003, Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (CARAS) awarded Finkelstein the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award in 2006, received the Order of Canada in 2007)
1941 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
1939 - George Hamilton (actor)
1939 - Larry Ziegler (golf: Senior PGA Tour)
1929 - Buck 'Alvis Edgar' Owens Jr. (singer, songwriter, TV host; died March 25, 2006)
1927 - Porter Wagoner (singer, songwriter; died October 28, 2007)
1910 - Jane Wyatt (Emmy Award-winning actress; Father Knows Best; died October 20, 2006)

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