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This Week in Music Chart History (August 24)

From Billboard Top 100!
Number One Songs this Week in History
August 24 - 30

1992 - End of the Road, Boyz II Men
1985 - The Power of Love, Huey Lewis and the News
1977 - Best of My Love, The Emotions
1975 - Fallin' in Love, Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
1973 - Brother Louie, Stories
1964 - Where Did Our Love Go, The Supremes
1962 - The Loco-Motion, Little Eva
1960 - It's Now or Never, Elvis Presley
1959 - The Three Bells, The Browns
1958 - Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu), Domenico Modugno

Today's Dose of Humour (August 24)

"I tried Flintstones vitamins. I didn't feel any better, but I could stop the car with my feet."
- Joan St. Onge

Thinking Cap (August 24)

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
- Lee Iacocca

Today In History (August 24)

1932
Amelia Earhart began the first nonstop transcontinental airplane flight by a woman. Taking off in Los Angeles, California she landed in Newark, New Jersey the next day. The journey of 2,600 miles completed in nineteen hours and five minutes was flown in a red Wasp-powered Lockhead plane.

Born on this Date (August 24)

1960 - Cal 'Calvin Edwin' Ripken Jr. (baseball)
1958 - Steve Guttenberg (actor, author, businessman, producer, director)
1956 - Tony 'Antonio Garcia' Bernazard (baseball)
1949 - Joe Regalbuto (actor; Murphy Brown, Knots Landing)
1944 - Gregory Jarvis (aircraft engineer, astronaut; killed January 28, 1986 in Challenger Space Shuttle explosion)
1938 - Mason Douglas Williams (An American classical guitarist, composer, singer, writer, comedian, poet, best known for 1968 hit Classical Gas, worked as comedy writer The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, Saturday Night Live)
1936 - Murray Balfour (Was a Canadian ice hockey player, NHL; died May 30, 1965)
1924 - Louis Teicher (pianist; Ferrante & Teicher; died August 3, 2008)
1916 - Harold John Smith (Was an American actor; credited in over 300 film and television productions, best known for his role as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show and for voicing Owl and Winnie the Pooh replacing Sterling Holloway; died January 28, 1994)
1911 - Durward 'Randall' Kirby (TV announcer, TV Host; Candid Camera; died March 15, 2000)

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