Have You Heard, today (11/21) is “World Hello Day,” a day to say ‘hey’ to people you don’t even know.
However, that’s every day here in the South.
The Partridge Family had three top-10 hits but only one number one.
That was “I Think I Love You” and it hit number-one 45 years ago today.
Ten years before that (11/21/1960) Maurice Williams (from Lancaster, South Carolina) and the Zodiacs hit the top of the pop charts for the only time with the classic “Stay.”
Williams now lives in Charlotte. He’s 77 years old.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on November 21, 1877.
His invention, however, did not use a vinyl record. He recorded and played back the sounds on a cylinder made of tin foil.
Blues singer/songwriter Dr. John has six Grammy Awards and he’s 75 today.
Goldie Hawn has a Best Actress Oscar (for Cactus Flower in 1969) and she’s 70 today.
Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen has one number-one hit (“Call Me Maybe” in 2011) and she’s 30 today.
87 people died when the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas burned 35 years ago today.
That same day, the Who Shot J.R. episode aired on Dallas.
Nearly as many Americans (83 million) watched that show on CBS than voted (85 million) in that month’s presidential election, won by Ronald Reagan.
Robert Stroud was a killer and a noted ornithologist. He was also known as the Birdman of Alcatraz.
He was 73 when he died 52 years ago today. Stroud had lived the last 54 years of his life in prison.
Stroud’s death got many national headlines the following morning (11/22/1963).
However, by that afternoon, he was forgotten because President Kennedy was struck down by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas.
Today is also “National Adoption Day” and “Gingerbread Day”!
You can see “Have You Heard” each weeknight after weather on News13 at 11:00.
