Here's an obscurity for you - "Peter Rabbit" by Dee Jay and the Runaways. Killer 60's garage rock! Been looking for a copy for nearly 40 years, and finally snagged one.
Some other fave one-hit wonders:
"Neanderthal Man" - Hotlegs (later became 10cc)
"Gimme Dat Thing" - The Pipkins
"D.O.A." - Bloodrock
"Sky High" - Pilot
"Working Girl" - The Members
"Come On Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Runners
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 13:
1422 William Caxton 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
1655 Johann Christoph Denner inventor (clarinet)
1802 Nikolaus Lenau Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1814 Anders Jonas Angstrom Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy
1818 Lucy Stone pioneered women's rights
1820 Sir George Grove London, England, biblical scholar/musicologist
1860 Annie Oakley Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
1888 John Logie Baird Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1898 Jean Borota France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
1899 Alfred Hitchcock London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
1902 Felix Wankel Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
1902 Regis Toomey Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
1904 Charles "Buddy" Rogers actor (Wings)
1907 Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
1908 Gene Raymond NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
1912 Ben Hogan Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
1912 Rita Johnson Worcester Mass, actress (All Mine to Give)
1919 Rex Humbard televanglist
1920 George Shearing London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
1921 Neville Brand actor ("Laredo")
1927 Fidel Castro Ruz Cuban political leader (1959- )
1929 Pat Harrington Jr NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
1930 Don Ho Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)
1931 Norman Read NZ, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 Gary Davidson founder of ABA, WHA, WFL
1942 Robert L Stewart Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J)
1943 Gary Ilman US, 100m freestyle (Olympic-4th-1964)
1947 Gretchen Corbett Camp Sherman Ore, actress (Beth-Rockford Files)
1948 Kathleen Battle Portsmouth Ohio, soprano
1949 Bobby Clarke Manitoba, NHL player/coach (Phila Flyers)
1951 Dan Fogelberg Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)
1955 Betsy King LPGA golfer (1990 Dinah Shore, 1990 US Women's Open)
1959 Danny Bonaduce actor (Danny-Partridge Family) (1959 approx)
1959 Mark Nevin rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1963 Tigg Ketler Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1964 Ian Haughland heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1967 Quinn Cummings LA Calif, actress (Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl)
Deaths which occurred on August 13:
0867 Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67)
0900 Zwentibold, Frankish King of Lotharingia (Lorraine) dies in battle
1321 Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy)
1598 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
1759 James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
1946 H G Wells, sci-fi author (All dressed up and no place to go)
1972 George Wiess Yankee GM, dies
1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH,
1982 Charles Walters director, dies at 68
1982 Joe E Ross comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77
1984 Clyde Cook actor, dies in his sleep at 92
1985 Marion Martin actress, dies at 67
1988 Otto E Passman (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), dies at 88
1989 Tim Richmond race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
1991 Jack Ryan inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
1995 Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle dies
2004 Julia Child (91), cook dies
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
13-Aug-2003 2 | US: 1 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
UK Private Jason Smith Southern part Non-hostile - illness - heat related
US Sergeant Steven W. White Ad Dwar (near Tikrit) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - bomb
13-Aug-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US 1st Lieutenant Neil Anthony Santoriello Khaldiyah (nr. Fallujah) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Lance Corporal Nicholas B. Morrison Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Kane M. Funke Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
0523 St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1521 Hernando Cortez & Spanish conquistadors capture Mexico City from Aztecs
1608 John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days was submitted for publication
1642 Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1704 English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1862 General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats Union army under Thomas Crittenden at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1864 Battle of Deep Bottom, Va., (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill, Va
1868 Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1876 Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" premieres with 4 operas on 4 consecutive nights) at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
1906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1906 Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by the Dodgers in the 3rd inning
1907 1st taxicab (NYC)
1910 Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 passed ball & 1 hit by pitch
1917 Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against the Braves
1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1923 Mustapha Kemal elected president of Turkey
1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1932 Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1934 Comic strip "Li'l Abner," created by Al Capp, debuts
1935 Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
1939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
1940 Der Adler Tag (Eagle Day) was the name given to the day the German Luftwaffe launched an all-out offensive against the Royal Air Force and the British aircraft industry in southern England. RAF loses 415 pilots out of a force of 1,500, but hangs on.
1942 Walt Disney's animated feature "Bambi" premieres at Radio City Music Hall
1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
1946 Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
1948 Satchel Paige at 42(?) pitches his 1st major league complete game
1953 Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
1960 Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
1963 Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
1969 Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
1969 Temporary baseball commisioner Bowie Kuhn formally appointed
1971 Paul & Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"
1977 1st test glide of the shuttle
1978 Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted & thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0
1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1979 Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit
1980 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
1988 Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
1988 US beats Jamaicia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1988 Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
1989 US space shuttle STS-28 lands
1991 VP Dan Quayle made a speech attacking lawyers
(What do you call 500 lawyers on the bottom of the ocean? A good start.)
1996 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0. (patches available the next day)
1997 Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh ("the vampire") flogged and hung for the rape, murder and burning of 9 women in a crime spree that began in March
1998 President Clinton led the nation in mourning 12 Americans killed in a pair of U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. Standing before black hearses carrying 10 of the bodies, the president pledged to seek justice "for these evil acts." (riiiight)
2002 Turkmenistan's Pres. Saparmurat Niyazov issues a decree that extends adolescence until age 25 and postpones old age until 85. His edict divides life into 12-year cycles. Childhood lasts until age 12. Next comes adolescence which will not last to age 25. Turkmen aged between 25 and 37 are considered youthful, while those aged between 27 and 49 years are mature. The next 12-year cycles are divided into periods labeled as prophetic, inspirational and wise.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
World Left-handers Day
Tunisia : International Women's Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Zambia : Youth Day - - - - - ( Monday )
Scotland : Fisherman's Walk Day
Psychic Month
Romance Awareness Month
Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of St Pontian, pope (230-235), martyr (opt)
RC : Memorial of St Hippolytus, martyr (opt)
RC : Commemoration of St Cassian, martyr, patron of stenographers
Ch : Commemoration of Jeremy Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor & Dromore
Luth : Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Clara Maass
Religious History
1587 In Roanoke, Virginia, Manteo became the first American Indian converted to Protestantism, and was baptized into the Church of England by members of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to the New World.
1682 The first Welsh immigrants to the American colonies arrived in Pennsylvania. They were Quakers, and settled near modern Philadelphia.
1727 In the German village of Herrnhut, religious reformer Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, 27, organized a group of Bohemian Protestant refugees into the first Moravian community of "Unitas Fratrum" (united brotherhood).
1908 Death of Ira D. Sankey, 68. He was Dwight Moody's song evangelist from 1870. During their revival crusades, Sankey penned many hymn tunes, of which the most enduring today are HIDING IN THEE ("O Safe to the Rock That is Higher Than I") and SANKEY ("Faith is the Victory").
1919 Birth of Rex Humbard, pioneer radio and television evangelist. In 1958 Humbard established the Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron, Ohio, from which he afterward based his television ministry.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Barking Man Bites Mail Carrier
HOUMA, La. -- A mail carrier got bitten -- by a barking man, police said.
Mark D. Plumb, 20, of Butler, Mo., was arrested and charged with simple battery Wednesday after he ran barking from a house and bit the letter carrier on the shoulder, police spokesman Lt. Todd Duplantis said.
Plumb said he bit the carrier as a joke, and has no history of criminal activity or mental illness, police said.
Plumb was released from the Terrebonne Parish jail after posting $165 bond.
(I'm gonna go waaay out on a limb and say that alcohol might be involved somewhere in this story.)
Thought for the day :
"I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
Alfred Hitchcock
