A great date in Grammy history...
February 23rd will go down as one of the most memorable in Grammy history with multiple awards won by the Eagles, Toto, Carlos Santana and Norah Jones as outlined below by year:
1978) "Record of the Year": The Eagles for "Hotel California", "Song of the Year": Barbra Streisand and Eagles (tie) for "Love Theme from A Star is Born (Evergreen)"/"Hotel California", "LP of year": Fleetwood Mac for "Rumours" and "Best New Artist": Debby Boone...
1983) "Record of the Year": Toto for "Roseanna", "Song of the Year": "Always on my Mind", "LP of the Year": "Toto IV" and "Best New Artist": Men at Work...
2000) "Record and Song of the Year": Santana for "Smooth" (with Rob Thomas), "LP of the Year": Santana for "Supernatural" and Christina Aguilera for "Best New Artist"...
2003) "Record and Song of the Year": Norah Jones for "Don't Know Why", "LP of the Year": Norah Jones for "Come Away With Me" and Norah Jones for "Best New Artist"...
Santana won 8 Grammy Awards on this night in 2000, tying the record set by Michael Jackson in 1983...
And this night in 2003 belonged to Norah Jones who walked away with 5 Grammy's, tying the record for a female artist held by Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys and since tied by Beyonce...
More February 23 Memories...
1822) Boston is incorporated as a city...
1836) The seige of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, TX...
1896) The Tootsie Roll is introduced by Leo Hirshfield (Cherry Tootsie Roll Pops rule !)...
1905) The Rotary Club is founded in Chicago by Attorney Paul Harris and 3 others...
1927) Stand up and salute !!! The Federal Radio Commission begins assigning frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters. On July 1, 1934 the name will be changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
1940) Walt Disney's animated classic "Pinocchio" is released...
1945) U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima capture Mount Suribachi and plant the American flag in a moment captured for generations to come in the Pulitzer Prize winning photo by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal...
1959) Lloyd Price is #1 with "Stagger Lee" (the song is based on an old folk song, "Stack-O-Lee" about the tragic fate of 2 gamblers)...
1960) Millions mourn in Brooklyn as the wrecking ball begins the demolition of Ebbets Field, the home of the Dodgers from 1913 to 1957...
1963) "He's So Fine" is released by the Chiffons...
1965) Comedian Stan Laurel dies at age 74...
1969) Sly & the Family Stone are #1 with "Everyday People"...
1970) Ringo Starr guest stars on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" in his 1st solo appearance on TV...
1974) Columbia Records releases "Piano Man" by Billy Joel...
1980) Skater Eric Heiden wins the 4th of 5 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics (2 nights later he wins an unprecedented 5th gold medal)...
1983) Junior running back Herschel Walker of Georgia becomes the highest paid player in football history at the time when he signs a $1.5 million a year contract with Donald Trump's New Jersey Generals of the USFL...
1985) Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, angered by officials, flings a chair across the basketball court. Bobby is ejected from the game against Purdue (ho-hum, what else is new ?)...
1993) Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents (for stunting his growth ?)...
1995) Melvin Franklin (with that great bass voice) of the Temptations dies of heart failure in Los Angeles leaving Otis Williams the sole surviving member of the Motown group of 5...
1997) Scientists in Scotland confirm that they've successfully cloned a lamb named "Dolly" (Hello Dolly)...
1997) A Palestinian man opens fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing one person and wounding 6 before taking his own life...
1997) NBC-TV airs an uncut version of "Schindler's List" to an audience of 65 million...
1999) A jury in Jasper, TX convicts white supremacist John William King of murder in the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr...
To ensure accuracy, multiple reference sources were used in the timeline...
Happy Birthday To...
1940) Peter Fonda...
1944) Albino rocker Johnny Winter...
1946) Original Poco band member Rusty Young...
1951) Former NFL player and sometime boxer Ed "Too Tall" Jones...
1963) Bobby Boo, I mean Bo, Bobby Bonilla...
1994) Child star Dakota Fanning...
Today is the 54th day of 2006 with 311 days remaining in the year, 25 days until Spring and 37 until opening day...
