Playing with num6ers...
If you are a student of numerology this will be right up your alley as we play with numbers. Our first set of numbers could deal with perfect eyesight but in this case it represents ABC-TV's attempt to come up with their answer to, tick...tick...tick..."60 Minutes", the king of all news magazine shows. "20/20" debuted on this date in 1978. Created by Roone Arledge, ABC would never get close to the CBS-TV kind of numbers that were generated by "60 Minutes". Wisely they never slotted the show up against the behemoth preferring instead to run "20/20" on various week nights. The news magazine does have decent numbers and when her maternity leave is over, Elizabeth Vargas, who will soon add another singing Cohn to the family, will return to join crotchety John Stossel as co-host of the show...
Our other set of numbers ? What else ? 666 which represents today's date. By the way, the only reason this is a big thing is because of 666 and the image of a certain dude who prefers the color red and comes equipped with a tail and pitchfork and no it's not Damien but his name does start with a "D". Triple digit dates come up every year with the exception of a year ending in zero so no big thing unless it's the triple 6. But okay, I'll play along with my Top 6 "Devil" hits. To qualify, each title must contain the word "devil", no witches or spells or anything else except "devil". With every part of my body that can be crossed, crossed, here's my list:
6) The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
5) Devil Woman - Cliff Richard (Marty Robbins also)
4) Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
3) Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley
2) Devil With A Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder
1) Devil Or Angel - The Clovers (original version) or Bobby Vee (they're both great)...
More June 6 Memories...
1664] New Amsterdam is renamed New York City...
1816] "The year without a summer" they called it after a 10" snowfall is dumped on New England...
1850] Levi Strauss makes his 1st pair of blue jeans (like all blue jeans they were a size too small)...
1882] The 1st electric iron is patented by H.W. Seely of New York (Mr. Seely had a weapon to use if Mrs. Seely hit him again with her rolling pin)...
1925] Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation...
1933] The 1st drive-in theater in the U.S. opens in Camden, New Jersey (the lot covered 10 acres with room for 400 cars)...
1936] The 1st helicopter test held in a building in Berlin, Germany is deemed a success when the building takes off...
1944] U.S. troops land in Normandy, the beginning of the D-Day victory in Europe (the #1 song that day was "I'll Get By" by Harry James...
1944] All major league games are cancelled as the allies begin D-Day operations (the next time this happens is September 11, 2001...
1946] The Basketball Association of America, a forerunner of the NBA is formed. Of the 11 original franchises, only 3 remain in the NBA (Boston, New York and Philadelphia)...
1955] Bill Haley and the Comets are #1 with "Rock Around The Clock"...
1960] Roy Orbison releases "Only The Lonely"...
1966] Stokely Carmichael launches the "Black Power" movement and the #1 song that day ? "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones...
1968] New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies at 1:44 a.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles from gun shot wounds inflicted by Sirhan B. Sirhan...
1971] Gladys Knight & the Pips are the musical act on the final "Ed Sullivan Show"...
1971] John Lennon and Yoko Ono join Frank Zappa for a show at the Fillmore East in Manhattan...
1978] "20/20" debuts on ABC-TV (part of feature story)...
1983] The Boston Red Sox draft University of Texas pitcher Roger Clemens...
1987] Michael Jackson severs his ties with the Jehovah's Witnesses (wouldn't you just love to have Michael Jackson ring your door bell ? Too late now)...
1990] George Steinbrenner fires Bucky Dent as Yankee manager, replacing him with a guy who looked like a manager but wasn't, Stump (he even had the nickname for it) Merrill...
1991] Jazz tenor sax great Stan Getz dies of liver cancer at 64...
1992] David Bowie and Iman rock down the aisle in Florence, Italy (the couple had a civil ceremony in May)...
1992] Monica Seles grunts her way to her 3rd consecutive French Open title over Steffi Graf...
1996] John Valentin of the Red Sox hits for the cycle in a 7-4 win over the White Sox. In that game Chicago pulls off a triple-play (the last time both events happened in the same game ? July 1, 1931)...
1999] By winning the French Open, Andre Agassi becomes the 5th man to win all 4 (U.S. Open, Wimbledon, French and Australian Opens) Grand Slam events...
2005] The Supreme Court rules that federal authorities can prosecute sick people who smoke marijuana on doctor's orders...
[To ensure accuracy of dates and content, mulriple reference sources are used in the timeline]...
"Happy Birthday...happy birthday"...
1936] Levi Stubbs (Four Tops)...
1939] Gary U.S. Bonds...
1949] "Freddy Kreuger" a.k.a. Robert England (on 6-6-66 ???)
1954] The gender challenged Harvey Fierstein...
1955] The gender challenged Sandra Bernhard...
1967] Paul ("Sideways", "Cinderella Man") Giamatti...
1974] Uncle Kracker...
[In addition to being 6-6-66, it's also the 157th day of 2006 with 208 days remaining in the year, 394 days until 7-7-7 and 28 days until the 4th of July]
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