Here are the birthdays, historic dates, and deaths Daniel highlighted on his show today.
Birthdays:
- Charles the VI, King of France was born (1368 – ???)
- Horace Greeley – founder of the Republican Party (Feb 3, 1811 – Nov 29, 1872)
- Gertrude Stein – American writer (Feb 3, 1874 – Jul 27, 1946)
- Norman Rockwell – American painter (Feb 3, 1894 – Nov 8, 1978)
- James Michener – American author (Feb 3, 1907 – Oct 16, 1997)
- Joey Bishop – American actor, last surviving member of the “Rat Pack” (Feb 3, 1918 – living)
- Jean-Pierre Rampal – French flautist, according to Wiki he was born on Jan 7, 1922 so I don’t know where Daniel got this one from
- John Fiedler – American actor (Feb 3, 1925 – Jun 25, 2005)
- Shelly Berman – American comedian, writer, teacher, actor. He has a recurring role as Larry David’s father on Curb Your Enthusiasm) (Feb 3, 1926 – living)
- Jeremy Kemp – English actor, he’s another one that has a different B-Day than what Daniel said (Jan 3, 1935 – living)
- Victor Buono – American actor and comic (Feb 3, 1938 – Jan 1, 1982)
- Fran Tarkenton – Retired NFL star, voted into NFL Hall of Fame in 1986. I remember him best as a host of the 1980s TV show That’s Incredible. I loved that show and remember watching it every week with my family. Believe it or not, I actually have an original episode recording of this show. (Feb 3, 1940 – living)
- Blythe Danner – Emmy and Tony award winning American actress, mother of Gwyneth Paltrow (Feb 3, 1943 – living)
- Bob Griese – Hall of Fame NFL quarterback (Feb 3, 1945 – living)
- Melanie Safka – American singer-songwriter (Feb 3, 1947 – living)
- Morgan Fairchild – American actress. If you didn’t notice, Daniel did his John Lovitz impersonation when he said her name today. John used to do a skit on Saturday Night Live where he would lie and say he was dating or married to Morgan Fairchild (Feb 3, 1950 – living)
- Casey Weldon – Former football player (Feb 3, 1969)
Historic:
- Sherman began his march to Georgia
- 16th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1913
- League of Nations held it’s first meeting in Paris
- 1931, Arkansas legislature passed a motion to pray for the soul of H.L. Mencken
after he had called the state the “apex of moronia” - 1945 – 1,000 B-17s dropped 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin
- J. Fred Muggs – became a regular on the Today Show
- John Kennedy banned all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs (Daniel called it the biggest foreign policy failure…until Iraq came along)
- Purple Haze was recorded by Jimmy Hendrix
- 1990 Bill Shoemaker retired after 40,350 horse races
- Howard Stern – Daniel said the Howard Stern radio show premiered on this day in 1997 in Detroit on WKRK, 97.1 but I can’t find anything to support that
- 1943 Allied troop ship, USAT Dorchester was torpedoed and sunk by a German sub. Four Chaplains, as the vessel sank, calmed the frightened soldiers and sailors, aided in the evacuation of the ship, and helped guide wounded men to safety. They also gave up their own life vests and died as a result. The ship sank in about 20 minutes, taking 675 men with her out of an on-board total of 904.
Deaths:
- Woodrow Wilson At the age of 67 in Washington, D.C. (December 28, 1856 – Feb 3, 1924)
- Buddy Holly age 22, The Big Bopper age 28, and Richie Valens age 17, died in a plane crash in 1959
- John Cassavetes – American actor/director, age 59 (Dec , 1929 – Feb 3, 1989)
- Karla Faye Tucker – Executed, first woman in Texas executed since the American Civil War (Nov 18, 1959 – Feb 3, 1998)
