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National Ratty Sweater Season begins today.
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KENNY CHESNEY TAKES OVER COUNTRY SINGLES CHART
Kenny Chesney has bumped Darius Rucker out of
the top spot on Billboard's Country Singles Chart.
"Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" is number one this week,
and "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" moves to number
two. Toby Keith's single, "She Never Cried In Front Of Me"
remains in the third spot, while "Just A Dream" from Carrie
Underwood and "All Summer Long" from Kid Rock round out the
top five.
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FREE MUSIC FRIDAY
CHAD TREVILLION OF PRESCOTT WINS THE
NEW CD : CRAIG MORGAN'S GREATEST HITS
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KYLE PETTY TO OPEN FOR GARY ALLAN THIS WEEKEND
Kyle Petty is trading his NASCAR helmet for a
microphone this Sunday to open for Gary Allan in Charlotte,
North Carolina. CMT.com says they'll be performing at the
Whisky River bar, owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Meanwhile, the
fifth annual Dale Jr. Celebrity Sports Auction will be held
Monday at the Concord, North Carolina, Convention Center.
All proceeds will benefit the Dale Jr. Foundation.
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Friday, October 10th, 2008
• Today is World Mental
Health Day
• Today is Really Clean the
Sink Day. Whichever sink you want.
• Today is National Cake
Decorating Day.
• Today is Independence Day
in
Fiji, a nation of 810,000 people on 322 islands in
the western South Pacific.
• Today is Beginning of
Independence Wars Day in Cuba, marking the struggle against
Spain beginning in 1868.
On this date in . . .
1886:
The tuxedo dinner jacket made its
American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, New York.
1962:
The BBC banned Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash."
1965: The Red Baron
debuted in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1970: Singer Neil Diamond
scored his first #1 song with "Cracklin’ Rosie."
1976: Dimitrion Yordanidis
set a record in Athens, Greece, by finishing a 26-mile
marathon in 7 hours 33 minutes. Dimitrion was 98 years old.
1978: President Jimmy
Carter signed a law authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar
coin.
1979: Los Angeles declared
"Fleetwood Mac Day," and gave the group a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1980: Actor Billy Thomas
died of a heart attack at age 49. He starred in 89 Our Gang
films as Buckwheat. In 1990 an imposter appeared as
Buckwheat on ABC’s TV news program 20/20.
1989: The U.S. issued a
patent (#4,872,422) to Rita Vecchia of Bend, Oregon, for her
Automatic Pet Scratcher, a wall-mounted device with an
artificial hand and electric eye that starts a scratching
motion whenever a dog or cat comes close to it.
1992: A 30-pound meteorite
crashed through Michelle Knapp’s 1980 Chevy parked outside
her home in Peekskill, New York. She heard the crash and
found a huge crater beneath her demolished car.
1995: Chicago’s Dr. Robert
Lucas won the Nobel prize in economics and a $1-million
prize. But he got to keep only half the money because his
ex-wife Rita had a clause inserted in their divorce
settlement five years earlier that she would get half of any
Nobel prize he won before October 31, 1995. He beat the
deadline by 21 days.
1996: A rare divorce was
reported by an Albanian marriage agency in Tirana that for
years had boasted that Albanian women were prized for their
calmness, loyalty, and good cooking. The exception was a
couple who was granted a divorce after the wife beat the
husband unconscious—in the courtroom.
1999: A man was arrested
in southern China after hiding for 12 years in a 3-foot hole
dug under a closet in his home. Wanted for stealing $15, the
suspect had emerged occasionally at night.
2003:
Radio's Rush Limbaugh announced
he was checking into a rehab center to fight a painkiller
addiction.
2004: Christopher Reeve,
the movie "Superman" who became a quadriplegic after a May
1995 horse riding accident, died in Mount Kisco, New York,
at age 52.
2005: Angela Merkel became
the first woman chancellor of Germany after her Christian
Democrats won the parliamentary election.
2005:
A Dutch burglar got quite a
surprise when he found the corpse of an 89-year-old woman in
a house he broke into in The Hague. The burglar left the
home and called police anonymously to report he was a
burglar and had found a corpse. Police said the woman had
been dead for some time.
Birthdays:
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singer David
Lee Roth is 53;
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quarterback
Brett Favre 39;
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actor Bradley
Whitford 49;
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actor Mario
Lopez 35;
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actress Jodi
Lyn O'Keefe 30;
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singer Tanya
Tucker 50;
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singer Mya 29;
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singer Cherie
24.
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