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10/30/2024 72 Suede - Stay Together +4 61 Enigma - Return to Innocence 60 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 51 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 10 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) 06 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love -4 00 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out -2

10/30/2024 55 Emeli Sande — Next To Me 33 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason 32 Bruno Mars — Locked Out Of Heaven +2 30 Bastille — Pompeii +2 27 One Direction — Story Of My Life 27 Disclosure ft. Aluna George — White Noise 25 Nicki Minaj — Starships 25 Girls Aloud — Something New 24 Adele — Skyfall 24 Taylor Swift — I Knew You Were Trouble 23 Chris Malinchak — So Good To Me 22 Dappy ft. Brian May — Rockstar 22 Gary Barlow — Let Me Go 22 Bruno Mars — When I Was Your Man 21 The Wanted — Chasing The Sun 21 One Direction — Best Song Ever 21 The Vamps — Can We Dance 20 Alyssa Reid ft. Jump Smokers — Alone Again 20 Calvin Harris ft. Example — We’ll Be Coming Back 20 Amelia Lily — You Bring Me Joy 20 Example — Say Nothing 18 Bastille — Of The Night 18 Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo — Let’s Go 17 Avicii — Hey Brother 16 Jason Derulo — The Other Side 16 Justin Bieber — Boyfriend 14 50 Cent, Eminem & Adam Levine — My Life 12 Conor Maynard — Can’t Say No 11 James Arthur — You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You 10 Sean Paul — She Doesn’t Mind 00 Chris Brown — Don’t Wake Me Up (I Won't, Rihanna Beater) -6

Robert Goulet died on this day 17 years ago, aged 73. - Goulet would compete on a musical competition show in 1952 called Pick the Stars and made it to the show's semifinals, and he would appear in shows that included Showcase and the Canadian version of Howdy Doody. - In plays, Goulet acted in productions of South Pacific and Carousel before being cast as King Arthur in Alan Jay Lerner's Camelot. He would earn a Tony Award in 1968 for his role of Jacques Bonnard in The Happy Time. - Goulet would have a prolific acting career offstage as well. In live-action, he appeared in Beetlejuice, Scrooged, and several episodes of Mr. Belvedere, while in animation, he voiced Jaune Tom in Gay Purr-ee (opposite Judy Garland), guest-starred in an episode of The Simpsons, and provided Wheezy's singing voice at the end of Toy Story 2: - Goulet died after a month-long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, while awaiting a lung transplant.

Henry Winkler is 79.

10/29/2024 64 Suede - Stay Together +4 57 Enigma - Return to Innocence 56 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 47 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 22 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) 14 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out 12 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 10 Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time in the World -6

10/29/2024 45 Emeli Sande — Next To Me 27 Disclosure ft. Aluna George — White Noise 27 Bastille — Pompeii +1 27 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason +1 26 Bruno Mars — Locked Out Of Heaven +1 25 One Direction — Story Of My Life 24 Nicki Minaj — Starships +1 23 Adele — Skyfall 22 Gary Barlow — Let Me Go 22 One Direction — Best Song Ever 22 Taylor Swift — I Knew You Were Trouble 21 Bruno Mars — When I Was Your Man 21 Dappy ft. Brian May — Rockstar 21 The Wanted — Chasing The Sun 21 Girls Aloud — Something New 21 The Vamps — Can We Dance 21 Chris Malinchak — So Good To Me 21 Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo — Let’s Go 20 Alyssa Reid ft. Jump Smokers — Alone Again 20 Justin Bieber — Boyfriend 20 Calvin Harris ft. Example — We’ll Be Coming Back 20 Amelia Lily — You Bring Me Joy 20 Example — Say Nothing 20 50 Cent, Eminem & Adam Levine — My Life 20 Bastille — Of The Night 20 Avicii — Hey Brother 18 Jason Derulo — The Other Side 17 Chris Brown — Don’t Wake Me Up -3 17 James Arthur — You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You 12 Sean Paul — She Doesn’t Mind 12 Conor Maynard — Can’t Say No 09 Will.I.Am ft. Justin Bieber — #thatPOWER 06 Flo Rida — Whistle -3 06 Passenger — Let Her Go

Leon Czolgosz died on this day 123 years ago, aged 28. - Czolgosz was the son of Polish immigrants to the US. He worked in a glass factory as a teen, and would later find work at a steel mill. - The millworkers, (obviously) including Czolgosz, would go on strike during the Panic of 1893, and he would turn to socialist clubs, believing their values aligned best with workers' interests. He would become more secluded and radicalized over the coming years. Under the pseudonym Fred Nieman, Czolgosz would befriend notable anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Abraham Isaak, but they would soon believe him to be a federal agent tasked to spy on them due to his elusive nature and his many questions about 'secret societies'. - Czolgosz became inspired by the assassination of Umberto I of Italy, and would head to Buffalo, New York, where president William McKinley was going to attend the Pan-American Exposition. on September 6, 1901, McKinley was greeting visitors at the fair's concert hall (he was known for his kindness), and Czolgosz shot him in the abdomen when he reached the front of the line: He was quickly subdued by bystanders, while McKinley simply told them to go easy on him. While his shot was not lethal, McKinley died from the resulting infection six days later. - Czolgosz' trial was quick, and his public defender tried to prove he was insane- the jury was unconvinced due to how uncooperative and remorseless he was for his crime, and was found guilty of first-degree murder. He would be executed by the electric chair a month later, and prison officials would dissolve his corpse with sulfuric acid to prevent his grave from becoming a shrine to anarchists.

Ralph Bakshi is 86.

10/28/2024 56 Suede - Stay Together +4 54 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 49 Enigma - Return to Innocence 41 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 26 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix)  23 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out 21 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 18 Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time in the World -2 16 EMF and Reeves & Mortimer - I’m a Believer  00 East 17 - It’s Alright -4

10/28/2024 85 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream +1 77 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger +3 64 Adele — Rolling In The Deep 28 Emeli Sande — Heaven 22 Aloe Blacc — I Need A Dollar 04 Calvin Harris ft. Kelis — Bounce -6

Matthew Perry died on this day a year ago, aged 54. - Matthew's father John Perry is also an actor, which led to the junior Perry becoming a child actor when he was 10 years old. He would soon appear on shows that included Charles in Charge and Growing Pains, before getting leading roles in Second Chance, Sydney, and Home Free. - Perry would nearly miss auditioning for the pilot for Friends (then called Six of One) due to wanting to audition for the pilot for a sci-fi sitcom called LAX 2194. When the pilot failed to come to fruition, he would get the role of a lifetime in the other show as Chandler Bing, which catapulted him into superstardom during Friends' 10-year run. He would earn an Emmy for the role in 2002. - After Friends ended in 2004, Perry would begin to write and direct TV shows and movies- this included an episode of Scrubs, his original show Mr. Sunshine (running for just nine episodes in 2011), and his own adaptation of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple in 2015 (which he also starred in as Oscar). - Perry had a history of drug abuse, having begun to drink alcohol as a young teenager, and later developing addictions to SPAM and amphetamines. In 2018, Perry nearly died when his colon ruptured after abusing opioids, and he would later develop an addiction to ketamine- the last drug partially causing his death by making him unconsciously drown in his hot tub. An investigation and trial against the people who provided the ketamine is ongoing.

Joan Plowright is 95.

10/27/2024 54 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 54 Suede - Stay Together +4 43 Enigma - Return to Innocence 39 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 29 Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time in the World 27 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 25 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) 23 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out 16 EMF and Reeves & Mortimer - I’m a Believer  16 East 17 - It’s Alright  00 Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On -6

10/27/2024 80 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream +1 74 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger +3 56 Adele — Rolling In The Deep 32 Aloe Blacc — I Need A Dollar 31 Emeli Sande — Heaven 14 Calvin Harris ft. Kelis — Bounce -2 10 Take That — The Flood -2 05 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah — Earthquake -2

King Athelstan died on this day 1085 years ago, aged 45. - Athelstan was a son of Edward the Elder, and he would become king of the Anglo-Saxons upon his father's death in 924. He encountered some resistance in Wessex, whose citizens declared his younger half-brother Alfweard king- but accepted him upon hearing that said brother died just a few weeks later. - In 927, Athelstan and his army would drive the Vikings out of York, and would declare dominion over all Anglo-Saxon territories. Because of this, Athelstan is sometimes considered the first king of a unified England. - Athelstan would lead a brief invasion into Scotland in 934- the details of which have since been lost to time, but he retreated back to England within the year, seemingly having made peace with the Scottish king Constantine II. Three years later, Athelstan would lead England to victory against Scotland, Cumbria and Dublin in the Battle of Brunanburh. - Athelstan died after a 15-year reign; he never married nor bore offspring and was therefore succeeded by his half-brother Edmund I. - The events of Monty Python and the Holy Grail are actually set during Athelstan's rule, in 932.

John Cleese is 85.

10/26/2024 53 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 52 Suede - Stay Together +4 45 Enigma - Return to Innocence 40 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 32 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) 27 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 25 Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time in the World -5 22 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out 16 EMF and Reeves & Mortimer - I’m a Believer  16 East 17 - It’s Alright  10 Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On 06 East 17 - Around the World -1

10/26/2024 71 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream +1 71 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger +3 48 Adele — Rolling In The Deep 41 Emeli Sande — Heaven 36 Aloe Blacc — I Need A Dollar 17 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah — Earthquake 17 Calvin Harris ft. Kelis — Bounce 14 Take That — The Flood -3 11 Rihanna — Rude Boy -3

Carlo Collodi died on this day 134 years ago, aged 63. - Collodi's actual last name was Lorenzini, and he took his pen name from his mother's home town. - Collodi was first known as an editor of political magazines, founding his own satirical publication Il Lampione in 1853. He would often write his own stories lampooning Italian politics and culture, but he would suffer from burnout by the 1870s and looked for a new inspiration. - Collodi would translate Charles Perrault's fairy tales from French into Italian, and he would begin making his own beginning with 1876's Giannettino. In 1881, Collodi would begin to write weekly installments in a children's newspaper about the adventures of a mischievous puppet- in 1883, he compiled them into a single book, his magnum opus Pinocchio:

Hillary Clinton is 77. The poorly-aged image you were probably expecting... ...And they haven't learned: https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1848003150613016929

10/25/2024 47 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) 46 Suede - Stay Together 45 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 43 Enigma - Return to Innocence 40 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 32 Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time in the World 23 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 18 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out 16 EMF and Reeves & Mortimer - I’m a Believer  16 East 17 - It’s Alright  13 Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) +4 13 East 17 - Around the World 10 Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On 06 Wet Wet Wet - Julia Says -6

10/25/2024 68 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger +2 66 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream +2 45 Adele — Rolling In The Deep 40 Aloe Blacc — I Need A Dollar 38 Emeli Sande — Heaven 25 Calvin Harris ft. Kelis — Bounce 25 Take That — The Flood 21 Rihanna — Rude Boy 21 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah — Earthquake 07 Calvin Harris — Feel So Close 00 The Wanted — Lightning -6

King Stephen died on this day 870 years ago, aged ~58. - Stephen was the fourth child of count Stephen-Henry of Blois, and he would head from France to England to be part of his uncle Henry I's court. - After his cousin William Adelin's untimely death in 1120, Stephen began to be viewed as a potential heir to the English throne (assuming male primogeniture), while Henry considered his daughter Matilda to be his eventual successor. When Henry died in 1135, Matilda was also in France, and so Stephen raced to England to take the throne for himself, being accepted as king by the general population (some nobles considered his older brother Theobald to have a more legitimate claim as an elder grandson of William the Conqueror, and he was granted money as compensation). - As king, Stephen would immediately have to deal with the Scottish king David I leading an invasion from the north, and would quickly sign a treaty with him. However, a war of succession would break out in 1139 when his cousins Matilda and Robert would lead an invasion to oust Stephen and install Matilda as queen, and he was captured as a prisoner of war in 1141- only to be freed later that year with the support of the locals. The war would come to an effective end around 1148 as fighting became more and more sporadic over the coming years, but would resume in 1153 when Matilda's son Henry arrived; Stephen decided to declare him his heir (which indeed occurred and he became Henry II). - Stephen would die from a digestive ailment, possibly a burst appendix.

Kevin Michael Richardson is 60. Among the voice roles you may recognize him from: - Cleveland Jr. and Jerome in Family Guy - Current voice of Dr. Hibbert in The Simpsons - Captain Gantu in Lilo and Stitch - Kamek in The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Principal Lewis in American Dad! - The Joker in the 2004 Batman cartoon series and many other animated shows and movies.

10/24/2024 44 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) 43 Suede - Stay Together 43 Enigma - Return to Innocence 42 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 41 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 40 Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time in the World 26 Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) +4 22 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 18 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out 18 EMF and Reeves & Mortimer - I’m a Believer  16 East 17 - It’s Alright  13 East 17 - Around the World 12 Wet Wet Wet - Julia Says -3 10 Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On -3