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2010 Event - The U.S. experiences a salmonella scare, with hundreds of people ill from bad eggs; eggs are recalled from stores throughout the nation

2009 Death - Derek B, rapper, record producer, remixer, popular songs included 'Bad Young Brother' and 'Goodgroove', dies of a heart attack in London, at age 44

2004 Death - Larry Brown, writer, Big Bad Love, dies at 53

2000 Event - Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer

1995 Death - Nancy Kelly, U.S. actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73

1989 Death - Lee Van Cleef, U.S. actor (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 64

1989 Death - Lee Van Cleef, actor (Good Bad and Ugly, Sabata), dies at 64

1989 Death - Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60

1987 Event - Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV

1987 Event - Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence

1987 Death - Madge Kennedy, actress (Marrying Kind, 3 Bad Sisters), dies

1987 Death - Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65

1986 Event - Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)

1986 Event - STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy

1985 Event - STS-51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather

1984 Death - Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure

1983 Death - Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30

1982 Birthday - Lil' Dave, Davis Shelton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1982 Birthday - Mark Mizzark, Marlis Pugh, born in Akron, Ohio, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1979 Event - "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14

1979 Event - K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

1978 Birthday - Chris Sellers, born in Cleveland, Ohio, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1978 Birthday - General Austin, born in Columbus, Georgia, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1978 Event - Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"

1978 Birthday - RoRo, Romell Chapman, born in Atlanta, Georgia, rapper, Another Bad Creation

1977 Death - James Jones, U.S. writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55

1977 Death - Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87

1974 Event - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83

1971 Birthday - Kid Rock, born in Romeo, Michigan, singer, songwriter, Grammy-Award winner, hits include, 'All Summer Long', 'American Bad Ass', sold over 22 million albums

1970 Birthday - Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer, European Amat champ 1994

1970 Birthday - Meeno Peluce, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, actor, Bad News Bears

1970 Death - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81

1969 Birthday - Danielle Brisebois, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2

1969 Birthday - Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1968 Death - Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54

1968 Birthday - Whitfield Crane, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad

1967 Death - Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39

1967 Birthday - Lauren Graham, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, producer, appeared on 'Gilmore Girls' television series, films include, 'Bad Santa', 'Evan Almighty'

1966 Birthday - Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian actress, Ugly Dirty and Bad

1965 Birthday - Cordell Crockett, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad

1965 Birthday - Derek B, born in London, born Derek Boland, rapper, record producer, remixer, popular songs included 'Bad Young Brother' and 'Goodgroove'

1963 Birthday - Carola Smit, Dutch singer, BZN-Bad bad woman

1962 Birthday - Esai Morales, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Bad Boys, La Bamba

1962 Birthday - David Bryan, rock keyboardist, Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name

1961 Event - Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record

1961 Event - Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller

1961 Death - Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51

1961 Birthday - John Clark Gable, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Bad Jim

1960 Birthday - Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Apopka, Florida, country singer, Betty's Bein' Bad

1959 Birthday - Richie Sambora, guitarist, Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name

1959 Death - Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69

1958 Birthday - Michael Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana, singer, Thriller, Bad

1958 Birthday - Madeleine Stowe, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Tropical Snow, Bad Girls

1957 Birthday - "Curley" Joe Smyth, country singer, Betty's Bein' Bad

1957 Death - Leo Perutz, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938, dies in Bad Ischi, Austria

1956 Birthday - Scott Jacoby, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High

1955 Birthday - John Waite, vocalist, Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You

1954 Event - Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in New York City

1954 Birthday - Neal Schon, rock guitarist, Journey-Open Arms, Bad English

1954 Birthday - Howard Stern, born in Roosevelt, New York, Radio's Bad Boy

1952 Birthday - Vicki Morgan, Colorado Springs Colo, mistress, Beautiful Bad Girl

1952 Birthday - Jim Scholten, Midland, Michigan, country singer, Betty's Bein' Bad

1949 Birthday - Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker, Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm

1949 Birthday - Simon Kirke, rocker, Bad Company

1949 Birthday - Simon Kirke, rock drummer, Bad Company

1948 Birthday - Perry King, Alliance, Ohio, actor, Andy Warhol's "Bad"

1947 Birthday - Kurt Mann, Roslyn, New York, actor, Bad Penny

1945 Birthday - Patty McCormack, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers

1944 Birthday - Sally Kirkland, New York City, actress, Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama

1944 Birthday - Mick Ralphs, born in Hereford, England, born Michael Geoffrey Ralphs, guitarist, songwriter, founding member of music bands Mott the Hopple and Bad Company

1944 Birthday - Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover

1943 Birthday - Martin Mull, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/comedian, Bad Manners, Flick, Serial

1943 Birthday - Mike Newell, director, Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace and Chuck

1940 Birthday - Sammy Strain, U.S. singer, Imperials-Hurt So Bad

1940 Birthday - Susan Sennett, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Big Bad Mama

1939 Birthday - Terrence McNally, St. Petersburg, Florida, playwright, Bad Habits

1939 Birthday - Luther Allison, Mayflower, Arkansas, rock guitarist, Bad News is Coming

1933 Birthday - Tom Skerritt, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama

1932 Birthday - Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine

1931 Birthday - Carroll Baker, Penn, actress, Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow

1927 Birthday - Barbara Payton, Cloquet, Minnesota, actress, Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde

1927 Birthday - Andy Warhol, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, artist/producer, Frankenstein, Bad

1923 Birthday - Albert King, born in Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist, Bad Look Blues

1920 Birthday - Walter Matthau, New York City, actor, Odd Couple, Bad News Bears

1917 Birthday - Marsha Hunt, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw

1916 Birthday - Walker Percy, Birmingham, Alabama, writer, Adventures of a Bad Catholic

1914 Birthday - Wendell Corey, born in Dracut, Massachusetts, actor, 11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl

1896 Birthday - Dick Ryan, CT, actor, For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad

1894 Birthday - Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director, Obsession, The Bad Seed

1892 Birthday - Minna Gombell, Baltimore, actress, Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister

1862 Event - Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah

1844 Birthday - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress, Bad Herders

1836 Birthday - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy

1832 Event - Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin

1775 Event - 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol

1773 Event - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1741 Event - Dutch people protest bad quality of bread

1166 Death - Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)


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