Ranking Joe

Today’s Birthdays

  • 1959 – Ranking Joe (Joseph Jackson) is born in Kingston.

Events

  • 1989 – Mike Tyson and Robin Givens granted final divorce in New Jersey.
  • 1985 – David Lee Roth’s “Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” hits #12.
  • 1980 – ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa.
  • 1980 – Ted Turner’s Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
  • 1979 – Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier.
  • 1979 – Wings release “Old Siam, Sir”
  • 1977 – British Virgin Islands adopts constitution.
  • 1975 – Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist.
  • 1974 – Merger of Amorphia and NORML.
  • 1973 – The Hon Florizel Glasspole, CD, Minister of Education, More >