Wednesday, May 13

• The Happening by The Supremes tops the singles chart in 1967.
  
• New York City hosts the premiere of The Beatles' film Let It Be on this day in 1970.
• Yvonne Elliman has the hottest single in America on this day in 1978 with If I Can't Have You, a song featured in the film Saturday Night Fever.

• The trademark for Velcro, technically referred to as a "hook and loop fastener," is registered on this day in 1958.
  
• Shots ring out in Rome in 1981 as Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca opens fire on Pope John Paul II when he passes through St. Peter's Square in an open car. The pontiff is seriously injured, but recovers from his wounds and is released from the hospital three weeks later.
• In 1985, Philadelphia police evacuate residents from their Osage Avenue homes in preparation for an operation against MOVE, a radical cult group that had assembled a large arsenal. By the end of the confrontation, 11 people lay dead and 61 homes are torched.

• Celebrity bad boy and retired NBA player Dennis Rodman (48)
• Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (59)
• Actor Harvey Keitel (70)

Tuesday, May 12

• In 1958, The Everly Brothers begin a four-week run at No. 1 on the singles chart with All I Have To Do Is Dream.
• Bob Dylan walks off the set of The Ed Sullivan Show on this day in 1963 after being told he cannot perform Talking John Birch Society Blues because it mocks segregation and the military.
  
• Barbra Streisand wins the Grammy for Best Female Vocalist in 1964 for The Barbra Streisand Album, which is named Album of the Year.

• The odometer is invented on this day in 1847.
• The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh’s baby is found in 1932, more than two months after his kidnapping from the family’s New Jersey home.
• On this day in 1957, race car driver A.J. Foyt scores his first professional victory in a U.S. Automobile Club midget car race in Kansas City, Missouri.
• The U.S. Senate confirms President Richard Nixon's nomination of Federal Circuit Judge Harry Blackmun to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1970.

• Actor Emilio Estevez (47)
• Actor Ving Rhames (48)
• Grammy, Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning composer and pianist Burt Bacharach (81)
• Baseball Hall of Fame player, baseball coach and manager Yogi Berra (84)
• Born on this day in 1907: Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, who died in 2003 at the age of  96

Monday, May 11

• The three-disk soundtrack to the Woodstock Festival is released on this day in 1970 and goes gold within two weeks.
• John Lennon makes a guest appearance on the Dick Cavett Show in 1972 and claims the FBI had tapped his phone.
  
• Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley dies on this day in 1981 at the age of 36.

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is established in 1927.
• Israel joins the United Nations in 1949.
• An F5 tornado sweeps across downtown Waco, Texas in 1953, killing 114 people.
• This day in 1976 marks the final housecall for Marcus Welby, M.D., the popular ABC-TV medical drama starring Robert Young that premiered in 1969.
  
• The first heart-lung transplant takes place in Baltimore in 1987.

• Singer Eric Burdon, formerly of The Animals (68)
  
• Born on this day in 1888: one of America's most prolific songwriters, Irving Berlin, who died in 1989 at the age of 101.

Sunday, May 10

• In 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets release Rock Around the Clock, the first rock and roll record to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
• On this day in 1975, Stevie Wonder plays in front of 125,000 fans at a free concert near the Washington Monument to celebrate Human Kindness Day.
• West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys is the hottest single on the radio in 1986.
  

• In 1960, the nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the globe.
• Bobby Orr scores the winning goal 40 seconds into sudden-death overtime to lift the Boston Bruins over the St. Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup title in 1970.
• Oscar-winning actress Joan Crawford dies on this day in 1977 at the age of  72.

• U2 frontman Bono (49)
• Singer-songwriter Donovan (63)
• Singer-songwriter Dave Mason (63)
• Disc jockey and voice actor Gary Owens (73)