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What happened in history on this day: September 20?
On September 20 in ...
- 1969 - NBC resumes airing The Andy Williams Show 60-minute musical variety TV show.
- 1975 - David Bowie's "Fame" single goes #1 for two weeks.
- 1976 - Sid Berstein offers US$230 million for a charity concert for The Beatles' reunion.
Births on September 20
- 1902 - Birth of Steve Smith; singer (Lawrence Welk Show).
- 1911 - Birth of Frank Devol in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA; orchestra leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster).
- 1922 - Birth of Frank Comstock in San Diego, California, USA; orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show).
- 1959 - Birth of Alannah Currie; rocker (Thompson Twins - "Doctor, Doctor").
- 1966 - Birth of Nuno Bettencourt in Azores; rock guitarist (Extreme - More Than Words).
- 1967 - Birth of Gunnar Nelson; rock singer (Nelsons - "Love and Affection").
- 1967 - Birth of Matthew Nelson; rock singer (Nelsons - "Love and Affection").
Deaths on September 20
- 1973 - Death of Jim Croce at age 30 in a plane crash; singer/songwriter ("You Don't Mess Around with Jim", "Time in a Bottle", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "I've Got a Name").
- 1996 - Death of Paul Weston AKA Paul Wetstein at age 84; Orchestra leader, music arranger (Rudy Vallee's Fleischmann Hour radio show, Tommy Dorsey, Dinah Shore, Bob Crosby, Johnny Mercer's Music Shop radio show, Chesterfield Supper Club, Duffy's Tavern), TV musical director (Danny Kaye, Jonathan Winters, Jim Nabors).
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