It Happened This Week …

Here’s some celebrity headlines from back in the dizzo:

1959: Jazz singer Billie Holiday died in a New York hospital while under arrest for narcotics possession. She was 44.
1961: John Chancellor replaced Dave Garroway on the ”Today” show, but admitted he hated the job and wanted out after the first day.
1966: Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow got married. He was 51, she was 21.
1965: ”Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” by James Brown was released. It sold more than 2 million copies.
1971: Carole King received a gold album for ”Tapestry.”
1981: Singer Harry Chapin was killed when his car was struck by a tractor-trailer on New York’s Long Island Expressway. He was on his way to a benefit concert. Chapin was 38.
1986: Columbia Records dropped Johnny Cash after 28 years. Cash signed a new recording contract with Polygram later the next year.
1989: Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, star of the sitcom ”My Sister Sam,” was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by an obsessed fan. She was 21.
1992: Singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were married at her mansion in New Jersey. Houston filed for divorce last September after 14 years of marriage.
1994: The Three Tenors - Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras - reunited the night before the World Cup soccer final for a concert. It drew an estimated 1.3 billion TV viewers.
1998: Actress Jodie Foster gave birth to a boy in Los Angeles. She refused to say who the father was and how she got pregnant.
2006: Avril Lavigne married Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley in Montecito, Calif.

What were you doing these years?