Today is: 
National Chicken & Waffles Day

This Day in History: 
1977: Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash

Today's Birthdays: 
Tom Petty, 1950-2017
John Krasinski, 47

This Day in Music
#1 in 1986
When I Think of You
Janet Jackson

This Day in Movies
#1 in 1986
Crocodile Dundee