Today In History

The Barbra Streisand Album is the debut album by Barbra Streisand, released February 25, 1963, on Columbia Records. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA. The album won Grammy awards for Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance. In January 2006, the album was inducted in to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Side one 1. "Cry Me a River" Arthur Hamilton 3:37 2. "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" Joseph Meyer, Harry Ruby 2:14 3. "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers 3:09 4. "A Taste of Honey" Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott 2:51 5. "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" Frank Churchill, Ann Ronell 2:35 6. "Soon It's Gonna Rain" Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt 3:44 Side two 1. "Happy Days Are Here Again" Milton Ager, Jack Yellen 3:04 2. "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" Andy Razaf, Thomas Waller 2:11 3. "Much More" Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt 3:02 4. "Come to the Supermarket in Old Peking" Cole Porter 1:56 5. "A Sleepin' Bee" Harold Arlen, Truman Capote 4:21

Neil Armstrong realized that they were heading into a field of boulders on the northeast shoulder of a crater the size of a football field. Drama was the last thing that anyone had wanted. A warning light was telling him he had less than 60 seconds of fuel left, but they were close now and it was just a matter of easing themselves down. Forty seconds had passed since the sixty-second warning, and Armstrong stated “The Eagle Has Landed.” For the astronauts, the landing had been the big moment of the mission. But, for the waiting world, the big moment was still to come… the first footstep. Armstrong stood on the pad for a moment or two, testing the soil with the tip of his boot before he proclaimed, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”