The remaining Mouseketeers, consisting of the White or Blue Teams, were Don Agrati ( later known as Don Grady when starring as " Robbie " on the long running sitcom My Three Sons ), Sherry Alberoni, Billie Jean Beanblossom, Johnny Crawford, Jonathan A. Kahn ( a. k. a. Tio Juan ), Eileen Diamond, Dickie Dodd ( not related to Jimmie Dodd ), Mary Espinosa, Bonnie Lynn Fields, Judy Harriet, Linda Hughes, Dallas Johann, John Lee Johann, Bonni Lou Kern, Charlie Laney, Larry Larsen, Paul Petersen, Lynn Ready, Mickey Rooney Jr., Tim Rooney, Mary Lynn Sartori, Bronson Scott, Michael Smith, Margene Storey, Ronnie Steiner, Mark Sutherland and Don Underhill.

* 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player

In Michael Jackson's " Billie Jean " video a number of freeze frames are shown in split screen.

* 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

Jackson's set included songs " Jam " ( with the beginning of " Why You Wanna Trip On Me "), " Billie Jean " and " Black or White ".

However, the DVD only features the " Heal The World " performance of the halftime show, and omits the show opening and a medley of " Jam ", " Billie Jean " and " Black Or White ".

She made her film debut in 1985's Heaven Help Us, followed by roles in The Legend of Billie Jean and Maximum Overdrive.

She then played Putter in The Legend of Billie Jean.

She appeared in the films The Legend of Billie Jean and Ginger Ale Afternoon as " trailer-park girls.

** Billie Jean King, American tennis player

* March 25 – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary and has the television special Motown 25 during which Michael Jackson performed " Billie Jean " and introduces to the world the moonwalk.

The title track was a protest against nuclear proliferation and became his first top ten hit in countries outside the U. S. Prince's " Little Red Corvette " was one of the first two videos by a black artist played in heavy rotation on MTV, along with Michael Jackson's " Billie Jean ".

" Every Breath You Take " won the Grammy for " Song of the Year ", beating Jackson's " Billie Jean ".

The Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ), founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis.

Billie Jean King won £ 750 for taking the title while Rod Laver won £ 2, 000.

Ann Jones, Rosie Casals, Francoise Durr, and Billie Jean King joined NTL.

The WTA was founded at a meeting organized by Billie Jean King, a week before the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.

Written and directed by Garson Kanin, the scenic design was by Donald Oenslager and costume design by Ruth Kanin. Jean Arthur was originally hired to play Billie but left during tryouts.

Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn.

Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City.

The USTA National Tennis Center was renamed in honor of four-time tournament champion and tennis pioneer Billie Jean King during the 2006 US Open.

It contains the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current venue for the U. S. Open tennis tournament ; Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets baseball team ; the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, the Queens Theatre in the Park, the Queens Wildlife Center, and the New York State Pavilion.

After " Flushing meadows " became the ( secondary ) name of the tennis tournament itself, that portion of the park was subsequently named USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

That video, along with earlier videos by Jackson for his songs " Billie Jean " and " Beat It ", also was instrumental in getting music videos by African American artists played on MTV.

Panelists included Billie Jean King, All &# 8209 ; American NCAA point guard Shoni Schimmel of the University of Louisville, and Aimee Mullins, the first double-amputee sprinter to compete in NCAA track and field for Georgetown University.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Many artists made their mark with pop standards, particularly interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Frankie Laine, Nat King Cole ( originally known for his jazz piano virtuosity ), Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gormé, Andy Williams, Nancy Wilson, Jack Jones, Rita Reys, Steve Lawrence and Cleo Laine.

The city of Edison hosts the Billie Lane King Cotton Charity Horse Show the second Saturday of May.

He later lost to Billie Jean King in The Battle of the Sexes at the Houston, Texas, Astrodome, on 20 September 1973.

For 25 years, Mahwah hosted the A & P Tennis Classic, a tune up for the U. S. Open tennis tournament held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Forest Hills, Queens.

She and her husband, Andre Agassi, were on Team Elton John who competed against Team Billie Jean King.

Williams thus became only the fourth woman in the open era to win Wimbledon at least four times, along with Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf.

Despite years of protesting by tennis pioneer Billie Jean King and others, in 2005 the French Open and Wimbledon still refused to pay women's and men's players equally through all rounds.

*# US Open – Billie Jean King

*# Wimbledon – Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, " She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived.

Singers such as Billie Holiday all the way to Janis Joplin are said to have been inspired by Bessie Smith.

Upon Henin's first retirement from the WTA in the early part of the 2008 season, Billie Jean King said that " pound for pound, Henin is the best tennis player of her generation ", as well as that " Justine is the best women's athlete I've ever seen.

Fellow Our Gang member Billie " Buckwheat " Thomas said, " I hate to hear it.

Michael often said that his mother was appreciative of his solo music and approved of songs such as " Billie Jean " but said she was cautious of Michael's mature material, including " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave it 3½ stars, said, " It handles a sports movie the way Billie Holiday handled a trashy song, by finding the love and pain beneath the story.

I said, " Billie, check this out.

Billie Joe Armstrong said this of the song:

In an interview, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said that " The song is about being an individual and how you have to drift through the darkness to find where you belong.

Billie Joe Armstrong has said that the original concept was to create a song whose lyrics were made up of all signs and labels, and the idea grew from there.

Russell T Davies said of the episode " I promised Billie an episode in which she'd be funny.

It is also said to fictionalize the story of her relationship with the gay agent Bryan Lourd, father of her daughter, Billie Lourd.