TODAY IS ... 01 NOVEMBER

TODAY IS ... 01 NOVEMBER

BIRTHDAYS:

1972 - Toni Collette - an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish. She is also known for her role as Tara Gregson on Showtime's United States of Tara, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Toni Collette

1967 - Tina Arena - a famous and respected Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress as well as being an important role model for woman in the Australian arts industry. Over her long career in the entertainment industry she has won numerous awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist. She has sold approximately 8 million records worldwide to date. 1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins- an American singer, songwriter, musician and painter. Her biggest hits are "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", "Right Beside You", and "As I Lay Me Down". 1950 – Dan Peek - a member of the rock band, America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell. He has contributed lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, and harmonica to their recordings during his tenure in the band.

OTHER EVENTS:

2003 – Bruce Springsteen and Michael J. Fox perform “Light of Day,” the title track of the 1987 movie starring Fox, during a Parkinson’s Disease benefit at New Jersey’s Stone Pony. 2001 – Ben Stiller directed and starred in Zoolander which starting showing in Australia in this day. At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

1989 - Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.

1985 - Microsoft released Windows 1.01 (on five 360kb 5.25 inch floppy disks). It ran on MS-DOS v5.0 (called MS-DOS Executive in Windows). 1984 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run),” Billy Ocean. The song is first released as “European Queen” in the U.K.

1979 – Bob Dylan plays the first night of his Slow Train Coming tour in San Francisco, playing an entire set of all-new religious material. He’s booed.

1974 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “You Haven’t Done Nothin’,” Stevie Wonder. The Jackson Five sing backup vocals on the song.

1972 – Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan started in The Godfather which was released in Australia. The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. 1970 – The Festfolk Quartet, which would later become Abba, perform their first concert at a restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden. According to the Expressen newspaper, the group “are as well matched on stage as they are off it.”

1969 Elvis Presley hits No. 1 in US for the last time with 'Suspicious Minds' 1969 - Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks

1965 - The Dave Clark Five appear on the "Ed Sullivan Show" singing their hit "Glad All Over." Sullivan compares them favorable to the Rolling Stones, saying that unlike the latter, the DC5 are "nice, neat boys." 1962 - "The Lucy Show" premiered starring Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. 1894 - The publication, "Billboard Advertising", made it to desks for the first time. The periodical cost 10 cents. A subscription to the weekly magazine currently costs about $250 a year and is known as "Billboard", the longtime bible of the radio and music industry 1884 - Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is adopted.