Sunday, November 8, 2009

TODAY IS ... 08 NOVEMBER

TODAY IS ... 08 NOVEMBER
BIRTHDAYS: 1966 - Gordon James Ramsay, OBE, is a Scottish-born British chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 16 Michelin Stars, and in 2001 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as Hell's Kitchen,The F Word and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
Gordon Ramsay
1961 - Leif Garrett is an American singer and actor. He became famous as a teen idol and received publicity as an adult for his drug abuse and legal troubles. 1949 - Bonnie Raitt - Grammy Award-winning blues-rock singer and guitarist known for her powerful voice and late-career comeback. Her recordings include Bonnie Raitt (1971), (1979), GlowNick of Time (1989) and Luck of the Draw (1991). 1944 - Bonnie Bramlett, is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.
Bonnie Bramlett
1927 - Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s,[1] and has sold over 100 million records 1900 - Margaret Mitchell - Her one novel, Gone with the Wind (1936; Pulitzer Prize), a romantic, panoramic portrait of the Civil War and Reconstruction periods in Georgia, is one of the most popular novels in the history of American publishing. The film adaptation (1939) has also been extraordinarily successful.
Margaret Mitchell
1847 - Bram Stoker - best remembered as the author of Dracula (1897), a horror story recounting the adventures of the vampire Count Dracula. The fame of the leading character was furthered by popular stage and film adaptations of the novel.
Bram Stoker
OTHER EVENTS: 2007 - Injuries sustained by two Army ranger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor - the plot for Lions for Lambs which started screening in Australia. It starred Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. 2003 – The reunited Duran Duran kick off their 78-03 25th Anniversary Tour at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 2001 – Australia actor Nicole Kidman starred in The Others which commenced screening in Australia. A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted. 1983 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “All Night Long (All Night),” Lionel Richie. Richie sings the song at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. 1969 - "Wedding Bell Blues" by 5th Dimension topped the US charts and stayed there for 3 weeks 1965 - The soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted on NBC-TV in the US. 1964 - Judy Garland and her daughter, Liza Minnelli appeared together at the London Palladium. 1963 - Dick Clark's travelling Caravan of Stars opens its fall 1963 tour in Teaneck, New Jersey. The bill features Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, the Ronettes, LIttle Eva and the Dovells among others. 1958 - Frank Sinatra's 'Come Fly With Me' enters UK LP chart 1958 - First-ever British LP chart published, in NME. 'South Pacific' film soundtrack is at No. 1 for 70 weeks continuously, and 115 in all. 1910 - Bug Zapper: The first insect electrocution device is patented by William F. Frost of Spokane, Washington. 1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.
The Louvre Museum

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