TODAY IS ... 16 NOVEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal - earned critical praise and popular recognition for her starring role in the oddball love story Secretary (2002, with James Spader). That same year she was suddenly everywhere, appearing in Adaptation (with Nicolas Cage), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (directed by George Clooney) and Mona Lisa Smile (2003, with Julia Roberts and Kirsten Dunst). In 2008 she co-starred in the blockbuster Batman movie The Dark Knight, playing assistant district attorney Rachel Dawes.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
1967 - Lisa Bonet is an American actress. She is best known for portraying the character of Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show and its spinoff A Different World.
Lisa Bonet
1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian singer, songwriter. Has become one of the best selling jazz artists of all-time. Nominated for Album of the Year at the 2000 Grammy. Won three Juno awards in 2002, Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.
1920 - Colin Thiele, Australian writer and author of 'Storm Boy' and Blue Fin amongst many other Australian novels .
Colin Thiele
1908 - Burgess Meredith - acted in many Broadway plays before moving into film. He played notable dramatic roles in Of Mice and Men (1939), The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), and The Day of the Locust (1975). He may be most widely recognized as the trainer in Rocky (1976) and its sequels and as the Penguin in the TV series Batman (1966–68).
Burgess Meredith as The Penguin, Batman 1967
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - Il Divo went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘The Promise’ the fifth studio album by the operatic pop group.
2007 - It is reported that Tim Burton has signed a two-picture deal with Disney to direct and produce 3-D movies of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and a remake of Burton's own Frankenweenie. The "Alice" adaptation (which begins filming in 2008) will be a combination of live-action and performance capture. Frankenweenie will be shot in stop-motion animation.
2006 – Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine headline the cast for The Prestige which commenced screening in Australia. The rivalry between two magicians is exacerbated when one of them performs the ultimate illusion.
2006 - "Mary Poppins" a new Broadway stage musical, opens at Disney's New Amsterdam Theater in New York City. The show features Ashley Brown as Mary and Gavin Lee (direct from the London cast) as Bert.
2001 - The first Black African woman won the Miss World beauty pageant. Agbani Darego, an 18-year old from Nigeria, was crowned in Sun City, South Africa. Miss Aruba, Zerelda Lee, and Miss Scotland, Juliet-Jane Horne, were first and second runnersup.
2000 – Starring Robert DeNiro, and Philip Hoffman Seymour, Flawless commenced screening in Australia. A homophobic New York police officer who suffers a stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed and with a severe speech impairment.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
1999 - Johnny Depp received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 – Jewel ushers in her second album, “Spirit,” with a cybercast performance and interview.
1998 – It is announced that Spice Girl Emma “Baby Spice” Bunting will appear in a new musical version of “The Sleeping Beauty” for the BBC.
1996 - "Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morissette topped the US charts and stayed there for 4 weeks.
1996 – All 3,500 tickets for Michael Jackson’s January 3, 1997 show at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu sell out in under four hours. The tickets go so fast that tickets for a second show go on sale immediately.
1991 - Irish singer Enya scored her first UK No.1 album with 'Shepherd Moons'
1990 - Disney's 29th animated feature film The Rescuers Down Under premieres along with the 25-minute animated featurette The Prince and the Pauper.The Rescuers Down Under (the first Disney animated sequel) is the first traditionally animated film to be painted digitally on computer instead of acetate cels and paints. The Prince and the Pauper features Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and other Disney characters in a variation of Mark Twain's classic story.
1989 - The Tony Award–winning 30th–anniversary Broadway revival of "Gypsy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances featuring Tyne Daly as Rose.
1987 - Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1985- Whitney Houston debuts on UK chart with 'Saving All My Love for You'
1985 - Starship started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'We Built This City', it made No.12 in the UK.
1985 - Former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey had his only UK No.1 single with the Maria McKee song 'A Good Heart' written about about her relationship with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboard player Benmont Tench. Sharkey followed up the single with Tench written 'You Little Thief', this time about Tench's relationship with McKee.
Feargal Sharkey
1984 - Fourteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 returns to Earth.
1978 - The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and Billy Preston make their acting debuts as the acting debuts as the movie version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" opens.
1974 - John Lennon was at No.1 in the US singles chart with 'Whatever Gets You Through The Night.' Elton John played on the session and made a deal with Lennon that if the song reached No.1, Lennon would have to appear on stage live with Elton. Lennon kept his side of the deal and appeared live with Elton. They played three songs together: ‘I Saw Her Standing There,’ ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ and ‘Whatever Gets You Through the Night.’
1974 - Director Tom O'Horgan who scored off and on Broadway with "Hair" and "Jesus Christ Superstar," tries again with an adaptation of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band." He calls it "not a play" but a "spectacle on the road."
1974 - David Essex was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Gonna Make You A Star', the singers first UK No.1.
1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
1970 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “I Think I Love You,” The Partridge Family. The song reaches the top spot exactly two months and four days after “The Partridge Family” TV show debuts.
1970 - Anne Murray received a gold record for Snowbird. She was the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record.
1968 - B.J. Thomas' "Hooked On A Feeling" is released.
BJ Thomas
1963 - Nino Tempo and April Stevens went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Deep Purple', it made No.17 in the UK.
1959 - "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances starring Mary Martin as Maria.
Mary Martin as Maria
1955 - Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry"
1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.
1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
Passengers part of Operation Magic Carpet
1935 - The Rodgers and Hart musical, Jumbo, opened in New York City for a run of 233 performances.
1920 - Australian airline Qantas is founded.
1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year.
Earl R, Dean's concept sketch
of the contour Coca-Cola bottle
1855 - Missionary and explorer David Livingstone becomes the first non-African to sight Victoria Falls in Africa.
Victoria Falls
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Lisa Bonet
Colin Thiele
Burgess Meredith as The Penguin, Batman 1967
2001 - The first Black African woman won the Miss World beauty pageant. Agbani Darego, an 18-year old from Nigeria, was crowned in Sun City, South Africa. Miss Aruba, Zerelda Lee, and Miss Scotland, Juliet-Jane Horne, were first and second runnersup.
2000 – Starring Robert DeNiro, and Philip Hoffman Seymour, Flawless commenced screening in Australia. A homophobic New York police officer who suffers a stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed and with a severe speech impairment.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
1999 - Johnny Depp received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 – Jewel ushers in her second album, “Spirit,” with a cybercast performance and interview.
1998 – It is announced that Spice Girl Emma “Baby Spice” Bunting will appear in a new musical version of “The Sleeping Beauty” for the BBC.
1996 - "Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morissette topped the US charts and stayed there for 4 weeks.
1996 – All 3,500 tickets for Michael Jackson’s January 3, 1997 show at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu sell out in under four hours. The tickets go so fast that tickets for a second show go on sale immediately.
1991 - Irish singer Enya scored her first UK No.1 album with 'Shepherd Moons'
1990 - Disney's 29th animated feature film The Rescuers Down Under premieres along with the 25-minute animated featurette The Prince and the Pauper.The Rescuers Down Under (the first Disney animated sequel) is the first traditionally animated film to be painted digitally on computer instead of acetate cels and paints. The Prince and the Pauper features Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and other Disney characters in a variation of Mark Twain's classic story.
1989 - The Tony Award–winning 30th–anniversary Broadway revival of "Gypsy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances featuring Tyne Daly as Rose.
1987 - Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1985- Whitney Houston debuts on UK chart with 'Saving All My Love for You'
1985 - Starship started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'We Built This City', it made No.12 in the UK.
1985 - Former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey had his only UK No.1 single with the Maria McKee song 'A Good Heart' written about about her relationship with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboard player Benmont Tench. Sharkey followed up the single with Tench written 'You Little Thief', this time about Tench's relationship with McKee.
Feargal Sharkey
1974 - David Essex was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Gonna Make You A Star', the singers first UK No.1.
1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
1970 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “I Think I Love You,” The Partridge Family. The song reaches the top spot exactly two months and four days after “The Partridge Family” TV show debuts.
1970 - Anne Murray received a gold record for Snowbird. She was the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record.
1968 - B.J. Thomas' "Hooked On A Feeling" is released.
BJ Thomas
Mary Martin as Maria
Passengers part of Operation Magic Carpet
1920 - Australian airline Qantas is founded.
1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year.
Earl R, Dean's concept sketch
of the contour Coca-Cola bottle
Victoria Falls
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