TODAY IS ... 22 NOVEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1984 - Scarlett Johansson - the husky-voiced American young beauty who co-starred with Bill Murray in the Sofia Coppola film Lost in Translation (2003). other films include Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003, in which she played the model for the famous painting by Jan Vermeer), the romantic office comedy In Good Company (2004, with Topher Grace), the sci-fi adventure The Island (2005, with Ewan McGregor), the Woody Allen movies Match Point (2005, with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), Scoop (2006, with Hugh Jackman) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008, with Javier Bardem) and the costume drama The Other Boleyn Girl (2008, with Natalie Portman).
1967 - Mark Ruffalo - American Actor - with rugged good looks and a flair for both comedy and drama, in 2004 he emerged as one of Hollywood's busiest leading men, appearing with Naomi Watts in We Don't Live Here Anymore, with Kirsten Dunst in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with Jennifer Garner in 13 Going On 30 and with Tom Cruise in Collateral. His other films include In the Cut (2003, directed by Jane Campion), Just Like Heaven (2005, opposite Reese Witherspoon), Zodiac (2007, directed by David Fincher) and The Brothers Bloom (2008, co-starring Adrien Brody).
1967 – Boris Becker - German tennis player, noted for his powerful, often acrobatic serve-and-volley game, he gained notice in 1985 when, at 17, he became the youngest man to win Wimbledon. He repeated there in 1986 and 1989 and led West Germany to Davis Cup victories in 1988 and 1989. Becker has also won the U.S. (1989) and Australian (1991, 1996) opens.
1961 - Mariel Hemingway - American actress, Manhattan (1979), Personal Best (1982), and Star 80 (1983). She is the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's most famous role was in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), a romantic comedy in which she plays Allen's high school lover. Only sixteen during filming, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis - film and television actress who rose from the dubious distinction of being the “Queen of Crud” to star in several successful comedies. Her films include Trading Places (1983), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), True Lies (1994), and the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday. She has written several successful books for young children. She is the daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
1940 - Terry Gilliam - an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King (1991), and 12 Monkeys (1995). He is the only "Python" not born in Britain, but gained British citizenship in 1968.
1943 - Billie Jean King - began playing tennis at age 11 and enjoyed success from age 15 when she won the Southern California championship in her age group. She won a record 20 Wimbledon titles, including singles in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, and 1975.
1932 - Robert Vaughn - an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. His most famous film role is one of the seven hired gunfighters in the Western classic The Magnificent Seven. He is the only surviving member of the seven.
1967 - Mark Ruffalo - American Actor - with rugged good looks and a flair for both comedy and drama, in 2004 he emerged as one of Hollywood's busiest leading men, appearing with Naomi Watts in We Don't Live Here Anymore, with Kirsten Dunst in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with Jennifer Garner in 13 Going On 30 and with Tom Cruise in Collateral. His other films include In the Cut (2003, directed by Jane Campion), Just Like Heaven (2005, opposite Reese Witherspoon), Zodiac (2007, directed by David Fincher) and The Brothers Bloom (2008, co-starring Adrien Brody).
1967 – Boris Becker - German tennis player, noted for his powerful, often acrobatic serve-and-volley game, he gained notice in 1985 when, at 17, he became the youngest man to win Wimbledon. He repeated there in 1986 and 1989 and led West Germany to Davis Cup victories in 1988 and 1989. Becker has also won the U.S. (1989) and Australian (1991, 1996) opens.
1961 - Mariel Hemingway - American actress, Manhattan (1979), Personal Best (1982), and Star 80 (1983). She is the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's most famous role was in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), a romantic comedy in which she plays Allen's high school lover. Only sixteen during filming, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis - film and television actress who rose from the dubious distinction of being the “Queen of Crud” to star in several successful comedies. Her films include Trading Places (1983), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), True Lies (1994), and the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday. She has written several successful books for young children. She is the daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
1940 - Terry Gilliam - an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King (1991), and 12 Monkeys (1995). He is the only "Python" not born in Britain, but gained British citizenship in 1968.
1943 - Billie Jean King - began playing tennis at age 11 and enjoyed success from age 15 when she won the Southern California championship in her age group. She won a record 20 Wimbledon titles, including singles in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, and 1975.
1932 - Robert Vaughn - an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. His most famous film role is one of the seven hired gunfighters in the Western classic The Magnificent Seven. He is the only surviving member of the seven.
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
2005 - Microsoft's XBOX 360 went on sale.
2004 - U2 shot the video for 'All Because Of You' from a moving flat bed truck on the streets of Brooklyn in New York City. Later in the day, they performed a brief concert under the Brooklyn Bridge, which was taped by MTV for a later showing.
2001 – Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn and Adam Garcia starred in Riding In Cars With Boys which commenced screening in Australia. A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father
1997 – Michael Hutchence, lead singer of Australia’s premiere pop phenomenon, INXS, is found hanging in his fifth floor suite at the Ritz- Carlton hotel in Sydney.
1998 - George Michael started an eight-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Ladies & Gentleman, The Best Of George Michael', his fourth UK No.1 album.
1995 - Singer Sophie B. Hawkins makes her acting debut on Fox's "Party Of Five".
1995 - The Disney/Pixar computer animated feature film Toy Story - starring Tom Hanks as the voice of Woody and Tim Allen as the voice of Buzz Lightyear - is released.
1992 – In Brazil, Paul Simon plays the first night of his first South American tour, promoting his Latin-inflected album Rhythm of the Saints.
2004 - U2 shot the video for 'All Because Of You' from a moving flat bed truck on the streets of Brooklyn in New York City. Later in the day, they performed a brief concert under the Brooklyn Bridge, which was taped by MTV for a later showing.
2001 – Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn and Adam Garcia starred in Riding In Cars With Boys which commenced screening in Australia. A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father
1997 – Michael Hutchence, lead singer of Australia’s premiere pop phenomenon, INXS, is found hanging in his fifth floor suite at the Ritz- Carlton hotel in Sydney.
1998 - George Michael started an eight-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Ladies & Gentleman, The Best Of George Michael', his fourth UK No.1 album.
1995 - Singer Sophie B. Hawkins makes her acting debut on Fox's "Party Of Five".
1995 - The Disney/Pixar computer animated feature film Toy Story - starring Tom Hanks as the voice of Woody and Tim Allen as the voice of Buzz Lightyear - is released.
1992 – In Brazil, Paul Simon plays the first night of his first South American tour, promoting his Latin-inflected album Rhythm of the Saints.
1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign.
1986 – UK No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Human,” Human League.
1986 - Mike Tyson was only 20 years and 4 months old, becoming the youngest to wear the world heavyweight boxing crown. He knocked out Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1986 – UK No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Human,” Human League.
1986 - Mike Tyson was only 20 years and 4 months old, becoming the youngest to wear the world heavyweight boxing crown. He knocked out Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1984 - Brother against brother, father against son. All competing for...THE COOLANGATTA GOLD! Coolangatta Gold starring Nick Tate, Colin Friels and Grant Kenny stars screening in Australia.
1980 - Bruce Springsteen makes his first-ever appearance on the UK singles chart with 'Hungry Heart'
1980 - Abba scored their sixth UK No.1 album when 'Super Trouper' started a nine week run at the top of the charts.
1977 - Weddings will never be the same after Debby Boone has a Number One hit with "You Light Up My Life." The record goes platinum on this date and makes Pat Boone a proud papa.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1975 - KC and the Sunshine Band started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'That's The Way (I Like It)', the group's second US No.1 of the year, it made No.4 in the UK.
1971 - Walt Disney Productions releases The Aristocats (the twentieth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon) in the United Kingdom.
1969 - First isolation of a single gene: The intestinal bacterium E. Coli is announced by Harvard scientists.
1968 - The Beatles double White album was released in the UK. Featuring 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', 'Dear Prudence', 'Helter Skelter', 'Blackbird' 'Back In The USSR' and George Harrisons 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Priced at £3.13 shillings, ($8.76), it spent eight weeks as the UK No.1 album.
1967 - Arlo Guthrie's classic. "Alice's Restaurant" is released.
1967 - Long John Baldry was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Let The Heartaches Begin', the singers only UK No.1.
1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved resolution 242. The resolution called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured in 1967 and called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
1965 - Tamla-Motown Records releases Stevie Wonder's "Uptight." peaking at Number one, on the R&B chart and #3 on the pop chart, it will become the fifteen year old's biggest hit since "Fingertips Part Two" in 1963.
1965 - The musical "Man of La Mancha" opened in Wash Sq Theater NYC. It ran for 2,328 performances.
1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Leader of the Pack,'' The Shangri-Las. The group is made up of two sets of sisters from Queens, New York - Mary and Betty Weiss and twins Marge and Mary Ann Ganser
1963 - U.S. President John F Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President.
1957 - The Miles Davis Quintet debuted with a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
1956 - The opening ceremony for the Melbourne Olympics is held.
1955 - RCA paid the unheard of sum of $25,000 to Sam Phillips of Memphis, TN for the rights to the music of a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi: Elvis Presley. Thanks to negotiations with Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker, RCA tossed in a $5,000 bonus as well -- for a pink Cadillac for Elvis’ mother.
1952 - Lang Hancock discovers the iron ore deposits which change Australia from being an importer of iron ore to an exporter.
Lang Hancock
1946 - Biro ball point pens went on sale, invented by Hungarian journalist László Biro.
1935 - The first transpacific airmail flight left San Francisco with over 20,000 folks waving good-bye. The "China Clipper" began its 8,000-mile journey with 110,865 letters on board, piloted by Captain Edwin Musick. The Pan American Martin 130 took off from San Francisco. 59 hours and 48 minutes later, it landed at Manila in the Philippines.
1928 - In Paris, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel was first performed publicly.
1922 – Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Howard Carter opens the Tomb
1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal.
1859 – Charles Darwin's book on The Origin of Species is first offered for sale, in London, England.
Front page of Origin of the Species
1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him.
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