TODAY IS ... 23 NOVEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1992 - Miley Ray Cyrus - an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Cyrus is best known for starring as the title character in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Following the success of Hannah Montana, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs from the show. Cyrus' solo music career began with the release of her debut album, Meet Miley Cyrus on June 23, 2007, which included her first top ten single "See You Again". Her second album, Breakout, was released on July 22, 2008. Breakout is Cyrus' first album that does not involve the Hannah Montana franchise. Both albums debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. In 2008, she appeared in the Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert film.
1984 - Lucas Grabeel - an American actor, singer, songwriter, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ryan Evans in Disney Channel Original Movie's 2006 High School Musical and its sequels, High School Musical 2 (2007) and High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth instalments of the Halloweentown series, Halloweentown High (2004), and Return to Halloweentown (2006).
1970 - Oded Fehr - an Israeli film and television actor now based in the United States. He is known for his appearance as Ardeth Bay in the 1999 remake of The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns, as well as Carlos Olivera in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction, Faris al-Farik in Sleeper Cell and the demon Zankou in the TV series Charmed.
1961 - Merv Hughes - a former Australian cricketer, a right-arm fast bowler, he represented Australia between 1985 and 1994 in 53 Test matches, taking 212 wickets. He played 33 One Day Internationals, taking 38 wickets. He took a hat trick in a Test against the West Indies at the WACA in 1988-89 and went on to take 8-87. In 1993 he took 31 wickets in the Ashes Series against England. He was a useful lower-order batsman, scoring two half-centuries in tests and over 1000 runs in all.
1956 - Shane Gould, MBE - an Australian former swimmer who won the three gold medals, setting a world record in each race at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. She also won a bronze and a silver medal. At the age of 16, she retired from swimming. She is the only person, male or female, to hold every world freestyle record from 100 m to 1500 m simultaneously, and the first female swimmer ever to win three Olympic gold medals in world record time.
1941 - Franco Nero - an Italian actor. In 1967, he appeared in his first English language film, Camelot as Lancelot, where he met his long time romantic partner, and later on in life his wife, Vanessa Redgrave. Following this he appeared in the mafia film Il giorno della civetta opposite Claudia Cardinale released in 1968. A lack of proficiency in English tended to limit these roles, although he also appeared in other English language films including The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981) and Die Hard 2 (1990).
1925 - Johnny Mandel - a Grammy Award-winning American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie (for whom he arranged in the 1950s), Frank Sinatra (for whom he arranged Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (1960), Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn. Mandel's most famous compositions include "Suicide Is Painless" (theme from the movie and TV series M*A*S*H),
1887 - Boris Karloff - Anglo-American actor. A distinguished character actor with a superb speaking voice, Karloff was famous for his monster roles in Hollywood horror films, notably Frankenstein (1931). His other movies include The Ghoul (1933), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Isle of the Dead (1945), and Targets (1968).
OTHER EVENTS:
2006 - Inspired by the most notorious unsolved murder in California history, Black Dahlia starring Josh Hartnett, Hilary Swank and Scarlett Johansen started screening in Australia. Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" murder investigation.
2003 - Westlife scored their twelfth UK No.1 single with their version of the 1975 Barry Manilow song 'Mandy'.
2000 - Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal in Charlie’s Angels which started screening in Australia. It starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Lui.
1998 - The tobacco industry signed the biggest U.S. civil settlement. It was a $206-billion deal to resolve remaining state claims for treating sick smokers.
1997 - Barbra Streisand was at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Higher Ground’, the singers sixth US No.1 album.
1991 - Michael Bolton scored his second US No.1 single with his version of the Percy Sledge song 'When A Man Loves A Woman', a No.8 hit in the UK.
1991 - Genesis scored their 5th UK No.1 album with 'We Can't Dance', featuring the singles 'Jesus He Knows Me' and 'I Can't Dance'.
1989 – Weekend At Bernie’s starring Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman and Catherine Mary Stewart commenced screening in Australia. A pair of losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, but the murderer is out to "finish him off."
1985 - A previously unknown poem by William Shakespeare is discovered in the Oxford University library by an American scholar. It was written around 1594.
1985 - Wham! Hit UK chart at No. 2 with 'I'm Your Man'
1985 - Pet Shop Boys debut on UK chart with 'West End Girls'
1975 - Queen started a nine-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' The promotional video that accompanied the song is generally acknowledged as being the first pop video and only cost £5,000 to produce. When the band wanted to release the single various record executives suggested to them that, at 5 minutes and 55 seconds, it was too long and would never be a hit.
1974 - The Rolling Stones scored their fifth US No.1 album with 'It's Only Rock 'N Roll”
1974 - Frankie Valli enters US chart with 'My Eyes Adored You' (his first solo hit for five years), on way to No. 1
1974 - One hit wonder Billy Swan started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Can Help', it made No.6 in the UK.
1974 - Billy Swan reached the #1 spot on the singles charts for the first and only time. "I Can Help" was the most popular song in the U.S. for two weeks.
1966 - Elvis Presley's 22nd film, "Spinout," premieres in Los Angeles. The movie is another box-office success and critical disaster for Elvis.
1963 – The BBC broadcast the first ever episode of Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell, which would become the world's longest science fiction drama to date.
1963 - Dale and Grace went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I'm Leaving It Up To You', it made No.42 on the UK chart.
1938 - Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded a song for the film, "The Big Broadcast of 1938". "Thanks for the Memory" became Decca record number 2219. It also became Hope’s theme song.
1936 - "LIFE" magazine debuted. The first cover pictured the Fort Peck Dam in Montana (part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program) photographed by Margaret Bourke-White. On page 2, a photo showed a doctor slapping a newborn baby -- and the caption read, “LIFE begins.”
1903 - Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in "Rigoletto."
1889 - The first ‘Nickel-in-the-Slot’ (jukebox) was placed in service in the Palais Royal saloon in San Francisco, California. Juke, at the time, was a slang word for a a disorderly house, or house of ill repute. The unit, developed by Louis Glass, contained an Edison tinfoil phonograph with four listening tubes. There was a coin slot for each tube. 5 cents bought a few minutes of music. The contraption took in $1,000 in six months!
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.
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