TODAY IS ... 04 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1973 - Tyra Banks - actress: Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Higher Learning – Also a former model who created the popular TV reality show America's Next Top Model. Banks was a top supermodel of the 1990s, when she became the first African-American model featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
1964 - Marisa Tomei - an American stage, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992). She received subsequent nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008). Her most commercially successful films to date are What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003) and followed by Wild Hogs (2007). She received critical acclaim for her performances in Unhook the Stars (1996), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) and The Wrestler (2008).
1949 - Jeff Bridges - At the age of 16, Bridges writes a song that is included on the soundtrack to the 1969 film "John and Mary." He later sells two songs to Quincy Jones. Bridges has penned over 200 songs, and in late 1999 he releases his debut album, "Be Here Soon." Actor: White Squall, Wild Bill, Blown Away, The Vanishing, American Heart, The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Starman, Against All Odds, The Last Picture Show, The Company She Keeps, Fearless, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, Sea Hunt; songwriter; son of actor Lloyd Bridges; brother of actor Beau Bridges.
1933 - Horst Buchholz - actor: Faraway, So Close!, Avalanche Express, Raid on Entebbe, The Savage Bees, Fanny, The Magnificent Seven
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - High School Musical 3: Senior Year starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens started screening in Australia. As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future
2006 - Yahoo revealed that Britney Spears was the most searched for term of 2006 with more online searches done about Spears than any other topic or person. Female celebrities dominated the top 10 overall search list, with Shakira at number three, Jessica Simpson at number four and Paris Hilton at number five
2005 - Pussycat Dolls were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Stickwitu' The Californian girls second No.1.
2005 - Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2003 – Russell Crowe headed the cast which included Paul Bettany and James D’Arcy in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World which commenced screening in Australia. During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
2001 - Gene Simmons' book "Kiss and Make-Up" was released.
2000 - Irish singer Ronan Keating was dumped as chart topping boy band Westlife's manager. Ronan was told his services were no longer required. Westlife had scored seven No.1 UK singles.
1998 - The remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho opened in U.S. theatres. Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche starred. By 2001, the film had grossed $21.486 million in the U.S. Considering it cost $25 million plus a large marketing campaign, the bottom line is scary for this movie. The original has brought in some $16 million, but cost just $800,000 to make in 1960.
1997 – Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt, David Thewlis and B D Wong commenced screening in Australia. True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.
1996 - Madonna, Mariah Carey and Carlos Santana are honored with special honors at the Billboard Music Awards. Madonna receives Billboard's artist achievement award which recognizes popularity, record sales and career achievement. Carey is honored for setting a new chart record with her single "One Sweet Day," a duet with Boyz II Men. The song remains at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for sixteen weeks. Santana wins the ultimate Billboard century award.
1996 - Mars Pathfinder lifted off from Cape Canaveral and embarked on a successful 310 million-mile trip to explore the Red Planet's surface.
1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
1991 – Paula Abdul is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on this day in rock history!
1991 – Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
1985 - "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
1984 - The discovery of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the southern coast of Turkey was announced by the National Geographic Society. The find dated back to when King Tutankhamen ruled Egypt.
1980 - The saga of Superman continued in Superman II starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder which started screening in Australia. Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
1972 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Am Woman,'' Helen Reddy.
1971 - Don McLean's ‘American Pie’ entered the US Hot 100. The eight and a half minute song would eventually sell over 3 million copies.
1971 - Led Zeppelin started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with the 'Four Symbols' album. Featuring the 8-minute track 'Stairway To Heaven', the album stayed on the US chart for 1 week short of 5 years, selling over 11 million copies.
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1965 - The Byrds started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Turn! Turn! Turn!' the group's second No.1. A No.26 hit in the UK. Unlike their first chart topper, ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, the entire band was allowed to play on the recording, instead of studio musicians.
1965 - The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board.
1964 - The Beatles released their fourth album 'Beatles For Sale'. The album featured: ‘No Reply’, ‘I'm a Loser’, ‘Baby's in Black’, ‘Rock and Roll Music’, ‘I'll Follow the Sun’, ‘Mr. Moonlight’, ‘Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey’, ‘Eight Days a Week’, ‘Words of Love’, ‘Honey Don't’, ‘Every Little Thing’, ‘I Don't Want to Spoil the Party’, ‘What You're Doing’, and ‘Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby’. It spent 11 weeks as the UK No.1 album
1957 – Port Augusta and Bourke, Australia were the simultaneous premiere screenings of Robbery Under Arms starring Peter Finch, David McCallum and Maureen Swanson. It is the story of Captain Starlight, the notorious robber whose most potent weapons were a polite phrase and a disarming smile.
1957 - Prompted by reports that many radio stations have banned Elvis' Christmas album because of the averred impropriety of "the Pelvis" singing religious songs, DJ Allen Brooks of CKWS, Kingston, Ontario, plays the album and invites listeners to call in their opinion. Of eight hundred callers, all but 56 approve of Presley's sacred music
1956 - The so-called 'Million Dollar Quartet' jam session took place at Sun Studios in Memphis with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.
1955 - As part of an NBC-TV special, mime artist Marcel Marceau appeared on television for the first time. In a rare speaking role, Marceau was heard to deliver the memorable line, “ .” Pretty funny stuff for a mime...
1954 - "Mr. Sandman" by the Chordettes topped the charts and stayed there for 7 weeks
1945 - The Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations
1942 - Disney's Goofy short How to Fish, directed by Jack Kinney, is released. Goofy demonstrates how to fish ... although he's really showing us how not to fish!
1934 - Ethel Merman recorded I Get a Kick Out of You, from Cole Porter’s musical, Anything Goes. She was backed by the Johnny Green Orchestra. The tune was recorded for Brunswick Records.
1933 - Tobacco Road, a play based on Erskine Caldwell’s book, premiered at the Masque Theatre in New York City. The play ran for eight years and 3,182 shows.
1932 - “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea. Let’s go to press!” The Walter Winchell Show, later The Jergens Journal and still later, Kaiser-Frazer News, was first heard on the NBC Blue network. Winchell kept that gossip show going on the radio for 23 years. It was sponsored at first by Jergens lotion and, later, by Dryad deodorant, Kaiser-Frazer cars and Richard Hudnut shampoo.
1927 - Duke Ellington’s big band opened the famed Cotton Club in Harlem. It was the first appearance of the Duke’s new and larger group. He played the club until 1932.
1872 - The 'Mary Celeste' is found abandoned, with its cargo intact, but no sign of its crew or passengers.
1964 - Marisa Tomei - an American stage, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992). She received subsequent nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008). Her most commercially successful films to date are What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003) and followed by Wild Hogs (2007). She received critical acclaim for her performances in Unhook the Stars (1996), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) and The Wrestler (2008).
1949 - Jeff Bridges - At the age of 16, Bridges writes a song that is included on the soundtrack to the 1969 film "John and Mary." He later sells two songs to Quincy Jones. Bridges has penned over 200 songs, and in late 1999 he releases his debut album, "Be Here Soon." Actor: White Squall, Wild Bill, Blown Away, The Vanishing, American Heart, The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Starman, Against All Odds, The Last Picture Show, The Company She Keeps, Fearless, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, Sea Hunt; songwriter; son of actor Lloyd Bridges; brother of actor Beau Bridges.
1933 - Horst Buchholz - actor: Faraway, So Close!, Avalanche Express, Raid on Entebbe, The Savage Bees, Fanny, The Magnificent Seven
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - High School Musical 3: Senior Year starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens started screening in Australia. As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future
2006 - Yahoo revealed that Britney Spears was the most searched for term of 2006 with more online searches done about Spears than any other topic or person. Female celebrities dominated the top 10 overall search list, with Shakira at number three, Jessica Simpson at number four and Paris Hilton at number five
2005 - Pussycat Dolls were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Stickwitu' The Californian girls second No.1.
2005 - Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2003 – Russell Crowe headed the cast which included Paul Bettany and James D’Arcy in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World which commenced screening in Australia. During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
2001 - Gene Simmons' book "Kiss and Make-Up" was released.
2000 - Irish singer Ronan Keating was dumped as chart topping boy band Westlife's manager. Ronan was told his services were no longer required. Westlife had scored seven No.1 UK singles.
1998 - The remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho opened in U.S. theatres. Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche starred. By 2001, the film had grossed $21.486 million in the U.S. Considering it cost $25 million plus a large marketing campaign, the bottom line is scary for this movie. The original has brought in some $16 million, but cost just $800,000 to make in 1960.
1997 – Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt, David Thewlis and B D Wong commenced screening in Australia. True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.
1996 - Madonna, Mariah Carey and Carlos Santana are honored with special honors at the Billboard Music Awards. Madonna receives Billboard's artist achievement award which recognizes popularity, record sales and career achievement. Carey is honored for setting a new chart record with her single "One Sweet Day," a duet with Boyz II Men. The song remains at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for sixteen weeks. Santana wins the ultimate Billboard century award.
1996 - Mars Pathfinder lifted off from Cape Canaveral and embarked on a successful 310 million-mile trip to explore the Red Planet's surface.
1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
1991 – Paula Abdul is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on this day in rock history!
1991 – Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.
1985 - "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
1984 - The discovery of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the southern coast of Turkey was announced by the National Geographic Society. The find dated back to when King Tutankhamen ruled Egypt.
1980 - The saga of Superman continued in Superman II starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder which started screening in Australia. Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
1972 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Am Woman,'' Helen Reddy.
1971 - Don McLean's ‘American Pie’ entered the US Hot 100. The eight and a half minute song would eventually sell over 3 million copies.
1971 - Led Zeppelin started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with the 'Four Symbols' album. Featuring the 8-minute track 'Stairway To Heaven', the album stayed on the US chart for 1 week short of 5 years, selling over 11 million copies.
IMAGE
1965 - The Byrds started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Turn! Turn! Turn!' the group's second No.1. A No.26 hit in the UK. Unlike their first chart topper, ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, the entire band was allowed to play on the recording, instead of studio musicians.
1965 - The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board.
1964 - The Beatles released their fourth album 'Beatles For Sale'. The album featured: ‘No Reply’, ‘I'm a Loser’, ‘Baby's in Black’, ‘Rock and Roll Music’, ‘I'll Follow the Sun’, ‘Mr. Moonlight’, ‘Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey’, ‘Eight Days a Week’, ‘Words of Love’, ‘Honey Don't’, ‘Every Little Thing’, ‘I Don't Want to Spoil the Party’, ‘What You're Doing’, and ‘Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby’. It spent 11 weeks as the UK No.1 album
1957 – Port Augusta and Bourke, Australia were the simultaneous premiere screenings of Robbery Under Arms starring Peter Finch, David McCallum and Maureen Swanson. It is the story of Captain Starlight, the notorious robber whose most potent weapons were a polite phrase and a disarming smile.
1957 - Prompted by reports that many radio stations have banned Elvis' Christmas album because of the averred impropriety of "the Pelvis" singing religious songs, DJ Allen Brooks of CKWS, Kingston, Ontario, plays the album and invites listeners to call in their opinion. Of eight hundred callers, all but 56 approve of Presley's sacred music
1956 - The so-called 'Million Dollar Quartet' jam session took place at Sun Studios in Memphis with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.
1955 - As part of an NBC-TV special, mime artist Marcel Marceau appeared on television for the first time. In a rare speaking role, Marceau was heard to deliver the memorable line, “ .” Pretty funny stuff for a mime...
1954 - "Mr. Sandman" by the Chordettes topped the charts and stayed there for 7 weeks
1945 - The Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations
1942 - Disney's Goofy short How to Fish, directed by Jack Kinney, is released. Goofy demonstrates how to fish ... although he's really showing us how not to fish!
1934 - Ethel Merman recorded I Get a Kick Out of You, from Cole Porter’s musical, Anything Goes. She was backed by the Johnny Green Orchestra. The tune was recorded for Brunswick Records.
1933 - Tobacco Road, a play based on Erskine Caldwell’s book, premiered at the Masque Theatre in New York City. The play ran for eight years and 3,182 shows.
1932 - “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea. Let’s go to press!” The Walter Winchell Show, later The Jergens Journal and still later, Kaiser-Frazer News, was first heard on the NBC Blue network. Winchell kept that gossip show going on the radio for 23 years. It was sponsored at first by Jergens lotion and, later, by Dryad deodorant, Kaiser-Frazer cars and Richard Hudnut shampoo.
1927 - Duke Ellington’s big band opened the famed Cotton Club in Harlem. It was the first appearance of the Duke’s new and larger group. He played the club until 1932.
1872 - The 'Mary Celeste' is found abandoned, with its cargo intact, but no sign of its crew or passengers.
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