TODAY IS ... 07 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1989 - Nick Hoult - an English actor, best known for the role as Marcus Brewer in the 2002 film, About a Boy, and in Skins as cold, calculating, popular main character Tony Stonem.
1988 - Emily Browning - an Australian award winning actress and model, probably best known for her role as Violet Baudelaire in the 2004 film, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and more recently as Anna Rydell in the 2009 film, The Uninvited. She won the 2005 AFI International Award for Best Actress as her role in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
1987 - Aaron Carter - an American singer. He is the younger brother of singer Nick Carter, from the boy band Backstreet Boys. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late-1990s, establishing himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early-2000s.[2] Carter, who has also launched an acting career, is known for media reports regarding his personal life, including his relationships with Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan,
1979 - Jennifer Carpenter - an American actress, known for her roles as Emily Rose in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, as Debra Morgan in Dexter, and as the lead role in the 2008 horror movie Quarantine.
1978 - Shiri Appleby - an American film and television actress. She is best known for her leading role as Liz Parker in the popular television series Roswell. Shiri's film credits include A Time for Dancing, where she was one of the two female main characters; Swimfan; Havoc with Anne Hathaway; and Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
1949 - Tom Waits - singer released his first album, Closing Time, in 1973. It was a set of bluesy ballads about love gone sour, and established his musical persona as a raspy-voiced, whiskey-soaked denizen of smoky places in the wee hours. His 1976 album Small Change included the signature tunes "Invitation to the Blues" and the "The Piano Has Been Drinking," and subsequent albums earned him a cult following, if not a commercial hit. He turned to acting in the 1980s, working with Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders, Rumblefish (both 1983) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
1948 - James Keach – an American actor/director. Keach portrayed Jesse James in the 1980 film The Long Riders, a film which he co-wrote and produced. Johnny Cash was so taken by the film that he and June Carter became close friends with Keach and his wife, actress Jane Seymour. Cash also asked Keach to be involved in the development of Walk the Line, which Keach produced.
James Keach and Jane Seymour
1942 - Harry Chapin - an American singer and songwriter known for his folk rock songs "Taxi," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle" as well as his masterful folk musical based on the biblical book of John, "Cotton Patch Gospel."; Recipient of Special Congressional Gold Medal: Worldwide Humanitarian for the Hungry, Needy and Homeless
1932 - Ellen Burstyn received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress in 1971 for her role in The Last Picture Show and for Best Actress in 1973 for the horror movie The Exorcist. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1974 for her performance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese. She was nominated again in 1978 for Same Time, Next Year, in 1980 for Resurrection, and for Requiem for a Dream in 2000.
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - Leona Lewis went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Run’ which became the fastest-selling digital-only track. Take That went to No.1 on the UK album after selling over 432,000 copies of their new album The Circus. Britney Spears' album Circus, released on the same day as Take That's album entered the chart at number four.
2006 – Daniel Craig stars for the first time as James Bond in Casino Royale which started screening in Australia. Judy Dench, Eva Green and Mads Mikkelsen co-star. In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
2005 - The world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe takes place at Royal Albert Hall in London, England.
2004 - After popularizing the PC in the '80s, IBM sells its PC business to a Chinese company 2003 - A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.
2002 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen." On July 26, 2004, two men were convicted for the crime and were sentenced to at least four years in prison each.
2000 – In a New York TV studio, B.B. King performs with Elmo and Big Bird for an episode of Sesame Street.
1999 – The Eagles hold a press conference to announce that their first Greatest Hits package has become America’s best-selling album. Glenn Frey says, “I hated popularity contests when I was in high school, and I hate them now.”
1998 - Arturo Sandoval, the internationally acclaimed trumpet player who settled in the U.S. in 1990 after defecting from his native Cuba, is granted U.S. citizenship after a six-year struggle. Sandoval is sworn in at ceremonies in Miami. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had rejected his requests twice because he had signed papers that branded him a member of the Communist party in order to leave Cuba for an extended tour with the late Dizzy Gillespie.
1998 – Garth Brooks is named country artist of the year at the 1998 Chart Toppers Music Awards.
1996 - Australian singer Peter Andre scored his second No.1 UK single when 'I Feel You'. Andre scored a further 4 Top 10 hits by the end of 1998.
1996 - Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The hit, from her Secrets album, stayed at number one half-way thru Feb 1997.
1996 – Jerry Lee Lewis’ white and red pinstriped devil suit is stolen from the comedian’s dressing room at Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo. Lewis needs the costume, valued at $9,000, to play the role of Satan in the musical Damn Yankees.
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes
.
1995 – With stars like Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Don Rickles voicing the characters, Toy Story starts screening in Australia. A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room
1995 - The U.S. spacecraft Galileo arrived at Jupiter, and fired its main engine for 49 minutes to attain a successful orbit around Jupiter. The same day, Galileo's atmospheric probe plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere, and relayed information on the structure and composition of the solar system’s largest planet.
1991 - U2 went to No.1 on the US album charts with 'Achtung Baby'. Featuring 'One', Zoo Station', 'The Fly' and 'Even Better Than The Real Thing'.
1991 - Michael Jackson started a 7 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Black Or White', his 12th solo No.1, also a No.1 in the UK.
1991 - George Michael and Elton John were at No.1 in the UK with a live version of 'Don't Let The Sun Go down On Me', (a hit for Elton in 1974). All proceeds from the hit went to aids charities.
1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan.
1979 - The Police had their second UK No.1 single with 'Walking on the Moon', taken from their debut album 'Reggatta De Blanc'. The video for the song was filmed at Kennedy Space Center interspersed with NASA footage.
1978 – Revenge of the Pink Panther, another in this successful franchise, starts screening in Australia. Starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and Dyan Cannon - To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
1975 - Indonesian forces launched a massive invasion of the former Portuguese half of the island of Timor, which lies between Indonesia and Australia.
1974 – Linda Ronstadt records “You’re No Good.” The song becomes one of her signature hits, peaking at No. 1 the following year. That’s Andrew Gold (”Lonely Boy”) you hear on the guitar solo. The song was written by Roy Orbison.
1974 - Barry White was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You're The First, The Last, My Everything', the singers first UK No.1. Originally written in the 1950's as a country song with the title 'You're My First, You're My Last, My In-Between.'
1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
1967 – Tommy Steele, Greer Garson and Fred McMurray headed the cast of The Happiest Millionaire which commenced screening in Australia. A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless (Tommy Steele), lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire,
1967 - Otis Redding went into the studio to record '(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay'. The song went on to be his biggest hit. Redding didn't see its release; he was killed three days later in a plane crash.
1961 - Frankie Vaughan scored his second and last UK No.1 with 'Tower Of Strength' a song written by Burt Bacharach.
1957 - Singer Pat Boone was at the top of the pop charts for the first of six weeks with April Love. His other number one hits included Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don’t Forbid Me and Love Letters in the Sand.
1957 - As Paul Anka's 'I Love You Baby' follows 'Diana' into chart, the fifteen-year-old Canadian begins a UK tour
1956 - Tommy Steele makes his UK stage debut at Finsbury Park Astoria, with rave reviews proclaiming him as 'Britain's answer to Elvis'
1948 - Donald Bradman - cricketer retired in Australia. Wisden, cricket’s authoritative almanac, named Sir Donald as the best cricketer of the 20th century. In 52 Test matches from 1928 to 1948, he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94.
1948 - NBC presented the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program for the first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist, the $5,000 prize as the program’s first national winner. Over the years Heidt gave some big stars their big starts: Art Carney, Frankie Carle, Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken Berry, Frank DeVol, Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper, Larry Cotton, Donna and her Don Juans, Ollie O'Toole and many others.
1945 - Disney's Pluto cartoon Canine Patrol, directed by Charles Nichols, is released. Pluto (a member of the Coast Guard) tries to keep a baby turtle from off-limits beach territory.
1944 – Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch and Grant Taylor star in Rats Of Tobruk which started screening in Australia. Tells the story of three men--Bluey, a tough two fisted drover (Taylor), Milo, a laconic dingo trapper (Rafferty), and Pete, an intellectual English "new chum" (Finch). Together they serve in North Africa, fighting against the forces of Rommel in what has now become one of Australia's greatest wartime legends--The Rats of Tobruk.
1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
1926 - The household refrigerator, operating on gas, was patented. The refrigerator was patented by the Electrolux Servel Corporation - the vacuum cleaner people.
1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds -- in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Johnny went on to fame swinging from vines as ‘King of the Jungle’, Tarzan, in movies.
1888 - Pneumatic rubber tyre: John Boyd Dunlop patents his invention, although it was later discovered that the principle of the pneumatic tire had been patented in 1846.
1842 - The New York Philharmonic Society gave its first public concert by performing works of Beethoven. The conductor that historical day was Ureli Corelli Hill. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and one of the oldest in the world.
The New York Philharmonic Present Day
1989 - Nick Hoult - an English actor, best known for the role as Marcus Brewer in the 2002 film, About a Boy, and in Skins as cold, calculating, popular main character Tony Stonem.
1988 - Emily Browning - an Australian award winning actress and model, probably best known for her role as Violet Baudelaire in the 2004 film, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and more recently as Anna Rydell in the 2009 film, The Uninvited. She won the 2005 AFI International Award for Best Actress as her role in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
1987 - Aaron Carter - an American singer. He is the younger brother of singer Nick Carter, from the boy band Backstreet Boys. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late-1990s, establishing himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early-2000s.[2] Carter, who has also launched an acting career, is known for media reports regarding his personal life, including his relationships with Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan,
1979 - Jennifer Carpenter - an American actress, known for her roles as Emily Rose in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, as Debra Morgan in Dexter, and as the lead role in the 2008 horror movie Quarantine.
1978 - Shiri Appleby - an American film and television actress. She is best known for her leading role as Liz Parker in the popular television series Roswell. Shiri's film credits include A Time for Dancing, where she was one of the two female main characters; Swimfan; Havoc with Anne Hathaway; and Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
1949 - Tom Waits - singer released his first album, Closing Time, in 1973. It was a set of bluesy ballads about love gone sour, and established his musical persona as a raspy-voiced, whiskey-soaked denizen of smoky places in the wee hours. His 1976 album Small Change included the signature tunes "Invitation to the Blues" and the "The Piano Has Been Drinking," and subsequent albums earned him a cult following, if not a commercial hit. He turned to acting in the 1980s, working with Francis Ford Coppola in The Outsiders, Rumblefish (both 1983) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
1948 - James Keach – an American actor/director. Keach portrayed Jesse James in the 1980 film The Long Riders, a film which he co-wrote and produced. Johnny Cash was so taken by the film that he and June Carter became close friends with Keach and his wife, actress Jane Seymour. Cash also asked Keach to be involved in the development of Walk the Line, which Keach produced.
James Keach and Jane Seymour
1942 - Harry Chapin - an American singer and songwriter known for his folk rock songs "Taxi," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle" as well as his masterful folk musical based on the biblical book of John, "Cotton Patch Gospel."; Recipient of Special Congressional Gold Medal: Worldwide Humanitarian for the Hungry, Needy and Homeless
1932 - Ellen Burstyn received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress in 1971 for her role in The Last Picture Show and for Best Actress in 1973 for the horror movie The Exorcist. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1974 for her performance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese. She was nominated again in 1978 for Same Time, Next Year, in 1980 for Resurrection, and for Requiem for a Dream in 2000.
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - Leona Lewis went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Run’ which became the fastest-selling digital-only track. Take That went to No.1 on the UK album after selling over 432,000 copies of their new album The Circus. Britney Spears' album Circus, released on the same day as Take That's album entered the chart at number four.
2006 – Daniel Craig stars for the first time as James Bond in Casino Royale which started screening in Australia. Judy Dench, Eva Green and Mads Mikkelsen co-star. In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
2005 - The world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe takes place at Royal Albert Hall in London, England.
2004 - After popularizing the PC in the '80s, IBM sells its PC business to a Chinese company 2003 - A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.
2002 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen." On July 26, 2004, two men were convicted for the crime and were sentenced to at least four years in prison each.
2000 – In a New York TV studio, B.B. King performs with Elmo and Big Bird for an episode of Sesame Street.
1999 – The Eagles hold a press conference to announce that their first Greatest Hits package has become America’s best-selling album. Glenn Frey says, “I hated popularity contests when I was in high school, and I hate them now.”
1998 - Arturo Sandoval, the internationally acclaimed trumpet player who settled in the U.S. in 1990 after defecting from his native Cuba, is granted U.S. citizenship after a six-year struggle. Sandoval is sworn in at ceremonies in Miami. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had rejected his requests twice because he had signed papers that branded him a member of the Communist party in order to leave Cuba for an extended tour with the late Dizzy Gillespie.
1998 – Garth Brooks is named country artist of the year at the 1998 Chart Toppers Music Awards.
1996 - Australian singer Peter Andre scored his second No.1 UK single when 'I Feel You'. Andre scored a further 4 Top 10 hits by the end of 1998.
1996 - Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The hit, from her Secrets album, stayed at number one half-way thru Feb 1997.
1996 – Jerry Lee Lewis’ white and red pinstriped devil suit is stolen from the comedian’s dressing room at Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo. Lewis needs the costume, valued at $9,000, to play the role of Satan in the musical Damn Yankees.
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes
.
1995 – With stars like Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Don Rickles voicing the characters, Toy Story starts screening in Australia. A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room
1995 - The U.S. spacecraft Galileo arrived at Jupiter, and fired its main engine for 49 minutes to attain a successful orbit around Jupiter. The same day, Galileo's atmospheric probe plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere, and relayed information on the structure and composition of the solar system’s largest planet.
1991 - U2 went to No.1 on the US album charts with 'Achtung Baby'. Featuring 'One', Zoo Station', 'The Fly' and 'Even Better Than The Real Thing'.
1991 - Michael Jackson started a 7 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Black Or White', his 12th solo No.1, also a No.1 in the UK.
1991 - George Michael and Elton John were at No.1 in the UK with a live version of 'Don't Let The Sun Go down On Me', (a hit for Elton in 1974). All proceeds from the hit went to aids charities.
1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan.
1979 - The Police had their second UK No.1 single with 'Walking on the Moon', taken from their debut album 'Reggatta De Blanc'. The video for the song was filmed at Kennedy Space Center interspersed with NASA footage.
1978 – Revenge of the Pink Panther, another in this successful franchise, starts screening in Australia. Starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and Dyan Cannon - To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
1975 - Indonesian forces launched a massive invasion of the former Portuguese half of the island of Timor, which lies between Indonesia and Australia.1974 – Linda Ronstadt records “You’re No Good.” The song becomes one of her signature hits, peaking at No. 1 the following year. That’s Andrew Gold (”Lonely Boy”) you hear on the guitar solo. The song was written by Roy Orbison.
1974 - Barry White was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You're The First, The Last, My Everything', the singers first UK No.1. Originally written in the 1950's as a country song with the title 'You're My First, You're My Last, My In-Between.'
1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
1967 – Tommy Steele, Greer Garson and Fred McMurray headed the cast of The Happiest Millionaire which commenced screening in Australia. A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless (Tommy Steele), lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire,
1967 - Otis Redding went into the studio to record '(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay'. The song went on to be his biggest hit. Redding didn't see its release; he was killed three days later in a plane crash.
1961 - Frankie Vaughan scored his second and last UK No.1 with 'Tower Of Strength' a song written by Burt Bacharach.
1957 - Singer Pat Boone was at the top of the pop charts for the first of six weeks with April Love. His other number one hits included Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don’t Forbid Me and Love Letters in the Sand.
1957 - As Paul Anka's 'I Love You Baby' follows 'Diana' into chart, the fifteen-year-old Canadian begins a UK tour
1956 - Tommy Steele makes his UK stage debut at Finsbury Park Astoria, with rave reviews proclaiming him as 'Britain's answer to Elvis'
1948 - Donald Bradman - cricketer retired in Australia. Wisden, cricket’s authoritative almanac, named Sir Donald as the best cricketer of the 20th century. In 52 Test matches from 1928 to 1948, he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94.
1948 - NBC presented the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program for the first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist, the $5,000 prize as the program’s first national winner. Over the years Heidt gave some big stars their big starts: Art Carney, Frankie Carle, Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken Berry, Frank DeVol, Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper, Larry Cotton, Donna and her Don Juans, Ollie O'Toole and many others.
1945 - Disney's Pluto cartoon Canine Patrol, directed by Charles Nichols, is released. Pluto (a member of the Coast Guard) tries to keep a baby turtle from off-limits beach territory.
1944 – Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch and Grant Taylor star in Rats Of Tobruk which started screening in Australia. Tells the story of three men--Bluey, a tough two fisted drover (Taylor), Milo, a laconic dingo trapper (Rafferty), and Pete, an intellectual English "new chum" (Finch). Together they serve in North Africa, fighting against the forces of Rommel in what has now become one of Australia's greatest wartime legends--The Rats of Tobruk.
1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
1926 - The household refrigerator, operating on gas, was patented. The refrigerator was patented by the Electrolux Servel Corporation - the vacuum cleaner people.
1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds -- in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Johnny went on to fame swinging from vines as ‘King of the Jungle’, Tarzan, in movies.
1888 - Pneumatic rubber tyre: John Boyd Dunlop patents his invention, although it was later discovered that the principle of the pneumatic tire had been patented in 1846.
1842 - The New York Philharmonic Society gave its first public concert by performing works of Beethoven. The conductor that historical day was Ureli Corelli Hill. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and one of the oldest in the world.
The New York Philharmonic Present Day
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