TODAY IS ... 09 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
2340 - Worf, Klingon character on Star Trek Next Generation
1980 - Simon Helberg - an American actor and comedian. Helberg is best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He was also a member of the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv for one season.
1978 - Jesse Metcalfe - an American actor, most known for his role on Desperate Housewives as John Rowland. He is also notable for his portrayal of Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on the soap opera Passions and his starring role as John Tucker in the movie John Tucker Must Die.
1969 - Jakob Dylan - lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is the son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. He has also recorded a solo album Seeing Things (2008).
1957 - Donny Osmond - an American singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author. He is known for being half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie and a member of the "Osmond Brothers" singing group. From 1991-1997 he played Joseph in the Canadian production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, impressed by his talents and the show's long run, chose Osmond to do the film version in 1999. On November 24, 2009, he was crowned Dancing with the Stars champion
1953 - John Malkovich - an American actor, producer and director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. Arguably, his particularly distinctive voice marks him out even more than his face: "a reedy, faintly orgasmic drawl" according to the Guardian, which adds that "Perhaps not since Cary Grant has an actor been so vocally distinctive". His film credits include Death of a Salesman, Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask, Of Mice And Men, Rounders, Changeling, Eragon, Being John Malkovich, and Burn After Reading.
1950 - Joan Armatrading singer, songwriter: Me, Myself, I, Love and Affection, Down to Zero, Water in the Wine, Drop the Pilot
1941 - Beau (Lloyd III) Bridges director, Emmy Award-winning actor: Without Warning: The James Brady Story [1991-92]; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader- Murdering Mom [1992-93]; Harts of the West, Ensign O’Toole; The Fabulous Baker Boys, Married to It, Sidekicks, The Hotel New Hampshire, Norma Rae, Two Minute Warning, The Other Side of the Mountain, For Love of Ivy, The Red Pony, Sea Hunt;
1934 - Actress Judi Dench, an English film, stage and television actress. Her film appearances had been infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she has played in each James Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2001).
1916 - Kirk Douglas - an American actor and film producer recognized for his prominent cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is the father of Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. He was #17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Movies include: Greedy, The Secret, Oscar, Queenie, Tough Guys, The Final Countdown, The Chosen, A Gunfight, There was a Crooked Man, The Arrangement, The Brotherhood, In Harm’s Way, Seven Days in May, Spartacus, Lonely are the Brave, Paths of Glory, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Lust for Life, Ulysses, Young Man with a Horn, Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful; father of actor Mike Douglas
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.
2006 – U2 wraps its box-office busting Vertigo tour in front of a packed house at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium with a show that features guest turns from members of opening act Pearl Jam as well as Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
2004 – Oceans Twelve starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones starts screening in Australia. Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11.
2004 - Canada's Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was constitutional.
2003 - ‘A Celebrity Thumbprints’ auction took place on ebayliveauctions.com. Beyonce, Kelly Osbourne, Coldplay, Blue and Westlife were among the stars whose thumbprints went under the hammer.
2000 - Singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow loses a Larrivee guitar that he has played on every of Peter, Paul & Mary recording and every one of the trio's concerts since 1973. Prized for its sound, the six-string guitar goes missing on a Delta airlines flight from Washington, D.C. to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Yarrow posts a $500 reward for the return of the guitar.
1995 – The Beatles’ first new tune in 25 years, “Free as a Bird,” debuts on a six-hour ABC documentary on the Fab Four. The Beatles’ “Anthology I” quickly shoots to the top of the charts.
1994 - Representatives of the Irish Republican Army and the British Government opened peace talks in Northern Ireland.
1993 – The Three Musketeers starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Tim Curry and Rebecca De Mornay commences screening in Australia. The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal Richelieu's evil plot: to form an alliance with enemy England by way of the mysterious Milady.
1992 - Britain’s Prime Minister John Major announced in parliament the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. (The couple’s divorce became final Aug. 28, 1996.)
1990 - Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct presidential election in the country's history.
1989 - Billy Joel started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'We Didn't Start The Fire', a No.7 hit in the UK.
1988 - According to a poll released in the US, the music of Neil Diamond was favoured as the best background music for sex, Beethoven was the second choice and Luther Vandross was voted third.
1984 – The Jacksons play their last show together in Los Angeles.
1983 – Stayin’ Alive starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes and Finola Hughes started screening in Australia. It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
1982 - Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters star in Annie which started screening in Australia. roadway musical based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip. A young orphan girls adventures in finding a family that will take her.
1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
1978 - Boney M had their second UK No.1 single with their version of the Harry Belafonte 1957 hit 'Mary's Boy Child'.
1978 - John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd's version of Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" is released under the name, "The Blues Brothers."
1977 – Roger Moore starred as James Bond in the The Spy Who Loved Me which commenced screening in Australia. Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens and Desmond Llewelyn as Q co-starred. James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed.
1973 - Sunningdale Agreement signed - Tripartite talks on Northern Ireland have ended in an historic agreement to set up a Council of Ireland.
1972 - The all-star orchestral stage version of "Tommy" plays a one-night only performance at London's Rainbow Theatre and is unanimously panned. Of all the performers including Peter Sellers and Richie Havens, only Roger Daltrey and Steve Winwood acquit themselves in their respective roles as Tommy and Tommy's father. According to observers, narrator Pete Townshend appears to be drunk. The presentation is recorded and released, charting as high as #5 early next year.
1972 – The No. 1 single in the United States is Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” It’s the first Capitol release to reach the top spot since Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Joe” in 1967.
1972 - The Moody Blues started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Seventh Sojourn'.
1968 - The Supremes' and the Temptations' "TCB (Takin' Care of Business") special aired on NBC-TV.
1968 - The computer mouse makes its public debut.
1964 – Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Wilfrid Hyde-White starred in the film adaptation of My Fair Lady which commenced screening in Australia. A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society
1962 - "Lawrence of Arabia," by David Lean had its world premiere in London.
1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
1960 – Stanley Kubrik directed Spartacus which commenced screening in Australia. It starred Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons and Peter Ustinov. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire.
1960 - The first episode of "Coronation Street" was screened on UK’s ITV.
1960 - Sperry Rand Corporation of St. Paul, MN unveiled a new computer, known as Univac 1107. The electronic wizard employed what was known as thin-film memory.
1953 - Frank Sinatra recorded Young at Heart. The song was turned down by Nat ‘King’ Cole and other artists, believe it or not. It became a top hit in the U.S. in March of 1954.
1938 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Merbabies is released. As the Disney Studios are too busy, this short is produced by Harman-Ising Studios - Walt's former Laugh-O-Grams colleagues.
1933 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Night Before Christmas, based on Clement C. Moore's classic poem, is released.
1931 - Disney's Christmas-themed Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Orphans is released. It will be nominated for an Academy Award - Short Subjects/Cartoons. Ironically it will lose to Disney's Flowers and Trees.
1884 - Levant Richardson of Chicago, IL received his patent for the ball-bearing roller skate.
1843 - First Christmas cards: They are created in England by John Calcott Horsley and featured a family feasting with the words "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You."
1793 - The first daily newspaper in New York City was founded by Noah Webster. The American Minerva was published for the first time this day.
1980 - Simon Helberg - an American actor and comedian. Helberg is best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He was also a member of the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv for one season.
1978 - Jesse Metcalfe - an American actor, most known for his role on Desperate Housewives as John Rowland. He is also notable for his portrayal of Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on the soap opera Passions and his starring role as John Tucker in the movie John Tucker Must Die.
1969 - Jakob Dylan - lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is the son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. He has also recorded a solo album Seeing Things (2008).
1957 - Donny Osmond - an American singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author. He is known for being half of the brother-sister singing act Donny & Marie and a member of the "Osmond Brothers" singing group. From 1991-1997 he played Joseph in the Canadian production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, impressed by his talents and the show's long run, chose Osmond to do the film version in 1999. On November 24, 2009, he was crowned Dancing with the Stars champion
1953 - John Malkovich - an American actor, producer and director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. Arguably, his particularly distinctive voice marks him out even more than his face: "a reedy, faintly orgasmic drawl" according to the Guardian, which adds that "Perhaps not since Cary Grant has an actor been so vocally distinctive". His film credits include Death of a Salesman, Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask, Of Mice And Men, Rounders, Changeling, Eragon, Being John Malkovich, and Burn After Reading.
1950 - Joan Armatrading singer, songwriter: Me, Myself, I, Love and Affection, Down to Zero, Water in the Wine, Drop the Pilot
1941 - Beau (Lloyd III) Bridges director, Emmy Award-winning actor: Without Warning: The James Brady Story [1991-92]; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader- Murdering Mom [1992-93]; Harts of the West, Ensign O’Toole; The Fabulous Baker Boys, Married to It, Sidekicks, The Hotel New Hampshire, Norma Rae, Two Minute Warning, The Other Side of the Mountain, For Love of Ivy, The Red Pony, Sea Hunt;
1934 - Actress Judi Dench, an English film, stage and television actress. Her film appearances had been infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she has played in each James Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2001).
1916 - Kirk Douglas - an American actor and film producer recognized for his prominent cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is the father of Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. He was #17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Movies include: Greedy, The Secret, Oscar, Queenie, Tough Guys, The Final Countdown, The Chosen, A Gunfight, There was a Crooked Man, The Arrangement, The Brotherhood, In Harm’s Way, Seven Days in May, Spartacus, Lonely are the Brave, Paths of Glory, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Lust for Life, Ulysses, Young Man with a Horn, Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful; father of actor Mike Douglas
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.
2006 – U2 wraps its box-office busting Vertigo tour in front of a packed house at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium with a show that features guest turns from members of opening act Pearl Jam as well as Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
2004 – Oceans Twelve starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones starts screening in Australia. Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11.
2004 - Canada's Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was constitutional.
2003 - ‘A Celebrity Thumbprints’ auction took place on ebayliveauctions.com. Beyonce, Kelly Osbourne, Coldplay, Blue and Westlife were among the stars whose thumbprints went under the hammer.
2000 - Singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow loses a Larrivee guitar that he has played on every of Peter, Paul & Mary recording and every one of the trio's concerts since 1973. Prized for its sound, the six-string guitar goes missing on a Delta airlines flight from Washington, D.C. to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Yarrow posts a $500 reward for the return of the guitar.
1995 – The Beatles’ first new tune in 25 years, “Free as a Bird,” debuts on a six-hour ABC documentary on the Fab Four. The Beatles’ “Anthology I” quickly shoots to the top of the charts.
1994 - Representatives of the Irish Republican Army and the British Government opened peace talks in Northern Ireland.
1993 – The Three Musketeers starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Tim Curry and Rebecca De Mornay commences screening in Australia. The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal Richelieu's evil plot: to form an alliance with enemy England by way of the mysterious Milady.
1992 - Britain’s Prime Minister John Major announced in parliament the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. (The couple’s divorce became final Aug. 28, 1996.)
1990 - Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct presidential election in the country's history.
1989 - Billy Joel started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'We Didn't Start The Fire', a No.7 hit in the UK.
1988 - According to a poll released in the US, the music of Neil Diamond was favoured as the best background music for sex, Beethoven was the second choice and Luther Vandross was voted third.
1984 – The Jacksons play their last show together in Los Angeles.
1983 – Stayin’ Alive starring John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes and Finola Hughes started screening in Australia. It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
1982 - Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters star in Annie which started screening in Australia. roadway musical based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip. A young orphan girls adventures in finding a family that will take her.
1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
1978 - Boney M had their second UK No.1 single with their version of the Harry Belafonte 1957 hit 'Mary's Boy Child'.
1978 - John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd's version of Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" is released under the name, "The Blues Brothers."
1977 – Roger Moore starred as James Bond in the The Spy Who Loved Me which commenced screening in Australia. Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens and Desmond Llewelyn as Q co-starred. James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed.
1973 - Sunningdale Agreement signed - Tripartite talks on Northern Ireland have ended in an historic agreement to set up a Council of Ireland.
1972 - The all-star orchestral stage version of "Tommy" plays a one-night only performance at London's Rainbow Theatre and is unanimously panned. Of all the performers including Peter Sellers and Richie Havens, only Roger Daltrey and Steve Winwood acquit themselves in their respective roles as Tommy and Tommy's father. According to observers, narrator Pete Townshend appears to be drunk. The presentation is recorded and released, charting as high as #5 early next year.
1972 – The No. 1 single in the United States is Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” It’s the first Capitol release to reach the top spot since Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Joe” in 1967.
1972 - The Moody Blues started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Seventh Sojourn'.
1968 - The Supremes' and the Temptations' "TCB (Takin' Care of Business") special aired on NBC-TV.
1968 - The computer mouse makes its public debut.
1964 – Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Wilfrid Hyde-White starred in the film adaptation of My Fair Lady which commenced screening in Australia. A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society
1962 - "Lawrence of Arabia," by David Lean had its world premiere in London.
1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
1960 – Stanley Kubrik directed Spartacus which commenced screening in Australia. It starred Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons and Peter Ustinov. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire.
1960 - The first episode of "Coronation Street" was screened on UK’s ITV.
1960 - Sperry Rand Corporation of St. Paul, MN unveiled a new computer, known as Univac 1107. The electronic wizard employed what was known as thin-film memory.
1953 - Frank Sinatra recorded Young at Heart. The song was turned down by Nat ‘King’ Cole and other artists, believe it or not. It became a top hit in the U.S. in March of 1954.
1938 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Merbabies is released. As the Disney Studios are too busy, this short is produced by Harman-Ising Studios - Walt's former Laugh-O-Grams colleagues.
1933 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Night Before Christmas, based on Clement C. Moore's classic poem, is released.
1931 - Disney's Christmas-themed Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Orphans is released. It will be nominated for an Academy Award - Short Subjects/Cartoons. Ironically it will lose to Disney's Flowers and Trees.
1884 - Levant Richardson of Chicago, IL received his patent for the ball-bearing roller skate.
1843 - First Christmas cards: They are created in England by John Calcott Horsley and featured a family feasting with the words "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You."
1793 - The first daily newspaper in New York City was founded by Noah Webster. The American Minerva was published for the first time this day.
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