TODAY IS ... 10 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1985 - Raven-Symoné - an American actress, singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and television producer. She is best known for her television roles as Olivia Kendall on The Cosby Show, Nicole Lee on Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Galleria Garibaldi on The Cheetah Girls and The Cheetah Girls 2, and as Raven Baxter on her own show, That's So Raven.
1983 - Patrick Flueger - an American actor - first significant role was in the Disney film The Princess Diaries. Next followed several television appearances, including JAG, Law and Order SVU, and CSI Miami. He then landed the role of Shawn Farrell, in the USA Network series The 4400.
1978 - Summer Phoenix - an American actress and model. She had guest spots in Murder She Wrote, Growing Pains and Airwolf. She appeared in the TV movie Kate's Secret and in Russkies, playing the younger sister of real life brother Joaquin. Phoenix appeared in Wasted, The Laramie Project, SLC Punk!, Dinner Rush, The Believer, and The Faculty. She played leads in Esther Kahn (2000) and Suzie Gold (2004). Summer is married to Casey Affleck
1960 - Kenneth Branagh – Irish actor - best known for his film adaptations of William Shakespeare, beginning with Henry V (1989), followed by Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), Love's Labour's Lost (2000) and As You Like It (2006). As You Like It premiered in theatres in Europe, but was sent directly to television in the U.S., where it had its U.S. premiere on HBO in August 2007. Although Branagh played Iago in the 1995 film version of Othello, he did not direct the film; it was directed by Oliver Parker.
1957 - Michael Duncan - an American actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
1952 - Susan Dey - an American actress, known primarily for her roles in film and television. Dey is known for her roles as eldest daughter Laurie Partridge on the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, and as Grace Van Owen, a California assistant district attorney and judge on the dramatic series L.A. Law, a role she played from 1986 to 1992.
1941 - Tommy Kirk - Besides taking part in TV's the Mickey Mouse Club he appeared in such Disney film classics as Old Yeller, Babes in Toyland, and Son of Flubber.
1928 - Dan Blocker - an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric "Hoss" Cartwright in the NBC western television blockbuster Bonanza. Also was in Cimarron City, Come Blow Your Horn, Lady in Cement, Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1914 – Dorothy Lamour - Best known for her roles in the Road movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Lamour, with her clingy sarongs, was a popular pin-up during World War II. In addition to her seven Road movies, which include Road to Zanzibar and Road to Morocco, Lamour's films include Typhoon and Duffy's Tavern. During World War II, she toured the country selling $300 million in United States War Bonds.
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 – Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Julia Ormond, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starts screening in Australia. Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
2005 – Legendary singer and 22-time Grammy award winner Stevie Wonder is honored at the Grammy Jam at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. The event also features performances by India.Arie, Eric Benet, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, Slash, Chris Brown, Angie Stone, Tamia and Aaron Neville, among others.
2004 - One of three RCA microphones used by radio station KWKH for the historic Elvis Presley appearance at the Louisiana Hayride was sold for $37,500. The microphone was one of three used during 50 performances by Elvis Presley when he performed for the radio show in Shreveport from 1954 to 1956.
2003 – R. Kelly and Beyonce both win four awards at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.
2003 – A spokesperson for a Californian County Clerk’s office confirms that Coldplay’s Chris Martin has secretly married actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
2003 – Alicia Keys sells 618,000 copies of The Diary of Alicia Keys to top the album charts.
2003 – Stevie Wonder is on hand in Las Vegas to present the Century Award to Sting at the 2003 Chart Toppers Music Awards. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the show airs live on Fox. Beyonce and R. Kelly are the big winners, each snaring four trophies, while Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz, Shania Twain and 50 Cent each took home three awards.
2000 - The Emperor's New Groove - Disney's 39th animated feature - has its world premiere.
2000 - Westlife scooped the Record of the Year award at the Smash Hits awards for 'My Love'. Other winners included Atomic Kitten, for best new band, best new male went to Craig David, best British band, 5ive and Best Female Britney Spears.
1999 – At a concert in London with Attraction Steve Nieve on keyboards, Elvis Costello debuts songs he’s written for the musical The Delivery Man. He tells the audience that the musical focuses on three women’s lives and loves.
1998 – Babe : Pig In The City starring Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell and Mickey Rooney commences screening on Australia. Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm
1998 - The Amnesty International Concert for Human Rights Defenders took place at Bercy Stadium in Paris, France. The lineup included Alanis Morissette, Radiohead, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Shania Twain.
1998 - Six astronauts swung open the doors to the new international space station, becoming the first guests aboard the 250-mile-high outpost.
1996 – The New York Post quotes a source close to ailing performer Frank Sinatra as saying that Ol’ Blues Eyes will never perform again. In early November, Sinatra was hospitalized for more than a week for what a spokesperson said was a pinched nerve. However, the Post quoted unidentified friends of Sinatra as saying his wife, Barbara, told them he had suffered a stroke in the hospital.
1996 – Michael Jackson arrives in Tokyo for his fifth visit to Japan. The self-proclaimed King Of Pop is scheduled to perform four days at the 56,000-seat Tokyo Dome.
1996 - South Africa's President Mandela signed into law a new democratic constitution, completing the country's transition from white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy.
1994 - East 17 : Stay Another Day : UK single
1994 - Kenny G’s Miracles: The Holiday Album was number one in the U.S. It became the best selling Christmas album in history, selling over 8 million albums as of 2000.
1993 - The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed the repaired Hubble Space Telescope into Earth's orbit.
1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
1992 - Home Alone 2: Lost In New York starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Catherine O'Hara starts screening in Australia. Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground.
1990 – Janet Jackson is the big winner at the first Chart Toppers Music Awards, taking home trophies in eight categories. Other multiple winners are New Kids on the Block, Randy Travis, Clint Black and Phil Collins.
1988 - Cliff Richard had his 12th UK No.1 single with 'Mistletoe And Wine.' His first solo No.1 for 9 years and the best selling single of 1988.
1988 - Chicago’s "Look Away" was the #1 single in the U.S. It was one of three top-ten hits from the "Chicago 19" album (the others were "I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love" and "You’re Not Alone").
1986 - Exxon announced the sale of its Manhattan landmark, the 53-story Exxon Building, to a Japanese real estate developer. The price tag was $610 million
1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.
1983 - The first 'Now That's What I Call Music' compilation album went to No.1 on the UK album chart.
1982 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Mickey,” Toni Basil. Basil is an actress and choreographer whose film credits include “Village of the Giants,” “Head” and “American Grafitti.”
1982 - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise commenced screening in Australia. Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.
1981 - A mysterious epidemic, which has been discovered in homosexual men, is causing increasing concern in the United States. The unknown condition, which consists of two separate diseases - a form of pneumonia and skin cancer, has been found in 180 patients in 15 states since last July.
1976 - A three-record set of live performances from the U.S. Wings tour, "Wings over America," summarizes Paul McCartney's post-Beatles career with its 30-song selection, is released. The compilation with includes "My Love," "Silly Love Songs," "Titanium Man" and "Maybe I'm Amazed," reaches Number One.
1972 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Me and Mrs. Jones,” Billy Paul.
1971 - Singer Frank Zappa is pushed off a London stage by a fan. He suffered a broken leg and ankle and a fractured skull.
1967 - The Steve Miller Blues Band, an unrecorded San Francisco group via Texas and Chicago, signs with Capitol Records for an unheard of $750,000. In doing so, the group drops the "Blues" from its name.
1965 – Genghis Khan started screening on Australia. Starring Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason and Telly Savalas, it was directed by Henry Levin.
1964 - The Beatles had their sixth UK No.1 single with 'I Feel Fine', also a US No.1.
1964 - Rev. Martin Luther King became a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace. He was the youngest person to have won the award
1963 - Donny Osmond made his debut with the Osmonds on NBC's "Andy Williams Show."
1961 - The film 'The Young Ones', featuring Cliff Richard premiered in London.
1959 – King Vidor directed Solomon and Sheba starring Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida and George Sanders which started screening in Australia. Shortly before his death in ancient Israel King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king.
HARRY BELAFONTE IN ALMANAC
1950 - William Faulkner presented his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm, in which he said that "the only thing worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat," were the "problems of the human heart in conflict with itself."
1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.
1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1937 - Disney's 9-minute Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Ostrich is released.
1932 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Santa's Workshop,directed by Wilfred Jackson, is released.
1930 - Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded the haunting Mood Indigo on Victor Records. It became one of the Duke’s most famous standards.
1910 - Tenor Enrico Caruso and conductor Arturo Toscanini were featured at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the world premiere of Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West.
Enrico Caruso
1898 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire, the Philippines.
1896 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel died in San Remo, Italy. He was a Swedish chemist who invented dynamite. In his in his will he stipulated that income from his $9 million estate be used for annual prizes for people judged to have made valuable humanitarian deeds.
1845 - Pneumatic tires were patented by Scottish civil engineer Robert Thompson.
1810 - The first interracial, title boxing bout was staged at Copthall Common in England. An American, Tom Molineaux, lost to Tom Cribb on a fluke punch. The fight went 40 rounds!
1983 - Patrick Flueger - an American actor - first significant role was in the Disney film The Princess Diaries. Next followed several television appearances, including JAG, Law and Order SVU, and CSI Miami. He then landed the role of Shawn Farrell, in the USA Network series The 4400.
1978 - Summer Phoenix - an American actress and model. She had guest spots in Murder She Wrote, Growing Pains and Airwolf. She appeared in the TV movie Kate's Secret and in Russkies, playing the younger sister of real life brother Joaquin. Phoenix appeared in Wasted, The Laramie Project, SLC Punk!, Dinner Rush, The Believer, and The Faculty. She played leads in Esther Kahn (2000) and Suzie Gold (2004). Summer is married to Casey Affleck
1960 - Kenneth Branagh – Irish actor - best known for his film adaptations of William Shakespeare, beginning with Henry V (1989), followed by Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), Love's Labour's Lost (2000) and As You Like It (2006). As You Like It premiered in theatres in Europe, but was sent directly to television in the U.S., where it had its U.S. premiere on HBO in August 2007. Although Branagh played Iago in the 1995 film version of Othello, he did not direct the film; it was directed by Oliver Parker.
1957 - Michael Duncan - an American actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
1952 - Susan Dey - an American actress, known primarily for her roles in film and television. Dey is known for her roles as eldest daughter Laurie Partridge on the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, and as Grace Van Owen, a California assistant district attorney and judge on the dramatic series L.A. Law, a role she played from 1986 to 1992.
1941 - Tommy Kirk - Besides taking part in TV's the Mickey Mouse Club he appeared in such Disney film classics as Old Yeller, Babes in Toyland, and Son of Flubber.
1928 - Dan Blocker - an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric "Hoss" Cartwright in the NBC western television blockbuster Bonanza. Also was in Cimarron City, Come Blow Your Horn, Lady in Cement, Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1914 – Dorothy Lamour - Best known for her roles in the Road movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Lamour, with her clingy sarongs, was a popular pin-up during World War II. In addition to her seven Road movies, which include Road to Zanzibar and Road to Morocco, Lamour's films include Typhoon and Duffy's Tavern. During World War II, she toured the country selling $300 million in United States War Bonds.
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 – Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Julia Ormond, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starts screening in Australia. Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
2005 – Legendary singer and 22-time Grammy award winner Stevie Wonder is honored at the Grammy Jam at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. The event also features performances by India.Arie, Eric Benet, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, Slash, Chris Brown, Angie Stone, Tamia and Aaron Neville, among others.
2004 - One of three RCA microphones used by radio station KWKH for the historic Elvis Presley appearance at the Louisiana Hayride was sold for $37,500. The microphone was one of three used during 50 performances by Elvis Presley when he performed for the radio show in Shreveport from 1954 to 1956.
2003 – R. Kelly and Beyonce both win four awards at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.
2003 – A spokesperson for a Californian County Clerk’s office confirms that Coldplay’s Chris Martin has secretly married actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
2003 – Alicia Keys sells 618,000 copies of The Diary of Alicia Keys to top the album charts.
2003 – Stevie Wonder is on hand in Las Vegas to present the Century Award to Sting at the 2003 Chart Toppers Music Awards. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the show airs live on Fox. Beyonce and R. Kelly are the big winners, each snaring four trophies, while Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz, Shania Twain and 50 Cent each took home three awards.
2000 - The Emperor's New Groove - Disney's 39th animated feature - has its world premiere.
2000 - Westlife scooped the Record of the Year award at the Smash Hits awards for 'My Love'. Other winners included Atomic Kitten, for best new band, best new male went to Craig David, best British band, 5ive and Best Female Britney Spears.
1999 – At a concert in London with Attraction Steve Nieve on keyboards, Elvis Costello debuts songs he’s written for the musical The Delivery Man. He tells the audience that the musical focuses on three women’s lives and loves.
1998 – Babe : Pig In The City starring Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell and Mickey Rooney commences screening on Australia. Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm
1998 - The Amnesty International Concert for Human Rights Defenders took place at Bercy Stadium in Paris, France. The lineup included Alanis Morissette, Radiohead, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Shania Twain.
1998 - Six astronauts swung open the doors to the new international space station, becoming the first guests aboard the 250-mile-high outpost.
1996 – The New York Post quotes a source close to ailing performer Frank Sinatra as saying that Ol’ Blues Eyes will never perform again. In early November, Sinatra was hospitalized for more than a week for what a spokesperson said was a pinched nerve. However, the Post quoted unidentified friends of Sinatra as saying his wife, Barbara, told them he had suffered a stroke in the hospital.
1996 – Michael Jackson arrives in Tokyo for his fifth visit to Japan. The self-proclaimed King Of Pop is scheduled to perform four days at the 56,000-seat Tokyo Dome.
1996 - South Africa's President Mandela signed into law a new democratic constitution, completing the country's transition from white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy.
1994 - East 17 : Stay Another Day : UK single
1994 - Kenny G’s Miracles: The Holiday Album was number one in the U.S. It became the best selling Christmas album in history, selling over 8 million albums as of 2000.
1993 - The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed the repaired Hubble Space Telescope into Earth's orbit.
1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
1992 - Home Alone 2: Lost In New York starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Catherine O'Hara starts screening in Australia. Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground.
1990 – Janet Jackson is the big winner at the first Chart Toppers Music Awards, taking home trophies in eight categories. Other multiple winners are New Kids on the Block, Randy Travis, Clint Black and Phil Collins.
1988 - Cliff Richard had his 12th UK No.1 single with 'Mistletoe And Wine.' His first solo No.1 for 9 years and the best selling single of 1988.
1988 - Chicago’s "Look Away" was the #1 single in the U.S. It was one of three top-ten hits from the "Chicago 19" album (the others were "I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love" and "You’re Not Alone").
1986 - Exxon announced the sale of its Manhattan landmark, the 53-story Exxon Building, to a Japanese real estate developer. The price tag was $610 million
1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.
1983 - The first 'Now That's What I Call Music' compilation album went to No.1 on the UK album chart.
1982 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Mickey,” Toni Basil. Basil is an actress and choreographer whose film credits include “Village of the Giants,” “Head” and “American Grafitti.”
1982 - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise commenced screening in Australia. Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.
1981 - A mysterious epidemic, which has been discovered in homosexual men, is causing increasing concern in the United States. The unknown condition, which consists of two separate diseases - a form of pneumonia and skin cancer, has been found in 180 patients in 15 states since last July.
1976 - A three-record set of live performances from the U.S. Wings tour, "Wings over America," summarizes Paul McCartney's post-Beatles career with its 30-song selection, is released. The compilation with includes "My Love," "Silly Love Songs," "Titanium Man" and "Maybe I'm Amazed," reaches Number One.
1972 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Me and Mrs. Jones,” Billy Paul.
1971 - Singer Frank Zappa is pushed off a London stage by a fan. He suffered a broken leg and ankle and a fractured skull.
1967 - The Steve Miller Blues Band, an unrecorded San Francisco group via Texas and Chicago, signs with Capitol Records for an unheard of $750,000. In doing so, the group drops the "Blues" from its name.
1965 – Genghis Khan started screening on Australia. Starring Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason and Telly Savalas, it was directed by Henry Levin.
1964 - The Beatles had their sixth UK No.1 single with 'I Feel Fine', also a US No.1.
1964 - Rev. Martin Luther King became a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace. He was the youngest person to have won the award
1963 - Donny Osmond made his debut with the Osmonds on NBC's "Andy Williams Show."
1961 - The film 'The Young Ones', featuring Cliff Richard premiered in London.
1959 – King Vidor directed Solomon and Sheba starring Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida and George Sanders which started screening in Australia. Shortly before his death in ancient Israel King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king.
1953 - Harry Belafonte debuted on Broadway in Almanac at the Imperial Theatre. Critics hailed Belafonte’s performance as “electrifyingly sincere.” Also starring in the show: Hermione Gingold, Billy DeWolfe, Polly Bergen and Orson Bean.
HARRY BELAFONTE IN ALMANAC
1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.
1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1937 - Disney's 9-minute Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Ostrich is released.
1932 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Santa's Workshop,directed by Wilfred Jackson, is released.
1930 - Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded the haunting Mood Indigo on Victor Records. It became one of the Duke’s most famous standards.
1910 - Tenor Enrico Caruso and conductor Arturo Toscanini were featured at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the world premiere of Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West.
Enrico Caruso
1845 - Pneumatic tires were patented by Scottish civil engineer Robert Thompson.
1810 - The first interracial, title boxing bout was staged at Copthall Common in England. An American, Tom Molineaux, lost to Tom Cribb on a fluke punch. The fight went 40 rounds!
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