TODAY IS ... 13 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1989 - Taylor Swift - an American country pop singer–songwriter, guitarist and actress. In 2008, her albums sold a combined four million copies, making her the best-selling musician of the year in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified Platinum several times by the Recording Industry Association of America.
1982 - Anthony Callea - an ARIA Award-winning Australian singer songwriter who rose to prominence in the 2004 season of Australian Idol when he became runner up. Anthony currently holds the record for both the highest and fastest-selling single in Australia for his debut release, "The Prayer". Anthony has accumulated a string of awards including an Aria Award, Channel V Artist of the Year, Pop Republic Artist of the Year, MTV Viewers' Choice Award, Variety's Young Entertainer of the Year, MO Award and a Gospel Music Award and is known for his powerful trained voice and his versatility in a range of genres in releases and live performances
1967 - Jamie Foxx - US actor, R&B singer and pianist, (2005 US No.1 and UK No.2 single ‘Gold Digger’ with Kanye West, 2006 US No.1 & UK No.9 album ‘Unpredictable’). Academy Award winner in 2005 for his performance of musician Ray Charles in Ray.
1957 - Steve Buscemi - actor: Lonesome Dove, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, The Hudsucker Proxy, Pulp Fiction, Desperado, Escape from L.A., Con Air, The Wedding Singer, The Big Lebowski, Armageddon, Franky Goes to Hollywood, The Laramie Project
1949 - Robert Lindsay - Tony Award-winning actor: Me and My Girl [1987]; film: Ghengis Cohn, Strike It Rich, Bert Rigby You’re a Fool
1929 - Christopher Plummer - an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. For his work in the film Ray, Foxx won the Academy Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actor. He has also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy and has been nominated for several Grammy Awards
1925 - Dick Van Dyke - an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the television series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis Murder.
OTHER EVENTS:
2007 - Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium starring Natalie Portman and Dustin Hoffman starts screening in Australia. Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium, the 243 year-old eccentric who owns the store, bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once remarkable Emporium.
2003 – During a performance at the Vatican, Lauryn Hill reads a statement criticizing the Catholic Church for harboring pedophilic priests. She says, there is “no acceptable explanation for defending the church.”
2002 - UK music channel Music Choice analysed all the Christmas No.1 singles from the past 30 years and identified criteria for their success. These included the use of sleigh bells, children singing, church bells harmony and references to love. They concluded that Sir Cliff Richards 1988 hit 'Misletoe and Wine' was the perfect Christmas hit.
2002 – Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
1999 – The performing rights group BMI proclaims the most-performed song of the century is the Righteous Brothers’ 1965 No. 1 “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.”
1999 - The Corvette Plant makes the 1000th delivery of a new Corvette via the National Corvette Museum, by regular production option R8C. The Corvette is a Millennium Yellow convertible.
1997 - The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Getty Center museum complex, built on a hilltop overlooking the San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles, was held this day. The public opening was held three days later (Dec 16) for the billion-dollar monument to art and architecture -- one of the largest arts centers in the United States.
1996 – Jerry Maguire opens in the theatres. This romantic saga of the lives and loves of a sports agent played by Tom Cruise is directed by former music journalist Cameron Crowe and features celeb pals like the Eagles’ Glenn Frey.
1986 - Bruce Hornsby & The Range went to No.1 on the US singles chart, with 'The Way It Is', a No.15 hit in the UK.
1985 - Phil Collins makes his U.S. T.V. acting debut, playing a drug dealer on "Miami Vice".
1985 - In a movie first, the murder mystery, Clue, opened in the US. The film featured three different endings. Newspaper ads indicated which ending was playing at which theatre.
1984 – Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey starts screening in Australia, It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
1973 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “The Most Beautiful Girl,” Charlie Rich.
1971 - Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, and Roddy McDowall opens in major U.S. Cinemas. Although set in Britain, the film was shot entirely on the Disney Studio lot in Burbank, California. It wins an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
1970 - Dave Edmunds was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the 1955 Smiley Lewis hit 'I Hear You Knocking.' The Welsh singer, songwriter and producers only No.1 hit.
1963 – Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress star in Fun In Acapulco Which started screening in Australia. Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work.
1962 - Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Return To Sender', his 13th UK No.1.
1961 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Lion Sleeps Tonight,'' The Tokens.
1956 – Animated movie The Lady and the Tramp commences screening in Australia. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
1955 - Australian housewife "superstar", Dame Edna Everage, makes her stage debut.
1955 - Dickie Valentine was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Christmas Alphabet', the first Christmas song to reach the No.1 position.
1950 – Annie Get Your Gun starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel starts screening in Australia. The story of the great sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, who rises to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial. James Dean is the guy that puts the money into the piano/jukebox.
1940 - Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Fire Chief is released. Donald's fire department, consisting of himself and his nephews, are unable to cope when their own building goes up in flames!
1930 - Last public appearance of prima ballerina Anna Pavlova.
1928 - George Gershwin's musical work "An American in Paris" was premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
1920 - First measurement of the diameter of a star (other than the Sun): Albert Michelson, of Mount Wilson Observatory, California, using his stellar interferometer, measures Betelgeuse (the bright red star in the right shoulder of Orion). It was 260 million miles in diameter.
1913 - Leonardo da Vinci’s La Gioconda or Mona Lisa was returned to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a two-year absence. The stolen painting was recovered and was valued at that time at $5,000,000. In 1962, appraisers set the value at one hundred million dollars. It is said that Mrs. Gioconda’s only payment for four years of modeling was free entertainment by jesters, players and singers
1903 - Molds for ice cream cones were patented by Italo Marcione of New York.
1816 - John Adamson of Boston, MA received a patent for a dry dock.
1759 - First U.S. music store: A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania music store, which had opened earlier in the year, begins advertising the sale of musical instruments and supplies.
1577 - Five ships under the command of Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth, England, to embark on Drake's circumnavigation of the globe. The journey took almost three years.
1982 - Anthony Callea - an ARIA Award-winning Australian singer songwriter who rose to prominence in the 2004 season of Australian Idol when he became runner up. Anthony currently holds the record for both the highest and fastest-selling single in Australia for his debut release, "The Prayer". Anthony has accumulated a string of awards including an Aria Award, Channel V Artist of the Year, Pop Republic Artist of the Year, MTV Viewers' Choice Award, Variety's Young Entertainer of the Year, MO Award and a Gospel Music Award and is known for his powerful trained voice and his versatility in a range of genres in releases and live performances
1967 - Jamie Foxx - US actor, R&B singer and pianist, (2005 US No.1 and UK No.2 single ‘Gold Digger’ with Kanye West, 2006 US No.1 & UK No.9 album ‘Unpredictable’). Academy Award winner in 2005 for his performance of musician Ray Charles in Ray.
1957 - Steve Buscemi - actor: Lonesome Dove, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, The Hudsucker Proxy, Pulp Fiction, Desperado, Escape from L.A., Con Air, The Wedding Singer, The Big Lebowski, Armageddon, Franky Goes to Hollywood, The Laramie Project
1949 - Robert Lindsay - Tony Award-winning actor: Me and My Girl [1987]; film: Ghengis Cohn, Strike It Rich, Bert Rigby You’re a Fool
1929 - Christopher Plummer - an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. For his work in the film Ray, Foxx won the Academy Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actor. He has also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy and has been nominated for several Grammy Awards
1925 - Dick Van Dyke - an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the television series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis Murder.
OTHER EVENTS:
2007 - Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium starring Natalie Portman and Dustin Hoffman starts screening in Australia. Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium, the 243 year-old eccentric who owns the store, bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once remarkable Emporium.
2003 – During a performance at the Vatican, Lauryn Hill reads a statement criticizing the Catholic Church for harboring pedophilic priests. She says, there is “no acceptable explanation for defending the church.”
2002 - UK music channel Music Choice analysed all the Christmas No.1 singles from the past 30 years and identified criteria for their success. These included the use of sleigh bells, children singing, church bells harmony and references to love. They concluded that Sir Cliff Richards 1988 hit 'Misletoe and Wine' was the perfect Christmas hit.
2002 – Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
1999 – The performing rights group BMI proclaims the most-performed song of the century is the Righteous Brothers’ 1965 No. 1 “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.”
1999 - The Corvette Plant makes the 1000th delivery of a new Corvette via the National Corvette Museum, by regular production option R8C. The Corvette is a Millennium Yellow convertible.
1997 - The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Getty Center museum complex, built on a hilltop overlooking the San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles, was held this day. The public opening was held three days later (Dec 16) for the billion-dollar monument to art and architecture -- one of the largest arts centers in the United States.
1996 – Jerry Maguire opens in the theatres. This romantic saga of the lives and loves of a sports agent played by Tom Cruise is directed by former music journalist Cameron Crowe and features celeb pals like the Eagles’ Glenn Frey.
1986 - Bruce Hornsby & The Range went to No.1 on the US singles chart, with 'The Way It Is', a No.15 hit in the UK.
1985 - Phil Collins makes his U.S. T.V. acting debut, playing a drug dealer on "Miami Vice".
1985 - In a movie first, the murder mystery, Clue, opened in the US. The film featured three different endings. Newspaper ads indicated which ending was playing at which theatre.
1984 – Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and Jennifer Grey starts screening in Australia, It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
1973 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “The Most Beautiful Girl,” Charlie Rich.
1971 - Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, and Roddy McDowall opens in major U.S. Cinemas. Although set in Britain, the film was shot entirely on the Disney Studio lot in Burbank, California. It wins an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
1970 - Dave Edmunds was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the 1955 Smiley Lewis hit 'I Hear You Knocking.' The Welsh singer, songwriter and producers only No.1 hit.
1963 – Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress star in Fun In Acapulco Which started screening in Australia. Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work.
1962 - Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Return To Sender', his 13th UK No.1.
1961 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Lion Sleeps Tonight,'' The Tokens.
1956 – Animated movie The Lady and the Tramp commences screening in Australia. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
1955 - Australian housewife "superstar", Dame Edna Everage, makes her stage debut.
1955 - Dickie Valentine was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Christmas Alphabet', the first Christmas song to reach the No.1 position.
1950 – Annie Get Your Gun starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel starts screening in Australia. The story of the great sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, who rises to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial. James Dean is the guy that puts the money into the piano/jukebox.
1940 - Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Fire Chief is released. Donald's fire department, consisting of himself and his nephews, are unable to cope when their own building goes up in flames!
1930 - Last public appearance of prima ballerina Anna Pavlova.
1928 - George Gershwin's musical work "An American in Paris" was premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
1920 - First measurement of the diameter of a star (other than the Sun): Albert Michelson, of Mount Wilson Observatory, California, using his stellar interferometer, measures Betelgeuse (the bright red star in the right shoulder of Orion). It was 260 million miles in diameter.
1913 - Leonardo da Vinci’s La Gioconda or Mona Lisa was returned to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a two-year absence. The stolen painting was recovered and was valued at that time at $5,000,000. In 1962, appraisers set the value at one hundred million dollars. It is said that Mrs. Gioconda’s only payment for four years of modeling was free entertainment by jesters, players and singers
1903 - Molds for ice cream cones were patented by Italo Marcione of New York.
1816 - John Adamson of Boston, MA received a patent for a dry dock.
1759 - First U.S. music store: A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania music store, which had opened earlier in the year, begins advertising the sale of musical instruments and supplies.
1577 - Five ships under the command of Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth, England, to embark on Drake's circumnavigation of the globe. The journey took almost three years.
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