TODAY IS ... 14 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1988 - Vanessa Hudgens - an American actress and singer. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, Hudgens made her screen debut in the 2003 drama film Thirteen as Noel. She next starred in the 2004 science-fiction-adventure film Thunderbirds. Hudgens' most prominent role was as Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series. She earned critical acclaim in the 2009 film Bandslam.
1979 - Sophie Monk - an English-Australian pop singer, actress and model. She was once a member of female pop group Bardot and has since established a solo career with the release of an album, Calendar Girl. More recently, she turned her hand to acting, appearing in films such as Date Movie and Click.
1976 - Tammy Blanchard - an American actress working primarily in films and television, getting her professional start in the soap opera Guiding Light. For her first stage appearance, she played the role of Louise/Gypsy in the musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, for which she earned both a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award. She received the Emmy Award for her role as Judy Garland in the television movie Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.
1964 - Rebecca Gibney - a Gold Logie Award-winning Australian actress.: Halifax f.p. From August 2008, Rebecca was seen as the female lead ON NEW Australian TV show Packed to the Rafters. She plays the role of the mother Julie Rafter.
1963 - Cynthia Gibb - actress: Gypsy, Death Warrant, Malone, Jack’s Back, Youngblood, Modern Girls, Stardust Memories, Madman of the People, Fame
1946 – Patty Duke - an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was able to make the rare successful transition from child star (winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16) to award-winning adult actress. She was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild (1985 to 1988). Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder or manic depression in 1982, and since then has devoted most of her time to advocating and educating the public on mental health issues. Academy Award-winning actress: The Miracle Worker [1962]; Emmy: Captains and the Kings [1976-1977]. Patty is the mother of actor Sean Astin.
1946 - Jane Birkin - actress: French Intrigue, La Belle Noiseise, Le Petit Amour, Evil Under the Sun, Death on the Nile, Catherine & Co., Romance of a Horsethief, Blowup
1935 - Lee Remick - an American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and The Omen (1976).
1913 - Dan Dailey - an American dancer and actor. In 1950, he starred in A Ticket to Tomahawk, often noted as one of the first screen appearances of Marilyn Monroe, in a very small part as a dance-hall girl. In 1953, Dailey starred in Meet Me at the Fair. One of his notable roles was in There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, and Johnnie Ray.
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and almost got struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.
2006 - Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich star in Eragon which commenced screening in Australia. In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
2005 – 61-year-old Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page is made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his work with Brazilian street children.
2004 - The Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest vehicular bridge, is opened.
2000 – Starring Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, Clare Kramer and Jesse Bradford, Bring It On starts screening in Australia. A champion high school cheerleading squad discovers its previous captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school and must scramble to compete at this year's championships.
2000 - America Online and Time Warner merge in an $111 billion deal.
2000 – The star-studded concert Jingle Ball 2000 concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden is hosted by Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson and features performances by Ricky Martin, Third Eye Blind, Baha Men, 98 Degrees, Barenaked Ladies, Mya, Nine Days, Evan & Jaron, Son By Four and special guest Britney Spears.
1999 – It is announced that BMI has named “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” as the No. 1 composition on the performing rights group’s list of “Top 100 Songs Of The Century.”
1999 - Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1999 - U.S. and German negotiators agreed to establish a fund of $5.2 billion for Nazi-era slave and forced laborers. The breakthrough in the months-long negotiations came after the German government raised its offer to $2.6 billion, equaling the amount already pledged by industry to compensate those forced to work for Hitler's war machine.
1996 - Boyzone scored their second UK No.1 single when 'A Different Beat', the title track of the Irish boy bands second album.
1995 – Starring Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving and James Cromwell, Babe starts to screen in Australia. Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
1993 - Sidewalk of Stars: Radio City Music Hall unveils its "Sidewalk of Stars" in New York, with Liza Minnelli receiving the first star.
1991 – Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” debuts at No. 1 on Chart Toppers’s pop albums chart.
1986 - Elton John records a live version of "Candle in the Wind" in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The song is released as a single and hits #6 on the chart.
1986 - First nonstop around-the-world flight without refueling begins, by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flying the aircraft Voyager, finishing on December 23.
1985 - Whitney Houston scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Saving All My Love For You'. The song had been a minor hit for Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. in 1978 and was also a US No.1 for Houston.
1985 - Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
1984 – Dune starring Francesca Annis, Brad Dourif and José Ferrer starts screening in Australia. In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology as one of his weapons
1977 - "Saturday Night Fever" premieres in New York City. The flick is instrumental in spreading the disco craze throughout the country. The soundtrack is full of recent and soon-to-be dance hits by the Bee Gees, the Trammps, Kool & the Gang, MFSB, K.C. & the Sunshine Band and Yvonne Elliman. It will be one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.
1972 - Alexander's department store in New York stays open especially late so Alice Cooper, wearing silver pants and a "Paul Lives" button, can do his Christmas shopping.
1970 - Golfing great Lee Trevino had won only two tournaments during the year; but became the top golf money-winner with $157,037 in earnings for the year.
1970 - George Harrison received a gold record for his single, My Sweet Lord.
1969 - The Jackson Five made their first network television appearance in the US when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1968 - Marvin Gaye scored his first US No.1 single when 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' started a five-week run at the top. It was Marvin's 15th solo hit and also his first UK No.1 single in March 69..
1962 - The U.S. Mariner 2 spacecraft beams the first close-up photographs of Venus
1957 – Sean Connery starred as James Bond in You Only Live Twice which started screening in Australia. Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.
1966 – The Elvis Presley film “Spinout,” co-starring Shelley Fabares, premieres.
1959 - The Kingston Trio started an eight-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Here We Go Again!'
1959 - "Heartaches by the Number" by Guy Mitchell topped the US charts and stayed there for 2 weeks.
1959 - Motown Record Company, the first large Black-owned music company in America was founded. It was also the source of a variant of Black popular music that earned wide acclaim in the 1960s. Motown was founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy Jr., a successful rhythm-and-blues songwriter. The company enjoyed local success and scored its first nationwide hits with singles by two of its earliest musical groups, the Miracles’ "Shop Around" (1960) and the Marvelette’s "Please Mr. Postman" (1961).
1959 - A report by the Ohio State University Research Center states that though rock & roll is the overwhelming favorite of 14 to 18 year olds, more adults aged 19 to 70 list it as their least favorite form of music
1951 - Disney's Donald Duck short Bee on Guard is released.
1944 - MGM released the movie National Velvet. Elizabeth Taylor starred as Velvet Brown.
1935 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Broken Toys is released.
1928 - America’s original Funny Girl, Fanny Brice, recorded If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain), a song from the play, My Man -- on Victor Records.
1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first European to reach the South Pole.
1902 - The Silverton set sail from the Bay Area. The ship was about to lay the first telephone cable between San Francisco and Honolulu. The project was completed by January 1, 1903.
1979 - Sophie Monk - an English-Australian pop singer, actress and model. She was once a member of female pop group Bardot and has since established a solo career with the release of an album, Calendar Girl. More recently, she turned her hand to acting, appearing in films such as Date Movie and Click.
1976 - Tammy Blanchard - an American actress working primarily in films and television, getting her professional start in the soap opera Guiding Light. For her first stage appearance, she played the role of Louise/Gypsy in the musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, for which she earned both a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award. She received the Emmy Award for her role as Judy Garland in the television movie Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.
1964 - Rebecca Gibney - a Gold Logie Award-winning Australian actress.: Halifax f.p. From August 2008, Rebecca was seen as the female lead ON NEW Australian TV show Packed to the Rafters. She plays the role of the mother Julie Rafter.
1963 - Cynthia Gibb - actress: Gypsy, Death Warrant, Malone, Jack’s Back, Youngblood, Modern Girls, Stardust Memories, Madman of the People, Fame
1946 – Patty Duke - an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was able to make the rare successful transition from child star (winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16) to award-winning adult actress. She was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild (1985 to 1988). Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder or manic depression in 1982, and since then has devoted most of her time to advocating and educating the public on mental health issues. Academy Award-winning actress: The Miracle Worker [1962]; Emmy: Captains and the Kings [1976-1977]. Patty is the mother of actor Sean Astin.
1946 - Jane Birkin - actress: French Intrigue, La Belle Noiseise, Le Petit Amour, Evil Under the Sun, Death on the Nile, Catherine & Co., Romance of a Horsethief, Blowup
1935 - Lee Remick - an American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and The Omen (1976).
1913 - Dan Dailey - an American dancer and actor. In 1950, he starred in A Ticket to Tomahawk, often noted as one of the first screen appearances of Marilyn Monroe, in a very small part as a dance-hall girl. In 1953, Dailey starred in Meet Me at the Fair. One of his notable roles was in There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, and Johnnie Ray.
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and almost got struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.
2006 - Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich star in Eragon which commenced screening in Australia. In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
2005 – 61-year-old Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page is made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his work with Brazilian street children.
2004 - The Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest vehicular bridge, is opened.
2000 – Starring Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, Clare Kramer and Jesse Bradford, Bring It On starts screening in Australia. A champion high school cheerleading squad discovers its previous captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school and must scramble to compete at this year's championships.
2000 - America Online and Time Warner merge in an $111 billion deal.
2000 – The star-studded concert Jingle Ball 2000 concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden is hosted by Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson and features performances by Ricky Martin, Third Eye Blind, Baha Men, 98 Degrees, Barenaked Ladies, Mya, Nine Days, Evan & Jaron, Son By Four and special guest Britney Spears.
1999 – It is announced that BMI has named “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” as the No. 1 composition on the performing rights group’s list of “Top 100 Songs Of The Century.”
1999 - Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1999 - U.S. and German negotiators agreed to establish a fund of $5.2 billion for Nazi-era slave and forced laborers. The breakthrough in the months-long negotiations came after the German government raised its offer to $2.6 billion, equaling the amount already pledged by industry to compensate those forced to work for Hitler's war machine.
1996 - Boyzone scored their second UK No.1 single when 'A Different Beat', the title track of the Irish boy bands second album.
1995 – Starring Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving and James Cromwell, Babe starts to screen in Australia. Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
1993 - Sidewalk of Stars: Radio City Music Hall unveils its "Sidewalk of Stars" in New York, with Liza Minnelli receiving the first star.
1991 – Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” debuts at No. 1 on Chart Toppers’s pop albums chart.
1986 - Elton John records a live version of "Candle in the Wind" in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The song is released as a single and hits #6 on the chart.
1986 - First nonstop around-the-world flight without refueling begins, by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flying the aircraft Voyager, finishing on December 23.
1985 - Whitney Houston scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Saving All My Love For You'. The song had been a minor hit for Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. in 1978 and was also a US No.1 for Houston.
1985 - Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
1984 – Dune starring Francesca Annis, Brad Dourif and José Ferrer starts screening in Australia. In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology as one of his weapons
1977 - "Saturday Night Fever" premieres in New York City. The flick is instrumental in spreading the disco craze throughout the country. The soundtrack is full of recent and soon-to-be dance hits by the Bee Gees, the Trammps, Kool & the Gang, MFSB, K.C. & the Sunshine Band and Yvonne Elliman. It will be one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.
1972 - Alexander's department store in New York stays open especially late so Alice Cooper, wearing silver pants and a "Paul Lives" button, can do his Christmas shopping.
1970 - Golfing great Lee Trevino had won only two tournaments during the year; but became the top golf money-winner with $157,037 in earnings for the year.
1970 - George Harrison received a gold record for his single, My Sweet Lord.
1969 - The Jackson Five made their first network television appearance in the US when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1968 - Marvin Gaye scored his first US No.1 single when 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' started a five-week run at the top. It was Marvin's 15th solo hit and also his first UK No.1 single in March 69..
1962 - The U.S. Mariner 2 spacecraft beams the first close-up photographs of Venus
1957 – Sean Connery starred as James Bond in You Only Live Twice which started screening in Australia. Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.
1966 – The Elvis Presley film “Spinout,” co-starring Shelley Fabares, premieres.
1959 - The Kingston Trio started an eight-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Here We Go Again!'
1959 - "Heartaches by the Number" by Guy Mitchell topped the US charts and stayed there for 2 weeks.
1959 - Motown Record Company, the first large Black-owned music company in America was founded. It was also the source of a variant of Black popular music that earned wide acclaim in the 1960s. Motown was founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy Jr., a successful rhythm-and-blues songwriter. The company enjoyed local success and scored its first nationwide hits with singles by two of its earliest musical groups, the Miracles’ "Shop Around" (1960) and the Marvelette’s "Please Mr. Postman" (1961).
1959 - A report by the Ohio State University Research Center states that though rock & roll is the overwhelming favorite of 14 to 18 year olds, more adults aged 19 to 70 list it as their least favorite form of music
1951 - Disney's Donald Duck short Bee on Guard is released.
1944 - MGM released the movie National Velvet. Elizabeth Taylor starred as Velvet Brown.
1935 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon Broken Toys is released.
1928 - America’s original Funny Girl, Fanny Brice, recorded If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain), a song from the play, My Man -- on Victor Records.
1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first European to reach the South Pole.
1902 - The Silverton set sail from the Bay Area. The ship was about to lay the first telephone cable between San Francisco and Honolulu. The project was completed by January 1, 1903.
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