TODAY IS ... 15 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1979 - Adam Brody - an American film and television actor and part time musician. He began his career in 1995, appearing on the Gilmore Girls and other series and subsequently came to fame for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C., establishing his defining screen persona. Brody has also appeared in several film roles, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, Jennifer's Body, and In the Land of Women.
1970 - Michael Shanks - actor: Stargate SG-1, The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon, Escape from Mars, Suspicious River, Mr. Fortune’s Smile, The Artist's Circle
1961 - Nick Beggs - a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard. With Kajagoogoo, (1983 UK No.1 single 'Too Shy').
1949 - Don Johnson - an American actor known for his work in television and film. Johnson made his screen debut in the 1970 film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart. He played the lead role of Sonny Crockett in the 1980s TV cop series, Miami Vice, which led him to huge success and fame. He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, Nash Bridges. Johnson is a Golden Globe winning actor for his role in Miami Vice.
1945 - Thaao Penghlis - an Australian actor known for roles in the U.S. daytime soap operas such as Days of our Lives, Santa Barbara, and General Hospital, but he has also guest-starred on a number of crime dramas, such as Kojak, Cannon, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Hart to Hart, Nero Wolfe, and Magnum, P.I..
1933 - Tim Conway - an American comedian and actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television. Conway is best-known for his roles as Ernest Borgnine's inept second-in-command officer, Ensign Charles Parker, in the popular 1960s WWII sitcom, McHale's Navy, and for co-starring alongside Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show.
1832 – Gustav Eiffel - French civil engineer who specialised in metal structures, known especially for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He built his first of his iron bridges at Bordeaux (1858) and was among the first engineers to build bridge foundations using compressed-air caissons. His work includes designing the rotatable dome for Nice Observatory on the summit of Mont Gros (1886), and the framework for the Statue of Liberty now in New York Harbour. After building the Eiffel Tower (1887-9), which he used for scientific research on meteorology, aerodynamics and radio telegraphy, he also built the first aerodynamic laboratory at Auteuil, outside Paris, where he pursued his research work without interruption during WW I
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - Chuck Berry's St. Louis home (where he wrote many of his hits) is placed on the US National Register of Historic Places
2006 - B.B. King is given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House.
2002 - Blue featuring Elton John went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word.' Previously a No.11 hit for Elton in 1976. It gave Elton only his 5th No 1 after over 30 years of hits!
2001 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is reopened after extensive restoration work to correct too much lean.
2001 - It was announced that Siena Heights University would begin offering a class called "Animated Philosophy and Religion." The two-credit class would cover how religion and philosophy are part of popular culture and is based on the television series "The Simpsons."
2000 - New York Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to accept an $8 million book deal with Simon & Schuster. The book was to be about her eight years in the White House. The advance was the highest ever to be paid to a member of the U.S. Congress.
1997 - 'Spice World The Movie', featuring The Spice Girls premiered at The Empire, Leicester Sq, London. The following year it was nominated for the 'worst film' at the Golden Raspberry Awards.
1995 - The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to take over the peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.
1993 - The prime ministers of Britain and the Republic of Ireland (John Major and Albert Reynolds respectively) made the "Downing Street Declaration," stating the basis for trying to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.
1988 - Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer in the Australian film Young Einstein which commenced screening in Australia. Yahoo Serious played the role of Albert Einstein.
1988 – Starting screening in Australia was Willow starring Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley and Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood. A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.
1986 - Violinist Isaac Stern arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to cut the ribbon for the renovated Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1983 – Sean Connery, Kim Bassinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Max von Sydow star in Never Say Never Again which started screening in Australia. A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
1979 - Pink Floyd started a five week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Another Brick In The Wall, (part 2),' their only UK chart topper.
1973 - David Cassidy went to No.1 on the UK album chart with his third solo album 'Dreams Are Nothin More Than Wishes.'
1970 - The Soviet probe Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to land softly on the surface of Venus. The probe only survived the extreme heat and pressure for about 23 minutes and transmitted the first date received on Earth from the surface of another planet.
1967 - The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" LP goes gold.
1964 - Canada's House of Commons approved a newly designed flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag.
1959 - The Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" in New York City, the first time they've recorded outside of Nashville and the first time they've recorded with strings.
1958 - In its year-end survey, Billboard rates the top pop tune of 1958 as Domenico Modugno's "Volare," the top R&B tune as Chuck Willis' "Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes," the best selling LP as the original cast album of "My Fair Lady" and the best-selling EP as Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock."
1957 - Sammy Davis Jr. intiates a Westinghouse syndicated radio talk show with a "round-table" discussion of rock & roll. His guests are Columbia Records executive Mitch Miller and MGM Records president Arnold Maxim. When Davis and Miller blast rock & roll as "the comic books of music," Maxim takes an opposing viewpoint and says, "I don't see any end to rock & roll in the near future."
1956 - Elvis Presley gave his final performance on Louisiana Hayride, a live radio program that was broadcast on KWKH in Shreveport. Presley made 50 appearances on the show. At the end of the show, Horace Logan first made the now legendary phrase ‘Elvis has left the building’.
1954 - Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter was featured on Walt Disney’s TV series for the first time. Crockett was played by Fess Parker. It wasn’t long before the Davy Crockett craze brought a new number one song to the pop music charts. “Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.”
1950 - Disney releases the Donald Duck short Out on a Limb.
1949 - Birdland opened it entertainment doors. One of the top venues for jazz performances in the world, it is also an important step in the evolution in African-American musical history. During the mid-to-late 1920s, top musicians were moving to New York, and Birdland was launched as a result. Birdland has been the jazz Mecca in the United States. Charlie Parker served as the inspiration for Birdland, played on its opening night on Broadway, a few blocks west of 52nd Street.
1944 - A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major Glenn Miller disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel while en route to Paris. The true fate of the plane and its passengers has never been determined.
1941 - A musical standard was recorded this day on Victor Records. Lena Horne sang the torch classic that became her signature: Stormy Weather. “Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky. Stormy weather...”
1939 - Gone With the Wind premiered at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia on this day in 1939. It was the first movie premiere ceremony to be televised. The governor of Georgia proclaimed the day a state holiday in commemoration of the event and the holiday celebrations continued for three days.
1939 - Nylon yarn was sold to hosiery mills to make women’s stockings, marking the first use of commercial yarn for apparel. The DuPont product enabled a record number of ladies’ hose to go on sale for the first time in May 1940. And it all started in nylon’s hometown: Wilmington, Delaware.
1938 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C.
1934 - Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Two-Gun Mickey, directed by Ben Sharpsteen, is released. Cowgirl Minnie (voiced by Marcellite Garner) thinks she can take care of herself on the prairie ... but when she's captured by Pegleg Pete, Mickey must come to her rescue!
1925 - The Alice Comedy Alice in the Jungle is released.
1924 - Disney's Alice Comedy Alice the Piper is released.
Little Virginia Davis starred as Alice
1891 – James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players.
1854 - Philadelphia residents were amazed as the first street cleaning machine was put into operation. A series of brooms attached to a cyclinder mounted on a cart was turned by a chain driven by the turning of the cart’s wheels.
1815 - Jane Austen's Emma was published.
1970 - Michael Shanks - actor: Stargate SG-1, The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon, Escape from Mars, Suspicious River, Mr. Fortune’s Smile, The Artist's Circle
1961 - Nick Beggs - a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard. With Kajagoogoo, (1983 UK No.1 single 'Too Shy').
1949 - Don Johnson - an American actor known for his work in television and film. Johnson made his screen debut in the 1970 film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart. He played the lead role of Sonny Crockett in the 1980s TV cop series, Miami Vice, which led him to huge success and fame. He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, Nash Bridges. Johnson is a Golden Globe winning actor for his role in Miami Vice.
1945 - Thaao Penghlis - an Australian actor known for roles in the U.S. daytime soap operas such as Days of our Lives, Santa Barbara, and General Hospital, but he has also guest-starred on a number of crime dramas, such as Kojak, Cannon, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Hart to Hart, Nero Wolfe, and Magnum, P.I..
1933 - Tim Conway - an American comedian and actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television. Conway is best-known for his roles as Ernest Borgnine's inept second-in-command officer, Ensign Charles Parker, in the popular 1960s WWII sitcom, McHale's Navy, and for co-starring alongside Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show.
1832 – Gustav Eiffel - French civil engineer who specialised in metal structures, known especially for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He built his first of his iron bridges at Bordeaux (1858) and was among the first engineers to build bridge foundations using compressed-air caissons. His work includes designing the rotatable dome for Nice Observatory on the summit of Mont Gros (1886), and the framework for the Statue of Liberty now in New York Harbour. After building the Eiffel Tower (1887-9), which he used for scientific research on meteorology, aerodynamics and radio telegraphy, he also built the first aerodynamic laboratory at Auteuil, outside Paris, where he pursued his research work without interruption during WW I
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - Chuck Berry's St. Louis home (where he wrote many of his hits) is placed on the US National Register of Historic Places
2006 - B.B. King is given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House.
2002 - Blue featuring Elton John went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word.' Previously a No.11 hit for Elton in 1976. It gave Elton only his 5th No 1 after over 30 years of hits!
2001 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is reopened after extensive restoration work to correct too much lean.
2001 - It was announced that Siena Heights University would begin offering a class called "Animated Philosophy and Religion." The two-credit class would cover how religion and philosophy are part of popular culture and is based on the television series "The Simpsons."
2000 - New York Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to accept an $8 million book deal with Simon & Schuster. The book was to be about her eight years in the White House. The advance was the highest ever to be paid to a member of the U.S. Congress.
1997 - 'Spice World The Movie', featuring The Spice Girls premiered at The Empire, Leicester Sq, London. The following year it was nominated for the 'worst film' at the Golden Raspberry Awards.
1995 - The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to take over the peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.
1993 - The prime ministers of Britain and the Republic of Ireland (John Major and Albert Reynolds respectively) made the "Downing Street Declaration," stating the basis for trying to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.
1988 - Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer in the Australian film Young Einstein which commenced screening in Australia. Yahoo Serious played the role of Albert Einstein.
1988 – Starting screening in Australia was Willow starring Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley and Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood. A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.
1986 - Violinist Isaac Stern arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to cut the ribbon for the renovated Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1983 – Sean Connery, Kim Bassinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Max von Sydow star in Never Say Never Again which started screening in Australia. A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
1979 - Pink Floyd started a five week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Another Brick In The Wall, (part 2),' their only UK chart topper.
1973 - David Cassidy went to No.1 on the UK album chart with his third solo album 'Dreams Are Nothin More Than Wishes.'
1970 - The Soviet probe Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to land softly on the surface of Venus. The probe only survived the extreme heat and pressure for about 23 minutes and transmitted the first date received on Earth from the surface of another planet.
1967 - The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" LP goes gold.
1964 - Canada's House of Commons approved a newly designed flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag.
1959 - The Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" in New York City, the first time they've recorded outside of Nashville and the first time they've recorded with strings.
1958 - In its year-end survey, Billboard rates the top pop tune of 1958 as Domenico Modugno's "Volare," the top R&B tune as Chuck Willis' "Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes," the best selling LP as the original cast album of "My Fair Lady" and the best-selling EP as Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock."
1957 - Sammy Davis Jr. intiates a Westinghouse syndicated radio talk show with a "round-table" discussion of rock & roll. His guests are Columbia Records executive Mitch Miller and MGM Records president Arnold Maxim. When Davis and Miller blast rock & roll as "the comic books of music," Maxim takes an opposing viewpoint and says, "I don't see any end to rock & roll in the near future."
1956 - Elvis Presley gave his final performance on Louisiana Hayride, a live radio program that was broadcast on KWKH in Shreveport. Presley made 50 appearances on the show. At the end of the show, Horace Logan first made the now legendary phrase ‘Elvis has left the building’.
1954 - Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter was featured on Walt Disney’s TV series for the first time. Crockett was played by Fess Parker. It wasn’t long before the Davy Crockett craze brought a new number one song to the pop music charts. “Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.”
1950 - Disney releases the Donald Duck short Out on a Limb.
1949 - Birdland opened it entertainment doors. One of the top venues for jazz performances in the world, it is also an important step in the evolution in African-American musical history. During the mid-to-late 1920s, top musicians were moving to New York, and Birdland was launched as a result. Birdland has been the jazz Mecca in the United States. Charlie Parker served as the inspiration for Birdland, played on its opening night on Broadway, a few blocks west of 52nd Street.
1944 - A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major Glenn Miller disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel while en route to Paris. The true fate of the plane and its passengers has never been determined.
1941 - A musical standard was recorded this day on Victor Records. Lena Horne sang the torch classic that became her signature: Stormy Weather. “Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky. Stormy weather...”
1939 - Gone With the Wind premiered at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia on this day in 1939. It was the first movie premiere ceremony to be televised. The governor of Georgia proclaimed the day a state holiday in commemoration of the event and the holiday celebrations continued for three days.
1939 - Nylon yarn was sold to hosiery mills to make women’s stockings, marking the first use of commercial yarn for apparel. The DuPont product enabled a record number of ladies’ hose to go on sale for the first time in May 1940. And it all started in nylon’s hometown: Wilmington, Delaware.
1938 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C.
1934 - Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Two-Gun Mickey, directed by Ben Sharpsteen, is released. Cowgirl Minnie (voiced by Marcellite Garner) thinks she can take care of herself on the prairie ... but when she's captured by Pegleg Pete, Mickey must come to her rescue!
1925 - The Alice Comedy Alice in the Jungle is released.
1924 - Disney's Alice Comedy Alice the Piper is released.
Little Virginia Davis starred as Alice
1854 - Philadelphia residents were amazed as the first street cleaning machine was put into operation. A series of brooms attached to a cyclinder mounted on a cart was turned by a chain driven by the turning of the cart’s wheels.
1815 - Jane Austen's Emma was published.
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