TODAY IS ... 17 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1986 - Vanessa Zima - an American actress. Zima has played parts in movies such as Ulee's Gold, Zoe and TheBrainiacs.com. She began her film career at the age of eight in The Baby-Sitters Club 1995
1946 - Eugene Levy - a Canadian actor, television director, producer, musician and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies and television movies. He is the only person to star all of the American Pie movies (American Pie, American Pie 2, American Wedding, Band Camp, The Naked Mile, Beta House, and The Book of Love).
1944 - Bernard Hill- actor: Mountains of the Moon, Shirley Valentine, Bellman and True, Drowning by Numbers, No Surrender, The Bounty, Gandhi
1936 - Tommy Steele - an English entertainer who is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star. His cheeky Cockney image and boy-next-door looks won him success as a musician, singer and actor. - (1957 UK No.1 single 'Singing The Blues', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles).
OTHER EVENTS:
2006 - The first winner of American Idol Leona Lewis started a 4 week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'A Moment Like This', also a US No.1.
2000 - Bob The Builder started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Can We Fix It'. Taken from the children's television programme Bob the Builder.
1999 -Disney's animated feature film Fantasia 2000 debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1996 – At a press conference, Celine Dion admits that a hectic recording and touring schedule has kept her from her ultimate goal of becoming a mother. The Canadian diva says she will take a break and concentrate on starting a family with her husband and manager Rene Angelil.
1996 - Kofi Atta Annan was named seventh secretary-general of the United Nations by acclamation during ceremony in the General Assembly Hall, attended by representatives of the world organization’s 185 members.
1994 - A remixed version of The Four Seasons' "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" re-entered the US Hot 100, where it stayed for another 27 weeks, just as it did when it first charted in 1976. The combined run will establish a record for the longest total chart appearance in US chart history.
1992 – A Few Good Men starts screening in Australia starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland. Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.
1989 – Pilot episode of The Simpsons airs in the United States.
1984 - John McEnroe and Peter Fleming lost a doubles tennis match in the Davis Cup competition for the first time in 14 matches. Anders Jarryd and Stefan Edberg lead the Swedish team to the title. It marked the worst defeat for the United States team since 1973.
1973- Slade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Merry Xmas Everybody' their sixth chart topper. The song has re-entered the UK charts on eight other occasions.
1969 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Leaving on a Jet Plane,'' Peter, Paul & Mary. The song is the final single from the group and the only to top the pop chart.
1969 - TV history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
1967 - Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt goes missing whilst swimming at Portsea, Victoria.
1966 - The Four Tops' "Standing in the Shadows of Love" enter the Hot 100. In its ten weeks on the charts, the tune peaks at #6. It also reaches #2 on the R&B chart.
1965 – Sean Connery as back as James Bond in Thunderball which starts screening in Australia. James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme
1963 - James Carroll at WWDC in Washington, DC, became the first disc jockey to broadcast a Beatles record on American radio. Carroll played 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', which he had obtained from his stewardess girlfriend, who brought the single back from the UK. Due to listener demand, the song was played daily, every hour. Since it hadn't been released yet in the States, Capitol Records initially considered court action, but instead released the single earlier than planned.
1959 – Starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins, On The Beach starts screening in Australia. The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
From On The Beach – the ending scenes.
1955 - With "Only You" at #2, the Platters' "The Great Pretender" enters the US R&B chart at #13.
1955 - Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it at the Sun Studios in Memphis. The tune became one of the first records to be popular simultaneously on rock, country and rhythm & blues charts.
1954 - Rock and Roll makes its first appearance on UK singles chart as Bill Haley and the Comets debut with 'Shake Rattle and Roll'
1943 - Disney's cartoon short Chicken Little is released. Foxey Loxey convinces dim-witted Chicken Little and the other farmyard poultry that the sky is falling and the fox's cave is the only safe place. But when they enter and are trapped ... they are devoured!
1932 - Disney's 8-minute black & white Christmas-theme Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Good Deed, directed by Bert Gillett, is released.
1931 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Ugly Duckling, directed by Wilfred Jackson and loosely based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson story, is released.
1918 – Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1903 - The first successful powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. First Orville, then Wilbur Wright kept their invention flying ... each flight lasted just under one minute.
1843 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in London and immediately sold out. He wrote the story in just two months, beginning in October, 1843 and finishing at the end of November. It was the first of five Christmas books by Dickens. Its successors were The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848).
1790 - Ancient Aztec stone calendar is discovered in Mexico City. This 25-ton 52-year-cycle calendar is believed to have been carved in 1479.
1946 - Eugene Levy - a Canadian actor, television director, producer, musician and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies and television movies. He is the only person to star all of the American Pie movies (American Pie, American Pie 2, American Wedding, Band Camp, The Naked Mile, Beta House, and The Book of Love).
1944 - Bernard Hill- actor: Mountains of the Moon, Shirley Valentine, Bellman and True, Drowning by Numbers, No Surrender, The Bounty, Gandhi
1936 - Tommy Steele - an English entertainer who is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star. His cheeky Cockney image and boy-next-door looks won him success as a musician, singer and actor. - (1957 UK No.1 single 'Singing The Blues', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles).
OTHER EVENTS:
2006 - The first winner of American Idol Leona Lewis started a 4 week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'A Moment Like This', also a US No.1.
2000 - Bob The Builder started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Can We Fix It'. Taken from the children's television programme Bob the Builder.
1999 -Disney's animated feature film Fantasia 2000 debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1996 – At a press conference, Celine Dion admits that a hectic recording and touring schedule has kept her from her ultimate goal of becoming a mother. The Canadian diva says she will take a break and concentrate on starting a family with her husband and manager Rene Angelil.
1996 - Kofi Atta Annan was named seventh secretary-general of the United Nations by acclamation during ceremony in the General Assembly Hall, attended by representatives of the world organization’s 185 members.
1994 - A remixed version of The Four Seasons' "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" re-entered the US Hot 100, where it stayed for another 27 weeks, just as it did when it first charted in 1976. The combined run will establish a record for the longest total chart appearance in US chart history.
1992 – A Few Good Men starts screening in Australia starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland. Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.
1989 – Pilot episode of The Simpsons airs in the United States.
1984 - John McEnroe and Peter Fleming lost a doubles tennis match in the Davis Cup competition for the first time in 14 matches. Anders Jarryd and Stefan Edberg lead the Swedish team to the title. It marked the worst defeat for the United States team since 1973.
1973- Slade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Merry Xmas Everybody' their sixth chart topper. The song has re-entered the UK charts on eight other occasions.
1969 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Leaving on a Jet Plane,'' Peter, Paul & Mary. The song is the final single from the group and the only to top the pop chart.
1969 - TV history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
1967 - Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt goes missing whilst swimming at Portsea, Victoria.
1966 - The Four Tops' "Standing in the Shadows of Love" enter the Hot 100. In its ten weeks on the charts, the tune peaks at #6. It also reaches #2 on the R&B chart.
1965 – Sean Connery as back as James Bond in Thunderball which starts screening in Australia. James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme
1963 - James Carroll at WWDC in Washington, DC, became the first disc jockey to broadcast a Beatles record on American radio. Carroll played 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', which he had obtained from his stewardess girlfriend, who brought the single back from the UK. Due to listener demand, the song was played daily, every hour. Since it hadn't been released yet in the States, Capitol Records initially considered court action, but instead released the single earlier than planned.
1959 – Starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins, On The Beach starts screening in Australia. The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
From On The Beach – the ending scenes.
1955 - With "Only You" at #2, the Platters' "The Great Pretender" enters the US R&B chart at #13.
1955 - Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it at the Sun Studios in Memphis. The tune became one of the first records to be popular simultaneously on rock, country and rhythm & blues charts.
1954 - Rock and Roll makes its first appearance on UK singles chart as Bill Haley and the Comets debut with 'Shake Rattle and Roll'
1943 - Disney's cartoon short Chicken Little is released. Foxey Loxey convinces dim-witted Chicken Little and the other farmyard poultry that the sky is falling and the fox's cave is the only safe place. But when they enter and are trapped ... they are devoured!
1932 - Disney's 8-minute black & white Christmas-theme Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Good Deed, directed by Bert Gillett, is released.
1931 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Ugly Duckling, directed by Wilfred Jackson and loosely based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson story, is released.
1918 – Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1903 - The first successful powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. First Orville, then Wilbur Wright kept their invention flying ... each flight lasted just under one minute.
1843 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in London and immediately sold out. He wrote the story in just two months, beginning in October, 1843 and finishing at the end of November. It was the first of five Christmas books by Dickens. Its successors were The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848).
1790 - Ancient Aztec stone calendar is discovered in Mexico City. This 25-ton 52-year-cycle calendar is believed to have been carved in 1479.
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