TODAY IS ... 19 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1980 - Jake Gyllenhall - an American actor who began acting at age ten. He has appeared in diverse roles since his first lead role in 1999's October Sky, followed by the 2001 indie cult hit Donnie Darko, in which he played a psychologically troubled teen and onscreen brother to his real-life sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow he portrayed a student caught in a cataclysmic global cooling event, alongside Dennis Quaid as his father. He then played against type as a frustrated Marine in Jarhead (2005). The same year, he won critical acclaim as Jack Twist in the film Brokeback Mountain opposite Heath Ledger.
1980 - Marla Sokoloff - actress: Dude, Where’s My Car?, Home Improvement, Party of Five, 3rd Rock from the Sun, 7th Heaven, Baby-Sitters Club, True Crime, Whatever It Takes
1979 - Kristanna Loken - a Norwegian-American actress known for her work in both film and television, and as a fashion model. She is probably best known for her performance as the cyborg T-X (Terminatrix) in the 2003 movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
1974 - Ricky Ponting - the current captain of the Australian cricket team. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler. He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and plays in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders.
1972 - Alyssa Milano - an American actress and former singer whose acting career began after she appeared in the Broadway show Annie. Her childhood role as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? made her famous. Her eight-year stint as Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed brought her a new round of fame.
1965 - Jessica Steen - a movie and television actress, noted for her roles in Homefront, Earth 2, Armageddon, NCIS, and Flashpoint.
1963 - Jennifer Beals - an American film actress and former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the lesbian-themed drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 movies.
1958 – Limahl - an English pop rock / dance vocalist. and was the lead singer of the 1980s synth-pop/new wave band Kajagoogoo, before embarking on a briefly successful solo career, which reached its peak with the 1984 hit "NeverEnding Story", taken from the film of the same name.
1933 - Cicely Tyson - Emmy Award-winning American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots.
1941 - Maurice White - a Grammy Award winning African-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger. He is the older brother of Verdine White and the leader and founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire Maurice has won seven Grammys and he has been Grammy nominated 21 times.
1915 - Édith Piaf - French cabaret singer who began to sing at 15 in cafés and in the streets of Paris and engaged to sing in a cabaret. Fame quickly followed her appearances in nightclubs all over Europe and America. Piaf appeared in several movies, starring in Le Bel Indifférent (1940), originally a play written for her by Jean Cocteau
OTHER EVENTS:
2007 – Love and Other Disasters starts screening in Australia starring Brittany Murphy and Matthew Rhys. Jacks, who spent her childhood in America, now lives and works in London, at British Vogue, and shares an apartment with her gay friend Peter Simon, a screenwriter.
2005 - Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.
2002 – Peter Jackson continues the Lord of the Rings sags with The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers which starts screening in Australia today. Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.
1998 - Irish girl group B*Witched scored their third consecutive UK No.1 single with 'To You I Belong' and the third to enter the chart at No 1.
1994 - Turks and Caicos Islands issues nine postage stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
1989 - U.S. invades Panama in an effort to capture Manuel Noriega and bring him to trial on drug trafficking charges.
Manuel Noriega
1987 - The Pet Shop Boys had their third UK No.1 single with their version of 'Always On My Mind.
1985 – Sylvester Stallone reprises the role of Rocky Balboa on Rocky IV which starts screening in Australia. Rocky Balboa, heavyweight champion of the world, is the trainer for Apollo Creed in an exhibition match against Ivan Drago, a "superman" boxer from the Soviet Union.
1984 - Britain signs an historic agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1981 - Abba scored their seventh UK No.1 album with 'The Visitors'.
1972 - The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1970 - Elton John's first US hit, ‘Your Song’ entered the Billboard Hot 100, where it went on to reach number eight.
1970 – President Nixon commends MGM’s Mike Curb for dropping MGM acts, including Connie Francis, from his roster because they purportedly advocated drug use. Curb later became lieutenant governor of California.
Mike Curb
1969 – Directed by Gene Kelly, Hello Dolly starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau and Michael Crawford starts screening in Australia. A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
1968 - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries and Robert Helpmann starts screening in Australia. An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skullduggery to get their hands on it.
1964 - The Supremes scored their third US No.1 single of the year when 'Come See About Me', went to the top of the charts. It made No.27 on the UK chart.
1964 - "Downtown," the first U.S. hit by British pop singer Petula Clark, enters the Hot 100 where it will remain for 15 weeks. It hits Number One next month and stays their for two weeks.
1964 - The Beatles fourth album 'Beatles For Sale' started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK album charts.
1963 - Buddy Holly's 'What to Do' hits UK chart
1962 - The Disney cartoon short A Symposium on Popular Songs, featuring Ludwig Von Drake, is released. It will be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cartoon Short Subject.
1961 - Judgment At Nuremberg opened in New York City with a star-studded cast including Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Maximillian Schell (he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance). The film received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay plus nine other nominations.
1960 - Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl was released on RCA Victor Records. The song became Sedaka’s fourth record to make the charts. Other hits from the guy who made money off of a love song for Carole King (Oh, Carol) include The Diary, Stairway to Heaven, Bad Girl, Next Door to an Angel, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Laughter in the Rain and Breaking Up is Hard to Do.
1958 - Bobby Darin records "Mack The Knife"
1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Chipmunk Song,'' The Chipmunks with David Seville. The song is the second No. 1 for Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, alias David Seville. Before he created the Chipmunks, Seville hit in April 1958 with ``Witch Doctor.''
1958 - Conway Twitty was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'It's Only Make Believe'. The first song to reach the UK Top 10 in four different years: Billy Fury (1964), Glen Campbell (1970) and Child (1978).
1958 - Phil Spector scores his first UK hit as Teddy Bears' 'To Know Him Is to Love Him' enters chart
1957 - Elvis Presley had his draft notice served on him for the US Army. He went on to join the 32nd Tank Battalion third Armor Corps based in Germany.
1957 - Meredith Willson’s The Music Man opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. The Broadway show starred Robert Preston and had a run of 1,375 shows. It also had 76 trombones and 101 cornets in the band ... and a librarian named Marian
1951 - Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov starred in Quo Vadis which commences screening in Australia. Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything to do with a warrior.
1936 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon More Kittens, directed by David Hand, is released. A sequel to Disney's 1935 Oscar winning Three Orphan Kittens, it features the animated work of Frank Thomas and Fred Moore.
1925 - Walt Disney's 28th Alice Comedy film Alice's Orphan is completed.
1918 - Robert Ripley began his Believe It or Not column in The New York Globe.
1980 - Marla Sokoloff - actress: Dude, Where’s My Car?, Home Improvement, Party of Five, 3rd Rock from the Sun, 7th Heaven, Baby-Sitters Club, True Crime, Whatever It Takes
1979 - Kristanna Loken - a Norwegian-American actress known for her work in both film and television, and as a fashion model. She is probably best known for her performance as the cyborg T-X (Terminatrix) in the 2003 movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
1974 - Ricky Ponting - the current captain of the Australian cricket team. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler. He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and plays in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders.
1972 - Alyssa Milano - an American actress and former singer whose acting career began after she appeared in the Broadway show Annie. Her childhood role as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? made her famous. Her eight-year stint as Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed brought her a new round of fame.
1965 - Jessica Steen - a movie and television actress, noted for her roles in Homefront, Earth 2, Armageddon, NCIS, and Flashpoint.
1963 - Jennifer Beals - an American film actress and former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the lesbian-themed drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 movies.
1958 – Limahl - an English pop rock / dance vocalist. and was the lead singer of the 1980s synth-pop/new wave band Kajagoogoo, before embarking on a briefly successful solo career, which reached its peak with the 1984 hit "NeverEnding Story", taken from the film of the same name.
1933 - Cicely Tyson - Emmy Award-winning American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots.
1941 - Maurice White - a Grammy Award winning African-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger. He is the older brother of Verdine White and the leader and founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire Maurice has won seven Grammys and he has been Grammy nominated 21 times.
1915 - Édith Piaf - French cabaret singer who began to sing at 15 in cafés and in the streets of Paris and engaged to sing in a cabaret. Fame quickly followed her appearances in nightclubs all over Europe and America. Piaf appeared in several movies, starring in Le Bel Indifférent (1940), originally a play written for her by Jean Cocteau
OTHER EVENTS:
2007 – Love and Other Disasters starts screening in Australia starring Brittany Murphy and Matthew Rhys. Jacks, who spent her childhood in America, now lives and works in London, at British Vogue, and shares an apartment with her gay friend Peter Simon, a screenwriter.
2005 - Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.
2002 – Peter Jackson continues the Lord of the Rings sags with The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers which starts screening in Australia today. Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.
1998 - Irish girl group B*Witched scored their third consecutive UK No.1 single with 'To You I Belong' and the third to enter the chart at No 1.
1994 - Turks and Caicos Islands issues nine postage stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
1989 - U.S. invades Panama in an effort to capture Manuel Noriega and bring him to trial on drug trafficking charges.
Manuel Noriega
1972 - The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1970 - Elton John's first US hit, ‘Your Song’ entered the Billboard Hot 100, where it went on to reach number eight.
1970 – President Nixon commends MGM’s Mike Curb for dropping MGM acts, including Connie Francis, from his roster because they purportedly advocated drug use. Curb later became lieutenant governor of California.
Mike Curb
1963 - Buddy Holly's 'What to Do' hits UK chart
1962 - The Disney cartoon short A Symposium on Popular Songs, featuring Ludwig Von Drake, is released. It will be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cartoon Short Subject.
1961 - Judgment At Nuremberg opened in New York City with a star-studded cast including Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Maximillian Schell (he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance). The film received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay plus nine other nominations.
1960 - Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl was released on RCA Victor Records. The song became Sedaka’s fourth record to make the charts. Other hits from the guy who made money off of a love song for Carole King (Oh, Carol) include The Diary, Stairway to Heaven, Bad Girl, Next Door to an Angel, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Laughter in the Rain and Breaking Up is Hard to Do.
1958 - Bobby Darin records "Mack The Knife"
1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Chipmunk Song,'' The Chipmunks with David Seville. The song is the second No. 1 for Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, alias David Seville. Before he created the Chipmunks, Seville hit in April 1958 with ``Witch Doctor.''
1958 - Conway Twitty was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'It's Only Make Believe'. The first song to reach the UK Top 10 in four different years: Billy Fury (1964), Glen Campbell (1970) and Child (1978).
1958 - Phil Spector scores his first UK hit as Teddy Bears' 'To Know Him Is to Love Him' enters chart
1957 - Elvis Presley had his draft notice served on him for the US Army. He went on to join the 32nd Tank Battalion third Armor Corps based in Germany.
1957 - Meredith Willson’s The Music Man opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. The Broadway show starred Robert Preston and had a run of 1,375 shows. It also had 76 trombones and 101 cornets in the band ... and a librarian named Marian
1951 - Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov starred in Quo Vadis which commences screening in Australia. Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything to do with a warrior.
1936 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon More Kittens, directed by David Hand, is released. A sequel to Disney's 1935 Oscar winning Three Orphan Kittens, it features the animated work of Frank Thomas and Fred Moore.
1925 - Walt Disney's 28th Alice Comedy film Alice's Orphan is completed.
1918 - Robert Ripley began his Believe It or Not column in The New York Globe.
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