TODAY IS ... 26 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS:
1995 - Zach Mills an American teen actor who has appeared in several film and television productions. These include a brief appearance in the television series "Scrubs" and guest starring roles in such shows as "Malcolm In The Middle", "Eleventh Hour", "Numb3rs", 'Ghost Whisperer" and "October Road". His first significant supporting role in a film was as Adrien Brody's son in the 2006 film, Hollywoodland. In 2007 he had the leading role in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, in which he acted alongside Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman. In 2008 he appeared in a leading role in the film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and a supporting role as a news vendor in the Clint Eastwood directed, Changeling.
1971 - Jared Leto played Jordan on TV's My So-Called Life (1994-95, starring Claire Danes), and carved out a second career as the frontman for rock band 30 Seconds to Mars. Leto began working in television in the early 1990s. The critical success of the short-lived series My So-Called Life helped push him into the spotlight, and he seemed to make a career of playing small roles in talked-about movies: The Thin Red Line (1998, with Jim Caviezel); Fight Club (1999, with Brad Pitt); Girl, Interrupted (1999, with Winona Ryder); American Psycho (2000, starring Christian Bale); Panic Room (2002, starring Jodie Foster); Alexander (2004, with Colin Farrell; and Lord of War (2005, with Nicolas Cage).
1961 - John Lynch an actor from Northern Ireland and has appeared in numerous films related to Northern Ireland's problems, such as Cal, In the Name of the Father, The Railway Station Man, Nothing Personal and Some Mother's Son, as well as the Irish-themed film Evelyn, with Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn and Julianna Margulies. He starred as Gyneth Paltrow's boyfriend in Sliding Doors, and as a supporting actor in Derek Jarman's Edward II.
1961 - Tahnee Welch - actress: Falcon Crest, Cocoon series, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Criminal Mind
1939 – Fred Schepisi an award-winning Australian film director and screenwriter. His credits include: Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, and Six Degrees of Separation. He began his career in advertising and directed both commercials and documentaries before helming his first feature film, The Devil's Playground, in 1976.Schepisi won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay for both The Devil's Playground and Evil Angels (released in the US as A Cry in the Dark).
1930 - Donald Moffat - actor: Trapped in Paradise, Clear and Present Danger, Tales of the City, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Bourne Identity, The Best of Times, The Right Stuff, The Long Days of Summer, Winter Kills, Mary White, Showdown, Rachel, Rachel
1914 - Richard Widmark - actor: Judgment at Nuremberg, Murder on the Orient Express, The Halls of Montezuma, How the West was Won, The Alamo, Against All Odds, True Colors
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt star in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which started screening in Australia, Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
2007 - Amy Winehouse's second album ‘Back to Black’ was named as the biggest-selling album of the year. Released at the end of 2006 the album had now sold more than 1.5m copies in the UK, achieving five platinum sales awards, Winehouse was also nominated for six Grammys including song of the year.
2006 – The Queen starring Helen Mirren and James Cromwell starts screening in Australia. After the death of Princess Diana, HM Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
2005 – The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe starring Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley and Anna Popplewell starts screening in Australia. Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
2004 - One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of 14 nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. 228,000 people are killed or missing, and 1.7 million are left homeless. The tsunami caused more casualties than any other in recorded history and was recorded nearly world-wide on tide gauges in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
2003 – Bruce Springsteen is named the year’s top concert draw. His Rising tour with the E Street Band grossed $115.9 million. Celine Dion also made $80.5m from 145 shows at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
2002 - The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement was made the December 27 by Clonaid.
1999 – Australian director Scott Hicks directed Snow Falling on Cedars starring Ethan Hawke and Youki Kudoh starts screening in Australia. A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950's, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael
1998 - The Spice Girls scored their 8th UK No.1 single with 'Goodbye',(the first single without Geri Halliwell) It gave the group the Christmas No.1 for the third year in a row equaling the record set by The Beatles from 1963, 64 and 65.
1998 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol
the northern and southern no-fly zones.
1996 – Australian director Baz Luhrman cast Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in his adaptation of Romeo and Juliet which commences screening in Australia. Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
1990 - U.S. Census Bureau officials reported that the U.S. population stood at 249,632,692 people.
1990 - Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov to retain the world chess championship. This was Karpov’s second attempt at regaining the championship from Kasparov. He had lost the title to Kasparov in 1985 and had tried to get it back in 1987.
Garry Kasparov
1990 - Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burt Young star in Rocky V which commences screening in Australia. Reluctantly retired from boxing and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him; As the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy.
1986 - TV’s longest-running drama was seen for the last time. Search for Tomorrow ended its 35-year run on television. The program, seen on CBS, included show veterans, Wayne Rogers, Jill Clayburgh, Morgan Fairchild and Don Knotts.
1983 – Superman III starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor and Margot Kidder starts screening in Australia. Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.
1982 - The Man of the Year in TIME magazine was a non-human for the first time. A computer received the honors as 1982’s “greatest influence for good or evil.”
1974 – The Man With The Golden Gun starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland commences screening in Australia. Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him.
1974 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Angie Baby,” Helen Reddy. The song is Reddy’s third and final No. 1 song.
1973 - Two Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours.
1970 - George Harrison started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'My Sweet Lord', making him the first Beatle to score a No.1 US hit. The song was originally intended for Billy Preston.
1967 - The Monkees begin recording "Valleri"
1963 - Capitol Records rushed to release its first single by the Fab Four, otherwise known as The Beatles. I Want to Hold Your Hand, backed with I Saw Her Standing There, reached #1 on February 1, 1964.
1960 - Mary Wells hits 'Billboard' R&B chart with 'Bye Bye Baby' - her first single
1958 - Musical parodist Stan Freberg, whose acerbic anti-commercialist "Green Chri$tma$" was a hit the previous winter, presents the Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California with a check for one million dollars, his take from the song.
1958 – Josh Logan directed South Pacific starring Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi and John Kerr starts screening in Australia. On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
1956 - Fats Domino's "Blue Monday" enters the pop chart, eventually to peak at #9. Mickey and Sylvia makes their pop chart debut with "Love is Strange," which peaks at #13.
1952 – Doris Day and Gordon MacRae star in On Moonlight Bay starts screening in Australia. The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street.
1951 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Cry,” Johnnie Ray.
1947 - Disney's Pluto short Pluto's Blue Note, directed by Charles Nichols, is released. Pluto loves to sing ... but no one wants to listen!
Sydney to Hobart yacht race 2008
1944 - Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" was first performed publicly, at the Civic Theatre in Chicago, IL.
FIRST EDITION COVER
1944 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Don’t Fence Me In,” Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1941 - Disney's Goofy cartoon The Art of Self Defense, directed by Jack Kinney, is released. The first short in which Goofy is shown to have multiple duplicates, he defends himself through a history of the "manly arts."
1941 - Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
1939 - W.C. Handy of Memphis, TN one of the legendary blues composers of all time, recorded the classic St. Louis Blues. W.C. and his band recorded in New York for Varsity Records. Handy was one of the first to use the flat third and seventh notes in his compositions, known in the music world as ‘blue’ notes. On another note, the music awards for blues artists’ are called the W.C. Handy National Blues Awards.
1931 - George Gershwin’s musical, Of Thee I Sing, opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. The show became the first American musical to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
1927 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Rickety Gin to theaters.
1908 - Jack Johhnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
1971 - Jared Leto played Jordan on TV's My So-Called Life (1994-95, starring Claire Danes), and carved out a second career as the frontman for rock band 30 Seconds to Mars. Leto began working in television in the early 1990s. The critical success of the short-lived series My So-Called Life helped push him into the spotlight, and he seemed to make a career of playing small roles in talked-about movies: The Thin Red Line (1998, with Jim Caviezel); Fight Club (1999, with Brad Pitt); Girl, Interrupted (1999, with Winona Ryder); American Psycho (2000, starring Christian Bale); Panic Room (2002, starring Jodie Foster); Alexander (2004, with Colin Farrell; and Lord of War (2005, with Nicolas Cage).
1961 - John Lynch an actor from Northern Ireland and has appeared in numerous films related to Northern Ireland's problems, such as Cal, In the Name of the Father, The Railway Station Man, Nothing Personal and Some Mother's Son, as well as the Irish-themed film Evelyn, with Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn and Julianna Margulies. He starred as Gyneth Paltrow's boyfriend in Sliding Doors, and as a supporting actor in Derek Jarman's Edward II.
1961 - Tahnee Welch - actress: Falcon Crest, Cocoon series, I Shot Andy Warhol, The Criminal Mind
1939 – Fred Schepisi an award-winning Australian film director and screenwriter. His credits include: Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, and Six Degrees of Separation. He began his career in advertising and directed both commercials and documentaries before helming his first feature film, The Devil's Playground, in 1976.Schepisi won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay for both The Devil's Playground and Evil Angels (released in the US as A Cry in the Dark).
1930 - Donald Moffat - actor: Trapped in Paradise, Clear and Present Danger, Tales of the City, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Bourne Identity, The Best of Times, The Right Stuff, The Long Days of Summer, Winter Kills, Mary White, Showdown, Rachel, Rachel
1914 - Richard Widmark - actor: Judgment at Nuremberg, Murder on the Orient Express, The Halls of Montezuma, How the West was Won, The Alamo, Against All Odds, True Colors
OTHER EVENTS:
2008 - Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt star in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which started screening in Australia, Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
2007 - Amy Winehouse's second album ‘Back to Black’ was named as the biggest-selling album of the year. Released at the end of 2006 the album had now sold more than 1.5m copies in the UK, achieving five platinum sales awards, Winehouse was also nominated for six Grammys including song of the year.
2006 – The Queen starring Helen Mirren and James Cromwell starts screening in Australia. After the death of Princess Diana, HM Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
2005 – The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe starring Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley and Anna Popplewell starts screening in Australia. Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
2004 - One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of 14 nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. 228,000 people are killed or missing, and 1.7 million are left homeless. The tsunami caused more casualties than any other in recorded history and was recorded nearly world-wide on tide gauges in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
2003 – Bruce Springsteen is named the year’s top concert draw. His Rising tour with the E Street Band grossed $115.9 million. Celine Dion also made $80.5m from 145 shows at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
2002 - The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement was made the December 27 by Clonaid.
1999 – Australian director Scott Hicks directed Snow Falling on Cedars starring Ethan Hawke and Youki Kudoh starts screening in Australia. A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950's, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael
1998 - The Spice Girls scored their 8th UK No.1 single with 'Goodbye',(the first single without Geri Halliwell) It gave the group the Christmas No.1 for the third year in a row equaling the record set by The Beatles from 1963, 64 and 65.
1998 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol
the northern and southern no-fly zones.
1996 – Australian director Baz Luhrman cast Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in his adaptation of Romeo and Juliet which commences screening in Australia. Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
1990 - U.S. Census Bureau officials reported that the U.S. population stood at 249,632,692 people.
1990 - Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov to retain the world chess championship. This was Karpov’s second attempt at regaining the championship from Kasparov. He had lost the title to Kasparov in 1985 and had tried to get it back in 1987.
Garry Kasparov
1974 – The Man With The Golden Gun starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland commences screening in Australia. Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him.
1974 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Angie Baby,” Helen Reddy. The song is Reddy’s third and final No. 1 song.
1973 - Two Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours.
1970 - George Harrison started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'My Sweet Lord', making him the first Beatle to score a No.1 US hit. The song was originally intended for Billy Preston.
1967 - The Monkees begin recording "Valleri"
1963 - Capitol Records rushed to release its first single by the Fab Four, otherwise known as The Beatles. I Want to Hold Your Hand, backed with I Saw Her Standing There, reached #1 on February 1, 1964.
1960 - Mary Wells hits 'Billboard' R&B chart with 'Bye Bye Baby' - her first single
1958 - Musical parodist Stan Freberg, whose acerbic anti-commercialist "Green Chri$tma$" was a hit the previous winter, presents the Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California with a check for one million dollars, his take from the song.
1958 – Josh Logan directed South Pacific starring Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi and John Kerr starts screening in Australia. On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
1956 - Fats Domino's "Blue Monday" enters the pop chart, eventually to peak at #9. Mickey and Sylvia makes their pop chart debut with "Love is Strange," which peaks at #13.
1952 – Doris Day and Gordon MacRae star in On Moonlight Bay starts screening in Australia. The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street.
1951 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Cry,” Johnnie Ray.
1947 - Disney's Pluto short Pluto's Blue Note, directed by Charles Nichols, is released. Pluto loves to sing ... but no one wants to listen!
1945 - The first Sydney to Hobart yacht race is held.
Sydney to Hobart yacht race 2008
FIRST EDITION COVER
1941 - Disney's Goofy cartoon The Art of Self Defense, directed by Jack Kinney, is released. The first short in which Goofy is shown to have multiple duplicates, he defends himself through a history of the "manly arts."
1941 - Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
1939 - W.C. Handy of Memphis, TN one of the legendary blues composers of all time, recorded the classic St. Louis Blues. W.C. and his band recorded in New York for Varsity Records. Handy was one of the first to use the flat third and seventh notes in his compositions, known in the music world as ‘blue’ notes. On another note, the music awards for blues artists’ are called the W.C. Handy National Blues Awards.
1931 - George Gershwin’s musical, Of Thee I Sing, opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. The show became the first American musical to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
1927 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Rickety Gin to theaters.
1908 - Jack Johhnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
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