TODAY IS ... 27 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS -
1976 - Aaron Stanford - an American actor, best known for his role as Pyro in the X-Men film series and Doug Bukowski in the 2006 The Hills Have Eyes remake.
1966- Eva Maria LaRue - an American model and actress. She rose to prominence as a regular on All My Children and is now a cast regular on CSI: Miami.
1952 - Tovah Feldshuh - actress: Holocaust, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, Brewster’s Millions, Blue Iguana, A Day in October
1952 - David Knopfler - musician: guitar, singer: group: Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing; solo: Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Skateaway; LPs: Release, Behind the Lines, Cut the Wine
1948 - Gerard Depardieu - actor: A Pure Formality, My Father the Hero, Cyrano deBergerac, Jean De Florette, The Return of Martin Guerre, Tartuffe, Choice of Arms, Loulou, Going Places, The Holes
1939 - John Amos - actor: Good Times, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Coming to America, Future Cop
1901 - Marlene Dietrich - actress: The Blue Angel, 1st German talkie; Morocco, Kismet, Destry Rides Again, Judgment at Nuremberg, Witness for the Prosecution
OTHER EVENTS -
2008 - Taylor Swift started a seven-week run at No.1 on the US album charts with ‘Fearless’.
2007 - Presidential and parliamentary elections take place in Kenya. Mwai Kibaki re-elected President. Accusations of wide-spread rigging on both sides leads to hundreds of deaths.
2005 - Composer Phil Collins and the cast of Disney's newest stage musical Tarzan begin rehearsals in Brooklyn, New York
2001 - Typhoon Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.
2000 – Britain’s Daily Mirror reports that Madonna will star in her new husband Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming movie The Mole.
1999 – Diva Zappa, the late Frank Zappa’s 20-year-old daughter, releases her first record to radio. The single, titled “When the Ball Drops,” is “basically… about my hunt for someone to make out with for the millennium,” Zappa explains.
1991 - "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV
1988 - Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades 1986 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines, was named TIME magazine’s Man of the Year. The only other women who had been so named were Queen Elizabeth II in 1952; and the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield Simpson, in 1936.
1984 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was the woman most admired by the American people, according to a Gallup Poll. It marked the third consecutive year that the ‘Iron Lady’ received that honor.
1979 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: Russia invades starting the nearly 10-year conflict between the Soviet Army and rebels in Afghanistan
1978 - The most auspicious debut in years in made by the Cars. The Boston based band's first LP is the first new wave record to gain acceptance on FM-Album Oriented Rock radio, which is still very fond of bands like Boston and Kansas. "The Cars" turns platinum on this date.
1978 - King Juan Carlos ratified Spain's first democratic constitution in nearly five decades.
1977 - Star Wars fever hits Britain - Thousands of people are flocking to cinemas in the UK to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars - a movie which is already setting US box offices alight.
1975 - Joni Mitchell hits UK LP chart with 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' LP, on its way to No. 14
1975 - The Four Seasons, "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" is released.
1973 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Time in a Bottle,” Jim Croce. The song is released as a single after Croce dies in a plane crash.
1971 - The "Sonny & Cher Show" begins a four and a half year run on CBS. 1971 - Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock of Charles Schulz’ famous Peanuts comic strip made the cover of Newsweek magazine this day.
1970 - "Hello, Dolly!" closed on Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances.
1969 - Diana Ross & The Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together" hits #1
1969 - Miles Davis was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, on sale for 35 Cents, (2/6).
1965 - The BP oil rig Sea Gem capsized in the North Sea, with the loss of 13 lives.
1964 - The Supremes appear on CBS -TV's Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, singing "Come See About Me." They would go on to appear 14 more times on "Sullivan" with Diana Ross, more than any other rock act.
1963 - Music critics of the London Times names John Lennon and Paul McCartney as "The Outstanding Composers of 1963." Two days later, the Sunday Times' music critic Richard Buckle proclaims the same two songwriters "the greatest composers since Beethoven."
1962 – The Beatles first single “Love Me Do” reaches its peak of No. 17 in the chart. Cynics suggest that manager Brian Epstein personally bought 10,000 copies to boost its position.
1957 - After entreaties from manager Colonel Tom Parker, the US Army allows Elvis Presley a 60 -day extension to complete filming of his latest movie, King Creole, before reporting for duty.
1954 - Walt Disney appears on the cover of TIME magazine (for the second time). The issue features an article titled "Father Goose."
1949 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.
1946 - The American team won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1938. The competition was held at Melbourne, Australia.
1945 - International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded.
1941 - Australian Prime Minister John Curtin issues a New Year message, looking to America for defense aid, "without any inhibitions of any kind", "free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom". He calls for Russia to enter the war against Japan, and for the USA and Australia to have the most say in the Pacific war.
1940 - Disney's Pluto cartoon Pantry Pirate is released. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Pluto finds himself banished to his doghouse for trying to raid the pantry ... but the smell of roast ham is more than he can resist!
1939 - The Glenn Miller Show, also known as Music that Satisfies, started on CBS radio. The 15-minute, twice-a-week show was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes and was heard for nearly three years.
1937 - Walt Disney appears on the cover of TIME. The publication profiles Disney the week Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released, calling the film "the most ambitious animated cartoon ever attempted."
1932 - Radio City Music Hall, in New York City, opened. It was the largest indoor theatre in the world. The gala grand opening show was a six-hour extravaganza that lost half a million dollars within three weeks. The theatre has since been renovated to recapture its original decorative charm. An Art Deco cathedral of entertainment, it seats more than 6,200 people and is still a must-see for those visiting New York. During the holiday season, audiences continue to get a kick out of seeing the world-famous Rockettes perform in precision on Radio City Music Hall’s nearly 10,000-square-foot stage.
1930 - The Silly Symphony film Playful Pan is released to theaters.
1927 - The Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) musical, Show Boat, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. Its star, Helen Morgan, received excellent reviews from critics of the show; a musical about riverboat show people and their romances and disappointments. It was inspired by the novel, Show Boat, written by Edna Ferber in 1926.
1926 - The Alice Comedy Alice the Lumber Jack, featuring Margie Gay, is released.
1904 - The play Peter Pan, by James Barrie, opens at the Duke of York's Theater in London, England. It will later be made into a Disney animated classic.
1900 - Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles she could see, which means, about all of them behind the bar, for sure. Nation usually did her damage with a hatchet; calling her vandalism, hatchetation.
1845 - Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth for the first time, when he delivered his own child in Jefferson, Georgia.
1831 - Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution.
1976 - Aaron Stanford - an American actor, best known for his role as Pyro in the X-Men film series and Doug Bukowski in the 2006 The Hills Have Eyes remake.
1966- Eva Maria LaRue - an American model and actress. She rose to prominence as a regular on All My Children and is now a cast regular on CSI: Miami.
1952 - Tovah Feldshuh - actress: Holocaust, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, Brewster’s Millions, Blue Iguana, A Day in October
1952 - David Knopfler - musician: guitar, singer: group: Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing; solo: Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Skateaway; LPs: Release, Behind the Lines, Cut the Wine
1948 - Gerard Depardieu - actor: A Pure Formality, My Father the Hero, Cyrano deBergerac, Jean De Florette, The Return of Martin Guerre, Tartuffe, Choice of Arms, Loulou, Going Places, The Holes
1939 - John Amos - actor: Good Times, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Coming to America, Future Cop
1901 - Marlene Dietrich - actress: The Blue Angel, 1st German talkie; Morocco, Kismet, Destry Rides Again, Judgment at Nuremberg, Witness for the Prosecution
OTHER EVENTS -
2008 - Taylor Swift started a seven-week run at No.1 on the US album charts with ‘Fearless’.
2007 - Presidential and parliamentary elections take place in Kenya. Mwai Kibaki re-elected President. Accusations of wide-spread rigging on both sides leads to hundreds of deaths.
2005 - Composer Phil Collins and the cast of Disney's newest stage musical Tarzan begin rehearsals in Brooklyn, New York
2001 - Typhoon Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.
2000 – Britain’s Daily Mirror reports that Madonna will star in her new husband Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming movie The Mole.
1999 – Diva Zappa, the late Frank Zappa’s 20-year-old daughter, releases her first record to radio. The single, titled “When the Ball Drops,” is “basically… about my hunt for someone to make out with for the millennium,” Zappa explains.
1991 - "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV
One of the many comedy sketches from the Carol Burnett Show.
1988 - Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades 1986 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines, was named TIME magazine’s Man of the Year. The only other women who had been so named were Queen Elizabeth II in 1952; and the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield Simpson, in 1936.
1984 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was the woman most admired by the American people, according to a Gallup Poll. It marked the third consecutive year that the ‘Iron Lady’ received that honor.
1979 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: Russia invades starting the nearly 10-year conflict between the Soviet Army and rebels in Afghanistan
1978 - The most auspicious debut in years in made by the Cars. The Boston based band's first LP is the first new wave record to gain acceptance on FM-Album Oriented Rock radio, which is still very fond of bands like Boston and Kansas. "The Cars" turns platinum on this date.
1978 - King Juan Carlos ratified Spain's first democratic constitution in nearly five decades.
1977 - Star Wars fever hits Britain - Thousands of people are flocking to cinemas in the UK to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars - a movie which is already setting US box offices alight.
1975 - Joni Mitchell hits UK LP chart with 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' LP, on its way to No. 14
1975 - The Four Seasons, "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" is released.
1973 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Time in a Bottle,” Jim Croce. The song is released as a single after Croce dies in a plane crash.
1971 - The "Sonny & Cher Show" begins a four and a half year run on CBS. 1971 - Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock of Charles Schulz’ famous Peanuts comic strip made the cover of Newsweek magazine this day.
1970 - "Hello, Dolly!" closed on Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances.
1969 - Diana Ross & The Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together" hits #1
1969 - Miles Davis was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, on sale for 35 Cents, (2/6).
1965 - The BP oil rig Sea Gem capsized in the North Sea, with the loss of 13 lives.
1964 - The Supremes appear on CBS -TV's Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, singing "Come See About Me." They would go on to appear 14 more times on "Sullivan" with Diana Ross, more than any other rock act.1963 - Music critics of the London Times names John Lennon and Paul McCartney as "The Outstanding Composers of 1963." Two days later, the Sunday Times' music critic Richard Buckle proclaims the same two songwriters "the greatest composers since Beethoven."
1962 – The Beatles first single “Love Me Do” reaches its peak of No. 17 in the chart. Cynics suggest that manager Brian Epstein personally bought 10,000 copies to boost its position.
1957 - After entreaties from manager Colonel Tom Parker, the US Army allows Elvis Presley a 60 -day extension to complete filming of his latest movie, King Creole, before reporting for duty.
1954 - Walt Disney appears on the cover of TIME magazine (for the second time). The issue features an article titled "Father Goose."
1949 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.
1946 - The American team won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1938. The competition was held at Melbourne, Australia.1945 - International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded.
1941 - Australian Prime Minister John Curtin issues a New Year message, looking to America for defense aid, "without any inhibitions of any kind", "free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom". He calls for Russia to enter the war against Japan, and for the USA and Australia to have the most say in the Pacific war.
1940 - Disney's Pluto cartoon Pantry Pirate is released. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Pluto finds himself banished to his doghouse for trying to raid the pantry ... but the smell of roast ham is more than he can resist! 1939 - The Glenn Miller Show, also known as Music that Satisfies, started on CBS radio. The 15-minute, twice-a-week show was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes and was heard for nearly three years.
1937 - Walt Disney appears on the cover of TIME. The publication profiles Disney the week Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released, calling the film "the most ambitious animated cartoon ever attempted."
1932 - Radio City Music Hall, in New York City, opened. It was the largest indoor theatre in the world. The gala grand opening show was a six-hour extravaganza that lost half a million dollars within three weeks. The theatre has since been renovated to recapture its original decorative charm. An Art Deco cathedral of entertainment, it seats more than 6,200 people and is still a must-see for those visiting New York. During the holiday season, audiences continue to get a kick out of seeing the world-famous Rockettes perform in precision on Radio City Music Hall’s nearly 10,000-square-foot stage.
1930 - The Silly Symphony film Playful Pan is released to theaters. 1927 - The Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) musical, Show Boat, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. Its star, Helen Morgan, received excellent reviews from critics of the show; a musical about riverboat show people and their romances and disappointments. It was inspired by the novel, Show Boat, written by Edna Ferber in 1926.
1926 - The Alice Comedy Alice the Lumber Jack, featuring Margie Gay, is released.
1904 - The play Peter Pan, by James Barrie, opens at the Duke of York's Theater in London, England. It will later be made into a Disney animated classic.
1900 - Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles she could see, which means, about all of them behind the bar, for sure. Nation usually did her damage with a hatchet; calling her vandalism, hatchetation.
1845 - Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth for the first time, when he delivered his own child in Jefferson, Georgia.
1831 - Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution.
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