TODAY IS ... 31 DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS -
1972 - Joe McIntyre - an American singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known as the youngest member of the group, New Kids on the Block.
1959 - Val Kilmer - actor: The Island of Dr. Moreau, Heat, Batman Forever, Tombstone, The Doors, Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid, Top Gun, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Top Secret!
1953 - James Remar - actor: The Quest, The Phantom, The Surgeon, Renaissance Man, Miracle on 34th Street [1994], Confessions of a Hit Man, Fatal Instinct, Drugstore Cowboy, Rent-A-Cop, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Cotton Club, 48 Hrs., The Warriors
1951 - Barbara Carrera - actress: Dallas, Centennial, Sawbones, Point of Impact, Loverboy, Never Say Never Again, Lone Wolf McQuade, Masada, Condorman, Island of Dr. Moreau, Embryo; model
1948 - Donna Summer - Grammy Award-winning singer: Last Dance [1978], Hot Stuff [1979], He’s a Rebel [1983], Forgive Me [1984]; Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Bad Girls, She Works Hard for the Money, On the Radio; No More Tears (Enough is Enough) [w/Barbra Streisand]
1943 - Ben Kingsley - Academy Award-winning actor: Gandhi [1982]; Schindler’s List, Sneakers, Joseph, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Moses, Rules of Engagement
1943 - John Denver - songwriter: Leavin’ on a Jet Plane; singer: Take Me Home Country Roads, Sunshine on my Shoulders, Annie’s Song, Rocky Mountain High, Fly Away, Calypso, Thank God I’m a Country Boy; actor: Oh, God! series; killed Oct 12, 1997 [age 53] in crash of his home-built high-performance aircraft he was piloting over Monterey Bay, California
1941 - Sarah Miles - actress: Ryan’s Daughter, Dynasty, Queenie, Hope and Glory, Blow-Up, The Servant
1940 - Actor & Disney Legend Tim Considine - Spin Evans of Disney's Spin and Marty TV serial - is born in Los Angeles, California
1937 - Sir Anthony Hopkins - Academy Award-winning actor: Silence of the Lambs [1991]; Emmy for Best Actor: The Bunker [1981] and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case [1976]; Howards End, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, The Mask of Zorro, Meet Joe Black, Mission: Impossible II, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Hannibal
1930 - Odetta (Holmes Felious Gordon) - blues/folk singer, musician, songwriter: Music, Give Me Your Hand, Got to Be Me; actress: The Medium, The Crucible, Sanctuary
OTHER EVENTS -
2004 – The Who’s Roger Daltrey is made a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to music and charity work.
2004 - Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 feet (509 metres), officially opens.
2003 - Ringtones.co.uk announced that Beyonce's number 1 hit 'Crazy In Love' was the best selling mobile ringtone of the year. 'Fly On The Wings Of Love' by XTM was the second biggest ringtone and R. Kelly's 'Ignition' was third.
2001 - UK record chain HMV listed the best selling music products over Christmas: 'No Angel' by Dido was the best selling album, Kylie Minogue sold the most calendars, Kurt Cobain: 'Heavier Than Heaven' was the best selling book and D-12 T-Shirt was listed as the No.1 seller.
1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
1998 - Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton star in Star Trek : Insurrection which starts screening in Australia. When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation plot against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Capt. Picard begins an open rebellion.
1997 - In an attempt to nudge its Microsoft Network into a more competetive position (vs. America Online), Microsoft announced the purchase of Hotmail, the free Web-based e-mail service.
1996 - In the traditional New Year's Eve knighthood announcements of England's ruler Queen Elizabeth II, Paul McCartney is granted knighthood. Tom Jones was knighted in 2005, while Roger Daltrey (2004), and Eric Clapton and Ray Davies (2003) both received lesser "Commander" titles.
1995 – Barbra Streisand’s video of “Barbra – The Concert” is ranked the year’s top-selling music video by Chart Toppers.
1995 - Bill Watterson's comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" ends syndication which started on November 18, 1985.
1993 - Barbra Streisand performed her first paid concert in 22 years at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, NV.
1992 – Czechoslovakia is dissolved, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1987 – Fatal Attraction starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close starts screening in Australia. A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
1987 – Can’t Buy Me Love starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson commences starring in Australia. Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clic.
1985 - Rock singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year's Eve performance in Dallas.
1978 – San Francisco’s Winterland Theater closes its doors after a farewell performance by the Grateful Dead and the Blues Brothers.
1975 - Casablanca Records' single release party for Donna Summer's debut single, "Love To Love You Baby" features a life-size cake in the shape of the singer, flown in all the way from Los Angeles to New York. (It's Summer's 23rd birthday.)
1974 - Harry Chapin has a gold Number One hit with a song which hits close to home, "Cat's in the Cradle." The lyrics come from a poem composed by his wife, Sandy, all about a neglectful father who's away far too much and busy far too often to watch his kid grow-up
1974 - U.S. ban on private possession of gold lifted: The 41-year-old ban had allowed only industrial and numismatic purchases.
1970 - Smoking: The last day for cigarette commercials on U.S. TV.
1969 – BBC television broadcast the program Man of the Decade, who is … John Lennon! Rolling Stone names Lennon its man of the year, while Lennon himself admits to the New Musical Express that he’s considering leaving the Beatles.
1968 - Billboard magazine reports that this year, for the first time, US total music sales have topped one billion dollars.
1966 - The Monkees started a 7-week run at No.1 on the US singles charts with the Neil Diamond song 'I'm A Believer'. Also No.1 in the UK in 1967.
1964 - Donald Campbell has broken the world water speed record, becoming the first man to break the world land and water speed records in the same year. He reached an average speed of 276.33mph (444.71km/h) in his speedboat, Bluebird, this afternoon on Lake Dumbleyung in Perth, Western Australia.
1962 - Universal's feature 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis and Suzanne Pleshette, is released. It is the first non-Disney motion picture to use Disneyland as a location!
1961 - The Beach Boys, formerly known as the Pendletons, make their onstage debut under their new name at a Ritchie Valens Memorial Concert in Long Beach, CA. They are paid $300 for the gig.
1960 - The risque (and soon to be hit) beach vacation movie, Where The Boys Are, premieres in New York City, starring Connie Francis.
1955 - General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to earn more than one billion dollars in a single year. The company’s annual report to stockholders listed a net income of $1,189,477,082 in revenues.
1955 - "Unchained Melody" is named the Number One top tune of 1955 based on Billboard's Honor Roll of Hits, a chart that takes into consideration dealer sales, disc jockey favorites and jukebox plays.
1946 - President Truman in a surprise proclamation terminated formally the period of hostilities in World War II as of noon today.
1937 - Walt Disney announces to the Disney family that Pinocchio would be the studio's second animated feature film
1929 - The Silly Symphony film The Skeleton Dance is shown as a sneak preview at Hollywood's Carthay Circle Theater.
1923 - In London, the BBC first broadcast the chimes of Big Ben.
1781 - The first modern bank in the U.S., the Bank of North America, was organized by Robert Morris and received its charter from the Confederation Congress. It began operating in Philadelphia.
1600 - Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade.
1959 - Val Kilmer - actor: The Island of Dr. Moreau, Heat, Batman Forever, Tombstone, The Doors, Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid, Top Gun, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Top Secret!
1953 - James Remar - actor: The Quest, The Phantom, The Surgeon, Renaissance Man, Miracle on 34th Street [1994], Confessions of a Hit Man, Fatal Instinct, Drugstore Cowboy, Rent-A-Cop, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Cotton Club, 48 Hrs., The Warriors
1951 - Barbara Carrera - actress: Dallas, Centennial, Sawbones, Point of Impact, Loverboy, Never Say Never Again, Lone Wolf McQuade, Masada, Condorman, Island of Dr. Moreau, Embryo; model
1948 - Donna Summer - Grammy Award-winning singer: Last Dance [1978], Hot Stuff [1979], He’s a Rebel [1983], Forgive Me [1984]; Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Bad Girls, She Works Hard for the Money, On the Radio; No More Tears (Enough is Enough) [w/Barbra Streisand]
1943 - Ben Kingsley - Academy Award-winning actor: Gandhi [1982]; Schindler’s List, Sneakers, Joseph, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Moses, Rules of Engagement
1943 - John Denver - songwriter: Leavin’ on a Jet Plane; singer: Take Me Home Country Roads, Sunshine on my Shoulders, Annie’s Song, Rocky Mountain High, Fly Away, Calypso, Thank God I’m a Country Boy; actor: Oh, God! series; killed Oct 12, 1997 [age 53] in crash of his home-built high-performance aircraft he was piloting over Monterey Bay, California
1941 - Sarah Miles - actress: Ryan’s Daughter, Dynasty, Queenie, Hope and Glory, Blow-Up, The Servant
1940 - Actor & Disney Legend Tim Considine - Spin Evans of Disney's Spin and Marty TV serial - is born in Los Angeles, California
1937 - Sir Anthony Hopkins - Academy Award-winning actor: Silence of the Lambs [1991]; Emmy for Best Actor: The Bunker [1981] and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case [1976]; Howards End, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, The Mask of Zorro, Meet Joe Black, Mission: Impossible II, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Hannibal
1930 - Odetta (Holmes Felious Gordon) - blues/folk singer, musician, songwriter: Music, Give Me Your Hand, Got to Be Me; actress: The Medium, The Crucible, Sanctuary
OTHER EVENTS -
2004 – The Who’s Roger Daltrey is made a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to music and charity work.
2004 - Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 feet (509 metres), officially opens.
2003 - Ringtones.co.uk announced that Beyonce's number 1 hit 'Crazy In Love' was the best selling mobile ringtone of the year. 'Fly On The Wings Of Love' by XTM was the second biggest ringtone and R. Kelly's 'Ignition' was third.
2001 - UK record chain HMV listed the best selling music products over Christmas: 'No Angel' by Dido was the best selling album, Kylie Minogue sold the most calendars, Kurt Cobain: 'Heavier Than Heaven' was the best selling book and D-12 T-Shirt was listed as the No.1 seller.
1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
1998 - Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton star in Star Trek : Insurrection which starts screening in Australia. When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation plot against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Capt. Picard begins an open rebellion.
1997 - In an attempt to nudge its Microsoft Network into a more competetive position (vs. America Online), Microsoft announced the purchase of Hotmail, the free Web-based e-mail service.
1996 - In the traditional New Year's Eve knighthood announcements of England's ruler Queen Elizabeth II, Paul McCartney is granted knighthood. Tom Jones was knighted in 2005, while Roger Daltrey (2004), and Eric Clapton and Ray Davies (2003) both received lesser "Commander" titles.
1995 – Barbra Streisand’s video of “Barbra – The Concert” is ranked the year’s top-selling music video by Chart Toppers.
1995 - Bill Watterson's comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" ends syndication which started on November 18, 1985.
1993 - Barbra Streisand performed her first paid concert in 22 years at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, NV.
1992 – Czechoslovakia is dissolved, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1987 – Fatal Attraction starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close starts screening in Australia. A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
1987 – Can’t Buy Me Love starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson commences starring in Australia. Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clic.
1985 - Rock singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year's Eve performance in Dallas.
1978 – San Francisco’s Winterland Theater closes its doors after a farewell performance by the Grateful Dead and the Blues Brothers.
1975 - Casablanca Records' single release party for Donna Summer's debut single, "Love To Love You Baby" features a life-size cake in the shape of the singer, flown in all the way from Los Angeles to New York. (It's Summer's 23rd birthday.)
1974 - Harry Chapin has a gold Number One hit with a song which hits close to home, "Cat's in the Cradle." The lyrics come from a poem composed by his wife, Sandy, all about a neglectful father who's away far too much and busy far too often to watch his kid grow-up
1974 - U.S. ban on private possession of gold lifted: The 41-year-old ban had allowed only industrial and numismatic purchases.
1970 - Smoking: The last day for cigarette commercials on U.S. TV.
1969 – BBC television broadcast the program Man of the Decade, who is … John Lennon! Rolling Stone names Lennon its man of the year, while Lennon himself admits to the New Musical Express that he’s considering leaving the Beatles.
1968 - Billboard magazine reports that this year, for the first time, US total music sales have topped one billion dollars.
1966 - The Monkees started a 7-week run at No.1 on the US singles charts with the Neil Diamond song 'I'm A Believer'. Also No.1 in the UK in 1967.
1964 - Donald Campbell has broken the world water speed record, becoming the first man to break the world land and water speed records in the same year. He reached an average speed of 276.33mph (444.71km/h) in his speedboat, Bluebird, this afternoon on Lake Dumbleyung in Perth, Western Australia.
1962 - Universal's feature 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis and Suzanne Pleshette, is released. It is the first non-Disney motion picture to use Disneyland as a location!
1961 - The Beach Boys, formerly known as the Pendletons, make their onstage debut under their new name at a Ritchie Valens Memorial Concert in Long Beach, CA. They are paid $300 for the gig.
1960 - The risque (and soon to be hit) beach vacation movie, Where The Boys Are, premieres in New York City, starring Connie Francis.
1955 - General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to earn more than one billion dollars in a single year. The company’s annual report to stockholders listed a net income of $1,189,477,082 in revenues.
1955 - "Unchained Melody" is named the Number One top tune of 1955 based on Billboard's Honor Roll of Hits, a chart that takes into consideration dealer sales, disc jockey favorites and jukebox plays.
1946 - President Truman in a surprise proclamation terminated formally the period of hostilities in World War II as of noon today.
1937 - Walt Disney announces to the Disney family that Pinocchio would be the studio's second animated feature film
1929 - The Silly Symphony film The Skeleton Dance is shown as a sneak preview at Hollywood's Carthay Circle Theater.
1923 - In London, the BBC first broadcast the chimes of Big Ben.
Big Ben is the bell at the centre of this clip.
1923 - Singer Eddie Cantor opened in the lead role of Kid Boots. Broadway critics called the production, “A smash musical hit!” Eddie made several of the songs from that show into smash hits also, like, Alabamy Bound and If You Knew Susie. Three years later, If You Knew Susie became the title song for a movie starring Cantor.
1891 - New York's new Immigration Depot was opened at Ellis Island, to provide improved facilities for the massive numbers of arrivals.
1781 - The first modern bank in the U.S., the Bank of North America, was organized by Robert Morris and received its charter from the Confederation Congress. It began operating in Philadelphia.
1600 - Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade.
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