Sunday, January 3, 2010

TODAY IS ... 03 JANUARY

TODAY IS ... 03 JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS - 1989 - Alexander Linz - an American actor who starred in several late 1990s and early 2000s films and television programs as a child actor. His notable film roles include Home Alone 3 (1997) and Max Keeble's Big Move (2001). 1975 - Danica McKellar - an American actress, mathematics author and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and now as author of the two New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck, and Kiss My Math, which encourage middle-school girls to learn math. 1969 - Michael Schumacher - a German Formula One driver and seven-time Formula One world drivers' champion. After a career spanning 1991-2006 with Benetton and Ferrari, he announced a comeback for 2010 with Mercedes GP. 1961 - Joan Chong Chen - a four-time Golden Horse, Asian Film Awards, AFI Award, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award, Hundred Flowers Award and National Board of Review winning Chinese American actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. 1956 - Mel Gibson - Academy Award-winning director: Braveheart [1995]; The Passion of the Christ; actor: Braveheart, Maverick, The Man Without a Face, Lethal Weapon series, Forever Young, Hamlet, Bird on a Wire, Tequila Sunrise, Mad Max series, Mrs. Soffel, The Road Warrior, The Year of Living Dangerously, Summer City, Conspiracy Theory, The Patriot, What Women Want 1950 - Victoria Principal - actress: Dallas, Fantasy Island, Scott Turow’s The Burden of Proof, Naked Lie, Blind Witness, Mistress, Pleasure Palace, Earthquake, Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean 1932 - Dabney Coleman - actor: Judicial Consent, The Beverly Hillbillies, Amos and Andrew, Clifford, Never Forget, Short Time, Dragnet, The Man with One Red Shoe, Tootsie, On Golden Pond, 9 to 5, North Dallas Forty, The Other Side of the Mountain, Cinderella Liberty, The President’s Plane is Missing, Buffalo Bill 1930 - Robert Loggia - actor: Independence Day, Wild Palms, Big, Armed and Dangerous, Prizzi’s Honor, Scarface, Psycho 2, Pink Panther series, A Woman Called Golda, Speedtrap, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Mancuso FBI OTHER EVENTS - 2009 - A series of powerful earthquakes hits eastern Indonesia, the strongest with a magnitude of 7.6, north of the city of Manokwari in West Papua province. 2008 – Will Smith, Alice Braga and Charlie Tahan star in I Am Legend whioch starts screening in Australia. Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. 2004 - NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars. The craft was able to send back black and white images three hours after landing. 2002 - Liam and Noel Gallagher topped a poll of celebrities you would least like to live next to, getting 40% of the vote. Readers of Your Home magazine voted the brothers from Oasis as 'Neighbours From Hell'. 2001 - Intel releases the 800 MHz Celeron processor, with 100 MHz system bus. 2000 -USS The Sullivans Attack: Members of the Al Qaeda attempt bomb the USS The Sullivans with a boat laden with explosives. But the boat was overloaded and sank before detonating. 2000 - Art theft was 'professional' job - Police have said the Cezanne painting taken from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on New Year's Eve was probably stolen to order. The painting - Auvers-sur-Oise - was bought by the Ashmolean in 1980 and is said to be worth £3m. 1999 - Steps scored their first UK No.1 single with their version of The Bee Gees song 'Tragedy.' 1995 - WHO reported that the cumulative total of officially reported cases of AIDS had risen to 1,025,073 in 192 countries as at the end of 1994. 1995 - Chevrolet announces that the Corvette has been chosen as the official pace car of the Indianapolis 500 race. Chevrolet announces to its dealers that 522 pace car replicas would be produced, with 415 available for dealer sales. 1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receives South African citizenship. 1993 - "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City after 780 performances 1993 - "Secret Garden" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 706 performances 1993 - U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow. 1993 - In Dresden, Germany, reconstruction of the Frauenkirche Church begins. The church had collapsed during bombing in 1945. 1991 – Pump Up The Volume starring Christian Slater and Annie Ross starts screening in Australia. Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. 1988 - No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “So Emotional,” Whitney Houston. 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other inductees this year include The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, Clyde McPhatter, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, and Jackie Wilson. 1985 - Francis Ford Coppola directed The Cotton Club starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines and Diane Lane commenced screening in Australia. The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous 1985 - Soprano Leontyne Price bid adieu to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She sang the title role of Aida. Price had been part of the Met since 1961. 1981 - David Bowie finishes his Broadway run as the title character in the play The Elephant Man. 1981 - John Lennon’s (Just Like) Starting Over and the album Double Fantasy topped the pop music charts just weeks after the death of the former Beatle. 1980 – British film director Alfred Hitchcock is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 1979 - The Hype, (later to be known as U2) appeared at McGonagils in Dublin, Ireland. 1976 - The Bay City Rollers went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Saturday Night.' At the height of their US success, the Scottish group signed a deal to promote breakfast cereal. 1976 - Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" enters the pop charts 1974 - Bob Dylan breaks eight years of seclusion to mount a 25-city, 39-day tour with The Band. This night's opening concert takes place at Chicago Stadium. Tour highlights are later released as Before The Flood. 1974 - Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" goes gold, the second of three posthumous hits for the late singer/songwriter. 1973 - Two thousand international fashion editors and experts voted Mick and Bianca Jagger two of the top dozen best-dressed men and women of 1972. 1972 - Don McLean's "American Pie" is certified gold 1970 - B J Thomas started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.' The song was featured in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 1970 - George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr record "I Me Mine" at Abbey Road Studios. This is the last time more than one Beatle would record together under the group name until 1995. (John is on vacation.) 1967 - Declaring himself a conscientious objector, the Beach Boys' Carl Wilson refuses to be sworn in after receiving an induction notice from the US Army. 1967 - The Bee Gees were at No.1 on the Australian singles chart with the single 'Spickes and Speckes.' 1966 - The Beatles appear on NBC's Hullabaloo! in a taped performance of "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out." 1964 - Long before the group appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, NBC's The Jack Paar Show transmits a portion of a Beatles concert at The Winters Garden in Bournemouth, England. This is the first major exposure of the group on American television. 1964 - Barry Goldwater announced that he was a candidate for the U.S. Presidency. Later that year he lost . Lyndon B. Johnson: 43,126,506; Goldwater: 27,176,799. 1963 - Cliff Richard was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Next Time / Bachelor Boy,' both songs were from the film Summer Holiday. His sixth UK No.1. 1960 - Bobby Darin and Connie Francis perform as a duo on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show. 1959 - Alaska (49th state) entered the United States of America; capital: Juneau; bird: willow ptarmigan; flower: forget-me-not; nickname: The Last Frontier. 1959 - First edition of new pop show Dig This broadcast in UK on BBC TV. 1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland 1957 - Guy Mitchell was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Singing The Blues.' (Tommy Steele and Marty Robbins had also released versions and Steele would replace this version at No.1). Also a US No.1. 1957 - Fats Domino recorded "I'm Walkin'." 1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company was the first to introduce an electric watch; now a standard in the watch world. 1956 - Elvis plays a show at the Von Theater in Booneville, MS, where he is advertised as "The Folk Music Fireball." 1952 - Dragnet: The TV series debuts on NBC. It starred Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday - he carries a badge. 1940 - The Southland Shuffle was recorded on Bluebird Records by Charlie Barnet and his orchestra. A young trumpet player named Billy May was featured. 1938 - The first broadcast of Woman in White was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on radio for 10 years and was one of the first to feature real, honest-to-goodness doctors and nurses in leading roles. 1924 - Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, he uncovers the greatest treasure of the tomb -- a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin with the mummy of Tutankhamen. 1847 - California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.

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