Thursday, January 7, 2010

TODAY IS ... 07 JANUARY

TODAY IS ... 07 JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS - 1991 - Max Morrow - a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Monk, The Christmas Shoes, and The Great Goose Caper. 1990 - Camryn Grimes - an American actress who well-known for her role as Cassie Newman on The Young and the Restless, which she started portraying in 1997, winning a Daytime Emmy for her work in 2000, becoming the youngest winner to get a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. 1990 - Liam Aiken - an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy!. He more recently starred as Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 1988 - Haley Bennett - an American singer and actress. 1987 - Lyndsy Fonseca - an American actress best known for playing Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless, Dylan Mayfair on the hit ABC series Desperate Housewives and Ted's daughter in How I Met Your Mother. 1977 - Dustin Diamond - an American actor, musician, and stand-up comedian best known for his role as Samuel "Screech" Powers on the television show Saved by the Bell. 1970 - Doug E. Doug - an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and film director. He is best known for his roles as Griffin Vesey on the CBS sitcom Cosby, Sanka Coffie in the film Cool Runnings and as the voice of Bernie in the animated film Shark Tale. 1964 - Nicolas Cage- an American actor who pursued acting as a career, making his debut on television in 1981. Cage has been featured in "bad boy" roles, and has won awards, beginning in 1989 with his Independent Spirit Award, an Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in Leaving Las Vegas, and his most recent Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in 2002 for Adaptation. 1956 - David Caruso - an American film and television actor and producer, known for his role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami. 1948 - Kenny Loggins- is an American singer and songwriter best known for a number of soft rock and adult contemporary hit singles beginning in the 1970s. He has a No. 1 hit in 1984 with the title song from the film ``Footloose.'' OTHER EVENTS – 2004 – Madonna endorses Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark on her Web site, saying, “I want my children to grow up with the same opportunities that I had – to know and understand what’s going on in the world and to travel that world safely and with pride.” 1999 – Enemy of the State starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight and Lisa Bonet commences screening in Australia. A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime. 1996 - "Crazy For You" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 1622 performances 1996 - A blizzard paralyzed the Eastern U.S. The storm moved slowly, taking five days to reach New England from the Gulf of Mexico. The National Weather Service called it a storm of “historic proportions” with more than two feet of snow in the Baltimore and Washington, DC area. The mountains of Virginia and West Virginia got up to three feet. More than 100 deaths were blamed on the storm -- the majority from heart attacks. 1994 – Oasis started recording their debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’, at Monrow studios in South Wales. 1990 - The Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far. The closing of the monument allowed “the work of consolidation of the foundations and reduction of the inclination.” 1989 - Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan: Especially for You UK 45 1988 – Dirty Dancing starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze starts screening in Australia. Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher. 1985 - Yul Brynner returned to the stage this night as The King and I returned to where Yul first began his reign, 33 years before. Through his career to that date, Brynner appeared in 4,434 shows without missing a single performance. His performance as the King of Siam was regal! 1985 - A big day for Dayton, Ohio’s Phil Donahue, who broadcast the first of his long-running talkfests from New York City, his new home base. Phil started his MultiMedia Productions show in 1967. 1983 - Daylight Again, Crosby, Stills and Nash's first LP for 5 years, goes platinum. 1982 - "Hooked on Classics," using the extended medley format made popular by "Stars on 45," sets popular classical music to a disco beat. The result: It goes platinum on this date 1982 - "Fame" premieres on NBC TV 1978 - The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Stevie Wonder's Looking Back, and Roberta Flack's Blue Lights in the Basement all enter the soul album charts 1978 – Linda Ronstadt holds it down at No. 1 in the album charts with Simple Dreams. 1978 - The Bar-Kays' "Let's Have Some Fun" enters the soul charts 1978 - The soundtrack album of the hit disco movie "Saturday Night Fever," featuring the Bee Gees, the Trammps, Tavares, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Kool & the Gang, MFSB and others enter the soul album chart. It will peak at Number One for six weeks starting February 18 in its 39 weeks on the chart. 1977 – Andy Gibb was at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Just Want To Be Your Everything’ a song written by his Bee Gee brother Barry. 1975 - "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 1050 performances 1973 - Hitler: The German dictator's car is auctioned for $153,000. It was a 1940 Mercedes 770-K equipped with bullet proof glass and armor plates. 1970 - Neighbors of New York landowner Max Yasgur sued him for $35,000 for property damage caused by ‘flower children’ who attended the August 1969 Woodstock Festival. More than 450,000 people attended the three-day event. 1962 - Chubby Checker's "The Twist" hits #1 – again 1961- In Providence Rhode Island a bunch of kids were stopped by police for driving a round a neighborhood store suspiciously carrying guns and masks. One 21 year old who did three days in jail for carrying a concealed weapon later became a pretty good actor- Al Pacino. 1956 - Dean Martin's "Memories Are Made of This" hits #1 1955 - The first black singer at the Metropolitan Opera was Marian Anderson, who appeared as Ulrica in Verdi’s The Masked Ball. 1955 - Bill Haley and the Comets hit the UK charts with "Rock Around the Clock," establishing a foothold for rock and roll in Britain. 1954 - The Duoscopic TV receiver was unveiled. The TV set allowed a person or group to watch two different shows at the same time. It was a primitive, picture-in-picture, split-screen that was tested in New York City and Chicago. The set was a product of DuMont Laboratories; which owned the DuMont Television Network. 1949 - The announcement of the first photograph of genes was presented at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (UCLA). 1941 - Good-for-Nothin’-Joe was recorded by the sultry Lena Horne. She sang the classic song with Charlie Barnet and his orchestra on Bluebird Records. 1940 - The gate to Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch opened. The ‘singing cowboy’ would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years. 1937 - Shirley Temple, Alice Faye and Michael Whalen star in Poor Little Rich Girl which starts screening in Australia. The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers. 1935- Roger Sherwood’s play the Petrified Forest opened to smash revues at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway. Leslie Howard got great notices, but the real find was an obscure hard drinking actor with sad eyes playing the gangster Duke Mantee – Humphrey Bogart. In the audience was Jack Warner of Warner Bros, who decided Mr Bogart might just make it in motion pictures.
Poster for the 1936 Film Version of Petrified Forest
1933 - Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Building A Building is released. This short will be Mickey's second Academy Award nomination. 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
Guy Menzies is on the right
1931 - Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon The Birthday Party, featuring the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey and Marcellite Garner as Minnie, is released. Virtually all of the early supporting Disney characters make an appearance at a surprise party for Mickey. 1929-With the approval of Edgar Rice Burroughs, artist Hal Foster began drawing the Tarzan comic strip. 1929 - The debut of Buck Rogers 2429 A.D. took place in newspapers around the U.S. this day. The comic strip title was later changed to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. 1927 - 31 calls were made on this, the first day of transatlantic telephone service. Service began between New York and London. The calls cost $75.00 (U.S.) each for five minutes. 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters played their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. The team was formed a year earlier by Abe Saperstein, an English-born Jew from Chicago who had coached semi-pro basketball in that area. He had taken over as coach of the African-American team, the Savoy Big Five (formerly Giles Post American Legion). 1926 - A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this day. It’s the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio. 1924- George Gershwin completed his Rhapsody for Jazz Orchestra, popularly called the Rhapsody in Blue. Ira Gershwin came up with the name after seeing a museum show of Whistler paintings with names like "Composition in Grey, Nocturne in Green," etc. 1913 - A patent was obtained for the process to get gasoline from crude oil by William M. Burton of Chicago. 1904 - The distress signal, “CQD”, was established this day. It didn’t last long. Four years later, “SOS” became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to transmit by wireless radio and could not be misinterpreted. 1894-" The Sneeze" The first motion picture film to be copyrighted by Thomas Edison and his engineer Canadian W.K.L. Dickson 1839- Frenchman Louis Daguerre announces the invention of Photography.( Just three weeks later on the 31st William Fox Talbot will say HE invented it first ). Despite the controversy of credit, the Daguerrotype photgraphic process becomes the popular system worldwide in the nineteenth century. The image of Lincoln on the five dollar bill is from a daguerreotype. 1610- Galileo aimed his telescope into the heavens and first noted moons of Jupiter- Ganymede, Io and Europa.

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