TODAY IS ... 1 JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS -
1981 - Jonas Armstrong - an Irish born British actor best known for his appearances on television in the United Kingdom, where he has played the title role in the BBC One drama series Robin Hood.
1972 - Catherine McCormack - actress: Shadow of the Vampire, Braveheart, Love in the 21st Century, A Rumor of Angels, The Tailor of Panama, Armadillo, Spy Game
1969 - Verne J. Troyer - an American actor and stunt performer. Troyer is notable for his height of 2 ft 8 in (0.81 m), the result of cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism, making him one of the shortest men in the world. He is best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films.
1938 - Frank. Langella, Jr. - an American stage and film actor. His Tonys include two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002), and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2008). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stoker's Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belber's Match.
OTHER EVENTS -
2008 - No-smoking rules went into effect in France, prohibiting people from lighting up in cafes, bars and restaurants.
2007 - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
2006 – Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometer peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages.
2006 – Eminem’s Curtain Call best of stays atop the U.K. albums chart, while X-Factor winner Shayne Ward’s “That’s My Goal” is the No. 1 single.
2005 - In most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier, including Bill Haley's ‘Rock Around the Clock’ and ‘Only You’ by The Platters.
2005 – Finding Neverland starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Julie Christie starts screening in Australia. The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
2004 – Norwegian singer Kurt Nilsen wins the World Idol crown in a televised final after singing U2’s “Beautiful Day.” Among the contestants was American Idol champ Kelly Clarkson.
2004 - Charles Aznavour is named a Commander in the French Legion of Honor.
2002 – Bee Gees members Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb are among those named by the Queen to the New Year Honours list. The Gibb brothers each receive a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
2002 - The euro replaced the Deutsche Mark, the French franc, the Italian lira, the Spanish peseta, the Greek drachma, the Austrian schilling, the Belgian franc, the Finnish markka, the Irish pound, the Luxembourg franc, the Dutch guilder, and the Portuguese escudo as the official currency of these countries.
2000 – Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up for Sleepy Hollow which stared screening on Australia. Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
2000 - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, as many experts and businesses had feared.
1998 – Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder star in Alien : Resurrection which commences screening in Australia. 200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/Alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the Aliens.
1997 – Many fans at the Three Tenors New Year’s Eve concert at Vancouver’s B.C. Place Stadium are angered and disappointed when Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavorotti leave the stage before the stroke of midnight, missing the “Auld Lang Syne” sing-along with the crowd.
1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.
1993 - Elton John's new single "The Last Song" hits the Top 40, giving him a unbroken record-setting string of consecutive years with a chart hit -- 23, beating out Elvis Presley's old record of 22.
1992- Highlander II: The Quickening starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Virginia Madsen starts screening in Australia. In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield
1992 - International Space Year begins.
1992 - Diana Ross opened the annual Harrods January sale in London.
1992 - Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament
1988 - Czechoslovakian born tennis star Hana Mandlikova becomes an Australian Citizen
1984 – Blake Edwards directed Curse of the Pink Panther starring David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Roger Moore and Joanna Lumley which started screening in Australia. Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him.
1980 - Cliff Richard is honored with an MBE (Member of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II, only the third rocker to be so honored, behind the Beatles and Elton John.
1978 - Newspaper editor Donald Woods has arrived in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime. The former editor of the East London Daily Dispatch newspaper in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, has spent years opposing the government's policies of racial discrimination.
1977 - Wings were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mull Of Kintyre.' Spending nine weeks at No.1 in became the first single to sell over 2 million copies in the UK.
1972 - The annual New Year's Day Tournament of Roses parade allows its first rock group on a float -- in this case, Three Dog Night.
1972 - Carole King started a three week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Music', her second US chart topper.
1969 - Marmalade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Beatles song 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da'.
1968 - Criswell was at it again, predicting that a black civil rights leader would be assassinated before October. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot in April.
1968 - Berkeley, CA rock group The Golliwogs makes the momentous decision to change its name to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
1968 - According to Billboard magazine, LPs are now outselling 45 rpm singles for the first time.
1967 - In his annual New Year’s column of predictions, the great Criswell wrote that there would be a one-week war with Egypt and Russia against Israel. War broke out in the Mideast that June: The Arab-Israeli 6-Day War. His column also stated that actress Jayne Mansfield would die in that year. She did.
1966 - Motown girl group, the Marvelettes enter the Hot 100 for the fifth time with "Don't Mess with Bill." It makes it to #7 in its 12 weeks on the charts.
1966 - The Beach Boys enter the Hot 100 for the 23rd time with "Barbara Ann," previously a hit for the Regents in 1961. The Beach Boys version will hang in the charts for eleven weeks peaking at #2
1966 - Simon and Garfunkel started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Sounds Of Silence', a No.13 hit in the UK.
1966 - CBS-TV's Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, a mainstay on television for 14 years, and 12 before that on NBC radio, as well as the launching pad for Ricky Nelson's stardom, films its very last episode.
1964 - BBC-TV premieres a new musical variety show entitled Top Of The Pops, kicked off by Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You," followed by lip-synced performances from the Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies and The Swinging Blue Jeans.
1962 - Beatles flunk their audition when Decca Records A&R man Dick Rowe isn't impressed with Fab Four version of Please Mr. Postman and several other songs. Rowe tells manager Brian Epstein that 'Guitar groups are on the way out'!|
1959 - For the first time, ABC-TV's teen dance program American Bandstand leads the US daytime television ratings.
1957 - BBC-TV premieres its new musical variety show Cool For Cats.
1956 - Bill Haley's 'Rock Around The Clock' went to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time.
1955 - English singer Dickie Valentine was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Finger Of Suspicion'. Valentine hosted The Dickie Valentine TV Show in 1956.
1950 - Sam Phillips, a 26-year-old disc jockey, opens his new Memphis Recording Service -- later to be immortalized as Sun Studios -- in Memphis, TN, at the corner of Union and Marshall streets.
1943 - Disney's anti-Nazi propaganda piece Der Fuehrer's Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutziland) is released. Donald Duck has a nightmare that he is living in Nazi Germany, envisioning bayonet discipline, starvation, hard work on the munitions assembly line, and "heiling Hitler." He awakens to find himself in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and glad to be a U.S. citizen.
1940 - New York radio station W2XDG, broadcasting from the Empire State Building, becomes the first to broadcast with the new Frequency Modulation technology, making it the first FM station in the world licensed by the FCC.
1937 - At a party at the Hormel Mansion in Minnesota, a guest won $100 for naming a new canned meat -- Spam.
HORMEL SPAM MUSEUM IN MINNESOTA
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its very first record sales chart, with the first Number One listed as Joe Venuti's "Stop! Look! Listen!"
1929 - The Disney studio begins animating the film The Skeleton Dance.
1926 - Disney's Alice Comedy Alice on the Farm is released. Alice (played by Virginia Davis) and her cat Julius are farmhands.
1925 - Disney's Alice Comedy Alice Cans the Cannibals, starring Virginia Davis, is released. Alice and her cat Julius drive their car into the sea where they become stranded on an island occupied by cannibals!
1909 - The first payments of old-age pensions were made in Britain. People over 70 received five shillings a week.
1901 - The Commonwealth of Australia was founded. Lord Hopetoun officially assumed the duties as the first Governor-General.
1901 - Australia declares independence from federation of U.K. colonies
1872 - The Holtermann nugget was mined at Hill End, New South Wales in Australia; weighing 630 lbs -- the largest gold nugget ever found.
1972 - Catherine McCormack - actress: Shadow of the Vampire, Braveheart, Love in the 21st Century, A Rumor of Angels, The Tailor of Panama, Armadillo, Spy Game
1969 - Verne J. Troyer - an American actor and stunt performer. Troyer is notable for his height of 2 ft 8 in (0.81 m), the result of cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism, making him one of the shortest men in the world. He is best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films.
1938 - Frank. Langella, Jr. - an American stage and film actor. His Tonys include two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002), and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2008). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stoker's Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belber's Match.
OTHER EVENTS -
2008 - No-smoking rules went into effect in France, prohibiting people from lighting up in cafes, bars and restaurants.
2007 - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
2006 – Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometer peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages.
2006 – Eminem’s Curtain Call best of stays atop the U.K. albums chart, while X-Factor winner Shayne Ward’s “That’s My Goal” is the No. 1 single.
2005 - In most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier, including Bill Haley's ‘Rock Around the Clock’ and ‘Only You’ by The Platters.
2005 – Finding Neverland starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Julie Christie starts screening in Australia. The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
2004 – Norwegian singer Kurt Nilsen wins the World Idol crown in a televised final after singing U2’s “Beautiful Day.” Among the contestants was American Idol champ Kelly Clarkson.
2004 - Charles Aznavour is named a Commander in the French Legion of Honor.
2002 – Bee Gees members Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb are among those named by the Queen to the New Year Honours list. The Gibb brothers each receive a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
2002 - The euro replaced the Deutsche Mark, the French franc, the Italian lira, the Spanish peseta, the Greek drachma, the Austrian schilling, the Belgian franc, the Finnish markka, the Irish pound, the Luxembourg franc, the Dutch guilder, and the Portuguese escudo as the official currency of these countries.
2000 – Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up for Sleepy Hollow which stared screening on Australia. Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
2000 - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, as many experts and businesses had feared.
1998 – Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder star in Alien : Resurrection which commences screening in Australia. 200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/Alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the Aliens.
1997 – Many fans at the Three Tenors New Year’s Eve concert at Vancouver’s B.C. Place Stadium are angered and disappointed when Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavorotti leave the stage before the stroke of midnight, missing the “Auld Lang Syne” sing-along with the crowd.
1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.
1993 - Elton John's new single "The Last Song" hits the Top 40, giving him a unbroken record-setting string of consecutive years with a chart hit -- 23, beating out Elvis Presley's old record of 22.
1992- Highlander II: The Quickening starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Virginia Madsen starts screening in Australia. In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield
1992 - International Space Year begins.
1992 - Diana Ross opened the annual Harrods January sale in London.
1992 - Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament
1988 - Czechoslovakian born tennis star Hana Mandlikova becomes an Australian Citizen
1984 – Blake Edwards directed Curse of the Pink Panther starring David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Roger Moore and Joanna Lumley which started screening in Australia. Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him.
1980 - Cliff Richard is honored with an MBE (Member of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II, only the third rocker to be so honored, behind the Beatles and Elton John.
1978 - Newspaper editor Donald Woods has arrived in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime. The former editor of the East London Daily Dispatch newspaper in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, has spent years opposing the government's policies of racial discrimination.
1977 - Wings were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mull Of Kintyre.' Spending nine weeks at No.1 in became the first single to sell over 2 million copies in the UK.
1972 - The annual New Year's Day Tournament of Roses parade allows its first rock group on a float -- in this case, Three Dog Night.
1972 - Carole King started a three week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Music', her second US chart topper.
1969 - Marmalade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Beatles song 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da'.
1968 - Criswell was at it again, predicting that a black civil rights leader would be assassinated before October. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot in April.
1968 - Berkeley, CA rock group The Golliwogs makes the momentous decision to change its name to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
1968 - According to Billboard magazine, LPs are now outselling 45 rpm singles for the first time.
1967 - In his annual New Year’s column of predictions, the great Criswell wrote that there would be a one-week war with Egypt and Russia against Israel. War broke out in the Mideast that June: The Arab-Israeli 6-Day War. His column also stated that actress Jayne Mansfield would die in that year. She did.
1966 - Motown girl group, the Marvelettes enter the Hot 100 for the fifth time with "Don't Mess with Bill." It makes it to #7 in its 12 weeks on the charts.
1966 - The Beach Boys enter the Hot 100 for the 23rd time with "Barbara Ann," previously a hit for the Regents in 1961. The Beach Boys version will hang in the charts for eleven weeks peaking at #2
1966 - Simon and Garfunkel started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Sounds Of Silence', a No.13 hit in the UK.
1966 - CBS-TV's Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, a mainstay on television for 14 years, and 12 before that on NBC radio, as well as the launching pad for Ricky Nelson's stardom, films its very last episode.
1964 - BBC-TV premieres a new musical variety show entitled Top Of The Pops, kicked off by Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You," followed by lip-synced performances from the Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies and The Swinging Blue Jeans.
1962 - Beatles flunk their audition when Decca Records A&R man Dick Rowe isn't impressed with Fab Four version of Please Mr. Postman and several other songs. Rowe tells manager Brian Epstein that 'Guitar groups are on the way out'!|
1959 - For the first time, ABC-TV's teen dance program American Bandstand leads the US daytime television ratings.
1957 - BBC-TV premieres its new musical variety show Cool For Cats.
1956 - Bill Haley's 'Rock Around The Clock' went to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time.
1955 - English singer Dickie Valentine was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Finger Of Suspicion'. Valentine hosted The Dickie Valentine TV Show in 1956.
1950 - Sam Phillips, a 26-year-old disc jockey, opens his new Memphis Recording Service -- later to be immortalized as Sun Studios -- in Memphis, TN, at the corner of Union and Marshall streets.
1943 - Disney's anti-Nazi propaganda piece Der Fuehrer's Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutziland) is released. Donald Duck has a nightmare that he is living in Nazi Germany, envisioning bayonet discipline, starvation, hard work on the munitions assembly line, and "heiling Hitler." He awakens to find himself in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and glad to be a U.S. citizen.
1940 - New York radio station W2XDG, broadcasting from the Empire State Building, becomes the first to broadcast with the new Frequency Modulation technology, making it the first FM station in the world licensed by the FCC.
1937 - At a party at the Hormel Mansion in Minnesota, a guest won $100 for naming a new canned meat -- Spam.
HORMEL SPAM MUSEUM IN MINNESOTA
1901 - Australia declares independence from federation of U.K. colonies
1872 - The Holtermann nugget was mined at Hill End, New South Wales in Australia; weighing 630 lbs -- the largest gold nugget ever found.
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