Thursday, January 14, 2010

TODAY IS ... 14 JANUARY

TODAY IS ... 14 JANUARY

BIRTHDAYS -

1979 - Jordan Ladd - actress: Embrace of the Vampire, Weapons of Mass Distraction, Boys Life 3, Cabin Fever; daughter of Cheryl Ladd and David Ladd, granddaughter of Alan Ladd
 

1969 - Jason Bateman - an American actor who after starring in several 1980s sitcoms, played the role of Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development. Since the show's end in 2006, he has appeared in several Hollywood films including The Kingdom, Juno, Hancock, and Up in the Air.

1968 - LL Cool J - rap singer
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1967 - Emily Watson – British actress who is best known as: Star of the movie Punch-Drunk Love. She made her feature film debut in the 1996 movie Breaking the Waves. Her bold performance drew rave notices and was the first of many strong performances in emotionally-charged dramas. She has also appeared in Hilary and Jackie (1998), The Cradle Will Rock (1999, with Hank Azaria), Angela's Ashes (1999), Red Dragon (2002, with Anthony Hopkins) and Punch-Drunk Love (2002, with Adam Sandler).

 1948 - Carl Weathers - actor: Happy Gilmore, Dangerous Passion, Hurricane Smith, Rocky series, Force 10 from Navarone, Semi-Tough 


1941 - Faye Dunaway - Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Don Juan DeMarco, Casanova, Beverly Hills Madam, Christopher Columbus, Mommie Dearest, Voyage of the Damned, Three Days of the Condor, The Towering Inferno, Chinatown, The Deadly Trap, Little Big Man, The Arrangement, Bonnie & Clyde

1938 - Jack Jones - singer: Lollipops and Roses, Wives and Lovers, The Impossible Dream, Lady, The Race is On, Love Boat theme

OTHER EVENTS –

2007 - Amy Winehouse started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Back To Black’ (which went on to become the biggest-selling album of 2007 with sales over 1.5m copies). Nas was at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Hip Hop Is Dead.'

 2006 - In Detroit, Michigan, the North American International Auto Show is held, over nine days. Two 
2006 Corvettes are on display.

2006 - American actor and stand-up comic Jamie Foxx started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with his second album ‘Unpredictable.’

2005- The Cassini-Huygens Probe landed on Saturn’s moon Titan.

2004- President George W. Bush declared his resolve to return America to the Moon and make a manned landing on Mars by 2030. To do this he gave NASA only one billion dollars more than their normal budget, while at the same time allocating $1.5 billion to fight Gay marriage initiatives.

2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.

 2004 – Britney Spears tells TRL that in spite of her shotgun wedding (and subsequent annulment) to pal Jason Alexander, she still believes in the sanctity of marriage. “I was in Vegas and it took over me and things got out of hand,” she explains.

2003 – Josh Groban tops the album charts with his second album Closer. The highest new entry is from California rockers Phantom Planet, whose self-titled second album debuts at No. 95.

2001 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. The episode title, "Pokey Mom" is a reference to the Nintendo Pokémon video game characters.

2001 - Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing.' The track was taken from her album J.Lo.
2001 – In Barbados’ Bridgetown, Chaka Khan reunites with her old group Rufus at the eighth annual Barbados Paint It Jazz festival.

1999 – Little Voice starring Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor and Michael Caine starts screening in Australia. The pathetically shy LV lives the life of a recluse listening to her late father’s old records in her room and in the process driving her abusive, loud-mouthed mother, Mari Hoff, to distraction. At night, however, when her father's ghost visits, LV sings the songs of the great divas such as Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Bassey

 1999 – Garth Brooks appears on Sesame Street. He sings a song called “Together We Make Music” with Harry and the other Sesame Street Monsters.

1997: The Beach Boys guest star on an epsiode of the ABC sitcom Home Improvement.

1996 - Oasis went to No.1 on the UK album chart with '(What's The Story) Morning Glory', the group's second UK No.1 spent a total of 145 week's on the chart.

1995 - Swedish performing arts collective Rednex started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Cotton Eye Joe.'

1993 – The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston commences screening in Australia. A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.

1993 - Television talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.

1990-Matt Groenings the Simpsons, which had been run as a series of blackout vignettes on the Tracey Ullman Show, now debuted as its own regular prime time series. Cowabunga!

1989 - U2 win US platinum disc with Rattle and Hum.

1989 - Dirty Dancing soundtrack LP certified sales of ten million copies. (now known as Diamond certification).

1989 - Bobby Brown went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'My Prerogative.'

1989 - "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 297 performances

1989 - Compilation albums were excluded from the UK chart and were listed in the new Top 20 Compilation Albums.

1988 - Paul McCartney releases his album CHOBA B CCCP (translation: Back In The U.S.S.R.) exclusively in Russia, causing bootleg copies stateside to fetch upwards of $1000. (The album, a collection of oldies covers, is eventually released worldwide.)

 1985 - Martina Navratilova joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments. To accomplish this, Martina defeated Manuela Maleeva to win the Virginia Slims competition in Washington, D.C.

1984 - Madonna debuts on UK chart with Holiday.

1984 - Paul McCartney was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Pipes Of Peace.' With this release McCartney made chart history by becoming the first artist to have a No.1 in a group, (The Beatles), in a duo, (with Stevie Wonder), in a trio, (with Wings) and as a solo artist.

1983 - Blow Out starring John Travolta and Nancy Allen commences screening in Australia. A soundman accidentally records the evidence that proves a car "accident" was murder, and consequently finds himself in danger.
1978: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album logs a record 31st week at the top of Billboard's album chart.

1976 - The Bionic Woman debuts on ABC.

1975 - Pop vocal trio Three Dog Night earn its 12th and last gold record for the album "Joy to the World-- Their Greatest Hits." Also on this day, Joe Walsh earns a gold record for his third solo album, "So What." He will go on to join the Eagles next year.

1973 - Elvis Presley draws the largest single television event audience ever for his "Aloha From Hawaii" concert, broadcast live via satellite to over one billion people in forty countries throughout the world. Originating from Honolulu's International Center Arena, the show is a major success, and is released as a hit double-album set later that year. However, the United States doesn't get to see the show until NBC airs it on April 4th.

1973 - Paul Gadd (Gary Glitter) killed off his former persona Paul Raven when he lowered a coffin containing all his records into the River Thames, London.

1972 - Comedian Redd Foxx, whose last name was really Sanford, debuted on NBC-TV in Sanford & Son. Demond Wilson starred as Fred Sanford’s son. Quincy Jones composed the catchy theme song.

1971 – Ryan’s Daughter starring Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard and Sarah Miles premieres in Melbourne, Australia. World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer.

1970: John Lennon's erotic "Bag One" lithographs are exhibited publicly in London (and removed by Scotland Yard two days later).

1970: At the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Diana Ross performs her last show with the Supremes. Miss Ross also introduces her replacement, Jean Terrell.
1969: The Monterey Pop concert film opens in Los Angeles, CA.

1967 - Over 25,000 people attend The Human Be-In-A Gathering Of The Tribes at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The event was a forerunner of major, outdoor rock concerts and featured The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother And The Holding Company.

1967 - Cliff Richard told the music paper the NME that he was retiring from show business to teach religious education in schools.

1966 - Britain's Parlophone Records releases the single "Can't Help Thinking About Me" backed with "And I Say to Myself" by David Bowie and the Lower Third. Bowie had only recently changed his name from Jones to avoid confusion between himself and young theatre star Davy Jones, later of the Monkees

1965 - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Yeh Yeh.'

1965 – Bob Dylan starts recording Bringing It All Back Home.
1964: The New Christy Minstrels perform for President Lyndon Johnson at the White House, along with his wife and Italian President Antonio Segni. 

1964 - The Beatles (minus Ringo Starr, who was fog-bound in Liverpool) departed from Liverpool for Paris, France for an 18-day run at the Olympia Theatre. Arriving in Paris, John, Paul, and George were met by 60 fans. Ringo, accompanied by roadie Neil Aspinall, arrived the next day.

1962 - The Jimmy Clanton film, "Teenage Millionaire" (with Jackie Wilson, Dion and Chubby Checker) debuts

1960: United States Army Corporal Elvis Presley (53310761) receives a promotion to Sergeant.

1956 - Rock ’n’ roller, Little Richard, was singing the newly released Tutti-Frutti. So, you think this was the hit version, huh? Not so, bubblegum brain. The Pat Boone version became even more popular as a cover record.

1955: Legendary disc jockey and promoter Alan Freed debuts his first Rock and Roll Ball in New York City. Staged at the 6,000-seat Saint Nicholas Arena in Harlem, both shows sell out well in advance. Featured at the gig are Big Joe Turner, the Clovers, Fats Domino, the Moonglows, the Drifters and the Harptones.

1955 - The Donald Duck short No Hunting, directed by Jack Hannah, is released. Disney's first short of the new year, it will be nominated for an Academy Award

1954- Actress Marilyn Monroe married baseball great Joe DiMaggio.

1952-The NBC "Today" show debuts with Dave Garroway, Jim Fleming and J. Fred Muggs the chimp.

1950 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” by the Andrews Sisters.

1950 - "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 420 performances

1949 - The Pluto film Pueblo Pluto is released. Mickey Mouse also appears.

1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Allied leaders during the opening day of the famous Casablanca Conference in Morocco. Roosevelt, Gen. Charles DeGaulle, leader of free France, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Gen. Henri Giraud, High Commissioner of French North and West Africa met to hammer out the strategy that called for the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On his way to the conference, Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.

1939 - The program, Honolulu Bound, was heard on CBS radio. Phil Baker and the Andrews Sisters were featured on the program. We have no idea what the program was about, but our wild guesses include words like hula, Waikiki, trade winds, sun-drenched beaches, coconuts and pineapple.

1936 - Harriet Hilliard, vocalist and wife of bandleader Ozzie Nelson, sang Get Thee Behind Me Satan, on Brunswick Records.

1926 - Disney ships the Alice Comedy film Alice's Little Parade to M.J. Winkler Productions.

1914 - Henry Ford announced the newest advance in assembly line production of cars. The new continuous motion method reduced assembly time of a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.

1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the Ross Ice Shelf on his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.

1900- Puccini's opera "Tosca" debuts in Rome.

1873 - ‘Celluloid’ was registered as a trademark. It was the wonderful invention of John Hyatt in 1869. While waiting for a patent, he used the celluloid to wrap his Christmas presents. Then he got the idea that somebody might be able to make movies with the stuff.

1831 - The novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French, Notre-Dame de Paris) by French author Victor Hugo is first published. Set in 1482 Paris, the story will become enormously popular and be adapted to the screen a number of times.

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