Saturday, January 16, 2010

TODAY IS ... 16 JANUARY

TODAY IS ... 16 JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS -
1989 -Yvonne Zima - an American actress best known for her portrayal of Rachel Greene in ER, having first appeared in the 1994 pilot episode. 

1986 - Mason Gamble - an American actor known for his portrayal of Dennis Mitchell in the 1993 film Dennis the Menace and as Jason Schwartzman's sidekick, Dirk Calloway, in Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson's critically acclaimed 1998 film Rushmore

1974 - Kate Moss - an English model. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is known for her waifish figure, uncommonly short height for a fashion model, and appearances in many advertising campaigns.
1959 - Sade - a British Nigerian singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.

 1950 - Debbie Allen - dancer, actress: Fame, Roots: The Next Generation, Ragtime, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh; choreographer

1948 - John Carpenter - an Academy Award winning, American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.

1946 - Ronnie Milsap - Grammy Award-winning singer: Stand By My Woman Man [1976]; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1974, 1976, 1977]; CMA Entertainer of the Year [1977]; My Heart, Only One Love in My Life, It Was Almost like a song, Lost in the Fifties Tonight, A Woman in Love, [There’s] No Gettin’ Over Me; blind since birth, learned to play several instruments by age 12

1909 - Ethel Merman - singer, Tony Award-winning actress (musical): Call Me Madam [1951]; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, There’s No Business Like Show Business, Alexander’s Ragtime Band; Musical Theater Hall of Famer

OTHER EVENTS –

2005 - The Killers started a two week run at No.1 on the UK charts with their debut album 'Hot Fuss.' The Las Vegas band also entered the UK singles chart at No.3 with 'Somebody Told Me'. Green Day were at No.1 on the US album chart with 'American Idiot.'

2005 – Elvis Presley’s single ‘One Night’ made chart history by becoming the 1,000th UK number one. Elvis, who led last week’s chart with ‘Jailhouse Rock’, had now scored more number one UK hits than any other artist with 20 number 1’s, beating The Beatles’ 17 chart toppers.

2003 – The Quiet American starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser opens in Australia. An older British reporter vies against a young American for the affections of a Vietnamese beauty. 


2002 - A section of Interstate 80 in Californis is renamed the "Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway."

2001 - Oil tanker endangers eco-paradise - 'Jessica', the fuel supply tanker to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific has run aground off the island of San Cristobal. Marine experts are warning of an ecological disaster to the Archipelago, which is home to thousands of unique animal and plant species.

Jessica and iguana

2000 - Jay-Z was at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Vol 3. Life and Times of S. Carter.’

1999 - Norman Cook scored his third UK No.1 single under the name of Fatboy Slim with 'Praise You'. The song features the prominent vocal sample "Praise You" from the opening of 'Take Yo' Praise' by Camille Yarbrough. Cook's other No.1's had been with The Housemartins and Beats International.

1999 – Legendary Los Angeles nightclub the Whisky A Go-Go begins a weeklong slate of concerts to mark its 35th anniversary. The concerts feature acts who have previously played the venue. Included in the festivities are the Grass Roots, the Robby Krieger Band, Johnny Rivers, Nancy Sinatra, Randy Bachman, Jan & Dean, and Martha Reeves.

1999 - Brandy’s single, Have You Ever, was #1 (for the first of two weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100 and a No.13 hit in the UK..

1997 - The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life in Surviving Picasso. Starting to screen in Australia on this day, it starred Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone and Julianne Moore.

1997 - Microsoft ships Microsoft Office 97 application suite for Windows. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook.

1996 – Wayne Newton performs his 25,000th Vegas show. Newton had already performed more shows as a headliner on Las Vegas’ famed Strip than any other entertainer in the city’s history. He first headlined on the Strip at the Fremont Hotel in 1959.

1996 - Jimmy Buffett’s sea plane Hemisphere Dancer was shot at by Jamaican police who mistook him for a drug smuggler. U2’s Bono was in the plane with Buffett at the time. Jimmy wrote a song about the incident, Jamaica Mistaica, that appears on the album Banana Wind.

1995 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “On Bended Knee,” Boyz II Men.

1994 - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams played before 2,500 people in Ho Chi Minh City. He was the first Western entertainer to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

1992 - Mick Jagger attends the premiere of his film Freejack at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

1992 - Eric Clapton recorded his unplugged session for MTV.

1991 - The Sixth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York City. Inductees include LaVern Baker, The Byrds, John Lee Hooker, The Impressions, Wilson Pickett, Jimmy Reed, and Ike and Tina Turner.

1991 - The Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) began, with the first fighter aircraft launched from Saudi Arabia and off U.S. and British aircraft carriers on bombing missions over Iraq. The goal was to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

1988 - With his recent hit "Got My Mind Set On You," the Beatles' George Harrison becomes the act with the longest span of Number One hits in pop music history -- 24 years. (The Beach Boys would soon break this record, however, with their hit "Kokomo.")

1988 – Wet Wet Wet went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut LP ‘Popped In ‘Souled Out’.

 1988 - Tina Turner gave herself a place in the record books when she performed in front of 182,000 people in Rio De Janeiro. The largest audience ever for a single artist.

1988 - George Michael’s Faith started a sixteen-week run as the number-one album in the U.S. The tracks: Faith, Father Figure, I Want Your Sex, One More Try, Hard Day, Hand To Mouth, Look at Your Hands, Monkey and Kissing a Fool
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1988 - Former Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth.' The promotional video was directed by Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton and features an appearance of Carlisle's husband Morgan Mason

1988 - Elton John lands his 22nd US Top 10 hit as Candle in the Wind moves to No. 7 



1988 – 24 years after The Beatles first topped the chart, George Harrison went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Got My Mind Set On You’.

1986 - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rae Dawn Chong star in Commando which started screening in Australia. A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator. 



1985 - Leonard Nimoy, who roamed among the stars in the Star Trek TV series and movies, got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Live long and prosper, Mr. Spock.

1984 - The Rolling Stones go to Mexico City to shoot videos for "She Was Hot" and "Too Much Blood", two songs from their "Undercover" LP.

1984 - Michael Jackson didn’t get to sit down much at the 11th annual American Music Awards this night. The ‘Gloved One’ got up and down to receive eight awards, including favorite pop and soul male vocalist, pop and soul album winner for Thriller, pop and soul video winner for Beat It and best pop song for Billie Jean.

1983 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Down Under,” Men at Work. The song holds at No. 1 for three weeks, drops behind Toto’s “Africa,” then reclaims the top spot for one week.


1982 - Earth, Wind & Fire's "Let's Groove" becomes the longest running R&B Number One single in the past ten years, having held that position now for eight weeks. 


1982 – Bucks Fizz were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their second No.1 ‘Land Of Make Believe’.

1981 - The sitcom Harper Valley P.T.A., based on Jeannie C. Riley's hit song, debuts on NBC. 


1980 - Human Interferon: Scientists in Boston announce that the natural virus-fighting substance has been manufactured using gene-splicing techniques

1979 - Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, was forced to flee the country. Two weeks later, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution, returned after 15 years of exile and took control of Iran.

 1979 – Days of Heaven starring Richard Grere and Brooke Adams starts screening in Australia. A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

1977 - One half of TV cop show "Starsky & Hutch" (he was blonde Hutch), David Soul went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Don't Give Up On Us'. Also a No.1 in the US. 


1976 - The television variety show Donny and Marie, starring Donny and Marie Osmond, debuts on ABC.

1976 - The album, Frampton Comes Alive, was released by Herb Alpert’s A&M Records. The double LP soon reached the top spot of the album charts and stayed perched there for 17 weeks. It sold 19 million copies in its first year in the record racks. 


1975 - Paul McCartney and Wings arrive in New Orleans to begin sessions on their Venus and Mars album at Allen Toussaint's Sea Saint studios. They would stay through Mardi Gras.

1974- Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws first published.

1974 – The New Seekers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their second and final UK No.1 single ‘You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me’.


1973 - The final first-run episode of the long-running western "Bonanza" aired on NBC. 


1971 - At a press conference in Memphis, TN, Elvis Presley declares that "I don't go along with music advocating drugs and desecration of the flag. I think an entertainer is for entertaining and to make people happy."

1969 – Starring Ken Shorter, Rowena Wallace and Carmen Duncan, You Can’t See Around Corners started screening in Australia. Theatrical film version of the TV series "You Can't See Round Corners" (1967)

1969 - Marmalade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Beatles song 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da'.

1969 - Fleetwood Mac, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Albert Collins all appeared at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California.

1969 - At Twickenham Film Studios in London, the Beatles conclude rehearsals for their Get Back project (later retitled Let It Be).

1966 - Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center

1965 - Temptations hit US chart with My Girl, their first No. 1. 


1965 - Beatles manager Brian Epstein, in Britain's Melody Maker magazine, is quoted as saying "I give the Beatles two or three years more at the top."

1965 - "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 125 performances

1964 - The Dave Clark Five were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Glad All Over', the group's only UK No.1. 


1964 - Hello Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Carol Channing starred in the role of Mrs. Dolly Levi. The musical was an adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s play, The Matchmaker. The show, with an unforgettable title song, was hailed by critics as the “...possible hit of the season.” It was possible, all right. Hello Dolly! played for 2,844 performances. And, it returned to Broadway in the 1990s, again starring Carol Channing.
1962 - First day of shooting on the film Dr No with a young actor named Sean Connery


1960 - In Britain, Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent appear together on ITV's pop show Boy Meets Girl

1960 – First man Into Space starring Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi and Bill Edwards commences screening in Australia. The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside. 


1959 - Buddy Holly's Heartbeat hits UK chart

1957 - The Cavern Club opened for business in Liverpool, England. The rock club was just a hangout for commoners. Then, things changed -- big time. It all started in the early 1960s when four kids from the neighborhood popped in to jam. They, of course, turned out to be The Beatles. 


1957 - Little Richard records "Lucille


1957 - Elvis Presley's "Too Much" enters the pop chart. It will become the first of four chart toppers for Presley this year. 


1956 - Tennessee Ernie Ford was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the Merle Travis coal-mining song 'Sixteen Tons.' Written in 1947 about the misery of coal mining. 


1954 -THE WAR ON COMICS- Senator Estes Kevfhauer chaired a U.S. Senate subcommittee to study juvenile delinquency. They conclude that one of the contributing factors to adolescent moral decay was four-color comic books. 

1954 - "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1928 performances

1953 - The General Motors Motorama at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City opens to the press. The press take their first pictures of the prototype Corvette.

1947 – Dragonwyck starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston and Vincent Price starts screening in Australia. A simple Connecticuit farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patron, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion. 


1942 - Kay Kyser and the band recorded A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) for Columbia Records. The tune is about the problems associated with wearing the garish, exaggerated ‘hep’ fashion.


1942 - Disney's Donald Duck short The Village Smithy, directed by Dick Lundy, is released. Donald's patience, as a blacksmith, is put to the test when he attempts to shoe a donkey named Jenny. 


1938 - Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing

1936 - The New York Journal reports that film director Rene Clair feels that Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney are both outstanding figures in the movies at this time. "They have no outside interference," she explains, "they act as their own producer, director, and even attend to their own stories and musical scores. Their artistry is sublime."

1935- Ma Barker’s gang has a furious shootout with the FBI at Ocklawaha, Florida. Legend has it they found Ma's body with the smoking tommygun still cradled in her lap. Others say she was only an ignorant hillbilly lady traveling with the gang as a cover

1932 - Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Bird Store, directed by Wilfred Jackson, is released. 


1930 - Summer, a Silly Symphony short, is released. Directed by Ub Iwerks, it is the second "4 seasons Symphony."


1921 - The motion picture, The Kid, opened in movie houses. The classic starred Charlie Chaplin and featured a little tyke, soon to be a Hollywood favorite. Jackie Coogan continued to make movies until his death in 1984.


1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

1889 - Cloncurry, Queensland, records Australia's highest shade temperature at 53.1 °C (127.5 °F)

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