TODAY IS ... 3 FEBRUARY

TODAY IS ...

3 FEBRUARY

BIRTHDAYS –

1989 - Ryne Sanborn is an American actor. best known as Jason in High School Musical, High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3 - Senior Year.

1978 - Eliza Schneider is an American actress, singer-songwriter, playwright, dialect coach and dialectologist, historian, and voice artist.

1978 - Adrian R'Mante is an American actor best known for his role as Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramirez on the Disney Channel Original Series, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.

1976 - Isla Fisher began acting on Australian television, on the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. She has since been known for her comedic roles in Wedding Crashers (2005), Hot Rod (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008) and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009).

1965 - Maura Tierney  is an American film and television actress best known for her roles as Lisa Miller on NewsRadio and Abby Lockhart on the television medical drama ER.

1962 - Michele Greene is an American actress, singer, and songwriter, perhaps most well-known for her role as attorney Abigail "Abby" Perkins in L.A. Law from 1986 - 1991 returning to that role in 2002 for the TV "reunion" film L.A. Law - The Movie.

1961 - Linda Eder  is an American singer and actress.who cites Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and Eileen Farrell as her childhood inspiration. Eder denotes Garland, specifically, as her greatest influence

1956 - Nathan Lane is an American actor of stage and screen best known for his roles as Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in MouseHunt, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and his voice work in The Lion King and Stuart Little. In 2009 he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

1950  - Morgan Fairchild is an American actress who achieved prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s with continuing roles in several television series, in which she usually conveyed a glamorous image. Fairchild has also performed in live theater and played guest roles in television comedies. She is a board member of the Screen Actors Guild. Movies include : - Dallas, Flamingo Road, North and South, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Writer’s Block

1943 - Blythe Danner is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. Featured in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Husbands and Wives, The Prince of Tides, Inside the Third Reich, Futureworld, 1776, Tattingers, Adam’s Rib

OTHER EVENTS –

2008 – UK singer Adel went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her debut album ‘19′.

2007 - State of Emergency is declared in Indonesia after 'El Nino'-like flooding.

2005 - Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law star in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow which starts screening in Australia. After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

2005 – Clint Eastwood starred and directed Million Dollar Baby together with Hilary Swank.  A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.

2003 - The exclusive documentary 'Living With Michael Jackson' was shown on UK television. Reporter Martin Bashir had spent eight months with the star, the show's editor said, 'viewers will not believe what they're seeing.'

2002 – The Chemical Brothers scored their third UK No.1 album with ‘Come With Us.’

 

2000 - Microsoft announces its next consumer operating system will be called Windows Me, short for Windows Millenium Edition.

2000 – Commencing screening in Australia was Dogma starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven

2000 – Anywhere But Here starring  Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman and Hart Bochner starts screening in Australia. A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.

1998 – Pearl Jam release their fifth album Yield. Unlike its predecessors, it fails to top the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 2.

1996 - In Yunnan, China, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs. At least 322 people killed, 3,925 seriously injured and 13,000 slightly injured. About 358,000 housing units collapsed and 654,000 others were damaged. More than 320,000 people were left homeless.

1996 - B.B. King guest starred on CBS-TV's "Touched by an Angel".

1993 – Gloria Estefan receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The pop star receives the 1,974th star on the famous avenue, in front of the Hollywood Galaxy Shopping Complex on Hollywood Boulevard.

1991 - Sinead O'Connor announced that she wouldn't accept any Grammy Awards or attend the ceremony because the show reflects "false and destructive materialistic values."

1990 - Number one hit on UK music charts - Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

1989- Swiss firm L'Oreal/Nestle bought animation studio Filmation from Westinghouse and shut it down laying off 229 artists the day before a new federal regulation requiring a company give it's employees 60 day notice before closing went into effect.

1989 - Twenty villages evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

1986 - The Pope met Mother Teresa, head of the Missionaries of Charities order, in Calcutta and visited her refuge for the sick and dying. When the pontiff arrived at the two-storey building in the heart of the city's slums, Mother Teresa climbed into the famous white Popemobile and bent down to kiss his hand.

1986 - Microsoft registers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and underwriters send out 38,000 50-page copies of a prospectus of the company, in preparation for first selling stock to the public.

1984 - The first baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach CA

1984 - A sellout crowd of 18,210 at Madison Square Garden in New York City saw Carl Lewis best his own world record in the long jump by 9-1/4 inches.

 

1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched

1981 – Cricket - Australia beats New Zealand 3-1 to win World Series Cup

1979 - Blondie had their first of five UK No.1 singles, with 'Heart Of Glass', taken from the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines. 'Heart of Glass' was originally recorded in 1975 under the name 'Once I Had a Love.'

1979 - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart

1978 - Harry Chapin meets with US President Jimmy Carter to discuss the world hunger situation.

1978 – Cricket - Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test. India needed 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445

1973- Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law.

1973 - Elton John started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Crocodile Rock'. Elton's first of five US No.1 singles.

1973 - Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6

1972 - 11th Winter Olympics games opens in Sapporo Japan (1st in Asia)

1971 - Lynn Anderson received a gold record for the single, Rose Garden. The Grand Forks, ND country singer was raised in Sacramento, CA. In addition to being a singer, she was an accomplished equestrian and California Horse Show Queen in 1966.

1969 - The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization

1969 - "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 122 performances

1968 - The Beatles started work on their new single ‘Lady Madonna’ at Abbey Road studios in London. Recording three piano and drum takes with overdub bass, fuzz guitars, drums, and vocals.

1968 - One hit wonders The Lemon Pipers went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Green Tambourine', it made No.7 in the UK. Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (No#1 US 45)

1967 - "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix

1966 - The first operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)

1966 - First successful soft landing on the moon: The Soviet Luna 9 lands and begins transmitting back photos.

1965 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)

1964 - The British group, The Beatles, received its first gold record award for the single, I Want To Hold Your Hand. The group also won a gold LP award for Meet The Beatles. The album had been released in the United States only 14 days earlier.

1963 - Craig Douglas advertises a new kind of jukebox, the 'Scopitone' which has a short colour film to accompany each disc. The idea flops and they are all withdrawn.

1962- John F. Kennedy signed the trade embargo act against Cuba, banning all trade with Fidel Castro’s regime. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger recalled how the night before JFK had him go around Washington DC and buy up all the Havana cigars (Monte Cristos) he could for the White House humidor.

1961 - Bob Dylan's first recording session - at the home of his friends Sid and Bob Gleason at East Orange, New Jersey, Dylan sings San Franciso Bay Blues and Jesus Met the Woman at the Well.

1960 - Frank Sinatra forms his own label, Reprise Records.

1960 - Anthony Newley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Why', the singers first of two UK No.1 hits.

 

1959 - Was a sad day in rock ’n’ roll history - 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens died in an airplane crash near Mason City, Iowa. February 3rd has been remembered as “The Day the Music Died” since Don McLean made the line popular in his 1972 hit, American Pie.

1958 - Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart &peaks at #3

1956 - Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash held a recording session at Sun Studios in Memphis. The sessions were later named the "Million Dollar Quartet" and released.

1953- Jacques Cousteau, inventor of the Aqua Lung published the Silent World, and later made a film version of the book with Louis Malle.

1951 - The Tennessee Williams play, The Rose Tattoo, opened on Broadway in New York.

1951 - "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV

1950 - Ed, Gene, Joe and Vic, The Ames Brothers, reached the #1 spot on the pop music charts for the first time, as Rag Mop became the most favorite song in the U.S.

1948- The first Cadillacs with big rear tail fins were produced.

1947 - Percival Prattis of Our World in New York City became the first black news correspondent admitted to the House and Senate press gallery in Washington, DC.

1947 - Coldest ever temperature recorded in North America at Snag, Yukon, -63 degrees Celsius (-81.4 Fahrenheit)

1946 - The first issue of Holiday magazine appeared on this day.

1945 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film The Three Caballeros to theaters in the US. After a brief initial run, Walt pulls the film from general release, due to bad press reviews. It includes the animated short films The Cold-Blooded Penguin, The Flying Gauchito, Baia, and Le Pinata, all with Donald Duck.

1942- No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``A String of Pearls,'' Glenn Miller Orchestra.

1941 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded the classic, Amapola, on Decca Records. Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly joined in a vocal duet on this very famous and popular song of the Big Band era.

1939 - The Mickey Mouse film Society Dog Show is released to theaters. Pluto and Fifi also appear.

1931 - Disney's Silly Symphony Birds of a Feather, directed by Burt Gillett, is released. When a flock of birds are attacked by a hawk - who steals one of the baby birds - the birds join ranks to rescue him back!

1930- Roy Disney signed a deal with M. George Borgfeldt Co. of New York to sell figurines of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Disney merchandising is born! The first plush doll of Mickey was sewn by the mother of Warner Bros director Bob Clampett.

1926 - Disney ships the 30th Alice Comedy film, Alice's Mysterious Mystery, to to M.J. Winkler Productions.

1919 - League of Nations first meeting (Paris)

1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, giving the government the power to impose and collect taxes on income

1882 - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo

1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

Japan – the festival of Setsubun before spring.

Mozambique – Heroes' Day.

Catholicism

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  Saint Blaise, Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
  Aaron the Illustrious, saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church
  Saint Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark
  Saint Hadelin
  Saint Werburgh
  Saint Berlindis
  Saint Margaret of England
  Saint Nona and Saint Celsa

Eastern Liturgies
Saints

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  Holy and Righteous Simeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess
  Prophet Azarias (10th century B.C.)
  Martyrs Adrian and Eubulus at Caesarea in Cappadocia (308, 309)
  Martyrs Pappias, Diodorus, and Claudianus at Perge in Pamphylia (250)
  Martyr Blaise of Caesarea in Cappadocia (3rd century)
  Saint Symeon of Tver, first bishop there (1289)
  Saint Ansgar of Hamburg, bishop and enlightener of Denmark and Sweden
  Saint Romanus of Uglich, prince (1285)
  Martyrs Stamatius, his brother John, and Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas of Japan, archbishop (1912)
  Saint James of Serbia, archbishop