TODAY IS ... 10 NOVEMBER

TODAY IS ... 10 NOVEMBER

BIRTHDAYS:

1987 - Jessica Tovey is an Australian actress best known for her role as Belle Taylor on the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2006–2009.

Jessica Tovey

1985 - Ricki-Lee Coulter known as Ricki-Lee, is a New Zealand-born Australian pop/R&B singer, actress and celebrity. She rose to fame in 2004 as a contestant on the second series of Australian Idol and later signed a record deal with Shock Records. She is a current hostess of the Australian Idol series since 2008.

1979 - Christopher Joannou is a Macedonian Australian musician, best known as the bass player for the successful alternative rock band Silverchair. He was the first of the three band members to cut his long hair short. Joannou was nicknamed 'Lumberjack' by Silverchair fans for his love of trees, and plaid shirts.

Christopher Joannou

1955 - Roland Emmerich was a celebrated director of small-budget science fiction films when he teamed up with American actor/producer Dean Devlin to make the high-kicking Jean-Claude Van Damme film Universal Soldier in 1992. The movie was a box-office success, and Emmerich followed it up with the interstellar action flick Stargate, a surprise hit that spawned a television series. His sci-fi blockbusters Independence Day (1996, with Will Smith) and Godzilla (1998, with Matthew Broderick) and The Patriot (2000, with Mel Gibson) placed him solidly in the class of big-time movie makers.

Roland Emmerich

1944 - Tim Rice - best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, and his work for The Walt Disney Company with Alan Menken (Aladdin), Elton John (The Lion King) and (Aida).

Tim Rice

OTHER EVENTS:

2005 – Mystery thriller Flightplan starring Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard commences screening in Australia. This almost Hitchcock movie A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane 2004 – “Moonshadow” singer Cat Stevens, now trading as Yusuf Islam, receives the Man for Peace prize from ex-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Rome. 2002 - Westlife went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Unbreakable' the Irish boy bands record breaking 11th UK No.1. 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). 1990 - Mariah Carey started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Love Takes Time', her second US No.1, a No.37 hit in the UK. 1989 - The Berlin Wall: German troops began dismantling the 28-year-old symbol of the cold war.

1988 - Kevin Kline, John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis star in A Fish Called Wanda which commenced screening in Australia. In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.

1986 – Bruce Springsteen releases Live 1975-1985, which goes on to become one of the biggest-selling box sets of all time. 1984 - After setting a new record for advanced orders, 1,099,500 copies, Frankie Goes To Hollywood went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut LP 'Welcome To The Pleasure Dome.' Also on this day Frankie Goes To Hollywood made their debut TV appearance on Saturday Night Live performing 'Two Tribes' and 'Born To Run'.

1979 - Ray Charles enters the soul singles chart for only the second time this year with "Just Because," which will peak at #69 in five weeks on the chart. His only other entry will be with the LP "Ain't it So," which enters the soul LP charts in two weeks and peaks at #59.

1976 – Directed by Bruce Beresford, Don’s Party commencing screening in Australia, Starring Graham Blundell, Graham Kennedy and Clare Binney. Dons Party is about a wild house party in a suburban Australian neighbourhood. Don Henderson convinces his wife to have another party so that their friends can gather to watch the election, drink and carry on.

1975 - David Bowie was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Space Oddity, the track was first released in 1969 to tie in with the Apollo 11 moon landing. Rick Wakeman (former keyboard player with Yes) provided synthesizer backing. Bowie would later revisit his Major Tom character in the songs 'Ashes to Ashes' and 'Hallo Spaceboy'. 1974 – No. 1 US Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” Bachman-Turner Overdrive. 1973 - Elton John started a eight week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road', the singers third US No.1

1969 - "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry received a gold record. The song had been released 20 years earlier. 1969 - "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.

1967 - Moody Blues release 'Nights in White Satin' in UK 1967 - The Beatles filmed three promotional films for their new single ‘Hello Goodbye’ at the Saville Theatre in London. Each of the three film clips featured different costumes and Beatle antics. In the first film they wear their "Sgt. Pepper" uniforms, for the second The Beatles are wearing everyday clothes, the third film clip features shots from the first two films, plus additional shots of The Beatles (especially John) doing the twist. A Musician's Union ban on lip-sync broadcasts prevented the film being used on British television. 1961- Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'His Latest Flame/Little Sister.' The singers ninth UK No.1.

1956 - 'Billboard' publishes its annual disc-jockey poll, with Kaye Starr's 'Rock and Roll Waltz' the year's top disc.

1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.

1951 - 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance in the US with only 18 seconds to make the connection..

1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.

1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1791 - The whaling industry in Australia, in which whales in Australian waters would be nearly hunted to extinction, begins 1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.