Post by Rhonda on Dec 9, 2007 3:19:23 GMT -5
December 8, 2007
It's...
Bad Hair Day About This Date
Hat hair! Limp hair! A perm gone wrong! Today is dedicated to everyone everywhere who has ever looked in the mirror and thought... "OH YUK!
Happenings
1886
What is now known as the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1914
The Battle of the Falkland Islands between Britain and Germany resulted in a British victory.
1940
The Chicago Bears shut out the Washington Redskins, 73-0.
1940
A heavy overnight raid by German bombers on London caused the first serious damage to the House of Commons and Tower of London.
1941
Britain and the United States declared war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.
1953
At the United Nations, President Eisenhower called on the major powers to contribute from their stockpiles to an international pool for the peaceful development of atomic energy, and proposed that an international atomic energy agency be set up.
1956
47 people were killed and over 80 wounded when Hungarian militiamen and soldiers of the Soviet Red Army opened fire on about 4,000 demonstrators in Salgotarjan, a small northern mining town, during the violent suppression of an anti-Communist uprising.
1961
"Surfin’", the Beach Boys' first record, was released on Candix Records, becoming a local hit in Los Angeles, California, but only making it to #75 nationally in the Untied States. The surfing music craze wouldn't sweep across America for another year. By the time "Surfin’ Safari" hit Top 40, in September 1962, the Beach Boys were riding a wave of popularity.
1963
Frank Sinatra, Jr., 19-year-old son of singer Frank Sinatra, was kidnapped on from a hotel in Lake Tahoe, California. Three days later he was released, unharmed, after his father paid a $240,000 ransom. Most of the money was later recovered and the three kidnappers were arrested and given long prison terms.
1966
28 countries, including the United States and Soviet Union, reached agreement for an international ban on nuclear weapons in space.
1980.
Former Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, arrived at New York's Dakota, the apartment house in which they lived, after an early-evening recording session. As they walked through the apartment gates, a lone gunman stopped and fired five bullets into Lennon, killing him almost instantly. The gunman, a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman, did not attempt to escape and was immediately apprehended. Lennon's untimely death set off a week of worldwide mourning, and the murder was considered to be the most shocking in the history of rock music.
1982
The Federal Communications Commission approved moving WOR-TV, Channel 9 in New York City to Secaucus, New Jersey. The move, and its additional new call letters, WWOR, gave the Garden State its first VHF television station.
1984
Basketball coach for the Indiana Hoosiers, Bobby Knight, got career win #400, when Indiana beat Kentucky’s Wildcats, 81-68.
1987
Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev signed a treaty in Washington to eliminate all their intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear missiles.
1989
East Germany opened corruption investigations against former Communist Party chief Erich Honecker and five other disgraced former leaders.
1991
Kimberly Bergalis, the first person known to have contracted AIDS from a health care worker, her dentist, died in Florida.
1993.
Winnie Mandela, estranged wife of Nelson Mandela, made a triumphant return to the top level of the African National Congress when the ANC Women's League elected her as its president.
1993
United States President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1994
President Clinton offered United States troops to help protect any withdrawal of United Nation peacekeepers from Bosnia.
1998.
The first of eight babies born to Nkem Chukwu and Iyke Louis Udobi was delivered in Houston, Texas.
1998
Tadjena massacre 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2002
The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2004
The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
Birthdays
1903
Adele Simpson [Smithline]
fashion designer
1925
Jimmy Smith
Grammy Award-winning musician, jazz organist
1925
Sammy Davis Jr.
Singer, actor, dancer d: 1990
1933
Flip [Clerow] Wilson
Emmy Award-winning comedy writer d: 1998
1936
David Carradine
actor
1937
James MacArthur
actor
1943
Jim Morrison
singer d: 1971
1947
Gregg Allman
musician, keyboardist, guitarist, singer
1950
Tim Foli
baseball
1953
Kim Basinger
actress
1957
Phil Collen
musician, guitarist
1959
Paul Rutherford
singer
1964
Teri Hatcher
actress
1966
Sinead O’Connor
singer
Music
1962
Big Girls Don't Cry - The 4 Seasons
Don't Hang Up - The Orlons
Ride! - Dee Dee Sharp
I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow
1970
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland
One Less Bell to Answer - The 5th Dimension
Endlessly - Sonny James
1978
You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond
Le Freak - Chic
I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli
I Just Want to Love You - Eddie Rabbitt
1986
The Next Time I Fall - Peter Cetera with Amy Grant
Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and The News
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and The Range
It Ain't Cool to be Crazy about You - George Strait
Today's Quote
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
— Erik Nupponen
Assembled by Billie
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