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Post by Rhonda on Dec 28, 2007 2:46:34 GMT -5
It's...
Family Caregivers Day About This Date
Sharing The Caring
We acknowledge with deep appreciation the family caregivers who give their love and support in the care of others.
1867
On Christmas Eve, R.H. Macy’s department store in New York City stayed open until midnight to get sales from last-minute shoppers. It was a Merry Christmas for Macy's which took in a record $6,000.
1914
The first air raid on Britain took place when a German monoplane dropped a single bomb on Dover.
1941
The British Eighth Army recaptured Benghazi, Libya, from the Germans.
1942
The German research station at Peenemunde successfully tested a new surface-to-surface weapon system. Called the FZG76, it later became better known as the V1 Flying Bomb.
1943
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force preparing for the invasion of France.
1948
In Dover, Massachusetts, the first entirely solar-heated house was occupied by the first solar-heated people.
1953
Dragnet, starring Jack Webb as Detective Joe Friday, became the first network television show to have a sponsor, Fatima cigarettes.
1955
The Lennon Sisters debuted as "The Lawrence Welk Show"'s featured singers on ABC. In just a month they became regulars and remained on the show until 1968.
1977
The Bee Gees' How Deep is Your Love became Number 1 on the music charts, and stayed there for 3 weeks.
1985
The Cuban cigar lost status as one of Fidel Castro's trademarks. The president of Cuba announced he was a non-smoker.
1986
Aurel Cornea, a French television soundman, was released in Beirut by the clandestine pro-Iranian group which had held him for 291 days.
1989
Following years of physical and verbal abuse inflicted on him as a child by his international film and recording star father Bing Crosby, Lindsay Crosby took his life, reportedly right after watching his father sing White Christmas during the television-airing of the classic Christmas movie, Holiday Inn.
1992
President George Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger and five other Reagan aides involved in the Iran-Contra affair.
1994
Fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas killed two people as they hijacked a French airliner at Algiers airport.
1995
The first general election victory by an Islamic party in Turkey's 72-year secular history took place when the Welfare Party received 21.32 percent of the vote.
1997
Japanese broadcasters agreed to establish guidelines for the production of animated programs to prevent a repeat of the recent incident in which more than 700 children were sent to hospitals following convulsions, seizures, and other symptoms while watching the cartoon series Pocket Monsters, the Tokyo newspaper Nikkei Industrial Daily reported. The guidelines were expected to be published by the end of March 1998.
Birthdays
1905
Howard Hughes
industrialist d: 1976
1922
Ava Lavinia Gardner
actress d: 1990
1931
Jill Bennett
actress d: 1990
1931
Mary Higgins Clark
author
1945
Lemmy [Ian Kilmister]
musician, bassist, singer
1946
Mean Joe Green
football
1946
Jeff Sessions
U.S. Senator
1957
Ian Burden
musician, synthesizer player
1966
Diedrich Bader
actor
1971
Ricky Martin [Enrique Jose Matin Morales]
singer, actor
Music
1962
Telstar - The Tornadoes
Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker
Go Away Little Girl - Steve Lawrence
I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow
1970
The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
One Less Bell to Answer - The 5th Dimension
Coal Miner's Daughter - Loretta Lynn
1978
Le Freak - Chic
Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees
My Life - Billy Joel
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
1986
Walk Like an Egyptian - Bangles
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
Notorious - Duran Duran
Too Much is Not Enough - Bellamy Brothers
Today's Quote
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
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Post by Rhonda on Dec 28, 2007 2:49:16 GMT -5
December 15, 2007
About this Date
1874
The first reigning king to visit the United States, King David Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), was received by President Ulysses Grant.
1939
The epic film "Gone with the Wind" had its world premiere in Atlanta, introduced by its producer David O. Selznick.
1941
On Victor Records, Lena Horne recorded the classic torch song that became her signature: "Stormy Weather".
1942
The first plastic license plate tabs were issued by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
1944
World War II raged as news spread of that an airplane was lost somewhere over the English Channel between England and Paris. On the ill-fated aircraft was Major Glenn Miller, who was on his way to conduct his Air Force Band in a Christmas concert.
1949
After ten years on radio, "Captain Midnight" was heard for the last time.
1954
An audience of forty million watched television's Disneyland and, on this date saw the charming, lanky Fess Parker first portray the character of Davy Crockett. The United States' youth were entranced with Crockett (and his coon-skin cap), and there was a sudden and manic obsession for a man who had died almost 120 years earlier.
1961
In Israel, Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi SS colonel in World War II, was sentenced to death in Jerusalem for organizing the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.
1962
The Boston Celtics' Bob Cousy set a National Basketball Association record as he scored his 5,926th field goal. His career highlights included the NBA’s 1957 MVP Award, and the record set on March 21, 1953 for 30 free throws in one game when the Celtics played the Syracuse Nationals. Four of the free throws were made in overtime.
1965
United States spacecraft Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 achieved the first space rendezvous, flying side by side for two orbits.
1966
The world mourned the loss of animation genius Walt Disney, who died from acute circulatory collapse one month after having lung surgery. Disney would be best-remembered for his animation contributions, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, Cinderella, Fantasia, and Pinocchio, for his wild-life documentaries, for his family-oriented motion pictures, such as Mary Poppins, Treasure Island, The Parent Trap, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and for his revolutionary fantasy-amusement park in California, Disneyland, with Disney World in Florida underway.
1970
The unmanned Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 landed on Venus.
1978
United States President Jimmy Carter announced he would establish diplomatic relations with China from January 1, 1979, and break off relations with Taiwan.
1980
Dave Winfield signed a ten-year contract with the New York Yankees for a paycheck between $1.3 and $1.5 million, making him the wealthiest player in United States team sport history. It was said the total package for the outfielder was worth over $22 million.
1983
The remaining 80 United States combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew. -- just over seven weeks after the United States-led invasion of the Caribbean island.
1986
In New York City, violinist Isaac Stern arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to cut the ribbon on the renovated Carnegie Hall.
1993
Delegations from 117 countries approved by consensus a GATT trade treaty aimed at opening up international markets.
1995
The United Nations Security Council authorized NATO to take over peacekeeping operations in Bosnia in a resolution spelling the end of one of the United Nations' toughest field missions.
1995
European Union leaders christened their planned new single currency the "Euro."
1998
A stagehand filed a $3 million lawsuit against the pop group Backstreet Boys, contending he was injured by a 50-pound cannon that fell on his head. Michael Barrett, 22, was seeking damages from the five-member group for injuries and emotional distress. Barrett, of Alexandria, was working backstage at Nissan Pavilion after a concert July 16. A line suspending the cannon - a stage prop that fires confetti - was untied after the show, "causing it to descend to the stage below at great speed," according to the lawsuit.
Birthdays
1892
J. [Jean] Paul Getty
oil magnate d: 1976
1904
Kermit Bloomgarden
Tony Award-winning producer d: 1976
1916
Buddy [Edwin] Cole
pianist d: 1964
1918
Jeff Chandler [Ira Grossel]
actor d: 1961
1920
Eddie Robinson
baseball
1922
Alan Freed
disc jockey d: 1965
1928
Ernest Ashworth
Country Music Hall of Famer
1928
Friedrich Hundertwasser
artist, printer, painter, ecologist d: 2000
1928
Jimmy Nelson
ventriloquist
1928
Jerry Wallace
singer
1931
Edna O’Brien
author
1933
Tim Conway
actor, comedian
1939
Cindy Birdsong
singer
1940
Nick Buoniconti
football
1942
Dave Clark
musician, drummer
1943
Pete Duranko
football
1944
Stan Bahnsen
baseball
1946
Carmine Appice
composer, drummer
1948
Doug Rau
baseball
1948
Charlie Scott
basketball
1949
Don Johnson [Wayne]
actor
1955
Paul Simonon
musician, bassist
1963
Helen Slater
actress
1968
Garrett Wang
actor
Music
1955
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm
Memories are Made of This - Dean Martin
That Do Make It Nice - Eddy Arnold
1963
Dominique - The Singing Nun
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
You Don't Have to be a Baby to Cry - The Caravelles
Love's Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone
Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites
Got to be There - Michael Jackson
Kiss an Angel Good Mornin' - Charley Pride
1980
Babe - Styx
Still - Commodores
Please Don't Go - KC & The Sunshine Band
Happy Birthday Darlin' - Conway Twitty
Today's Quote
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
— Pamela Vaull Starr
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Post by Rhonda on Dec 28, 2007 2:51:24 GMT -5
It's...
Crossword Puzzle Day About This Date
On December 21, 1913, the first crossword puzzle appeared in the Sunday edition of the New York World. Arthur Wynne had been asked to devise a new game feature for the newspaper. He remembered a child's game called "Magic Square" where words had to be arranged to read across and down. He changed this by giving "clues" instead of the actual words, and the crossword puzzle was born.
1918
Robert Ripley's newspaper cartoon of unusual, hard-to-believe facts from around the world was first published in the New York Globe. Ripley first planned to call the cartoon "Chumps and Champs" as it originally involved sport feats, but decided instead on "Believe It Or Not!".
1932
The British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas.
1939
The German cruise liner Columbus was scuttled by its crew in the Atlantic after being followed by a United States cruiser; 577 survivors were picked up.
1941
Adolph Hitler took over as commander-in-chief of the army after sacking Field Marshal von Brauchitsch.
1946
War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
1950
General Dwight Eisenhower was named NATO commander.
1957
Meredith Wilson’s musical, "The Music Man", opened at New York City's Majestic Theatre. The show starred Robert Preston and enjoyed a 1,375 show run. the band included 76 trombones and 101 cornets.
1957
An agreement was signed to start a regular air service between Moscow and London.
1959
Walter Williams, said to be the last Civil War veteran alive, died in Houston, Texas, at 117 years old.
1960
RCA Victor Records released Neil Sedaka’s "Calendar Girl". The song would be Sedaka’s fourth record to make the charts. Other hits include: "The Diary", "Stairway to Heaven", "Bad Girl", "Next Door to an Angel", "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen", "Laughter in the Rain" and "Breaking Up is Hard to Do".
1960
Frank Sinatra recorded his first session with his own record company, Reprise Records. Recorded that day were "Ring-A-Ding-Ding" and "Let’s Fall in Love".
1961
In New York City, "Judgment At Nuremberg" opened with a star-studded cast including Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, and Maximillian Schell who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film. The film would also receive an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as nine other nominations.
1965
Charles de Gaulle won 54.5 percent of the vote in the French presidential election, defeating Francois Mitterrand.
1971
NASA launched Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp.
1972
Apollo 17 returned to Earth.
1973
Johnny Carson pulled a prank in front a nationwide, late-night NBC audience. Carson started a false toilet-paper scare when in his "Tonight Show" monologue, he said a Wisconsin congressman warned toilet paper would disappear from supermarket shelves. In many parts of the United States, toilet paper soon became a scarce after the gag.
1979
Elvis Presley's personal physician, George Nichopoulos, was charged with "illegally and indiscriminately" prescribing over 12,000 tablets of uppers, downers, and painkillers for the rock and roll star during the 20 months preceding his untimely death.
1981
Eight crewmen on the Penlee lifeboat drowned as they battled in vain to save the crew of the coaster Union Star off Cornwall, England.
1984
Britain and China signed an agreement for the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1985
Jan Stenerud announced he was retiring from the NFL. The kicker holds the record for most career field goals with 373; all of which were made while kicking for the Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings from 1967 on.
1985
ABC Sports announced it was ending its relationship with Howard Cosell and released "The Mouth" from all television commitments with the network. "Humble" Howard would continue on ABC Radio for another five years.
1986
Russia freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.
1993
Two years after he was charged, a Pakistani court acquitted Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of kidnapping.
1997
Titanic, James Cameron's movie epic, was released across the United States. At more than three hours long, and a $200 million production price, critics anticipated that it would fail miserably. However, the "most expensive film ever", made with state-of-the-art technology, wowed audiences of all ages, and quickly became the top box-office champ for a film longer than 3 hours.
1998
The United States House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the United States House of Representatives.
Birthdays
1948
thingy Gibbs
basketball
1948
Little Stevie Wright
singer
1952
Jenny Agutter
Emmy Award-winning actress
1957
Anita Baker
singer
1958
Billy [Steven] Bragg
songwriter, musician, singer
1960
Mark Keyloun
actor
1966
Chris Robinson
singer
MUSIC
1958
To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
Problems - The Everly Brothers
One Night - Elvis Presley
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band
That's Life - Frank Sinatra
I'm a Believer - The Monkees
Somebody Like Me - Eddy Arnold
1974
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
I Can Help - Billy Swan
1982
Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates
The Girl is Mine - Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
Somewhere Between Right and Wrong - Earl Thomas Conley
Today's Quote
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
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Post by Rhonda on Dec 28, 2007 2:52:49 GMT -5
It's...
Our Forefather's Day About This Date
On December 21st, 1620, Pilgrims aboard the "Mayflower" went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.
I'll bet they were glad to set foot on solid ground again!
1849
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first ice-skating club in America was formed.
1909
Although called introductory high schools, the McKinley and Washington schools of Berkeley, California, were the first authorized, junior-high schools in the United States. They taught grades 7,8 and 9.
1913
Journalist Arthur Wynne invented the modern crossword puzzle by redesigning a Victorian-era game called The Magic Square. The first crossword puzzle appeared on this date in the weekly supplement to New York's World.
1937
The world premier of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an instant hit. Disney took a tremendous gamble with this 3-year artistic venture, as fantasies usually did not (and still do not) fare well at the box office. He had much of his own money tied up in the film, and Snow White had the potential of financially ruining him.
1944
World War II ended, horse racing was banned in the United States.
1945
The FCC assigned television channels to several licensees, including CBS and NBC in New York City and Radio Corp. of America in Camden, New Jersey.
1948
The Republic of Ireland Bill was signed by the President of Eire, ending association with Britain.
1958
Charles De Gaulle was elected the first president of the fifth Republic of France with 78.5 percent of the votes cast by the electoral college.
1960
King Saud took over the government of Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Faisal resigned as prime minister.
1966
The Beach Boys were awarded a gold record for thire single, "Good Vibrations".
1967
The Rolling Stones released their LP, "Their Satanic Majesties Request". It cost $50,000 to produce the album which came with a 3-D picture of the Stones on the cover.
1968
Apollo 8, with astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, was launched by a Saturn 5 booster from Cape Kennedy. Three days later the crew carried out the first manned flight around the moon.
1970
Elvis Presley went to the White House to volunteer his help in fighting United States drug problems. President Richard Nixon gave him a federal Narcotics Bureau badge.
1972
After nearly two decades of Cold War hostility, East and West Germany established diplomatic ties in a treaty which committed them to good-neighborly relations, paving the way for international recognition of East Germany.
1973
The first peace conference with Israel and her Arab neighbors opened in Geneva. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations were represented.
1974
Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle rose to the Number 1 spot on Billboard's record charts, and was there for one week.
1975
Terrorists of the "Arm of the Arab Revolution" led by "Carlos the Jackal" raided the OPEC headquarters in Vienna and held 11 oil ministers and their staff hostage.
1985
Bruce Springsteen’s album, "Born in the USA", surpassed Michael Jackson’s "Thriller", making it the second longest-lasting LP in the top 10. springsteen's album lasted at it peak for 79 weeks, and was second to "The Sound of Music" with Julie Andrews that lasted: 109 weeks.
1986
Atlanta center Jeff Van Note, who at 40 was the oldest pro football player, played his 246th and last NFL game as Atlanta beat Detroit, 20-6.
1988
Pan Am World Airways Flight 103 was the victim of a terrorist attack when the jet exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. The 258 passengers, crew, and several people on the ground at the site of the crash were all killed.
1990
Albania tore down eastern Europe's last towering statues of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
1992
54 people were killed when a Martinair DC-10 charter plane carrying Dutch holidaymakers crashed in flames at Faro, in Portugal. Aboard were 327 passengers and 13 crew.
1993
President Boris Yeltsin abruptly abolished the former KGB security police, saying the huge force Russian citizens feared for decades was "incapable of being reformed."
1995
In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than 15 years, 75 people were killed and 76 injured when a crowded train rammed the back of another in the town of Badrasheen, 17 miles (28 km) south of Cairo.
Birthdays
1908
Pat Weaver
President of NBC-TV
1913
Andor Foldes
pianist
1918
Kurt Waldheim
U.N. Secretary-General
1922
Paul Winchell
comedian, ventriloquist
1935
Phil Donahue
TV talk show host
1937
Jane Seymour Fonda
Academy Award-winning actress
1940
Frank Zappa
musician, songwriter, singer d: 1993
1948
Samuel L. Jackson
actor
1950
Jeffrey Katzenberg
studio executive
1954
Chris Evert
tennis
1959
Florence Griffith Joyner [Flo-Jo]
Olympic gold medalist, track d: 1998
1960
Andy Van Slyke
baseball
1966
Kiefer Sutherland
actor
MUSIC
1957
April Love - Pat Boone
All the Way - Frank Sinatra
You Send Me - Sam Cooke
My Special Angel - Bobby Helms
1965
Turn! Turn! Turn! - The Byrds
Over and Over - The Dave Clark Five
I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
Make the World Go Away - Eddy Arnold
1973
The Most Beautiful Girl - Charlie Rich
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
Amazing Love - Charley Pride
1981
Physical - Olivia Newton-John
Let's Groove - Earth, Wind and Fire
Young Turks - Rod Stewart
All Roads Lead to You - Steve Wariner
Today's Quote
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
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