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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 THE MET DAY.  New York City’s nouveau riche built their own opera house on Broadway in Manhattan, staging its first performance on this day in 1883. The new socialites now had a theater where they could have opera boxes. Unlike the old Academy of Music, where the box seats were few and the likes of the Vanderbilts were unwelcome, the new structure had three levels of thirty-six boxes ... more than the number of millionaires in New York City, old or new. The lowest level became known as the ‘diamond horseshoe’. The Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera House had free opera boxes for all performances. The Metropolitan Opera House was designed by J. Cleaveland Cady. A yellow-brick building, its interior, with red velvet and gold accents, was much more ornate than the exterior. Inside, it was truly designed for the enjoyment of millionaires. When the curtains parted on this first night, Italian tenor Italo Campanini and Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson starred in Charles Gounod’s Faust. Orchestra-seat ticket holders paid $6 admission. The Met remained at the Broadway between 39th and 40th Streets location until 1966, when a 3,700 seat, 14-story opera house was built in NYC’s Lincoln Memorial Center for the Performing Arts ... the present home of the venerable Metropolitan Opera House. More here. Here. and here. Events October 22nd. 1746 - John Hamilton, the Royal Governor of New Jersey officially chartered the College of New Jersey. The school is now known as Princeton University. 1797 - The first person to jump from a hot air balloon did so over Paris on this day. André-Jacque Garnerin, a Frenchman, accomplished the feat. 1844 - On this day, according to those who practiced Millerism, the world was to come to an end. A man named William Miller, religious leader and founder of the Adventist church, started the Millerism movement. Some say his followers got rid of all their earthly possessions and climbed to high places so as to be saved when the world ended. 1917 - Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in its first recording session -- for Victor Records. 1939 - The first televised pro football game was telecast from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. NBC’s flagship, W2XBS, carried the action. Brooklyn beat Philadelphia, 23-14. (NBC later changed those experimental call letters to WRCA, and even later, to WNBC.) 1950 - A record score in the NFL: The Los Angeles Rams stopped the Baltimore Colts, 70-27, in a regular season game. 1959 - Take Me Along opened on Broadway and quickly became an American classic. Walter Pidgeon starred along with Jackie Gleason. 1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval quarantine (blockade) of Cuba. He also demanded that Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev remove all the missiles and their bases. 1966 - The Supremes rocketed to the top of the pop-album charts with Supremes A’ Go-Go. They were the first all-female vocal group to hit the top of the LP chart. 1969 - Michael Thomas, the 25-year-old assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, took over for ailing conductor William Steinberg in the symphony’s appearance in New York City. 1971 - Folk singer Joan Baez received a gold record for her hit, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. It turned out to be her biggest hit, peaking at #3 on the charts (October 2, 1971). 1972 - Gene Tenace hit four home runs in the Series, including two in his first two at-bats, and the Oakland A’s pulled out a dramatic seven-game win over the Cincinnati Reds. It was the first of the A’s three consecutive World Series championships and their first since 1930. 1975 - Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson said, “We were the best team in baseball, but not by much.” The World Series featured five one-run victories, two in extra innings and three on game-ending hits. In six of the seven victories, the winner trailed; four times the winning run came in the final inning. And 13 times, the score was either tied or the lead reversed. And in the seventh, played this day, a ninth-inning RBI single by Joe Morgan gave the Reds a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox and the title. It was the first title for the Reds in 35 years. 1978 - Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Universal Pastor of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first non-Italian Pope since Adrian VI (1522-1523), the first Polish Pope, and the youngest Pope since Pius IX (1846-1878). 1983 - Celebrating its 100th anniversary, New York’s Metropolitan Opera featured a daylong concert with some of the world’s greatest opera stars. On stage at the Met were Joan Sutherland, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on this day, but wrote his last name first. The signing, however, remains legal. 1988 - Phil Collins’ remake of the Mindbenders’ Groovy Kind of Love was the number one U.S. single. It was parked at the peak of the pops for two weeks. 1999 - Movies debuting in the U.S. this day: The Best Man, with Taye Diggs, Nia Long and Morris Chestnut; Body Shots, starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O’connell and Amanda Peet; Bringing Out the Dead, with Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette And John Goodman; Crazy in Alabama, featuring Melanie Griffith, John Beasley and Rod Steiger; The Limey, starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda and Lesley Ann Warren. Pass the popcorn, puleez. Birthdays October 22nd. 1811 - Franz Liszt composer: The Hungarian Rhapsodies, Les Preludes, Orpheus, Tasso, Faust, Hungarian Fantasy, Sonata in B Minor; died July 31, 1886 1885 - Giovanni Martinelli opera singer: tenor: with Metropolitan Opera for 30 seasons; died Oct 22, 1969 1903 - George Beadle Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [1958]: genetic research; President: University of Chicago; Harvard professor of genetics; died June 9, 1989 1903 - Curly Howard comedian: The Three Stooges: Three Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Goofs and Saddles, Wee Wee Monsieur, Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise, Higher Than a Kite, The Yoke’s on Me, Stop! Look! and Laugh!; died Jan 18, 1952 1904 - Constance Bennett actress: Madame X, As Young as You Feel, Two-Faced Woman, Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday; died July 24, 1965 1907 - Jimmie (Emory) Foxx ‘Beast’, ‘Double X’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Athletics [World Series: 1929, 1930, 1031/all-star: 1934, 1935, 1936/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1932, 1933], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1936-1941/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1938], Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Blue Jays; died July 21, 1967 1913 - Boots (Patricia) Mallory actress: Sing Sing Nights, Wolf Dog, Powdersmoke Range, Carnival Lady; died Dec 1, 1958 1916 - Harry (William) Walker ‘Harry the Hat’: baseball: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1942, 1943, 1946/all-star: 1943], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1947], Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds; manager: Houston Astros; died Aug 8, 1999 1917 - Joan Fontaine (de Havilland) Academy Award-winning actress: Suspicion [1941]; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe, Island in the Sun, Gunga Din, Emperor Waltz, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1919 - Doris Lessing (Taylor) novelist: Children of Violence, African Stories 1920 - Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno) actress: Lost in Alaska, Little Orphan Annie, Tom Sawyer, So This is Hollywood; died May 24, 1969 1920 - Timothy Leary psychologist, professor: Harvard; 1960s icon: promoted the use of LSD in the search of political and spiritual freedom; died May 31, 1996 1925 - Slater Martin Basketball Hall of Famer: Lakers: 4 NBA championships; New York Knicks, St. Louis Hawks 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg artist: Monogram, Bed, Buffalo II, Tracer 1930 - Dory Previn songwriter: Come Saturday Morning, It’s Impossible, The Faraway Part of Town [w/Andre Previn] 1938 - Derek Jacobi Emmy Award-winning actor: The Tenth Man - Hallmark Hall of Fame [1988-89]; The Day of the Jackal, I Claudius series, The Odessa File, The Secret Garden 1938 - Christopher Lloyd Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1981-1982] [1982-1983], Avonlea-The Disney Channel [1991-1992]; Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Star Trek III, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Angels in the Outfield, Addams Family Values, Radioland Murders, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mr. Mom, Lady in Red 1939 - Ray Jones musician: bass: group: Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas: Bad to Me, I’ll Keep You Satisfied, From a Window, Little Children, Trains and Boats and Planes 1939 - Tony Roberts actor: Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Edge of Night, The Thorns, The Four Seasons 1942 - Annette Funicello actress: The Mickey Mouse Club, Beach Blanket Bingo, Back to the Beach, Beach Party, Bikini Beach; singer: Tall Paul, First Name Initial, O Dio Mio, Pineapple Princess 1942 - Cecil (Lee) Upshaw baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees, Chicago White Sox; died Feb 7, 1995 1943 - Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac) actress: Repulsion, Indochine, The April Fools, Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1943 - Bobby Fuller singer, musician: guitar: group: Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought the Law 1944 - John Wetzel basketball: Phoenix Suns player, coach 1945 - Leslie West (Weinstein) singer, musician: guitar: group: Mountain: Mississippi Queen 1946 - Eddie Brigati singer, musician: tambourine: group: The [Young] Rascals: Good Lovin’, I’ve Been Lonely Too Long, Groovin’, A Girl like You, How Can I Be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to Be Free 1949 - Butch Goring hockey: NHL: LA Kings: Masterton Award & Lady Byng Trophy [1978]; NY Islanders: playoff/Stanley Cup MVP [1981], Boston Bruins 1952 - Jeff Goldblum actor: The Fly, The Big Chill, Independence Day, Death Wish, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Right Stuff, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Silverado, Hideaway, Jurassic Park, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe 1954 - Jamie (James Patrick) Quirk baseball: KC Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, SL Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics 1963 - Brian Boitano Olympic gold medalist: men’s figure skating [1988] 1966 - Valeria Golino actress: Escape from L.A., Leaving Las Vegas, Hot Shots! series, Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee Chart Toppers October 22nd. 1946 Five Minutes More - Tex Beneke To Each His Own - Eddy Howard South America, Take It Away - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis 1954 Hey There - Rosemary Clooney I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher If I Give My Heart to You - Doris Day I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow 1962 Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Picket Do You Love Me - The Contours He’s a Rebel - The Crystals Mama Sang a Song - Bill Anderson 1970 I’ll Be There - The Jackson 5 Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf All Right Now - Free Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash 1978 Kiss You All Over - Exile Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder Reminiscing - Little River Band Tear Time - Dave & Sugar 1986 When I Think of You - Janet Jackson Typical Male - Tina Turner True Colors - Cyndi Lauper Just Another Love - Tanya Tucker Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...  For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding. 
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.). 
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10-22-2008, 11:00 PM
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297th day of 2008 - 69 remaining.
Thursday, October 23, 2008 CANNED FOOD DAY.  How does that old saying go? Eat what you can, and what you can’t eat, we’ll can ... or something similar. Well, without old Nicolas Appert we wouldn’t be familiar with any part of that saying because he was the one who invented the canning process. Nicolas Appert was born on this day in 1752 at Chalons-Sur-Marne, France. He was destined to become a great chef and confectioner -- and chemist and inventor. In 1809 the French government awarded Appert with twelve thousand francs for his contribution to the world. Nicolas Appert had, in his search to preserve food, invented a process of heating foods and sealing them in airtight containers. In 1812 he was bestowed with the title, Benefactor of Humanity. Just think, we still use his methods of food preservation today! And, we wouldn’t want to forget another invention of Appert’s: the bouillon cube. It was probably the first instant soup. Just add water. Then heat to boiling and seal in an airtight jar, tin or can and serve it on Canned Food Day next year! The can's distinguished history began in 1795. Nicolas François Appert. Events October 23rd. 1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman aviator. Blanche was known, not as an aviator, but an aviatrix. She soared to an altitude of 12 feet over Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 1930 - The first miniature golf tournament came crashing to a close in Chattanooga, TN. The men’s title winner was J.K. Scott, who threatened (to shove a putter where the sun don’t shine) the first person to make a sound as he walked next to the windmill and the clown’s mouth. The women’s top ranker was J.E. Rankin, who scored triple points with an incredible bank shot off the left cushion and through the cowboy’s legs, into the duck’s bill, down its gullet (quack!) and through the mousetrap, into the cup beyond the three-foot-wide pond. 1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen’s comedy-variety program was known as The Linit Bath Club Revue. It then became The Salad Bowl Revue, then, The Sal Hapatica Revue, The Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The Texaco Star Theatre and finally, someone with just a bit of sense, came up with The Fred Allen Show. The comedic legend stayed on radio for 17 years. 1941 - Clarinet a la King was recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra -- on Okeh Records. 1950 - LIFE magazine was adorned with a cover picture of Ed Wynn, and the caption, “TV gets top comics.” 1950 - “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” (a billing he gave himself), Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), died at the age of 64. 1956 - Jonathan Winters became a TV star. Winters was seen coast to coast in the first videotape recording to be broadcast. The tape originated from WRCA-TV in New York City. The broadcast was developed for NBC network stations. 1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He, however, was forced to refuse the honor because of negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing Dr. Zhivago. 1961 - Dion’s Runaround Sue was the #1 U.S. single. It remained at the top for two weeks until being knocked off by Jimmy Dean’s Big Bad John. 1970 - ‘Lady Soul’, Aretha Franklin, won a gold record for Don’t Play that Song. 1976 - Just one of the highlights of the championship football season for the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh: Pitt’s Tony Dorsett rushed for 180 yards (at Navy, beating them 45-0) and set the NCAA all-time rushing record of 5,206 career yards. 1978 - CBS Records hiked prices of many vinyl albums by one dollar to $8.98. Other labels soon joined in. 1983 - Suicidal terrorists drove a truck loaded with TNT into the U.S. Marines headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion that followed killed 240 U.S. personnel. Many French personnel were also killed in a similar attack on their location at the same time. 1989 - After 33 years of Soviet rule, Hungary became an independent republic. 1993 - After his winning home run gave the Blue Jays the win, Joe Carter stepped on home plate and touched off a SkyDome celebration. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2 in the World Series to win the title for the second year in a row. 1998 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Apt Pupil, from Tristar Pictures, Ian Mckellen, Brad Renfro and David Schwimmer; and New Line Cinema’s Pleasantville, with Joan Allen, William H. Macy and Reese Witherspoon. Birthdays October 23rd. 1752 - Nicolas Appert chef, confectioner, chemist, inventor; died June 3, 1841]; see Canned Food Day [above] 1835 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson 23rd Vice President of the U.S. [1893-1897]; grandfather of U.S. presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson [1952, 1956]; died June 14, 1914 1892 - (Milton) ‘Gummo’ Marx theatrical agent; vaudeville with his four brothers (Marx Brothers): The Four Nightingales, Fun in Hi Skule, Mr. Green’s Reception, Home Again; died Apr 21, 1977 1906 - Gertrude Ederle Olympic swimming medalist [1924]: gold: 4x100-meter relay team; bronze: 100-meter freestyle; 1st woman to swim English Channel [14 hrs., 31 minutes - set a world record]; swimming instructor of deaf children; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer; died Nov 30, 2003 1914 - ‘Bruiser’ Frank Kinard College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: University of Mississippi; NFL’s Brooklyn Dodgers; AAFC’s NY Yankees; All-Pro: [1940, 1941, 1943, 1944]; ‘ironman of football’: played 708 out of 720 season minutes [1936]; missed only one game in nine years of pro ball; died Sep 7, 1985 1918 - James Daly Emmy Award-winning actor: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Eagle in a Cage [1965-1966]; Medical Center, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders; father of actress Tyne Daly; died July 3, 1978 1922 - Ewell Blackwell ‘The Whip’: baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1946-1951], NY Yankees [World Series: 1952], Kansas City Athletics; died Oct 29, 1996 1922 - Frank Sutton actor: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Jim Nabors Hour, Marty, Hurricane; died June 28, 1974 1923 - Ned Rorem Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Air Music [1976] 1925 - Johnny Carson Emmy Award-winning comedian, TV host: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1977-1978, 1978-1979], 1979-1980, 1991-1992]; The Johnny Carson Show, Who Do You Trust?, Earn Your Vacation; died Jan 23, 2005 1927 - Sonny (William) Criss musician: saxophone: LP: The Bop Masters, Saturday Morning, Criss Craft, Out of Nowhere, Warm and Sonny; died Nov, 19, 1977 1931 - Jim (James Paul David) Bunning baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1957, 1959, 1961-1963], Philadelphia Phillies [pitched seventh perfect game in history (against the NY Mets: 6-21-64)/all-star: 1964, 1966], Pittsburgh Pirates, LA Dodgers; U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1931 - Diana Dors (Mavis Fluck) actress: Children of the Full Moon, Oliver Twist, Unicorn, Theatre of Blood, The Devil’s Web, Baby Love; died May 4, 1984 1935 - Juan ‘Chi-Chi’ Rodriguez World Golf Hall of Famer: record for most consecutive wins on Senior PGA Tour [3]; established pro-am tournament: proceeds for Children’s Hospital in Puerto Rico; founded: Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation 1939 - Charlie Foxx singer: Mockingbird [w/sister Inez] 1940 - (Eleanor) Ellie Greenwich (Ellie Gay, Ellie Gee) songwriter [w/Jeff Barry]: Be My Baby, Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, River Deep, Mountain High; singer: group: Raindrops: What a Guy, The Kind of Boy You Can’t Forget; solo: LP: Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung; on Broadway: Leader of the Pack 1940 - Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) Brazil’s soccer star; record for most wins: 3 winning teams [1958, 1962, 1970]; most career goals in international competition [97, 1957-70]; most career hat-tricks [92, 1956-77] in film: Escape to Victory 1947 - Greg Ridley musician [bass], singer: groups: Dino of Dino and The Danubes; The Dakotas; The Ramrods; VIPs; Art: LP: Supernatural Fairytales; Spooky Tooth: LPs: It’s All About, Spooky Two, Ceremony, Cross Purpose; Humble Pie: Town and Country, Sucking on the Sweet Vine, Big George [Rock On], Smokin', Street Rats; All Stars: LP: Marriott; Small Faces: LP: Playmates 1948 - John Holliman TV news reporter: CNN; killed in car crash Sep 12, 1998 1950 - Ed Smith football: Colorado College, Denver Broncos 1956 - Dwight Yoakam songwriter, singer: I’ll be Gone, Bury Me, Miner’s Prayer, South of Cincinnati; LP: Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., A Town South of Bakersfield 1959 - ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic singer, comedian: parodies: Eat It, My Bologna, Another One Rides the Bus, I Love Rocky Road, King of Suede, I Lost on Jeopardy, Polkas on 45, The Brady Bunch, Like a Surgeon 1962 - Doug Flutie football: Boston College quarterback: Heisman Trophy winner [1984]; CFL: British Columbia Lions [1991 record: passing yards gained in a season: 6,619]; NFL: Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers 1962 - Mike Tomczak football [quarterback]: Pittsburgh Steelers; Chicago Bears quarterback: Super Bowl XX Chart Toppers October 23rd. 1947 Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm) I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe Feudin’ and Fightin’ - Dorothy Shay Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams 1955 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Aces Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams The Shifting, Whispering Sands - Rusty Draper Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce 1963 Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs Be My Baby - The Ronettes Busted - Ray Charles Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens 1971 Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels How Can I Unlove You - Lynn Anderson 1979 Rise - Herb Alpert Pop Muzik - M I’ll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick All the Gold in California - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers 1987 Lost in Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam U Got the Look - Prince I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany Fishin’ in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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10-23-2008, 11:01 PM
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Friday, October 24, 2008 UNITED NATIONS DAY.  The United Nations charter took effect on this day in 1945 at the San Francisco Conference. 51 countries came together determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war; to reaffirm faith in human rights; to promote social progress and better standards of life; to practice tolerance and live together in peace and unite their strength to maintain international peace and security. There are 191 member countries in the United Nations, led by a Secretary-General, controlled by the General Assembly and the Security Council. The Security Council has five permanent members (United States, Great Britain, France, China, Russian Federation) and ten temporary members (serving two-year terms, representing five regions of the world). Fifty-four members sit on the Economic and Social Council for three-year terms. There is also a Trusteeship Council and an International Court of Justice. At least fifteen agencies also exist under the auspices of the United Nations, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization. Since 1971, by unanimous request of the U.N. General Assembly (the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security), this day has been observed throughout all UN member nations as a public holiday, United Nations Day. UNITED NATIONS. Events October 24th. 1836 - Alonzo D. Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts received a patent for the phosphorous friction safety match. We thought it only appropriate to remind you to “close cover before striking” today. 1861 - Telegrams were sent coast to coast for the first time in the U.S. California Justice Stephen J. Field was the first in line to send a message. The recipient was President Abraham Lincoln. 1897 - The first regular comic strip was seen in The New York Journal American. The strip was The Yellow Kid. 1901 - Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor of Bay City, MI had nothing better to do on this, her 43rd birthday (at least that’s what she claimed), than to sail over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was the first to live to tell about it; but only one of many people to try. Interestingly, Annie couldn’t swim. 1929 - The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time over NBC radio. Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the years, all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee Show. Megaphone-totin’ Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were mainstays on radio into the late 1940s. 1929 - This day became known as Black Thursday after Wall Street investors panicked and ordered their stock brokers to sell, sell, sell! Nearly 13 million shares traded hands and stock prices plummeted. Many stocks recovered late in the afternoon, but the stage had been set for the October 29th stock market crash -- and the beginning of the Great Depression. 1931 - The George Washington Bridge was opened, linking New York City with New Jersey. The bridge became a famous New York landmark and has been featured in many movies and TV shows. The toll to cross the bridge was to be temporary -- just to cover costs. But it costs and costs and costs when you have to keep repairing and painting a bridge that big -- so, the bridge toll continues. And the bridge is still being painted. 1939 - Let’s Dance was recorded on Columbia Records. It became the theme song for the band that recorded it, the Benny Goodman Band. 1939 - Women’s nylon hosiery went on sale for the first time -- at Wilmington Dry Goods in Wilmington, DE. Why Wilmington? The Dupont Company, the inventor of nylon, is based there. 1951 - Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy starred in The Fourposter, which made its Broadway debut this day. 1952 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in Detroit, delivered his famous speech about Korea. He promised to go to Korea and seek “an early settlement to the war” if elected President. He was -- and he did. 1959 - Wilt ‘The Stilt’ Chamberlain launched a pro basketball record streak. Not only did he play in 799 consecutive games; he didn’t foul out in one of them. 1960 - Brenda Lee hit #1 for the second time in the year with I Want to Be Wanted. 1960 was a very good year for the young (age 15) songstress. In addition to her first #1 smash, I’m Sorry (July 18), Lee had two other songs on the charts: Sweet Nothin’s (#4, April 18) and That’s All You Gotta Do (#6, July 4). 1975 - Looking to name your own greatest hits album something other than Greatest Hits? Do what former Beatle John Lennon did, with his package of the best. Lennon called it, Shaved Fish. 1976 - Bowling announcer Chris Schenkel would remember this day on ABC’s Pro Bowlers Tournament. Mark Hill of Lawton, OK bowled a perfect 300 game. Yeah, so? Well, according to the American Bowling Congress, Hill’s dad had rolled a perfect game on February 15, 1975 and his mommy bowled a 300 game on August 4, 1975. 1977 - Gary Busey began filming The Buddy Holly Story. The star was a ringer for the rock idol. 1982 - EPCOT (experimental prototype community of tomorrow) Center was dedicated by Disney Chairman, E. Cardon Walker at Walt Disney World, Florida: “May EPCOT Center entertain, inform and inspire, and above all, may it instill a new sense of belief and pride in man’s ability to shape a world that offers hope to people everywhere.” 1992 - It was the first World Series won by a team from outside of the United States. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves in the sixth game (4-3 in 11 innings) and won the Series, four games to two. 1995 - The United Nations celebrated its 50th anniversary. The party (Oct 22-24) was the largest gathering of world leaders ever assembled in New York. 1996 - Motown Records founder Berry Gordy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gordy helped launch the careers Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson and many others. 1997 - It was first-run day in the U.S. for these flicks: Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Alan Arkin; A Life Less Ordinary, with Ewan Mcgregor, Cameron Diaz and Holly Hunter; and Fairytale - A True Story, starring Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Paul Mcgann, Phoebe Nicholls, Peter O'Toole and Harvey Keitel. Birthdays October 24th. 1788 - Sarah Hale poet: Mary Had a Little Lamb; magazine editor; died Apr 30, 1879 1830 - Belva Lockwood women’s rights advocate, attorney, 1st woman formally nominated to run for president of the U.S.; died May 19, 1917 1855 - James Sherman 27th U.S. Vice President [1909-1912]; died Oct 30, 1912 1891 - General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina government leader: president/dictator of Dominican Republic; assassinated May 26, 1961 1904 - Moss Hart Tony Award-winning director: My Fair Lady [1957]; playwright: You Can’t Take It with You, Gentleman’s Agreement, The Man Who Came to Dinner [w/George S. Kaufman], I Married An Angel; married to actress Kitty Carlisle; died Dec 20, 1961 1911 - Sonny Terry (Saunders Terrell) singer, harmonica player: LPs: Sonny’s Story, Sonny is King, At the Second Fret, At Sugar Hill, Back to New Orleans, Midnight Special, California Blues; Spirituals to Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall; died Mar 12, 1986 1923 - Denise Levertov poet: The Double Image, Relearning the Alphabet, Candles in Babylon, Breathing the Water, Light Up the Cave; died Dec 20, 1997 1926 - Y.A. (Yelberton Abraham) Tittle Pro Football Hall of Famer: NY Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts: quarterback; UPI Player of the Year [1957, 1962]; AP Player of the Year [1963] 1929 - Jim (James Patrick) Brosnan baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961], Chicago White Sox; sportswriter 1930 - J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson The Big Bopper: singer: Chantilly Lace, Big Bopper’s Wedding; songwriter: Running Bear; killed in plane crash Feb 3, 1959 1934 - Margie Masters golf: LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year [1965] 1936 - David Nelson actor: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Peyton Place, Cry-Baby; son of entertainers Ozzie and Harriet Nelson; brother of singer Ricky Nelson 1936 - Bill Wyman musician: group: The Rolling Stones: [I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction, Get Off of My Cloud, Paint It, Black, Ruby Tuesday, Honky Tonk Women, Brown Sugar, Angie; solo: LP: Stone Alone; songwriter: Downtown Suzie, In Another Land; London restaurant owner: Sticky Fingers 1937 - Santo Farina musician, steel guitar: group: Santo & Johnny: Sleepwalk, Tear Drop 1939 - F. Murray Abraham Academy Award-winning actor: Amadeus [1984]; Surviving the Game, Last Action Hero, Nostradamus, Scarface, Serpico, The Sunshine Boys, All the President’s Men 1944 - Randy Beisler football: Indiana Univ. tackle; NFL: Philadephia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs 1946 - Jerry Edmonton musician: drums: group: Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me; duo: Manbeast; killed in car crash Nov 28, 1993 1947 - Kevin Kline Academy Award-winning actor: A Fish Called Wanda [1988]; Silverado, Grand Canyon, Dave, Princess Caraboo, The Big Chill, Sophie’s Choice, Search for Tomorrow 1950 - Rawly (Rawlins Jackson) Eastwick baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1975], SL Cardinals, NY Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, KC Royals, Chicago Cubs 1951 - Jim Laslavic football: Penn State Univ., Detroit Lions; San Diego Chargers radio color commentator; Sports Director: KNSD-TV, San Diego CA 1960 - Ian Baker-Finch golf: British Open Champion [1991] 1962 - B.D. (Bradley Darryl) Wong actor: Seven Years in Tibet, Executive Decision, Father of the Bride series, Men of War, Jurassic Park, Mystery Date, The Freshman, M. Butterfly, All-American Girl Chart Toppers October 24th. 1948 You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent) A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold 1956 Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley The Green Door - Jim Lowe Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley 1964 Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers We’ll Sing in the Sunshine - Gale Garnett I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens 1972 My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry Burning Love - Elvis Presley Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues Funny Face - Donna Fargo 1980 Another One Bites the Dust - Queen Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand He’s So Shy - Pointer Sisters I Believe in You - Don Williams 1988 Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club Gonna Take a Lot of River - The Oak Ridge Boys Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 BLANDA DAY.  It all started on this, a fall football day in 1970. George Blanda, who had played pro football for the Chicago Bears for ten years, retired and then returned to the game as starting quarterback for the Houston Oilers. He led the Oilers to two AFC championships, earning the title of AFC Player of the Year in 1961. By 1966 he was no longer the starter for the team, but was the team’s kicker, leading the league with 116 points. Blanda was then traded to the Oakland Raiders, primarily as a kicker. That’s when George Blanda became a legend in his own time. As we said, it happened on this day in 1970. That’s when Blanda, 43 years old, replaced Daryle Lamonica, the Raiders injured quarterback. Blanda tossed three touchdown passes (19, 43 and 44 yards), taking the Raiders to an easy victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers (31-14). And that was only the beginning. The following week, George Blanda kicked a field goal 48 yards to tie the Raiders with Kansas City -- with only three seconds left to play. The next week, Blanda replaced Lamonica in the last quarter. Oakland was down by one touchdown. With one minute and fourteen seconds remaining, Blanda threw a 14-yard touchdown, tied the game, then kicked a 52-yard field goal in the last three seconds. Another week, another game and another Blanda heroic ending -- with only four minutes left to play. Denver was in the lead over Oakland by two points. Blanda drove for 80 yards, then threw a touchdown pass to Fred Biletnikoff. Oakland won. His heroics continued the following week. With four seconds remaining, the game tied at 17, Blanda kicked a 16-yard field goal and San Diego went home the loser. Oakland won the division championship and Blanda became AFC Player of the Year and AP male athlete of the year. That’s why George Blanda is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame! George Blanda. Pro Football Hall of Fame. click. Events October 25th. 1870 - The first U.S. trademark was awarded -- to the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City. 1937 - Radio’s Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung out on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the entire run. Stella Dallas was “A continuation on the air of the true-life story of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel’s life.” 1940 - Cabin in the Sky opened for the first of 156 shows. Taking a Chance on Love is the one big hit that came from the musical. 1943 - Benny Carter and his orchestra recorded Poinciana on the Capitol label. The real title, incidentally, is Poinciana (Song of the Tree). 1955 - The microwave oven was introduced in Mansfield, Ohio at the corporate headquarters of the Tappan Company. The manufacturer put a $1,200 price tag on the new stove that could cook eggs in 22 seconds, bacon in 90 seconds. 1960 - The Bulova Watch Company introduced its high-tech Accutron electronic wrist watch. Ten years after it was introduced (as the watch the astronauts wear), it sold in jewelry stores for about $200. 1962 - Author John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.” 1964 - “And now, rrrrright here on this stage....” The Rolling Stones were introduced to American audiences on The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV. 1969 - Canada’s The Guess Who got a gold record for the single, Laughing. 1974 - The single, Skin Tight, by The Ohio Players, went gold on this day. 1980 - Barbra Streisand’s Woman in Love, from the number one album, Guilty, was the number one song in the U.S. Both the album and the single were #1 for three weeks. 1983 - 2,000 U.S. Marines invaded Grenada to take control away from the Soviet-Cubans. A political coup just one week earlier had made the tiny Caribbean Island a Soviet-Cuban colony. 1984 - John Cougar Mellencamp reached the two-million-dollar sales mark with his album, Uh-Huh. Also, country group Alabama went to the three-million-dollar mark with two albums this day: Feels So Right and Mountain Music. 1986 - New Jersey-based rock band Bon Jovi rose to number one in the U.S. with their Slippery When Wet album. It was the number one album for eight -- count ’em -- eight weeks. Track listing: Let It Rock, You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin’ on a Prayer, Social Disease, Wanted Dead or Alive, Raise Your Hands, Without Love, I’d Die for You, Never Say Goodbye, Wild in the Streets. 1987 - The World Series began in a dome for the first time and the team with the best record at home happened to play in that dome. The St. Louis Cardinals were pounded in the first game, but fought back and forced the series to seven games before the Minnesota Twins could claim the championship -- their first -- on this day. 1990 - James ‘Buster’ Douglas, who had knocked out the undefeated Mike Tyson on Feb. 10, 1990 to win the world heavyweight title, was floored by Evander Holyfield in the third round this day in Las Vegas. This was to be Douglas’ only defense of that fleeting title. 1998 - For the first time, all of the top five songs of the week were new entries: 1) Cher, Believe; 2) George Michael, Outside; 3) U2, Sweetest Thing; 4) Culture Club, I Just Wanna Be Loved; 5) Alanis Morissette, Thank U. Birthdays October 25th. 1340 - Geoffrey Chaucer poet: Canterbury Tales; actual date of birth unknown; died Oct 25, 1400 1825 - Johann Strauss ‘The Waltz King’: composer: On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Wine, Women and Song; operettas: Die Fledermaus, A Night in Venice, The Gypsy Baron; died June 3, 1899 1838 - Georges Bizet composer: Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, The Young Girl of Perth; died June 3, 1875 1881 - Pablo Picasso artist: founder of cubism: Guernica, Ma Jolie; died Apr 8, 1973 1886 - Leo G. Carroll actor: The Prize, The Parent Trap, North by Northwest, Father of the Bride, Forever Amber, Bahama Passage, Topper, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Going My Way, Life with Luigi; died Oct 16, 1972 1888 - Richard E. (Evelyn) Byrd polar explorer: first to see North Pole; died Mar 11, 1957 1912 - Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley) comedienne: “Howdee!”: On Stage America, Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; singer: Giddyup Go-Answer; CMA Hall of Famer; died Mar 4, 1996 1924 - Billy Barty comedian: The Spike Jones Show, Ford Festival, Club Oasis; actor: Circus Boy, Snow White, Willow, Tough Guys, Rumpelstiltskin, Roustabout, The Amazing Dobermans, Day of the Locust; died Dec 23, 2000 1926 - Jimmy Heath musician: reeds: group: Heath Brothers: LP: Marchin’ On, Passin’ Thru, Live at the Public Theatre, In Motion, Expressions of Life, Brotherly Love; band leader: LP: The Thumper, Really Big, The Quota, Triple Threat, Swamp Seed, On the Trail 1926 - (William) Biff McGuire actor: The Thomas Crown Affair [1968], The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Serpico, Midway, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, The Last Word 1927 - Barbara Cook Tony Award-winning actress, singer: The Music Man [1957]; Flahooley, Oklahoma, Carousel, Plain and Fancy, Candide, The Gay Life, She Loves Me, Any Wednesday, Funny Girl, The Gershwin Years 1927 - Bud (Franklin) Held National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 1st [1953] to throw javelin more than 260 feet; his record: 268’ 2 1/2" [1955]; javelin designer 1928 - Tony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo) actor: A Hatful of Rain, Death Wish 2, The Drowning Pool, A Face in the Crowd, The Long Hot Summer, Stagecoach, The Name of the Game, Matt Helm, Wheels, Valentine’s Day, Search, Finder of Lost Loves; died Jan 19, 2006 1928 - Marion Ross actress: Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge, Mr. Novak, Life with Father, The Gertrude Berg Show, Forever Female, Grand Theft Auto 1934 - Earl Ingarfield hockey: Vancouver Canucks, NY Rangers, Cleveland Barons, Pittsburgh Penguins, Oakland Seals, California Golden Seals; head coach: NY Islanders 1937 - Jeanne (Gloria) Black singer: He’ll Have to Stay 1937 - Zelmo Beaty basketball: Atlanta Hawks; all-star [1966] 1940 - Bobby Knight Basketball Hall of Famer: coach: Indiana University, West Point; Pan-American games; player: Ohio State University NCAA championship team 1941 - Helen Reddy singer: I Don’t Know How to Love Him, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone [Ruby Red Dress], Peaceful, Keep on Singing, Angie Baby, You & Me Against the World, I Am Woman 1941 - Ann Tyler author: The Accidental Tourist, Searching for Caleb, Morgan’s Passing, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 1944 - Jon Anderson singer: group: Yes: Roundabout; solo: LP: Olias of Sunhollow, Song of Seven; duo: Jon and Vangelis: I Hear You Now, I’ll Find My Way Home 1944 - Taffy Danoff (Nivert) singer: group: Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight 1948 - Dan Gable Olympic Hall of Famer: lightweight wrestling division gold medalist [1972]; wrestling coach: University of Iowa 1948 - Dan Issel Basketball Hall of Famer: Kentucky Colonels: Rookie of the Year [1970-71]; Denver Nuggets: player, head coach 1948 - Glenn Tipton musician: guitar: group: Judas Priest: Tyrant, Victim of Changes, Ripper, Beyond the Realms of Death, Take on the World, Living After Midnight, Breaking the Law 1949 - Brian Kerwin actor: Lobo, The Young and the Restless, The Chisholms, The Blue and the Gray, Switched at Birth, Murphy’s Romance, A Real American Hero 1951 - Greg Stemrick football: Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints 1956 - Mathias Jabs musician: guitar: group: Scorpions: LPs: Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love at First Sting, World Wide Live 1963 - Tracy Nelson actress: Father Dowling Mysteries, Square Pegs, Glitter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Yours, Mine & Ours 1971 - Midori (Goto) musician: violin; created Midori and Friends foundation [musicians travel to NY public schools to give concerts and classes] Chart Toppers October 25th. 1949 You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine Someday - Vaughn Monroe Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely 1957 Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley Hula Love - Buddy Knox Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers 1965 Yesterday - The Beatles A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright 1973 Angie - The Rolling Stones Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez 1981 Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride 1989 Miss You Much - Janet Jackson Love Song - The Cure Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears Living Proof - Ricky Van Shelton Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 ERIE CANAL DAY. After 8 years of digging ... and digging ... and digging, Clinton’s Big Ditch was completed. (That’s not Bill Clinton, but De Witt Clinton, governor of the state of New York at the time.) The 363-mile-long inland waterway, connecting Lake Erie to New York City by way of the Hudson River, opened to boat traffic on this day in 1825. Cannons fired in celebration and folks lined the route to cheer the $7,602,000, pet project of Governor Clinton. He knew that this, the first major, man-made waterway in the U.S. would be enormously important to the settlement of the Great Lakes region. And right he was! By the 1840s, thousands of barges used the ditch. The boatmen who worked them, known for their drinking and brawling, and their adventures on the Erie Canal became subjects of many stories and songs. One such refrain, the result of a storm that halted the ‘canawlers’ (as the barge operators were called) went something like this: Oh, the Erie was a risin’ And the gin was gettin’ low, And I scarcely think we’ll get a drink Till we get to Buffalo. History of the Erie Canal. Events October 26th. 1785 - The first Spanish jacks imported to the United States arrived in Boston this day. They were a gift from King Charles III of Spain. George Washington bred them resulting in the first donkeys to be born in America. 1858 - The rotary motion-washing machine was patented by Hamilton E. Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1881 - Doc Holliday joined the Earp brothers, Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan, in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ. They went up against members of the Clanton gang of suspected cattle rustlers. Wyatt Earp and Billy Clanton opened the battle -- the most famous gunfight of the Old West -- with Doc shooting Billy in the chest. Less than thirty seconds later, three men lay dead and three were wounded. Doc had shot each of the dead cowboys at least once. Virgil had been shot in the leg and Morgan through both shoulders. Holliday was wounded in the hip. Only Wyatt Earp survived the fight untouched. 1911 - Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants in the World Series four games to two. Led by Chief Bender, the A’s cruised to a 4-hit 13-2 victory over the Giants in game six, capped by a 7-run seventh inning. The Giants managed just 13 runs and a .175 batting average off pitchers Bender, Jack Coombs, and Eddie Plank in the Series. 1934 - Cole Porter recorded his own composition titled, You’re the Top, from the show Anything Goes, on Victor. 1935 - A talented twelve-year-old sang on Wallace Beery’s NBC radio show on NBC. Judy Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon be in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years before Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would be better than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers everywhere with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. 1951 - Rocky Marciano, the ‘Brockton Blockbuster’, knocked out Joe Louis, the ‘Brown Bomber’ in the 8th round of a fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. One year later, Marciano became heavyweight champ of the world. 1952 - NBC-TV premiered Victory at Sea. The show was the first documentary film series to gain wide acceptance. Richard Rodgers wrote the score and Robert Russell Bennett orchestrated it. No Other Love, adapted from one of the songs in the score, became a hit for Perry Como in the summer of 1953. 1955 - The Village Voice was first published. The Voice was New York City’s ‘underground’ (alternative) newspaper. 1965 - The Beatles received MBE medals from the Queen of England, as they became Members of the British Empire. Ceremonies were held at Buckingham Palace. John Lennon returned his medal four years later in protest of Britain’s involvement in the Nigerian Civil War. 1970 - Following 3½ years of forced isolation from boxing, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) returned to the ring and beat Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia. 1970 - Only 22 years old, Garry Trudeau began his comic strip, Doonesbury, in 28 newspapers across the U.S. The sometimes controversial strip is now in hundreds of papers and has spawned a publishing empire of books and assorted items. 1971 - Memphis minister Al Green received a gold record for his single, Tired of Being Alone. 1984 - Barbra Streisand won multiplatinum certification for three albums that reached the four-million-dollar sales mark. Greatest Hits, Vol. II, Guilty, and A Star is Born (with Kris Kristofferson) were honored. 1986 - Donald Duck was shown for the first time in the People’s Republic of China. Chinese television launched a weekly half-hour of old Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse cartoons. We guess “quack” is the same in any language. 1996 - The New York Yankees played against the defending World Champion Atlanta Braves in what looked like a quick sweep. The Yankees were battered, injured and struggling until the World Series left New York with the Braves leading two games to none. Beginning in Atlanta, the Yankees came to life and beat the braves in four straight, culminating with the 3-2 win on this day back at Yankee Stadium. The Bronx Bombers won the series four games to two. 1997 - The expansion Florida Marlins, who debuted during the 1993 season, won one of the most exciting game sevens in the history of the World Series and became the first wild card team to win a World Championship. Edgar Renteria’s bases-loaded single with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning started the celebration in Miami. The Marlins became the fastest team to reach the pinnacle of baseball, winning the World Series, four games to three, over Cleveland Indians. 2000 - “It is often said that the Mayor of New York City wears many hats, while this may be true, I can assure you that for the duration of this World Series I'll be wearing a Yankees hat,” said New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. New York (Yankees) battled New York (Mets) during the 2000 Fall Classic and the Yankees won the Series with a 4-2 victory over the Mets in Game 5 this day at Shea Stadium. Catcher Jorge Posada scored the game-winning run as the Yankees won their third consecutive World Series and their fourth in five years. Birthdays October 26th. 1685 - Domenico Scarlatti composer: over 550 clavier sonatas; son of composer Alessandro Scarlatti; died July 23, 1757 1803 - Joseph Hansom architect, inventor: Patent Safety Cab [2-wheeled, horse-driven cab with the driver seated above and behind the passengers]: the hansom cab; died in 1882 1854 - C.W. (Charles William) Post cereal mogul; founder of Post cereals and products: Grape Nuts, Post Toasties, Postum; died May 9, 1914 1874 - Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller philanthropist: cofounder of NY Museum of Modern Art; died Apr 5, 1948 1876 - H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner actor: Bulldog Drummond series, It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments; died Dec 21, 1958 1894 - John S. (Shively) Knight Pulitzer Prize-winning [Editor’s Notebook: 1968] reporter, editor: The Akron Beacon Journal; publisher: Knight-Ridder newspaper empire; died June 16, 1981 1902 - Jack Sharkey boxer: World Heavyweight Champion: won title from Max Schmeling in a 15-round split decision [June 21, 1932], lost title when Primo Carnera knocked him out [June 29, 1933]; record: 38-13-3 (14 knockouts, 1 no-contest); died Aug 17, 1994 1906 - Primo Carnera boxer: heaviest heavyweight champion [270 pounds: 3/1/34]: outweighed opponent by 86 lbs., won on points; died June 29, 1967 1911 - Sid Gillman College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: Ohio University: 1st college all-star game; Cleveland Rams; head coach: Miami University, University of Cincinnati, LA Rams, LA/San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers [AFC Coach of the Year-1974]; general manager: Houston Oilers 1911 - Mahalia Jackson singer: God’s Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares, Move on Up a Little Higher, The Lord’s Prayer; in film: St. Louis Blues; LP: I Sing Because I’m Happy, The World’s Greatest Gospel Singer; died Jan 27, 1972 1913 - Charlie Barnet musician: saxophone; bandleader: Cherokee, We’re All Burnt Up, Where Was I?, Pompton Turnpike, I Hear a Rhapsody, Skyliner; autobiography: Those Swinging Years; died Sep 4, 1991 1914 - Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan Jr.) actor: The Kid: 1st full-length movie to star a child; Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, College Swing, Outlaw Women, The Shakiest Gun in the West, The Escape Artist, The Addams Family, McKeever & The Colonel; TV panelist: Pantomime Quiz; cause of the Coogan Act requiring parent’s of child actors to put their earnings in trust; died Mar 1, 1984 1916 - Francois Mitterand President of France [1981-1995]; died Jan 8, 1996 1934 - Rodney ‘Hot Rod’ Hundley basketball; W. Virginia Univ., Minneapolis/LA Lakers; sportscaster: Utah Jazz 1942 - Bob Hoskins actor: Hook, Brazil, The Cotton Club, Mona Lisa, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Heart Condition, Mermaids 1944 - Michael Piano singer: group: The Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning 1946 - Keith Hopwood singer, musician: guitar: group: Herman’s Hermits: Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter, I’m Henry the Eighth I Am 1946 - Pat Sajak TV host: Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajak Show 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton attorney; First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton; U.S. Senator from New York [2000-] 1947 - Jaclyn Smith actress: Charlie’s Angels, Christine Cromwell, The Bourne Identity, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Goodbye Columbus; commercials: Breck girl 1948 - Toby (Colbert Dale) Harrah baseball: Washington Senators, Texas Rangers [all-star: 1972, 1975, 1976], Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1982], New York Yankees 1949 - Steve (Stephen Douglas) Rogers baseball: pitcher: record: NCAA Division I individual career pitching wins [Tulsa: 4, 1969, 1971]; Montreal Expos [all-star: 1974, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983 1949 - Mike (Dudley Michael) Hargrove baseball: Texas Rangers [Rookie of the Year: 1974/all-star: 1975], Cleveland Indians, SD Padres; manager: Cleveland Indians 1950 - Chuck Foreman football: Minnesota Vikings running back/receiver: NFC Rookie of the Year [1973]: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI; NFC Player of the Year [1974, 1976]; New England Patriots 1951 - Steve (Steven Robert) Ontiveros baseball: SF Giants, Chicago Cubs 1953 - Keith Strickland musician: drums: group: The B-52s: Rock Lobster, Quiche Lorraine, 606-0842, Dance This Mess Around 1954 - Lauren Tewes actress: The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders 1958 - Rita Wilson actress: The Bonfire of the Vanities, Barbarians at the Gate, Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts, If These Walls Could Talk, That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon, Runaway Bride, The Story of Us; wife of actor Tom Hanks 1961 - Dylan McDermott actor: The Practice, Hamburger Hill, Twister, Steel Magnolias, In the Line of Fire, Destiny Turns on the Radio, Big Shots 1962 - Cary Elwes actor: Twister, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Hot Shots!, Days of Thunder, Glory, The Princess Bride, Another Country 1968 - Thomas Cavanagh actor: Ed, Sherlock Holmes Returns, Jake and the Kid, Bloodhounds II Chart Toppers October 26th. 1950 Goodnight Irene - The Weavers All My Love - Patti Page Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo) I’m Moving On - Hank Snow 1958 It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day Topsy II - Cozy Cole City Lights - Ray Price 1966 Reach Out I’ll Be There - Four Tops 96 Tears - ?(Question Mark) & The Mysterians Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke Open Up Your Heart - Buck Owens 1974 Then Came You - Dionne Warwicke & Spinners You Haven’t Done Nothin - Stevie Wonder You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin’ - Bachman-Turner Overdrive I See the Want to in Your Eyes - Conway Twitty 1982 Jack & Diane - John Cougar Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project He Got You - Ronnie Milsap 1990 I Don’t Have the Heart - James Ingram Black Cat - Janet Jackson Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Monday, October 27, 2008 RADIO DAY.  Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station. It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they had to wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the first radio programming to reach an audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people. And so we salute this day as the official birthday of mass-appeal radio. KDKA Radio. KDKA History. Events October 27th. 1904 - The first subway cars were placed in operation, forming the New York City subway system. The cars operated between the Brooklyn Bridge and Broadway; from City Hall to W. 145th Street. This was the first underwater, underground rail system in the world. 1917 - Jascha Heifetz made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Heifetz was a 16-year-old sensation who had played the violin since age 5. 1925 - It isn’t as exciting as radio’s birthday, maybe, but it was an exciting day for Fred Waller, who received a license of sorts from the U.S. Patent Office. Mr. Waller invented water skis. Now if he could have only invented an easy way to get up on those skis... 1941 - Everything I Love, by Buddy Clark, was recorded this day -- on the Okeh label (number 6469). 1947 - This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC radio. Nora solved domestic, social and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959. 1947 - “The one, the only Groucho” Marx appeared as quizmaster on You Bet Your Life for the first time -- on ABC radio. George Fenneman was Groucho’s eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program’s run on radio (1948 - 1959) and TV (1950 - 1961). By the way, who is buried in Grant’s tomb? 1954 - The show that ultimately altered TV for kids premiered on ABC-TV. Disneyland will be historically noted as ABC’s first smash. Many NBC and CBS affiliates in those days took ABC as a second network just to have the Disneyland show. Over the years, Disneyland changed names a few times. It was also titled, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, The Wonderful World of Disney, Disney’s Wonderful World, The Disney Sunday Movie and The Magical World of Disney. 1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary were sitting pretty at #1 and #2 on the U.S. album chart with Peter, Paul and Mary and In the Wind. 1973 - Riva Ridge, the racehorse that won 17 of 30 starts and earned a total of $1,111,497, came in dead last in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park in New York -- and was immediately retired. 1974 - ABC hit pay dirt this day with the first televised showing of the box office hit, The Poseidon Adventure. The movie featured a cast of notables, including Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Carol Lynley, Red Buttons and Roddy McDowall, in an upside down ship. 1975 - Rocker Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek. Things were certainly going well for ‘The Boss’ that week. 1978 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. They were honored for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel. 1985 - The Kansas City Royals vs. St. Louis Cardinals. It was was an all-Missouri feud, if you will; the I-70 Series; Kansas City versus St. Louis. The Kansas City Royals won, shutting out the St. Louis Cardinals in game seven this day, 11-0. The Royals rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series. Series MVP Bret Saberhagen pitched the shutout. 1986 - The ‘mighty’ New York Mets became world champs of baseball, as they beat Boston’s ‘hard-luck’ Red Sox in game seven of the World Series, 8-5. Two days after an improbable rally saved the Mets from the brink of defeat, they beat Boston, who had lost their three most recent World Series appearances (which had also gone seven games ended in defeat). 1990 - Janet Jackson’s Black Cat popped up to #1 for a week in the U.S. The single was one of the tracks on her number-one album of a year earlier, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. 1991 - In what is considered by the experts (Bob and Jim down at the bar), the seventh game of the World Series, played this day, was one of the greatest ever. Minnesota Twins’ pinch-hitter Gene Larkin’s tenth-inning bases-loaded single beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in the seventh game the World Series. The Twins captured their second World Championship in five years during a tight series that included three extra-inning games and five one-runners. And, for only the second time in history, the home team won all seven games (the first time it happened was 1987, a series that also featured the Twins.) 1997 - The U.S. released a redesigned $50 bill. The new notes incorporated features to protect against counterfeiting and make U.S. currency more easily identifiable for people with low vision. The Series 1996 $50 note followed the introduction in March 1996 of the redesigned $100 note as part of a program to maintain the security of U.S. currency. 1999 - Roger Clemens pitched the New York Yankees to their second straight World Series sweep, shutting down the Atlanta Braves, 4-1. This ended Clemens’ quest for the prize that had eluded him. Clemens and the Yankees shut out Atlanta into the eighth out dueling John Smoltz. Pitcher Mariano Rivera who had two saves and a win in the Series was selected as MVP. 2000 - These films made their U.S. debuts: Blow Dry, from Simon Beaufoy, the writer of The Full Monty: “...comedy for anyone who has ever had hair.”; Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: “...returns to Maryland’s ominous Black Hills region to reconstruct a ghastly series of crimes...”; The Little Vampire: “They're Not Just Best Friends. They’re Blood Borthers.” (Hahahaha... Get it?); and Lucky Numbers, with John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow and Tim Roth: comedy about a TV lottery-fixing scheme. Birthdays October 27th. 1728 - James Cook British sea captain, explorer: Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands; killed by angry natives at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, Feb 14, 1779 1782 - Nicolo Paganini violin virtuoso; died May 27, 1840 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President [1901-1909]; married to A. Lee, E. Carow [four sons, two daughters]; nickname: TR, Trust Buster; first president to ride in a car, submerge in a submarine and fly in a plane; initiated the National Monument System; died Jan 6, 1919 1872 - Emily Post (Price) etiquette authority: author: Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage; syndicated newspaper columnist; died Sep 25, 1960 1910 - Fred De Cordova Emmy Award-winning producer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1991-1992]; director: Bedtime for Bonzo, Frankie and Johnny, I’ll Take Sweden; died Sep 15, 2001 1911 - Leif Erickson (William Anderson) actor: The High Chaparral, Force Five, On the Waterfront, Rocky 3, Tea and Sympathy, Waikiki Wedding; died Jan 29, 1986 1914 - Dylan Thomas playwright: The Three Weird Sisters, Under Milkwood; poet: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade; died Nov 9, 1953 1917 - Oliver Tambo President of South Africa’s African National Congress; died Apr 24, 1993 1920 - Nanette Fabray (Fabares) Emmy Award-winning actress: Caesar’s Hour [1955, 1956]; One Day at a Time, Westinghouse Playhouse, Our Gang series; aunt of actress Shelley Fabares 1922 - Ralph (Mc Pherran) Kiner Baseball Hall of Famer: outfielder: National League’s first $100,000 player; Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1948-1953/led league in home runs: 1946-52], Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians; broadcaster: NY Mets 1923 - Roy Lichenstein sculptor; artist: Blam; died Sep 29, 1997 1924 - Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace) Emmy Award-winning actress: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Decoration Day [1990-91]; Peyton Place, Zora is My Name, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun, The Jackie Robinson Story, All God’s Children, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln, Roots: The Next Generation 1928 - Kyle Rote College Football Hall of Famer: Southern Methodist University; New York Giants running back; sportscaster 1930 - Bill George Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears middle linebacker: All-Pro [1955-1962]; LA Rams; died Sep 30, 1982 1932 - Kathy Cornelius (McKinnon) golf champion: U.S. Open [1956] 1933 - Floyd Cramer pianist: Last Date, On the Rebound, San Antonio Rose; died Dec 31, 1997 1939 - John Cleese Emmy Award-winning actor: guest performer: Cheers [1986-87]; A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Splitting Heirs, Life of Brian, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Silverado, The Big Picture 1942 - Lara Parker actress: Foxfire Light, The Solitary Man, Race with the Devil, Night of Dark Shadows 1943 - (Melvin) Lee Greenwood CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1983, 1984]: Dixie Road, Hearts Aren’t Made to Break [They’re Made to Love], Going, Going, Gone, Mornin’ Ride, I Don’t Mind the Thorns [If You’re the Boss], God Bless the U.S.A.; musician: sax, piano: band leader: Trick 1945 - John Williams football: Baltimore Colts guard: Super Bowl III, V 1945 - Mike (Michael Ken-Wai) Lum baseball: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs 1946 - Ivan Reitman director: Ghostbusters series, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Meatballs, Stripes 1946 - Carrie Snodgress actress: Diary of a Mad Housewife, 8 Seconds, The Solitary Man, Woman with a Past, Pale Rider, Chill Factor; died Apr 1, 2004 1947 - Terry Anderson news correspondent: kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut [1985], released [1991] 1952 - Pete Cusick football: Ohio State, NE Patriots DT 1958 - Simon LeBon singer: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is There Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys 1963 - Marla Maples actress: Will Roger’s Follies, Executive Decision, Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish; married millionaire Donald Trump Chart Toppers October 27th. 1951 Because of You - Tony Bennett I Get Ideas - Tony Martin The World is Waiting for the Sunrise - Les Paul & Mary Ford Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell 1959 Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods Don’t You Know - Della Reese The Three Bells - The Browns 1967 To Sir with Love - Lulu How Can I Be Sure - The Young Rascals Expressway to Your Heart - Soul Survivors I Don’t Wanna Play House - Tammy Wynette 1975 Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka Calypso/I’m Sorry - John Denver Miracles - Jefferson Starship San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker 1983 Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie Lady Down on Love - Alabama 1991 Emotions - Mariah Carey Do Anything - Natural Selection Romantic - Karyn White Anymore - Travis Tritt Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2007 LIBERTY DAY.  An emblem of Franco-American unity, the Statue of Liberty, was presented to the American people by the French and unveiled this day in 1886. The Statue of Liberty at Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor is the work of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. He called it Liberty Enlightening the World. Bartholdi was present at the dedication presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland. Inscribed on a tablet inside the pedestal of ‘Miss Liberty’ is a poem by Emma Lazarus. It describes the statue of a woman holding a book and torch. The symbol of freedom, she waits for immigrants who must pass by her on their way to Ellis Island and admission to America. It reads: “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. ‘Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she with silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’” The 152-foot high statue, weighing 225 tons, now sits on Liberty Island. On August 3, 1957, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower changed the name from Bedloe’s Island to Liberty Island. Liberty and justice for all! The Statue of Liberty. Click. And Ellis Island. Events October 28th. 1636 - The Massachusetts General Court provided 400 pounds to support a school or college, and so, Harvard University was founded in Cambridge, MA. 1904 - Fingerprinting was first used by the St. Louis Police Department. 1922 - WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21, Chicago 18.) 1927 - Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) flew the first international flight -- from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba. 1940 - The Greek people had much to celebrate. Their resistance and military had turned back Mussolini’s troops and Greece’s borders were closed to the Nazi supporters. This day is still celebrated throughout Greece as Ohi (No!) Day. 1946 - Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC radio for the first time. Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky’s niece Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by Mars candy. 1950 - Jack Benny took his well-known radio show [on radio for 20 years] to television without missing a beat. Audiences watching CBS-TV this night at 7:30 p.m. finally got to see the stingy, vain-about-his-age, Benny. There he was with his violin, ancient Maxwell car, and his basement vault in living black and white. Eventually, TV audiences got to see Jack Benny, his wife Mary Livingstone, and his friends Eddy ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Don Wilson and Dennis Day in living color. The show lasted on TV for fifteen years! 1961 - Brian Epstein, a record store owner in London, was asked by a customer for a copy of the record, My Bonnie, by a group known as The Silver Beatles. He didn’t have it in stock so he went to the Cavern Club to check out the group. He signed to manage them in a matter of days and renamed them The Beatles. 1961 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the Municipal Stadium at the former site of the New York World’s Fair in Flushing, NY. The name was later changed to Shea Stadium, after New York Commissioner William A. Shea. 1965 - The Gateway Arch (630ft/192m high), St. Louis, Missouri, was completed. Construction had begun Feb 29, 1964. 1973 - Secretariat raced into history by winning the Canadian International Stakes in Toronto. It was the last race won ... and run ... by the magnificent thoroughbred. 1974 - Rhoda Morgenstern made TV history as she married Joe Girard on Rhoda on CBS. The show was a spin-off from the hugely successful The Mary Tyler Moore Show. 1978 - Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City was the number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The hit was a track from Gilder’s City Nights album. 1980 - Annette Funicello, Cubby O’Brien, Tommy Cole, Sherry Alberoni and Dickie Dodd joined other Mouseketeers wearing black ears and white shirts on a sound stage in Burbank, CA. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Mickey Mouse Club. While we’re celebrating the Mickey Mouse Club, do you remember the five special events each week? There was Fun with Music Day on Monday, Guest Star Day on Tuesday, Anything Can Happen Day on Wednesday, Circus Day on Thursday and Talent Roundup Day on Friday. “Y? Because we LIKE you!” 1981 - Game 6 of the World Series saw the Los Angeles Dodgers storm back, winning their forth straight game (9-2), and the championship, after having been down two games to none to the New York Yankees. Rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela started the Dodger comeback, and batters Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, Steve Garvey, and Steve Yeager took them the rest of the way. There had been genuine concern that snow might interfere with the Fall Classic since it was being played so late in the season in New York City. And we worry about that every year that there’s a World Series game in a northern city... 1986 - In the Neiman-Marcus catalogue this day, the store offered, as a unique holiday gift, a 100-year subscription to The Wall Street Journal -- for just $6,000. That was a $5,400 saving over the regular 100-year rate! 1989 - The Oakland Athletics beat the San Francisco Giants 9-6 to complete a four-game sweep of the World Series, the first World Series sweep since 1976. The A’s scored first in every game and never lost the lead once. Oakland pitcher Dave Stewart pitched two games, won two games, struck out fourteen hitters in sixteen innings, had an earned run average of 1.69 and was named MVP. The Series will be remembered not not only for the A’s dominance, but but for the earthquake before game three that killed sixty- seven people in the San Francisco Bay area. 1995 - Atlanta Braves right fielder David Justice broke a scoreless tie with the Cleveland Indians. It was a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth in in Game 6 of the World Series, and it was all the Braves would need. Pitcher/Series MVP Tom Glavine allowed just one hit in eight innings, and Mark Wohlers pitched a perfect ninth to seal the championship, the first in Atlanta’s history. Birthdays October 28th. 1466 - Desiderius Erasmus (Gerhard Gerhards) scholar, author: Encomium Moriae [In Praise of Folly]; died July 12, 1536 1842 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, orator, author: ‘American Joan of Arc’; died Oct 22, 1932 1846 - Auguste Escoffier ‘King of Chefs and Chef of Kings’: invented Peach Melba; Legion d’Honneur: contribution to international reputation of French cuisine; died Feb 12, 1935 1896 - Howard Hanson Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Symphony No. 4 [1944]; George Foster Peabody Award [1946]; Laurel Leaf of the American Composers Alliance [1957]; Huntington Hartford Foundation Award [1959]; Priz de Rome [1921]; president: Eastman School of Music; died Feb 26, 1981 1897 - Edith Head Academy Award-winning costume designer: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1973; died Oct 24, 1981 1902 - Elsa Lanchester (Elizabeth Sullivan) actress: Come to the Stable, Witness for the Prosecution, The Bride of Frankenstein, Nanny and the Professor, The John Forsythe Show; wife of actor Charles Laughton; died Dec 26, 1986 1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk medical researcher: Salk polio vaccine; AIDS research; died June 23, 1995 1915 - Dody Goodman comedienne, actress: Forever Fernwood, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Jack Paar Show, Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes; TV panelist: Liar’s Club 1926 - Bowie Kuhn attorney; baseball commissioner [1969-1984] 1929 - Joan Plowright actress: Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April, The Merchant of Venice, Equus, The Entertainer; wife of actor Lord Lawrence Olivier 1930 - Bruce Morton Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: Reports from the Lt. Calley Trial [1970-71]; CNN 1932 - Suzy Parker (Cecelia Anne Renee Parker) model, actress: The Interns, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick, Funny Face; died May 3, 2003 1934 - Jim Beatty National Track & Field Hall of Famer: LA Track Club distance runner; Sullivan Award-winner [1962]: AAU indoor-mile champion [1961-63]: 1st person to run an indoor mile under 4 minutes [3:59.9] 1936 - Charlie Daniels CMA Award-winning musician [1979]: guitar, fiddle; singer: group: Charlie Daniels Band: The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Uneasy Rider, Still in Saigon; in film: Urban Cowboy 1937 - Lenny Wilkens Basketball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers; player/coach: Seattle Supersonics: 1979 NBA championship, Portland Trail Blazers; VP/General Mgr.: Seattle Supersonics; coach: Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks 1939 - Jane Alexander (Quigley) Emmy Award-winning actress: Playing for Time [1980-81]; Kramer vs. Kramer, The Great White Hope, All the President’s Men, Eleanor & Franklin; chairperson: National Endowment for the Arts 1941 - Curtis Lee singer: Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Under the Moon of Love 1941 - Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin) musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina 1942 - Michael (John) Crichton writer: Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man, Disclosure, The Great Impostor, The Secret of Canta Victoria, Congo; director: Runaway, Coma, Westworld, The Great Train Robbery 1944 - Dennis Franz (Schlachta) Emmy Award-winning actor: N.Y.P.D. Blue [1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1998-1999]; Nasty Boys, Hill Street Blues, Chicago Story, Beverly Hills Buntz, The Bay City Blues, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Body Double, Psycho 2, Dressed to Kill 1945 - Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis) singer: group: The Mindbenders: Game of Love, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um; solo: Come on Home, Pamela Pamela 1948 - Telma Hopkins singer: group: Dawn: Candida, Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; actress: A New Kind of Family, Getting By, Family Matters, Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break, Tony Orlando and Dawn 1948 - Rick Reynolds musician: guitar: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Memories at the Window, Jim Dandy to the Rescue 1949 - Bruce (William) Jenner National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: decathlon winner [1976]; AP Athlete of the Year, Sullivan Award-winner [1976]; sportscaster; Wheaties box star 1952 - Annie Potts actress: Designing Women, Love & War, Goodtime Girls, Breaking the Rules, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ghost Busters series 1955 - Bill Gates (William H. Gates) computer software mogul, richest man the the world, president and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation 1960 - Mark Derwin actor: The Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless 1962 - Daphne Zuniga actress: The Sure Thing, Melrose Place, Modern Girls, Spaceballs, Last Rites, Gross Anatomy, The Fly II, Staying Together, Degree of Guilt, Stories from My Childhood 1963 - Lauren Holly actress: Dumb & Dumber, All My Children, A Smile Like Yours, Picket Fences, Down Periscope, Chicago Hope, Any Given Sunday, What Women Want 1964 - Paul Wylie Olympic medalist: figure skating 1965 - Jami Gertz actress: Square Pegs, Sibs, The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Sixteen Candles, Alphabet City 1967 - Julia Roberts Academy Award-winning actress: Erin Brockovich [2000]; Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Dying Young, Hook, The Pelican Brief, I Love Trouble, Mary Reilly, Blood Red, Flatliners, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Conspiracy Theory, Runaway Bride, Ocean’s Eleven 1974 - Joaquin Phoenix actor: Parenthood, SpaceCamp, Russkies, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Walking the Dog, Return to Paradise, Clay Pigeons, 8MM, Gladiator, Buffalo Soldiers 1978 - Lauren Woodland actress: Alien Nation, Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up, Sunset Beach, Port Charles, Undressed, The Young and the Restless Chart Toppers October 28th. 1944 I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings) The Trolley Song - Judy Garland Smoke on the Water - Red Foley 1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher I Went to Your Wedding - Patti Page Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams 1960 I Want to Be Wanted - Brenda Lee The Twist - Chubby Checker Devil or Angel - Bobby Vee Alabam - Cowboy Copas 1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold 1976 If You Leave Me Now -Chicago Still the One - Orleans Rock’n Me - Steve Miller You and Me - Tammy Wynette 1984 I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean Hard Habit to Break - Chicago If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) - Alabama Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 DEPRESSION DAY.  Over 16 million shares were traded in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange and thousands of investors were wiped out on this day in 1929. Prices plummeted, millions lost billions, and the buying boom was over. The market crashed. It had been preceded, by four days, with a speech by the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover, in which he said, “The fundamental business of the country ... is on a sound and prosperous basis.” The Great Depression was longer and harsher than previous depressions, which had seen an upturn in business activity after one or two years. But, from October, 1929 until Franklin D. Rooselvelt became President in March, 1933, the economy just went from bad to worse on an almost monthly basis. Banks, factories and stores failed and unemployment soared. Millions of people lost their jobs, savings and homes. Astrologer Evangeline Adams saw into the future and predicted the crash - along with other events that actually occurred, like Lindbergh’s flight - but didn’t listen to her own predictions. She lost $100,000. The Great Depression was depressing, indeed! More reading here, Here, And here. Events October 29th. 1930 - The tune, It Must Be True, was recorded on Victor by Bing Crosby, who sang with Gus Arnheim and his orchestra. 1945 - The first commercially-made ballpoint pens went on sale -- at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens sold for $12.50 and racked up a tidy profit of $500,000 in the first month! 1948 - Sandy Saddler surprised the boxing world by knocking out Willie Pep in the fourth round to win the world featherweight boxing title in New York City. 1956 - John Cameron Swayze and The Camel News Caravan were replaced by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC-TV. The Huntley-Brinkley Report clicked so well that the respected newsmen reported nightly until July of 1970. “Good night Chet. Good night David. And good night from NBC News.” 1958 - Russian poet Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was forced to decline the honor because of protests in his home country. 1960 - Cassius Clay won his first pro bout -- over Tunney Hunsaker -- in six rounds in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Hunsaker was never heard from again, but we heard a great deal from Clay, including, “I am the greatest!” 1961 - The top, pop song on the charts belonged to Dion (DiMucci). Runaround Sue was in its second week at the tiptop of the top-tune tabulation (it was in the top 40 for three months). 1963 - Veteran actor Adolphe Menjou died at the age of 73. 1964 - The largest star sapphire in the world, the Star of India, was stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Fortunately, the gem was later found, unharmed. 1966 - The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed. 1970 - Neil Diamond received a nice package: a gold record for the hit, Cracklin’ Rosie. 1973 - O.J. Simpson set two NFL records this day. The Buffalo Bills’ star running back ran 39 times for 157 yards -- and he rushed for a total of over 1,000 yards in only seven games. 1981 - Loretta Lynn received a gold record for her album, Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. 1983 - After four weeks at #1 on the pop music charts, Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart slipped to #2 -- replaced by Islands in the Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. 1983 - Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. The previous champ had been Johnny’s Greatest Hits, by Johnny Mathis (490 weeks: April 1958-July 1968). Dark Side of the Moon stayed on the chart for 724 consecutive weeks (740 weeks altogether) and didn’t drop off until July 13, 1988. Michael Jackson’s Thriller sold the most copies ever -- 40 million -- but it spent ‘only’ 122 weeks on the album chart. 1984 - Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title; the most won by any golfer since the award was first given in 1948. Jack Nicklaus had accumulated five of those titles. 1998 - Hurricane Mitch (Oct 22-Nov 4, 1998), one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever, made landfall, slamming into Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and other Central American countries. The real story was not the wind but the rain. Slow movement of the storm caused heavy rain, resulting in widespread flooding and mudslides. Over 10,000 people were killed, another 10,000 were missing, and some two million people were affected in some way by the storm. 1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off, returning 77-year-old U.S. Senator John Glenn to space some 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. Glenn was part of a crew of seven astronauts shepherding scientific payloads on the shuttle mission. 1999 - U.S. motion pictures opening this day: Being John Malkovich, with John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and Orson Bean; House on Haunted Hill, starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen Taye Diggs, Bridgette Wilson and Peter Gallagher; Music of the Heart, with Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett and Gloria Estefan; and Princess Mononoke, with Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Billy Bob Thornton and Jada Pinkett Smith. Birthdays October 29th. 1740 - James Boswell author: biographer: Life of Samuel Johnson; died May 19, 1795 1815 - Daniel Decatur Emmett composer: Dixie [Dixie’s Land]; died June 28, 1904 1891 - Fanny Brice (Borach) actress: Ziegfeld Follies; comedienne: Baby Snooks; subject of film: Funny Girl; died May 29, 1951 1899 - Akim Tamiroff actor: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anastasia, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Hotel Paradiso, Lord Jim, The Story of Louis Pasteur; died Sep 17, 1972 1907 - (Robert) Douglass Montgomery actor: Little Women, Harmony Lane; died July 23, 1966 1921 - Bill Mauldin Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist: [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie 1922 - Neal Hefti composer: TV’s Batman theme, The Odd Couple theme; score: Sex and the Single Girl; Neal Hefti and His Orchestra: The Kate Smith Show 1925 - Zoot (John Haley) Sims musician: tenor/alto sax: groups: Benny Goodman Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Birdland All-Stars, Jazz at Carnegie Hall; died Mar 23, 1985 1926 - Jon Vickers singer: opera tenor 1932 - Dick Garmaker basketball: Univ. of Minnesota; NBA: Minneapolis Lakers 1937 - Sonny Osborne musician: 5-string banjo, singer: baritone: group: Osborne Brothers: Up this Hill and Down, Rocky Top, Tennessee Hound Dog, Georgia Pinewoods 1938 - Ralph Bakshi writer, director, animator: Hey Good Lookin’, Heavy Traffic, Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Streetfight; director, animator: The Lord of the Rings; writer, director: Fire and Ice; director: Cool World 1939 - Pete (Peter Gerard) Richert baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Washington Senators [all-star: 1965, 1966], Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969, 1970, 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, SL Cardinals 1941 - Andy Russell football: Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker: Super Bowl IX, X 1944 - Denny Laine (Brian Hines) musician: guitar, singer: groups: The Moody Blues: Go Now; Wings: My Love, Live & Let Die, Helen Wheels, Jet, Band on the Run 1945 - Melba Moore singer: You Stepped into My Life; actress: The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show 1946 - Peter Green musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Man of the World; solo: LP: The End of the Game 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss Academy Award-winning actor: The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford; TV narrator: American Chronicles 1948 - Kate Jackson actress: Charlie’s Angels, The Rookies, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Baby Boom, Killer Bees, Satan’s School for Girls, Loverboy 1950 - Ed Dyck hockey: NHL: Vancouver Canucks 1953 - Denis Potvin hockey: NHL: NY Islanders: shares record for most goals scored by a defenseman in a playoff game [3]: Islanders vs. Edmonton Oilers [4/17/1981] 1955 - Kevin Dubrow singer: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head [Metal Health], Skweeze Me Pleeze Me 1955 - John (Thomas) Smith football: NE Patriots 1959 - Jesse (Lee) Barfield baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1986/Gold Glove: 1986, 1987], NY Yankees 1960 - Michael Carter football: San Francisco 49ers tackle: Super Bowl XIX, XXIII, XXIV 1961 - Randy (Steven Randall) Jackson singer: group: The Jackson Five: I’ll be There; brother of Michael, La Toya, Janet, Jermaine, Tito, etc. 1967 - Joely Fisher actress: I’ll Do Anything, The Mask, In the Loop, Inspector Gadget, Nostradamus, Normal, Ohio, Danny 1971 - Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz) actress: Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas Chart Toppers October 29th. 1945 I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers That’s for Me - Dick Haymes On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer With Tears in My Eyes - Wesley Tuttle 1953 You, You, You - The Ames Brothers No Other Love - Perry Como Oh - Pee Wee Hunt I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know - The Davis Sisters 1961 Runaround Sue - Dion Bristol Stomp - The Dovells Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke 1969 I Can’t Get Next to You - The Temptations Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley The Ways to Love a Man - Tammy Wynette 1977 You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon That’s Rock ’n’ Roll - Shaun Cassidy Heaven’s Just a Sin Away - The Kendalls 1985 Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer Touch a Hand, Make a Friend - The Oak Ridge Boys Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily on my morning radio show. All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 THE SHEIK DAY.  That great romancer of the silver screen, Rudolph Valentino, starred in The Sheik, which was released on this day in 1921. The Sheik firmly established Valentino’s popular reputation as the Great Lover, and his last film, the comical Son of the Sheik (1926), sealed that title. But the actor never thought of himself as a conqueror of women -- nor as a great actor. He found the Sheik films rather silly. Rudy’s wife, Natacha Rambova responded to her husband’s screen image: “My husband is a great lover of home life.” However, the publication of Valentino’s volume of poetry, Day Dreams (1923), further fueled the public’s imagination and drove fans into bookstores with a vengeance. Valentino had plans to make more serious films beginning with an ambitious version of El Cid, to be called The Hooded Falcon. In town for the premiere of Son of the Sheik, he collapsed in New York on August 15, 1926. Valentino died eight days later from peritonitis -- before he could begin to work on films that would make the public forget his sheikly shenanigans. So the grandiose romantic persona persists, and we remember Rudolph Valentino as the Great Lover, The Sheik. Remember, too, these great films from Valentino: The Conquering Power (1921), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Beyond the Rocks (1922), Blood and Sand (1922), The Young Rajah (1922), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), A Sainted Devil (1924), The Eagle (1925), Cobra (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926). click click. Events November 13th. 1927 - After seven years of construction and over $48 million, the Holland Tunnel, New York City’s connection to Jersey City, NJ, opened to traffic. It was named after the chief engineer of construction, Clifford Milburn Holland, who died before the tunnel was completed. 1930 - The first revolving milk platform was used -- in Plainsboro, NJ. For the first time, 1,680 cows could be milked in seven hours. Now that’s a lot of milk! 1933 - The first sit-down strike was started. The U.S. Workers at the Hormel Packing Company plant in Austin, Minnesota (the home of SPAM) took action against management. 1940 - Alice Marble turned pro. The tennis star signed for $25,000 plus a percentage of the gate receipts. 1946 - The first artificial snow was produced -- by Vincent J. Schaefer over Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts. 1955 - NBC showed the first live TV program from a foreign country (noncontiguous). Scenes from Havana, Cuba were seen by viewers of Dave Garroway’s Wide Wide World program. 1965 - Julie Harris starred in Skyscraper, which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The musical ran for seven months. 1968 - This was a good day for The Beatles. Their movie, Yellow Submarine, premiered in the U.S. and the single, Hey Jude, topped the pop music charts (it was in its 7th of 9 weeks at #1). 1975 - “Whoa Whoa Whoa, Feeeelings.” One of the great lounge-lizard songs of all time, Feelings by Morris Albert, went gold. 1977 - After 43 years as a regular feature in hundreds of newspapers, Al Capp brought his comic strip, Li’l Abner, to a final conclusion. 1982 - Business as Usual, the smash album by Men at Work, started a fifteen-week run at number one in the U.S. The tracks: Who Can It Be Now?, I Can See It in Your Eyes, Down Under, Underground, Helpless Automation, People Just Love to Play with Words, Be Good Johnny, Touching the Untouchables, Catch a Star, Down by the Sea. 1986 - The state of California put Fricot City on the auction block for $8.8 million. The ‘city’ was actually the former ranch/private estate of Desiré Fricot. It had become a California Youth Authority camp in 1945. Located about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento, Fricot City featured some twenty homes, two gymnasiums, two swimming pools, a full twelve-grade school, a fire station, an infirmary and a chapel. 1998 - These films made first runs in the U.S.: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Some Secrets Will Haunt You Forever), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Brandy Norwood; I’ll Be Home for Christmas (This Yule, be cool.), with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel and Adam Lavorgna; and Meet Joe Black (No one can die - while he loves!), starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani and Marcia Gay Harden. 1999 - “For the winner by unanimous decision and undisputed heavyweight champion of the world . . . Lennox Lewis!” Lennox Lewis tattoed Evander Holyfield for 12 rounds in Las Vegas, Nevada to earn a unanimous decision and capture the title. Birthdays November 13th. 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson author: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses; died Dec 3, 1894 1856 - Louis Brandeis jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-1939]; died Oct 5, 1941 1913 - Alexander Scourby actor: The Big Heat, Affair in Trinidad; died Feb 22, 1985 1916 - Jack Elam actor: Support Your Local Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas; died Oct 20, 2003 1922 - Madeleine Sherwood actress: The Flying Nun, Hurry Sundown, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth 1922 - Oskar Werner actor: Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the Damned, Fahrenheit 451; died Oct 23, 1984 1924 - Linda Christian actress: The Devil’s Hand, Athena 1928 - Steve Bilko baseball: St. Louis Cardinals 1B, Cubs, Reds, Dodgers, Tigers, Angels; died Mar 7, 1978 1932 - Richard Mulligan Emmy Award-winning actor: Soap [1979-1980], Empty Nest [1988-1989]; S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana; died Sep 26, 2000 1934 - Garry Marshall producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: Pretty Woman, Beaches; comedy writer: Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show; actor: A League of Their Own, Lost in America; brother of actress Penny Marshall 1938 - Jean Seberg actress: Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse That Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse; died Sep 8, 1979 1939 - Wes (Maurice Wesley) Parker baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966/Gold Glove 1967-1972] 1941 - Dack (Norman) Rambo actor: Dallas, All My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show; died Mar 21, 1994 1941 - Mel (Melvin Leon, Sr.) Stottlemyre baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1964/all-star 1965, 1966, 1968-1970] 1947 - Joe Mantegna Tony Award-winning actor: Glengarry Glenn Ross [1984]; House of Games, Things Change, Airheads, Queen’s Logic, The Godfather Part III, Elvis: The Movie, The Money Pit, Three Amigos, Comedy Zone 1948 - Sheila Frazier actress: The Hitter, Three the Hard Way, I’m Gonna Git You Sucker, Super Fly, Firehouse, The Lazarus Syndrome 1953 - Tracy Scoggins actress: Lois and Clark - The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys, Alien Intruder, Dead On, The Gumshoe Kid 1953 - Charlie Tickner figure skater: Ice Capades, bronze medalist: Winter Olympics [1980]; U.S. Champion [1977, 1978, 1979, 1980] 1954 - Chris Noth actor: Law & Order, Burnzy’s Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom, Sex and the City 1955 - Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson) Academy Award-winning actress: Ghost [1990]; The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi; Grammy Award-winning comedienne: Whoopi Goldberg [1985] 1959 - Caroline Goodall actress: Schindler’s List, Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, Hook, Cliffhanger, The Princess Diaries 1963 - Vinny Testaverde football: QB: University of Miami [Heisman Trophy winner: 1986]; Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens 1968 - Steve Zahn actor: Bye Bye Birdie, Sophistry, Reality Bites, Crimson Tide, That Thing You Do!, From the Earth to the Moon, You’ve Got Mail, Chain of Fools, Dr. Dolittle 2, Riding in Cars with Boys Chart Toppers November 13th. 1944 Dance with the Dolly - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings) I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore The Trolley Song - The Pied Pipers Smoke on the Water - Red Foley 1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford Wish You Were Here - Eddie Fisher Because You’re Mine - Mario Lanza Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams 1960 Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky 1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes I Walk Alone - Marty Robbins 1976 Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot Love So Right - Bee Gees Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) - Loretta Lynn 1984 Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham! I’ve Been Around Enough to Know - John Schneider Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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11-16-2008, 12:05 PM
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 SIXTEEN TONS DAY.  ‘Tennessee’ Ernie Ford drove to the top spot on the record charts on this day in 1955. Sixteen Tons, where he owed his “soul to the company store,” became the fastest-selling record in history, jumping to #1 in just 3 weeks. The tune, on Capitol Records, stayed at #1 for eight weeks. Ernie (bless his little pea-pickin’ heart) Ford is known for other classics, including: Mule Train (1949), The Shotgun Boogie (1950), The Cry of the Wild Goose (1950), I’ll Never Be Free (w/Kay Starr - 1950), Mr. and Mississippi (1951) and The Ballad of Davy Crockett (1955). Ford was also famous for his religious albums, his NBC-TV show (1956-1961), and his many other television appearances. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1960. But, we remember him most fondly for that 1955 smash about work, work, work: “You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...” ‘Tennessee’ Ernie Ford. Events November 16th. 1864 - To celebrate General Sherman’s march to the sea, Henry Clay wrote the song, Marching Through Georgia. 1875 - Dr. William G. Arlington Bonwill of Philadelphia, PA applied for a patent for his dental mallet used to impact gold into cavities. Noting the new invention, Bonwill’s first patient was reported to have said, “YeeeeeeeeOWWWWWWW!!!!” when the mallet hit the exposed nerve of a tooth. Dr. Bonwill replied with the well-known comeback line, “Oops!” 1901 - Henry Fournier drove a mile in 51 4/5 seconds, becoming the first auto racer to drive more than a mile-a-minute in competition -- in Brooklyn, NY. 1907 - Oklahoma, the Sooner State, was the 46th state to enter the United States of America. The word, Oklahoma, is a combination of two Choctaw words meaning red people. Then, why Sooner? Many, many Oklahoma homesteaders thought sooner was better than later, better to stake their homesteads first, before it was legal to do so. Oil wells pop up all over the Oklahoma landscape, even in the bustling state capital, Oklahoma City. And, when that wind comes sweeping down the plain, it picks up the state bird, the scissor-tail flycatcher, and spreads the parasitic state flower, the mistletoe. 1908 - Conductor Arturo Toscanini made his debut in the United States this day. He appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, conducting Aida. 1932 - The Palace in New York City closed its doors. It was the most famous vaudeville theatre in America. Later, it became a movie house with live performances preceding the flicks; most notably: the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in their heyday. 1935 - The Rodgers and Hart musical, Jumbo, opened in New York City for a run of 233 performances. 1937 - Bob Crosby and his orchestra recorded South Rampart Street Parade -- on Decca Records. 1958 - Six inches of snow fell on Tucson, Arizona, catching autumn golfers by surprise, to be sure... 1960 - The famed actor of the silver screen, Clark Gable, died at the age of 59. Gable, who played Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind and starred in so many other classic films, succumbed to a heart attack at 10:50 p.m. in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. 1967 - Retired harness racehorse Native Dancer died after stomach surgery in Philadelphia. 1970 - Anne Murray received a gold record for Snowbird. She was the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record. 1974 - NBC-TV began a two-night showing of the award-winning motion picture, The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando. The film represented the highest price paid for a movie shown on TV. NBC paid Paramount Pictures $10 million for the showing of the picture, a deal Paramount “...just couldn’t refuse.” 1975 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushed for 105 yards in a game against the San Francisco 49ers. It was Payton’s first game of 100 plus yards. He did it over 50 times throughout his career and added two 200-yard games, as well. 1982 - The 57-day strike by players in the National Football League ended. It was the first regular-season pro-football strike in the history of the NFL. 1986 - Gerber Products announced intentions to produce baby food in plastic jars, instead of glass -- a first for the industry. 1986 - The first comic miniseries was presented. Fresno poked fun at soap operas -- on CBS-TV. 1998 - TIME magazine (cover date Nov 16) reported in depth on Newt Gingrich’s resignation as Speaker of the U.S. House of Reprenstatives: Fall of the house of Newt, “An election shock ignites a Republican revolt: Gingrich is only the first victim in the growing fight for the party’s future.” Birthdays November 16th. 1873 - W.C. (William Christopher) Handy composer: ‘Father of the Blues’: St. Louis Blues; died Mar 28, 1958 1889 - George S. (Simon) Kaufman playwright: The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can’t Take It with You; died June 2, 1961 1895 - Paul Hindemith composer: Gebrauchsmusik; operas: Cardillac, Matthias the Painter; concertmaster: Frankfurt Opera; conductor & viola soloist: Amar-Hindemith String Quartet; organized Turkey’s symphony orchestra; teacher: Berlin Conservatory, Yale University, University of Zurich; died Dec 28, 1963 1905 - Albert ‘Eddie’ Condon musician: guitar, bandleader, promoter of Dixieland Jazz; died Aug 4, 1973 1909 - (Oliver) Burgess Meredith Emmy Award-winning actor: The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe [2-6-77], Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm’s Way, Of Mice and Men; TV host: Those Amazing Animals; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir; died Sep 9, 1997 1922 - Royal Dano actor: Mr. Lincoln, Ghoulies 2, The Red Badge of Courage, Huckleberry Finn, The Right Stuff, Johnny Guitar, The Trouble with Harry; died May 15, 1994 1931 - Bob Gibson singer, songwriter, leader of folk music movement in late ’50s: John Riley, Old Blue, Daddy Roll ’Em, Wayfaring Stranger; duo: Gibson and [Bob] Camp; died Sep 27, 1996 1932 - Harry Chiti baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs, KC Athletics, Detroit Tigers, NY Mets; died Jan 31, 2002 1934 - Guy Stockwell actor: The Richard Boone Show, Beau Geste, Return to Peyton Place, Airport 1975, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College; brother of actor Dean Stockwell; died Feb 6, 2002 1935 - Elizabeth Drew journalist, author: On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency, Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House, Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America 1935 - Clu Gulager actor: The Killing Device, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Return of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Kenny Rogers as the Gambler series, Force of One, The Other Side of Midnight, Smile Jenny You’re Dead, The Last Picture Show, The Killers, The Virginian, The Tall Man, The Survivors, San Francisco International Airport 1942 - Joanna Pettet actress: Best Sellers, Casino Royale, Double Exposure, Captains and the Kings, Knots Landing 1945 - Martine Van Hamel ballet: American Ballet Theatre 1946 - Jo Jo (Joseph) White basketball: Boston Celtics: MVP 1976 playoffs 1950 - David Leisure actor: Empty Nest 1950 - Harvey Martin football: Dallas Cowboys DE: Super Bowls X, XII, XIII; died Dec 24, 2001 1951 - Herb Washington world indoor track records: 50 and 60-yard dashes: 5.0 and 5.8 seconds; baseball: Oakland A’s 1952 - Glenn (Lawrence) Burke baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977], Oakland Athletics; died May 30, 1995 1958 - Marg Helgenberger actress: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Ryan’s Hope, China Beach, Through the Eyes of a Killer, Fallen Angels, Fire Down Below, Gold Coast, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town 1959 - Larry Mize golf champion: Masters [1987] 1959 - Corey Pavin golf: 14 PGA Tour victories; U.S. national teams: Walker Cup [1981]; USA vs. Japan [1982]; Nissan Cup [1985]; Ryder Cup [3: 1991, 1993, 1995]; The Presidents Cup 2: 1994, 1996 1963 - Zina Garrison tennis: Olympic Gold Medalist [Seoul, 1988, w/Pam Shriver]; founder: Zina Garrison All-Court Tennis Academy [for inner city youth, Houston] 1964 - Dwight ‘Doc’ (Eugene) Gooden baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [Rookie of the Year: 1984/all-star: 1984-1986, 1988/Cy Young Award: 1985/World Series: 1986], NY Yankees 1966 - Dean McDermott actor: Earth : Final Conflict, La Femme Nikita, Spenser : Small Vices, The Outer Limits, Rookies, Due South, Power Play, Brian’s Song 1967 - Lisa Bonet actress: The Cosby Show, A Different World, Angel Heart, Bank Robber 1970 - Martha Plimpton actress: The Goonies, Parenthood, The Mosquito Coast Chart Toppers November 16th. 1947 I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Vaughn Monroe Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm) You Do - Dinah Shore I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold 1955 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams Only You - The Platters Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce 1963 Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens Washington Square - The Village Stompers I’m Leaving It Up to You - Dale & Grace Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens 1971 Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves - Cher Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes Imagine - John Lennon Plastic Ono Band Lead Me On - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn 1979 Heartache Tonight - Eagles Dim All the Lights - Donna Summer Still - Commodores You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers 1987 I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes Maybe Your Baby’s Got the Blues - The Judds Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Monday, November 17, 2008 SUEZ CANAL DAY. Over the years, a lot of squabbling has gone on over a 100-mile (160 kilometers) ditch called the Suez Canal. Formally opened on this day in 1869, the canal connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas, eliminating a 4000-mile trip around Africa. The canal first belonged to France, then to Great Britain and then Egypt. Because of the single direction of the wind in the Suez area and the narrowness of the canal, sailing ships had a hard time navigating and were eventually taken out of service in the British fleets - never to return. They were replaced by steamships. The building of the Suez Canal not only eliminated the African route, it eliminated a whole nautical tradition of sailing that had been a part of society for nearly 4800 years. The Suez Canal has played a major wartime role. It was blockaded (by Britain) in World War I to keep enemy ships from using the waterway. Axis ships were denied use of the canal in World War II; then in 1950, because of the Arab-Israeli war, Egypt banned Israeli ships from the canal. During the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, it was blocked once again, this time by sunken ships; and didn’t reopen until 1975. Since 1956, when Egypt seized control and claimed the sovereign right to govern its use, the Suez canal has been a national treasure to the Egyptian people -- earning the country millions of dollars daily. Suez Canal. And, Suez Canal . Events November 17th. 1558 - Elizabeth I became Queen of England upon the death of Queen Mary this day. ‘Good Queen Bess’ ruled Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1558 to 1603 and during her reign, England became a world power. 1877 - The first production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera, The Sorcerer, was presented -- in London. 1851 - The U.S. Post Office issued a 1-cent carrier stamp to make it easier to pay fees for delivering and collecting letters. It was the first postage stamp to depict an American eagle; and the last to make it easier to pay the fees. 1891 - Poland’s premier and premier ivory tickler, Ignace Jan Paderewski, made his American debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In later years, Paderewski, who suffered from arthritis, settled in Paso Robles, CA. The hot mineral baths located there eased his pain. He played only Steinway grand pianos custom-built to his specifications. In fact, five were made just for his use. 1938 - Orchestra leader Kay Kyser, speaking to an audience at the College of the City of New York (CCNY) told of the “inner workings and artistic features of swing music.” It marked the first of a series of lectures on swing music presented by Kyser, who went on to present The Kollege of Musical Knowledge on radio. 1950 - Roberta Peters filled in for the lead in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, making her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She would become one of the Met’s most famous stars. 1954 - Golfer Arnold Palmer signed a contract with Wilson Sporting Goods and became a pro. 1962 - The 4 Seasons, with Frankie Valli as lead singer, began a five-week run at the top of the tunedex with Big Girls Don’t Cry. 1966 - Woody Allen’s first play, Don’t Drink the Water, opened on Broadway. 1968 - The ‘Heidi Game’ happened on TV. The New York Jets/Oakland Raiders football game was cut off to begin a family show (Heidi) on NBC. The TV audience missed Oakland’s two touchdowns (in nine seconds) to win the game 43-32. NBC was flooded with calls and the concept of program delay was instituted immediately by the networks. 1970 - Elton John recorded an album live, on what was WABC-FM in New York City. It marked the first time that a concert was aired live and recorded for release as aired. The LP was titled, 11/17/70. 1980 - Roger Mudd began working as chief Washington correspondent for NBC. Mudd had left CBS after being passed over as Walter Cronkite’s replacement on The CBS Evening News. 1981 - Luke Spencer married Laura Baldwin in what was called “the wedding of the year” on the TV serial General Hospital. An audience of 14 million viewers watched as vows were exchanged on the ABC program. 1986 - Racecar driver Rick Mears set a U.S. closed-course record at the Michigan International Speedway. Mears was timed at an average speed of 233.934 mph, breaking the record set by Mark Donahue in 1975. 1986 - The creator of the term ‘baby boomer’ released the first issue of the magazine Quality this day. Landon Jones subtitled his glossy effort, America’s Guide to Excellence. There was only one problem. Most of America wasn’t buying and Quality did not last very long on newsstands. 1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), by a vote of 234 to 200. The Senate voted 60 to 38 for approval of the legislation on November 20. The bill was signed into law by President Clinton on December 8, 1993. It took effect on January 1, 1994. Under NAFTA, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico become a single, integrated market with $6.5 trillion worth of goods and services annually. 1995 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: The American President (“Why can’t the most powerful man in the world have the one thing he wants most?”), with Michael Douglas, Annete Bening, Martin Sheen and Michael J. Fox; Goldeneye (“You know the name. You know the number.”), starring Pierce Brosnan for the first time as Bond ... James Bond; and It Takes Two (“Two identical strangers. Two different worlds. One perfect match.”), with Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg. 1997 - Mario Lemieux was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame. On Nov 19 Mario Lemieux’s number 66 wasretired in a ceremony at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. And, surprise, on Dec 27, 2000 Lemieux, part-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, became a player again. 2000 - It was opening day in the U.S. for these films: Bounce (“Two strangers fell in love. One knew it wasn’t by chance.”), starring Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tony Goldwyn; Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch!”), with Jim Carrey as the Grinch, Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who, Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier and Anthony Hopkins narrating; Rugrats in Paris - The Movie (“France never had a chance!”), starring the voices of Susan Sarandon, John Lithgow, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Curry and Casey Kasem; and The 6th Day (“They picked the wrong man to clone.”), with Arnold Schwarzenneger, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport and Robert Duvall. Birthdays November 17th. 1799 - Titian Ramsay Peale artist, naturalist: travelled with Wilkes Expedition to the South Pacific [1838-1842]; son of artist Charles Willson Peale; died in 1885 1887 - Field Marshal Bernard (Law) ‘Monty’ Montgomery British Army commander of ground forces at Normandy landing [1944]; British Eighth Army; died Mar 24, 1976 1901 - Lee Strasberg (Israel Strassberg) director; teacher of method acting at Actor’s Studio; died Feb 17, 1982 1905 - Mischa Auer (Ounskowsky) actor: My Man Godfrey, Brewster’s Millions, Destry Rides Again, You Can’t Take It with You; died Mar 5, 1967 1916 - Shelby Foote historian, writer: The Civil War 1925 - Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.) actor: McMillan and Wife, Giant, A Gathering of Eagles, Ice Station Zebra, Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk, Written on the Wind; died Oct 2, 1985 1930 - Bob Mathias Olympic & National Track & Field Hall of Famer: gold medalist decathlon [1948, 1952]; Sullivan Award; graced Wheaties boxes for years; Olympic torch lighter [1984]; U.S. congressman; played himself in The Bob Mathias Story; director: Olympic Training Center; died Sep 2, 2006 1933 - Orlando (Gregorio Quevara) Pena baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds, KC Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals, California Angels 1936 - Gary Bell baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1960, 1966], Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967/all-star: 1968], Chicago White Sox, Seattle Pilots 1937 - Jim (James Thomas) Brewer baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966, 1974/all-star: 1973], California Angels; died Nov 16, 1987 1937 - Peter Cook actor: Beyond the Fringe, Beyond the Fringe ’64, Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe, Bedazzled, Monte Carlo or Bust; writer: Bedazzled; died Jan 9, 1995 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot singer: Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; songwriter: Early Morning Rain, Ribbon of Darkness 1941 - Gene Clark singer, musician: guitar: group: The Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn; New Christy Minstrels; died May 24, 1991 1942 - Bob Gaudio singer: group: The Royal Teens: Short Shorts; The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll 1942 - Martin Scorsese director: Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear, Michael Jackson’s Bad video 1943 - Lauren Hutton actress: American Gigolo, Lassiter, Paper Lion 1944 - Danny DeVito Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1980-81]; Twins, Batman Returns, Hoffa, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment, director: Throw Mama from the Train, The War of the Roses, Jack the Bear; married to actress Rhea Perlman 1944 - Lorne Michaels Emmy Award-winning writer: The Paul Simon Special [1977], Saturday Night Live [1976, 1977, 1989], Lily [1974]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Three Amigos; Emmy Award-winning producer: Saturday Night Live [1976, 1993, 2002]; Sunday Night, The New Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Stuart Saves His Family, Lassie, The Coneheads, Wayne’s World series, Three Amigos 1944 - Tom ‘Terrific’ (George Thomas) Seaver Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Mets [World Series 1969, 1973/all-star: 1967-1973, 1975, 1976/Cy Young Award: 1969, 1973, 1975], Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1977, 1978, 1981], Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox; broadcaster: Reds, Mets, ABC 1945 - Elvin Hayes Basketball Hall of Famer: ‘The Big E’: San Diego/Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets; 5th on list of most games played in ABA/NBA; University of Houston, All America [1967, 1968] 1946 - Martin Barre musician: guitar: Jethro Tull: Living in the Past 1948 - Herman Weaver football: kicker: Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks 1950 - Roland Matthes swimmer: Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 and 200 meter backstroke [1968, 1972] 1951 - Charlie Davis football: Pittsburgh Steelers DT [Super Bowl IX], SL Cardinals, Houston Oilers 1955 - Yolanda King actress: Ghosts of Mississippi, America’s Dream, The Secret Path, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio actress: The Color of Money, The Abyss, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Class Action, Consenting Adults, Scarface 1959 - William R. Moses actor: Perry Mason, Falcon Crest, Mystic Pizza, Trial by Jury, The Perfect Wife 1962 - Eric Olson actor: Apple’s Way, Swiss Family Robinson 1966 - Daisy Fuentes model: Revlon; TV host: MTV VJ; actress: Loving, America’s Funniest Home Videos 1966 - Sophie Marceau (Maupu) actress: La Boum, Pacific Palisades, Braveheart, The World is Not Enough, A Midsummer Night's Dream 1967 - Ronnie DeVoe singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe Chart Toppers November 17th. 1948 Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Jimmy Wakely 1956 Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley The Green Door - Jim Lowe Singing the Blues - Guy Mitchell Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins 1964 Baby Love - The Supremes Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las Come a Little Bit Closer - Jay & The Americans I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens 1972 I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash I’d Love You to Want Me - Lobo I’ll Be Around - Spinners My Man - Tammy Wynette 1980 Lady - Kenny Rogers The Wanderer - Donna Summer Another One Bites the Dust - Queen Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray 1988 Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club The Loco-Motion - Kylie Minogue Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi Runaway Train - Rosanne Cash Those were the days, my friend. 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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 STEAMBOAT WILLIE DAY.  On this day in 1928, Walt Disney debuted his talking, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theatre in New York. The short film featured a character who had been named Mortimer. Walt changed the name to Mickey Mouse. Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon with synchronized sound. And, for those of you who don’t remember, Steamboat Willie was in black and white. Disney’s first color cartoon wasn’t released for another four years. The star of the film has changed somewhat over the years; but Mickey Mouse is still with us, in cartoons, on TV, in books and even in his own stores. What a great success story, especially for a mouse! Steamboat Willie. Walt Disney. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon released. Events November 18th. 1307 - The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young son’s noggin is said to have taken place on this day. The story is of either Swiss, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, or Persian origin. In other words, Who knows? 1626 - St. Peter’s Basilica was dedicated in Rome by Urban VIII. 1894 - The New York World published the first colored Sunday comic. 1919 - One of the first ticker-tape parades was held -- to welcome the Prince of Wales to New York City. Ticker tape came from Wall Street, you know. Rolls of paper were used to record stock trades long before computers were invented. As the paper rolled over pins that punched stock information read by stock brokers, it would leave holes. When a big parade was organized, the shredded tape was scooped up and thrown out of windows on the marchers below. We now call the stuff confetti, since ticker tape isn’t used anymore. 1932 - For the first time, a tie occurred for the Best Actor Academy Award. Wallace Beery and Fredric March were only one vote apart so the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled it a tie. Both received an Oscar at the Fifth Annual Academy Awards, March for his performance in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beery for his role in The Champ. March thought it rather funny that the two were honored for ‘best male performance of the year’ when they each had adopted a child that year. The Champ also was honored when Frances Marion received the Writing/Original Story Academy Award for the film. There was only one Best Actress Award and it was presented to Helen Hayes for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Host Lionel Barrymore greeted the film industry this night in the Fiesta Room at LA’s grand hotel, The Ambassador. The movie, Grand Hotel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), earned the top honors as Outstanding Production. It was also a grand night for the film, Bad Girl. Its director, Frank Borzage, and its writer (adaptation), Edwin Burke, were both presented with Academy Awards. Walt Disney also received two awards: an honorary award for the creation of Mickey Mouse and for the cartoon short subject, Flowers and Trees. Short Subject awards were presented to two other well-known Hollywood talents on this evening. Hal Roach won his prize for the comedy, The Music Box and Mack Sennett for the novelty short, Wrestling Swordfish. Both were first-time Academy Award winners as were Gordon Wiles for Art Direction (Transatlantic) and Lee Garmes for Cinematography (Shanghai Express). A grand night was had by all. 1942 - Thornton Wilder’s play, The Skin of Our Teeth, opened in New York City. The play was Wilder’s sequel to Our Town. The Skin of Our Teeth starred Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Montgomery Clift and E.G. Marshall. One critic wrote, “As of last evening, the theatre was looking up.” 1949 - Alben W. Barkley married Jane Rucker Hadley in St. Louis. It was the first time a U.S. Vice President married while in office. 1951 - On this, a Sunday afternoon, Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly launched one of the most highly-praised TV productions in history. See It Now debuted on CBS. On that first program, Murrow showed a live camera shot of the Atlantic Ocean, followed by a live shot of the Pacific, then he said, “We are impressed by a medium through which a man sitting in his living room has been able to look at two oceans at once.” In April of 1952, See It Now moved into an evening time slot. 1967 - Lulu’s To Sir with Love, from the movie of the same name, started its fifth and final week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (November 3, 1948). She changed her name to Lulu (and The Luvvers) in Scotland, early in her career. 1970 - Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling declared that large doses ofVitamin C could ward off the common cold. 1975 - John Denver received a gold record for I’m Sorry. 1978 - The worst case of murder-suicide in history took place in Jonestown, Guyana. Religious-cult leader Jim Jones (Peoples Temple) directed the ingestion of Kool-Aid (laced with cyanide) by at least 900 of his followers. He and his mistress then followed suit. Earlier in the day, Jones had directed the murder of California Congressman Leo J. Ryan, three newspeople and several ‘defectors’. Ryan, on a fact-finding tour of Jonestown, was boarding a privated airplan with the small group when they were shot down. 1986 - For the first time since his departure from his own late-night TV show, Jack Paar was a guest of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. One of TV’s great lines came from the show, when Carson quipped (after one of Paar’s long, long spiels), “Why is it that I feel I’m guesting on your show?” 1986 - Roger Clemens was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player. He was the first American League starter to be so named in 15 years. The Boston Red Sox hurler won the honor one week after earning the Cy Young Award. 1995 - Tha Dogg Pound’s album Dogg Food hit #1 in the U.S. for one week. The tracks were: Intro, Dogg Pound Gangstaz, Respect, New York, New York (Tha Night I Served 2,000 M.C.s), Smooth, Cyco-Lic-No (***** Azz Niggaz) Ridin’, Slipin’ and Slidin’, U Can’t See Me, Big Pimpin 2, Let’s Play House, I Don’t Like to Dream About Gettin Paid, Do What I Feel, If We All Fuc*, Some Bomb Azz *****, A Dogg’z Day Afternoon, Reality, "One By One (Subtracting Sucka Azz Niggaz from the Face of the Earth)", Sooo Much Style. This album will make the perfect gift for grandma this Christmas. 1997 - Two Willem de Kooning paintings topped the lots at Christie’s blue-chip contemporary sale in New York City. Two Standing Women (1949), sold for $4,182,500 and Woman (Blue Eyes) (1953), which went for about $2 million. 1997 - The Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays begin taking shape with 35 selections apiece in baseball’s expansion draft. Both the Diamondbacks and Devil Rays began their baseball lives with sufficient funds to contend quickly. Birthdays November 18th. 1786 - Carl Weber composer: Der Freischutz, Euryanthem Oberon, Invitation to the Dance; began the era of German romantic music; died June 5, 1826 1787 - Louis Daguerre theater scene painter, physicist, inventor: daguerreotype photographic process; died in 1851 1836 - Sir William Gilbert comic opera libretto writer: team: Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance; died May 29, 1911 1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci opera soprano: “If not the greatest coloratura soprano of all time, she must surely be recognized as among the world’s finest examples of true operatic artistry.”; died Nov 26, 1963 1899 - Eugene Ormandy (Jeno Blau) conductor: The Philadelphia Orchestra; died Mar 12, 1985 1901 - George (Horace) Gallup pollster whose opinion polls became famous by predicting FDR’s win in 1936; died in 1984; died July 26, 1984 1901 - Craig Wood golf champion: PGA Hall of Famer: Masters [1941], U.S. Open [1941: he had entered 15 times before the win]; died May 7, 1968 1908 - Imogene Coca Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Your Show of Shows [1951]; Sid Caesar Invites You, It’s about Time, Grindl, Admiral Broadway Revue, National Lampoon’s Vacation; died June 2, 2001 1909 - Johnny (John Herndon) Mercer Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962]; Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hooray for Hollywood, Jeepers Creepers, I’m An Old Cowhand, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs; died June 25, 1976 1919 - Jocelyn Brando actress: A Question of Love, The Big Heat; Sister of Marlon Brando; died Nov 27, 2005 1923 - Alan Shepard Jr. astronaut: first American in space; died July 21, 1998 1925 - Gene (William) ‘Skip’ Mauch baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, SL Cardinals, Boston Red Sox; manager: Philadelphia Phillies, LA Angels; died Aug 8, 2005 1926 - Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) singer: My Boy Flattop, Your Hit Parade, sang with Benny Goodman band; actress: Follies; died July 21, 1994 1926 - Roy (Roy Edward) ‘Squirrel’ Sievers baseball: SL Browns: [Rookie of the Year: 1949], Washington Nationals [all-star: 1956], Washington Senators [all-star: 1957, 1959], Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1961], Philadelphia Phillies 1931 - Roberto Goizueta businessman: CEO of Coca-Cola Company; died Oct 18, 1997 1936 - Hank Ballard Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, songwriter: group: The Midnighters: The Twist, Finger Poppin’ Time, Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Work with Me Annie, Sexy Ways, Annie Had a Baby 1939 - Margaret Atwood author: Cat’s Eye, Dancing Girls & Other Stories, The Handmaid’s Tale 1939 - Brenda Vaccaro Emmy Award-winning actress: The Shape of Things [1973-74]; Once is Not Enough, Cactus Flower, The Goodbye People, How Now Dow Jones, Midnight Cowboy, Airport ’77, Ten Little Indians 1941 - Gary Bettenhausen auto racer: fastest Indy 500 qualifying time ever: 224.468 mph [1991] 1941 - David Hemmings actor: The Deadly Game, Islands in the Stream, The Old Curiosity Shop, Blow Up, Charge of the Light Brigade, Camelot, Barbarella, L.A. Law; died Dec 3, 2003 1942 - Linda Evans (Evanstad) actress: Dynasty, The Big Valley, Standing Tall, Hunter, North and South, Book II 1942 - Susan Sullivan actress: It’s a Living, Falcon Crest, Rich Man Poor Man Book II, Having Babies, The George Carlin Show, The Dark Ride, The Incredible Hulk, Deadman’s Curve; commercial spokesperson: Tylenol 1947 - Jameson Parker actor: Simon and Simon, Curse of the Crystal Eye, Prince of Darkness, American Justice, A Small Circle of Friends, The Gathering: Part 2, Anatomy of a Seduction 1948 - Andrea Marcovicci actress: Trapper John, M.D., Berrenger’s, Jack the Bear, The Water Engine, The Stuff, Kings and Desperate Men, The Concorde: Airport ’79, The Devil’s Web 1948 - Jack Tatum football [safety]: Oakland Raiders: longest fumble return in history: 104 yards [1972, against the Green Bay Packers]; Super Bowl XI 1950 - Graham Parker singer: group: Graham Parker and The Rumour: Between You and Me, Back to Schooldays, Hey Lord Don’t Ask Me Questions, Discovering Japan, Local Girls, Passion is No Ordinary Word, Stupefaction, The Beating of Another Heart; solo: LPs: Another Grey Area, The Real Macaw, Steady Nerves, The Mona Lisa’s Sister 1953 - Kevin Nealon actor: Saturday Night Live, All I Want for Christmas, Roxanne, Champs 1953 - Herman Rarebell musician: drums: group: Scorpions: LPs: Taken by Force, Tokyo Tapes, Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love at First Sting, World Wide Live 1956 - Warren Moon football: QB: Univ. of Washington [1978 Rose Bowl MVP]; Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, KC Chiefs 1960 - Elizabeth Perkins actress: Moonlight and Valentino, Miracle on 34th Street, The Flintstones, Indian Summer, He Said, She Said, Avalon, Big, About Last Night... 1960 - Kim Wilde singer: Kids in America, Rage to Love, You Keep Me Hangin’ On 1962 - Kirk Hammett musician: guitar: group: Metallica: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters 1968 - Gary (Antonian) Sheffield baseball: Milwaukee Brewers, SDiego Padres [all-star: 1992], Florida Marlins [all-star: 1993, 1996]; nephew of baseball all-star Dwight Gooden 1970 - Peta Wilson actress: La Femme Nikita, Naked Jane, Vanishing Point, Other People, Joe and Max Chart Toppers November 18th. 1949 That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer) I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard) Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely 1957 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley You Send Me - Sam Cooke Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers 1965 Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones 1-2-3 - Len Barry You’re the One - The Vogues Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright 1973 Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks Heartbeat - It’s a Lovebeat - The DeFranco Family Photograph - Ringo Starr Paper Roses - Marie Osmond 1981 Private Eyes - Daryl Hall & John Oates Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones Physical - Olivia Newton-John My Baby Thinks He’s a Train - Rosanne Cash 1989 When I See You Smile - Bad English Blame It on the Rain - Milli Vanilli Love Shack - The B-52’s Bayou Boys - Eddy Raven Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 GETTYSBURG ADDRESS DAY.  U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address on this day in 1863. The speech was considered so insignificant at the time that coverage was limited to the inside pages of the newspapers (page one coverage went to a speech by Edward Everett). In July of 1863, the fields outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania erupted into one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War between the states. The Union forces held their positions against Confederate advances. The Confederates, under Robert E. Lee, retreated to Virginia, ending their attempt to invade the North. The battle was the turning point of the war; the Confederates were never again able to mount a campaign into the North and were on the run. President Lincoln traveled to the site of the battle to designate it as a national cemetery. While on the train, he wrote his speech on a small piece of paper. Three minutes after he had begun to speak, Lincoln had finished what is now considered to be one of the greatest speeches in American history: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war - testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated - can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people - by the people - for the people - shall not perish from this earth.” Abraham Lincoln. The Gettysburg Address. Clicky. Events November 19th. 1895 - Frederick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia, PA patented what he called the paper pencil -- a paper-wrapped pencil with a string for revealing more lead, like those china markers you buy these days. 1928 - After five years of publication, TIME magazine presented a cover portrait for the first time. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was the magazine’s first cover subject. 1943 - Stan Kenton and his orchestra recorded Artistry in Rhythm, the song that later become the Kenton theme. It was Capitol record number 159. The other side of the disk was titled, Eager Beaver. 1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr. was involved in a serious auto accident in San Bernardino, CA. Three days later, Davis lost the sight in his left eye. He later referred to the accident as the turning point of his career. 1954 - Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. The nation’s first automatic toll collector accepted only correct change. One needed a quarter to activate the green light. 1959 - The last Edsel rolled off the assembly line. Ford Motor Company stopped production of the big flop after two years and a total of 110,847 cars. 1961 - A year after Chubby Checker reached the #1 spot with The Twist, the singer appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show to sing the song again. The Twist became the first record to reach #1 a second time around -- on January 13, 1962. 1962 - For the first time, a jazz concert was presented at the White House. Jazz had previously been served as background music only. 1966 - Six weeks before his 31st birthday, LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, plagued by arthritis, announced his retirement from baseball. Koufax compiled a 12-season record of 165 wins, 87 losses and 2,396 strikeouts. 1984 - 20-year-old Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest major-league pitcher to be named Rookie of the Year in the National League. The Mets pitcher led the majors with 276 strikeouts. 1986 - Philadelphia’s Mike Schmidt became only the third player in National League history to win the Most Valuable Player award three times. Roy Campanella of the Dodgers and Stan Musial of the Cardinals also won three National League MVP honors. 1994 - Nirvana’s album, MTV Unplugged in New York, was number one in the U.S. for the week. The album featured these tracks: About a Girl, Come as You Are, Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam, The Man Who Sold the World, Pennyroyal Tea, Dumb, Polly, On a Plain, Something in the Way, Plateau, Oh, Me, Lake of Fire, All Apologies and Where Did You Sleep Last Night. 1997 - The world’s first surviving septuplets were born by Cesarean section to Bobbi McCaughey of Carlisle, Iowa. She claimed her place in the record books by giving birth to septuplets: four boys (Kenneth, Brandon, Nathan and Joel) and three girls (Alexis, Natalie and Kelsey). The seven newcomers joined a family that already included one daughter, Mikayla. The infants ranged in weight from 2 pounds, 5 ounces to 3 pounds, 4 ounces and were born over a period of six minutes. The father was Kenny McCaughey, a billing clerk at a car dealership. 1999 - The films were new to U.S. theatres this day: Liberty Heights (“You’re only young once, but you remember forever.”), starring Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth and Joe Mantegna; Sleepy Hollow (“Close Your Eyes. Say Your Prayers. Sleep If You Can.”), with Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Miranda Richardson; and The World is Not Enough (“Bond is Back”), starring Pierce Brosnan as 007, Robert Carlyle, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane, Dame Judi Dench as M, Desmond Llewelyn as Q, John Cleese as R and Samantha Bond as Moneypenny. Birthdays November 19th. 1752 - George Rogers Clark American frontiersman, field commander: founded Louisville KY; brother of General William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1831 - James Garfield 20th U.S. President [1881], first left-handed president; married to Lucretia Rudolph [five sons, two daughters]; assassinated: shot July 2, 1881, died Sep 19, 1881 1905 - Tommy Dorsey musician: trombone, bandleader: ‘The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing’: I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, Treasure Island, The Music Goes Round and Round, Alone, You, Marie, Song of India, Who, Satan Takes a Holiday, The Big Apple, Once in a While, Music Maestro Please, Our Love, Indian Summer, All the Things You Are, There are Such Things, In the Blue of the Evening, Without a Song, I’ll Never Smile Again, Boogie Woogie; died Nov 26, 1956 1917 - Indira Gandhi (Nehru) Prime Minister of India [1966-1977 and 1980-84]; assassinated Oct 31, 1984 1919 - Alan Young actor: Mr. Ed, Emmy-Award winning show: The Alan Young Show [1950]; Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Time Machine; cartoon voice: Scrooge McDuck 1921 - Roy Campanella Baseball Hall of Fame catcher: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956/all-star: 1949-1956/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1951, 1953, 1955]; died June 26, 1993 1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick diplomat: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations [1981-1985], Presidential Medal of Freedom [1985] 1933 - Larry King (Zeiger) radio/TV talk-show host: Larry King Live 1935 - Jack Welch (John Francis Welch Jr.) chairman, CEO: General Electric Co. 1936 - Dick Cavett TV host: Emmy Award-winning show: The Dick Cavett Show 1936 - Ray Collins songwriter: Memories of El Monte [w/Frank Zappa for the Penguins] 1938 - Hank Medress singer: group: The Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Tonight I Fell in Love; record producer [w/Dave Appell]: In the Midnight Hour; executive: EMI Publishing Canada; died Jun 18, 2007 1938 - Ted Turner (Robert Edward Turner III) cable TV mogul: CNN, TBS, TNT, The Cartoon Network; owner: Atlanta Braves; TIME magazine’s Man of the Year [1991]; married actress Jane Fonda 1939 - Garrick Utley journalist: NBC News, NBC Magazine with David Brinkley; TV moderator: Meet the Press, First Tuesday 1941 - Dan Haggerty animal trainer, actor: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, The Adventures of Frontier Freemont 1942 - Calvin Klein fashion designer 1944 - Fred Lipsius musician: piano, sax: group: Blood Sweat & Tears: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel; LP: Child is Father to the Man 1947 - Bob (Robert Raymond) Boone baseball: catcher: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1976, 1978, 1979/World Series: 1980], California Angels [all-star: 1983], KC Royals; one of famous Baseball Boones [Bob; his father Ray; and his son Bret] 1947 - Mike Phipps football: Cleveland Browns QB 1949 - Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore) football: Univ. of Oregon, SL Cardinals, Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings; sportscaster: NBC 1951 - Wilbur Jackson football: Washington Redskins RB, Superbowl XVII 1953 - Richard Todd football: QB: Univ. of Alabama, NY Jets: most completions [42 in one NFL game: Jets vs. 49ers: 9/21/80] 1954 - Kathleen Quinlan actress: The Promise, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, American Graffiti, Airport ’77, Apollo 13, Family Law 1956 - Glynnis O’Connor actress: The Deliberate Stranger, Johnny Dangerously, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Sons and Daughters 1960 - Allison Janney Emmy Award-winning Supporting Actress: The West Wing [2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004]; The Guiding Light, Private Parts, Primary Colors, The Impostors, David and Lisa, Drop Dead Gorgeous, American Beauty 1961 - Meg Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra) actress: When a Man Loves a Woman, When Harry Met Sally, D.O.A., Sleepless in Seattle, Flesh and Bone, Top Gun, One of the Boys, Addicted to Love, City of Angels, You’ve Got Mail 1962 - Jodie (Alicia Christian) Foster Academy Award-winning actress: The Accused [1988], Silence of the Lambs [1991]; Mayberry R.F.D., Taxi Driver, Napoleon and Samantha, Sommersby, Paper Moon, Maverick; director: Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays 1963 - Terry Farrell actress: Becker, Beverly Hills Madam, Back to School, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Reasons of the Heart 1969 - Erika Alexander actress: The Cosby Show, Judging Amy, The Last Best Year, Fathers & Sons, Living Single Chart Toppers November 19th. 1950 Harbor Lights - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Tony Alamo) Goodnight Irene - The Weavers Thinking of You - Don Cherry I’m Moving On - Hank Snow 1958 Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio Topsy II - Cozy Cole Beep Beep - The Playmates City Lights - Ray Price 1966 You Keep Me Hangin’ On - The Supremes Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band I Get the Fever - Bill Anderson 1974 Whatever Gets You Thru the Night - John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Nuclear Band Do It (’Til You’re Satisfied) - B.T. Express My Melody of Love - Bobby Vinton Country Is - Tom T. Hall 1982 Up Where We Belong - Joe ****er & Jennifer Warnes Truly - Lionel Richie Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John Heartbroke - Ricky Skaggs 1990 Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey Pray - M.C. Hammer More Than Words Can Say - Alias You Really Had Me Going - Holly Dunn Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 HUBBLE DAY.  Edwin Powell Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri on this day in l889. We’re talking about the Rhodes Scholar Hubble who studied Roman and English Law at Queens College, Oxford and then practiced law for a year in Louisville, Kentucky. This is the same Hubble who said, “...[i] chucked the law for astronomy, and I knew that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered...” and then returned to his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Chicago, for postgraduate work leading to his doctoral degree in astronomy. Hubble worked at the Mount Wilson (California) Observatory where he proved the need for a telescope larger than the 100-inch reflector they were using at the time and assisted in the design of the 200-inch Hale telescope. “With the 200-inch,” he said in a BBC broadcast in London, “we may grasp what now we can scarcely brush with our fingertips.” “What do you expect to find with the 200-inch?” he was asked. Hubble’s reply, “We hope to find something we hadn’t expected.” Edwin Hubble’s discovery and development of the concept of an expanding universe has been described as the “most spectacular astronomical discovery of the twentieth century.” As a tribute to him, the Hubble Space Telescope bears his name. That telescope, with its 240-centimeter mirror, has allowed us to see farther into space than ever before. Edwin Powell Hubble. Useful Links. Events November 20th. 1866 - The rotary-crank bicycle was patented by Pierre Lallement in Paris, France. The bike, incidentally, was known as the bone shaker. 1919 - The first municipally-owned airport in the nation opened -- in Tucson, Arizona. The entire community turned out for the big celebration. 1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue radio network. Later, the title would be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a week. The program continued until 1945 (it returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg brought The Goldbergs to TV in 1949, entertaining audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, “Button up your neck. It’s cold outside.” 1929 - Leo Reisman and his orchestra recorded Happy Days are Here Again for Victor Records. The classic was recorded just three weeks after the stock market crash that plunged the nation into the Great Depression. Some people have a unique sense of timing, don’t they? 1931 - The first commercial teletype service was introduced by American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1947 - The first network presentation of Meet the Press aired on NBC-TV (consisting of two stations). The panel interview program became the longest-running series on network television. And it keeps on running and running and... 1947 - A royal wedding this day, as Princess Elizabeth (who would be Queen in four years) and Lt. Philip Mountbatten were married. 1959 - One of America’s great rock jocks was fired from WABC radio in New York. The ‘Moondoggy’ himself, Alan Freed, was axed in the midst of the payola music scandal. 1966 - Cabaret opened on Broadway for the first of 1,165 stellar performances. Joel Gray starred in the hugely successful musical that is an adaptation of both the play, I Am a Camera, and the novel, Goodbye to Berlin. 1969 - Soccer star Pelé collected his 1,000th career goal -- in Rio de Janeiro. 1971 - Isaac Hayes of Memphis, TN got his first #1 hit as the Theme from Shaft began a two-week stay at the top of the charts. 1984 - “You deserve a break today...” by knowing that 35 years and 11 months after the very first McDonald’s hamburger was sold, the 50 billionth burger was made by Edward Rensi, president of Mickey D’s. The milestone was celebrated this day at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. 1984 - The largest crowd to see the unveiling of a Hollywood Walk-of-Fame star turned out as Michael Jackson got his piece of the sidewalk right in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. ‘The Gloved One’ became star number 1,793 on the famed walk. 1992 - Fire erupted at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth's official residence west of London, causing much damage. The queen and Prince Andrew pitched in to help save priceless artworks and other valuables housed in the fortress. The fire burned for 15 hours damaging or destroying nine principal rooms and over a hundred other rooms. It took a million and a half gallons of water to put out the blaze. The next five years would be spent restoring the Castle to its former glory. 1998 - It was movie debut day for: Woody Allen’s Celebrity, starring Hank Azaria, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo Dicaprio and Melanie Griffith; Enemy of the State (“It's Not Paranoia if They’re Really After You.”), starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight and Regina King; and the animated The Rugrats Movie (“An adventure for anyone that ever wore diapers.”), with the voices of David Spade, Whoopi Goldberg, Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugha and Cheryl Chase. Birthdays November 20th. 1841 - Sir Wilfred Laurier eighth Prime Minister of Canada [1896-1911]; died Feb 17, 1919 1858 - Selma Lagerlöf author: Gosta Berling’s Saga, Jerusalem, Christ Legends, The Wonderful World of Nils, Liljecrona’s Home, The Ring of the Lowenskolds; first woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature [1909]; died Mar 16, 1940 1889 - Edwin Powell Hubble astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research; died Sep 28, 1953; see Hubble Day [above] 1900 - Chester Gould cartoonist: Dick Tracy; died May 11, 1985 1908 - Sir Alistair Cooke author: America; Emmy Award-winning TV narrator/writer: America [1972-73], TV host: Masterpiece Theatre [1974-75]; Omnibus; 8th Annual ATAS Governor’s Award [1985]; died Mar 30, 2004 1913 - (Juliette) Judy Canova comedienne, actress: The Howdy Doody Show, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Oklahoma Annie; died Aug 5, 1983 1914 - Emilio Pucci (Marchese deBarsento) fashion designer; died Nov 29, 1992 1916 - Evelyn Keyes actress: Before I Hang, Gone with the Wind, The Jolson Story, The Seven Year Itch, Return to Salem’s Lot; author: autobiography: Scarlet O’Hara’s Younger Sister 1917 - Robert Byrd legislator: Democratic whip of U.S. Senate [1971] 1921 - Phyllis Thaxter actress: Three Sovereigns for Sarah, Superman: The Movie, Jim Thorpe: All American, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1923 - Nadine Gordimer writer: July’s People, Lifetimes Under Apartheid; won Nobel Prize in Literature [1991]) 1925 - Kaye Ballard (Catherine Balotta) actress, comedienne: What a Dummy, The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, The Perry Como Show, The Mothers-in-Law, Henry Morgan’s Great Talent Hunt, The Doris Day Show 1925 - June Christy (Shirley Luster) singer: My Heart Belongs to Only You; sang with Stan Kenton band; died June 21, 1990 1925 - Robert F. (Francis) Kennedy U.S. Attorney General under brother President John F. Kennedy; U.S. Senator [from New York]; shot by Sirhan Sirhan June 5, 1968, passed away June 6, 1968 1927 - Estelle Parsons Academy Award-winning actress: Bonnie and Clyde; Dick Tracy, For Pete’s Sake, Don’t Drink the Water, Roseanne, Backstairs at the White House 1928 - Rex Reason actor: Band of Angels, This Island Earth, The Roaring Twenties, Man Without a Gun 1932 - Richard Dawson actor: Hogan’s Heroes, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Running Man, The Devil’s Brigade; TV host: Family “Survey says!” Feud; panelist: I’ve Got a Secret 1939 - Dick Smothers comedian: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Smothers Brothers Show, The Steve Allen Show; actor: Speed Zone, Tales of the Unexpected 1940 - Tony Butala singer: group: The Lettermen: When I Fall in Love, Goin’ Out of My Head, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You 1942 - Norman Greenbaum singer: Spirit in the Sky, The Eggplant That Ate Chicago 1943 - Veronica Hamel actress: Hill Street Blues, Taking Care of Business, The Gathering series, Cannonball 1945 - Jay (John William) Johnstone baseball: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees [World Series: 1978], SD Padres, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1981], Chicago Cubs 1945 - Rick (Robert James) Monday baseball: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics [all-star: 1968], Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977, 1978, 1981/all-star: 1978]; broadcaster 1946 - (Howard) Duane Allman musician: lead guitar: group: Allman Brothers Band; killed in motorcycle crash in Macon GA Oct 29, 1971 1946 - Ray Stiles musician: bass, singer: group: Mud: The Cat Crept In, Crazy, Myna-Mite, L-L-Lucy, Lean on Me, Lonely This Christmas, Moonshine Sally, Oh Boy, Rocket, The Secrets That You Keep, Shake It Down, Show Me You’re a Woman, Tiger Feet; The Hollies 1946 - Judy Woodruff TV news anchor/host: PBS: Frontline, CNN 1947 - Joe Walsh musician: guitar, singer: groups: James Gang; The Eagles: Hotel California, New Kid in Town, In the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Life’s Been Good, A Life of Illusion, All Night Long 1948 - Richard Masur actor: Hiroshima, The Man Without a Face, And the Band Played On, Stephen King’s It, Rent-A-Cop, Heartburn, The Burning Bed, Under Fire, Risky Business, The Thing, East of Eden, Who’ll Stop the Rain, Semi-Tough, Picket Fences, Hot L Baltimore, One Day at a Time 1952 - John Van Boxmeer hockey: Nova-Scotia Voyageurs, Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Rockies, Buffalo Sabres, Fredericton Express, Quebec Nordiques, Rochester Americans 1956 - Bo Derek (Mary Cathleen Collins) actress: 10, Bolero, A Change of Season, Tarzan, the Ape Man, Ghosts Can’t Do It, Shattered Image; married to producer/director John Derek 1956 - Mark (Marcus) Gastineau football: NY Jets defensive end: AFC Defensive Player of the Year [1984] 1957 - Jimmy Brown musician: drums: group: UB40: King, Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking, I Think It’s Going to Rain, Dream a Lie, The Earth Dies Screaming, If It Happens Again, Red Red Wine, Don’t Break My Heart, Sing Our Own Song, Amandla Awethu [The Power is Ours] 1959 - Sean Young actress: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Fatal Instinct, Cousins, Blade Runner, No Way Out 1963 - Ming-Na actrees: The Joy Luck Club, ER, The Single Guy, One Night Stand, Mulan, Teddy Bears’ Picnic 1965 - Mike D (Diamond) rap singer: group: The Beastie Boys: No Sleep Till Brooklyn, She’s On It, [You Gotta] Fight for Your Right [To Party] Chart Toppers November 20th. 1951 Sin (It’s No) - Eddy Howard Because of You - Tony Bennett Down Yonder - Del Wood Slow Poke - Pee Wee King 1959 Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods Don’t You Know - Della Reese Heartaches by the Number - Guy Mitchell Country Girl - Faron Young 1967 To Sir with Love - Lulu Soul Man - Sam & Dave Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock It’s the Little Things - Sonny James 1975 Island Girl - Elton John Who Loves You - Four Seasons That’s the Way (I like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way - Waylon Jennings 1983 All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson Uptown Girl - Billy Joel One of a Kind Pair of Fools - Barbara Mandrell 1991 Cream - Prince & The N.P.G. Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams When a Man Loves a Woman - Michael Bolton Shameless - Garth Brooks Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Friday, November 21, 2008 WORLD HELLO DAY.  Here’s one event that you can participate in without it costing you a dime or even one red cent. It’s easy, and it’s good for everyone. What could possibly be so wonderful? World Hello Day, that’s what. This friendly annual event began on this day in 1972 and has grown enormously since. People in 180 countries have participated and the heads of state of 114 countries have given their approval. Now here’s what you do to participate: you just say, “hello” to ten people on this day. Greet them warmly and with a smile. And you can say, “hello” in any language. The reason: World Hello Day will put us all one step further ahead in the attempt to advance world peace through personal communication. Say Hello to the World. WORLD HELLO DAY. Events November 21st. 1783 - Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis Francois Laurant d’Arlandes made the first flight in a balloon, thus becoming the first men to fly - period. The pair flew nearly six miles around Paris in 25 minutes reaching an altitude of around 300 feet. Ben Franklin was one of the spectators at the big event. The flight came less than six months after the first (unmanned) public balloon demonstration. 1789 - The 12th of the 13 original colonies to become the United States of America, did so on this day. North Carolina or the Tar Heel State, boasts the brilliant red cardinal as its state bird, the graceful dogwood as its state flower, and lays claim to being the nation’s largest producer of tobacco and textiles. Raleigh is the state capital. 1871 - The cigar lighter was patented by Moses F. Gale of New York City. 1877 - Thomas A. Edison, who really dug the jazz he heard coming from his newest invention, told those gathered that he just invented the ‘talking machine’ (phonograph). On February 19, 1878, Edison received a patent for the device and was enrolled as a charter member of the Columbia House Record Club where he received his first 10 selections free -- with only six selections purchased at regular prices over the next three years... 1925 - Harold ‘Red’ Grange played his last game for the University of Illinois. The next day he joined the Chicago Bears. Two months later, Grange was so famous that he was offered $120,000 and a real estate company. 1934 - Cole Porter’s Anything Goes opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York City. The show ran for 420 performances. 1937 - Following Carnegie Hall performances in both 1906 and 1919, Artur Rubinstein presented another historic and highly acclaimed performance at the arts center this day. 1938 - WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school-operated radio station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC. WBOE went on the air as a 500-watt AM station and later became an FM station. 1938 - The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an adventure-mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941. 1944 - “Happy trails to you, until we meet again....” The Roy Rogers Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along with Roy (‘The King of the Cowboys’), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons of the Pioneers. 1944 - I’m Beginning to See the Light, the song that would become the theme song for Harry James and his orchestra, was recorded this day. The song featured the lovely voice of Kitty Kallen (Little Things Mean a Lot). 1955 - The first lady of the American stage, Helen Hayes, was honored for her many remarkable years in show business, as the Fulton Theatre in New York City was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. 1959 - Following his firing from WABC Radio in New York the day before, Alan Freed refused “on principle” to sign a statement that he never received money or gifts (payola) for plugging records. Incidentally, few may remember, but Freed left WABC while he was on the air. He was replaced in mid-record by Fred Robbins, who later became a nationally-known entertainment reporter for Mutual Radio. 1964 - The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. Actually, the upper deck was opened to traffic on this day. The bridge, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, was the world’s longest suspension bridge at 4,260 ft. 1980 - The largest TV audience ever, an estimated 82 million people, watched as Sue Ellen’s sister, Kristin Shepard, shot J.R. Ewing on Dallas. The jilted mistress was seen holding the smoking gun after a summer of viewers asking that haunting question, “Who Shot J.R.?” Eighty percent of all viewers watched the show. 1981 - Olivia Newton-John started the first of 10 weeks at the top of the pop music charts when Physical became the music world’s top tune. 1995 - The Beatles’ Anthology I sold 450,000 copies in its first day of release. Acording to Capitol Records, it was the most single-day sales ever for an album. Yeah, yeah, yeah... 1997 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Anastasia (the lost Russian Princess Anastasia and her quest to find her true identity), starring Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst and Angela Lansbury; The Rainmaker (young lawyer and cynical partner take on powerful law firm representing a corrupt insurance company), with Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny Devito and Danny Glover; and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (set in Savannah GA amid beautiful architecture and odd doings), starring Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jack Thompson, Lady Chablis, Alison Eastwood, Irma P. Hall, Paul Hipp and Jude Law. Birthdays November 21st. 1694 - Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire) author, philosopher; died May 30, 1778 1854 - Giacomo della Chiesa Pope Benedict XV: 258th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1914-1922]; died Jan 22, 1922 1897 - ‘Handy’ Andy (Andrew Aird) High baseball: Brooklyn Robins, Boston Braves, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1928, 1930, 1931], Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies; died Feb 22, 1981 1904 - Coleman Hawkins musician: tenor saxophone: solo w/Fletcher Henderson band: The Stampede, St. Louis Shuffle, Queer Notions, Hocus Pocus; jazz bandleader: Body and Soul; jazz sax solo: Picasso; died May 19, 1969 1907 - Jim Bishop newspaper columnist, author: The Day Christ Died, The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Day Kennedy Was Shot; died July 26, 1987 1908 - Paul (Rapier) Richards baseball: catcher: Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1945]; Manager: Chicago White 1951-61, 1976 Orioles; died May 4, 1986 1916 - Sid Luckman Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears quarterback: 4 NFL Championships, MVP [1943]; shares NFL individual record for touchdowns thrown in a game [7, Nov. 14, 1943]; died July 5, 1998 1920 - Stan ‘The Man’ (Stanley Frank) Musial Baseball Hall of Famer: SL Cardinals outfielder, first baseman [World Series: 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946/all-star: 1943, 1944, 1946-1963/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1946, 1948]; topped .300 mark 18 times, won seven N.L. batting titles with his famed corkscrew stance and ringing line drives; 3-time MVP played in 24 All-Star games; nicknamed ‘The Man’ by Dodger fans for the havoc he wrought at Ebbets Field 1921 - Vivian Blaine (Stapleton) actress: State Fair, Guys and Dolls, Those Two; died Dec 9, 1995 1927 - Joseph Campanella actor: Ben, Meteor, Original Intent, The President’s Plane is Missing, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Sky Hei$t, The Colbys, The Lawyers, The Nurses, Mannix; narrator: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau; host: Emergency Call 1931 - Jim Ringo Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers: All-Pro center [1957, 1959-1963], Philadelphia Eagles: center 1933 - Jean Shepard country singer: Satisfied Mind, Beautiful Lies, Slippin’ Away, Satin Sheets, w/Ferlin Husky: A Dear John Letter 1934 - Laurence Luckinbill Emmy Award-winning executive producer: Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie [1992-1993]; actor: Lyndon, Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier, Messenger of Death, ****tail, The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau 1936 - James DePreist orchestra leader: Oregon Symphony 1937 - Marlo (Margaret) Thomas Emmy Award-winning producer: Marlo Thomas and Friends in Free to Be ... You and Me [1973-74], Free to Be ... A Family [1988-89], actress: Nobody’s Child [1985-86]; That Girl, Tribute to Women in Comedy, The Joey Bishop Show, Held Hostage, In the Spirit, Jenny; wife of Phil Donahue; daughter of Danny Thomas 1940 - Dr. John (‘Mac’ Malcolm John Rebennack) musician: organ, guitar, singer: Right Place Wrong Time; songwriter: Lights Out, What’s Goin’ On, Lady Luck, Losing Battle 1940 - Natalia Makarova ballerina: Kirov Ballet [now Saint Petersburg Ballet]: 1959-1970] 1941 - Juliet Mills Emmy Award-winning actress: QB VII, Parts 1 & 2, ABC Movie Special [1974-75]; Nanny and the Professor, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Cracker Factory; daughter of actor John Mills and sister of actress Hayley Mills 1944 - Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe Basketball Hall of Famer: Baltimore Bullets: Rookie of the Year [1967]; New York Knicks: championship team [1972-73] 1944 - Harold Ramis writer: Ghostbusters series, Armed and Dangerous, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Stripes, Meatballs; writer, director: Multiplicity, Groundhog Day, Club Paradise, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Caddyshack, actor: Ghostbusters series, Second City TV, Love Affair, Stealing Home, Baby Boom 1945 - Goldie Hawn (Btudlendgehawn) Academy Award-winning actress: Cactus Flower [1969]; First Wives Club, Bird on a Wire, Butterflies are Free, Housesitter, Death Becomes Her, Private Benjamin, Shampoo, The Sugarland Express, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Good Morning, World 1948 - Lonnie (LeRoy) Jordan musician: keyboard, singer: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Can’t We Be Friends, Galaxy, The Music Band 1949 - Barbara Jo Rubin horse-racing jockey: 1st U.S. woman to win a flat race against male jockeys [1969]; 1st woman to ride in NY & NJ 1950 - Livingston Taylor singer: I Will Be in Love with You; songwriter; brother of singer James Taylor 1952 - Lorna Luft singer, actress: Trapper John, M.D., Where the Boys Are ’84, Grease 2; daughter of singer-actress Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft; sister of singer-actress Lisa Minelli 1956 - Cynthia Rhodes actress, dancer: Dirty Dancing, Flashdance 1963 - Nicollette Sheridan actress: Desperate Housewives, Paper Dolls, Knots Landing, Spy Hard, Silver Strand, Noises Off, Deceptions, The Sure Thing 1965 - Björk (Guðmundsdóttir) singer, songwriter: group: The Sugarcubes: Life’s Too Good; solo: Human Behaviour, Post, Telegram Homogenic, Selmasongs, Dancer in the Dark 1966 - Troy Aikman football: Dallas Cowboys quarterback: Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII; holds record for longest pass completion w/receiver Alvin Harper in a playoff game [94 yards, 1/8/95] 1969 - Ken (George Kenneth) Griffey Jr. baseball: Seattle Mariners left-handed outfielder [all-star: 1990-1996/Gold Glove Award: 1990-1993]; shares individual record for consecutive games hitting home runs [8, July 20-28, 1993]; first son and father [Ken Griffey, Sr.] to play in major leagues at same time [1989] and on same team at same time [1990] Chart Toppers November 21st. 1944 The Trolley Song - Judy Garland I’ll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore Together - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes Smoke on the Water - Red Foley 1952 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford Glow Worm - The Mills Brothers Because You’re Mine - Mario Lanza Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams 1960 Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs Are You Lonesome To-night? - Elvis Presley Last Date - Floyd Cramer Wings of a Dove - Ferlin Husky 1968 Hey Jude - The Beatles Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes I Walk Alone - Marty Robbins 1976 Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot Love So Right - Bee Gees Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight) - Loretta Lynn 1984 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham! Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution I Feel for You - Chaka Khan Give Me One More Chance - Exile Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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327th day of 2008 - 39 remaining.
Thursday, November 22, 2008 JFK REMEMBERED DAY.  Generations recall watching CBS Television on this day in 1963. The popular soap opera As the World Turns was interrupted by a flash bulletin from Dallas. No one was available to man the CBS News studio at that instant, but a voice informed the nation that President John F. Kennedy had been gravely wounded during a motorcade through downtown Dallas. Minutes later, after teletype machines, with alarm bells clanging, had spread the word to newsrooms around the world, the network interrupted again. This time, Walter Cronkite, wearing partially rolled-up, white shirt sleeves, a loosened tie, no makeup, and black glasses, read wire copy just handed him: “Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States is dead.” Cronkite, disbelieving the words he had just said, turned to look at a studio clock, stoically raised a hand to wipe away tears and continued with the tragic news that President Kennedy had died while undergoing emergency surgery at Parkland Hospital. Much more on this subject can be found here, here, and here. Events November 22nd. 1880 - Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut -- in New York City. 1899 - The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated under laws of the State of New Jersey. 1906 - Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in Germany voted to use SOS (...---...) as the letters for the new international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in 1908. Its meaning? No, not “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” as many believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally, how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They’re named after a patented process, Soap on Steel. 1909 - Helen Hayes appeared for the first time on the New York stage. She was a member of the cast of Old Dutch, which opened at the Herald Square Theatre. 1910 - Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady, New York patented the steel shaft. Not a big shaft, actually, but one to replace the less durable hickory wood shafts used to that time -- in golf clubs. 1917 - The National Hockey League came into being. Its official formation was in Montreal, Canada. 1935 - The first transpacific airmail flight left San Francisco with over 20,000 folks waving good-bye. The China Clipper began its 8,000-mile journey with 110,865 letters on board, piloted by Captain Edwin Musick. The Pan American Martin 130 took off from San Francisco. 59 hours and 48 minutes later, it landed at Manila in the Philippines. 1938 - Bunny Berigan and his orchestra waxed Jelly Roll Blues on Victor Records. The tune became a standard for the band. 1950 - This was a slow night in the NBA. The lowest score recorded in the National Basketball Association was posted. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later Detroit Pistons) whipped the tar out of the hometown Minneapolis Lakers (later Los Angeles Lakers) by the score of 19-18. 1955 - RCA paid the unheard of sum of $25,000 to Sam Phillips of Memphis, TN for the rights to the music of a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi: Elvis Presley. Thanks to negotiations with Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker, RCA tossed in a $5,000 bonus as well -- for a pink Cadillac for Elvis’ mother. 1957 - The Miles Davis Quintet debuted with a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. 1961 - A Man for All Seasons opened at the ANTA Playhouse in New York City. The play starred George Rose as the Common Man, Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk, Leo McKern as Thomas Cromwell, Keith Baxter as King Henry VIII and Olga Bellin as Margaret More. A Man for All Seasons ran for 637 performances, closing on Jun 1, 1963. 1965 - The production of Man of La Mancha, including the classic The Impossible Dream, opened in New York City for the first of 2,328 performances. 1975 - Dr. Zhivago appeared on TV for the first time. The production, including Somewhere My Love, had earned $93 million from theatre tickets over ten years. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights. 1977 - Tony Orlando returned to the concert stage after a self-imposed, three-month retirement following the suicide death of his good friend, Freddie Prinze. Orlando appeared in concert in San Carlos, California. 1984 - “Time to clear out the closet in the neighborhood...” Fred Rogers of PBS’ Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood presented a sweater, knitted by his mother, to the Smithsonian Institution as “a symbol of warmth, closeness and caring,” according to museum officials. 1985 - The largest swearing-in ceremony took place as 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States after six days of rallies around the country. Chrysler Corporation’s Lee Iacocca helped preside over the event. 1986 - Mike Tyson was only 20 years and 4 months old, becoming the youngest to wear the world heavyweight boxing crown. He knocked out Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas, NV. 1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher failed to win reelection as leader of the Conservative Party (over differences on European Community policy) and announced her resignation after eleven years in office. 1991 - Egypt’s Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt for Foreign Affairs, was chosen to be United Nations Secretary-General. Ghali was both the first Arab and the first African to hold the post. 1997 - After 41 days, one hour and 55 minutes at sea, New Zealanders Rob Hamill and Phil Stubbs rowed triumphantly into the marina at Port St. Charles, Barbados. They had just set a new Atlantic Ocean rowboat record, knocking over 30 days off the previous one, held by Mike Nester and Sean Crowley (set in 1986). Hamill and Phil Stubbs started from Los Gigantes on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) Oct 12. (Stubbs was killed in a plane crash in New Zealand Dec 20, 1998.) 1998 - It was week 12 of the NFL football season as Denver Broncos QB John Elway passed (pun intended) the 50,000-yard career-passing mark. He joined Dan Marino as the only passers to throw for more than 50,000 yards in a career. And Elway threw four touchdowns passes the following week to move into third place on the all-time TD pass list. 1999 - ‘The Great One’, Wayne Gretzky, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. On June 23, 1999 it had been announced that Gretzky would be the tenth, and last, player to have the three-year waiting period waived by the hall-of-fame selection committee “by reason of outstanding pre-eminence and skill.” Gretzky held 61 NHL records. 2000 - First-run flicks opening in the U.S.: 102 Dalmations (“Meet Two Unlikely Heroes with a Bone to Pick.”), with Glenn Close, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans and Tim Mcinnerny; Unbreakable (“Are You Ready for the Truth?”), starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Penn Wright and Charlayne Woodard; and What’s Cooking (“Thanksgiving. A celebration of food, tradition and relative insanity.”), with Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl and Kyra Sedgwick. Birthdays November 22nd. 1819 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) novelist: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Radical, Daniel Deronda 1890 - Charles DeGaulle WWII military leader; President of France [1958-1969]; author: The Army of the Future; died Nov 9, 1970 1898 - Wiley Post pioneer aviator, parachutist; co-author: Around the World in Eight Days; killed in plane crash [w/flying companion Will Rogers] August 15, 1935 1899 - Hoagy (Hoagland Howard) Carmichael Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer: Stardust, Lazybones, Two Sleepy People, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Rockin’ Chair, [Up a] Lazy River, One Morning in May, The Nearness of You, Lamplighter’s Serenade, How Little We Know, Memphis in June, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, New Orleans; singer, piano player, band leader, attorney; died Dec 27, 1981 1907 - Dora Maar photographer, model: Picasso’s lover and subject of many paintings; died July 16, 1997 1914 - Lew Hays founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters; died Apr 11, 1998 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) “I Don’t Get No Respect”: comedian, actor: Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, Ladybugs, The Dean Martin Show; died Oct 5, 2004 1923 - Arthur Hiller director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Love Story, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, Silver Streak, Taking Care of Business 1924 - Geraldine Page Academy Award-winning actress: The Trip to Bountiful [1985]; The Day of the Locust, Harry’s War, Pete ’n’ Tillie, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, Toys in the Attic; Emmy Award-winner: A Christmas Memory, ABC Stage 67 [1966-1967], The Thanksgiving Visitor [1968-1969]; died June 13, 1987 1926 - Lew (Selva Lewis) Burdette baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees, Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves [World Series: 1957, 1958/all-star: 1957, 1959], SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, California Angels; died Feb 6, 2007 1932 - Robert Vaughn Emmy Award-winning actor: Washington: Behind Closed Doors [1977-78]; The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Magnificent Seven, The Big One, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge at Remagen, Delta Force, Superman 3, The Young Philadelphians 1935 - Michael Callan (Calinieff) actor: Because They’re Young, Cat Ballou, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Love American Style, Occasional Wife 1939 - Allen Garfield (Goorwitz) actor: Diabolique, Night Visitor, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Dick Tracy, The Cotton Club, Mother, Jugs and Speed, The Conversation, The Candidate, The Owl and the Pussycat, Greetings, Bananas 1940 - Terry Gilliam actor: Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, Life of Brian; director: Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1941 - Tom Conti actor: American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace, Masterpiece Theater, Shirley Valentine, The Wright Verdicts 1942 - Guion S. Bluford Jr. astronaut: first African-American on space shuttle missions 1942 - Floyd Sneed musician: drums: group: Three Dog Night: Try a Little Tenderness, One, Easy to Be Hard, Eli’s Coming, Lady Samantha, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Liar, Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala 1943 - Wade (Allen) Blasingame baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, NY Yankees 1943 - Billie Jean King (Moffitt) International Tennis Hall of Famer & Women’s Sports Hall of Famer: 20 Wimbledon titles incl. singles champion [1966-1968, 1972, 1973, 1975], Australian Open Champion [1968], French Open Champion [1972], US Open Champion [1967. 1971, 1972, 1974], AP Female Athlete of the Year [1967, 1973], Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year [1973]; founder of Women’s Sports Foundation and WomenSports magazine 1946 - Aston Barrett ‘Family Man’: musician: bass: group: Bob Marley & The Wailers 1950 - Greg (Gregory Michael) Luzinski baseball: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1975-1978/World Series: 1980], Chicago White Sox; high school coach 1950 - Steve ‘Miami’ Van Zandt singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: groups: E Street Band, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul 1950 - Tina (Martina) Weymouth musician: bass: group: Talking Heads: Love Goes to Building on Fire, Psycho Killer, Take Me to the River, I Zimbra, Life During Wartime 1954 - Craig Hundley musician: pianist: group: Craig Hundley Trio; actor: Tammy and the Millionaire, Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing, Schizoid, The Acorn People 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis actress: A Fish Called Wanda, Forever Young, Halloween ’78, Halloween 2: The The Nightmare Isn’t Over!, Trading Places, True Lies, My Girl, Mother’s Boys, Love Letters, Anything But Love, Dominick & Eugene, Operation Petticoat; daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh 1961 - Mariel Hemingway actress: Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace, Manhattan, Civil Wars, Star 80 1963 - Hugh Millen football: QB: LA Rams, Atlanta Falcons, NE Patriots, Denver Broncos 1964 - Stephen Geoffreys actor: Moon 44, 976-EVIL, The Chair, Fright Night, Fraternity Vacation, Heaven Help Us 1967 - Boris Becker tennis: youngest Wimbledon Men’s Champion [17 years old][1985, 1986, 1989], US Open [1989], Australian Open [1991] 1984 - Scarlett Johansson actress: The Horse Whisperer, My Brother the Pig, The Man Who Wasn’t There, An American Rhapsody Chart Toppers November 22nd. 1945 It’s Been a Long, Long Time - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen) Till the End of Time - Perry Como I’ll Buy That Dream - The Pied Pipers Sioux City Sue - Dick Thomas 1953 Ebb Tide - The Frank Chacksfield Orchestra Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett Ricochet - Teresa Brewer There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce 1961 Runaround Sue - Dion Fool #1 - Brenda Lee Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean 1969 Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension Take a Letter Maria - R.B. Greaves Smile a Little Smile for Me - The Flying Machine Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard 1977 You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle Baby, What a Big Surprise - Chicago The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don’t Want to Get over You) - Waylon Jennings 1985 We Built this City - Starship You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey Separate Lives - Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin Hang on to Your Heart - Exile Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end.... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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11-22-2008, 11:00 PM
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328th day of 2008 - 38 remaining.
Sunday, November 23, 2008 JUKEBOX DAY. The first ‘Nickel-in-the-Slot’ (jukebox) was placed in service on this day in 1889 in the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco, California. Juke, at the time, was a slang word for a a disorderly house, or house of ill repute. The unit, developed by Louis T. Glass, contained an Edison tinfoil phonograph with four listening tubes. There was a coin slot for each tube. 5 cents bought a few minutes of music. The contraption took in $1,000 in six months! Wow! And this was before Elvis, the Beach Boys, Motown, and the Beatles, too! Click. Events November 23rd. 1835 - The horseshoe manufacturing machine was patented by Henry Burden of Troy, New York. 1876 - The first intercollegiate football association was established -- in Springfield, MA. 1887 - The University of Michigan beat Notre Dame (8-0) for the first time in their football rivalry. 1903 - Enrico Caruso, famed Italian tenor, made his debut in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. He sang in the role of the Duke in Rigoletto. 1924 - Vincent Lopez and some 40 jazz musicians presented a concert of upbeat music at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC. 1929 - Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on radio’s classic, Duffy’s Tavern. She also gave an Oscar-winning performance in 1952 in Come Back Little Sheba. 1935 - Ethel Leginska became the first woman to write an opera -- and conduct it. Her original work, titled Gale, opened at the Chicago City Opera Company. 1936 - LIFE magazine debuted. The first cover pictured the Fort Peck Dam in Montana (part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program) photographed by Margaret Bourke-White. On page 2, a photo showed a doctor slapping a newborn baby -- and the caption read, “LIFE begins.” 1938 - Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded a song for the film, The Big Broadcast of 1938. Thanks for the Memory became Decca record number 2219. It also became Hope’s theme song. 1948 - Dr. Frank G. Back of New York City patented the Zoomar lens. The device was first used by NBC television in April of 1947. 1958 - One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel was broadcast on CBS radio and starred John Dehner as Paladin. Richard Boone played Paladin on TV. 1958 - Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared together in the GE Theatre production of A Turkey for the President. 1974 - Billy Swan reached the #1 spot on the singles charts for the first and only time. I Can Help was the most popular song in the U.S. for two weeks. 1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passed his way into sports history by leading Boston College past Miami, 47-45, at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Flutie threw a 48-yard pass on the final play of the game. That play became known as ‘The Pass’. Incidentally, coaches said the 175-pound senior was too short to play football. 1998 - The Wall Street Journal reported, “States Agree to $206 Billion Tobacco Deal.” The money was to be paid by the tobacco industry to help 46 U.S. states cover costs of treating people for tobacco-induced illnesses. Birthdays November 23rd. 1804 - Franklin Pierce 14th U.S. President [1853-1857]; married to Jane Appleton [three sons]; nickname: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills; died Oct 8, 1869 1859 - Billy the Kid (William Bonney or Henry McCarty) outlaw: killed 21 men; last words: “Quien es? Quien es? (Who is it? Who is it?)” Bang. Bang. You’re dead.: killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner NM July 14, 1881 1887 - Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) actor: Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Die Monster, Die!, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Mummy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Body Snatcher, Mystery Playhouse Starring Boris Karloff, host: Thriller; narrator: How the Grinch Stole Christmas; panelist: Down You Go; died Feb 2, 1969 1888 - Harpo (Adolph) Marx comedian, musician: harp, piano; silent member of the Marx Brothers comedy team: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business, A Night at the Opera, Go West, At the Circus; actor: Silent Panic; died Sep 28, 1964 1902 - Victor Jory actor: Gone with the Wind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Miracle Worker, Papillon, Charlie Chan in Rio, Manhunt, Kings Row; died Feb 12, 1982 1913 - Maurice Zolotow author: Billy Wilder in Hollywood; died Mar 14, 1991 1915 - Ellen Drew actress: Hollywood Boulevard, China Sky, Christmas in July, Dark Mountain; died Dec 3, 2003 1928 - Jerry Bock composer: Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello, Mr. Wonderful 1929 - Sybil Jason (Jacobs) actress: The Blue Bird, The Little Princess 1931 - Gloria Lynne singer: I Wish You Love 1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki Grammy Award-winning composer: Devils of Loudan 1934 - Lew Hoad tennis: Australia and French Open Champion [1956], Wimbledon Champion [1956-1957]; died July 3, 1994 1934 - Michael Wayne producer: McLintock!, The Green Berets, Chisum, Big Jake, Cahill: United States Marshal, Brannigan; son of actor John Wayne; died Apr 2, 2003 1935 - Ed Johnston hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, SL Blues, Chicago Blackhawks; manager, coach: Pittsburgh Penguins 1939 - Betty Everett singer: Shoop Shoop Song [It’s in His Kiss], There’ll Come a Time, You’re No Good, I Can’t Hear You; died Aug 19, 2001 1940 - Freddie Marsden drummer, singer: group: Gerry and the Pacemakers: Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Ferry Cross the Mersey, How Do You Do It?, I Like It 1940 - Luis (Clemente Vega) Tiant baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1968], Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1974, 1976/World Series: 1975], NY Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, California Angels 1942 - Susan Anspach actress: Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, The Yellow Rose, The Slap Maxwell Story 1945 - Steve Landesberg actor: Barney Miller, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Dean Martin Presents, Sodbusters, Leader of the Band, Final Notice, Blade, Conrad Bloom 1951 - David Rappaport actor: L.A. Law, Peter Gunn, The Wizard, The Bride, Mysteries; died May 2, 1990 1952 - Steve Riley football: Minnesota Vikings tackle: Super Bowl IX, XI 1954 - Bruce Hornsby musician: piano, singer: group: The Range: The Way It Is 1957 - Andrew Toney basketball: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Philadelphia 76ers 1959 - Maxwell Caulfield actor: The Colbys, Sundown, The Supernaturals, Alien Intruder, Grease 2, Mind Games 1964 - Steve Alford basketball: Indiana Univ. [capt. of 1987 NCAA national championship team]; Manchester, Southwest Missouri State Univ. head coach 1967 - Salli Richardson actress: I Spy Returns, Prelude to a Kiss, A Low Down Dirty Shame, Rude Awakening, Family Law Chart Toppers November 23rd. 1946 Rumors are Flying - Frank Sinatra Ole Buttermilk Sky - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Mike Douglas & The Campus Kids) The Whole World is Singing My Song - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day) Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis 1954 I Need You Now - Eddie Fisher Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes Teach Me Tonight - The De Castro Sisters More and More - Webb Pierce 1962 Big Girls Don’t Cry - The 4 Seasons Return to Sender - Elvis Presley Next Door to an Angel - Neil Sedaka I’ve Been Everywhere - Hank Snow 1970 I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland Fifteen Years Ago - Conway Twitty 1978 MacArthur Park - Donna Summer Double Vision - Foreigner How Much I Feel - Ambrosia Sleeping Single in a Double Bed - Barbara Mandrell 1986 Human - Human League You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi Word Up - Cameo You’re Still New to Me - Marie Osmond with Paul Davis Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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11-23-2008, 11:00 PM
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Monday, November 24, 2008 WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE DAY.  Dale Carnegie was born on this day in 1888 -- in Maryville, Missouri. He became a pioneer in public speaking and personality development and he became famous by showing others how to become successful. Carnegie’s book, How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), has sold more than 15 million copies and is translated in 29 different languages. Carnegie’s illustrative stories and simple, well-phrased rules are the basis behind its popularity. For instance: “Believe that you will succeed, and you will.” “Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.” “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” It deals sensibly with “the problem of getting along with and influencing people in ... everyday, business and social contacts.” Dale Carnegie also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), “a practical, concrete, easy-to-read, inspiring handbook on conquering work and fears.” Carnegie attended Warrensburg (MO) State Teachers College, and became a salesman for Armour and Company. Later, he taught public speaking to businessmen. And you’ve probably heard of the Dale Carnegie Training courses, available just about everywhere. One thing’s for sure: Dale Carnegie won many friends and influenced lots of people. Dale Carnegie.Click. Events November 24th. 1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated. Remember, “Guns don’t kill. People do.” Hey, watch where you’re pointing that person! 1874 - Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois found just what he had been waiting for -- in his mailbox. It was the patent for his invention: barbed wire. 1903 - For you self-starters out there, this special note: The automatic self-starter was patented by Clyde J. Coleman of New York City. 1937 - Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was beamed coast to coast on NBC radio. The special guests during this broadcast were Glenn Miller and his orchestra. 1937 - Three lovely ladies, known as The Andrews Sisters, recorded Decca record number 1562 this day. It became one of their biggest hits: Bei Mir Bist Du Schön. 1947 - The Cleveland Indians renewed the managerial contract of Lou Boudreau for an additional two years. 1947 - The first Postmaster General of the United States, to be promoted from the rank and file, was named. J.M. Donaldson had moved through the post office beginning as a letter carrier in 1908. 1950 - The musical comedy, Guys and Dolls, from the pen of Frank Loesser, opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. The show ran for 1,200 performances. 1958 - Jackie Wilson’s Lonely Teardrops was released, as was a disk by Richie Valens featuring Donna on one side and La Bamba on the other. 1958 - Harold Jenkins, who changed his name to Conway Twitty, got his first #1 hit on this day. It’s Only Make Believe was the most popular song in the U.S. for one week. 1967 - Actor and TV host, Gary Collins, and former (1959) Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley, were married on this day. 1970 - The nation’s outstanding collegiate football player of the year received the annual Heisman Memorial Trophy. Jim Plunkett was a quarterback for the Stanford Cardinal and later went on to a sterling career in the NFL. 1971 - It was a dark, freezing-cold, rainy Thanksgiving eve when Dan Cooper, now better known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest Orient airliner in Portland, Oregon. The chain-smoking Cooper, in his mid-forties, wore dark glasses, a dark suit and tie, and white shirt. He carried a black briefcase containing what resembled a bomb, using it to hijack the Boeing 727 plane. Cooper demanded and received $200,000, then parachuted from the plane over the Cascade Mountains in Southwestern Washington, never to be seen again. ($5,880 of the loot was found on the banks of the Columbia River in 1980.) Cooper left several lasting contributions ... the mystery: why did he do it, did he survive, and if so, where did he go and what did he do with the rest of the money; and a new aircraft design called the "Cooper Vane", a device that prevents the tail stairways on Boeing 727s from being lowered while in flight (Cooper’s escape route). 1972 - A Friday night show that would compete head-to-head with NBC’s Midnight Special premiered. In Concert featured Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Blood Sweat and Tears, Seals and Crofts and Poco. Robert W. Morgan of KHJ, Los Angeles was the offstage announcer for the ABC-TV show that was staged before a live audience. In Concert was the creation of the guy who dreamed up the fictitious group The Archies and brought fame to The Monkees: rock promoter, Don Kirshner. (In Concert was aired as part of ABC-TV’s Wide World of Entertainment.) 1973 - Following over two years of retirement, Frank Sinatra went back to work again with a TV special on NBC titled, Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back. Despite the fact that the show finished third in the ratings (in a three-show race), at least one critic called the program, “The best popular music special of the year.” 1976 - The Band, appearing at the Winterland in San Francisco, announced that this was to be the group’s last public performance. 1986 - Buffalo Sabres center Gilbert Perreault announced that he was weary of hockey life and was hanging up his skates after 17 seasons of fights, slashes, gashes, body slams, trips, spins, head jams, cross checks, body blocks and dodging hockey pucks. What the heck took him so long? And have his teeth grown back? 1986 - The American Eagle silver dollar, like its gold counterpart, became all the rage on this, its first day of issue -- by selling out. An additional 250,000 coins were also ordered this day by coin dealers. 1993 - The Brady Bill was passed by the U.S. Congress. The battle over the bill had been long and loud since its introduction in 1987, dividing gun-control supporters and opponents. The major issures were background checks of would-be handgun purchasers, bans on semi-automatic assault weapons and ‘Saturday night specials’, and the licensing and registration of handguns. 1998 - America Online, the largest Internet access service, announced plans to acquire Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion. 1999 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: End of Days (“When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.”), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollak, Robin Tunney and Rod Steiger; Flawless (“They couldn't like each other less or need each other more.”), with Robert Deniro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller and Wanda De Jesus; Mansfield Park (“Jane Austen’s Wicked Comedy”), starring Frances O’Connor Embeth Davidtz Jonny Lee Miller; and the animated Toy Story 2 (“The Toys Are Back!”), with the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer and Don Rickles). Birthdays November 24th. 1632 - Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza philosopher, writer: A Treatise on Religious and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Political Treatise, Hebrew Grammar; died Feb 20, 1677 1713 - Laurence Sterne author: Tristam Shandy; died Mar 18, 1768 1784 - Zachary Taylor 12th U.S. President [1849-1850]; married to Margaret Smith [one son, five daughters]; nickname: Old Rough and Ready; died July 9, 1850 1853 - Bat Masterson gambler, saloon keeper, lawman, journalist; subject of TV series in the 1960s; died Oct 25, 1921 1868 - Scott Joplin King of ragtime music, composer, musician: guitar, piano, bugle: Original Rags, Maple Leaf Rag, The Ragtime Dance, The Entertainer, operas: The Guest of Honor, Treemonisha; died Apr 1, 1917 1877 - Alben Barkley 35th Vice President of the U.S. [1949-1953]; died Apr 30, 1956 1888 - Dale Carnegie lecturer, author: How to Win Friends and Influence People; died in 1955; see Win Friends and Influence People Day [above] 1894 - Corinne Griffith actress, silent film star: The Garden of Eden, Lilies of the Field; died July 13, 1979 1901 - William H. (Henry) Vanderbilt politician: Governor of Rhode Island [1939-1941]; grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; died April 14, 1981 1912 - Garson Kanin writer: A Gift of Time, Tracy & Hepburn; director: Adam’s Rib, Pat & Mike, Tom, Dick & Harry; died Mar 13, 1999 1912 - Teddy Wilson jazz pianist: Carelessly, Where the Lazy River Goes By, My Melancholy Baby, Remember Me?, You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming, Honeysuckle Rose, Ain’t Misbehavin’; bandleader, arranger; died July 31, 1986 1913 - Howard Duff actor: Felony Squad, Mr. Adams and Eve, Flamingo Road, Knots Landing, Dante, Dallas, East of Eden, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Naked City, Oh God!, Book 2; died July 8, 1990 1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald actress: Arthur series, Easy Money, Harry and Tonto, The Last American Hero, Ten North Frederick, The Obsessed, Watch on the Rhine, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Department Store, Our Private World; died July 17, 2005 1921 - John V. Lindsay politician: two-term mayor of New York City [1966-1973]; died Dec 19, 2000 1925 - Al Cohn jazz composer, musician: tenor sax; died Feb 5, 1988 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr. writer, commentator, editor: National Review; author: God and Man at Yale; host: Firing Line 1927 - Alfredo Kraus opera singer: tenor: Lucia, Werther; died Sep 10, 1999 1933 - René Enríquez actor: Hill Street Blues, Bulletproof, The Evil That Men Do; died Mar 23, 1990 1938 - Oscar Robertson Basketball Hall of Famer: ‘The Big O’: basketball: Cincinnati Royals guard: Rookie of the Year [1960], NBA MVP [1964]; Milwaukee Bucks: NBA Championship; NBA’s 35th Anniversary Team [1980] 1939 - Jim (James Thomas) Northrup baseball: Detroit Tigers [two grand slams in one game: 6/24/68; World Series: 1968], Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos 1939 - Jim Yester musician: guitar, sax, singer: group: The Association: Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Windy, Never My Love, Everything That Touches You 1940 - Johnny Carver singer: Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, You Really Haven’t Changed, Afternoon Delight, Don’t Tell [That Sweet Ole Lady of Mine], Tonight Someone’s Falling in Love, Living Next Door to Alice, Your Lily White Hands, Hold Me Tight, Sweet Wine 1941 - Pete (Randolph) Best musician: drums: original Beatle pre-Ringo Starr; autobiography: Beatle! 1941 - Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn musician: bass: groups: Mar-Keys; Booker T & The MG’s: Hang ’Em High, Time is Tight 1943 - Dave Bing Basketball Hall of Famer: Detroit Pistons guard: Rookie of the Year [1966], NBA scoring leader [1968]; Washington Bullets, Boston Celtics 1944 - Bob Lind singer, songwriter: Elusive Butterfly, Remember the Rain, Truly Julie’s Blues, Cheryl’s Goin’ Home 1946 - Lee Michaels singer: Do You Know What I Mean 1947 - Dwight Schultz actor: The A-Team, Star Trek; The Next Generation, Fat Man and Little Boy 1948 - Rudy Tomjanovich basketball: Univ. of Michigan [all-American], Houston Rockets player, head coach 1948 - Steve (Stephen Wayne) Yeager baseball: catcher: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981: shared 3-way MVP award], Seattle Mariners 1949 - Henry Bibby basketball: only man to play for championship teams in NCAA, NBA & CBA; UCLA [point guard on 3 NCAA national championship teams], NBA: NY Knicks [NBA championship team in 1973], New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Diego, CBA: Lancaster (PA) Lightning [player-coach and won a title], Savannah, Tulsa, Oklahoma City 1950 - Stanley Livingston actor: My Three Sons 1957 - Denise Crosby actress: Star Trek: The Next Generation, 48 Hrs., Curse of the Pink Panther, Pet Sematary, Red Shoe Diaries 13: Four on the Floor, Deep Impact 1957 - Chris Hayes musician: guitar: group: Huey Lewis & The News: Do You Believe in Love, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Walking on a Thin Line, Bad is Bad, If This is It, Power of Love, Trouble in Paradise, Stuck with You 1962 - John Squire musician: guitar: group: The Stone Roses: Fool’s Gold, What the World is Waiting For, Elephant Stone, One Love 1978 - Katherine Heigl actress: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Prince Valiant, Bride of Chucky, The Tempest, Roswell Chart Toppers November 24th. 1947 You Do - Dinah Shore Near You - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm) The Whiffinpoof Song - Bing Crosby I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold 1955 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams Love and Marriage - Frank Sinatra Love, Love, Love - Webb Pierce 1963 I’m Leaving It Up to You - Dale & Grace Washington Square - The Village Stompers She’s a Fool - Lesley Gore Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens 1971 Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes Baby I’m-A Want You - Bread Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) - Merle Haggard 1979 No More Tears (Enough is Enough) - Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer Babe - Styx Please Don’t Go - K.C. & The Sunshine Band Come with Me - Waylon Jennings 1987 - Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle I Won’t Need You Anymore (Always and Forever) - Randy Travis Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 RAGS TO RICHES TO RAGS DAY.  Philanthropist and industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born on this day in 1835. He left his native Scotland, and the town of Dunfermline, with his almost penniless family, ending up in southwestern Pennsylvania at the age of 13. It was there that he worked his way up from telegraph messenger boy to division manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, eventually making his fortune in railroads and steel. He was the founder of Carnegie Steel Corporation, one of the greatest industrial enterprises in the United States. In 1901 he sold it to the U.S. Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh. After selling out to J.P. Morgan for $400 million, Andrew Carnegie (pronounced kar-nay’-ge in SW Pennsylvania) devoted the rest of his life to giving his fortune away. The author of several influential essays, he wrote: “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ... The man who dies ... rich dies disgraced.” Carnegie, who died at Summerbrook, his summer estate in Massachusetts on August 11, 1919, disbursed about $308 million before he died. Among the beneficiaries of his generosity were 2,509 public libraries, the Carnegie Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Hall in New York City ... founded in 1891 and still a mecca for musicians the world over. Carnegie-Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900), and the Andrew Carnegie Library, both in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, PA, also still bear his name. One of the most remarkable immigrants to America, Andrew Carnegie entered the U.S. a poor boy, became one of the richest men in the world, then gave away most of his wealth for the betterment of mankind. Andrew Carnegie. Be patient, this site takes a few seconds to load up. Carnegie Foundation. A little more reading on this. Click. Events November 25th. 1715 - This was a big day for one Thomas Masters, who became the first American to be granted an English patent. Tom was the first to master the fine art of cleaning and curing Indian corn. 1837 - William Crompton of Taunton, MA patented the silk, power loom. 1884 - Swiss-born scientist John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis, MO came up with a nifty idea that earned him a patent this day: evaporated milk. Mooo. 1903 - ‘Sunny’ Bob Fitzsimmons beat George Gardner to a pulp in San Francisco (remember, this was bareknuckle fighting back then). Sunny Bob became the first boxer to capture three different championships. This time he won the light heavyweight crown; in 1891 he had won the middleweight crown and, in 1897, the heavyweight crown. 1920 - The first play-by-play coverage of a football game was broadcast by WTAW radio in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of Texas A&M, 7-3. 1940 - Football great Tom Harmon saw his uniform number 98 retired by the athletic officials at the University of Michigan. 1944 - CBS radio presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It became one of the longest-running crime shows on radio -- lasting 14 years. 1944 - The first commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, died at the age of 87. He had served as czar of baseball for 24 years. Though his appointment and terms were questioned early in his tenure, he is considered one of those who helped to save the game. 1945 - A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, H.M.S. Pinafore, was broadcast on radio on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great Leo ‘The Lip’ Durocher. 1949 - Gargantua the Great, went to that big jungle in the sky. The gorilla died in Miami at the ripe old age of 19. 1949 - Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer appeared on the music charts and became THE musical hit of the Christmas season. Although Gene Autry’s rendition is the most popular, 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly 20,000,000 copies sold. 1952 - The play, The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. 1955 - Following a summer at the top of the American pop charts, Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets became the #1 song in Great Britain. 1960 - Radio actors were put out of work when CBS radio axed five serials (soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs. Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after 8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27 wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs, there were as many as 45 on the air each day! 1961 - Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics scored his 15,000th career point in the NBA. Only one other player has scored more: Dolph Schayes. 1984 - The ‘Golden Bear’, Jack Nicklaus, sunk an 8-foot birdie putt on the last hole to win the second Skins Game -- for $240,000. He beat Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player (the 1983 winner). 1984 - William Schroeder became the second recipient of an artificial heart, undergoing surgery at Louisville’s Humana Hospital. 1986 - Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins ended speculation about his possible move to another NFL franchise by signing with the Dolphins again. 1990 - Poland held its first popular presidential election. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa received a plurality of votes this day. He won a runoff election December 9 and became President of the Republic of Poland. Walesa served until defeated in the election of November 1995. 1995 - At the top of U.S. pop-music charts were Whitney Houston’s single, Exhale (Shoop Shoop) and Alice in Chains’ album, Alice in Chains. 1998 - Babe: Pig in the City, from Universal Pictures; Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar’s A Bug’s Life; Home Fries, from Warner Bros.; Artisan Entertainment’s Ringmaster; and Very Bad Things, from Polygram Films. 1999 - Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube off the coast near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The boy, his mother, stepfather, and eleven other Cubans had boarded a small boat in Cuba and attempted to cross the ocean to the U.S. Elian was one of three to survive (his mother and stepfather both drowned). He lived with relatives in Miami until he was seized by the INS in an early morning raid on April 22, 2000. He returned to Cuba with his father on June 28. Birthdays November 25th. 1835 - Andrew Carnegie industrialist: founder of Carnegie Steel Corporation; philanthropist; died Aug 11, 1919; see Rags to Riches to Rags Day above 1846 - Carrie Nation temperance leader: took a hatchet to bottles in saloons; died June 9, 1911 1881 - Angelo Roncalli Pope John XXIII: 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1958-1963]; died June 3, 1963 1896 - Virgil Thomson Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Louisiana Story; music critic: New York Herald-Tribune [1940 to 1954]; died Sep 30, 1989 1914 - ‘Joltin’ Joe (Paul) DiMaggio ‘The Yankee Clipper’: Baseball Hall of Famer: New York Yankees outfielder [World Series: 1936-1939, 1941, 1942, 1947, 1949-1951/all-star: 1936-1942, 1946-1951/3-time MVP: 1939, 1941, 1947]; major league record: hit in 56 consecutive games; husband of actress Marilyn Monroe; died Mar 8, 1999 1920 - Ricardo Montalban Emmy Award-winning actor: How the West was Won-Part II [2/19/78]; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Fantasy Island, Heaven Help Us, The Colbys, Sayonara, Cheyenne Autumn, The Singing Nun, Sweet Charity, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad; TV commercials: Chrysler Cordova 1923 - Art Wall Jr. golf champion: Masters [1959]; died Oct 31, 2001 1931 - Nat Adderley musician: cornet, mellophone, French horn, trumpet: Sermonette, Work Song; brother of Cannonball Adderley: died Jan 2, 2000 1933 - Kathryn Grant Crosby (Olive Kathryn Grandstaff) actress: Rear Window, Unchained, The Phenix City Story, The Guns of Fort Petticoat, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Anatomy of a Murder, 1001 Arabian Nights, The Initiation of Sarah, A Bing Crosby Christmas; wife of singer Bing Crosby 1940 - Joe Gibbs football: coach: Washington Redskins: 5 division championships, four Super Bowls, three wins 1941 - Percy Sledge singer: When a Man Loves a Woman, Warm and Tender Love, It Tears Me Up, Take Time to Know Her, I’ll Be Your Everything 1944 - Bob Matheson football: Miami Dolphins LB: Super Bowl XI, XII, XIII 1944 - Ben Stein lawyer, speech writer [for Presidents Nixon and Ford], columnist, author, screenwriter, actor: Win Ben Stein’s Money, Turn Ben Stein On 1945 - George Webster College Football Hall of Famer: Michigan State; Houston Oilers outside linebacker: Rookie of the Year [1967], Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots 1947 - John Larroquette Emmy Award-winning actor: Night Court [1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88]; The John Larroquette Show, Doctors’ Hospital, Richie Rich, Altered States, Stripes, Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock, Meatballs 2 1951 - Bucky (Russell Earl) Dent baseball: shortstop: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1975], NY Yankees [World Series: 1977, 1978/all-star: 1980, 1981], Texas Rangers, KC Royals; manager: NY Yankees 1952 - Ernest Harden Jr. actor: The Jeffersons, White Men Can’t Jump, The Final Terror 1959 - Steve Rothery musician: guitar: group: Marillion: Market Square Heroes, Grendel, Lavender, Heart of Lothian 1960 - Amy Grant singer: Baby Baby, LP: w/Art Garfunkel: The Animal’s Christmas 1960 - John F. Kennedy Jr. ‘John-John’; attorney; cofounder/editor: George magazine; son of U.S. President John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy; killed in plane crash [w/wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette] July 16, 1999 1963 - Bernie Kosar football: Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins QB 1966 - Stacy Lattisaw singer: Let Me Be Your Angel, Jump to the Beat, Love on a Two-Way Street, Miracles, Attack of the Name Game 1969 - Jill Hennessy actress: Law & Order, RoboCop 3, Molly, Nuremberg, The Acting Class, Exit Wounds, Crossing Jordan 1971 - Christina Applegate actress: Married ...... with Children, Heart of the City, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Streets, Wild Bill, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Chart Toppers November 25th. 1948 Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) - Jimmy Wakely 1956 Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley Cindy, Oh Cindy - Eddie Fisher Hey! Jealous Lover - Frank Sinatra Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins 1964 Baby Love - The Supremes Come a Little Bit Closer - Jay & The Americans Ringo - Lorne Greene I Don’t Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) - Buck Owens 1972 I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash I’d Love You to Want Me - Lobo Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts She’s Too Good to Be True - Charley Pride 1980 Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand The Wanderer - Donna Summer Another One Bites the Dust - Queen Lady - Kenny Rogers 1988 Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi Desire - U2 Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby) - Will To Power I’ll Leave This World Loving You - Ricky Van Shelton Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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331st day of 2008 - 35 remaining.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 FRATERNITY DAY.  It all started when nine close friends, meeting over apples and roasted potatoes in a cold and bare dormitory room at Union College in Schenectady, New York, unknowingly put their mark on the entire future of collegiate student organizations. They didn’t originate the idea of a secret Greek-letter society; Phi Beta Kappa had done that 50 years earlier ... nor the concept of a literary society; groups with names like Philomathean and Cliosophic had been around even longer. They didn’t even originate formalized student social groups or college eating clubs; both having long been commonplace. What John Hart Hunter, one of the nine, proposed on this day in 1825 was to take an informal group calling itself The Philosophers, and formalize it using the strongest characteristics of all these existing institutions. Thus, The Philosophers became Kappa Alpha Society. It was this synthesis that caught the attention of the college world and exploded into the collegiate fraternity system over the following 75 years. The nine members were Rev. John Hart Hunter, John McGeoch, Prof. Isaac Wilbur Jackson, Dr. Thomas Hun, Orlando Meads, James Proudfit and Hon. Joseph Anthony Constant of the class of 1826, and Rev. Arthur Burtis and Joseph Law of the Class of 1827. In the words of Arthur Burtis, “After we were domiciled in our upper chamber, in the fourth story of the south section---South College, northeast corner... we now and then beguiled the long winter evenings and entertained our friends with a few baked potatoes and salt and comforted them with apples. Jackson, Hun, Meads, Constant, and McGeoch were often the genial sharers of our simple meal, which was enlivened with mirth and wit and merry song.... It was determined to raise Hunter to an elevated seat on the woodpile, which stood in the corner of the room. When he was exalted to his high eminence, with his pipe in his mouth, he became the leader of this little band. Whereupon I suggested it would be right for us to get our light from this central luminary and that I would carry it to the others.... This band was now beginning to assume shape and form and comely order.” And that’s the way the first social fraternity was formed in the U.S. We wonder if they had any toga parties... Click. fraternity system.click. Events November 26th. 1832 - For 12½ cents, passengers began riding the first streetcar railway in America. The New York City service ran from City Hall to 14th Street. 1860 - Hey, here’s big news: A newspaper print of newly elected President Abraham Lincoln clearly showed the beginnings of a beard. How about that, Hard Copy? 1864 - Charles L. Dodgson, whose pen name was Lewis Carroll, sent a handwritten manuscript to Alice Liddel. The manuscript was titled Alice’s Adventures Underground. It was an early Christmas present to the 12-year-old girl. Later, the manuscript was renamed Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In 1933, the film version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland starred Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Cary Grant as Mock Turtle, Jack Oakie as Tweedledum and Charlotte Henry in the title role of Alice. 1867 - The refrigerated railroad car was patented by J.B. Sutherland of Detroit, Michigan. 1896 - The University of Chicago defeated the University of Michigan, 7-6, at the Chicago Coliseum. It was the first major college football game played indoors. 1922 - The tomb of the Boy King, Tutankhamen, was discovered in Egypt by Lord Carnarvon of England and Howard Carter of the United States. The find was called, “The greatest archaeological discovery of all time.” People in America, looking for brevity in identifying great things before they forget, shortened the name to Tut. 1940 - Xavier Cugat and his orchestra recorded Orchids in the Moonlight on the Columbia label. 1941 - Bobby Riggs, the national amateur singles tennis champion, turned pro on this day. 1945 - The program, Bride and Groom, debuted on the NBC Blue network. It is estimated that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it left the airwaves in 1950. 1956 - Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died at the age of 51. His records sold more than 110,000,000 copies. 1958 - Maurice Richard scored his 600th career goal for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team -- at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 1968 - Cream gave a farewell performance filmed by the BBC in London. The rock group played before a capacity crowd at Royal Albert Hall. 1969 - The Band received a gold record for the album, The Band. 1969 - The Heisman Trophy was awarded to Steve Owens of Oklahoma as the nation’s outstanding college football player. Owens scored more touchdowns and gained more yardage than any previous player in collegiate history. 1973 - Rose Mary Woods, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, told a federal court she had accidentally erased over eighteen minutes of a ‘Watergate tape’ made June 20, 1972. The recording was of a crucial conversation at an Oval-Office meeting between Nixon and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman just three days after the Watergate break-in. 1975 - Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, Manson-family devotee, was found guilty by a federal jury of trying to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. Fromme, 27, had attempted to shoot the president in Sacramento CA Sep 5 with a hand gun. Secret service agents wrestled the weapon from her. 1980 - Rockshow premiered in New York City. The movie is about the first American tour of Paul McCartney and Wings. 1984 - After 518 goals and 14 years of service with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy Lafleur (‘The Flower’) decided to retire from hockey. 1994 - The Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over, signaling the band’s reunion (after fourteen years), hit #1 (for two weeks) on U.S. album charts. The tracks: Get Over It, Love Will Keep Us Alive, The Girl from Yesterday, Learn to Be Still, Tequila Sunrise, Hotel California, Wasted Time Pretty Maids All in a Row, I Can’t Tell You Why, New York Minute, The Last Resort, Take It Easy, In the City ,Life in the Fast Lane and Desperado. 1997 - Debuting in U.S. theatres: Alien Resurrection, with Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) continuing her fight against the evil, creepy bad killer thingies; and Flubber, where absent-minded professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams) creates the stuff which allows objects to fly through the air and bounce all over the place. Yes, it is based on the 1961 Disney classic, The Absent-Minded Professor. Birthdays November 26th 1792 - Sarah Moore Grimke antislavery/women’s rights advocate; died Dec 23, 1873 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker physician, women’s right leader: 1st female surgeon in U.S. Army; first woman to receive U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor; died Feb 21, 1919 1908 - Lefty (Vernon Louis) Gomez Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1932, 1936-1939/record: won six World Series games without a loss/all-star: 1933-1939/winning pitcher in first all-star game], Washington Nationals; died Feb 17, 1989 1909 - Eugène Ionesco playwright: The Bald Soprano, The Chairs; died Mar 29, 1994 1910 - Cyril Cusack actor: Far and Away, My Left Foot, The Tenth Man, 1984, True Confessions, Les Miserables, The Day of the Jackal, Sacco & Vanzetti, King Lear, Harold and Maude, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew, Fahrenheit 451, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Elusive Pimpernel, Odd Man Out, Late Extra; died Oct 7, 1993 1912 - (Arnold) Eric Sevareid Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: LBJ-The Man and the President, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [1972-73], The Agnew Resignation, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [10/10/73]; commentator: CBS; died July 9, 1992 1922 - Charles Schulz cartoonist: Peanuts; Emmy Award-winning writer: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [1973]; died Feb 12, 2000 1933 - Robert Goulet (Stanley Applebaum) singer: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, My Love Forgive Me, Camelot; actor: Mr. Wrong, Camelot, I’d Rather be Rich, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Scrooged, Blue Light; died Oct 30, 2007 1935 - Marian Mercer singer, actress: The Dean Martin Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters Show, Home Free, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, A Touch of Grace, The Sandy Duncan Show, It’s a Living, The Dom Deluise Show, The Andy Williams Show 1938 - Ray Brown singer: group: The Four Freshmen: Charmaine 1938 - Rich Little (Caruthers) comedian and impressionist: over 150 impressions; actor: The Late Shift, Happy Hour, Dirty Tricks 1939 - Tina Turner (Annie Bullock) Grammy Award-winning Pop Singer of the Year [1985]; What’s Love Got to Do with It, Private Dancer, We Don’t Need Another Hero, Theme from Goldeneye; w/Ike Turner: A Fool in Love, Proud Mary; Ike’s ex 1942 - Jan Stenerud Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kansas City Chiefs kicker: NFL career record: 373 field goals kicked [1967-85]; invented kicking tee used by most NFL kickers; Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings 1944 - Alan Henderson musician: bass: group: Them 1945 - John McVie musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Dreams 1946 - Art Shell Pro Football Hall of Famer: Oakland Raider LT, Super Bowl XI, XV; coach: Oakland Raiders 1947 - Richie (Richard Joseph) Hebner baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs 1947 - Larry (Lawrence Cyril) Gura baseball: pitcher: Arizona State all-American; Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, KC Royals [World Series: 1980/all-star: 1980] 1952 - Wendy Turnbull tennis: made it to the finals in singles Grand Slam events 3 times: 1977 U.S. Open, 1979 French Open and Australian Open; captured 9 Grand Slam Doubles and mixed doubles and 13 Senior Grand Slam doubles titles; won bronze medal at the Olympics in Seoul, South Korea in doubles [1988] 1954 - Bob Murray hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks player, coach 1956 - Scott Jacoby Emmy Award-winning actor: That Certain Summer, Wednesday Movie of the Week, To Die For series, Return to Horror High, Midnight Auto Supply, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Bad Ronald, Rivals 1959 - Jamie Rose actress: Falcon Crest, Lady Blue, To Die Standing, Playroom, Rebel Love, Tightrope, Heartbreakers, In Love with an Older Woman, Twirl 1960 - Johnny Hector football: NY Jets RB 1966 - Garcelle Beauvais model, actress: NYPD Blue, Coming to America, Models Inc, The Jamie Foxx Show, Wild Wild West Chart Toppers November 26th. 1949 Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer) I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard) A Dreamer’s Holiday - Perry Como Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely 1957 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley You Send Me - Sam Cooke My Special Angel - Bobby Helms Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers 1965 I Hear a Symphony - The Supremes 1-2-3 - Len Barry Rescue Me - Fontella Bass May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose - "Little" Jimmy Dickens 1973 Photograph - Ringo Starr Top of the World - Carpenters Space Race - Billy Preston Paper Roses - Marie Osmond 1981 Physical - Olivia Newton-John Waiting for a Girl like You - Foreigner Here I Am (Just When I Thought I was Over You) - Air Supply All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) - Hank Williams, Jr. 1989 Blame It on the Rain - Milli Vanilli Love Shack - The B-52’s (It’s Just) The Way That You Love Me - Paula Abdul Yellow Roses - Dolly Parton Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the contents. Thanks for your understanding.
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This our our rock & roll band I run sound for. Few rock tunes we do are....Smoke on the water, Road house blues, Bad girlfriend, ( Creed.Higher.).
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