DYR Today, December 22

“Born Today”

• Meghan Trainor (23)
• Ali Lohan (23)
• Jordin Sparks (27)
• Greg Finley (32)
• Jennifer Hawkins (33)
• Joe Dinicol (33)
• Chris Carmack (36)
• Mia Tyler (38)
• Heather Donahue (42)
• Vanessa Paradis (44)
• Ted Cruz (46)
• Dina Meyer (48)
• Ralph Fiennes (54)
• Luther Campbell (56)
• Bern Nadette Stanis (63)
• Diane Sawyer (71)
• Hector Elizondo (80)
• Lady Bird Johnson (RIP)
• Robin Gibb (RIP) Featured Above
• Maurice Gibb (RIP) Featured Above

“Died Today”

• Beatrix Potter (Born: July 28, 1866 / Died: December 22, 1943)
• Chico Mendes (Born: December 15, 1944 / Died: December 22, 1988)
• Samuel Beckett (Born: April 13, 1906 / Died: December 22, 1989)
• Joe Cocker (Born: May 20, 1944 / Died: December 22, 2014)

“Movies”

• 1964 – Kiss Me, Stupid
• 1965 – Doctor Zhivago (UK)
• 1968 – The Night They Raided Minsky’s
• 1971 – Star Spangled Girl
• 1972 – Snowball Express
• 1982 – Kiss Me Goodbye
• 1989 – Always
• 1989 – Tango & Cash
• 1991 – Rush
• 1995 – Cutthroat Island
• 1995 – Dracula: Dead and Loving It
• 1995 – Grumpier Old Men
• 1995 – Sudden Death
• 1995 – Tom and Huck
• 1995 – Waiting to Exhale
• 1995 – Balto
• 1999 – Any Given Sunday
• 1999 – Man on the Moon
• 2000 – Cast Away
• 2000 – Dracula 2000
• 2000 – Finding Forrester
• 2000 – Miss Congeniality
• 2000 – O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• 2000 – The Family Man
• 2000 – The Gift

“Music”

• 1962 – Steve Lawrence was #1, on the Adult Contemporary chart, for a second week with “Go Away Little Girl”
• 1973 – Charlie Rich was #1 with his single “The Most Beautiful Girl”
• 1979 – Rupert Holmes was #1 with the single “Escape”

• 1984 – Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” was the #1 song on the Billboard top 100
• 1984 – Purple Rain still dominated the Billboard 200 chart

• 1990 – To the Extreme by Vanilla Ice was the #1 album for its seventh week
• 1990 – George Strait had the #1 country song with “I’ve Come to Expect it From You”

“TV/Radio”

• 1931 – The first experimental TV broadcast from a transmitter atop the Empire State Building took place. The transmitter was put up by NBC on October 30, 1931.
• 1975 – Mike and Gloria Stivic had a baby on CBS-TV’s “All In The Family.”

• 1976 – Production ended for “Let’s Make a Deal.”
• 1994 – The 100th episode of “Beavis and Butt-head” aired on MTV.

“Other Important Events…”

• 1882 – The first electric christmas tree lights, created by Thomas Edison, are displayed.