DYR Today, December 30

“Born Today”

• Ellie Goulding (30)
• Caity Lotz (30)
• Lebron James (32)
• Andra Day (32)
• Kevin Systrom (33)
• Kristin Kreuk (34)
• Eliza Dushku (36)
• Tyrese Gibson (38)
• Laila Ali (39)
• Tiger Woods (41)
• Jason behr (43)
• Daniel Sunjata (45)
• Dave England (47)
• Jay Kay (47)
• Meredith Monroe (48)
• Heidi Fleiss (51)
• Sean Hannity (55)
• Matt Lauer (59)
• Sheryl Lee Ralph (60)
• Meredith Vieira (63)
• Jeff Lynne (69)
• Patti Smith (70)
• Michael Nesmith (74) Featured Above
• James Burrows (77)
• Russ Tamblyn (82)
• Joseph Bologna (82)

“Died Today”

• Sonny Liston (Born: May 8, 1932 / Died: December 30, 1970)

“Movies”

• 1966 – One Million Years B.C. (U.K.)
• 1971 – Diamonds Are Forever (U.K.)
• 1972 – The Way of the Dragon (Hong Kong)
• 1983 – The Makioka Sisters
• 1998 – The Hi-Lo Country
• 1998 – Another Day in Paradise

“Music”

• 1961 – “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens was the #1 song

• 1961 – Jimmy Dean had the #1 Adult Contemporary song with “Big Bad Wolf”
• 1967 – The Beatles ruled the chart with “hello, Goodbye”
• 1969 – Santana released the single “Evil Ways”
• 1972 – Bread had the top song with “Sweet Surrender”

• 1978 – Chic had the top song with “Le Freak”
• 1989 – The top song was “Another Day in Paradise”

• 1989 – …But Seriously by Phil Collins was the top album
• 1995 – “Waiting to Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” stayed the #1 song

“TV/Radio”

• 1956 – Walt Disney had an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
• 1963 – Let’s Make A Deal premiered on TV

• 1980 – The Wonderful World of Disney was cancelled

“Other Important Events…”

• 1953 – The first colored TV set went on sale for $1,175