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“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” https://www.youtube.com/watch?vvLom-87AmO8 1984 - Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” was the #1 song on the Billboard top 100 1984 - Purple Rain still dominated the Billboard 200 chart https://www.youtube.com/watch?vvHxmctgKFL8 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.