Music

“Born Today” Ronnie Radke (33) Camilla Luddington (33) Charlie Cox (34) Michelle Dockery (35) Brendan Fletcher (35) Adam Brody (37) Geoff Stults (39) Surya Bonaly (43) Stuart Townsend (44) Imani (45) Michael Shanks (46) Helen Slater (53) Donna Brazile (57) John Lee Hancock, Jr. (60) Julie Tamer (64) Don Johnson (67) Rodney Bingenheimer (69) Dave Clarke (74) Cindy Birdsong (77) Tim Conway (83) Featured Above Gustave Eiffel (RIP) “Died Today” Walt Disney (Born: December 5, 1901 / Died: December 15, 1966) Joan Fontaine (Born: October 22, 1917 / Died: December 15, 2013) “Movies” 1964 - Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1965 - The Flight of the Phoenix 1967 - Valley of the Dolls 1970 - The Wild Country 1974 - Young Frankenstein 1977 - ABBA: The Movie (Australia) 1978 - Superman 1982 - Honkytonk Man 1984 - The Return of Godzilla (Japan) 1989 - The Wizard 1993 - Schindler's List (Canada) 1995 - Heat 1995 - Othello 1995 - Sabrina 1995 - Jumanji 2000 - Chocolat 2000 - Dude, Where’s My Car? 2000 - The Emperor’s New Groove 2000 - What Women Want “Music” 1962 - “Big Girls Don’t Cry” remained the #1 song for its fifth week on the Adult Contemporary chart 1962 - Steve Lawrence was #1 on the charts with his single “Go Away Little Girl" https://youtu.be/unu3bhxPd_g 1964 - The album Beatles ‘65 was released 1973 - Helen Reddy remained on top of the Adult charts with “Leave Me Alone (Red Ruby Dress)” 1973 - Charlie Rich was #1 with the single “The Most Beautiful Girl” https://www.youtube.com/watch?vew9f-Pq3Wsk 1979 - “Babe” by Styx was the #1 song 1984 - Purple Rain stayed the #1 album for its 20th week 1990 - Ralph Tresvant had the top song on the R&B chart with “Sensitivity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?vxhfhVSUCLY4 1990 - To The Extreme by Vanilla Ice was the #1 album "TV & Radio” 1950 - The Donald Duck short Out on a Limb was released 1968 - Grace Slick appeared in blackface when Jefferson Airplane appeared on the "Smothers Brothers" TV show on CBS. https://youtu.be/dZtKjv1qDZM 1977 - The Sex Pistols were denied visas to enter the U.S. only two days before they are to appear on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." 1994 - "Elvis - The Tribute" aired on ABC-TV. https://youtu.be/BqojS9wzrPY 1999 - Garth Brooks said on TNN's "Crook & Chase" show that he planned to keep an "extremely low" profile in 2000 and that he would "probably" announce his retirement at the end of the year. "Other Important Events...” 1877 - Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. 1938 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presided over the ground-breaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. 1939 - "Gone With the Wind," produced by David O. Selznick based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. The movie starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into practice Bill of Rights Day. 1964 - Canada's House of Commons approved a newly designed flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag.