Celebrity Birthdays and On-This-Day

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2003 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation.
1995 - Princess Diana admitted being unfaithful to Prince Charles in an interview that was broadcast on BBC Television.
1992 - A fire seriously damaged the northwest side of Windsor Castle in England.
1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.
1987 - "Sign 'O' The Times," Prince's concert movie, opened.
1962 - The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" was released.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.
1923 - The red, yellow, and green traffic light was patented.
1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.
1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights, the original 10 ammendments to the US Constitution.

Josh Turner (Country singer: "The Long Black Train", Would You Go With Me", "Your Man") 1977
Bo Derek ("10", "Tommy Boy") 1956
Joe Walsh (Guitarist for The Eagles: "Hotel California", and solo: "All Night Long", "Life's Been Good", "Ordinary Average Guy") 1947
Duane Allman (Guitarist for The Allman Brothers) 1946
Norman Greenbaum (had a one-hit-wonder in 1970: "Spirit In The Sky") 1942
Robert Kennedy (JFK's brother, assassinated in 1968) 1925
Alistar Cook (host of "Masterpiece Theater") 1908

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World "Hello" Day
World Television Day

2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential vote recounts going. George W. Bush was found to be the official winner.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state.
1983 - In Los Angeles, movie theatres premiered Michael Jackson's 11-minute "Thriller" video.
1980 - CBS aired the "who shot J.R.?" episode of "Dallas."
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas.
1877 - Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.
1871 - M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris.
1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.

Bjork (Icelandic Pop/Rock/Dance singer: "Army of Me", "Human Behavior", "I Miss You", "Joga", "Hidden Place", "Oceania", "Who Is It?", was in the musical/movie "Dancer in the Dark") 1965
Steven Curtis Chapman (Pop/rock singer had hits on Christian and mainstream radio: "I Will Be Here", "Dive", "Live Out Loud", "Burn the Ships", "All About Love", "All Things New", "Cinderella") 1962
Goldie Hawn (actress/commedian: "Overboard", "The Out of Towners", mother of Kate Hudson) 1945
William Beaumont (studied human digestion) 1785

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First day of Astrological sign Sagittarius
JFK is assassinated in 1963

2005 - Microsoft's XBOX 360 went on sale.
2005 - Ted Kopple appeared on "Nightline" for the last time.
1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison or second-degree murder.
1994 - "The Black Album" was released by Prince. It consisted of unreleased dance/funk songs from the past 15 years.
1990 - U.S. President Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old.
1968 - The Beatles released their double album called "The Beatles" (a.k.a. "The White Album").
1965 - The musical "Man of La Mancha (Don Quixote)" opened on Broadway. It ran for 2,328 performances.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President.
1927 - The snowblower is patented.
1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal that means "Save Our Souls."
1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times.

Scarlett Johansson (Began her career as a child actress: "North", "The Horse Whisperer", "Manny & Lo", "Ghost World", "The Island", "Girl With a Pearl Earring", "The Black Dahlia") 1984
Kate Ground(Internet model whose site is called "Kate's Playground") 1984
J.R. Carrington ('90s pornstar) 1968
Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween 1, 2, H2O, Resurrection", "Freaky Friday") 1958
Rodney Dangerfield (commedian that "gets no respect") 1928
Abagail Adams (wife of the 2nd US President John Adams) 1744

[Xray]

Cashew Day

1998 - Dennis Rodman filed for an annulment from Carmen Electra. The two had been married for 9 days on November 14, 1998.
1990 - MTV banned Madonna's "Justify My Love" video.
1961 - The Dominican Republic changed the name of its capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Domingo.
1958 - The radio drama "Have Gun Will Travel" debuted. The show began after the end of the TV show of the same name.
1948 - The zoom lens is patented.
1945 - The U.S. wartime rationing of most foods ended.
1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published.
1889 - The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.

Miley Cyrus (Daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus plays hannah Montana on the Disney Channel and is a singer popular with young teens) 1992
Ken Block (singer for Sister Hazel: "All For You", "Happy", "Change Your Mind", "Champagne High", "Your Mistake", "Sword and Shield", "World Inside My Head") 1966
Bruce Hornsby (Pianist for The Greatful Dead before going solo in the 80s and 90s: "Mandolin Rain", "The Way It Is") 1954
Johnny Mandel (composer of the "MASH" theme) 1925
Boris Karloff (Famous for many horror movies from 1916-1969, including "Frankenstein" in 1931) 1887
Billy the Kid (American Western outlaw shot at age 21) 1859
Franklin Pierce (14th US President 1853-57) 1804

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1991 - Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock band Queen, died of AIDS complications at the age of 45.
1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was published for the first time.
1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.
1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.
1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.
1871 - The National Rifle Association (NRA) was incorporated in the U.S.
1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old.

Katherine Heigel (TV: "Roswell", "Grey's Anatomy") 1978
Colin Hanks [Son of Tom, TV: "Roswell", Movies: "Orange County", "11:14", "King Kong (2005)"] 1977
Brad Sherwood (Commedian on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?") 1964
Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar on Season 1 of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", also on the series "Lois and Clark") 1957
Ted Bundy (American serial killer) 1946
Pete Best (original drummer for The Beatles before Ringo Starr) 1941
Zachary Taylor (12th US President 1849-50, died of dysentery while still in office) 1784

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1998 - The final episode of "Babylon 5" aired.
1998 - The first episode of the Japanese/American cartoon "The Powerpuff Girls" aired.
1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
1985 - Bobby Brown announced that he was leaving New Edition for a solo career.
1984 - Several British and American stars got together as Band-Aid, and recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas". The project was planned by Bob Geldof. The proceeds of the record went to Ethiopian famine relief.
1955 - In the U.S., the Interstate Commerce Commission banned racial segregation on interstate trains and buses.
1949 - Gene Autry released the first recorded version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
1884 - J.B. Meyenberg received the patent for evaporated milk.
1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1783 - During the Revolutionary War, the British evacuated New York. New York was their last military position in the U.S.

Barbara and Jenna Bush (US President George W. Bush's twin daughters) 1981
Christina Applegate (The daughter Kelly on the sitcom "Married With Children") 1971
Jill Hennessey (TV's: "Crossing Jordan") 1968
Amy Grant (Christian pop singer also had mainstream hits: "Out In the Open", "Simple Things", "Baby, Baby", "Lucky One") 1960
Ricardo Montalban (was in several "Planet of the Apes" movies and the first "Naked Gun" movie) 1920
Joe DiMaggio (US Baseball star - With Yankees went to 10 World Series, married Marilyn Monroe) 1914

[Xray]

Thanksgiving (USA)
Day of the Covenant Bahá'í Faith (Persian religion)

1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.
1950 - China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.
1943 - The slinky is invented. Richard James was a naval engineer trying to develop a meter designed to monitor horsepower on naval battleships. Richard was working with tension springs when one of the springs fell to the ground. He saw how the spring kept moving after it hit the ground and an idea for a toy was born.
1942 - The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1922 - King Tut's tomb is opened.
1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1861 - West Virginia was created (out of Virginia) over a dispute of slavery. West Virginia was against slavery.
1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.

Aurora Snow (Pornstar) 1981
Tina Turner 1939
Robert Goulet (Las Vegas lounge singer) 1933
Charles Schultz (creator of the comic strip "Peanuts") 1922

[Xray]

2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
1980 - The sitcom series "Bosom Buddies" debuted on ABC, kicking off the career of Tom Hanks.
1976 - Queen's "Somebody To Love" was released.
1973 - The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
1967 - Capitol Records released the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album in the U.S. Singles included "Penny Lane", "I Am the Walrus", and "Hello Goodbye."
1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress after the death of President John F. Kennedy.
1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

"Shy Love" (Began in porn in 2003) 1978
Mika Okinawa aka Mika Tan (pornstar began in 1999) 1977
Jaleel White (Played Steve Urkel on the '90s sitcom "Family Matters") 1976
Twista aka Tung Twista (born Carl Terrell Mitchell) (Fastest rapper in the world, famous for the song "Overnight Celebrity") 1973
Brooke Langton (Samantha on the American primetime soap "Melrose Place") 1970
Caroline Kennedy (JFK's daughter) 1957
William Fichtner (Tom Underlay on the series "Invasion" and Agent Alexander Mahone on "Prison Break") 1956
Rick Rockwell (star of "Who Wants To Marry a Millionaire" reality show, married (and divorced) Darva Conger from the show) 1956
Jimi Hendrix (Guitar wizard played at the Woodstock music festival) 1942
Eddie Rabbit (country/pop singer sang "I Love a Rainy Night") 1941
Bruce Lee (Martial Arts actor: "Enter The Dragon", died in 1972 at age 32) 1940
"Buffalo" Bob Smith (Hosted 1950s-60s children's series "Howdy Doody" for 13 years) 1917
Anders Celsius (inventor of the Celsius temperature system) 1701

[Xray]

1989 - Prince's song "Scandalous," from the Batman Soundtrack, was released.
1984 - Prince's "I Would Die 4 U" became the fourth single from the album "Purple Rain."
1970 - Elton John's "Your Song" was released.
1582 - William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway (not that one) were married.

Cody Lane (Pornstar began in early 2006) 1986
Hakeem Seriki aka Chamillionaire (rapper known for the song "Ridin' Dirty" and known for not doing drugs) 1979
Anna Nicole Smith (Playboy Playmate, was in "Naked Gun 3", married a 90-year-old billionare, had a reality show) 1973
Clifton Todd Britt aka Lexington Steele [Black pornstar known for his 10-inch (27 cm) penis, graduated from Syracuse University in NY State as a stockbroker] 1969
Stephnie Weir ("MadTV") 1967
Jon Stewart (host of the comedy news program "The Daily Show") 1962
Paul Shaffer (Talk show host David Letterman's bandleader and sidekick got his start as the bandleader of "Saturday Night Live" in the 1970s-early 80s) 1949

[Xray]

2004 - Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
1963 - The Beatles' fifth single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was released in Britain.
1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.

Krystal Steal (Pornstar began in 2001) 1982
Jon Knight (New Kids on the Block) 1968
Kim Delaney (Star of several TV series: "Tour of Duty", "NYPD Blue", "Philly", "The O.C.") 1961
Madaline L'Engle (Author of the Christian Young Adult series that began with "A Wrinkle In Time") 1918
C.S. Lewis (Christian author of the "Narnia" series and "The Screwtape Letters") 1898
Louisa May Alcott (Author of "Little Women" and "Little Men") 1832