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Sunday, December 5, 2010
LET’S GET ORGANIZED DAY
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was the first national association of craft unions in the United States to represent the practical economic interests of its members (dating back to the 1880s).
The CIO (originally known as the Committee for Industrial Organization) represented workers in the mass-production industries, such as the automobile industry, and was a part of the AFL. After the AFL decided to expel the group in 1938, the CIO reorganized as the Congress of Industrial Organizations and operated on its own.
On this day in 1955, after many years of rivalry, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to become the AFL-CIO. Not all national unions belong to the AFL-CIO. The Teamsters Union was kicked out in 1957 and the United Auto Workers pulled out in 1968.
The AFL-CIO has five major activities (in addition to keeping itself organized): 1) To work for laws favorable to labor and general welfare; 2) To help organize workers who are not in labor unions; 3) To settle disputes and encourage friendly relations among member unions; 4) To take part in the world labor movement through the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, an association of unions from all parts of the free world; and 5) To help educate union members and the general public about the aims of organized labor.
The organization of organizations celebrates its birthday today. Let’s walk a picket line in their honor.
Events December 5
1792 - George Washington was re-elected president of the United States and John Adams was re-elected vice president.
1868 - The first American bicycle school opened in New York City. It announced courses for velocipede riding.
1876 - The fabulous Stillson wrench was patented by D.C. Stillson of Somerville, MA. What the heck is a Stillson wrench you ask? Actually, it was the first practical pipe wrench.
1908 - Numerals were used for the first time on football uniforms worn by college football players. The University of Pittsburgh Panthers proudly displayed their new numbers in a game with Washington and Jefferson.
1929 - The American League for Physical Culture was barely organized this day in New York City. Just what is the ALPC? If you guessed nudist organization, you were correct!
1933 - Drinkers toasted the end of Prohibition in the U.S. It had been 14 years between (legal) drinks. The long dry spell ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (repealing the 18th Amendment, which had prohibited all booze).
1941 - The Russian counteroffensive in Moscow succeeded in driving out the Nazi army.
1944 - Allied troops liberated Ravenna, Italy. The Allies were able to overcome German fortifications along the city’s two rivers manned by three infantry divisions supported by tanks and 88mm guns. Ravenna was renowned for its treasures of Byzantine art.
1948 - The first church service in sign language for the hearing impaired was broadcast from St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church for the Deaf in Jamaica, Long Island. WPIX-TV, Channel 11 in New York aired the telecast.
1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC. A single attendant, without entering a car, could automatically park or return an auto to or from the ‘Park-O-Mat’ in less than a minute.
1952 - The Abbott and Costello Show started a 52-episode, syndicated run on TV. Comedians BUD Abbott and Lou Costello became such big hits that those same 52 episodes were run over and over on local and network TV for years.
1952 - Mutual radio broadcast The Green Hornet for the final time. The show left the air after 15 years on Mutual, NBC and ABC. The Green Hornet reappeared in 1966, this time on TV.
1957 - New York City became the first U.S. city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in the housing market as the Fair Housing Practices Law was adopted.
1962 - U.S. President John Kennedy discussed stockpiling nuclear weapons to deter Soviet attacks with senior staff (including Defense Secretary McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor).
1967 - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg were arrested for protesting the Vietnam war.
1973 - Paul McCartney released his Band on the Run album. There were 32 tracks on the LP, including Jet, Bluebird, No Words, Picasso’s Last Words and Helen Wheels.
1975 - England announced the end of its policy of detaining terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland without trial.
1977 - Egypt broke diplomatic relations with five Arab nations which were hostile to President Anwar Sadat’s peace overtures to Israel.
1978 - The American space probe Pioneer Venus I, in orbit around Venus, began beaming back its first information and picture of the planet to scientists on Earth.
1979 - Feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
1983 - The first video arcade game licensed by the National Football League was unveiled in Chicago. Bally Manufacturing named it, appropriately enough, NFL Football.
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, at age 37, was the oldest player in the National Basketball Association. He decided to push those weary bones just one more year by signing with the Los Angeles Lakers -- for $2 million. Other NBA greats who played for 16 seasons include John Havlicek of Boston, Dolph Shayes of Philadelphia, Paul Ilas of Seattle and Elvin Hayes of Houston.
1985 - Walter Pleate, America’s oldest military veteran, died on this day at age 108. He was one of a dozen living veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898).
1985 - A bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite claret (initialed by Thomas Jefferson) sold at Christie’s London for 105,000 British Pounds ($157,500).
1988 - A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted PTL founder Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch on fraud and conspiracy charges. (Bakker was convicted of all counts Oct 24, 1989; Dortch pleaded guilty to four counts and cooperated with prosecutors in exchange for a lighter sentence.)
1990 - Salman Rushdie, the author who had been sentenced to death by Iran for blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses, appeared in public for the first time in two years.
1992 - The rapper known as Ice Cube hit it big as his The Predator became the #1 album in the U.S. The tracks: The First Day of School (Intro), When Will They Shoot?, I’m Scared (Insert), Wicked, Now I Gotta Wet’ Cha, The Predator, It Was a Good Day, We Had to Tear This ________ Up, ________ ’Em (Instert), Dirty Mack, Don’t Trust ’Em, Gangsta’s Farytale 2, Check Yo Self (Featuring DAS EFX), Who Got the Camera?, Intergration (Insert), Say Hi to the Bad Guy.
1993 - U.S. astronauts began the repair of Hubble Telescope in space.
1994 - Newt Gingrich was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatvies. He was the first Republican Speaker of the House in some four decades. (Gingrich took over as Speaker when the House convened on Jan. 4, 1995.)
1995 - Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo, four aides and a dozen top businessmen were indicted in a bribes-for-favors scandal.
1996 - The baseball players union executive board unanimously approved a new collective bargaining agreement, marking the end of the longest labor dispute in baseball history. The new agreement introduced a Luxury Tax, revenue sharing, interleague play, and several provisions designed to compel the future cooperation of owners and players.
1997 - Good Will Hunting opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgard. Williams won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Affleck and Damon won for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
1998 - James P. Hoffa won the Teamsters presidency after challenger Tom Leedham conceded defeat in the union's presidential election. Leedham said it was difficult to compete against Hoffa’s name recognition, financing and more than four years of campaigning for the top post of the largest private sector union in the U.S.
1998 - R. Kelly & Celine Dion were number one in the U.S with their single, I’m Your Angel.
1999 - AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney welcomed the collapse of World Trade Organization talks in Seattle and the failure to agree on a new round of negotiations, saying, “No deal is better than a bad deal.”
2000 - Florida’s supreme court agreed to a speedy hearing of Al Gore’s appeal of a ruling that had, in effect, awarded George W. Bush Florida’s 25 electoral votes.
2001 - The FBI arrested escaped fugitive Clayton Lee Waagner in St. Louis. Waagner mailed as many as 550 anthrax hoax letters to abortion clinics. In 2002 Waagner was found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, of interstate transmission and mailing of threatening communications, and of threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction; he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, 53, of New Zealand, two-time America’s Cup winner, was killed on the research vessel Seamaster by river bandits at Macapa, Brazil, near the mouth of the Amazon.
2002 - Trent Lott, Senate Republican leader from Mississippi, made remarks that praised Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist platform. The resulting firestorm prompted Lott to resign his leadership position. The remarks were made as Thurmond was celebrating his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill; he was the oldest and longest-serving Senator in U.S. history.
2002 - ABC-TV sports executive Roone Arledge died in New York. He was 71 years old.
2003 - New films in U.S. theatres: Honey, with Jessica Alba, Lil’ Romeo, Mekhi Phifer, David Moscow, Zachary Williams, Joy Bryant, and Lonette McKee; The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, and Tony Goldwyn; and What Alice Found, starring Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Michael Maronna, Justin Parkinson, and David Ro.
2004 - Indian and peasant organizations in Bolivia, promising better access to health care and education, won every major city in local elections, trouncing long-dominant parties.
2005 - The 23rd Southeast Asian Games (known as the 2005 SEA Games) ended; the Philippines achieved the top medal ranking for the first time.
2005 - The United Kingdom began registration of civil unions for same-sex couples, as per the Civil Partnership Act 2004
2005 - Venezuelan parliamentary elections resulted in Hugo Chávez’s party and allies winning all 167 seats. Opposition parties boycotted the election claiming fraud.
2006 - New York became the first U.S. city to ban trans fats at restaurants. The New York City Board of Health ordered unanimously that trans fats must be removed from frying oils by July 2007 and from all foods by July 2008.
2007 - A screwball teenager fired down on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert Hawkins eventually killed himself, but his victims before doing so included six store employees and two customers. Hawkins left a suicide note saying that he wouldn’t be a burden on his family anymore and that “now I’ll be famous.” Make that, “infamous.”
2007 - Medecins Sans Frontieres, an international aid organization, said Angolan soldiers routinely and repeatedly raped Congolese women who crossed the border illegally in search of work in the diamond fields.
2008 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Extreme Movie, with Ryan Pinkston, Michael Cera, Frankie Muniz and Jamie Kennedy; Frost/Nixon, starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt and Kate Jennings Grant; and Punisher: War Zone, with Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchinson, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight, Dash Mihok and Julie Benz.
2008 - Japan approved a law granting citizenship to all children born out of wedlock to Japanese fathers, as long as the fathers acknowledge the children. This, regardless of the nationality of the mothers of the children.
2008 - Dutch-born Hollywood film star Nina Foch died in Los Angeles at 85 years of age. Her films included An American in Paris [1951], Executive Suite [1954, for which she received an Academy Award-nomination], The Ten Commandments [1956] and Spartacus [1960].
2008 - O.J. Simpson was sentenced in Las Vegas to 9-33 years in prison for kidnapping and assaulting two sports memorabilia dealers with a deadly weapon.
2009 - Italian tax police seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other famous artists in a crackdown on assets hidden by Calisto Tanzi, the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat.
2009 - A blaze sparked by fireworks on stage tore through the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, in the Ural Mountains of Russia. By late December the death toll reached 152 with 74 people still hospitalized. It was the country’s deadliest fire since the fall of the Soviet Union.
2009 - A barn fire killed two workers and 43 horses at a harness racing track at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio (25 miles northeast of Cincinnati). The two victims worked in the barns and had been living in the area of the barn where the fire started.
Birthdays December 5
1782 - Martin Van Buren
8th U.S. President [1837-1841]; first to be born a U.S. citizen; married to Hannah Hoes [four sons]; nickname: The Little Magician; died July 24, 1862
1839 - General George Armstrong Custer
U.S. military officer; killed in battle at Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876
1870 - Bill Pickett
rodeo cowboy: first to bulldog - wrestle a running steer to the ground; died Apr 2, 1932
1894 - Phillip K. Wrigley
corporate executive: Wrigley Gum; died Apr 12, 1977
1901 - Walt (Walter Elias) Disney
cartoonist: 1st color-animated cartoon: Steamboat Willie; creator of: Mickey Mouse, Disneyland; Emmy Award-winning producer: Disneyland film series [1955], Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color [1962-1963]; died Dec 15, 1966
1902 - Strom Thurmond
U.S. Senator from South Carolina since 1954 [first person in U.S. history to be elected to a major office by write-in ballot]; governor of South Carolina [1947-1951]; died Jun 26, 2003
1905 - Otto (Ludwig) Preminger
director: In Harm’s Way, Advise and Consent, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, Forever Amber, Laura; died Apr 23, 1986
1916 - Margaret (Maggie) Hayes
actress: Omar Khayyam, Blackboard Jungle, Sullivan’s Travels, In Old Colorado, Robert Montgomery Presents; died Jan 26, 1977
1922 - Don Robertson
Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Famer: I Really Don’t Want to Know, I Don’t Hurt Anymore, Please Help Me I’m Fallin’, I Love You More and More Each Day; whistler: The Happy Whistler
1930 - Larry Kert
actor, singer, dancer: West Side Story original cast [1957]; died June 5, 1991
1932 - Jim Hurtubise
auto racer: National Sprint Car Hall of Famer; died Jan 6, 1989
1932 - ‘Little’ Richard (Pennimann)
singer: Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti Frutti, Slippin’ and Slidin’, Long Tall Sally, Rip It Up, Ready Teddy, The Girl Can’t Help It, Lucille, Keep a Knockin’; preacher
1934 - Joan Didion
author: Run River, After Henry, Democracy, A Star is Born
1935 - Calvin Trillin
author: American Stories, Remembering Denny, Uncivil Liberties, If You Can’t Say Something Nice; writer: New Yorker magazine
1936 - Chad Mitchell
singer: group: Chad Mitchell Trio: Lizzie Borden
1938 - J.D. (John Delphus) McDuffie
NASCAR auto racer: killed in Watkins Glen crash Aug 11, 1991
1944 - Jeroen Krabbé
actor: Immortal Beloved, King of the Hill, The Fugitive, Stalin, Robin Hood, The Prince of Tides, Crossing Delancey, Dynasty
1945 - Pam Higgins
golf: touring pro: 3 victories in 14 years on the LPGA Tour
1945 - Jose Carreras
singer: tenor: New York Metropolitan Opera
1947 - Jim Messina
musician: duo: Loggins and Messina: Your Mama Don’t Dance, Danny’s Song, Thinking of You, My Music; groups: Buffalo Springfield, Poco; solo: LPs: Oasis, Messina
1947 - Jim Plunkett
football: Oakland and LA Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl: XV, XVIII; Heisman Trophy winner: Stanford University [1970]; New England Patriots Rookie of the Year [1971], San Francisco 49ers
1949 - Lanny Wadkins
golf: PGA champion [1977], PGA Player of the Year [1985]
1950 - Steve Furness
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: Super Bowl: IX, X, XIII, XIV
1951 - Morgan Brittany (Suzanne Cupito)
actress: Dallas, Glitter, Moviola, Sundown, LBJ: The Early Years, The Prodigal, The Initiation of Sarah
1951 - Gordon Browne
football: NY Jets
1952 - Andy Kim
songwriter, singer: Rock Me Gently, How’d We Ever Get This Way, Rainbow Ride, Baby, I Love You
1957 - Art Monk
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Washington Redskins wide receiver: Super Bowl XVIII, XXII, XXVI
1960 - Les Nemes
musician: bass: group: Haircut 100
1960 - Jack Russell
singer: group: Great White
1963 - Carrie Hamilton
actress: Fame, Cool World, Shag: The Movie, Tokyo Pop, Hostage, daughter of comedienne, Carol Burnett; died Jan 20, 2002
1964 - Pablo Morales
Olympic Gold Medalist: swimmer [1984, 1992]; holds men’s world record for 100 meter butterfly [1986]; head swimming coach: Univ of Nebraska
1965 - John Rzeznik
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: group: Goo Goo Dolls: Give a Little Bit, Broadway, Dizzy, Slide, Big Machine, Black Balloon, We Are the Normal, Here Is Gone, Iris, Bang!
1967 - Joseph Barbara
actor: Broadway: Grease, Tony and Tina’s Wedding; films: Pride and Loyalty, The Stand-In; TV: All My Children, Another World
1968 - Margaret Cho
actress: All-American Girl, TV guest host: Girls’ Night Out
1972 - Cliff Floyd
baseball: Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets
1972 - Felix Rodriguez
baseball [pitcher]: Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals
1973 - Shalom Harlow
fashion model [Donna Karen, Ralph Laure, Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi, Christian Dior]; actress: In & Out, Head Over Heels, Happy Here and Now
1974 - Charlie Batch
football [quarterback]: Eastern Michigan Univ; NFL: Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers
1979 - Nick Stahl
actor: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Bully, Seasons of Love, The Thin Red Line, Disturbing Behaviour, Incident in a Small Town, The Man Without a Face, Woman with a Past
1985 - Frankie Muniz
actor: Malcolm in the Middle, My Dog Skip, The Andy **** Show, Dr. Dolittle 2
Chart Toppers December 5
1949Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard)
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1958To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
Beep Beep - The Playmates
One Night - Elvis Presley
City Lights - Ray Price
1967Daydream Believer - The Monkees
The Rain, the Park and Other Things - The Cowsills
I Say a Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick
It’s the Little Things - Sonny James
1976Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
The Rubberband Man - Spinners
Love So Right - Bee Gees
Good Woman Blues - Mel Tillis
1985Separate Lives - Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
Never - Heart
Too Much on My Heart - The Statler Brothers
1994On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men
Here Comes the Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Another Night - Real McCoy
The Big One - George Strait
2003Hey Ya! - Outkast
Baby Boy - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Sean Paul
Suga Suga - Baby Bash featuring Frankie J
I Love This Bar - Toby Keith
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Chart Topper December 5th, 1976...The Rubberband Man - Spinners
339th day of 2010 - 26 remaining
Sunday, December 5, 2010
LET’S GET ORGANIZED DAY
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was the first national association of craft unions in the United States to represent the practical economic interests of its members (dating back to the 1880s).
The CIO (originally known as the Committee for Industrial Organization) represented workers in the mass-production industries, such as the automobile industry, and was a part of the AFL. After the AFL decided to expel the group in 1938, the CIO reorganized as the Congress of Industrial Organizations and operated on its own.
On this day in 1955, after many years of rivalry, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to become the AFL-CIO. Not all national unions belong to the AFL-CIO. The Teamsters Union was kicked out in 1957 and the United Auto Workers pulled out in 1968.
The AFL-CIO has five major activities (in addition to keeping itself organized): 1) To work for laws favorable to labor and general welfare; 2) To help organize workers who are not in labor unions; 3) To settle disputes and encourage friendly relations among member unions; 4) To take part in the world labor movement through the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, an association of unions from all parts of the free world; and 5) To help educate union members and the general public about the aims of organized labor.
The organization of organizations celebrates its birthday today. Let’s walk a picket line in their honor.
Events December 5
1792 - George Washington was re-elected president of the United States and John Adams was re-elected vice president.
1868 - The first American bicycle school opened in New York City. It announced courses for velocipede riding.
1876 - The fabulous Stillson wrench was patented by D.C. Stillson of Somerville, MA. What the heck is a Stillson wrench you ask? Actually, it was the first practical pipe wrench.
1908 - Numerals were used for the first time on football uniforms worn by college football players. The University of Pittsburgh Panthers proudly displayed their new numbers in a game with Washington and Jefferson.
1929 - The American League for Physical Culture was barely organized this day in New York City. Just what is the ALPC? If you guessed nudist organization, you were correct!
1933 - Drinkers toasted the end of Prohibition in the U.S. It had been 14 years between (legal) drinks. The long dry spell ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (repealing the 18th Amendment, which had prohibited all booze).
1941 - The Russian counteroffensive in Moscow succeeded in driving out the Nazi army.
1944 - Allied troops liberated Ravenna, Italy. The Allies were able to overcome German fortifications along the city’s two rivers manned by three infantry divisions supported by tanks and 88mm guns. Ravenna was renowned for its treasures of Byzantine art.
1948 - The first church service in sign language for the hearing impaired was broadcast from St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church for the Deaf in Jamaica, Long Island. WPIX-TV, Channel 11 in New York aired the telecast.
1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC. A single attendant, without entering a car, could automatically park or return an auto to or from the ‘Park-O-Mat’ in less than a minute.
1952 - The Abbott and Costello Show started a 52-episode, syndicated run on TV. Comedians BUD Abbott and Lou Costello became such big hits that those same 52 episodes were run over and over on local and network TV for years.
1952 - Mutual radio broadcast The Green Hornet for the final time. The show left the air after 15 years on Mutual, NBC and ABC. The Green Hornet reappeared in 1966, this time on TV.
1957 - New York City became the first U.S. city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in the housing market as the Fair Housing Practices Law was adopted.
1962 - U.S. President John Kennedy discussed stockpiling nuclear weapons to deter Soviet attacks with senior staff (including Defense Secretary McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor).
1967 - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg were arrested for protesting the Vietnam war.
1973 - Paul McCartney released his Band on the Run album. There were 32 tracks on the LP, including Jet, Bluebird, No Words, Picasso’s Last Words and Helen Wheels.
1975 - England announced the end of its policy of detaining terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland without trial.
1977 - Egypt broke diplomatic relations with five Arab nations which were hostile to President Anwar Sadat’s peace overtures to Israel.
1978 - The American space probe Pioneer Venus I, in orbit around Venus, began beaming back its first information and picture of the planet to scientists on Earth.
1979 - Feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
1983 - The first video arcade game licensed by the National Football League was unveiled in Chicago. Bally Manufacturing named it, appropriately enough, NFL Football.
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, at age 37, was the oldest player in the National Basketball Association. He decided to push those weary bones just one more year by signing with the Los Angeles Lakers -- for $2 million. Other NBA greats who played for 16 seasons include John Havlicek of Boston, Dolph Shayes of Philadelphia, Paul Ilas of Seattle and Elvin Hayes of Houston.
1985 - Walter Pleate, America’s oldest military veteran, died on this day at age 108. He was one of a dozen living veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898).
1985 - A bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite claret (initialed by Thomas Jefferson) sold at Christie’s London for 105,000 British Pounds ($157,500).
1988 - A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted PTL founder Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch on fraud and conspiracy charges. (Bakker was convicted of all counts Oct 24, 1989; Dortch pleaded guilty to four counts and cooperated with prosecutors in exchange for a lighter sentence.)
1990 - Salman Rushdie, the author who had been sentenced to death by Iran for blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses, appeared in public for the first time in two years.
1992 - The rapper known as Ice Cube hit it big as his The Predator became the #1 album in the U.S. The tracks: The First Day of School (Intro), When Will They Shoot?, I’m Scared (Insert), Wicked, Now I Gotta Wet’ Cha, The Predator, It Was a Good Day, We Had to Tear This ________ Up, ________ ’Em (Instert), Dirty Mack, Don’t Trust ’Em, Gangsta’s Farytale 2, Check Yo Self (Featuring DAS EFX), Who Got the Camera?, Intergration (Insert), Say Hi to the Bad Guy.
1993 - U.S. astronauts began the repair of Hubble Telescope in space.
1994 - Newt Gingrich was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatvies. He was the first Republican Speaker of the House in some four decades. (Gingrich took over as Speaker when the House convened on Jan. 4, 1995.)
1995 - Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo, four aides and a dozen top businessmen were indicted in a bribes-for-favors scandal.
1996 - The baseball players union executive board unanimously approved a new collective bargaining agreement, marking the end of the longest labor dispute in baseball history. The new agreement introduced a Luxury Tax, revenue sharing, interleague play, and several provisions designed to compel the future cooperation of owners and players.
1997 - Good Will Hunting opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgard. Williams won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Affleck and Damon won for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
1998 - James P. Hoffa won the Teamsters presidency after challenger Tom Leedham conceded defeat in the union's presidential election. Leedham said it was difficult to compete against Hoffa’s name recognition, financing and more than four years of campaigning for the top post of the largest private sector union in the U.S.
1998 - R. Kelly & Celine Dion were number one in the U.S with their single, I’m Your Angel.
1999 - AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney welcomed the collapse of World Trade Organization talks in Seattle and the failure to agree on a new round of negotiations, saying, “No deal is better than a bad deal.”
2000 - Florida’s supreme court agreed to a speedy hearing of Al Gore’s appeal of a ruling that had, in effect, awarded George W. Bush Florida’s 25 electoral votes.
2001 - The FBI arrested escaped fugitive Clayton Lee Waagner in St. Louis. Waagner mailed as many as 550 anthrax hoax letters to abortion clinics. In 2002 Waagner was found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, of interstate transmission and mailing of threatening communications, and of threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction; he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, 53, of New Zealand, two-time America’s Cup winner, was killed on the research vessel Seamaster by river bandits at Macapa, Brazil, near the mouth of the Amazon.
2002 - Trent Lott, Senate Republican leader from Mississippi, made remarks that praised Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist platform. The resulting firestorm prompted Lott to resign his leadership position. The remarks were made as Thurmond was celebrating his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill; he was the oldest and longest-serving Senator in U.S. history.
2002 - ABC-TV sports executive Roone Arledge died in New York. He was 71 years old.
2003 - New films in U.S. theatres: Honey, with Jessica Alba, Lil’ Romeo, Mekhi Phifer, David Moscow, Zachary Williams, Joy Bryant, and Lonette McKee; The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, and Tony Goldwyn; and What Alice Found, starring Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Michael Maronna, Justin Parkinson, and David Ro.
2004 - Indian and peasant organizations in Bolivia, promising better access to health care and education, won every major city in local elections, trouncing long-dominant parties.
2005 - The 23rd Southeast Asian Games (known as the 2005 SEA Games) ended; the Philippines achieved the top medal ranking for the first time.
2005 - The United Kingdom began registration of civil unions for same-sex couples, as per the Civil Partnership Act 2004
2005 - Venezuelan parliamentary elections resulted in Hugo Chávez’s party and allies winning all 167 seats. Opposition parties boycotted the election claiming fraud.
2006 - New York became the first U.S. city to ban trans fats at restaurants. The New York City Board of Health ordered unanimously that trans fats must be removed from frying oils by July 2007 and from all foods by July 2008.
2007 - A screwball teenager fired down on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert Hawkins eventually killed himself, but his victims before doing so included six store employees and two customers. Hawkins left a suicide note saying that he wouldn’t be a burden on his family anymore and that “now I’ll be famous.” Make that, “infamous.”
2007 - Medecins Sans Frontieres, an international aid organization, said Angolan soldiers routinely and repeatedly raped Congolese women who crossed the border illegally in search of work in the diamond fields.
2008 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Extreme Movie, with Ryan Pinkston, Michael Cera, Frankie Muniz and Jamie Kennedy; Frost/Nixon, starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt and Kate Jennings Grant; and Punisher: War Zone, with Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchinson, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight, Dash Mihok and Julie Benz.
2008 - Japan approved a law granting citizenship to all children born out of wedlock to Japanese fathers, as long as the fathers acknowledge the children. This, regardless of the nationality of the mothers of the children.
2008 - Dutch-born Hollywood film star Nina Foch died in Los Angeles at 85 years of age. Her films included An American in Paris [1951], Executive Suite [1954, for which she received an Academy Award-nomination], The Ten Commandments [1956] and Spartacus [1960].
2008 - O.J. Simpson was sentenced in Las Vegas to 9-33 years in prison for kidnapping and assaulting two sports memorabilia dealers with a deadly weapon.
2009 - Italian tax police seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other famous artists in a crackdown on assets hidden by Calisto Tanzi, the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat.
2009 - A blaze sparked by fireworks on stage tore through the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, in the Ural Mountains of Russia. By late December the death toll reached 152 with 74 people still hospitalized. It was the country’s deadliest fire since the fall of the Soviet Union.
2009 - A barn fire killed two workers and 43 horses at a harness racing track at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio (25 miles northeast of Cincinnati). The two victims worked in the barns and had been living in the area of the barn where the fire started.
Birthdays December 5
1782 - Martin Van Buren
8th U.S. President [1837-1841]; first to be born a U.S. citizen; married to Hannah Hoes [four sons]; nickname: The Little Magician; died July 24, 1862
1839 - General George Armstrong Custer
U.S. military officer; killed in battle at Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876
1870 - Bill Pickett
rodeo cowboy: first to bulldog - wrestle a running steer to the ground; died Apr 2, 1932
1894 - Phillip K. Wrigley
corporate executive: Wrigley Gum; died Apr 12, 1977
1901 - Walt (Walter Elias) Disney
cartoonist: 1st color-animated cartoon: Steamboat Willie; creator of: Mickey Mouse, Disneyland; Emmy Award-winning producer: Disneyland film series [1955], Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color [1962-1963]; died Dec 15, 1966
1902 - Strom Thurmond
U.S. Senator from South Carolina since 1954 [first person in U.S. history to be elected to a major office by write-in ballot]; governor of South Carolina [1947-1951]; died Jun 26, 2003
1905 - Otto (Ludwig) Preminger
director: In Harm’s Way, Advise and Consent, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, Forever Amber, Laura; died Apr 23, 1986
1916 - Margaret (Maggie) Hayes
actress: Omar Khayyam, Blackboard Jungle, Sullivan’s Travels, In Old Colorado, Robert Montgomery Presents; died Jan 26, 1977
1922 - Don Robertson
Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Famer: I Really Don’t Want to Know, I Don’t Hurt Anymore, Please Help Me I’m Fallin’, I Love You More and More Each Day; whistler: The Happy Whistler
1930 - Larry Kert
actor, singer, dancer: West Side Story original cast [1957]; died June 5, 1991
1932 - Jim Hurtubise
auto racer: National Sprint Car Hall of Famer; died Jan 6, 1989
1932 - ‘Little’ Richard (Pennimann)
singer: Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti Frutti, Slippin’ and Slidin’, Long Tall Sally, Rip It Up, Ready Teddy, The Girl Can’t Help It, Lucille, Keep a Knockin’; preacher
1934 - Joan Didion
author: Run River, After Henry, Democracy, A Star is Born
1935 - Calvin Trillin
author: American Stories, Remembering Denny, Uncivil Liberties, If You Can’t Say Something Nice; writer: New Yorker magazine
1936 - Chad Mitchell
singer: group: Chad Mitchell Trio: Lizzie Borden
1938 - J.D. (John Delphus) McDuffie
NASCAR auto racer: killed in Watkins Glen crash Aug 11, 1991
1944 - Jeroen Krabbé
actor: Immortal Beloved, King of the Hill, The Fugitive, Stalin, Robin Hood, The Prince of Tides, Crossing Delancey, Dynasty
1945 - Pam Higgins
golf: touring pro: 3 victories in 14 years on the LPGA Tour
1945 - Jose Carreras
singer: tenor: New York Metropolitan Opera
1947 - Jim Messina
musician: duo: Loggins and Messina: Your Mama Don’t Dance, Danny’s Song, Thinking of You, My Music; groups: Buffalo Springfield, Poco; solo: LPs: Oasis, Messina
1947 - Jim Plunkett
football: Oakland and LA Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl: XV, XVIII; Heisman Trophy winner: Stanford University [1970]; New England Patriots Rookie of the Year [1971], San Francisco 49ers
1949 - Lanny Wadkins
golf: PGA champion [1977], PGA Player of the Year [1985]
1950 - Steve Furness
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: Super Bowl: IX, X, XIII, XIV
1951 - Morgan Brittany (Suzanne Cupito)
actress: Dallas, Glitter, Moviola, Sundown, LBJ: The Early Years, The Prodigal, The Initiation of Sarah
1951 - Gordon Browne
football: NY Jets
1952 - Andy Kim
songwriter, singer: Rock Me Gently, How’d We Ever Get This Way, Rainbow Ride, Baby, I Love You
1957 - Art Monk
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Washington Redskins wide receiver: Super Bowl XVIII, XXII, XXVI
1960 - Les Nemes
musician: bass: group: Haircut 100
1960 - Jack Russell
singer: group: Great White
1963 - Carrie Hamilton
actress: Fame, Cool World, Shag: The Movie, Tokyo Pop, Hostage, daughter of comedienne, Carol Burnett; died Jan 20, 2002
1964 - Pablo Morales
Olympic Gold Medalist: swimmer [1984, 1992]; holds men’s world record for 100 meter butterfly [1986]; head swimming coach: Univ of Nebraska
1965 - John Rzeznik
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: group: Goo Goo Dolls: Give a Little Bit, Broadway, Dizzy, Slide, Big Machine, Black Balloon, We Are the Normal, Here Is Gone, Iris, Bang!
1967 - Joseph Barbara
actor: Broadway: Grease, Tony and Tina’s Wedding; films: Pride and Loyalty, The Stand-In; TV: All My Children, Another World
1968 - Margaret Cho
actress: All-American Girl, TV guest host: Girls’ Night Out
1972 - Cliff Floyd
baseball: Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets
1972 - Felix Rodriguez
baseball [pitcher]: Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals
1973 - Shalom Harlow
fashion model [Donna Karen, Ralph Laure, Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi, Christian Dior]; actress: In & Out, Head Over Heels, Happy Here and Now
1974 - Charlie Batch
football [quarterback]: Eastern Michigan Univ; NFL: Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers
1979 - Nick Stahl
actor: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Bully, Seasons of Love, The Thin Red Line, Disturbing Behaviour, Incident in a Small Town, The Man Without a Face, Woman with a Past
1985 - Frankie Muniz
actor: Malcolm in the Middle, My Dog Skip, The Andy **** Show, Dr. Dolittle 2
Chart Toppers December 5
1949Don’t Cry, Joe - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard)
That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1958To Know Him, is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears
Beep Beep - The Playmates
One Night - Elvis Presley
City Lights - Ray Price
1967Daydream Believer - The Monkees
The Rain, the Park and Other Things - The Cowsills
I Say a Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick
It’s the Little Things - Sonny James
1976Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
The Rubberband Man - Spinners
Love So Right - Bee Gees
Good Woman Blues - Mel Tillis
1985Separate Lives - Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
Never - Heart
Too Much on My Heart - The Statler Brothers
1994On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men
Here Comes the Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Another Night - Real McCoy
The Big One - George Strait
2003Hey Ya! - Outkast
Baby Boy - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Sean Paul
Suga Suga - Baby Bash featuring Frankie J
I Love This Bar - Toby Keith
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Chart Topper December 5th, 1976...The Rubberband Man - Spinners
