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Monday, November 29, 2010
TV TUNES DAY
The Grammy Awards were shown on network television for the first time on this night in 1959. (It was actually the second year of the Grammy Awards.)
Mack the Knife won Record of the Year and Bobby Darin, who belted it out, was Best New Artist of the Year. Frank Sinatra won Album of the Year for Come Dance with Me. Jimmy Driftwood penned the Song of the Year: The Battle of New Orleans, which also won Country and Western Performance of the Year honors for Johnny Horton.
The Best Folk Performance of the Year went to The Kingston Trio for their ...at Large album. The Best Performance by a Top 40 Artist was Nat King Cole’s Midnight Flyer and the Grammy for Best Comedy Performance, Musical went to Homer & Jethro for their immortal The Battle of Kookamonga.
The great Duke Ellington received the 1959 Grammy for Best Performance by a Dance Band this night for his Anatomy of a Murder movie sound track. Ellington won another Grammy and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science’s Lifetime Achievement Award six years later.
It was only appropriate that the Grammy Awards would be shown annually on television since the ‘new medium’ of TV would supply much-nominated music over the years and would also spotlight performers. Little did the Academy know what it started ... and that someday, it would award Grammys for music videos as seen on MTV.
Events November 29
1825 - Rossini’s Barber of Seville was presented in New York City. It was the first Italian opera to be presented in the United States.
1890 - The first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York. The midshipmen from Annapolis dominated, shutting out the cadets, 24-0. They’ve been stealing each other’s mascots ever since.
1929 - After completing his first flight over the North Pole on this same day in 1926, Lt. Commander Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole on this day. He became the first American to achieve such a feat.
1929 - The NBC chimes first bong-bong-bonged on this day. The radio network identifier was broadcast over NBC’s Red and Blue networks. A man in the New York studio would manually sound them at 29 minutes, 30 seconds past each hour, and at 59 minutes, 30 seconds. The chimes became the most familiar three-note song of 20th-century New York.
1932 - The Gay Divorcee opened in New York City. The Cole Porter musical featured the classic, Night and Day.
1938 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra waxed Hawaiian War Chant for Victor Records. We suggest you fry up some humuhumunukunukuapuaa tonight in honor of this occasion. Yum...
1943 - The U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet was launched. Her combat record in World War II was remarkable. Under attack 59 times in 18 months of combat operations, Hornet’s air groups and AA guns shot down 668 Japanese planes, destroyed another 747 aircraft on the ground, sank 73 ships (with another 37 probable sinkings), and damaged an additional 413 vessels.
1947 - Louis Armstrong and his sextet lit up Carnegie Hall in New York City with a night of jazz -- and more.
1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 181, calling for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state.
1948 - The first opera to be televised was broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Otello, by Verdi, was presented over WJZ-TV in New York.
1950 - I Fly Anything, starring singer **** Haymes in the role of cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC Radio. With a title like that, is it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to singing and did very well, thank you.
1953 - American Airlines started the first regular two-way non-stop air service from L.A. to N.Y.
1955 - Ohio State halfback Howard ‘Hopalong’ Cassady received the Heisman Memorial Trophy as the year’s best college football player.
1956 - Bells Are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday, opened at Shubert Theater in New York City. The musical, written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne, ran for 925 performances.
1961 - NASA launched Enos the chimp from Cape Canaveral aboard a Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited the earth twice before returning.
1962 - Major-league baseball decided to return to playing only one All-Star Game a year beginning in 1963. There had been two games (doubleheaders) each year since 1959.
1962 - Great Britain and France jointly announced the signing of a treaty that allowed the countries to jointly build the SST (supersonic transport), the Concorde.
1963 - U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed to head the commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The group became known as the Warren Commission.
1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1974 - A bill (Prevention of Terrorism Act) to outlaw the Irish Republican Army became law in Great Britain.
1975 - Shake your disco booties along with this one. Silver Convention had the #1 pop tune this day, called Fly, Robin, Fly.
1975 - Graham Hill, Formula One World Champion in 1962 and 1968, and father of champion racer Damon Hill, was killed in a light plane crash.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupted in Hawaii. The eruption created a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on the south flank of Kilauea -- the largest earthquake in over a century -- causing some $4 million in damage. The movement of the south flank during the earthquake generated a tsunami, killing two people.
1981 - Actress Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story) drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA. She was 43 years old.
1983 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average Closed at 1287.20 -- a new record.
1986 - Actor Cary Grant died on this day at the age of 82. Grant, one of the most debonair of Hollywood’s leading men, left us with many great cinematic performances: Night and Day, Arsenic and Old Lace, She Done Him Wrong, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest and many more.
1986 - The blockbuster five-record set, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85, debuted at #1 on the album charts this day. No five-record set had made the top 25 until then. No five-record set had ever gone platinum until then. The price tag? $25.
1989 - Czechoslovakia’s Federal Assembly voted to end 41 years of Communist rule.
1991 - Seventeen people were killed in a 164-vehicle pileup during a dust storm on Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California.
1992 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer for celebrities such as Jackie Kennedy, died. He was 78 years old.
1994 - The city of Seoul celebrated its 600th anniversary as the capital of Korea.
1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton opened a five-day European trip in London. During his stay, Clinton met with British Prime Minister John Major and addressed the British Parliament.
1997 - Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young died at 79 years of age. Young was the Motor City’s first black mayor and held the office for an unprecedented five terms.
1999 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Satellite Television Home Viewers Act which allowed satellite companies to compete with cable TV.
2000 - Bracing the public for more legal wrangling, Vice President Al Gore said in a series of TV interviews that he was prepared to contest the Florida presidential vote until “the middle of December.”
2001 - Former Beatle George Harrison died of cancer in LA. He was 58 years old.
2002 - The White House quietly announced that federal workers would be getting a smaller than normal pay raise because U.S. President George Bush (II) was freezing part of the increase, citing the ‘fight against terrorism’.
2003 - Beyonce Knowles, Bono, Peter Gabriel and other musicians from around the world performed for a South African AIDS benefit concert hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela.
2004 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a gay-marriage law in Massachusetts.
2004 - John Drew Barrymore, aka John Drew, the sometimes troubled heir to an acting dynasty and father of movie star Drew Barrymore, died in Los Angeles. He was 72 years old.
2005 - As the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season neared its official end, the 26th named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Epsilon, formed east of Bermuda.
2005 - Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean formally dissolved Parliament, following Prime Minister Paul Martin’s loss of a confidence vote; and Jean called a federal election for January 23, 2006.
2006 - Fire destroyed a workshop in Russia’s largest steel mill, killing six people. Firefighters were hampered by temperatures of 17 degrees below zero at the OAO Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works plant in the Ural Mountains.
2006 - The U.S. banned exports of luxury items to North Korea. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez charged that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il was splurging while the country’s population suffered. The list of items specifically banned inluded iPods, jet skis, cigarettes and plasma TV sets.
2007 - For a second day, a wildcat protest by cab drivers caused gridlock in downtown Rome, leaving Italians and tourists alike stranded at airports and train stations across the capital. Unions had been negotiating with Mayor Walter Veltroni over planned fare increases.
2008 - A 60-hour terror rampage that killed at least 173 people across Mumbai ended when commandos killed the last three gunmen inside the Taj Mahal hotel.
2008 - Hundreds of people were killed in the central city of Jos as Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election. Over 10,000 people were displaced from their homes and sought refuge in churches, mosques and police barracks.
2009 - Switzerland held a nationwide referendum to ban Muslim minarets (tall spires). Over 57% of Swiss voters approved the ban. The four minarets already attached to mosques in the country were not affected by the law.
2009 - Filmmaker Roman Polanski was released from a Swiss prison, with the help of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Polanski had been arrested on Sep 27 when he arrived at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland. He was convicted in 1978 for raping a 13-year-old girl in the Los Angeles home of actor Jack Nicholson. He pled guilty to the crime but fled the U.S. prior to sentencing.
Birthdays November 29
1607 - John Harvard
clergyman, scholar: Harvard College named for him; died Sep 14, 1638
1816 - Morrison R. Waite
attorney: seventh Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1874-1888]; died Mar 23, 1888
1832 - Louisa May Alcott
author: Little Women; died Mar 6, 1888
1895 - Busby Berkeley (William Berkeley Enos)
choreographer, director: Forty Second Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, Footlight Parade, Hollywood Hotel, Stage Struck, Gold Diggers in Paris, Babes in Arms, Strike Up the Band, Girl Crazy, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal; died Mar 14, 1976
1898 - C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis
Christian novelist, columnist, author: Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet; died Nov 22, 1963
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
member U.S. House of Representatives [NY 1945-1961]; died Apr 4, 1972
1917 - Merle Travis
songwriter: 16 Tons, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette, Petal from a Faded Rose, Cincinnati Lou, Information Please; singer: Re-enlistment Blues in From Here to Eternity, John Henry Junior, Barbara Allen; died Oct 20, 1983
1918 - Madeleine L’Engle
author: A Wrinkle in Time, Summer of the Great-Grandmother; died Sep 6, 2007
1925 - Minnie (Saturnino Orestes Armas) Minoso
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox [led league in stolen bases: 1951-1953/all-star: 1951-1954, 1957, 1959, 1960], SL Cardinals, Washington Senators
1927 - Vin Scully
radio/TV sportscaster: Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
1932 - Ed Bickert
musician: jazz guitarist: group: Paul Desmond Quartet
1932 - Jacques Chirac
President of France
1932 - John Gary (Strader)
singer: 23 albums for RCA, other labels: Briarwood, Kama Sutra, Churchhill, Fraternity; songwriter: Possum Song, Plight of the Bumble Bee, The Bell Rings, Forget It, Warm and Tender Glow; diver, inventor: holds two patents on underwater propulsion devices [diving buddy and aqua-peller]; died Jan 4, 1998
1932 - Diane Ladd (Rose Diane Ladnier)
actress: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Rambling Rose, The Cemetery Club, Chinatown, Father Hood, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, The Grace Kelly Story, Desperate Lives, I Married a Centerfold, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Alice
1933 - John Mayall
songwriter, bandleader: The Bluesbreakers: Steppin’ Out
1933 - Fuzzy (Frederick) Thurston
football: Green Bay Packers
1933 - James Rosenquist
American pop artist: Silo [1963], World’s Fair Mural [1964], Off the Continental Divide [1973], Marilyn [1974], Sunglasses - Landing Net - Triangle [1974], Pale Tent II [1976]
1939 - **** (Richard John) McAuliffe
baseball: Detroit Tigers [All-Star: 1965-1967/World Series: 1968], Boston Red Sox
1939 - Meco (Domenico Monardo)
musician: Star Wars Theme; music producer: Never Can Say Goodbye
1940 - Chuck Mangione
Grammy Award-winning composer: Bellavia [1976]; theme for 1980 Winter Olympics: Give It All You Got; musician: flugelhorn: Feels So Good, Land of Make Believe, The Hill Where the Lord Hides
1941 - Denny Doherty
singer: group: The Mamas and The Papas: Monday, Monday, California Dreamin’, Words of Love, Dedicated to the One I Love, Creeque Alley; TV host; died Jan 19, 2006
1941 - Bill (William Ashley) Freehan
baseball: Univ. of Michigan, Detroit Tigers [All-Star: 1964-1973, 1975; Gold Glove: 1965-1969/World Series: 1968]
1941 - Jody Miller
Grammy Award-winning singer: Queen of the House [1965]; There’s a Party Goin’ On, Look at Mine, He’s So Fine, Baby I’m Yours, Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home, Be My Baby
1944 - Felix Cavaliere
singer, group: The (Young) Rascals: Groovin’, Good Lovin’, Beautiful Morning, People Gotta Be Free; solo: LPs: Destiny, Treasure, Castle in the Air
1947 - Suzy Chaffee
skier: captain: U.S. Women’s Olympic ski team, pro tour of free-style skiing: world championship winner [1971-1973]; Board of Directors: U.S. Olympic Committee [1976]; commercial spokesperson: Chapstick
1947 - Joe Inman
golf: champ: 1976 Kemper Open, 1969 North and South Amateur; member: 1969 Walker Cup team
1949 - Garry Shandling
comedian, actor: The Larry Sanders Show, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
1951 - Barry Goudreau
musician: guitar: groups: Orion the Hunter, Boston: More Than a Feeling, Long Time, Peace of Mind, Don’t Look Back, Man I’ll Never Be, LP: Boston
1951 - Brian Job
swimmer: Stanford University
1952 - Jeff Fahey
actor: Silverado, One Life to Live, Diablita, Crimson Force, Ghost Rock, Day of Redemption, Maniacts, Wolf Lake, Choosing Matthias, The Execution of Raymond Graham, 444 Days
1955 - Howie Mandel
comedian; actor: St. Elsewhere, Good Grief!; cartoon voice: Bobby’s World; game-show host: Deal or No Deal
1958 - Kim Delaney
Emmy Award-winning actress: NYPD Blue [1997]; Philly, All My Children, The Delta Force, Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit, The Drifter, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, Mission to Mars
1959 - Neal Broten
hockey: member of 1980 U.S. Winter Olympic team; NHL: Minnesota North Stars, New Jersey Devils, L.A. Kings, Dallas Stars; first NHL player to score 100 pionts in a single season
1960 - Cathy Moriarty
actress: Casper, The Mambo Kings, Soapdish, Me and the Kid, Kindergarten Cop, Matinee, Raging Bull; restaurant owner: Beverly Hills Pizzaria
1962 - Andrew McCarthy
actor: The Courtyard, Weekend at Bernie’s series, Mannequin, St. Elmo’s Fire
1964 - Don Cheadle
actor: Picket Fences, Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Bulworth, A Lesson Before Dying, Mission to Mars, Rush Hour 2, Ocean’s Eleven
1968 - Jonathan (Rashleigh) Knight
singer, dancer: group: New Kids on the Block: You Got It (The Right Stuff), This One’s for the Children
1969 - Mariano Rivera
baseball [pitcher]: New York Yankees
1971 - Brad May
hockey [left wing]: Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche
1971 - Gena Lee Nolin
actress: Baywatch, The Flunky, The Underground Comedy Movie, Airheads, Sheena
1972 - Jamal Mashburn
basketball [forward]: Univ of Kentucky; NBA: Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets
1976 - Anna Faris
actress: Smiley Face, Scary Movie, Brokeback Mountain, Southern Belles, Spelling Bee, Lost in Translation
1977 - Maria Petrova
Olympic figure skating champ [w/pairs partner Aleksei Tikhonov] won World Championship [2000], placed 6th at 2002 Winter Olympics & 5th at 2006 Winter Olympics; they won silver medal at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships, bronze at 2006 World Figure Skating Championships
1977 - Nate Webster
football [linebacker]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos
1979 - Dane Bowers
singer: Buggin’, Out of Your Mind, Shut Up and Forget About It, Another Lover; group: Another Level: Be Alone No More, Holding Back the Years, Guess I Was a Fool, Bomb Diggy, From the Heart, Summertime
Chart Toppers November 29
1952You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Glow Worm - The Mills Brothers
Because You’re Mine - Mario Lanza
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1961Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Runaround Sue - Dion
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
1970I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland
Endlessly - Sonny James
1979No More Tears (Enough is Enough) - Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer
Babe - Styx
Please Don’t Go - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Come With Me - Waylon Jennings
1988Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby) - Will To Power
Desire - U2
I’ll Leave This World Loving You - Ricky Van Shelton
1997Something About the Way You Look Tonight/Candle in the Wind 1997 - Elton John
You Make Me Wanna... - Usher
How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes
Love Gets Me Every Time - Shania Twain
2006My Love - Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.
How to Save a Life - The Fray
Smack That - Akon featuring Eminem
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Chart Topper November 29th, 2006...How to Save a Life - The Fray
Monday, November 29, 2010
TV TUNES DAY
The Grammy Awards were shown on network television for the first time on this night in 1959. (It was actually the second year of the Grammy Awards.)
Mack the Knife won Record of the Year and Bobby Darin, who belted it out, was Best New Artist of the Year. Frank Sinatra won Album of the Year for Come Dance with Me. Jimmy Driftwood penned the Song of the Year: The Battle of New Orleans, which also won Country and Western Performance of the Year honors for Johnny Horton.
The Best Folk Performance of the Year went to The Kingston Trio for their ...at Large album. The Best Performance by a Top 40 Artist was Nat King Cole’s Midnight Flyer and the Grammy for Best Comedy Performance, Musical went to Homer & Jethro for their immortal The Battle of Kookamonga.
The great Duke Ellington received the 1959 Grammy for Best Performance by a Dance Band this night for his Anatomy of a Murder movie sound track. Ellington won another Grammy and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science’s Lifetime Achievement Award six years later.
It was only appropriate that the Grammy Awards would be shown annually on television since the ‘new medium’ of TV would supply much-nominated music over the years and would also spotlight performers. Little did the Academy know what it started ... and that someday, it would award Grammys for music videos as seen on MTV.
Events November 29
1825 - Rossini’s Barber of Seville was presented in New York City. It was the first Italian opera to be presented in the United States.
1890 - The first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York. The midshipmen from Annapolis dominated, shutting out the cadets, 24-0. They’ve been stealing each other’s mascots ever since.
1929 - After completing his first flight over the North Pole on this same day in 1926, Lt. Commander Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole on this day. He became the first American to achieve such a feat.
1929 - The NBC chimes first bong-bong-bonged on this day. The radio network identifier was broadcast over NBC’s Red and Blue networks. A man in the New York studio would manually sound them at 29 minutes, 30 seconds past each hour, and at 59 minutes, 30 seconds. The chimes became the most familiar three-note song of 20th-century New York.
1932 - The Gay Divorcee opened in New York City. The Cole Porter musical featured the classic, Night and Day.
1938 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra waxed Hawaiian War Chant for Victor Records. We suggest you fry up some humuhumunukunukuapuaa tonight in honor of this occasion. Yum...
1943 - The U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet was launched. Her combat record in World War II was remarkable. Under attack 59 times in 18 months of combat operations, Hornet’s air groups and AA guns shot down 668 Japanese planes, destroyed another 747 aircraft on the ground, sank 73 ships (with another 37 probable sinkings), and damaged an additional 413 vessels.
1947 - Louis Armstrong and his sextet lit up Carnegie Hall in New York City with a night of jazz -- and more.
1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 181, calling for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state.
1948 - The first opera to be televised was broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Otello, by Verdi, was presented over WJZ-TV in New York.
1950 - I Fly Anything, starring singer **** Haymes in the role of cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC Radio. With a title like that, is it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to singing and did very well, thank you.
1953 - American Airlines started the first regular two-way non-stop air service from L.A. to N.Y.
1955 - Ohio State halfback Howard ‘Hopalong’ Cassady received the Heisman Memorial Trophy as the year’s best college football player.
1956 - Bells Are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday, opened at Shubert Theater in New York City. The musical, written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne, ran for 925 performances.
1961 - NASA launched Enos the chimp from Cape Canaveral aboard a Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited the earth twice before returning.
1962 - Major-league baseball decided to return to playing only one All-Star Game a year beginning in 1963. There had been two games (doubleheaders) each year since 1959.
1962 - Great Britain and France jointly announced the signing of a treaty that allowed the countries to jointly build the SST (supersonic transport), the Concorde.
1963 - U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed to head the commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The group became known as the Warren Commission.
1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1974 - A bill (Prevention of Terrorism Act) to outlaw the Irish Republican Army became law in Great Britain.
1975 - Shake your disco booties along with this one. Silver Convention had the #1 pop tune this day, called Fly, Robin, Fly.
1975 - Graham Hill, Formula One World Champion in 1962 and 1968, and father of champion racer Damon Hill, was killed in a light plane crash.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupted in Hawaii. The eruption created a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on the south flank of Kilauea -- the largest earthquake in over a century -- causing some $4 million in damage. The movement of the south flank during the earthquake generated a tsunami, killing two people.
1981 - Actress Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story) drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA. She was 43 years old.
1983 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average Closed at 1287.20 -- a new record.
1986 - Actor Cary Grant died on this day at the age of 82. Grant, one of the most debonair of Hollywood’s leading men, left us with many great cinematic performances: Night and Day, Arsenic and Old Lace, She Done Him Wrong, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest and many more.
1986 - The blockbuster five-record set, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85, debuted at #1 on the album charts this day. No five-record set had made the top 25 until then. No five-record set had ever gone platinum until then. The price tag? $25.
1989 - Czechoslovakia’s Federal Assembly voted to end 41 years of Communist rule.
1991 - Seventeen people were killed in a 164-vehicle pileup during a dust storm on Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California.
1992 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer for celebrities such as Jackie Kennedy, died. He was 78 years old.
1994 - The city of Seoul celebrated its 600th anniversary as the capital of Korea.
1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton opened a five-day European trip in London. During his stay, Clinton met with British Prime Minister John Major and addressed the British Parliament.
1997 - Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young died at 79 years of age. Young was the Motor City’s first black mayor and held the office for an unprecedented five terms.
1999 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Satellite Television Home Viewers Act which allowed satellite companies to compete with cable TV.
2000 - Bracing the public for more legal wrangling, Vice President Al Gore said in a series of TV interviews that he was prepared to contest the Florida presidential vote until “the middle of December.”
2001 - Former Beatle George Harrison died of cancer in LA. He was 58 years old.
2002 - The White House quietly announced that federal workers would be getting a smaller than normal pay raise because U.S. President George Bush (II) was freezing part of the increase, citing the ‘fight against terrorism’.
2003 - Beyonce Knowles, Bono, Peter Gabriel and other musicians from around the world performed for a South African AIDS benefit concert hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela.
2004 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a gay-marriage law in Massachusetts.
2004 - John Drew Barrymore, aka John Drew, the sometimes troubled heir to an acting dynasty and father of movie star Drew Barrymore, died in Los Angeles. He was 72 years old.
2005 - As the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season neared its official end, the 26th named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Epsilon, formed east of Bermuda.
2005 - Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean formally dissolved Parliament, following Prime Minister Paul Martin’s loss of a confidence vote; and Jean called a federal election for January 23, 2006.
2006 - Fire destroyed a workshop in Russia’s largest steel mill, killing six people. Firefighters were hampered by temperatures of 17 degrees below zero at the OAO Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works plant in the Ural Mountains.
2006 - The U.S. banned exports of luxury items to North Korea. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez charged that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il was splurging while the country’s population suffered. The list of items specifically banned inluded iPods, jet skis, cigarettes and plasma TV sets.
2007 - For a second day, a wildcat protest by cab drivers caused gridlock in downtown Rome, leaving Italians and tourists alike stranded at airports and train stations across the capital. Unions had been negotiating with Mayor Walter Veltroni over planned fare increases.
2008 - A 60-hour terror rampage that killed at least 173 people across Mumbai ended when commandos killed the last three gunmen inside the Taj Mahal hotel.
2008 - Hundreds of people were killed in the central city of Jos as Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election. Over 10,000 people were displaced from their homes and sought refuge in churches, mosques and police barracks.
2009 - Switzerland held a nationwide referendum to ban Muslim minarets (tall spires). Over 57% of Swiss voters approved the ban. The four minarets already attached to mosques in the country were not affected by the law.
2009 - Filmmaker Roman Polanski was released from a Swiss prison, with the help of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Polanski had been arrested on Sep 27 when he arrived at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland. He was convicted in 1978 for raping a 13-year-old girl in the Los Angeles home of actor Jack Nicholson. He pled guilty to the crime but fled the U.S. prior to sentencing.
Birthdays November 29
1607 - John Harvard
clergyman, scholar: Harvard College named for him; died Sep 14, 1638
1816 - Morrison R. Waite
attorney: seventh Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1874-1888]; died Mar 23, 1888
1832 - Louisa May Alcott
author: Little Women; died Mar 6, 1888
1895 - Busby Berkeley (William Berkeley Enos)
choreographer, director: Forty Second Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, Footlight Parade, Hollywood Hotel, Stage Struck, Gold Diggers in Paris, Babes in Arms, Strike Up the Band, Girl Crazy, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal; died Mar 14, 1976
1898 - C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis
Christian novelist, columnist, author: Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet; died Nov 22, 1963
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
member U.S. House of Representatives [NY 1945-1961]; died Apr 4, 1972
1917 - Merle Travis
songwriter: 16 Tons, Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette, Petal from a Faded Rose, Cincinnati Lou, Information Please; singer: Re-enlistment Blues in From Here to Eternity, John Henry Junior, Barbara Allen; died Oct 20, 1983
1918 - Madeleine L’Engle
author: A Wrinkle in Time, Summer of the Great-Grandmother; died Sep 6, 2007
1925 - Minnie (Saturnino Orestes Armas) Minoso
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox [led league in stolen bases: 1951-1953/all-star: 1951-1954, 1957, 1959, 1960], SL Cardinals, Washington Senators
1927 - Vin Scully
radio/TV sportscaster: Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
1932 - Ed Bickert
musician: jazz guitarist: group: Paul Desmond Quartet
1932 - Jacques Chirac
President of France
1932 - John Gary (Strader)
singer: 23 albums for RCA, other labels: Briarwood, Kama Sutra, Churchhill, Fraternity; songwriter: Possum Song, Plight of the Bumble Bee, The Bell Rings, Forget It, Warm and Tender Glow; diver, inventor: holds two patents on underwater propulsion devices [diving buddy and aqua-peller]; died Jan 4, 1998
1932 - Diane Ladd (Rose Diane Ladnier)
actress: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Rambling Rose, The Cemetery Club, Chinatown, Father Hood, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, The Grace Kelly Story, Desperate Lives, I Married a Centerfold, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Alice
1933 - John Mayall
songwriter, bandleader: The Bluesbreakers: Steppin’ Out
1933 - Fuzzy (Frederick) Thurston
football: Green Bay Packers
1933 - James Rosenquist
American pop artist: Silo [1963], World’s Fair Mural [1964], Off the Continental Divide [1973], Marilyn [1974], Sunglasses - Landing Net - Triangle [1974], Pale Tent II [1976]
1939 - **** (Richard John) McAuliffe
baseball: Detroit Tigers [All-Star: 1965-1967/World Series: 1968], Boston Red Sox
1939 - Meco (Domenico Monardo)
musician: Star Wars Theme; music producer: Never Can Say Goodbye
1940 - Chuck Mangione
Grammy Award-winning composer: Bellavia [1976]; theme for 1980 Winter Olympics: Give It All You Got; musician: flugelhorn: Feels So Good, Land of Make Believe, The Hill Where the Lord Hides
1941 - Denny Doherty
singer: group: The Mamas and The Papas: Monday, Monday, California Dreamin’, Words of Love, Dedicated to the One I Love, Creeque Alley; TV host; died Jan 19, 2006
1941 - Bill (William Ashley) Freehan
baseball: Univ. of Michigan, Detroit Tigers [All-Star: 1964-1973, 1975; Gold Glove: 1965-1969/World Series: 1968]
1941 - Jody Miller
Grammy Award-winning singer: Queen of the House [1965]; There’s a Party Goin’ On, Look at Mine, He’s So Fine, Baby I’m Yours, Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home, Be My Baby
1944 - Felix Cavaliere
singer, group: The (Young) Rascals: Groovin’, Good Lovin’, Beautiful Morning, People Gotta Be Free; solo: LPs: Destiny, Treasure, Castle in the Air
1947 - Suzy Chaffee
skier: captain: U.S. Women’s Olympic ski team, pro tour of free-style skiing: world championship winner [1971-1973]; Board of Directors: U.S. Olympic Committee [1976]; commercial spokesperson: Chapstick
1947 - Joe Inman
golf: champ: 1976 Kemper Open, 1969 North and South Amateur; member: 1969 Walker Cup team
1949 - Garry Shandling
comedian, actor: The Larry Sanders Show, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
1951 - Barry Goudreau
musician: guitar: groups: Orion the Hunter, Boston: More Than a Feeling, Long Time, Peace of Mind, Don’t Look Back, Man I’ll Never Be, LP: Boston
1951 - Brian Job
swimmer: Stanford University
1952 - Jeff Fahey
actor: Silverado, One Life to Live, Diablita, Crimson Force, Ghost Rock, Day of Redemption, Maniacts, Wolf Lake, Choosing Matthias, The Execution of Raymond Graham, 444 Days
1955 - Howie Mandel
comedian; actor: St. Elsewhere, Good Grief!; cartoon voice: Bobby’s World; game-show host: Deal or No Deal
1958 - Kim Delaney
Emmy Award-winning actress: NYPD Blue [1997]; Philly, All My Children, The Delta Force, Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit, The Drifter, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, Mission to Mars
1959 - Neal Broten
hockey: member of 1980 U.S. Winter Olympic team; NHL: Minnesota North Stars, New Jersey Devils, L.A. Kings, Dallas Stars; first NHL player to score 100 pionts in a single season
1960 - Cathy Moriarty
actress: Casper, The Mambo Kings, Soapdish, Me and the Kid, Kindergarten Cop, Matinee, Raging Bull; restaurant owner: Beverly Hills Pizzaria
1962 - Andrew McCarthy
actor: The Courtyard, Weekend at Bernie’s series, Mannequin, St. Elmo’s Fire
1964 - Don Cheadle
actor: Picket Fences, Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Bulworth, A Lesson Before Dying, Mission to Mars, Rush Hour 2, Ocean’s Eleven
1968 - Jonathan (Rashleigh) Knight
singer, dancer: group: New Kids on the Block: You Got It (The Right Stuff), This One’s for the Children
1969 - Mariano Rivera
baseball [pitcher]: New York Yankees
1971 - Brad May
hockey [left wing]: Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche
1971 - Gena Lee Nolin
actress: Baywatch, The Flunky, The Underground Comedy Movie, Airheads, Sheena
1972 - Jamal Mashburn
basketball [forward]: Univ of Kentucky; NBA: Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets
1976 - Anna Faris
actress: Smiley Face, Scary Movie, Brokeback Mountain, Southern Belles, Spelling Bee, Lost in Translation
1977 - Maria Petrova
Olympic figure skating champ [w/pairs partner Aleksei Tikhonov] won World Championship [2000], placed 6th at 2002 Winter Olympics & 5th at 2006 Winter Olympics; they won silver medal at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships, bronze at 2006 World Figure Skating Championships
1977 - Nate Webster
football [linebacker]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos
1979 - Dane Bowers
singer: Buggin’, Out of Your Mind, Shut Up and Forget About It, Another Lover; group: Another Level: Be Alone No More, Holding Back the Years, Guess I Was a Fool, Bomb Diggy, From the Heart, Summertime
Chart Toppers November 29
1952You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
Glow Worm - The Mills Brothers
Because You’re Mine - Mario Lanza
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
1961Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Runaround Sue - Dion
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
1970I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland
Endlessly - Sonny James
1979No More Tears (Enough is Enough) - Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer
Babe - Styx
Please Don’t Go - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Come With Me - Waylon Jennings
1988Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby) - Will To Power
Desire - U2
I’ll Leave This World Loving You - Ricky Van Shelton
1997Something About the Way You Look Tonight/Candle in the Wind 1997 - Elton John
You Make Me Wanna... - Usher
How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes
Love Gets Me Every Time - Shania Twain
2006My Love - Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.
How to Save a Life - The Fray
Smack That - Akon featuring Eminem
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Chart Topper November 29th, 2006...How to Save a Life - The Fray
