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Friday, September 24, 2010
MUPPETEER DAY
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There’s a fictional neighborhood where some of the residents are named Kermit, Big Bird , Bert & Ernie, Miss Piggy, and Oscar the Grouch. It’s called Sesame Street.
The creator of the lifelike characters, Jim Henson, was born on this day in 1936. The puppeteer first named his puppets, Muppets, in 1954 when he was working as a producer of the Washington, D.C. TV show, Sam and Friends.
Henson moved his Muppets to network TV in 1969. Children of all ages were able to enjoy the Muppets’ antics on the educational, yet entertaining Sesame Street. The Muppets then got their own show, The Muppet Show; which generated The Muppet Movie and other films, like The Muppets Take Manhattan and The Great Muppet Caper.
And Jim Henson got the awards: 18 Emmys, 17 Grammys, 4 Peabody Awards and 5 Ace Awards (National Cable Television Association).
The premier muppeteer, and voice of Kermit the Frog, died suddenly in May of 1990. Jim Henson lives on through his Muppets.
Events September 24
1869 - Black Friday: The price of gold rose to panic-causing heights. Thousands of businessmen were ruined in the Wall Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James ‘Jubilee Jim’ Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.
1906 - Devil’s Tower, Wyoming was established as a national monument; the first national monument in the U.S.
1915 - Douglas Fairbanks starred in The Lamb. It was his first film and was shown at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City.
1934 - Babe Ruth bid farewell to the New York Yankees. It was the Babe’s last game in Yankee Stadium and for the team. The Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 5-0.
1938 - Tennis champion Don Budge won the U.S. Tennis Open at Forest Hills, NY. The win made Budge the first player to win all four major titles (he also had won the Australian Open, the French Open and the British Open).
1940 - Flinging a Wing Ding was recorded by Bob Chester. We wonder whether that was a chicken wing-ding he was flinging...
1942 - Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS radio. It was time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for Chesterfield Cigarettes.
1955 - Millions of Americans tuned in to watch Judy Garland make her TV debut on the Ford Star Jubilee. The CBS show received the highest television ratings to that time.
1955 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO. He was hospitalized for three weeks.
1957 - President Eisenhower ordered U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas schools.
1960 - The U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
1961 - Bullwinkle J. Moose and his friend, Rocket J. (Rocky) Squirrel, were seen in prime time for the first time on NBC-TV. The Sunday night cartoon (7-7:30 p.m.) was called The Bullwinkle Show. Originally Bullwinkle and Rocky appeared on ABC in a weekday afternoon series, Rocky and His Friends.
1964 - The Munsters premiered on CBS-TV. The show featured Frankenstein-look-alike Herman Munster (played by Fred Gwynne), Lily Munster (Yvonne DeCarlo), Edward ‘Eddie’ Wolfgang Munster (Butch Patrick), all-American beautiful blonde Marilyn Munster (Pat Priest & Debbie Watson), and Grandpa (played by Al Lewis). The Munster fun ran for seventy episodes -- through Sep 1, 1966.
1966 - Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of his name to Jimi.
1968 - The Vogues received a gold record for Turn Around Look at Me on the Reprise label.
1968 - The longest-running newsmagazine on television began on CBS-TV. 60 Minutes started on this, a Tuesday, night in 1968. During its first three years on the tube, 60 Minutes ran on an alternate-week schedule with CBS News Hour, moving to Sundays (all by itself) in early 1972. 60 Minutes debuted with two correspondents: Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner.
1970 - The Soviet Luna 16 returned to earth (in the Soviet Union), completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon.
1975 - Britons Dougal Haston and Doug Scott became the first to climb Mount Everest by the southwest face.
1977 - Get out the polyester cruisewear! The Love Boat set sail -- on ABC-TV. Captain Stubing (Gavin MacLeod); Cruise Director, Julie McCoy (Lauren Tewes); Dr. Adam Bricker (Bernie Kopell); Bartender, Isaac Washington (Ted Lange); and Yeoman-Purser, Burl ‘Gopher’ Smith (Fred Grandy) took to the calm seas each week. The show’s theme, The Love Boat, written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox, was sung by Jack Jones. The voice of Ernie Anderson, will always be remembered for his intros announcing, “The Luuuuuve Boat.”
1979 - CompuServe Information System began operation. It was the world’s first public computer information service.
1988 - The Rev. Barbara C. Harris of Philadelphia was elected Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts. She was the first woman to be elected a bishop of the Episcopal Church.
1988 - Guns N’Roses Appetite for Destruction reached #1 on the Billboard album chart. The tracks: Welcome to the Jungle, It’s So Easy, NighTrain, Out Ta Get Me, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City, My Michelle, Think About You, Sweet Child O’ Mine, You’re Crazy, Anything Goes, Rocket Queen.
1988 - Seoul Summer Olympics news: 1) Carl Lewis ran the fastest 100 meters of his life, 9.92 seconds, but was beaten by Canadian Ben Johnson’s 9.79. “I ran the best I could, and I'm pleased with the race.” Lewis said. (Lewis did become the recipient of the that gold medal when Johnson tested positive for steroids, a banned substance for Olympic athletes.) 2) Jackie Joyner-Kersee amassed a world-record score (7,291) in the heptathlon (seven different track-and-field events for women).
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The children’s author was better known as Dr. Seuss, the writer of classics such as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
1995 - Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 - The world’s major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. The United States was represented at the signing ceremony at the United Nations by President Bill Clinton.
1997 - Garth Brooks was named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.
1998 - Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin introduced the new $20 note at the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington DC. Two billion dollars-worth of harder-to-counterfeit bills went into circulation.
1999 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres this day: Double Jeopardy (starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Bruce Greenwood); Guinevere (with Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Gina Gershon); Jakob the Liar (Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban); and Mumford (Jane Adams, Ted Danson, Hope Davis).
2000 - Citizens of the Yugoslav federation (Serbia and Montenegro) voted directly for president for the first time. Supporters of opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica declared victory the next day, but the election commission said a runoff was needed, prompting massive protests that toppled President Slobodan Milosevic.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) announced a freeze on the assets of 27 people and organizations with suspected links to terrorism. The list included Islamic militant Osama BIN Laden.
2001 - The U.S. agreed to pay $582 million in overdue dues to the United Nations.
2002 - The annual MacArthur Fellowship awards, known as ‘genius grants’, were given to 24 men and women. Two of the $500,000 recipients included David B. Goldstein, energy specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco (for his work on energy-efficient refrigerators), and Sendhil Mullainathan professor of economics (who uses insights from psychology and sociology to better understand economic behavior and the functioning of markets).
2003 - Anthony Hopkins got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hopkins won an Academy Award for playing the cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins has acted in some 100 films, including The Lion in Winter, QB VII, A Bridge Too Far, The Elephant Man, The Bounty, Howards End, Amistad, The Mask of Zorro, and The Devil and Daniel Webster.
2003 - Herb Gardner, Tony-winning playwright (A Thousand Clowns, Rappaport), died in New York. He was 68 years old.
2004 - These films opened in the U.S.: A Dirty Shame, starring Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Patricia Hearst, Mink Stole, Susan Allenback, Jeffrey Auerbach, Lance Baldwin, Paul DeBoy, Mary Vivian Pierce and Wes Johnson; First Daughter, with Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton, Amerie Rogers, Margaret Colin and Lela Rochon Fuqua; and The Forgotten, starring Julianne Moore and Dominic West.
2004 - French author Francoise Sagan died at 69 years of age. Sagan, who gained fame with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse in 1954 at the age of 18, courted controversy throughout her life. French President Jacques Chirac said, “With her death, France loses one of its most brilliant and sensitive writers - an eminent figure of our literary life.”
2005 - Human Rights Watch reported that whistleblowers had accused U.S. troops of routinely torturing Iraqi prisoners and declining to investigate complaints.
2006 - A speeding bus overturned on a curving mountain road near Quito, Ecuador killing 47 people, including 17 children.
2006 - A survey of Internet leaders, activists, and analysts, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project deduced that sometime after 2020 our computers will become intelligent, evolve rapidly, and end up treating us as pets.
2007 - Hungarian officials said that in an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, they would allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur’s permit, a move to generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.
2007 - The annual $500,00 ‘genius grant’ MacArthur grants were given to 24 men and women. The so-called ‘genius grant’ is given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the U.S., of any age and working in any field, who “show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work.”
2008 - Japan’s new prime minister, Taro Aso, flamboyant conservative of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), took over, pledging to work for a ‘cheerful’ nation by reviving an economy in the doldrums.
2009 - Two armed robbers in Belgium made off with a $1.1 million painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte, Olympia (1948), in a morning heist at a small museum in Brussels.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama hosted a 2-day meeting of the G20 as it opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2010 - New films showing in the U.S.: Enter the Void, starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Emily Alyn Lind and Jesse Kuhn; Friction, with Ernest Thompson, Amy Mathison, August Thompson and Jeremy Mathison; Howl, starring James Franco, Jon Hamm, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and David Strathairn; Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, with Emilie de Ravin, Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish; Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, starring Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Charlie Sheen, Josh Brolin and Michael Douglas; and You Again, with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Betty White, Kristin Chenoweth and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Birthdays September 24
1755 - John Marshall
attorney: 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; died July 6, 1835
1896 - F. (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald
writer: This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night; died Dec 21, 1940
1910 - Del Courtney
bandleader: popularized big band swing in 1930s: recorded regularly and packed hotel ballrooms with his simple and sweet melodies: An Apple for the Teacher, Monstro the Whale, The Singing Hill, Hawaiian War Chant; radio/TV show host; DJ: KSFO and radio staton owner: KSOL (San Francisco); Oakland Raiders Director of Administration [19 years] and team bandleader [1970s]; autobiography: Hey! The Band's Too Loud [2005]; died Feb 11, 2006
1912 - Don Porter
actor: Our Miss Brooks, The Candidate, Bachelor in Paradise; died Feb 11, 1997
1915 - Larry Gates
actor: Backstairs at the White House, Death of a Gunfighter, The Sand Pebbles, Toys in the Attic; died Dec 12, 1996
1921 - Jim McKay (McManus)
Emmy Award-winning TV sports commentator: Coverage of the Munich Olympic Tragedy: ABC Special [1972]; sportscaster: ABC’s Wide World of Sports; newspaper writer: The Baltimore Sun; died Jun 7, 2008
1924 - Sheila MacRae (Stephens)
comedienne: The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show; author: Mother of the Year; wife of singer, actor Gordon MacRae
1931 - Anthony Newley
actor: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, Roar of the Grease Paint, Oliver Twist, No Time to Die; singer: What Kind of Fool Am I?; died Apr 14, 1999
1936 - Jim (James Maury) Henson
Muppeteer; died May 16, 1990; see Muppeteer Day [above]
1940 - Barbara Allbut
singer: group: The Angels: My Boyfriend’s Back
1941 - John Mackey
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts: Super Bowl V; San Diego Chargers
1941 - Linda McCartney (Eastman)
photographer: Rolling Stone magazine; singer: group: Wings: Silly Love Songs [w/husband Paul McCartney]; died Apr 17, 1998
1942 - Phyllis ‘Jiggs’ Allbut
singer: group: The Angels: My Boyfriend's Back, I Adore Him, Thank You and Good Night
1942 - Gerry Marsden
singer: group: Gerry & The Pacemakers: Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying, I’m the One, Ferry Cross the Mersey
1946 - ‘Mean’ Joe (Charles) Greene
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle with ‘The Steel Curtain’: two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year; Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; defensive line coach: Pittsburgh Steelers
1948 - Gordon Clapp
actor: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, The Sure Hand of God, Sunshine State, Rules of Engagement, Rage: Carrie 2, In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1948 - Phil Hartman
actor, comedian: Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Jumpin’ Jack flash , Dennis the Menace, Amazon Women on the Moon, Loaded Weapon 1, Coneheads, Stuart Saves His Family, Jingle All the Way; shot to death by his wife Brynn May 28, 1998
1948 - Eric (Thane) Soderholm
baseball: Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, NY Yankees
1949 - Anson Williams
actor: Happy Days, I Married a Centerfold, Lisa, Bright and Dark
1951 - Terry Metcalf
football: Toronto Argonauts, SL Cardinals, Washington Redskins
1952 - Rod (Rodney Joe) Gilbreath
baseball: Atlanta Braves
1956 - Hubie (Hubert) Brooks
baseball: NY Mets, Montreal Expos [all-star: 1986, 1987], LA Dodgers, California Angels, KC Royals
1959 - Steve Whitmire
voice [since Jim Henson died in 1990] of Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker, Bean Bunny, Doozer; shares same birthday as Jim Henson [see Muppeteer Day above]
1964 - Rafael Palmeiro
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles
1966 - Bernard Gilkey
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers
1971 - Kevin Millar
baseball: Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox
1973 - Jesse Garcia
baseball [second base]: Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres
1973 - Eddie George
football [running back]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans, Dallas Cowboys
1974 - John McDonald
baseball [shortstop]: Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays
1976 - Ben Broussard
baseball [first base]: Cleveland Indians
1979 - Justin Bruening
actor: All My Children, Knight Rider
1982 - Paul Hamm
World/Olympic gymnast (U.S.): won gold medal in all-around competition at 2004 Athens Summer Games; twin brother is fellow gymnast Morgan Hamm
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Chart Toppers September 24
1949You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk - Perry Como
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1958Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1967The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston & Tammy Wynette
1976Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You - Jim Ed Brown/Helen Cornelius
1985Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Don’t Lose My Number - Phil Collins
I Fell in Love Again Last Night - The Forester Sisters
1994I’ll Make Love to You - Boyz II Men
Endless Love - Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey
When Can I See You - Babyface
Third Rock from the Sun - Joe Diffie
2003Shake Ya Tailfeather - Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee
Can’t Hold Us Down - Christina Aguilera featuring Lil’ Kim
Senorita - Justin Timberlake
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson (with Jimmy Buffett)
Happy Birthday Barbara Allbut & Phyllis ‘Jiggs’ Allbut of The Angels
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267th day of 2010 - 98 remaining
Friday, September 24, 2010
MUPPETEER DAY
C/P Thanks buddy
There’s a fictional neighborhood where some of the residents are named Kermit, Big Bird , Bert & Ernie, Miss Piggy, and Oscar the Grouch. It’s called Sesame Street.
The creator of the lifelike characters, Jim Henson, was born on this day in 1936. The puppeteer first named his puppets, Muppets, in 1954 when he was working as a producer of the Washington, D.C. TV show, Sam and Friends.
Henson moved his Muppets to network TV in 1969. Children of all ages were able to enjoy the Muppets’ antics on the educational, yet entertaining Sesame Street. The Muppets then got their own show, The Muppet Show; which generated The Muppet Movie and other films, like The Muppets Take Manhattan and The Great Muppet Caper.
And Jim Henson got the awards: 18 Emmys, 17 Grammys, 4 Peabody Awards and 5 Ace Awards (National Cable Television Association).
The premier muppeteer, and voice of Kermit the Frog, died suddenly in May of 1990. Jim Henson lives on through his Muppets.
Events September 24
1869 - Black Friday: The price of gold rose to panic-causing heights. Thousands of businessmen were ruined in the Wall Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James ‘Jubilee Jim’ Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.
1906 - Devil’s Tower, Wyoming was established as a national monument; the first national monument in the U.S.
1915 - Douglas Fairbanks starred in The Lamb. It was his first film and was shown at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City.
1934 - Babe Ruth bid farewell to the New York Yankees. It was the Babe’s last game in Yankee Stadium and for the team. The Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 5-0.
1938 - Tennis champion Don Budge won the U.S. Tennis Open at Forest Hills, NY. The win made Budge the first player to win all four major titles (he also had won the Australian Open, the French Open and the British Open).
1940 - Flinging a Wing Ding was recorded by Bob Chester. We wonder whether that was a chicken wing-ding he was flinging...
1942 - Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS radio. It was time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for Chesterfield Cigarettes.
1955 - Millions of Americans tuned in to watch Judy Garland make her TV debut on the Ford Star Jubilee. The CBS show received the highest television ratings to that time.
1955 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO. He was hospitalized for three weeks.
1957 - President Eisenhower ordered U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas schools.
1960 - The U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
1961 - Bullwinkle J. Moose and his friend, Rocket J. (Rocky) Squirrel, were seen in prime time for the first time on NBC-TV. The Sunday night cartoon (7-7:30 p.m.) was called The Bullwinkle Show. Originally Bullwinkle and Rocky appeared on ABC in a weekday afternoon series, Rocky and His Friends.
1964 - The Munsters premiered on CBS-TV. The show featured Frankenstein-look-alike Herman Munster (played by Fred Gwynne), Lily Munster (Yvonne DeCarlo), Edward ‘Eddie’ Wolfgang Munster (Butch Patrick), all-American beautiful blonde Marilyn Munster (Pat Priest & Debbie Watson), and Grandpa (played by Al Lewis). The Munster fun ran for seventy episodes -- through Sep 1, 1966.
1966 - Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of his name to Jimi.
1968 - The Vogues received a gold record for Turn Around Look at Me on the Reprise label.
1968 - The longest-running newsmagazine on television began on CBS-TV. 60 Minutes started on this, a Tuesday, night in 1968. During its first three years on the tube, 60 Minutes ran on an alternate-week schedule with CBS News Hour, moving to Sundays (all by itself) in early 1972. 60 Minutes debuted with two correspondents: Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner.
1970 - The Soviet Luna 16 returned to earth (in the Soviet Union), completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon.
1975 - Britons Dougal Haston and Doug Scott became the first to climb Mount Everest by the southwest face.
1977 - Get out the polyester cruisewear! The Love Boat set sail -- on ABC-TV. Captain Stubing (Gavin MacLeod); Cruise Director, Julie McCoy (Lauren Tewes); Dr. Adam Bricker (Bernie Kopell); Bartender, Isaac Washington (Ted Lange); and Yeoman-Purser, Burl ‘Gopher’ Smith (Fred Grandy) took to the calm seas each week. The show’s theme, The Love Boat, written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox, was sung by Jack Jones. The voice of Ernie Anderson, will always be remembered for his intros announcing, “The Luuuuuve Boat.”
1979 - CompuServe Information System began operation. It was the world’s first public computer information service.
1988 - The Rev. Barbara C. Harris of Philadelphia was elected Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts. She was the first woman to be elected a bishop of the Episcopal Church.
1988 - Guns N’Roses Appetite for Destruction reached #1 on the Billboard album chart. The tracks: Welcome to the Jungle, It’s So Easy, NighTrain, Out Ta Get Me, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City, My Michelle, Think About You, Sweet Child O’ Mine, You’re Crazy, Anything Goes, Rocket Queen.
1988 - Seoul Summer Olympics news: 1) Carl Lewis ran the fastest 100 meters of his life, 9.92 seconds, but was beaten by Canadian Ben Johnson’s 9.79. “I ran the best I could, and I'm pleased with the race.” Lewis said. (Lewis did become the recipient of the that gold medal when Johnson tested positive for steroids, a banned substance for Olympic athletes.) 2) Jackie Joyner-Kersee amassed a world-record score (7,291) in the heptathlon (seven different track-and-field events for women).
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The children’s author was better known as Dr. Seuss, the writer of classics such as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
1995 - Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 - The world’s major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. The United States was represented at the signing ceremony at the United Nations by President Bill Clinton.
1997 - Garth Brooks was named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.
1998 - Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin introduced the new $20 note at the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington DC. Two billion dollars-worth of harder-to-counterfeit bills went into circulation.
1999 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres this day: Double Jeopardy (starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Bruce Greenwood); Guinevere (with Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Gina Gershon); Jakob the Liar (Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban); and Mumford (Jane Adams, Ted Danson, Hope Davis).
2000 - Citizens of the Yugoslav federation (Serbia and Montenegro) voted directly for president for the first time. Supporters of opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica declared victory the next day, but the election commission said a runoff was needed, prompting massive protests that toppled President Slobodan Milosevic.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) announced a freeze on the assets of 27 people and organizations with suspected links to terrorism. The list included Islamic militant Osama BIN Laden.
2001 - The U.S. agreed to pay $582 million in overdue dues to the United Nations.
2002 - The annual MacArthur Fellowship awards, known as ‘genius grants’, were given to 24 men and women. Two of the $500,000 recipients included David B. Goldstein, energy specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco (for his work on energy-efficient refrigerators), and Sendhil Mullainathan professor of economics (who uses insights from psychology and sociology to better understand economic behavior and the functioning of markets).
2003 - Anthony Hopkins got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hopkins won an Academy Award for playing the cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins has acted in some 100 films, including The Lion in Winter, QB VII, A Bridge Too Far, The Elephant Man, The Bounty, Howards End, Amistad, The Mask of Zorro, and The Devil and Daniel Webster.
2003 - Herb Gardner, Tony-winning playwright (A Thousand Clowns, Rappaport), died in New York. He was 68 years old.
2004 - These films opened in the U.S.: A Dirty Shame, starring Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Patricia Hearst, Mink Stole, Susan Allenback, Jeffrey Auerbach, Lance Baldwin, Paul DeBoy, Mary Vivian Pierce and Wes Johnson; First Daughter, with Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton, Amerie Rogers, Margaret Colin and Lela Rochon Fuqua; and The Forgotten, starring Julianne Moore and Dominic West.
2004 - French author Francoise Sagan died at 69 years of age. Sagan, who gained fame with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse in 1954 at the age of 18, courted controversy throughout her life. French President Jacques Chirac said, “With her death, France loses one of its most brilliant and sensitive writers - an eminent figure of our literary life.”
2005 - Human Rights Watch reported that whistleblowers had accused U.S. troops of routinely torturing Iraqi prisoners and declining to investigate complaints.
2006 - A speeding bus overturned on a curving mountain road near Quito, Ecuador killing 47 people, including 17 children.
2006 - A survey of Internet leaders, activists, and analysts, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project deduced that sometime after 2020 our computers will become intelligent, evolve rapidly, and end up treating us as pets.
2007 - Hungarian officials said that in an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, they would allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur’s permit, a move to generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.
2007 - The annual $500,00 ‘genius grant’ MacArthur grants were given to 24 men and women. The so-called ‘genius grant’ is given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the U.S., of any age and working in any field, who “show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work.”
2008 - Japan’s new prime minister, Taro Aso, flamboyant conservative of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), took over, pledging to work for a ‘cheerful’ nation by reviving an economy in the doldrums.
2009 - Two armed robbers in Belgium made off with a $1.1 million painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte, Olympia (1948), in a morning heist at a small museum in Brussels.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama hosted a 2-day meeting of the G20 as it opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2010 - New films showing in the U.S.: Enter the Void, starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Emily Alyn Lind and Jesse Kuhn; Friction, with Ernest Thompson, Amy Mathison, August Thompson and Jeremy Mathison; Howl, starring James Franco, Jon Hamm, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and David Strathairn; Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, with Emilie de Ravin, Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish; Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, starring Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Charlie Sheen, Josh Brolin and Michael Douglas; and You Again, with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Betty White, Kristin Chenoweth and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Birthdays September 24
1755 - John Marshall
attorney: 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; died July 6, 1835
1896 - F. (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald
writer: This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night; died Dec 21, 1940
1910 - Del Courtney
bandleader: popularized big band swing in 1930s: recorded regularly and packed hotel ballrooms with his simple and sweet melodies: An Apple for the Teacher, Monstro the Whale, The Singing Hill, Hawaiian War Chant; radio/TV show host; DJ: KSFO and radio staton owner: KSOL (San Francisco); Oakland Raiders Director of Administration [19 years] and team bandleader [1970s]; autobiography: Hey! The Band's Too Loud [2005]; died Feb 11, 2006
1912 - Don Porter
actor: Our Miss Brooks, The Candidate, Bachelor in Paradise; died Feb 11, 1997
1915 - Larry Gates
actor: Backstairs at the White House, Death of a Gunfighter, The Sand Pebbles, Toys in the Attic; died Dec 12, 1996
1921 - Jim McKay (McManus)
Emmy Award-winning TV sports commentator: Coverage of the Munich Olympic Tragedy: ABC Special [1972]; sportscaster: ABC’s Wide World of Sports; newspaper writer: The Baltimore Sun; died Jun 7, 2008
1924 - Sheila MacRae (Stephens)
comedienne: The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show; author: Mother of the Year; wife of singer, actor Gordon MacRae
1931 - Anthony Newley
actor: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, Roar of the Grease Paint, Oliver Twist, No Time to Die; singer: What Kind of Fool Am I?; died Apr 14, 1999
1936 - Jim (James Maury) Henson
Muppeteer; died May 16, 1990; see Muppeteer Day [above]
1940 - Barbara Allbut
singer: group: The Angels: My Boyfriend’s Back
1941 - John Mackey
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts: Super Bowl V; San Diego Chargers
1941 - Linda McCartney (Eastman)
photographer: Rolling Stone magazine; singer: group: Wings: Silly Love Songs [w/husband Paul McCartney]; died Apr 17, 1998
1942 - Phyllis ‘Jiggs’ Allbut
singer: group: The Angels: My Boyfriend's Back, I Adore Him, Thank You and Good Night
1942 - Gerry Marsden
singer: group: Gerry & The Pacemakers: Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying, I’m the One, Ferry Cross the Mersey
1946 - ‘Mean’ Joe (Charles) Greene
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle with ‘The Steel Curtain’: two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year; Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; defensive line coach: Pittsburgh Steelers
1948 - Gordon Clapp
actor: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, The Sure Hand of God, Sunshine State, Rules of Engagement, Rage: Carrie 2, In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1948 - Phil Hartman
actor, comedian: Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Jumpin’ Jack flash , Dennis the Menace, Amazon Women on the Moon, Loaded Weapon 1, Coneheads, Stuart Saves His Family, Jingle All the Way; shot to death by his wife Brynn May 28, 1998
1948 - Eric (Thane) Soderholm
baseball: Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, NY Yankees
1949 - Anson Williams
actor: Happy Days, I Married a Centerfold, Lisa, Bright and Dark
1951 - Terry Metcalf
football: Toronto Argonauts, SL Cardinals, Washington Redskins
1952 - Rod (Rodney Joe) Gilbreath
baseball: Atlanta Braves
1956 - Hubie (Hubert) Brooks
baseball: NY Mets, Montreal Expos [all-star: 1986, 1987], LA Dodgers, California Angels, KC Royals
1959 - Steve Whitmire
voice [since Jim Henson died in 1990] of Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker, Bean Bunny, Doozer; shares same birthday as Jim Henson [see Muppeteer Day above]
1964 - Rafael Palmeiro
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles
1966 - Bernard Gilkey
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers
1971 - Kevin Millar
baseball: Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox
1973 - Jesse Garcia
baseball [second base]: Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres
1973 - Eddie George
football [running back]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans, Dallas Cowboys
1974 - John McDonald
baseball [shortstop]: Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays
1976 - Ben Broussard
baseball [first base]: Cleveland Indians
1979 - Justin Bruening
actor: All My Children, Knight Rider
1982 - Paul Hamm
World/Olympic gymnast (U.S.): won gold medal in all-around competition at 2004 Athens Summer Games; twin brother is fellow gymnast Morgan Hamm
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Chart Toppers September 24
1949You’re Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk - Perry Como
Someday - Vaughn Monroe
Slipping Around - Ernest Tubb
1958Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
It’s All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
Rock-in Robin - Bobby Day
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
1967The Letter - The Box Tops
Never My Love - The Association
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston & Tammy Wynette
1976Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You - Jim Ed Brown/Helen Cornelius
1985Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cherish - Kool & The Gang
Don’t Lose My Number - Phil Collins
I Fell in Love Again Last Night - The Forester Sisters
1994I’ll Make Love to You - Boyz II Men
Endless Love - Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey
When Can I See You - Babyface
Third Rock from the Sun - Joe Diffie
2003Shake Ya Tailfeather - Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee
Can’t Hold Us Down - Christina Aguilera featuring Lil’ Kim
Senorita - Justin Timberlake
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson (with Jimmy Buffett)
Happy Birthday Barbara Allbut & Phyllis ‘Jiggs’ Allbut of The Angels
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