[FYI] This Day In History January 14

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Friday, January 14, 2011
TODAY DAY

This is a most historic day in television. On this cold East Coast morning at 7 a.m., in 1952, NBC-TV opened a broadcast with a shot of DAVE Garroway looking outside through the ‘Window on the World’ in New York City. The program was the first that featured his signature sign-off: hand raised, uttering one word, “Peace.”

The show was developed by Pat Weaver, father of actress Sigourney Weaver. Some four-plus decades later, the popular show continues, coanchored by Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. This is one TV show that stays the same, informing, entertaining and educating while continuing to change to suit the times.

This is Today... on NBC.

Events January 14

1873 - ‘Celluloid’ was registered as a trademark. It was the wonderful invention of John Hyatt in 1869. While waiting for a patent, he used the celluloid to wrap his Christmas presents. Then he got the idea that somebody might be able to make movies with the stuff.

1882 - A country club named The Country Club became the first country club in the United States -- in Brookline, MA. Of course, playing golf in mid-January in New England didn’t work out, so hunters went out to pick off the wildlife right off the fairways.

1907 - The cities of Kingston and Port Royal in Jamaica were virtually leveled by an earthquake. Some 800 people were killed.

1914 - Henry Ford announced the newest advance in assembly line production of cars. The new continuous motion method reduced assembly time of a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.

1932 - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his first race. The jockey was riding Eagle Bird for the victory. This after 45 initial losses in his career.

1936 - Harriet Hilliard, vocalist and wife of bandleader Ozzie Nelson, sang Get Thee Behind Me Satan, on Brunswick Records.

1939 - The program, Honolulu Bound, was heard on CBS radio. Phil Baker and the Andrews Sisters were featured on the program. We have no idea what the program was about, but our wild guesses include words like hula, Waikiki, trade winds, sun-drenched beaches, coconuts and pineapple.

1941 - Paul Brown, then head football coach of Massillon High School, was named head coach of Ohio State’s Buckeyes. In seven years of high school competition, coach Brown’s Massillon High team lost only one game.

1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Allied leaders during the opening day of the famous Casablanca Conference in Morocco. Roosevelt, Gen. Charles DeGaulle, leader of free France, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and General Henri Giraud, High Commissioner of French North and West Africa met to hammer out the strategy that called for the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On his way to the conference, Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.

1949 - An antitrust suit against American Telephone and Telegraph Company was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The action sought to separate the company from its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, Inc.

1951 - The first National Football League Pro Bowl All-Star Game was played -- in Los Angeles, California. The American Conference defeated the National Conference in a squeaker -- 28-27.

1954 - Marilyn Monroe married baseball great, Joe DiMaggio. The marriage lasted nine months. After her death (in 1962), DiMaggio had red roses delivered to her crypt two to three times a week for some twenty years.

1956 - Rock ’n’ roller, Little Richard, was singing the newly released Tutti-Frutti. So, you think this was the hit version, huh? Not so, bubblegum brain. The Pat Boone version became even more popular as a cover record.

1960 - Elvis Presley was promoted to sergeant in the U.S. Army.

1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama. A pledge in his inaugural address was for “segregation today; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever.”

1964 - A hootenanny was held for the first time at the White House, as the New Christy Minstrels entertained President and Lady Bird Johnson, as well as Italy’s President.

1968 - Super Bowl II (at Miami): Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14. Packers had won every Super Bowl to date. MVP: Packers’ QB Bart Starr. Tickets: $12.00.

1970 - Diana Ross performed for the last time with The Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. The show began with a medley of hits and ended with Someday We’ll Be Together.

1972 - Comedian Redd Foxx, whose last name was really Sanford, debuted on NBC-TV in Sanford & Son. Demond Wilson starred as Fred Sanford’s son. Quincy Jones composed the catchy theme song.

1973 - Super Bowl VII (at Los Angeles): Miami Dolphins 14, Washington Redskins 7. This was the season that Bob Griese and the Dolphins finished with a perfect 17-0 record. MVP: Dolphins’ S Jake Scott. Tickets: $15.00.

1973 - Elvis Presley drew the largest audience for a single TV show to that time -- an estimated one billion viewers in 40 countries. Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii, a live, worldwide concert from Honolulu International Center Arena (later known as the Neal S. Blaisdell Center Arena). Performed at 12:30 a.m. Hawaiian Time, it was beamed live via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries, and was seen on a delayed basis in approximately 30 European countries. The first American airing was April 4th on NBC-TV. The show was also released as a two-record album, and became one of Elvis’s top-selling LPs.

1976 - The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner, debuted on ABC-TV.

1976 - Ted Turner completed the purchase, and became 100 percent owner and CEO of the Atlanta Braves.

1978 - Actress Marie Blake died. She was 81 years old. Blake is probably best known for playing Blossom Rock, Grandmamma, in The Addams Family TV series.

1984 - Madonna made her debut on American Bandstand. She opened with Holiday.

1985 - Martina Navratilova joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments. To accomplish this, Martina defeated Manuela Maleeva to win the Virginia Slims competition in Washington, D.C.

1985 - Former Miss America Phyllis George joined Bill Kurtis as host of The CBS Morning News. It was a bomb. Kurtis went back to WBBM-TV in Chicago as a news anchor and Phyllis stuck around a little longer, encouraging people to give hugs, until she was axed.

1986 - Rambo: First Blood, Part II arrived at video stores this day, breaking the record set by Ghostbusters for first day orders. 435,000 copies of the video were sold -- about $21.4 million worth. Yo!

1990 - The Fox network’s animated show The Simpsons premiered. “D’oh!”

1993 - The Galeras Volcano in Colombia erupted as 15 people gathered at the crater. Only six survived.

1996 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 20-to-16, to win the AFC championship. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Green Bay Packers, 38-to-27, to capture the NFC championship.

1997 - Greek officials confirmed the discovery in Athens of the lyceum (the gymnasium used as the world’s first university) where the philosopher Aristotle taught some 2,500 years ago. Aristotle organized his lyceum as a centre for philosophical speculation and scientific research, particularly in biology and history. The discovery of the long-lost lyceum was made by archaeologist Ephi Ligouri; the site satisfied all known facts concerning the location: to the east of the city walls and on the banks of the river Iliso. The excavation was made urgently before building began for a planned museum of modern art.

1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas reported an enzyme “cellular fountain of youth” to slow aging process and cell death.

2000 - These films opened in the U.S.: Girl, Interrupted (based on Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s), starring Angelina Jolie (Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), Winona Ryder, Elisabeth Moss, Brittany Murphy, Clea Duvall and Whoopi Goldberg; The Hurricane (the story of boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, with Denzel Washington, John Hannah and Deborah Kara Unger; and Supernova (about the search and rescue patrol of a medical spaceship in the early 22nd century), starring James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney and Wilson Cruz.

2001 - The matchup for Super Bowl XXXV was decided as the New York Giants shut out the Minnesota Vikings, 41-to-0, to win the NFC championship and the Baltimore Ravens beat the Oakland Raiders, 16-to-3, to gain the AFC title.

2002 - Two members of Congress released excerpts of a memo to Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay the previous August. The memo from Sherron Watkins, Enron’s vice president of corporate development, expressed concern that the energy trading company would “implode in a wave of accounting scandals.”

2002 - U.S. warplanes began to seal caves with bombs near Khost, Afghanistan. The caves were being used as Afghan hideouts.

2004 - U.S. President George Bush (II) proposed a new space program that would send humans back to the moon by 2015 and establish a base for trips to Mars and beyond.

2004 - German-born Broadway actress Uta Hagen died at 84 years of age. Her work included the role of Martha in the 1962 Albee Broadway play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe.

2005 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri’chard, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum and Ashanti; Elektra, starring Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Terence Stamp, Hiro Kanagawa, Natassia Malthe and Bob Sapp; and the animated Racing Stripes, voiced by Frankie Muniz, Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood, Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Pantoliano, Mandy Moore, Patrick Stewart, Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Michael Clarke Duncan and Jeff Foxworthy.

2005 - The Huygens probe successfully landed on Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Three low-resolution pictures were released, including one that appears to show channels cut by liquid, and another showing rocks or ice on the surface of Titan.

2006 - Iran barred CNN reporters because of the network’s mistranslating of comments made by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

2007 - Veteran stage, film and TV actress Darlene Conley died in Los Angeles at 72 years of age. Conley played fashion mogul Sally Spectra for 19 years on the soap The Bold and the Beautiful. Over the years, she also appeared in The Birds (1963), Gunsmoke (1955), Mary Tyler Moore (1970), and Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985) Faces (1968), Tough Guys, The Young and the Restless (1973), Capitol (1982), General Hospital (1963), and Days of Our Lives (1965).

2007 - Hurricane-strength winds whipped across southwestern Sweden, leaving more than 100,000 households without power and causing major disruptions in train and boat traffic across Scandinavia. Six people were killed in storm-related accidents.

2008 - The trial of actor Wesley Snipes began in Ocala, Florida. The United States accused Snipes of skipping payment of income taxes from 1999-2004. During this period he earned $38 million and paid no taxes. (On April 24, 2008, Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns.)

2009 - Shares in Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, slumped after it announced massive losses for the fourth quarter and new terms for its takeover of giant retail lender Postbank.

2009 - Canada’s Nortel Networks Corp, North America’s biggest telephone equipment maker, filed for bankruptcy, hoping to save the once high-flying business. Nortel’s decade-long decline had accelerated with the global economic crisis.

2010 - Planes carrying teams from China, France and Spain landed at the Port-au-Prince, Haiti airport with searchers and tons of food, medicine and other supplies. Tens of thousands were feared dead in the Jan 12 earthquake and the international Red Cross estimated 3 million people, a third of Haiti’s 9-million population, needed emergency relief.

2010 - The Doomsday Clock, started in 1947, was set back 1 minute for the first time in its history. In moving the clock from 5 minutes before midnight to 6 minutes before midnight, scientists expressed optimism for humanity’s future. The actual clock is housed at the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences (BAS) office in Chicago, IL.

2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres this day: The Green Hornet, starring Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen, Edward Furlong and Edward James Olmos; The Dilemma, starring Kevin James, Vince Vaughn, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Connelly; Barney’s Version, with Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Minnie Driver and Scott Speedman; Burning Palms with Zoe Saldana, Rosamund Pike, Lake Bell, Shannen Doherty and Jamie Chung; Every Day, with Carla Gugino, Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Eddie Izzard and Brian Dennehy; and The Heart Specialist, starring Wood Harris, Zoe Saldana, Brian J. White, Mya, Scott Paulin and David S. Lee.

Birthdays January 14

1741 - Benedict Arnold
American General in Revolutionary War: turncoat, conspired with British; name synonymous with treason; died June 14, 1801

1861 - David Wesson
American chemist: created Wesson Oil; developed system to make pure cottonseed oil palatable [1900]; hydrogenated cottonseed oil [1911]; died 22 May 1934

1875 - Albert Schweitzer
philosopher, musician, physician, humanitarian: winner of Nobel Peace Prize [1952]; died Sep 4, 1965

1892 - Hal Roach
producer: Hal Roach Studios; director: One Million B.C., Road Show, The Devil’s Brother; died Nov 2, 1992

1906 - William Bendix
actor: For Love or Money, Babe Ruth Story, Blackbeard the Pirate, The Detective Story, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Guadalcanal Diary, Wake Island, Star Spangled Rhythm, The Life of Riley; died Dec 14, 1964

1908 - Russ Columbo
singer, bandleader, songwriter: You Call It Madness, Let’s Pretend There’s A Moon, Prisoner of Love; died Sep 2, 1934

1915 - Mark Goodson
TV game show producer: Pop the Question; Goodson-Todman Productions: What’s My Line, I’ve Got a Secret, Family Feud, The Price is Right; died Dec 18, 1992

1917 - Billy Butterfield (Charles William Butterfield)
musician: trumpet; founding member of World’s Greatest Jazz Band; died Mar 18, 1988

1919 - Andy Rooney
Emmy Award-winning news writer: Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed [Of Black America Series], CBS News Hour [1969]; feature writer: Pieces of My Mind; syndicated columnist; TV commentator: 60 Minutes

1924 - Guy Williams
actor: Lost in Space, Zorro, The Mississippi Gambler, Seven Angry Men, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, The Sign of Zorro, Zorro, the Avenger, Captain Sindbad; died Apr 30, 1989

1926 - Warren Mitchell
actor: Till Death Us Do Part, The 10th Man, Crackers, Kokoda Crescent, Hogan in London, Promise Her Anything, Unearthly Stranger, Gala Opening

1926 - Tom Tryon
actor: Texas John Slaughter, The Cardinal, In Harm’s Way, The Longest Day; died Sep 4, 1991

1929 - Billy Walker
singer: ‘masked singer’: Thank You for Calling, Charlie’s Shoes, Word Games

1931 - Caterina Valente
singer: The Breeze and I, Malaguena

1937 - Sonny (Wilfred Charles) Siebert
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1966], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1971], Texas Rangers, SL Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, SD Padres

1937 - Billy Jo Spears
songwriter, singer: Blanket on the Ground, What I’ve Got in Mind, Mr. Walker It’s All Over, Marty Gray

1938 - Jack Jones (John Allan Jones)
singer: Lollipops and Roses, Wives and Lovers, The Impossible Dream, Lady, The Race is On, Love Boat theme

1938 - Allen Toussaint
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame producer, songwriter, arranger, bandleader, pianist, session musician; vocalist: Connected; songwriter: Fortune Teller

1940 - Julian Bond
legislator: Georgia [1965]; civil rights leader: helped found Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; chairman of NAACP board of directors

1941 - (Dorothy) Faye Dunaway
Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Don Juan DeMarco, Casanova, Beverly Hills Madam, Christopher Columbus, Mommie Dearest, Voyage of the ****ed, Three Days of the Condor, The Towering Inferno, Chinatown, The Deadly Trap, Little Big Man, The Arrangement, Bonnie & Clyde

1941 - Gibby Gilbert
golf: finished in top 31 names on money list every season but one since joining Senior Tour in 1991; surpassed $3 million in Senior earnings during 1997 season; holds course record at the fabled Pinehurst #2

1944 - Graham Marsh
golf: PGA Tour Victory: 1977 Heritage Classic; Senior Tour Victories: 1995 Bruno’s Memorial Classic, 1996 PaineWebber Invitational, Franklin Quest Championship, 1997 Nationwide Championship, 1997 U.S. Senior Open

1947 - Gene Washington
football: Minnesota Vikings wide receiver: Super Bowl IV

1948 - T-Bone Burnett
Grammy Award-winning record producer [2002], O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, and album Down from the Mountain [2000]; member of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review tour [1975]

1948 - Carl Weathers
actor: Happy Gilmore, Dangerous Passion, Hurricane Smith, Rocky series, Force 10 from Navarone, Semi-Tough

1951 - Ron Behagen
basketball: Univ. of Minnesota, Sacramento Kings

1959 - Cathal Smyth aka Chas Smash
singer, musician: trumpet: group: Madness: The Prince, One Step Beyond, House of Fun, It Must Be Love, Grey Day, The Sun and the Rain

1961 - Mike Tramp
musician: guitar; songwriter, singer: Already Gone, Here I Don’t Belong, Have You Ever, Had I Not Complained, Wait Not for Me; groups: White Lion, Freak of Nature

1964 - Sergei Nem*****v
hockey: NY Rangers, Vancouver Canucks, NY Islanders, NJ Devils

1967 - Emily Watson
actress: Breaking the Waves, Hilary and Jackie, Gosford Park, Cromwell & Fairfax

1968 - LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)
rap singer; actor: NCIS: Los Angeles

1969 - Jason Bateman
actor: Little House on the Prairie, Breaking the Rules, Necessary Roughness, A Taste for Killing

1969 - David Emma
hockey: New Jersey Devils, Boston Bruins, Florida Panthers

1970 - Eric Charron
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, TB Lightning, Washington Capitals, Calgary Flames

1972 - Kyle Brady
football: Penn State Univ; NFL: NY Jets, Jacksonville Jaguars

1975 - Shawn Barber
football: Univ of Richmond; NFL: Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, KC Chiefs

1975 - Jordan Ladd
actress: Embrace of the Vampire, Weapons of Mass Distraction, Boys Life 3, Cabin Fever; daughter of Cheryl Ladd and David Ladd, granddaughter of Alan Ladd

1976 - Brian Kelly
football [cornerback]: USC; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

1979 - James Scott
actor: Days of Our Lives, All My Children, EastEnders

1979 - Ernest Wilford
football: Virginia Tech Univ; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars

Chart Toppers January 14

1944My Heart Tells Me - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
Shoo, Shoo, Baby - The Andrews Sisters
Paper Doll - The Mills Brothers
Pistol Packin’ Mama - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters

1953Why Don’t You Believe Me - Joni James
Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como
Keep It a Secret - Jo Stafford
Midnight - Red Foley

1962The Twist - Chubby Checker
Peppermint Twist - Joey Dee & The Starliters
Can’t Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
Walk on By - Leroy Van Dyke

1971My Sweet Lord /Isn’t It a Pity - George Harrison
Knock Three Times - Dawn
Lonely Days - Bee Gees
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson

1980Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
Rock with You - Michael Jackson
Do that to Me One More Time - The Captain & Tennille
Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers

1989My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
Two Hearts - Phil Collins
Don’t Rush Me - Taylor Dayne
Change of Heart - The Judds

1998Show Me Love - Robyn
Together Again - Janet Jackson
My Love Is the Shhh! - Somethin’ For The People
A Broken Wing - Martina McBride

2007Irreplaceable - Beyoncé
Fergalicious - Fergie
I Wanna Love You - Akon featuring Snoop Dogg
She's Everything - Brad Paisley

Happy Birthday Billy Jo Spears


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