Birthdays
1925 - Dick Van Dyke (Richard Wayne Van Dyke), American actor, comedian, writer, singer, and dancer. He became known for his role as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show. He also gained significant popularity for roles in the musical films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, among other prominent films. Other prominent TV roles include the leads in The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971–74), Diagnosis: Murder (1993–2001), and Murder 101 (2006–08) which both co-starred his son Barry. Van Dyke is the recipient of five Primetime Emmys, a Tony, and a Grammy Award, and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. He received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the SAG Life Achievement Award, in 2013. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard and has also been recognized as a Disney Legend.
1927 - Christopher Plummer, CC (Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer), Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), and has portrayed numerous major historical figures, including Roman emperor Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo, Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King, Mike Wallace in The Insider, Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception, and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World. Plummer has received various accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award; he is one of the few performers to receive the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to win an acting award.
1967 - Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop), American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, television presenter, and record producer. He became widely known for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biographical film Ray, for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. Since spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. Foxx is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums, which have charted in the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, Intuition, Best Night of My Life, and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses.
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1577 - Francis Drake, English sea captain and navigator, sets sail from Plymouth, England, on a round-the-world voyage that would last almost three years.He endures mutiny and storms, but plunders Spanish treasure ships and returns with a fortune. On the deck of his ship, the Golden Hind, he is knighted in Plymouth by Elizabeth I.
1642 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer becomes the first European to sight the group of islands now known as New Zealand.
1895 - Gustave Mahler conducts the first performance of his Symphony No.2, "Resurrection," in Berlin. (Related link: Simone Young & Philharmoniker Hamburg. Accessed Dec 13, 2017)
1928 - George Gershwin's An American in Paris, for orchestra, is conducted by Walter Damrosch in its first performance, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, in New York City.
1937 - Nanking, then capital of China, falls to the Japanese, who embark on a six-week rampage, that killed 300,000 people, leaving the city in ruins.
1944 - Leonard Bernstein's musical On the Town, is first produced, in Boston.
1951 - James Dean launches his career by dancing around a jukebox in a Pepsi television commercial.
2003 - After an 8-month hunt, American troops capture former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He is hiding in an underground bunker near his home town of Tikrit, Iraq.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
Historical Events
1577 - Francis Drake, English sea captain and navigator, sets sail from Plymouth, England, on a round-the-world voyage that would last almost three years.He endures mutiny and storms, but plunders Spanish treasure ships and returns with a fortune. On the deck of his ship, the Golden Hind, he is knighted in Plymouth by Elizabeth I.
1642 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer becomes the first European to sight the group of islands now known as New Zealand.
1895 - Gustave Mahler conducts the first performance of his Symphony No.2, "Resurrection," in Berlin. (Related link: Simone Young & Philharmoniker Hamburg. Accessed Dec 13, 2017)
1928 - George Gershwin's An American in Paris, for orchestra, is conducted by Walter Damrosch in its first performance, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, in New York City.
1937 - Nanking, then capital of China, falls to the Japanese, who embark on a six-week rampage, that killed 300,000 people, leaving the city in ruins.
1944 - Leonard Bernstein's musical On the Town, is first produced, in Boston.
1951 - James Dean launches his career by dancing around a jukebox in a Pepsi television commercial.
2003 - After an 8-month hunt, American troops capture former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He is hiding in an underground bunker near his home town of Tikrit, Iraq.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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