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Born on this day in history: 1887 - Boris Karloff (actor who played Frankenstein. Narrated The Grinch Who Stole Christmas; died in 1969) 1888 - Harpo Marx (actor, one of the Marx brothers, Duck Soup; died in 1964) 1918 - Michael Gough (actor, Alfred in Batman movies.) 1926 - R.L. Burnside (blues guitarist; died in 2005) 1928 - Jerry Bock (Broadway composer, Fiddler on the Roof) 1939 - Betty Everett (singer, The Shoop Shoop Song; died in 2001) 1941 - Franco Nero (actor, Die Hard 2) 1942 - Susan Anspach (actress, Five Easy Pieces, Play it Again Sam) 1944 - Joe Eszterhas (screenwriter, Showgirls) 1945 - Steve Landesberg (actor, Barney Miller) 1951 - David Rappaport (dwarf actor, L.A. Law.; Died of self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1990) 1954 - Bruce Hornsby (singer/pianist, The Way It Is) 1959 - Maxwell Caulfield (actor, Empire Records) 1960 - John Henton (actor, The Hughleys) 1966 - Charlie Grover (drummer, Sponge) 1967 - Salli Richardson (actress, A Low Down Dirty Shame) 1970 - Oded Fehr (actor, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns) 1972 - Kurupt (rapper, The Dog Pound) 1979 - Kelly Brook (actress/model, ex-Smallville) 1995 - Austin Majors (actor, NYPD Blue) On this day in music history: 1960 - Elvis Presley had the #1 single with Are You Lonesome Tonight. 1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested outside of Graceland after waving a pistol and demanding to see "The King." 1979 - Singer Marianne Faithfull was arrested at the Oslo, Norway airport for possession of marijuana. 1990 - MTV banned Madonna's Justify My Love video. 1992 - Country music legend Roy Acuff died of heart failure at age 89. 1998 - A businessman convicted of second-degree murder in the drowning of the ex-wife of Jackson 5 member Tito Jackson was given 15 years to life in prison. 2000 - 12 year old country star Billy Gilman sang One Voice during festivities at the Dallas Cowboys vs. Minnesota Vikings football game. Jessica Simpson sang with Billy during the half-time show. On this day in history: 1899 - The first jukebox was installed in the Palais Hotel in San Francisco. It consisted of an Edison tinfoil phonograph with four listening tubes and a nickel coin slot for each tube. "Juke" was slang for disorderly house or brothel. "Juke Organ" was the original term for the device. 1936 - The first issue of Life magazine hit the newsstands. 1942--After Seaman Poon Lim's merchant ship S.S. Lomond was torpedoed and sank, he ended up setting the world record for survival at sea. He lived aboard a life raft for 133 days, with just 60 days worth of rations, and fished for food with a hook he made from a flashlight spring. Lim was finally rescued by Brazilian fishermen. 1983 - Mary Tyler Moore, age 45, married a 30-year-old cardiologist, Dr. Robert Levine, in New York City. 1998--Whitewater figure Susan McDougal was acquitted in Santa Monica, California of embezzling from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife. McDougal said the charges were trumped up to pressure her to testify about President Clinton. 1998 - Dennis Rodman filed for an annulment from Carmen Electra. The two had been married on November 14, 1998. 1998 - A U.S. federal judge rejected a Virginia county's effort to block pornography on a library's computer calling the attempt unconstitutional. 2001 - A crowd of 87,555 people watched the Texas Longhorns beat the Texas A&M Aggies 21-7. The crowd was the largest to see a football game in Texas. |
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