DYR Today, December 21

“Born Today”

• Tom Sturridge (31)
• Steven Yeun (33)
• Tom Payne (34)
• Shaun Morgan (38)
• Lukas Rossi (40)
• Natalie Grant (45)
• Julie Delpy (47)
• Kiefer Sutherland (50)
• Andy Dick (51)
• Ray Romano (59)
• Jane Kaczmarek (61)
• Jeffery Katenberg (66)
• Samuel L. Jackson (68)
• Jane Fonda (79)
• Frank Zappa (RIP)

“Died Today”

• H.B. Warner (Born: October 26, 1875 / Died: December 21, 1958)
• Robert Paige (Born: December 2, 1911 / Died: December 21, 1987)
• Albert King (Born: April 25, 1923 / Died: December 21, 1992)

“Movies”

• 1966 – Gambit
• 1966 – Grand Prix
• 1967 – The Graduate
• 1967 – The President’s Analyst
• 1968 – Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy)
• 1971 – Such Good Friends
• 1972 – Jeremiah Johnson
• 1979 – The Black Hole
• 1984 – Birdy
• 1984 – The Flamingo Kid
• 1984 – Johnny Dangerously
• 1984 – Micki & Maude
• 1988 – Beaches
• 1988 – Talk Radio
• 1988 – Working Girl
• 1990 – The Bonfire of the Vanities
• 1990 – Kindergarten Cop
• 1994 – Mixed Nuts

“Music”

• 1963 – The #1 song on the Adult Contemporary chart was “Dominique” by The SInging Nun
• 1968 – Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman” was the #1 song on the Adult Contemporary chart
• 1968 – “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” was #1 for its second week

• 1974 – Chicago reached #1 with “Wishing You Were Here”
• 1983 – Van Halen released the single “Jump”

• 1985 – Heart’s self titled album was #1 on the Billboard 200
• 1985 – “Say You, Say Me” by Lionel Richie continued to top the charts

• 1991 – “I Love Your Smile” by Shanice was the #1 R&B song
• 1991 – Richard Marx’s hit “Keep Coming Back” topped the Adult Contemporary chart

“TV/Radio”

• 1945 – The Disney short Old Sequoia premiered.

• 1969 – The Supremes had their final television appearance with Diana Ross on The Ed Sullivan Show.

“Other Important Events…”

• 1937  – Disney’s first full length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered.
• 1968 – Apollo 8, the first spacecraft to leave Earth’s orbit and orbit the moon, was launched.