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Post by happy on Sept 13, 2005 21:15:13 GMT
oh my i just remember , one of my bests friends birthday 13 sepember hahaha Ive got 45 min to go lol
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 14, 2005 6:46:33 GMT
September 14th 1982
Princess Grace dies
Princess Grace of Monaco--American actress Grace Kelly--dies tragically when her car plunges off a mountain road by the Cote D'Azur in September 1982. She was 52 years old.
Kelly, the daughter of a former model and a wealthy industrialist, began acting as a child. After high school, she attended the American Academy for Dramatic Arts in New York. While she auditioned for Broadway plays, she supported herself by modeling and appearing in TV commercials.
In 1949, she debuted on Broadway in The Father by August Strindberg. Two years later, she landed her first Hollywood bit part, in Fourteen Hours. Her big break came in 1952, when she starred as Gary Cooper's wife in High Noon. Her performance in The Country Girl, as the long-suffering wife of an alcoholic songwriter played by Bing Crosby, won her an Oscar in 1954. The same year, she played opposite Jimmy Stewart in Alfred Hitch*manhood*'s Rear Window.
While filming another Hitch*manhood* movie, To Catch a Thief (1955), in the French Riviera, she met Prince Rainier of Monaco. It wasn't love at first sight for Kelly, but the smitten prince initiated a correspondence, which led to their spectacular wedding in 1956. Princess Grace retired from acting after her marriage, although she occasionally narrated documentaries. She had three children.
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Post by specialk on Sept 14, 2005 8:07:15 GMT
I like this thread liz it's interesting.
God what a day this year in this house - I am hoping today is the day my daughter passes her driving test x
Also at 9.02 12 years ago I was having my son. So today is his twelth birthday and it is also the first time I have ever spent one of my children's birthdays without being with them. I miss him terribly so please forgive me if I get grumpy today hahaahahaha.
It is also:
1959 The soviet spacecraft Lunik II, because the first spaceship from earth to land on the Moon.
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Post by toasted on Sept 14, 2005 10:39:15 GMT
Great thread Lizzie,I love a bit of history.
1974 Eric Clapton first tops the charts
Eric Clapton first tops the charts with his version of Bob Marley's reggae song "I Shot the Sheriff." Clapton, a bricklayer's son born in Ripley, England, in 1945, began playing guitar at age 15. By the early 1960s, he was playing with The Yardbirds and later with Cream. He released his first solo album in 1970, but drug problems kept him from releasing another album until 1972. By 1974, Clapton had kicked his heroin addiction and began releasing a steady stream of hit albums. In 1993, Clapton won both the Best Album and Best Male Rock Vocalist Grammy for Unplugged (1992). He also won the Best Male Pop Vocal Award for "Tears in Heaven," a song for his son, who was killed as a toddler in 1991 when he fell out a high-rise window.
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Post by reg on Sept 14, 2005 15:22:40 GMT
September 14
1974 A song about crime hits the charts
"I Shot the Sheriff" hits No. 1 on the music charts. While the song had been written by reggae legend Bob Marley the previous year, it was Eric Clapton's version that ascended to the top of the charts.
Crime and murder have been the subject of popular recorded music since the invention of the phonograph. "Stakalee," also known and performed as "Stagger Lee," was one of the 20th century's first hits. The lyrics, in which the theft of a Stetson hat leads to the death of a self-professed family man, were based on an actual murder that occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1895. Over the years, it has been recorded by hundreds of artists, including, more recently, the Grateful Dead and Nick Cave.
Another early hit was "White House Blues," which recounted the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901. It has since become a bluegrass standard. Country and folk songs often feature murder as a theme as well. The Louvin Brothers had a huge hit in the 1950s with "Knoxville Girl," a story-song in which the protagonist cannot help but kill his girlfriend, and Johnny Cash sang of killing a man "just to watch him die" in "Folsom Prison Blues."
In the 1990s, crime became a common theme of rap music too. Ice-T's "Cop Killer" caused a big controversy when opponents pressured Warner Brothers to stop the release of the record. And, in two separate murder trials, young men claimed that the violent imagery of Tupac Shakur's lyrics provoked them to kill police officers. Both juries, however, rejected the arguments.
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 15, 2005 6:17:24 GMT
September 15th
1954 Marilyn Monroe's skirt scene filmed
The famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot on this day during the filming of The Seven Year Itch. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist. The couple divorced shortly after
1949 The Lone Ranger premiered
Birthdays Agatha Christie (1890)
Tommy Lee Jones (1946)
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Sept 15, 2005 10:24:16 GMT
Sept 15th
1978: American boxer Muhammad Ali becomes the first man to win the world heavyweight title three times when he defeats Leon Spinks, who had taken his title earlier in the year.
1928: Scottish bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory. The mold will later be developed into penicillin, a revolutionary antibiotic.
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Post by specialk on Sept 15, 2005 13:34:41 GMT
1997 Former Eurovision song contest winner Dana - real name Rosemary Scallon - announces she is a candidate in the Irish presidential elections.
Now I am rocking lalalala all kinds of everything remind me of you llala summer days spring and autumn too lalal monday tuesday everyday I think of you lalalalalalalalalala omg takes me back hahahahah! ;D
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 15, 2005 19:12:51 GMT
Sorry Harry. Forgot your birthday, Happy Birthday. When is he going to join us anyway?
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Post by specialk on Sept 15, 2005 23:51:44 GMT
Who is harry?
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 16, 2005 5:58:46 GMT
Harry Windsor
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 16, 2005 6:06:07 GMT
September 16th
1949 Road Runner debuts
Warner. Bros. introduces the Road Runner in the cartoon short "Fast and Furry-ous." Like the sounds of countless other Warner Bros. cartoon characters, the Road Runner's cheerful "beep, beep!" was provided by Mel Blanc.
MAYFLOWER DEPARTS ENGLAND: September 16, 1620
The Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists--half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs--had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course, and on November 21 the "Pilgrims" reached Massachusetts, where they founded the first permanent European settlement in New England in late December.
Birthdays Lauren Bacall (1924) Peter Falk (Columbo 1927) Russ Abbot (1947)
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