Have You Heard, if Frank Sinatra were alive, he’d be 100 years old today (12/12).
Considered by many to be the greatest male singer of the 20th Century, Sinatra helped “make” Las Vegas, won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award (From Here to Eternity – 1953), won 11 Grammys, had his likeness on a postage stamp and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sinatra died at the age of 82.
Tthe same day Sinatra was born, The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made its first flight.
Sammy Davis, Sr., was an actor and dancer and the father of Sinatra’s best friends, Sammy Davis, Jr.
Davis Sr. was born in Wilmington, NC, 115 years ago today (12/12/1900).
He came close to outliving his son.
Senior was 87 when he died in 1988. Junior was 64 when he died in 1990.
The first motel, the Motel Inn, opened 90 years ago today in San Luis Obispo, California.
Game Show host Bob Barker is 92 today.
Dionne Warwick is 75 today.
The only female artist to chart more songs than Warwick is Aretha Franklin.
Warwick has had 11 top-ten hits and two number ones.
The Miracles had two number-one hits.
The first, “The Tears of Clown,” featured Smokey Robinson as the lead singer (who was also part of the group’s name at the time) and hit the top spot 45 years ago today (12/12/1970)
Actress Jennifer Connelly was born the exact same day.
Washington, DC, was officially established as our nation’s capital 215 years ago today.
85 years ago today, baseball changed the rule that a ball that bounced fair into the stands that was a home run is now a ground-rule double.
Today is also “Poinsettia Day,” to honor the plant named for South Carolinian Joel Poinsett.
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