This Day In History

December 11th

1882  The Bijou Theatre in Boston, Massachussetts becomes the first theatre lighted by electricity.
1939  Singer Betty Grable and her famous legs featured on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1946  Tycoon John D. Rockefeller, Jr. offered a six-block area of land in New York City for the world headquarters of the United Nations.
1951  Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball after 13-years.
1985  GE (General Electric) bought RCA (Radio Corporation of America which also owned NBC-TV & Radio) for $6.3 billioin, making it one of the most expensive acquisitions in US history.

1882  Politician & NY Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
1905  Actor Gilbert Roland (born as Luis DeAlonso)
1931  Dancer Rita Moreno
1944  Singer Brenda Lee Tarpley
1953  Actress Bess Armstrong
1955  Singer Jermaine Jackson of the famed Jackson Family

1959

• Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

• Heartaches by the Number - Guy Mitchell

• We Got Love - Bobby Rydell

• The Same Old Me - Ray Price

1967

• Daydream Believer - The Monkees

• I Say a Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick

• I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips

• It's the Little Things - Sonny James

1975

• Fly, Robin Fly - Silver Convention

• Sky High - Jigsaw

• Let's Do It Again - The Staple Singers

• Secret Love - Freddy Fender

1983

• Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson

• Say It Isn't So - Daryl Hall and John Oates

• Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar

• Tell Me a Lie - Janie Fricke

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