Everyone in Opelousas,
Louisiana hated Agnes Seyfert. The
sheriff, local businessmen, the gay priest she outed, even her own family. When her body is discovered in her booby-trap
laden house, nobody seems sad she’s dead.
Paranormal sleuth, Randy Arsenault, of the Psionic Corps is brought into
the investigation and discovers she was suffocated, murdered in her own
bed. It is soon discovered she suffered
from an advanced form of cancer and had high levels of arsenic in her system.
With a hurricane
bearing down on Louisiana, Randy races against time to find out what actually
happened to the old lady before Hurricane Abigail destroys everything.
John Ortega, born in Spain in 1840, immigrated to the United States and became a resident of Pennsylvania. He joined the Navy in 1863 and was assigned to the USS Saratoga. In January 1864, Gideon Welles, the Secretary of the US Navy, order the USS Saratoga and its commander George Colvocoresses to participate in the Union blockade of Charleston, South Carolina.
Ortega participated in several raids from landing parties to capture prisoners, and the destruction of ammunition, supplies, buildings, and bridges.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service and promoted to acting master's mate in August 1864.
Ye Guangfu, born in September 1980 in China, has gone into space aboard Shenzhou 13. He launched in October 2021 and returned to Earth in April 2022. He spent over 182 days in space and conducted his first EVA for a little over 6 hours.
The summer following the end of World War I in 1919 became known as the Red Summer, in which mobs of white men attacked and killed black men in dozens of cities across the United States. In Arkansas, landowners used the black man's ability to read or write to their advantage and ensured the black population remained mired in debt.
Robert Hill, a black farmer from Winchester, Arkansas, founded the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of American (PFHUA) to help farmers get fair pay for their crops and negotiate for better conditions.
Whites saw this as a prelude to insurrection. On September 30, 1919, the PFHUA met with about 100 black farmers at a church near Elaine to discuss their options. They placed armed guards outside to protect the meeting. When two deputized, white men and a black trustee showed up, shots were fired. One of the white men was killed and the other wounded. It has never been determined who fired the first shot, but it ignited a powder keg.
The sheriff called for a posse to capture the suspects and prevent a black insurrection. As many as 1000 men were estimated to have answered the call. They attacked and killed black people on sight. Arkansas Governor Charles Brough called it a Negro uprising, saying black people planned to kill white leaders.
Official records at the time count eleven black men and five white men killed. Other estimates claim up to 237 black men killed. An investigation resulted in indictments against 122 blacks for the murders of the white men.
Twelve defendants, known as the Arkansas Twelve (or Elaine Twelve) were eventually convicted by all-white juries and sentenced to death in the electric chair. The NAACP appealed to the Supreme Court, who overturned the death sentences since they determined the men's convictions lacked due process. In 1923, the Arkansas Twelve were released.
Avalanche, starring Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow, was released in US theaters September 29, 1978. The disaster flick, produced by Roger Corman, was not a box office success. The special effects included Styrofoam to imitate snow and is apparently what made some movie-goers laugh.
Avalanche is included in the list of 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. It was riffed in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I enjoy watching it though.
Carlos Santana, born July 20, 1947 in Mexico, is a musician who formed the band Santana, pioneering a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz. He has won ten Grammy awards, eight of them with Santana. He has won three Latin Grammy Awards, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997.
The Opelousas massacre began on September 28, 1868 in the St. Landry Parish of Louisiana. After the Civil War, the Louisiana Constitution of 1868 gave black men the right to vote, integrated public education, and gave black citizens access to public accommodations.
This did not sit well with the white supremacists. On September 28, Emerson Bentley, a white man from Ohio, was teaching black children at Freemen's Bureau when three white supremacists interrupted him and beat him. When the attack started, the children ran from the classroom screaming that Mr. Bentley was being killed. This led to rumors that Bentley had been killed, but he had not, and he went into hiding.
The black community began organizing and threatening vengeance for Bentley's "death". The white supremacists mobilized against them with superior numbers and weapons.
Estimates of the death toll vary widely from less than one hundred to up to three hundred killed, most of the dead being blacks.
Falcon 1, constructed by SpaceX, successfully launched September 28, 2008, after three previous attempts had failed. It became the first, privately-developed, liquid-fueled rocket to achieve orbit around Earth. The fourth flight carried a mass simulator (RatSat) as its payload.
Jim Plunkett, born December 5, 1947 in San Diego, California to Mexican-American parents, won the Heisman Trophy award in 1970, beating Joe Theismann and Archie Manning, becoming the first Latino to win the award. He is also the only Latino selected first in the NFL Draft by the Patriots in 1971. He is the first Latino to start a Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in 1980 and then became the first Latino to be named Super Bowl MVP.
He is only one of four players to win the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP. Roger Staubach is another.
Yesterday evening, September 26, 2022, NASA successfully crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) with Dimorphos, a moon of the minor-planet asteroid Didymos. The test is designed to determine if a spacecraft can deflect an asteroid via a transfer of momentum, as part of a planetary defense against near-Earth objects. Dimorphos was chosen since it does not pose a threat to Earth.
The project began as a collaboration between NASA and ESA, named Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) involving two separate spacecraft. The ESA spacecraft AIM was to have launched in December 2020 but the project was cancelled. It has been replaced by Hera to study the results of DART's impact on Dimorphos. Hera is expected to arrive in the Didymos system in 2026.
Dimorphos has a diameter of about 560 feet and was discovered in 2003.
My favorite Chinese actor, the handsome, multi-talented Andy Lau was born September 27, 1961 in Hong Kong. He has starred in House of Flying Daggers, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Shaolin, and Saving Mr. Wu.
He is also a successful singer-songwriter, having won numerous awards for his music, as well as his acting.
Danny Flores (Chuck Rio), who became known as the Godfather of Latino rock, wrote Tequila for a B-side to Dave Burgess's single Train to Nowhere. However, Tequila became much more famous than the A-side and went to #1 in just three weeks. Flores also played saxophone.
It won the 1959 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance at the first ever ceremony held May 4, 1959.
Launched on Shenzhou 7 just two days before, Zhai Zhigang stepped outside the spacecraft and conducted the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut on September 27, 2008. It only lasted about twenty minutes and was limited in scope. Liu Boming waited in the airlock of the orbital module, in a Russian spacesuit, ready to provide help to Zhigang if necessary.
Jing Haipeng, the third astronaut, stayed in the re-entry module and monitored the situation of the spacecraft.
Hector Ayala, aka White Tiger, is the first main character Latin-American superhero in America comics. His first appearance was in Marvel Comics' Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #19 in December 1975. He was created by Bill Mantio and George Perez.
Hector Ayala was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico but grew up in the Bronx. He gained his powers hen he discovered tiger amulets that were thrown away by the Sons of the Tiger. When he put on all three, he transformed into White Tiger.
In the Marvel comic books, Hector died after being wrongfully convicted of murder. He was killed trying to escape right before evidence proving his innocence was uncovered. His niece Angela Del Toro inherited the amulets. She was killed and then resurrected.
Hector's teenaged sister Ava Ayala has now appeared as the new White Tiger.
The pilot for Gilligan's Island,Marooned was filmed first but by the time it was ready for release onto television, the cast had changed. The first episode to air was Two on a Raft, in which Gilligan and the Skipper build a raft and set back out to sea to find help. It debuted September 26, 1964.
The show starred Bob Denver as Gilligan, Alan Hale Jr. as the Skipper, Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III, Natalie Shafer as Mrs. Howell, Tina Louise as Ginger Grant, Russell Johnson as the professor, and Dawn Wells as Mary Ann.
Incredibly handsome and versatile actor, Oscar Isaac, born in Guatemala City, Guatemala March 8, 1979, has won numerous awards for his acting. He won a Golden Globe and has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy.
He is best known for his portrayal Poe Dameron in the Star Wars movies, Episodes VII-IX. He also starred as Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse and Dune as Duke Leto Atreides.
Soyuz MS-15 crew (L-R): Hazza Ali Mansouri, Oleg Skripochka, Jessica Meir
Soyuz MS-15, launched September 25, 2019, carried three people to the International Space Station. Its crew consisted of Commander Oleg Skripochka, Flight Engineer Jessica Meir, and Hazza Al Mansouri, the first person from the United Arab Emirates to go into space.
Skripochka and Meir participated in Expeditions 61 and 62, and returned to Earth in April 2020. Al Mansouri stayed on board for eight days and returned on Soyuz MS-12.
Andrew Morgan returned in April 2020 on Soyuz MS-15 after participating in Expeditions 60-62. He was in space for over 271 days.
Versatile and talented actress Louise Fletcher, born July 22, 1934, passed away yesterday in France. She is best known for her Best Lead Actress Oscar-winning role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The American Film Institute named Nurse Rached as #5 villain in the 100 Years of the Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains. She won a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe for her performance.
For Trekkies like me, I liked her best as the antagonistic Kai Winn, later Vedek Winn in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She was nominated for 5 Online Film & Television Association Awards for her performances on Deep Space Nine.
One of the scariest movies ever made, The Day After, which depicts an all-out nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, won two Primetime Emmys at the 36th ceremony, September 23, 1984. It won the awards for Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects.
It was nominated for ten more Emmys.
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special (John Lithgow)
Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling
Outstanding Achievement in Makeup
Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special
Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or a Special
Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special
Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special
Outstanding Film Editing for a Limited Series or a Special
Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or a Special
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or a Special
Paco Balderrama, who became the first Hispanic Major in the Oklahoma City Police Department and then the first Hispanic Deputy Chief in the OKC PD, became the first Hispanic Chief of Police for Fresno, California in January 2021.
Alexander Misurkin, born September 23, 1977 in Russia, has been in space three times. He is a major in the Russian Air Force.
His first trip into space was aboard Soyuz TMA-08M as flight engineer in March 2013, to the International Space Station. He participated in Expeditions 35 and 36, returning to Earth in September, after more than 166 days in space.
His second trip was aboard Soyuz MS-06 as commander in September 2017, to the ISS. He participated in Expeditions 53 and 54, returning to Earth in February 2018, after over 168 days in space.
His third trip was aboard Soyuz MS-20 as commander in December 2021 to the ISS. This time he hosted two space tourists from Japan and only stayed in space just under 12 days.
Misurkin has performed 4 EVAs for a total time of 28 hours and 14 minutes, including setting the record for the longest Russian EVA - 8 hours, 13 minutes.
Star Trek: Enterprise, after its first season, won two PrimeTime Emmys at the 54th ceremony held September 22, 2002. It won for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series and the pilot episode, Broken Bow, won for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series.
It was nominated for three more Emmys. Episode Breaking the Ice was also nominated for Best Visual Effects. Broken Bow was nominated for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series but lost to the pilot episode of Smallville. It was also nominated for Outstanding Makeup for a Series.
Fiddler on the Roof, a musical by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, made its Broadway debut September 22, 1964. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters and other tales by Sholem Aleichem.
It was the first musical to surpass 3,000 performances and held the record for the longest-running Broadway musical for 10 years until Grease surpassed it. It was nominated for 10 Tony Awards and won 9.
Zero Mostel played Tevye and Bea Arthur appeared as the matchmaker Yente.
Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez, born October 23, 1935 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, has won eight PGA Tour events and is the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. On the Senior PGA Tour, he was the first player to win the same event three consecutive years.
He is known for his 'toreador dance' whenever he makes a birdie or eagle, where he pretended the ball was the bull and his putter was a sword. Then he would terminate the 'bull'.
After only one season, The Mandalorian proved to be a powerhouse in the creative arts and won seven Primetime Emmys at the 72nd ceremony September 20, 2020. The Disney-produced Star Wars spin-off won:
1.Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera
Series (Half-Hour), Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
(Original Dramatic Score), Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative
Program (Half-Hour), Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama
Series (Half-Hour) and Animation, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama
Series (Half-Hour) and Animation, Outstanding Special Visual Effects, Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Drama
Series, Limited Series or Movie
It was nominated for seven more:
Outstanding Drama Series,
Outstanding Guest Actor (Giancarlo Esposito) in a
Drama Series,
Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes,
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series,
Limited Series, Movie or Special,
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a
Drama Series (3 episodes nominated)
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (Anthony Quinn), born April 21, 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico, was an actor and is the first Mexican-American actor to win an Academy Award. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor first in 1952 for his role in Viva Zapata! and the second in 1956 for Lust for Life.
He was nominated for Best Actor twice, and won the Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe in 1987.
Quinn passed away from respiratory failure in June 2001 in Boston.
For its first season, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine racked up three Primetime Emmy wins and four more nominations at the 45th ceremony held September 19, 1993. The program was hosted by Angela Lansbury. Actually, the creative awards were handed out the day before.
Deep Space Nine won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music.
The first episode Emissary won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects, and was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.
Captive Pursuits won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series, beating Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Inner Light.
Emissary Part II was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series with Next Generation's Time's Arrow, Part 2, but both lost to The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Move Along Home, which has been panned by fans as being one of the worst episodes of the series was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling, but lost to the Next Generation's Time's Arrow, Part II.
Diana Trujillo, born in 1983 in Colombia, leads the engineering team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's robotic arm of the Perseverance rover on Mars.
She immigrated to the US when she was only 17 and worked as a housekeeper while taking English lessons at Miami Dad College. While studying aerospace engineering at the University of Florida, she applied to the NASA Academy being the first Hispanic immigrant woman admitted to the program. She moved the University of Maryland, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 2007.
At NASA she has worked on the the Curiosity program before working as the flight director on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover robotic arm.
In February 2021, she hosted NASA's first Spanish-language planetary landing show.
Mark Shuttleworth, born September 18, 1973 in South Africa, is the first African from an independent country to travel to space. He launched aboard Soyuz TM-34 in April 2002 as a space tourist to the International Space Station, and returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-33 in May 2002, having spent almost 10 days in space.
Vanguard 3, a scientific satellite, was launched September 18, 1959 by the US Naval Research Laboratory from the Atlantic Missile Range at Cape Canaveral. Vanguard 3 operated for 84 days, until December 11, 1959 when the batteries expired.
It measured Earth's magnetic field, solar X-ray radiation, and the micrometeoroid environment. It remains in orbit and has an expected lifetime of 300 years.
Chuck Jones premiered Fast and Furry-ous, the first appearance of the comic duo Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, September 17, 1949. Jones meant the couple to be a parody of cartoon characters Tom and Jerry. As of 2020, fifty cartoons have been made feature the characters.
TV Guide listed Wile E. Coyote as one of the 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time in 2013.
Joe Martinez, born in Taos, New Mexico July 27, 1920, was the first Hispanic-American recipient of the Medal of Honor during WWII.
Martinez was assigned to Company K, 32rd Infantry, 7th Infantry Division after his basic training. On May 11, 1943, arrived on the island of Attu in the Aleutian Islands, where the Japanese had been since they invaded in June 1942.
Martinez led two assaults on Japanese foxholes, killing five machine gunners. He was shot in the head while approaching one foxhole during the second charge. He passed away the following day. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Season Three, Episode 15 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Yesterday's Enterprise, won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series at the 42nd ceremony, September 16, 1990. The episode was also nominated for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore), and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series. The episode Sins of the Father won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Art Direction for a Series.
Four other episodes were nominated:
Deja Q for Outstanding Editing for a Series
Hollow Pursuits for Outstanding Hairstyling for a series
Allegiance for Outstanding Makeup for a Series
Tin Man, Deja Q for Outstanding Special Visual Effects
Katya Echazaretta, born June 16, 1995 in Guadalajara, Mexico, went into space aboard Blue Origin NS-21 as a Space for Humanity Ambassador in June 2022. She worked at NASA JPL as an intern, and after her graduation from UCLA, she got a full-time position as an engineer.
She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Inspiration4 crew (L-R): Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman, Christopher Sembroski, Hayley Arceneaux
SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission patch
SpaceX's launched its Crew Dragon Resilience with the first all-commercial crew, September 16, 2021, on the Inspiration4 mission. SpaceX operated the flight on behalf of the CEO of Shift4 Payments Jared Isaacman, to raise money for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Isaacman bought the flight with its four seats from SpaceX. Two of the seats were given to St. Jude. The hospital selected Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude and a bone cancer survivor to go on the flight.
St. Jude held a raffle for the third flight. Entrants had to be a U.S. citizen and donate between $10 - $10,000. Kyle Hippchen won the raffle but gave the seat to friend, Christopher Sembroski, a US Air Force veteran.
The fourth seat was awarded by a competition that rewarded the best business idea to make use of Shift4's commerce solutions. Entrepreneur Sian Proctor was selected as pilot.
The mission raised more than $243M, far more than the targeted $100M. It lasted almost 3 days, and the crew successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, September 18.
One of the sexiest actors on screen, Tom Hardy, born September 15, 1977 in London, England, has won numerous awards for his acting, including an Oscar nomination. He starred in Star Trek: Nemesis, Inception, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Venom. His performance in The Revenant is the role for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
At the 74th Primetime Emmy awards celebration last night, the Korean drama Squid Game won six awards. Very impressive for a show, actors, and crew who are non-English speaking!
Lee Jung-Jae, who plays Seong Gi-hun won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Lee Yoo-mi, who plays Ji-yeong won the award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Hwang Dong-hyuk won the Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series award. The other three awards were for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More), Outstanding Stunt Performance, and Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode.
Squid Game had eight more nominations. Park He-soo and Oh Yeong-su were both nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Hoyeon was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. The other nominations were for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One-hour), Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music, and Outstanding Drama Series, the first non-English show to be nominated for this award.
Beyonce released her single Love On Top from her album 4, September 12, 2011. It went to #1 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Beyonce was inspired by Etta James and the song includes elements of old school R&B and disco.
It won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
Star Trek: Voyager episode Dark Frontier won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Visual Special Effects, at the 51st ceremony, September 12, 1999. Episodes Thirty Days and Timeless were also nominated, so Voyager was pretty well on track to win the award.
I suppose since it was nominated for Visual Effects, it was disqualified for any acting awards? Or are sci-fi series overlooked on purpose?
STS-51 crew (L-R): Frank Culbertson, Daniel Bursch, Carl Walz, William Readdy, James Newman
Mission patch
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-51), launched September 12, 1993, featured a spacewalk to evaluate tools and techniques for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, which was to be performed later in the year. Her crew consisted of Commander Frank Culbertson, Pilot William Readdy, Mission Specialist James Newman, Mission Specialist Daniel Bursch, and Mission Specialist Carl Walz.
After liftoff, a communications loss between the crew and Mission Control last about 45 minutes, delaying the deployment of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS). Once communications were re-established, the ACTS was deployed successfully.
On September 16, Newman and Walz performed an EVA to evaluate plans to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, and concluded that preparations were sound.
The crew returned to Earth September 22, 1993 after completing 157 orbits.
The International Cometary Explorer (ICE), launched in August 1978, passed through the Giacobini-Zinner comet on September 11, 1985 and conducted a flyby of the comet's nucleus at 4800 miles.
The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, All Good Things..., won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Visual Effects at the 46th ceremony, held September 11, 1994. It also won the Emmy forOutstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.
It had been nominated for another eight: Outstanding Drama Series (Picket Fences? Seriously? Oh, well. Angela Lansbury and Helen Mirren got ripped off, too), Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing for a Single Camera Production, Best Makeup, Best Music Composition, Best Sound Editing, and Best Hairstyling.
A fitting end for one of the best television series ever!
The lovely, wonderful, talented Cyndi Lauper won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guess Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance as Marianne Lugasso on the television series Mad About You, September 10, 1995.
So far, she has won an Emmy, Tony, and two Grammys.
Viking 2, the second spacecraft of NASA's Viking program to Mars, was launched September 9, 1975. It reached the Red Planet in August 1976, and the lander was separated from the orbiter on September 3. The orbiter worked until July 1978 when it was turned off. It made 706 orbits of Mars and returned almost 16,000 images.
The lander touched down we Utopia Planitia and operated on the surface for almost 4 years. Viking 2 was turned off in April 1980, when its batteries failed.
Cyndi Lauper released her debut single Girls Just Want to Have Fun from her debut album She's So Unusual, September 6, 1983. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. It reached #1 in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, and Norway.
The song was written and recorded by Robert Hazard, who released it as a single in 1979. His recording is from the male point of view.
The video won an American Video Award for Best Female Performance, and an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video.
In January 2022, the video reached over one billion views on Youtube.com.
Def Leppard performed Tear It Down at the MTV Video Music Award ceremony on September 6, 1989. It was the last performance of guitarist Steve Clark, who died in January 1991 at age 30 from alcohol poisoning.
Def Leppard was nominated for a new video music category, Best Heavy Metal Video, for Pour Some Sugar on Me. The video was also nominated for Best Stage Performance in a Video.
Idris Elba, born September 6, 1972 in London, England, is an actor who has racked up multiple acting awards and nominations. He is mostly known for his role as DCI Luther in the British mystery series Luther, but I like him as Heimdall in the Thor and Avengers movies.
One of his earliest roles was as a hustler on Absolutely Fabulous with Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in 1995. He has appeared in Star Trek Beyond, The Wire, and Pacific Rim. He has been nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys and 4 Golden Globes for his performance on Luther, and won the Golden Globe in 2012 for Best Actor in a Television Series.
Why has this man not been nominated for an Oscar? Why?
The British rock band The Animals' recording of House of the Rising Sun reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 among other charts, September 5, 1964. It reached #1 in Canada, Finland, Spain and the UK.
The origin of the song is mired in rumor and legend. It has a resemblance to a 16th century ballad, and the Rising Sun is the name of a "bawdy house" in two English traditional songs. It has been said that American miners sang it in 1905. The oldest publish version of the lyrics were printed in 1925 by Robert Winslow Gordon. The oldest known recording of the song is by Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster was made on September 6, 1933 under the name Rising Sun Blues.
Woody Guthrie recorded it in 1941, and it has been covered by artists such as Glenn Yarborough, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Andy Griffith, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, and Dolly Parton.
But the performance by The Animals is the most recognized version. It is listed by Rolling Stone magazine as #122 on the list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Times. It received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1999.
