ZZ Top released the video for Gimme All Your Lovin' May 21, 1983, broadcasting it on MTV. It was the first single from their super-successful album Eliminator. It was also the first appearance of Billy Gibbon's 1933 Ford Hot Rod. The car appeared in three more videos, making it almost synonymous with the band.
The single reached #37 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #10 on the UK Singles Chart.
Clerow "Flip" Wilson, born December 8, 1933 in Jersey City, New Jersey, hosted his weekly variety series, The Flip Wilson Show. It earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy in 1971. He became the first African-American to win the award. It also earned him two Emmy Awards.
Wilson won a Grammy Award for his 1970 The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress.
He got the nickname Flip when he served in the US Air Force. He would tell funny stories, which made him popular. His barrack mates gave him the nickname because he was always "flipped out".
Wilson passed away in November 1998.
Here is a clip of him as his character Geraldine Jones with Ray Charles.
Mark Dinning, born Max Edward Dinning August 17, 1933 in Manchester, Oklahoma, is famous for his recording of Teen Angel. The song was written by his sister Jean and her husband Red Surrey and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart.
Unfortunately, he only had limited success afterwards. He passed away from a heart attack in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1986.
The brilliant comedienne, Carol Burnett, born April 26, 1933 in San Antonio, TX, has been making us laugh for more than 60 years. Her first appearance was on the Paul Winchell Show in 1955. She has gone on to star on Broadway and hosted her own television variety show The Carol Burnett Show, which won 9 Golden Globes. Burnett herself has won 5 Golden Globes, 6 Primetime Emmys, a Grammy, and been nominated for two Tonys.
Donald Peterson, born October 22, 1933 in Winona, Mississippi, went into space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-6) as mission specialist in April 1983. It was the maiden flight of Challenger. He and fellow astronaut Story Musgrave performed an EVA which lasted 4 hours 17 minutes. He remained in space for just over 5 days.
He passed away in May 2018 from Alzheimer's disease and bone cancer.
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, born January 6, 1933 in the former Soviet Union, was a veteran of four trips into space.
His first trip into space was aboard Soyuz 12 in September 1973. After the tragedy of Soyuz 11, the Soviets reduced crew capacity of the capsule to two (from three) to allow pressure suits to be worn during take off, re-entry and landing. Makarov and fellow cosmonaut Vasily Lazarev spent two days testing the new suits.
His second mission was the unsuccessful launch of Soyuz 18a in April 1975. The mission was scheduled to dock with Salyut 4 space station, but the crew failed to make orbit, due to the failure of the launch vehicle.
His third attempt was successful. He flew as flight engineer for Soyuz 27, which docked with Salyut 6 space station in January 1978. Makarov and cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov made up the crew of expedition EP-1. They spent five days aboard the space station and returned in Soyuz 26.
Makarov's fourth and final flight was aboard Soyuz T-3 November-December 1980 as flight engineer. The mission flew to the Salyut 6 space station and was the first Soyuz spacecraft to carry three cosmonauts since Soyuz 11 in 1971.
William "Bill" Anders, born October 17, 1933 in Hong Kong, went into space aboard Apollo 8 in December 1968. It was the first manned spacecraft to orbit Earth's moon and return back to Earth. Anders, with Frank Borman and James Lovell were the first men to see the moon up close. Anders served as the Lunar Module Pilot.
He is credited with taking the famous Earthrise photo of the Earth rising over the moon's horizon, December 24, 1968.
September 7, 1933, "Benjamin", the last Tasmanian tiger, died in the Hobart Zoo (Beaumaris Zoo) in Tasmania, Australia. A carnivorous marsupial, it was a relatively shy, nocturnal creature that resembled a medium-to-large sized dog. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, but had come almost extinct on Australia when the British began colonizing the continent.
It was rarely sighted on Tasmania but were blamed for numerous attacks on sheep. Bounties were introduced on the thylacine as early as the 1830s, with the Tasmanian government paying for dead thylacines, whether adults or pups. It is thought that many more thylacines were killed than claimed. The Tasmanian tiger's extinction is attributed to bounty hunters and farmers who blamed them for attacks on their livestock. Their extinction could also have been accelerated by wild dogs introduced by European settlers, erosion of its habitat and disease. By the 1920s, it had become very rare. Too little too late, the Tasmanian Advisory Committee for Native Fauna recommended protecting the thylacine. The last known thylacine was killed in 1930 by Wilf Batty, a farmer from Mawbanna.
Although it is officially extinct, people still claim to see them in the wild but none of these have been verified.
Henry "Hank" Hartsfield, born November 21, 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama, was a veteran of 3 Space Shuttle flights, including one of the first, STS-4 aboard Columbia. In June 1982, he and Ken Mattingly made the final test run of the Space Shuttle program, which was the last time only two astronauts were aboard a shuttle.
His second flight was on Discovery (STS-41-D) in August-September 1984 as commander. Its initial launch date was June 26 but at T-6 seconds before blast off, the launch was aborted. Its mission was delayed over two months.
His third and final flight was aboard Challenger (STS-61-A) in October-November 1985. It was the last successful flight of the Challenger. He was commander of the only space shuttle mission to carry 8 astronauts for the entire mission.
Hartsfield passed away in July 2014 from complications due to back surgery.
Fred Haise, born November 14, 1933 in Biloxi, Mississippi, was an astronaut on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. After high school, he served in the US Marines as a fighter pilot. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degreee in aeronautical engineering in 1959 before becoming an astronaut.
Haise was scheduled to be the sixth human to walk on the moon during the Apollo 13 mission behind Jim Lovell, who was to be the fifth. Jack Swigert was the Command Module Pilot. Of course, we all know they didn't get to land on the moon but they returned to Earth safely. Bill Paxton played Haise in the movie Apollo 13.
He was backup for the Apollo 16 mission and was slated for the Apollo 19 mission, but the latter was cancelled due to budget cuts. Haise left NASA in 1979.
Ronald Ellwin Evans, Jr., born November 10, 1933 in St. Francis, Kansas, walked on the moon as part of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the last trip to the moon. Harrison Schmidte and Gene Cernan took the last steps on the lunar surface while Evans orbited above as the Command Module Pilot.
On the trip back to Earth, Evans completed an EVA for one hour and 6 minutes to retrieve some cameras and an inspection of the equipment bay area. This was his only trip into space.
He passed away in Scottsdale, Arizona of a heart attack April 7, 1990.
Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov, born September 10, 1933 in the former Soviet Union, was a cosmonaut who went into space aboard Soyuz 5, January 15, 1969 and returned to Earth on Soyuz 4 January 17.
Although he was not part of the crew transfer, the Soyuz 4 - 5 docking was the first time a crew from one spacecraft had been transferred to another. It was the only time this was done via EVA. Apollo 9 would perform the first interior crew transfer a few months later.
Khrunov passed away in May 2000 from a heart attack.
Stuart Allen Roosa, born August 16, 1933 in Durango, Colorado, was part of the Apollo 14 mission in early 1971. He was raised in Claremore, Oklahoma and attended Oklahoma State University, as well as the University of Arizona, and the University of Colorado in Boulder. He was chosen as one of the 19 in the class of astronauts in 1966 and served as support to Apollo 9.
He took off in Apollo 14, January 31, 1971 and commanded the lunar orbiter, while Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell visited the moon. While in orbit, he conducted extensive experiments, including carrying seeds from a number of variety of trees. The seeds were germinated upon his return and planted around the world, becoming known as "Moon Trees".
Roosa died in 1994 in Washington, DC from pancreatitis and is buried in Arlington Cemetery.
Donald Westlake, born July 12, 1933, was a prolific and diverse author. He specialized in crime fiction, but also dabbled in science fiction and even non-fiction. He is one of very few authors who have won three Edgar Awards in three different categories.
Several of his works have been made into movies. I remember reading one of his books back in college but, for the life of me, I cannot remember what it was. :D
He passed away December 31, 2008 from a heart attack.
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, born June 19, 1933, was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Space program. He died June 30, 1971 when the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurized prematurely, suffocating him and his fellow cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Vladislav Volkov. The moon crater Patsaev and the minor planet 1791 Patsayev are both named for him.
Beautiful and blond Elizabeth Montgomery would have been 83 today had she not passed away in 1995 from colon cancer. She was an activist for women's rights and gay rights throughout her life and served as grand marshal with Dick Sargent (her "Bewitched" husband) for the 1992 LA Gay Pride parade. According to an entry in imdb.com, Elizabeth Montgomery and Lizzie Borden were sixth cousins, once removed both having a common ancestor, John Luther.
Before "Bewitched", Elizabeth starred in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" with a pre-"Death Wish" Charles Bronson.
The original motion picture "King Kong" was released April 7, 1933 to record crowds, essentially bringing RKO back from the edge of bankruptcy. It grossed $90,000 its first weekend, which was a record at that time.
Over time, the movie has been edited to delete some clips, but most of them have been restored. All except one: the man-eating spiders. When the movie was first released, the scene where King Kong knocks sailors off a log and into a ravine where they are eaten alive by giant monsters upset many of the movie-goers and many left the theatre. The director Merian C. Cooper removed the clip the very next day. This clip has never been found. For the remake in 2005, Peter Jackson recreated this scene magnificently.
