It is a day to focus attention on the fight against HIV/AIDS.
It is also My Husband's Strung the Christmas Lights and Now I Can't Open the Garage Door Day, commemorating an alleged actual event described by a radio listener named Mary Jo.
And it is the beginning of Chia Pet Hunting Season.
They come in so many varieties this days!
1891: YMCA trainer James Naismith nailed two peach baskets on opposite ends of the Spring College gym in Massachusetts and instructed his students to toss soccer balls into them. It’s the birth of basketball.
1958: This performer became the first rock ‘n’ roller to appear on the cover of Life Magazine: Ricky Nelson:
The 101 number one song of the day was the beginning of the end for one of the sixties media phenomena which at the time was in open rebellion.
Mounting criticism of their failure to play their own instruments and frustration over lack of creative control over their own careers led one of the members of this group to criticize Screen Gems which had tightly controlled their destiny from the beginning. In fact Michael Nesmith, who was a genuine musician and songwriter, was so angry about their situation that he put his fist through a door and told a record exec who suggested he could be suspended that the door could have been his face. The controls were loosened but by this time, the end was near for their TV show and the song that was number one on December 1, 1967 would be their next to last top ten hit – It’s your 101 number one song of the day from the Monkees (Daydream Believer)
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