Anniversary of the Coronation of King Oscar I of Norway and Sweden
On this day in 1844, King Oscar I ascended to the thrones of Norway and Sweden. He is the father of King Oscar II, of the sardine fame.
BERGEN – November 24, 2022 – King Oscar, the iconic Norwegian seafood producer, is proud to celebrate its 120th anniversary on November 29th, 2022.
In 1902, King Oscar II of Norway tried the Brisling sardines from the Norwegian Stavanger Preserving Company. He was so impressed he gave the company his greatest gift, his name – by Royal Permission, a status the company still enjoys today.
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Birthday of Alan Hale Jr.
Alan Hale Jr. (born Alan Hale MacKahan; March 8, 1921 – January 2, 1990) was an American actor and restaurateur. He was the son of actor Alan Hale Sr. His television career spanned four decades, but he was best known for his secondary lead role as Captain Jonas Grumby, better known as The Skipper, on the 1960s CBS comedy series Gilligan’s Island (1964–1967), a role he reprised in three Gilligan’s Island television films and two spin-off cartoon series.
Death Hale died on January 2, 1990… in Los Angeles at age 68. His body was cremated, and his ashes were sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean. His Gilligan’s Island co-star Dawn Wells was in attendance, representing the surviving members of the cast.
George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American musician and actor. He was the drummer and one of two primary vocalists for the pop-rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and reunions until 2021), and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968).
Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees seemed like a good idea … at least Micky Dolenz thought so.
The Monkees singer first saw the future guitar legend playing in New York’s Greenwich Village. “He was just known as this amazing guitar player that plays guitar with his teeth,” Dolenz tells UCR. “That’s how I remember him being introduced.”….
The incendiary performance at Monterey sparked an idea: The Jimi Hendrix Experience would be great tour mates for the Monkees. “I mentioned to our producers at the time – we were looking for an opening act for our first big world tour – and I said, ‘How about these guys?’ Because they were very theatrical,” he says. “Let’s face it, the Monkees were a theatrical act. I guess they liked the idea and we liked the idea, and there you go.”
From the start, the pairing was “weird,” Dolenz admits, because Hendrix “wasn’t well-known at the time” – not exactly hit with the group’s audience of “mostly 12-year-old little girls.”
Despite the apparent mismatch, the members of the Monkees hit it off with Hendrix right away. Dolenz says he and Michael Nesmith “were absolutely entranced with him and his performance. He was a wonderful guy. He was very young, maybe only a year or two older than I was.”
Hendrix packed away his wild stage persona when he wasn’t performing, Dolenz recalls. “He was very quiet and shy – he was nothing like the character that he played onstage at all,” he notes. “Jimi was very quiet and shy, very streetwise, but a little naive about everything else, [including] the business.”
In between shows, Dolenz says they spent a lot of time hanging out. “We’d sit around the hotel room and play and stuff,” but then things started to get “pretty crazy.” “The fans were there to basically [just] see the headliner. You hear stories about that kind of thing all of the time.”
But Hendrix was “not just your ordinary opening act,” as Dolenz wrote in his book. “It was evident from the start that we were witness to a rare and phenomenal talent. Jimi was virtually the only act I ever made a point of getting to the hall early to see. I would stand in the wings and watch and listen in awe. I felt incredibly lucky just to have been there.”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Monkees tour lasted for just seven shows that launched on July 8, 1967, and flamed out soon afterward following three New York City dates. “Jimi would amble out onto the stage, fire up the amps and break into ‘Purple Haze,’ and the kids in the audience would instantly drown him out with, ‘We want Daaavy [Jones],” Dolenz recalled in I’m a Believer. “God, was it embarrassing.”
His limit reached, Hendrix allegedly gave the young audience at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium the finger as he left the stage at the close of his final performance opening for the Monkees. It wasn’t long before he became one of the biggest artists of the era.
“I’m quite sure that Jimi Hendrix would have done very well with or without the Monkees,” Dolenz says now. “But I’d like to think that maybe it gave him a little bit of a leg up.”
Katherine von Drachenberg (born March 8, 1982), known professionally as Kat Von D, is a Mexican-American tattoo artist, television personality, entrepreneur and recording artist. She is best known for her work as a tattoo artist on the TLC reality television show LA Ink, which premiered in the United States on August 7, 2007, and ran for four seasons.
Katherine von Drachenberg was born in Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico. Her parents, René and Sylvia (née Galeano), both of whom were missionaries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were born in Argentina.
Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova (Russian: Лидия Павловна Скобликова; born 8 March 1939) is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960, 1964 and 1968, and won a total of six gold medals, a record she shares with Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst.
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Tijana Bošković (Serbian Cyrillic: Тијана Бошковић; born 8 March 1997) is a Serbian professional volleyball player. She has won gold medals with the Serbia women’s national volleyball team at the 2018 and 2022 World Championships, and the 2017 and 2019 European Championships. She is also a two-time Olympic medalist, having won silver at the 2016 Rio Games and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period composer and musician, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
Maria Karoliina Ohisalo (born 8 March 1985) is a Finnish politician and researcher who served as Minister of the Interior between 2019 and 2021. The former chairman of the Green League, she has been a Member of Parliament since 2019.
Ohisalo was born in 1985 in Vesala in eastern Helsinki. She lived her childhood in poverty in the suburbs of Helsinki, as her parents were often unemployed, and she spent one year in a shelter.
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