the wake up show traxxfm on monday 19 jan 2009
19th day of 2009 346 remaining
Monday, January 19, 2009
1966 - Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, was appointed India’s prime minister. Following the death of her father (May 1964), Gandhi had become minister of information and broadcasting in Lal Bahadur Shastri’s government. Gandhi succeeded him as prime minister this day, after he died suddenly. The following year she was elected to a 5-year term by the Parliament members of the dominant Congress party. She led her party to a landslide victory in the national elections of 1971. Indira Gandhi was assassinated Oct 31, 1984
1976 - The Beatles turned down an offer of $50 million to play together again on the same stage. Rock promoter Bill Sargent was astonished when the group turned down the offer.
born on this date :
1943 - Janis Joplin
singer: with Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart,
How Hard It Is; formed Kozmic Blues Band, then Full Tilt
Boogie Band: Pearl, Me and Bobby McGee; died
Oct 4, 1970
1946 - Dolly Parton
songwriter, singer: ACM Entertainer of the Year [1977], CMA Entertainer of
the year [1978]: Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, Here
You Come Again, 9-to-5, You’re the Only One,
[w/Kenny Rogers]: Islands in the Stream; Grand Ol’ Opry
member; actress: 9-to-5, The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas, Steel Magnolias; owns Dollywood amusement park in
Tennessee
1949 - Robert Palmer
singer, guitarist: Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley, Hey
Julia, Addicted to Love, Every Kinda People,
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On, It Could Happen To
You; died Sep 26, 2003
quirkie history
1998: U.S.
President Bill Clinton denied in a sworn deposition that he had an affair with
former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1999: In High Point, North Carolina, complaints began rolling in about the unfriendly policewoman on Eastchester Drive. She didn’t wave, she was sleeping, she was dead. Actually, she was a
female mannequin, dressed in police clothes, helping to reduce speeds at a
high-traffic intersection.
1999:
Somebody climbed the water tower in Agra, Kansas, and
painted a "v" and an "i" in front of the town’s name.
Yep,
ViAgra.
2007: Police in Waukesha, Wisconsin, were called to rescue a boy who got his tongue stuck to a metal stop sign on a day when the thermometer registered 9 degrees. Police used warm water to free the boy's tongue as his friends watched.
1992: In Bristol, England, Nigel Hayward was sentenced to six years in prison for robbing a bank and a savings and loan armed with a banana. In both cases, he convinced tellers the hidden banana was a gun.
1997: An underwear factory in Moscow, facing a cash-flow crisis, began paying its workers in bras. An employee told Reuters news service she could earn 35 to 40 bras a month, which she could sell for $2.15 each, or 40% more than her regular salary.
'Indecent' cartoons trigger warning
Romania's TV watchdog has issued a warning to a children's channel for broadcasting cartoons which contained nudity.
The National Audio-Visual Council asked Minimax television to stop airing 'indecent' episodes of the Hungarian Folk Tales series.
In one episode, a princess strips naked to negotiate with a farmer for some dancing piglets. The princess ends up in bed with two men to decide which one she will marry.
In another episode, a girl shows her naked body as a gift for the emperor.
The cartoon series is broadcast every day at noon in Romania and is watched by young children.
Romanian authorities cannot fine Minimax, which is licensed in the
Czech Republic, but says the channel will be blocked if the cartoons
are shown again before the watershed.
Nude Madonna could fetch $15,000
A nude photograph of pop star Madonna taken in 1979 could fetch up to $15,000 when it is sold next month, auction house Christie's has said.
The explicit black and white picture was taken when Madonna was a dancer struggling to make ends meet.
She replied to a newspaper advert by celebrated American photographer Lee Friedlander, who shot her for a series of nudes he was working on.
Christie's has valued the picture at $10-15,000 (£7-10,000).
Matthieu Humery, head of Christie's photography department, said the picture was "probably the most explicit" shot Friedlander took of the future pop icon.
"She was a good professional model"
Lee Friedlander, photographer
"That's what makes it powerful."
Friedlander has said of the photo session that Madonna "seemed very confident, a street-wise girl.
"She told me she was putting a band together but half the kids that age are doing that. She was a good, professional model."
The photograph, and five others taken at the same session, were later sold to Playboy for a much higher sum than the $25 (£17) Madonna was paid for her modelling.
Style icons
Another, later photo of the star, by Helmut Newton, is also up for auction, with a similar estimate of $10-15,000.
In that shot, which was also sold to Playboy, Madonna is in a short red dress, while a man kneels beside her, contemplating her stockings.
The photos are among 150 images by some of the biggest names in photography that are being sold from the collection of Leon and Michaela Constantiner, who began collecting photographs of glamour and style icons in the early 1990s.
Last month, a series of photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the couple's collection were auctioned for nearly $150,000 (£101,826).
The latest auction takes place in New York on 12 February.
Other famous names whose portraits are for sale include Stephanie Seymour, Linda Evangelista, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner.
‘Bleeding soldier’ gets bravery award
ALOR SETAR: The wounded soldier whose left sleeve was drenched with blood during the Regimental Colours Replacement ceremony in August last year received an award for his bravery from the Sultan of Kedah in conjunction with the latter’s 81st birthday celebration.
Kpl Zamri Md Soot, 30, from the Sixth Royal Malay army regiment, received the Bintang Keberanian Kedah (BKK) from Kedah Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah during the investiture ceremony at the Istana Anak Bukit here on Sunday.
A total of 62 people received awards from the Sultan.
Kpl Zamri, when met after the ceremony, said that he was honoured to receive the award from the Sultan.
“This is a special award and it will be a boost for me to give my best in what I do,” he said.
Recalling the incident that occurred on Aug 15 last year, Kpl Zamri said that another soldier accidentally cut his arm with a bayonet during a march.
He said that he only realised his arm was injured when he felt blood oozing out and drenching his sleeve.
He said he received 10 stitches for the wound at the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital.
Kpl Zamri, despite the pain and heat, stayed in the ceremony for almost two hours until the end.
His blood-soaked sleeve caught the attention of the Sultan, who is the colonel-in-chief of the Royal Malay Army Regiment.
The Sultan greeted Kpl Zamri at the end of the function shortly before the soldier was rushed to the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital where he was warded for observation.
The Sultan had during the opening speech called on army personnel to remain strong.
Royal Malay Army regiment chairman Lt-Jen Datuk Wira Zulkifeli Mohd Zin was quoted as saying that the soldier had shown true grit.
“He refused to leave because he did not want to spoil the marching event. Willingness to make sacrifices reflects a soldier’s spirit,” he said.
