Daily Almanac for Sunday, December 3, 2023

By Vickie Sellers

British singer Ozzy Osbourne is 75 today, having been born in 1948. Here is Ozzy Osbourne in February 2010. By F darkbladeus – Own work; at Ozzy book signing fan photograph Changing Hands, Tempe, Public Domain, https commons.wikimedia.org

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which period he adopted the nickname “Prince of Darkness”.

Born in Marston Green and raised in Birmingham, Osbourne became a founding member of Black Sabbath in 1968, and provided lead vocals from their self-titled debut album in 1970 to Never Say Die! in 1978. The band was highly influential on the development of heavy metal music, in particular their critically acclaimed releases Paranoid, Master of Reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 due to alcohol and drug problems. Osbourne then began a successful solo career with Blizzard of Ozz in 1980 and has released 13 studio albums, the first seven of which received multi-platinum certifications in the US. Osbourne has since reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions. He rejoined in 1997 and helped record the group’s final studio album, 13 (2013), before they embarked on a farewell tour that ended with a February 2017 performance in their hometown, Birmingham. His longevity and success have earned him the informal title “Godfather of Metal”.

Osbourne’s total album sales from his years in Black Sabbath, combined with his solo work, are over 100 million. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath and into the UK Music Hall of Fame as a solo artist and as a member of the band. He has been honoured with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Birmingham Walk of Stars. At the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards, he received the Global Icon Award. In 2015, Osbourne received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

In the early 2000s, Osbourne became a reality television star, appearing as himself in the MTV reality show The Osbournes alongside wife and manager Sharon and two of their three children, Kelly and Jack. He co-stars with Jack and Kelly in the television series Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour. The show’s third season debuted in June 2018.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

Question of the Day

Can you recommend any home remedies for arthritis?

If you’re troubled by arthritis pain, try adding apple cider vinegar or fresh gingerroot to your bathwater. Drinking ginger tea (up to a teaspoon of ground ginger in a cup of boiling water) also helps.

Advice of the Day

Calm heartburn with kiwi or papaya.

Home Hint of the Day

To clean burned food from the bottom of an aluminum pot or pan, wet the burned food, cover with baking soda, and set aside for a couple of hours. Then scrape, wash, and rinse the pan.

Word of the Day

Lenticular Cloud

Lenticular clouds are only seen around mountains. These strange clouds are easy to spot, because they look like flying saucers or a stack of pancakes. Their most interesting characteristic is that they don’t move. Winds blow right through them, while other clouds are swept away.

Puzzle of the Day

What is the difference between 16 ounces and a small boy at the piano?

One weighs a pound, and the other pounds away.

Born

Gilbert Stuart (portrait painter) – 1755
Cleveland Abbe (meteorologist, known as Old Probabilities) – 1838
Bobby Allison (race car driver) – 1937
Ozzy Osbourne (singer) – 1948
Daryl Hannah (actress) – 1960
Brendan Fraser (actor) – 1968

Died

Madeline Kahn (actress) – 1999
Henry Chauncey (founded the Educational Testing Service, whose SAT is used by thousands of colleges and universities) – 2002
David Hemmings (actor) – 2003

Events

Illinois was admitted to the Union as the 21st state– 1818
Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States– 1828
Oberlin College, the first college to admit women (first coeducational college), founded in Oberlin, Ohio. First named Oberlin Collegiate Institute– 1833
Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann are the first Europeans to see Mt. Kenya– 1849
Quebec Bridge opened to rail traffic, Quebec City– 1917
George Gershwin, the young American composer, appeared as a soloist at a concert in Carnegie Hall, N.Y.C., playing his Concerto in F, the first jazz concerto for the piano in musical history– 1925
Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia, and Governor Lehman dedicate the New Deal’s first low cost housing project in NYC– 1935
Discovery of the “Pumpkin Papers” secret documents was announced– 1948
Annette Toft was two millionth immigrant to Canada since WWII ended– 1960
Commonwealth Pacific Cable (COMPAC) opened– 1963
Final run of luxury train 20th Century Limited finished– 1967
Pioneer 10, U.S. unmanned spacecraft, reached its closest approach to Jupiter, 21 months after its launch– 1973
Jupiter flyby of Pioneer 11 spacecraft– 1974
Polar bear cub born, Toledo Zoo, Ohio– 2009

Weather

A storm raged in Denver, Colorado, and eventually left 45.7 inches of snow, smashing a previous record– 1913
Providence, Rhode Island, had a record high of 66 degrees F– 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, had a temperature of 69 degrees F, breaking the old record of 65 degrees F for this date– 2009
Concord, New Hampshire, set a record at 65 degrees F– 2009
In Portland, Maine, the temperature reached 68 degrees F, beating the old record high of 55 for this date– 2009

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