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It was 1935 when Con Conrad and and Herb Magidson took home the first-ever Oscar for Best Original Song: “The Continental,” from the Fred Astraire and Ginger Rogers musical The Gay Divorcee. Since then, the winners have expanded from big-band dance number centerpieces to include stirring pop epics from animated movies, non-diagetic love ballads from blockbuster romances, and character themes from all sorts of genres — rock, folk, country, funk and, in the 21st century, even hip-hop.

The list of the songs that have won Best Original Song is a bizarre one. It encompasses classic rock legends like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Great American Songbook crafters like Irving Berlin and Burt Bacharach… and also Christopher Cross, Bret from Flight of the Conchords, and three seperate songs sung by Jennifer Warnes. Timeless classic films like The Wizard of Oz, High Noon, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s are represented… as are A Hole in the Head, Waikiki Wedding, Thank God It’s Friday, and some movie called Frozen. Put this playlist on shuffle and you’ll be hospitalized for whiplash within six songs.

We’ve trudged through the gems and the duds, the songs that have become part of cinema history and the songs whose writers have even forgotten about, to rank the winners from worst to first — also taking a moment to point out the notable nominees beaten each year, and those snubbed from being nominated in the first place, whether due to arcane Academy rules or sheer neglect. Be warned that we ranked the songs according to the versions used in their Oscar-winning parent movies, which aren’t necessarily the most famous version of the song — so it’s Terence Howard and Taraji P. Henson doing “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp,” not Three 6 Mafia, and Angela Lansbury singing “Beauty and the Beast,” not Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson.

See where your favorites ranked below — unless your favorite is Phil Collins’ Tarzan song, in which case maybe don’t — and check back next week to see where this year’s winner ends up falling.

82. “The Morning After” (The Poseidon Adventure, 1972)Written By: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
Performed By: Renee Armand

This ponderous, overblown track wails a promise that there are better times to come if you can push through the darkest times. Presumably, the “Morning After” writers were referring to the duration of their own treacly abomination of a ballad. The only thing this song is good for is banishing a demonic succubus back to the hellfire from whence it came, as South Park so expertly noted. JAMES GREBEY

Also Nominated From ’72: Michael Jackson’s first chart-topping solo hit, the title track from the movie Ben, earned a nomination for writers Walter Scharf and Don Black. Not exactly “Rock With You” or “Billie Jean” that got beat here — songs about rats generally have a certain ceiling — but just about anything would have been preferable to “The Morning After.”
Snubbed: Nothing from Curtis Mayfield’s iconic Super Fly soundtrack to be found — probably a counter-balance to Isaac Hayes winning the year before, lest the Academy start to reach a level of cool that would have been totally unsustainable.

81. “You’ll Be in My Heart” (Tarzan, 1999)
Written By: Phil Collins
Performed By: Phil Collins

Speaking of South Park, the movie’s amazing assault on our neighbors to the north, “Blame Canada,” got screwed out of an Oscar by Phil Colins’ mewling sapfest. While some of the soft-rock icon’s contributions to Tarzan are fun in a cornball kind of way, “You’ll Be in My Heart” is an overwrought bore. J.G.

Also Nominated From ’99: “Canada” wasn’t the only gem passed over in the name of Phil: Aimee Mann’s “Save Me” from Magnolia, an Oscar nominee of rare subtlety and vulnerability, was also overlooked.
Snubbed: R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon,” the Automatic for the People single that inspired the Andy Kaufman biopic of the same name, was naturally ineligible, but the fair-game “The Great Beyond” — one of the band’s last great singles, and their biggest-ever hit in the U.K. — was also ignored, along with star Jim Carrey, and the rest of the Milos Forman-directed movie.

80. “We Belong Together” (Toy Story 3, 2010)
Written By: Randy Newman
Performed By: Randy Newman

After failing to win at the ’95 and ’99 awards for his first two Toy Story numbers, Randy Newman finally won in 2010 for easily the worst of the bunch: “We Belong Together,” another trite and predictable ode to lifelong companionship that only serves as slightly less self-parodic than “Left Foot, Right Foot.” A.U.

Also Nominated From ’10: Nothing you’ve thought about since 2010, unless you were a weirdly big Country Strong fan.
Snubbed: All of Cher and Christina Aguilera’s Burlesque songs, including the Golden Globe-winning “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” as well as Pharrell’s work for the first Despicable Me soundtrack and Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith’s Karate Kid theme, “Never Say Never.” Slim pickings for sure, but more relevant than most of the songs that made the cut, at least.

79. “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (Here Comes the Groom, 1951)
Written By: Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer
Performed By: Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman

“In the Cool, Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” exploits the electric chemistry of film legends Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman as much as it can, but it’s one of those old Hollywood numbers that’s everything at the same time: Vaudeville! Waltz! Romance! Calm it down guys. Calm. It. Down. DAVID LEVESLEY

Also Nominated From ’51: The lovely quasi-standard “A Kiss to Build a Dream On,” recorded first by Louis Armstrong for the Mickey Rooney musical melodrama The Strip.
Snubbed: The Burton Lane / Alan Jay Lerner composition “You’re All the World to Me” might not have been a classic, but it definitely at least soundtracked a classic movie scene — Fred Astaire’s famous spinning-room dance sequence from Royal Wedding, later referenced in countless music videos.

78. “When You Believe” (The Prince of Egypt, 1998)
Written By: Steven Schwartz
Performed By: Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston

Takes a while to get going, and while it builds competently — with one voice becoming two, then dozens alongside increasing instrumentation — it’s not that impressive outside of the context of the movie, especially for a song that combines the talents of two of the greatest pop stars of the 20th century. It’s also a little preachy, although that’s kind of a given. J.G.

Also Nominated From ’98: “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” histrionic Diane Warren power ballad and first-ever Hot 100-crowner for rock legends Aerosmith, from Michael Bay’s apocalyptic blockbuster, Armageddon.
Snubbed: The only other power ballad that might have been as ubiquitous in 1998 as Aerosmith’s, the Goo Goo Dolls’ City of Angels contribution “Iris.” Also, don’t forget that Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?,” one of Baby Girl’s signature hits and on the shortlist for Best R&B songs of the decade, was first heard on the Dr. Doolittle 2 soundtrack that year.

77. “You Light Up My Life” (You Light Up My Life, 1977)
Written By: Joe Brooks
Performed By: Kacey Cisyk

A legendarily insipid ballad, which somehow topped the Hot 100 for a then-record ten straight weeks and won the Oscar in one of the all-time great years for original film songs. This isn’t even the famous version, either: It’s Did Cohn lip-syncing along Kacey Cisyk. God must have been piiiiiisssssed at this being done in his name. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’77: The Carly Simon-sung, Marvin Hamlisch and Carol Bayer Sager-penned “Nobody Does It Better,” from The Spy Who Loved Me — a No. 2 hit and one of the all-time great Bond themes.
Snubbed: Oh nothing much, just every song eligible from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which spawned four undying No. 1 hits and sold 15 million copies in this country alone. “Theme From ‘New York, New York,” too. Thank the Lord that they remembered that timeless chestnut “The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me)” from The Slipper and the Rose, though!

76. “Mona Lisa” (Captain Carey, U.S.A., 1950)
Written By: Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
Performed By: Charlie Spivak & Tommy Lynn

“Mona Lisa” deservedly became a standard in the capable hands of Nat King Cole. Unfortunately, the version from Captain Carey was performed by the significantly less-enduring Charlie Spivak and Tommy Lynn: a limp, repetitive arrangement that has deservedly been lost to the ages. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’50: “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” from Cinderella, one of Disney’s all-time great nonsense jams.
Snubbed: “Silver Bells,” a future holidays perennial, actually debuted in ’50 in the Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell comedy The Lemon Drop Kid, which is definitely the only reason anyone would have cause to discuss The Lemon Drop Kid in the year 2015.

75. “I Just Called to Say I Love You” (The Woman in Red, 1984)
Written By: Stevie Wonder
Performed By: Stevie Wonder

In one of the all-time years for blockbuster film themes — the 1984 ceremonies were the first and to-date only time when all five Best Original Song nominees were No. 1 hits — the award went to a creative nadir for the great Stevie Wonder, a perfectly nice song that was nevertheless a totally fair target for Jack Black’s eventual dickish scorn. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’84: The 1984 category was jam-packed with iconic ’80s themes: Ray Parker’s “Ghostbusters,” Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds” and Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose.” And yet…
Snubbed: …the Academy somehow whiffed on including anything from the biggest soundtrack of the whole decade, Prince’s Purple Rain. The Purple One did take home a statue in the now-defunct Best Original Song Score category, but no song from the movie — which included a couple chart-toppers of its own in “Let’s Go Crazy” and “When Doves Cry,” not to mention the No. 2-peaking title track — even got nominated. How do you sleep at night, Loggins?

74. “Born Free” (Born Free, 1966)
Written By: John Barry & Don Black
Performed By: Matt Monro

The list of great songs about the indomitable spirit of large, open-range felines is not a long one, though Matt Monro’s hilariously melodramatic title song for Born Free certainly does its damnedest to get on there. The earned grandiosity of The Lion King’s “Circle of Life” three decades later effectively made this song totally useless. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’66: A couple of memorable British themes: Cilla Black’s Burt Bacharach / Hal David-penned title track to the Michael Caine vehicle Alfie, and the Seekers’ vivacious hit ode to the protagonist of Georgy Girl.
Snubbed: Did you know that the original version of “Strangers in the Night”was an instrumental recorded by easy-listening maestro Bert Kaempfert for the movie A Man Could Get Killed in 1966? Well, neither did the Academy.

73. “The Lullaby of Broadway” (Gold Diggers of 1935, 1935)
Written By: Harry Warren & Al Dubin
Performed By: Wini Shaw

Middling, self-congratulatory theatrical fare. Far more memorable for its ahead-of-its-time cinematic introduction — performed in a two-minute one-shot zoom-in on performer Wini Shaw that looks like something from Eraserhead, courtesy of famed choreographer Busby Berkeley — than for anything related to the song itself. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’35: The considerably fonder-remembered Irving Berlin composition “Cheek to Cheek,” introduced by Fred Astaire in Top Hat.
Snubbed: “You Are My Lucky Star,” from the confusingly titled Broadway Melody of 1936. In that movie, the song was by cast member Frances Langford and others, but it’s probably best-remembered today as being sung by a terrified Sigourney Weaver in the final fight scene at the end of Alien.

72. “I Need to Wake Up” (An Inconvenient Truth, 2006)
Written By: Melissa Etheridge
Performed By: Melissa Etheridge

It’s unfortunate that Melissa Etheridge’s well-intentioned climate-change ballad sounds like it could be the background music to any generic television PSA. The “wake up” metaphor is a cliché, and the country twang is pretty uninspired, making the mostly toothless call-to-action seem preachy and hokey. Climate change is real, but this isn’t the most motivating of protest songs. J.G.

Also Nominated From ’06: “Listen,” Beyoncé’s powerhouse ballad from the climax of Dreamgirls.
Snubbed: Cobra Starship’s “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It!),” the best ’80s blockbuster theme of 2006.

71. “Sweet Lailani” (Waikiki Wedding, 1937)
Written By: Harry Owens
Performed By: Bing Crosby

A very short, very slight, and probably somewhat culturally patronizing Bing ballad. Those high notes are pretty chill, though. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’37: Another Fred Astaire classic in the George and Ira Gershwin-scribed “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” from Shall We Dance. And “That Old Feeling,” from Vogues of 1937, was big enough that it was still inspiring movie titles 60 years later.
Snubbed: Geez, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, anyone? “Whistle While You Work,” “Heigh-Ho,” “Some Day My Prince Will Come” — all given the cold shoulder, though the movie did get a nomination for its influential score, and an Academy Honorary Award for Walt Disney, basically just for making a badass movie that everyone loved.

70. “High Hopes” (A Hole in the Head, 1959)
Written By: James Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn
Performed By: Frank Sinatra

More so than the Frank Capra comedy A Hole in the Head, this was the theme for JFK’s 1960 presidential campaign, and like all campaign songs it’s a motivational poster. A song about using all-American determination and pluck to f–k s–t up for no good reason. By late 1961, American military advisors were directing the South Vietnamese Army to forcibly relocate 8.5 million rural peasants to fortified camps called “strategic hamlets”; the project was soon judged a colossal failure. But no one could make that ram scram. THEON WEBER

Also Nominated From ’59: Marty Robbins’ western ballad “The Hanging Tree,” from the movie of the same name. (No, not that hanging tree.)
Snubbed: Sadly, the hypnotic “Once Upon a Dream” from Sleeping Beauty — covered last year by Lana Del Rey for Maleficent — was ineligible, due to being largely derived from Tchaikovsky’s ballet of the same name.

69. “You Must Love Me” (Evita, 1996)
Written By: Andrew Lloyd Weber & Tim Rice
Performed By: Madonna

When Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice write a song, at its worst it feels like a single they never convinced Celine Dion to sing, and at its best it combines pop’s eagerness to please with Broadway’s hunger for human emotion and struggle through song. “You Must Love Me” is the song they wrote especially for their film adaptation of the Evita musical, and it’s far more the former than the latter: The show clips along with songs both catchy and narratively prurient, yet “You Must Love Me” feels like a pause rather than propulsion. D.L.

Also Nominated From ’96: Amazingly, the Beatlesque theme to the ’90s cable favorite That Thing You Do! — written by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger — was actually recognized this year, even if it had no chance of finishing better than a distant third to Evita and Celine Dion’s Diane Warren-penned “Because You Loved Me,” nominated from the Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeifer workplace romance Up Close and Personal.
Snubbed: R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly,” a ballad whose gospel was powerful enough to reduce the Notorious B.I.G. to tears, was cruelly rebuffed, presumably because it soundtracked a movie where Michael Jordan played a bunch of cartoon monsters for the fate of the Looneyverse.

68. “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa-Fe” (The Harvey Girls, 1946)
Written By: Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer
Performed By: Judy Garland

Not even Judy Garland’s best movie song about public transportation. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’46: “I Can’t Begin to Tell You,” sung by John Payne in The Dolly Sisters, and an eventual No. 1 hit for Bing Crosby.
Snubbed: Rita Hayworth acolytes in the ’40s were no doubt smarting at the exclusion of “Put the Blame on Mame,” dubbed by Anita Kert Ellis for Hayworth’s title character in the iconic noir Gilda.

67. “The Writing’s on the Wall” (Spectre, 2015)Written By: Sam Smith & Jimmy Napes
Performed By: Sam Smith

A Bond theme for and by people that don’t really get what makes a great Bond theme — foreboding, dramatic, and sweeping, but critically lacking in momentum, absurdity, and fun. A.U.

Also Nominated from ’15: Lady Gaga’s fire-throated Diane Warren power ballad “Till It Happens to You” (from the documentary about campus rape The Hunting Ground), and the Weeknd’s career-reviving black-lace waltz, “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey).”
Snubbed: Whether you liked it or not, it was pretty inarguable that the biggest song from a movie in 2015 was Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s 12-week chart-topper “See You Again,” from Furious 7. And though it certainly wasn’t technically eligible, it was stark how superior Radiohead’s rejected Spectretheme was to Sam Smith’s statue-winning take.

66. “Evergreen (Love Theme From ‘A Star Is Born’)” (A Star Is Born, 1976)
Written By: Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams
Performed By: Barbra Streisand

A soft-rock megahit, and Babs’ only Oscar-winning song that she actually received a statue for (co-)writing. Nobody makes melodrama as familiar and comforting as Streisand, but “Evergreen” is sorely lacking in the pathos of “The Way We Were” or even the humanity of “Funny Girl.” A.U.

Also Nominated From ’76: Bill Conti’s pump-up perennial “Gonna Fly Now,” a chart-topping quasi-instrumental from the Rocky soundtrack, which has soundtracked about a billion more training montages than Babs’ whole catalog combined.
Snubbed: The entirety of Rose Royce’s supremely funky Car Wash soundtrack, including the group’s two biggest smashes: the sultry ballad “I Wanna Get Next to You” and the clap-happy title track. “Something He Can Feel,” a crossover hit for Aretha Franklin (and later En Vogue) off the Sparkle soundtrack was also ignored.

65. “We May Never Love Like This Again” (The Towering Inferno, 1974)
Written By: Al Kasha & Joel Hirschorn
Performed By: Maureen McGovern

Points for the super-cold Philly-Soul strings and drums, for its association with the Ben Hur of ’70s disaster pics, and for simply not being “The Morning After.” Otherwise… eh. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’74: Western balladeer Frankie Laine’s straight-faced rendition of Mel Brooks’ title theme to Blazing Saddles.
Snubbed: Legendary Motown writer/producer’s Willie Hutch’s work on the Foxy Brown soundtrack, particularly the title theme (“No, but please don’t make Foxy mad / Or you’ll find out that the lady is superbad”).

64. “Say You Say Me” (White Nights, 1985)
Written By: Lionel Richie
Performed By: Lionel Richie

The chorus is probably Lionel’s dumbest, the verses are even worse (“I had a dream / I had an awesome dream”), and the song is tissue-flimsy enough to make Phil Collins sound like Phil Lynott by comparison. But the airy synths are pretty irresistible, and when those huge ’80s drums kick in, the hands go up in the air reflexively. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’85: Huey Lewis & the News’ universally beloved Back to the Future theme, “The Power of Love,” a song that would get you reported as a communist collaborator for hating on back in ’85.
Snubbed: The biggest snub was probably Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” a new-wave totem and generational anthem by virtue of its association with The Breakfast Club. But there were a whole host of ’85 misses, including the best Bond theme in a decade (Duran Duran’s “A View to a Kill”), James Brown’s all-time biggest pop hit (“Living in America,” from Rocky IV), and Madonna’s first two soundtrack gems (“Crazy for You” from Vision Questand “Into the Groove” from Desperately Seeking Susan).

63. “Glory” (Selma, 2014)
Written By: John Stephens (John Legend), Lonnie Lynn (Common) & Che Smith (Rhymefest)
Performed By: Common & John Legend

Nobody could argue with the intentions or the timeliness behind “Glory,” the gospel-tinged rap ballad that provides the end-credits song to the Civil Rights historical drama Selma. You could argue, however, that the song was a pretty rote anthem-by-numbers, both musically and lyrically, lacking any of the subtlety or detail that made its parent movie so powerful, and leaving little impression beyond its endlessly intoned chorus chant of “GLOOOOORY!” (Given the standing ovation Common and Legend’s performance received last night, though, it seems we may be alone on this one.)

Also Nominated from ’14: The Lonely Island and Tegan & Sara’s “Everything Is Awesome,” the delirious and hilariously over-caffeinated faux pop megahit from the universe of The Lego Movie, as well as the Adam Levine solo soul-pop ballad “Lost Stars,” co-written by the inimitable Gregg Alexander.
Snubbed: “Boom Clap,” Charli XCX’s euphoric breakout solo hit from the Fault in Our Stars soundtrack.

62. “The Shadow of Your Smile” (The Sandpiper, 1965)
Written By: Johnny Mandel & Paul Francis Webster
Performed By: Johnny Mandel & Choir

In its Johnny Mandel and choir incarnation, “Shadow” was hardly the most striking of movie themes, but short and sweet and maybe even the slightest bit sinister. Also a Grammy winner for Song of the Year (as performed by Tony Bennett), beating out the most covered song of the 20th century. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’65: Tom Jones’ jukebox standard “What’s New Pussycat,” from the movie of the same name (Woody Allen’s screenwriting debut!)
Snubbed: Speaking of Jones, he pulled double film duty in ’65, also singing the title song to Thunderball, a supremely underrated Bond movie and theme.

61. “Three Coins in the Fountain” (Three Coins in the Fountain, 1954)
Written By: Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn
Performed By: Frank Sinatra

A somewhat frivolous song contingent on understanding plot points from the film of the same name (or the Roman tradition it’s based on), though it improbably became something of a go-to and trademark number for Ol’ Blue Eyes just the same. A.U.

Also Nominated From ’54: “The Man Who Got Away,” Judy Garland’s big number from the Mk. II film version of A Star Is Born.
Snubbed: Nothing terribly notable — Frank Sinatra’s title theme to “Young At Heart” was released before the movie, and nothing from Carmen Jones(originally a stage musical from a decade earlier) was even close to eligible.

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Births[edit]

1494 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)

1496 – Joseph ha-Kohen, historian and physician (d. 1575)

1537 – John III, king of Sweden (d. 1592)

1576 – John Sarkander, Moravian priest and saint (d. 1620)

1626 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician (d. 1692)

1629 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684)

1641 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (d. 1724)

1717 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French politician and diplomat, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1787)

1740 – Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat (d. 1792)

1786 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)

1792 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter and educator (d. 1845)

1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian, author, and educator (d. 1926)

1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)

1861 – Ferdinand Bonn, German actor (d. 1933)

1861 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)

1865 – Elsie de Wolfe, American actress and interior decorator (d. 1950)

1868 – Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (d. 1938)

1869 – Charley Grapewin, American actor (d. 1956)

1871 – Henry Kimball Hadley, American composer and conductor (d. 1937)

1873 – Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian, author, and academic (d. 1948)

1873 – Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (d. 1936)

1881 – Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)

1886 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player and businessman (d. 1974)

1888 – Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (d. 1980)

1888 – Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager (d. 1958)

1890 – Yvonne Arnaud, French pianist, actress and singer (d. 1958)

1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

1891 – Erik Almlöf, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1971)

1894 – Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)

1898 – Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician, 156th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1973)

1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (d. 1990)

1899 – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Welsh preacher and physician (d. 1981)

1900 – Lissy Arna, German film actress (d. 1964)

1901 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic, invented the Van de Graaff generator (d. 1967)

1902 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)

1902 – Sidney Hook, American philosopher and author (d. 1989)

1904 – Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1984)

1904 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (d. 1977)

1905 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1992)

1907 – Paul Francis Webster, American soldier and songwriter (d. 1984)

1908 – Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (d. 1994)

1909 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (d. 2000)

1911 – Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009)

1914 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (d. 2013)

1915 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)

1916 – Michel Chartrand, Canadian trade union leader and activist (d. 2010)

1917 – David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher (d. 1992)

1917 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (d. 1997)

1917 – Audrey Totter, American actress (d. 2013)

1918 – Jean Marchand, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1988)

1922 – George Roy Hill, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)

1922 – Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter

1924 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1980)

1925 – Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)

1926 – Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2015)

1926 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Economics (d. 2009)

1927 – Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark, English engineer and politician (d. 2016)

1927 – Charlie Callas, American actor and comedian (d. 2011)

1927 – Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (d. 2016)

1927 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea (d. 2015)

1931 – Mala Powers, American actress (d. 2007)

1932 – John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)

1933 – Jean Carnahan, American author and politician

1933 – Olavi Salonen, Finnish runner

1933 – Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist

1935 – Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster

1939 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)

1939 – Kim Weston, American soul singer

1940 – Pat Chapman, English chef and author, founded The Curry Club

1942 – Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (d. 2015)

1942 – Bob Hayes, American sprinter and football player (d. 2002)

1942 – Michael P. Johnson, American sociologist

1942 – Jean-Claude Trichet, French banker and economist

1944 – Bobby Colomby, American drummer and producer

1944 – Ray Martin, Australian television host and journalist

1945 – Peter Criss, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer

1945 – Sivakant Tiwari, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and author (d. 2010)

1946 – Uri Geller, Israeli-English magician and psychic

1946 – Lloyd Mumphord, American football player

1946 – Sonny Perdue, American captain and politician, 81st Governor of Georgia

1946 – Dick Wolf, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1947 – Roger Alton, English journalist

1947 – Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer-songwriter

1947 – Bo Ryan, American basketball player and coach

1947 – Stevie Wright, English-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2015)

1948 – Alan Parsons, English keyboard player and producer

1948 – Carol Smart, English sociologist and academic

1948 – Mitsuko Uchida, Japanese-British pianist

1949 – Soumaïla Cissé, Malian engineer and politician

1949 – Cecil Cooper, American baseball player and manager

1949 – Oscar Gamble, American baseball player

1950 – Geoffrey Grimmett, English mathematician and academic

1950 – Arturo Márquez, Mexican-American composer

1951 – Lynne Featherstone, English blogger and politician

1951 – Christopher Le Brun, English painter and sculptor

1951 – Peter May, Scottish author and screenwriter

1951 – Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, Northern Irish academic and police ombudsman

1951 – Marta Russell, American author and activist (d. 2013)

1952 – Jenny Agutter, English actress

1954 – Michael Badalucco, American actor

1954 – Sandra Cisneros, American author and poet

1955 – David Breashears, American mountaineer, director, and producer

1955 – Binali Yıldırım, Turkish lawyer and politician, Turkish Minister of Transport

1955 – Martin Schulz, German politician

1956 – Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritanian general and politician, President of Mauritania

1956 – Guy Babylon, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2009)

1956 – Blanche Baker, American actress and screenwriter

1956 – Junji Hirata, Japanese wrestler

1956 – Andrew Mackenzie, Scottish geologist and businessman

1956 – Anita Ward, American disco/R&B singer

1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1957 – Anna Vissi, Cypriot singer-songwriter and actress

1957 – Mike Watt, American singer-songwriter and bass player

1958 – Doug Nordquist, American high jumper

1958 – James Thomson, American biologist and academic

1959 – George Coupland, Scottish scientist

1959 – Hildegard Körner, German runner

1959 – Jackie Fox, American bass player (The Runaways)

1959 – Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Polish physicist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Poland

1959 – Trent Tucker, American basketball player and sportscaster

1960 – Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaican-Canadian author and educator

1960 – Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter

1961 – Mohammad Fouad, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor

1961 – Mike Keneally, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1961 – Freddie Spencer, American motorcycle racer

1964 – Mark Coleman, American mixed martial artist and wrestler

1965 – Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor and director

1965 – Rich Gannon, American football player and sportscaster

1966 – Matt Neal, English race car driver

1966 – Veronica Pershina, Russian-American figure skater and coach

1966 – Chris Robinson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1968 – Joe Cornish, English actor, director, and screenwriter

1968 – Karl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver

1969 – Alain de Botton, Swiss-English philosopher and author

1969 – Zahra Ouaziz, Moroccan runner

1969 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (d. 2000)

1970 – Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach

1970 – Alister McRae, Scottish race car driver

1970 – Jörg Schmidt, German footballer

1971 – Roger J. Beaujard, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1972 – Sarah Jones, British politician

1972 – Anders Odden, Norwegian guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1972 – Anja Rücker, German sprinter

1972 – Gen Urobuchi, Japanese writer

1973 – Maarja Kangro, Estonian author and poet

1973 – David Nedohin, Canadian curler and sportscaster

1973 – Cory Stillman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1974 – Die, Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1974 – Paul Linger, English footballer

1974 – Jacqui Oatley, British Sports presenter

1975 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer

1976 – Aubrey Huff, American baseball player and radio host

1976 – Adam Powell, Welsh game designer and businessman, co-founded Meteor Games

1976 – Ramon Stoppelenburg, Dutch businessman and author

1976 – Nenad Vučković, Croatian footballer

1977 – Kerem Kabadayı, Turkish drummer and songwriter

1978 – Andrei Markov, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player

1978 – Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer

1978 – Bouabdellah Tahri, French runner

1979 – David DeJesus, American baseball player

1979 – Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist

1979 – Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American actor and dancer

1980 – Israel Castro, Mexican footballer

1980 – Ashley Cole, English footballer

1980 – Anthony da Silva, French-Portuguese footballer

1980 – Martín Demichelis, Argentinian footballer

1980 – Fitz Hall, English footballer

1981 – Royal Ivey, American basketball player

1981 – Darya Pchelnik, Belarusian hammer thrower

1981 – James Shields, American baseball player

1981 – Roy Williams, American football player

1982 – Mohammad Asif, Pakistani cricketer

1982 – David Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1982 – Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer

1982 – David Wright, American baseball player

1983 – Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1983 – Darren Sammy, Saint Lucian cricketer

1984 – Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer

1985 – Gilbert Kirwa, Kenyan runner

1987 – Yutaka Otsuka, Japanese baseball player

1988 – Andrés Bottiglieri, Italian–Argentinian footballer

1989 – Leeson Ah Mau, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

1990 – JoJo, American singer and actress

1991 – Jillian Rose Reed, American actress

1991 – Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer

1992 – Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater

1993 – Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer

1997 – Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer

Deaths[edit]

217 – Zephyrinus, pope of the Catholic Church

860 – Æthelbald, king of Wessex (b. 834)

910 – Alfonso III, king of Asturias

977 – Fujiwara no Kanemichi, Japanese statesman (b. 925)

1295 – Margaret of Provence, French queen (b. 1221)

1326 – Peter of Moscow, Russian metropolitan bishop

1340 – John I, duke of Bavaria (b. 1329)

1355 – Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, emperor of Serbia (b. 1308)

1539 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)

1552 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)

1590 – Ambroise Paré, French physician and surgeon (b. 1510)

1658 – Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (b. 1580)

1722 – Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)

1723 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)

1740 – Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675)

1765 – Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729)

1768 – Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)

1783 – Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)

1812 – Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)

1820 – John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)

1856 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)

1862 – Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)

1880 – Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797)

1893 – George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)

1915 – Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)

1916 – Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)

1917 – Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)

1919 – Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)

1920 – Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)

1921 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general and politician (b. 1850)

1927 – Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)

1929 – Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)

1935 – Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1882)

1937 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)

1938 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)

1938 – Matilda Howell, American archer (b. 1859)

1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German captain (b. 1894)

1941 – Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet and author (b. 1887)

1950 – Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)

1954 – James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)

1956 – Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)

1959 – Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)

1961 – Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)

1961 – Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)

1968 – John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1971 – Roy O. Disney, American banker and businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893)

1972 – Adolfo Orsi, Italian businessman (b. 1888)

1973 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (b. 1904)

1973 – Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)

1974 – R. A. Bevan, English advertiser (b. 1901)

1974 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (b. 1896)

1974 – André Jolivet, French guitarist and composer (b. 1905)

1976 – Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902)

1981 – Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)

1982 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)

1984 – Stanley Milgram, American psychologist and academic (b. 1933)

1984 – Dmitry Ustinov, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (1976-84) (b. 1908)

1986 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)

1991 – Simone Beck, French chef and author (b. 1904)

1991 – Sam Rabin, English wrestler, singer, and sculptor (b. 1903)

1991 – Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)

1993 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)

1993 – Nazife Güran, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921)

1994 – Dean Rusk, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)

1995 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)

1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)

1997 – Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)

1997 – Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)

1997 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)

1998 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

1999 – Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)

1999 – Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)

2001 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)

2005 – Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)

2006 – Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929)

2008 – Adrian Mitchell, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)

2008 – Robert Mulligan, American director and producer (b. 1925)

2008 – Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and racing driver (b. 1912)

2009 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)

2009 – Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918)

2010 – James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)

2010 – K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914)

2011 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2012 – Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929)

2012 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929)

2012 – Eagle Keys, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1923)

2012 – Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919)

2013 – Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930)

2014 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929)

2014 – John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915)

το Οσκαρ Πρωτότυπου Τραγουδιού

Οι 5 τελικές υποψηφιότητες θα ανακοινωθούν στις 23 Ιανουαρίου 2018, φωτογραφία: AP Images

Η Αμερικανική Ακαδημία Κινηματογραφικών Τεχνών

ανακοίνωσε ότι 70 τραγούδια διαγωνίζονται προς το παρόν για

τις υποψηφιότητες για Όσκαρ στην κατηγορία Καλύτερου

Πρωτότυπου Τραγουδιού.

Τα τραγούδια είναι λιγότερα από τα συνολικά 93 που είχαν επιλεγεί πέρσι, ωστόσο

ο αριθμός τους είναι σημαντικά αυξημένος σε σύγκριση με το 2010, όταν οι

υποψηφιότητες για Όσκαρ προέκυψαν από 40 τραγούδια.

Αρκετά είναι τα ποπ κομμάτια που συμπεριλαμβάνονται στον κατάλογο, όπως

το I Don't Wanna Live Forever της Τέιλορ Σουίφτ με τον Ζέιν Μαλίκ από την

ταινία Fifty Shades Darker.

Ελληνίδες που πόζαραν γυμνές για το Playboy!

Δείτε ποιες Ελληνίδες πόζαραν γυμνές για το Playboy!

O Hugh Hefner το 1953 ίδρυσε το Playboy, αφού κατάφερε να συγκεντρώσει τα χρήματα που χρειαζόταν μέσα από συγγενείς και προσωπικά του έπιπλα.

Το πρώτο τεύχος του περιοδικού κυκλοφόρησε με την γυμνή φωτογραφία της Marilyn Monroe.

Το Playboy μέσα σε σύντομο χρονικό διάστημα έγινε ένα από τα πιο κορυφαία περιοδικά που είχε γυμνό περιεχόμενο.

Για το θρυλικό περιοδικό πόζαραν μοντέλα, σταρ, τραγουδίστριες και ηθοποιοί, ακόμη και ο σημερινός πλανητάρχης Donald Trump και οι φωτογραφίσεις συνοδεύονταν από δυνατές συνεντεύξεις.

Η πρώτη Ελληνίδα που κατάφερε να ποζάρει για το Playboy ήταν η Ζωή Λάσκαρη η οποία φωτογραφήθηκε ολόγυμνη δίπλα από τα λιοντάρια της Δήλου τον Οκτώβριο του 1985.

Στην συνέχεια φωτογραφήθηκαν και οι: Μάρω Κοντού, η Άντζελα Δημητρίου, η Δήμητρα Γαλάνη, η Βάνα Μπάρμπα, η Άντζελα Γκερέκου, η Μαρία Ιωαννίδου και η Χριστίνα Παππά, η Νόνη Δούνια, η Άντζυ Σαμίου, η Μαίρη Χρονοπούλου, μεταξύ άλλων.

Τα ξενοδοχεία που αλλάζουν περιοχή αποτελούν την νέα μόδα στα ταξίδια πολυτελείας.Η νέα αυτή τάση ενσωματώνει πρωτόγνωρες εμπειρίες στη φύση και στον πολιτισμό σε διαφορετικούς προορισμούς με κοινό παρονομαστή την πολυτέλεια.

Τα φορητά ξενοδοχεία φέρνουν την επανάσταση στη σύγχρονη πολυτέλεια και τοποθετούν σε πρώτο πλάνο την απόκτηση νέων, αυθεντικών εμπειριών που συνδέονται στενά και εμπλουτίζονται από τον προορισμό.

H ανανεωμένη τάση του glamping αφορά resort-πολυτελείς κατασκηνώσεις που προσφέρουν όλες τις υπηρεσίες ενός ξενοδοχείου πολυτελείας, από μασάζ μέχρι προσωπικό μπάτλερ και γκουρμέ σεφ.

Είναι «φορητά» και μπορούν να τοποθετηθούν στην πλαγιά ενός βουνού, μέσα σε έναν αμπελώνα ή ακόμα και σε ειδικούς χώρους εκδηλώσεων, όπως μουσεία, προσφέροντας μια πραγματική αίσθηση του χώρου που τόσο πολύ επιζητούν οι σύγχρονοι ταξιδιώτες. Ακόμα, μπορούν εύκολα να αποσυντεθούν ή να μετακινηθούν σε περιόδους χαμηλής σεζόν.

Όσον αφορά στις δραστηριότητες που προσφέρονται σε αυτά, είναι συνδεδεμένες με την αίσθηση του χώρου και της περιοχής, όπως ιππασία, ψάρεμα και συγκομιδή μήλων. Η νέα μόδα βρίσκει σάρκα και οστά στο ξενοδοχειακό προϊόν της αμερικανικής εταιρείας Collective Retreats, η οποία προσφέρει στα φορητά resort της πεντάστερες υπηρεσίες και εμπειρίες που παραπέμπουν σε παραδοσιακά ξενοδοχεία πολυτελείας, σε απομακρυσμένες περιοχές, εκεί όπου θα ήταν αδύνατο να λειτουργήσουν παραδοσιακά ξενοδοχεία.

Η εταιρεία υπόσχεται διαμονή σε μοναδικούς προορισμούς, υπηρεσίες πολυτελείας, φανταστικό φαγητό και άριστη εξυπηρέτηση. Προς το παρόν δραστηριοποιείται σε διαφορετικούς προορισμούς των ΗΠΑ, όμως σκοπεύει να επεκταθεί σε όλο τον κόσμο.

Στα resort, μπορούν να φιλοξενηθούν ακόμα ειδικές εκδηλώσεις, όπως γαμήλιες δεξιώσεις στη φύση, κάτω από τα αστέρια με τοπικές γεύσεις, γαμήλιες τελετές σε κλειστό κύκλο, καθώς και γεύματα για ειδικές περιστάσεις, δίπλα στη φύση. Χαρακτηριστικό είναι το ξενοδοχείο της Collective Hill Country στο Τέξας, σε ένα βιολογικό αγρόκτημα 225 στρεμμάτων, όπου εκτός από τη συνηθισμένη πολυτέλεια στη διαμονή και το φαγητό, οι πελάτες μπορούν να απολαύσουν ιππασία και υπαίθριες δραστηριότητες, έχοντας κοντά και πολλές γκαλερί τέχνης, μουσικές εκδηλώσεις και οινοποιεία.

Η τιμή διανυκτέρευσης κυμαίνεται από 400 έως 550 δολάρια ανάλογα την εποχή.Ο ιδρυτής και διευθύνων σύμβουλος του Collective Retreats, Peter Mack, ο οποίος θήτευσε στην αλυσίδα Starwood, δήλωσε ότι η εταιρεία του «διαμορφώνει το μέλλον της βιωματικής τουριστικής βιομηχανίας, καθώς οι σημερινοί ταξιδιώτες λαχταρούν νέες αυθεντικές εμπειρίες που συνδέονται και εμπλουτίζονται από τον προορισμό τους».

Η εταιρεία ανακοίνωσε την ένταξη του πρώην προέδρου ανάπτυξης της Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Simon Turner, γνωστός για τα καινοτόμα brands όπως το W, ως επενδυτή και συμβούλου.

Ακόμα, η Collective Retreats συμφώνησε νέα χρηματοδότηση ύψους 10 εκατ. δολαρίων, 4 φορές μεγαλύτερη σε σχέση με την αρχική επένδυση των 2,5 εκατ. δολαρίων που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για να ξεκινήσουν να λειτουργούν τα 5 πρώτα resort της.

12 jobs robots are taking over the fastest

Robots are already helping do a number of jobs.Army medicine

At least for now, surgeons can breathe a sigh of relief. It'll be 36 years until they're outperformed by robots in the operating room, according to AI researchers.

But while we have yet to see any completely automated jobs, there are plenty of jobs that are already on their way there.

To find the most automated jobs in America right now, we combed through the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a US Department of Labor database that compiles detailed information on hundreds of jobs.

O*NET rates the "degree of automation" for each job on a scale from zero to 100, where a higher rating signals more automation. Jobs with scores around 50 are considered moderately automated, while jobs with scores around 75 are considered highly automated. (A score of 100 has yet to be attained, but it would indicate that a job is completely automated.)

Here are 12 jobs with the highest degrees of automation, as well as what they pay and how much the job will grow or decline by the year 2024 (where the average projected employment change is 6.5% growth), according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

These jobs earned a degree of automation rating of 65 or higher and are ranked in order from lowest to highest automation score.

12. Reservation and transportation ticket agent or travel clerk

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Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks make and confirm reservations for transportation or lodging, or sell transportation tickets.

Degree of automation: 65

Median annual salary: $35,230

Projected decline by 2024: 1.4%

11. Air traffic controller

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Air traffic controllers control air traffic on and within vicinity of airport and movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers according to established procedures and policies.

Degree of automation: 65

Median annual salary: $122,410

Projected decline by 2024: 8.6%

10. Telephone operator

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Telephone operators provide information by accessing alphabetical, geographical, or other directories.

Degree of automation: 66

Median annual salary: $37,000

Projected decline by 2024: 42.4%

9. Chemical plant and system operator

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Chemical plant and system operators control or operate entire chemical processes or system of machines.

Degree of automation: 66

Median annual salary: $59,920

Projected decline by 2024: 9.2%

8. Medical and clinical laboratory technologist

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Medical and clinical laboratory technologists perform complex medical laboratory tests for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

Degree of automation: 67

Median annual salary: $61,070

Projected growth by 2024: 14%

7. Postal service mail sorter, processor, or processing machine operator

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Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution.

Degree of automation: 68

Median annual salary: $56,220

Projected decline by 2024: 33.7%

6. Customs broker

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Customs brokers repair customs documentation and ensure that shipments meet all applicable laws to facilitate the import and export of goods.

Degree of automation: 68

Median annual salary: $69,040

Projected growth by 2024: 4.8%

5. Robotics engineer

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Robotics engineers research, design, develop, or test robotic applications.

Degree of automation: 69

Median annual salary: $97,300

Projected growth by 2024: 4%

4. Travel agent

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Travel agents plan and sell transportation and accommodations for travel agency customers.

Degree of automation: 70

Median annual salary: $36,460

Projected decline by 2024: 11.7%

3. Property and casualty insurance claims examiner

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Property and casualty insurance claims examiners review settled insurance claims to determine that payments and settlements have been made in accordance with company practices and procedures.

Degree of automation: 73

Median annual salary: $63,680

Projected growth by 2024: 3.3%

2. Crop farmworker or laborer

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Crop farmworkers and laborers manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts and field crops.

Degree of automation: 74

Median annual salary: $22,000

Projected decline by 2024: 9.1%

December 20th: On this Day

1958, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison appeared as The Quarry Men at the wedding reception of George's older brother, Harry. The event was held at the Harrison family home at 25 Upton Green, Speke, Liverpool.

1959, Emile Ford and the Checkmates were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For.'

1962, The Osmonds appeared for the first time on the NBS-TV Andy Williams show. The brothers performed 'I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas'.

1967, Folk singer Joan Baez was sentenced to 45 days in prison after being arrested during an anti-war demonstration.

1968, The Beatles sixth Christmas record 'The Beatles' 1968 Christmas Record', was sent to fan club members in the UK and the US. It included the song ‘Nowhere Man’ sung by Tiny Tim.

1969, Peter Paul and Mary went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Leavin' On A Jet Plane'. John Denver wrote the song in 1966 with the original title of 'Oh Babe I Hate to Go.'

1969, Rolf Harris was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Two Little Boys', (the song was written in 1902). The Christmas No.1 of 1969 and the last No.1 of the 60s. The song stayed at No.1 for six weeks.

1969, The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their 10th release Let It Bleed featuring 'Midnight Rambler', and 'You Can't Always Get What You Want.' It was the last studio album by the band to feature Brian Jones as well as the first to feature Mick Taylor.

1969,

1973, American singer Bobby Darin died aged 37. One of the first teen idols, he had the 1959 No.1 with 'Dream Lover' plus 20 other US Top 40 hits during the 60's including ‘Mack the Knife’, (Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960). Darin travelled with Robert Kennedy and worked on the latter's 1968 presidential campaign. He was with Kennedy the day he travelled to Los Angeles on June 4, 1968 for the California Primary. Darin was at the Ambassador Hotel later that night when Kennedy was assassinated.

1974, Former James Gang and Barnstorm guitarist Joe Walsh officially replaced Bernie Leadon in The Eagles after producer Bill Szymczyk had recommended Walsh to The Eagles.

1980, Twelve days after John Lennon was shot dead in New York City, '(Just Like) Starting Over', which was taken from his Double Fantasy album gave the former Beatle his first ever UK solo No.1 single.

1986, The Bangles started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Walk Like An Egyptian'.

1986, The Housemartins were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Isley Brothers 'Caravan Of Love.' It was only the second a cappella song to be a No.1 hit after 'Only You' by the Flying Pickets.

1999, Readers of UK Guitar magazine voted Noel Gallagher the most overrated guitarist of the millennium. Jimi Hendrix was voted guitarist of the millennium with Nirvana's 'Nevermind' winning best album.

1999, Canadian Country singer Hank Snow died. 'The Singing Ranger' released over 100 albums and scored more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. A regular at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1954 Snow persuaded the directors to allow a new singer by the name of Elvis Presley to appear at the Grand Ole Opry.

2006, Eminem and his high school sweetheart divorced for a second time, less than a year after they remarried. The couple agreed to share custody of their 10-year-old daughter, Hailie. The pair told a judge in Michigan they understood this time the divorce was final. The couple remarried in January. But the rapper filed for divorce less than three months later, saying there had been "a breakdown in the marriage relationship".

2006, Matthew Fisher, a founding member of Procol Harum won a High Court battle over who wrote their song 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale'. Fisher who played organ on the 1967 hit had argued he wrote the distinctive organ melody, but Mr Justice Blackburne ruled he was entitled to just 40% of the copyright, (rather than the 50% he was seeking). The court decided lead singer Gary Brooker's input was more substantial and Fisher's claim for back royalties - of up to £1m - was also rejected. For almost 40 years, the song had been credited to lead singer Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid.

2006, Ian Halperin claimed that Michael Jackson was close to death. The Rolling Stone magazine writer said Jackson was suffering from a rare lung condition and needed a lung transplant. He also claimed that the singer had lost 95% vision in one eye and was so ill he could barley speak.

2009, Larry Knechtel, the keyboard player for the Soft-Rock group Bread, died following a heart attack at the age of 69. Knechtel earned a Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon and Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and also performed with Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr., The Dixie Chicks and Elvis Costello.

2012, Adele was named Billboard's top artist of 2012, while her hit record 21 was named top album of the year in the music magazine's annual review. The 24-year-old was the first to receive both accolades two years in a row and the honours for Adele came in a year which saw her win six Grammy awards and dominate the US charts. Her second album 21 went straight to No.1 when it was released in March 2011 and did not leave the top 10 until the beginning of September 2012, during that time, it spent 24 weeks at the top spot.

2013, David Richards, a producer who worked with David Bowie, Queen, Iggy Pop, and others died. Included in Richards' lengthy discography are co-production credits on Bowie's 'Never Let Me Down', 'The Buddha of Suburbia', and 'Outside'. He also worked on Queen's last four albums, A Kind of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo, and Made in Heaven. He also dealt with live music recording in such events as Montreux Jazz Festival.

2014, A single dubbed the rarest record in the world sold for £14,543 at auction. The London Records' pressing of Darrell Banks’ 'Open the Door to Your Heart', was thought to be the only copy in circulation. Banks, who toured with soul singer Jackie Wilson, only released two albums before he was killed in Detroit in February 1970. He was shot in the neck by an off-duty policeman, who had been having an affair with Banks's girlfriend. 'Open the Door to Your Heart' was his only hit, reaching No.2 on the R&B chart in the US.


December 20th: Born on this day

1944, Born on this day, Bobby Colomby, drums, Blood Sweat & Tears, (1969 US No.12 & UK No.35 single 'You've Made Me So Very Happy').

1947, Born on this day, Peter Criss, drums, vocals, KISS, (1974 US No.5 single 'On And On' 1976 US No 11 album 'Rock and Roll Over' spent 26 weeks on the chart. 1987 UK No.4 single 'Crazy Crazy Nights').

1948, Born on this day, Stevie Wright, The Easybeats, (1966 UK No.6 & 1967 US No. 16 single 'Friday On My Mind'). Died on 27th Dec 2015.

1948, Born on this day, Alan Parsons, British studio audio engineer, musician, and record producer. He was involved with the production of The Beatles' Abbey Roadand Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon for which Pink Floyd credit him as an important contributor. Parsons' own group, The Alan Parsons Project released several albums.

1956, Born on this day, Guy Babylon, keyboards, Elton John Band. Died on Sept 2nd 2009 of a heart attack while swimming in his pool at his home in Los Angeles, California.

1957, Born on this day, Anita Ward, singer, (1979 US & UK No.1 single 'Ring My Bell').

1957, Born on this day, Billy Bragg, UK singer, songwriter, wrote 'New England' 1985 hit for Kirsty MacColl, (1988 UK No.1 charity single with Wet Wet Wet, 'She's Leaving Home').

1957, Born on this day, Michael Watt, bassist, fIREHOSE, Stooges, Porno For Pyros.

1966, Born on this day, Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes, (1991 UK No.39 single 'Hard To Handle', 1992 US No.1 & UK No.2 album 'The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion').

1975, Born on this day, Graham Hopkins, drums, Therapy? (1993 UK No.9 single 'Screamager').

1980, Born on this day, Chris Edwards, Kasabian, (2005 UK No.8 single 'Cutt Off', 2006 UK No.1 album 'Empire'). Kasabian won a Brit Award in 2010 for Best British Group.

1990, Born on this day, American singer-songwriter JoJo. Her debut single, 'Leave (Get Out)' reached No.1 on the Billboard Pop songs chart, which made her the youngest solo artist to have a No.1 single in the United States, at thirteen years old.

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