14 December 2025
► LOOKING at events on 14 December;
In 1911, Roald Amundsen and his team, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, became the first to reach the South Pole.
In 1930, on the airwaves in Launceston, Tasmania, commercial radio station 7LA commenced regular transmission on the AM band at 1100 kHz.
The frequency changed slightly to 1098 kHz in 1978, and in 2008, the frequency changed again to 89.3 mHz. The station then became known as LA-FM.
In 1944 the Liberal Party of Australia was formed in Canberra, to replace the United Australia Party.
In 1950, back in Launceston, over £300,000 damage was caused by a blaze which destroyed Ludbrooks department store.
In 1955 in Huonville, work commenced on construction of a new bridge to span the Huon River.
In 1972 the last manned mission to the moon during the 20th Century concluded, as Eugene Cernan became the last person to date, to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt completed their third Extra-vehicular Activity.
In 2009, here in New Norfolk, TYGA-FM commenced regular broadcasting.
► BORN…..
In 1911, in Long Beach, California U.S.A., Lindley Armstrong Jones, alias Spike Jones, He was a popular musician who specialised in satirical arrangements of popular songs, punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and ridiculous vocals.
Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band recorded under the title Spike Jones and his City Slickers. He died in 1965.
In 1932, in Colt, Arkansas, U.S.A., Charlie Rich, rockabilly/jazz/country singer and musician remembered for his 1973 hits Behind Closed Doors and The Most Beautiful Girl He died in 1995.
In 1964, in Levin, New Zealand,, Rebecca Gibney, actress who has appeared in numerous Australian film and television productions. She won a Gold Logie in 2010 for her role as Julie Rafter in Packed To The Rafters.
In 1964, in Knoxfield, Melbourne, Nadine Garner, stage and screen actress who first appeared in 1985, as Tamara Henderson in the Australian TV series, The Henderson Kids.
Nadine has appeared in many other series, including Prisoner, Neighbours, The Bill, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, G P, Water Rats. And The Doctor Blake Mysteries.
► DIED…..
In 1963 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., Ruth Lee Jones, alias Dinah Washington, African-American jazz/blues singer and pianist cited as “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s.” She was aged 39.
In 2011 in Vidor, Texas, U.S.A., Billie Jo Spears, country singer whose biggest hit was Blanket On The Ground in 1974. She was aged 73.
In 2013 in London, England, Peter O’Toole, Irish actor of stage and screen who achieved stardom in 1962 with the role of T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. He later became a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He was aged 81.
Today’s photo – New Norfolk Carols, last Friday (12 December), on the Esplanade. (Yours Truly.)
Today’s Playlist :
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED |
| John Mullan – Summertime Blues | 2025 | 06:06 | 0 | |
| Charting this day 1975 ABBA – Mamma Mia | 1975 | 06:12 | 19 | 18/8/2024 |
| Charting this day 1975 Dr Hook – Only Sixteen | 1975 | 06:16 | 3 | 19/1/2025 |
| Shirley Llewellyn – I Came From The Nambucca Valley | 2025 | 06:20 | 1 | 30/11/2025 |
| Warren Kearney – Christmas Our Way | 2021 | 06:22 | 5 | 22/12/2024 |
| Walk Don ‘t Run – Backroads and Moonshine | 2025 | 06:25 | 0 | |
| Ian Hughes & His Orchestra – I Just Called To Say I Love You | 06:33 | 2 | 13/12/2024 | |
| For A Listener: John Williamson – A Christmas Photo | 06:37 | 16 | 22/12/2024 | |
| Charlie Rich – Rolling With The Flow | 1977 | 06:42 | 5 | 8/4/2025 |
| Robert Ross – People Like Me | 2025 | 06:45 | 1 | 7/12/2025 |
| The Charlesys – Fun Christmas Day | 2025 | 06:50 | 1 | 7/12/2025 |
| Vintage Vinyl Dean Martin – Memories Are Made Of This | 1955 | 06:54 | 4 | 5/8/2021 |
| Mountain Rio – Christmas In Ukraine | 2025 | 06:56 | 3 | 12/12/2025 |
| Stuart Joel Nuggett & Kevin Sullivan – I’m Barred Again | 2025 | 07:05 | 2 | 5/12/2025 |
| Charting this day 1975 Band of the Black Watch – Scotch On The Rocks | 1975 | 07:12 | 4 | 5/10/2025 |
| Charting this day 1975 Rod Stewart – Sailing | 1975 | 07:15 | 26 | 13/4/2025 |
| For A Listener: Melba Montgomery – No Charge | 1964 | 07:21 | 0 | |
| For A Listener: John Paul Young – Yesterday’s Hero | 1975 | 07:25 | 0 | |
| Romantic Strings Orchestra – Unchained Melody | 07:30 | 0 | ||
| Dinah Washington – September In The Rain | 1961 | 07:36 | 7 | 29/8/2025 |
| Billie Jo Spears – What I’ve Got In Mind | 2025 | 07:38 | 4 | 5/11/2023 |
| Vintage Vinyl Les Baxter Chorus – Because Of You | 1951 | 07:43 | 1 | 29/12/2013 |
| Glenn Levi – Christmas In Australia | 2025 | 07:46 | 4 | 12/12/2025 |
| Marshall Tucker Band – Heard It In A Love Song | 07:51 | 0 | ||
| Lou Monte – Dominick The Donkey | 07:56 | 13 | 22/12/2024 | |
| Mike McClellan – Rock’n’Roll Man | 08:05 | 0 | ||
| For a Listener: Roy Orbison – California Blue | 1989 | 08:11 | 15 | 21/11/2025 |
| Charting this day 1975 Joe Dolan – Lady In Blue | 1975 | 08:15 | 5 | 2/11/2018 |
| Charting this day 1975 Roger Whittaker – I Don’t Believe In If Any More | 1975 | 08:19 | 5 | 29/12/2023 |
| Peter Stefanson – In Our Childhood Days | 2025 | 08:28 | 5 | 29/8/2025 |
| Simon Orton – That’s Life | 2025 | 08:32 | 2 | 21/11/2025 |
| Gordon Langford & His Orchestra – Against All Odds | 08:39 | 1 | 16/4/2021 | |
| Joy Adams & Gary R Farmer – The Book | 2025 | 08:43 | 2 | 30/11/2025 |
| Toni West – Soon It’ll Be Christmas | 08:47 | 1 | 12/12/2021 | |
| Vintage Vinyl Perry Como – Magic Moments | 1958 | 08:51 | 3 | 17/10/2025 |
| Matt Flinders – By The Time I Get To Phoenix | 08:54 | 0 |
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