Birthdays: Tycho Brahe,
Nostradamus -Michel de Nostre Dame-1503, English King George VI-1895, Spike
Jones the bandleader, Morey Amsterdam, Charlie Rich, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, Lee
Remick, Patty Duke, Adult film star Ginger Lynn,
Clark Terry- trumpeter. Cecil Pay, Saxophonist.
Chanteuse Jane Birkin "Je t'aime moi non plus" is 66.
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1913- Cartoonist
Johnny Gruelle entertained his dying daughter by making up stories involving
her rag dollies. After her passing, friends urged Gruelle to publish them. The
RAGGEDY ANN & ANDY stories are born.
1934- March of the Wooden Soldiers, the Hal Roach version of
Babes in Toyland with Laurel & Hardy opened.
1944- The film National Velvet premiered, making a star out
of 12 year old Elizabeth Taylor.
1957- Hanna Barbera's first TV cartoon "Ruff and
Ready" premieres.
1977- DISCO! The movie Saturday Night Fever starring John
Travolta and the music of the Bee Gees make the Disco dancing scene a national
craze.
1983- Disney Studio released the
featurette Frankenweenie, done by a young artist named Tim Burton.
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