Birthdays: Henri Matisse, General George C. Marshall, Odetta
(real name Holmes Felicious Gordon), Simon Weisenthal, Virginia Davis, Pola
Negri, Jules Styne, Sarah Miles, Donna Summer, Patti Smith, Elizabeth Arden,
Tim Matheson, John Denver, Dianne Von Furstenberg, Ben Kingsley-born Khrishna
Banji is 70, Anthony Hopkins is 76, Val Kilmer is 54, Gong Li is 48, Psy is 35
1923-24-BBC overseas radio service first broadcast the
Chimes of Big Ben around the world.
1940-41- Avant Garde artists John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp
break into the Washington Square Arch in and declare Greenwich Village the
Republic of New Bohemia. Like coool, daddy.
1941- A Warner Bros memo dated this day from producer Hal
Wallis office announced that the movie to be made from a play by Murray Bennett
called “Everybody Goes to Rick’s” has been renamed “Casablanca”. This was to
capitalize on an already popular film title “Algiers” with Charles Boyer “come
with me to ze Casbah” etc.. Humphrey Bogart got the lead after George raft
first turned it down. Bogie told a friend about his new project: “It’s just
some more sh*t like Algiers.”
1943- Four hundred policemen are called out to control
frenzied crowds of bobbysoxers as Frank Sinatra played the Paramount Theater in
Times Square. OOHH FRANKIE !!
1946- The first Pismo Beach Clam Festival.
1947- Roy Rogers married Dale Evans.
1962- Romanoffs closed. One of the premier hot spots on the
Sunset Strip, it was the preferred hangout of Humphrey Bogart, who liked to
play chess in the afternoon with Nick Romanoff when he was between films.
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1985- Singer Ricky Nelson died when his band's converted old
DC-9 airplane crashed near DeKalb, Texas. Nelson it was said had been living on
a steady diet of cheeseburgers and Snicker's bars.
1995- The last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill
Waterston
1997- Will Smith and Jaeda Pinkett marry.
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