BIRTHDAYS-Abraham Lincoln and
Charles Darwin are born on the same day in 1809, although an ocean apart;
Austrian Emperor Francis II, Thaddeusz Kosciuszko, Joe Garagiola, Luigi
Boccherini, John L. Lewis, Bill Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, Lorne Greene, Joe
Don Baker, Arsenio Hall, Christina Ricci is 34, Josh Brolin is 46.
1924- RHAPSODY IN BLUE- Band leader Paul Whiteman had commissioned a
rhapsody for Jazz Band from the famous composer George Gershwin. Tonight at a
concert at the Aeolian Hall in New York City it premiered in a long bill of
"Modern Music". Also on the bill was jazz interpretations of
"Yes We have no Bananas" and "Kitten on the Keys." Sergei
Rachmaninoff, Fritz Kriesler, Igor Stravinsky and Leopold Stokowski were in
attendance.
1964- Miles Davis and his band
played Carnegie Hall.
1976- actor Sal Mineo was killed
outside his car port in West Hollywood. Marylin Monroe and Shelley Winters once
shared an apartment in the same building. Mineo's murder remained unsolved for
many years and there were rumors that he was done in by a gay acquaintance, but
the killer turned out to be a routine robber who wanted money.
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