Birthdays: Sir Robert Peel founder
of London’s police force- the Bobbies, outlaw Belle Starr, John Carradine,
William Burroughs, Arthur Ochs Schulzburger, Hank Aaron is 81, Tim Holt,
Barbera Hershey, Charlotte Rampling, Roger Staubach, Michael Mann is 71, Bobby
Brown, H. R. Giger, Red Buttons, Christopher Guest, Jennifer Jason Leigh is 53,
Laura Linney is 50, Michael Sheen is 45
1887- Verdi’s opera
"Otello" debuted. Guiseppi Verdi had retired from composing after
1875 but was goaded by a new generation of composers like Arrigo Boito to take
up his pen once more.
1919- Charlie Chaplin, Mary
Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith form the United Artists Studio.
1921- The Loews State Theater in
Chicago opened.
1937- Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times premiered. Chaplin was
inspired to lampoon modern technological madness when he was invited to view
the auto assembly production lines in Detroit and saw men moving like machines.
1953- Walt Disney’s "Peter
Pan" premiered.
1956- Darryl Zanuck resigned from
20th Century Fox, the studio he built into a powerhouse. He later won back the
chairmanship in 1962 only to be ousted finally in 1970.
1957- Mel Lazarus’ comic strip
Miss Peach debuted.
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