Birthdays: Plato, Johann Sebastian Bach, Benito Juarez, Modest Mussorgsky, Fats
Waller, Josef Pulitzer, Flo Ziegfield, Bronco Billy Anderson, Rev Ralph
Abernathy, Armand Hammer, Harold Robbins, Matthew Broderick the voice of Simba in Lion King is 52, Gary Oldman
is 56, James Coco, Timothy Dalton is 68, Rosie O’Donnell is 52
1951- HOLLYWOOD COMMIES- House UnAmerican Acitivities
Commitee (HUAC) under Judge J. Parnell Thomas moves from Washington and sets up
in Hollywood to continue rooting out Communist subversion in the movies. They
began in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and later move to the federal building
downtown.
Their concerns weren’t total fantasy, actor Sterling Hayden
confessed he was ordered by his communist operatives to try and influence the
Screen Actor’s Guild. Still the point remains whether the authorities
overreaction was justified and whether Congress could get more publicity
looking for spies in Tinseltown than the Department of Games and Fisheries.
Out of 15,000 people who made a living in the movies and
television, only 295 were ever proven or confessed communists. It was an open
secret that for $5,000 delivered to the right committee member your dossier
would be moved to the bottom of the pile. The hearings stopped in 1956, the
blacklist was broken in 1960 and Judge J. Parnell Thomas went to jail himself
for embezzlement.
1952- DJ Alan Freed put on an event of new pop music in
Cleveland Ohio. Called the MoonDog Coronation Ball, it was the very first Rock
Concert.
1961- The Beatles first perform at the Cavern Club in
Hamburg Germany.
1988- the Screen Actor's Guild hits the bricks for the
fourth time in twenty years, this time striking Hollywood for residuals for
cable and videocassette income.
2006- The first Tweet sent on the new format Twitter. Scientist
Jack Dorsey tweeted his friends “ Setting up my twttr…” Twitter went public
that July.
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