Birthdays: Henry Clay, Lily Pons, Lionel Hampton, Herbie
Hancock, Monserrat Caballe', Ann Miller, Tiny Tim, Shannon Dougherty, Andy
Garcia is 58, Claire Danes is 35, David Letterman-67
1709- In London the first issue of the Tattler published. “All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, poetry,
foreign and domestick news you will have from Saint James Coffeehouse.”
1911- Cartoonist Winsor McCay opened his vaudeville act with
his "Little Nemo" animated short.
1912- A slightly built London theater manager and failed
author named Abraham “Bram Stoker died. His seven books and several plays made
little money in his time. But a decade later one of his novels entitled Dracula
made him world famous.
1954- "ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK' recorded by Bill Haley
and the Comets- arguably the first true Rock & Roll hit.
1992- Euro-Disney, now called Disneyland Paris, opened. It
attracted only 50.000 visitors the first year, about ten times less than what
was expected. The first Disneyland in California drew 100,00 on opening day
alone . But it has since crawled back to solvency- it finally paid for itself
in 1997.
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