Birthdays: Roman Emperor Caracalla, Edweard Muybridge, Maya
Angelou, Frances Langford, Irv Spence- Tom & Jerry animator, Gil Hodges,
Arthur Murray, Muddy Waters, Cloris Leachman, Dorothea Dix, Elmer Bernstein,
Bijan, Heath Ledger, Robert Downey Jr is 49, Barry Pepper, Craig T. Nelson is 70,
Hugo Weaving is 54
1952-CARTOON COMMIES- Nationally syndicated columnist Walter
Winchell accused the owners of a New York commercial animation studio, Tempo
Productions, of Communist sympathies.
One of the owners was Disney Layoutman Dave Hilberman, who was a union
organizer and was the only artist personally denounced by Walt Disney to the
House UnAmerican Activities Committee. The F.B.I. began investigating Tempo and
their Madison Avenue clients quickly pulled their business. Tempo closed,
laying off 50 artists. Mr. Clean, Markie Maypo and the Hamm’s Beer Bear were
once again safe from Red subversion.
1984- In George Orwell’s novel 1984 this is the day Winston
Smith started a secret diary and first wrote the dangerous thought-crime “Down
With Big Brother”.
1994- Marc Andreesen and Jim Clark start Netscape. Clark
also founded Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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