Birthdays: Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Josef Broz Tito,
Igor Sikorsky, Pontormo, Bennett Cerf, Claude Akins, Leslie Uggams, Bill
Bojangles Robinson, Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz), Beverly Sills, Robert
Ludlum, Anne Heche, Irwin Winkler, Mike Myers is 51, Ray Stevenson is 50, Ian
McKellen is 75
1911- Thomas Mann visited Venice Italy. On the Lido Beach he
was inspired to write A Death in Venice.
1932-Mickey’s Revue, the first Disney cartoon that featured
the character that would eventually be called Goofy.
1942- First day shooting on the film “ Casablanca”.
1957- Sid Caesar's Your Show of Show's canceled after nearly
a decade. The show used future star writers like Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Woody
Allen and Neil Simon. The show pioneered
the executive strategy of network programmer Pat Weaver to not let the show be
owned by an entire sponsor but the network would produce the show and would
sell the sponsor commercial time in 30 second chunks. Pat Weaver’s daughter is
Sigorney Weaver. Your Show of Shows was finally bested in the ratings by The
Lawrence Welk Show.
1968- The Rolling Stones release the song Jumping Jack
Flash.
1969- John Schlesinger’s film Midnight Cowboy premiered. The
first X-rated film to ever win the Oscar for Best Film.
1977- The Hollywood premiere of Star Wars. The movie opened
on the 28th.
1979- Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Alien opened. It
featured the exotic designs of Hungarian artist Giger, and John Hurt with a
classic case of chest pains!
1983- Return of the Jedi opened. It was originally Revenge
of the Jedi, but George Lucas changed the name just a month before.
1994- First International Conference on the World Wide Web. Tim
Berners-Lee and CERN talked on how to implement and unify the new World Wide
Web.
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