Birthdays: Charles James Stuart the
Old Pretender, Yamaoka Tesshu (1832- Japanese swordsman), Saul Bellow, Judy
Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Frederick Loew (of Lerner & Loew) Howlin’ Wolf,
Maurice Sendak, Gina Gershon is 52, Leilee Sobieski is 31, Jean Triplehorn is 51,
Britain’s Prince Phillip, Jurgen Prochnow, John Edwards, Elizabeth Hurley is 49
1910- The first Krazy Kat comic
strip- Cartoonist George Herriman was doing a strip for Hearst called "The
Family Upstairs". He was amused at the idea of a friendship between a cat
and a mouse. So Herriman put them in the corner playing marbles while the family
quarreled. First an office boy and later editor Arthur Brisbane suggested they
have their own strip. The immortality of the denizens of Coconino County
follows, loved by the likes of H.L.Mencken, e.e.cummings and Jacques Kerouac.
Krazy herself explains:"It's wot's behind me that I am."
1939 -
Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
1957- “Tom Terrific and Manfred the
Wonder Dog” cartoon debuts on the Captain Kangaroo show.
1980- Comedian Richard Pryor had been
doing so much cocaine even his dealers were worried about him. This day, while
trying to freebase he exploded in flame, and ran screaming down his street.
Another version of the story said he tried to commit suicide by pouring tequila
on himself and setting it alight. During his long recovery in the Sherman Oaks
burn unit, his nurse once put on the news and he watched CBS news anchor Walter
Cronkite report his death. `He thought to himself: "If Walter Cronkite
said I died, it must be true! Arghhh!" He recovered, but developed
Muscular Dystrophy in the late 1990s.
1995-110,000
people jam Central Park in New York to see Disney's Pocahontas, the largest
audience ever to attend an animated movie premiere.
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