Birthdays: Louis Bleriot, Tommy
Dorsey, George Sand, Charles Laughton, James Cagney, Princess Diana, Twyla
Tharp, Carl Lewis, Jamie Farr, Sidney Pollack, Wally "Famous"Amos, Olivia
DeHavilland is 98, Estee Lauder, Debbie Harry (Blondie), Genevieve Bujold,
Karen Black, Dan Ackroyd. Andre Crouch, Pamela Anderson is 47, Liv Tyler is 37
1941- Animation director Tex Avery
stormed out of the Looney Tunes Studio when Jack Warner ordered cuts in the
first Bugs Bunny cartoon, A Wild Hare. Boss Leon Schlesinger put him on a four
week suspension without pay, but Avery had already lined up a gig at MGM.
1941- THE FIRST TV COMMERICAL
-During the live coverage of a Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Phillies baseball
game the first FCC sanctioned television commercial aired. It was for the
Bulova Watch Company.
1945- Bill Mauldin's wartime comic
strip "Willie and Joe' ends it's run along with the European front line
edition of Stars and Stripes magazine. Charles Schulz of Peanuts fame said no
one could draw mud like Bill Maudlin. Mauldin was once chewed out by General
Blood & Guts Patton for making his GIs so slovenly and cynical. He felt it
was a negative image of the American Fighting Man. Seesh...everybody’s a
critic!
1970- Hanna & Barbera’s
attempt at a primetime animated series "Where’s Huddles?"
1970 - The Xerox Company of
Connecticut are convinced to open a new computer science lab on the west coast
near Stanford University, It’s called Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC.
In 9 years PARC will develop laser-printing, color graphic interface, GUIs, cursor
point and click and the Ethernet.
1972- Ms. Magazine started
publication.
1979- The first Sony Walkman tape
players go on sale.
1981- The Wonderland Murders.
Over-endowed porn star Johnny Holmes was implicated in a gang murder. In a Los
Angeles home known to be involved in drug dealing. four people were found
beaten to death with a steel pipe. Holmes was picked up and tried as an
accomplice but was acquitted.
1996- the movie Dinosaur Valley
Girls premiered.
1998-
Barbara Streisand married James Brolin.
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