Birthdays: Salvador
Allende, Serge Koussevitsky, George Bernard Shaw, Gracie Allen,
Carl Jung, Stanley
Kubrick, Blake Edwards, George Grosz, Pearl Buck, Jason Robards Jr, Aldous Huxley, Jean Shepard, Vivian Vance,
Emil Jannings, Sandra Bullock is 50, Kevin Spacey is 53, Kate Beckinsdale, Mick
Jagger is 71
1656– Rembrandt van Rijn declared
bankruptcy.
1861- Mark Twain left St. Jo
Missouri to go west and sit out the Civil War. He went with his brother Oren
Clemens who had been appointed to administer the Nevada territory.
1951- Charlie Chaplin driven into exile by red-baiters. He
was on a holiday to Britain when he learned his visa had been revoked by the
U.S. government. He didn't return until 1972. Despite his immense achievements
in Hollywood History, when the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated later that
year, Chaplin’s name was deliberately excluded.
1959- KPFK , Los Angeles lefty alternative radio of the
Pacifica Network, starts up.
1991 – Children’s comic Paul
Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman was arrested in Florida for masterbating in an adult
movie theater. The film was Naughty Nurse Nancy.
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