Birthdays: Jacqueline Kennedy,
Richard Rogers, Ibn al’ Arabi- philosopher 1165, Marcel Duchamp, Rudy Vallee.
Sally Struthers Peter Duchin, Vida Blue,
Joe E. Brown, Jim Davis the creator of Garfield, Frank Yankovic the Polka King,
Elizabeth Berkley, Earl Tupper the inventor of Tupperware, Hugo Chavez, Bud Luckey- Disney animator and voice of Eeyore.
1586 - Sir Thomas Harriott first introduced
potatoes to Europe. At first people thought they were poisonous because their
blossom resembled that of toxic nightshade.
1655- Poet, playwright and duelist
Cyrano de Bergerac died in Paris. The famous play about him and his big nose
was written by Edmond Rostand in 1895.
1788- Master British portrait
painter Sir Joshua Reynolds visited the other master British portrait painter
Sir Thomas Gainsborough, who was dying or cancer. They had been enemies for
years, but now at the end they made up.
When Reynolds left him, Gainsborough said "Goodbye until we meet in
the Hereafter, Van Dyck in our company."
1841- The body of Mary Cecilia
Rogers was pulled out of New York Harbor. The sensational murder of the
“Beautiful Cigar Girl” inspired Edgar Allen Poe to write “ The Mystery of Marie
Roget.”
1858- The French photographer
Nadar went up in a balloon and took the first aerial photograph.
1882- Parsifal, the last opera of
Richard Wagner was produced at Bayreuth. As a way to ensure its financial
solvency Wagner left instructions to never tour Parsifal but it should stay at
Bayreuth. This lasted a few decades.
1948- The Premiere of " ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN." For you
hardcore film trivia fans, this film is the only other time than the original
Tod Browning movie that Bela Lugosi played Count Dracula on film.
1971- Photographer Diane Arbus
probed increasingly darker subject matter, circus freaks, severe birth defects.
This day she committed suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills, then
slitting her wrists.
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