Birthdays: Alex de Tocqueville, Benito Mussolini,, Clara
Bow, Natalie Wood, Paul Taylor, Sig Romberg, Dag Hammarskjold, Peter Jennings,
Michael Spinks, Dave Stevens cartoonist creator of the Rocketeer, Ken Burns is
61, Booth Tarkington, Professor Irwin
Corey is 100!, David Warner, Steven Dorff,
1922- In Kansas City, Walt Disney
released his first Laugh-o-Gram short- Little Red Riding Hood.
1936 - RCA shows 1st real TV
program: dancing, a film on locomotives, a Bonwit
Teller fashion show &
monologue from the Tobacco Road radio comedy show.
1938- Three Missing Links- a Three
Stooges comedy with the boys as cave men and Ray Crash Corrigan in a gorilla
suit.
1942- Orson Welles leaves Rio De Janiero after RKO fires him
and stops production of "It's All True". They also have “the
Magnificent Ambersons” re-cut to a more acceptable 90 minutes. One of his last hires was animator Oskar Fischinger, who had left Disney.
1948- Former Disney animation
assistant Hank Ketcham’s comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st
appeared.
1962- The film “Dr No” premiered, introducing the world to
the suave spy James Bond 007. They first
considered Cary Grant, David Niven and Patrick McGoohan, James Mason, who all
turned them down. So the producers picked young Scots actor Sean Connery. Ian
Fleming wrote of the decision “ Disaster!!”
1965 - Beatles movie
"Help" premiered, Queen Elizabeth attends.
1972- Mamas and the Papa's chubby singer Mama Cass Eliot
dies of a stroke, not as was widely believed from choking on a sandwich.
1987- Ice cream makers Ben &
Jerry announce the flavor Cherry Garcia, named for rock singer Jerry Garcia of
the Grateful Dead.
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