Birthdays: Man Ray, Martha Ray, LBJ ( Lyndon Baines
Johnson), Hegel, C.S. Forester, Hannibal Hamlin- Abe Lincolns first term vice
president, Barbara Bach, Theodore Dreiser, Lady Antonia Fraser, Tommy Sands,
Tuesday Weld is 71, Mangesuthu Buthelezi, Paul Rubens-aka Pee Wee Herman is 62
1912- Edgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan of the Apes.
1917- Straight Shooting, the first film directed by John
Ford released.
1964- FIFTY YEARS AGO The movie version of Mary Poppins premiered.
1967- Beatles manager Brian Epstein overdosed on sleeping
pills.
1968- Former master animator Bill Tytla's request to return
to Disney was turned down. The artist who animated Grumpy the Dwarf, Dumbo and
the Devil on Bald Mountain even offered to do a free "trial animation
test" to show he still had it. Disney exec W.H. Anderson wrote him:"
We really have only enough animation for our present staff."
Tytla died later that year.
1990- Guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash outside
Alpine Valley Wisconsin, after an "All Stars of the Blues" show. Stevie Ray took the last remaining seat on
the helicopter, after Eric Clapton got off, claiming he'd rather take a limo
back to Chicago, which was about an hour away.
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