birthdays: British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Elisha
Otis inventor of the elevator, John T. Scopes- the teacher accused in the
Monkey Trial, Habib Bourghiba, Ernie Pyle, Gene Kelly, Lenny Bruce, Tony
Bennett is 88, John Landis, Jay North, Dolores Del Rio, Leon Uris, Ann Klein,
Martha Stewart, Martin Sheen is 74, John C. McGinley is 55
1769- Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola made the first-ever
recorded mention of the Rancho La Brea "tar pits" in Los Angeles:
"The 3rd, we proceeded for three hours on a good road; to the right of it
were extensive swamps of bitumen which is called chapapote. We debated whether this substance, which
flows melted from underneath the earth, could occasion so many earthquakes.”
1933- The first Mickey Mouse watches go on sale.
1966- While celebrating his 39th birthday, Comedian Lenny
Bruce died of a morphine overdose. The groundbreaking comedian who coined the
term “T & A” was arrested in 1964 and charged with obscenity for using the
"F" word in his act. President Johnson and his opponent Senator Barry
Goldwater could swear enough to make a sailor blush, but comedians were only
supposed to make mother-in-law jokes.
.Lenny Bruce did six months in jail, and left broken
physically and financially. No club would dare hire him. Phil Spector said: “
Lenny died of an overdose of cops” Yet he is the model for all modern stand-up
comedy. No one was ever arrested again for telling jokes. Whether he leapt to
his death from his apartment window yelling “ I’m Super Jew! ” is a matter of
legend.
1996- The Macarena, by Los Del Rio, becomes the #1 hit
worldwide.
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