Birthdays: Mary Shelley, Jacques Louis David, Huey Long,
Fred MacMurray, Raymond Massey, Ted Williams, John Blondell, Timothy Bottoms,
Jean-Claude Killy, Shirley Booth, John Landis, Tug McGraw, R. Crumb is 70,
Lewis Black, Cameron Diaz is 41
1935- “Top Hat” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
premiered.
1936- First newspaper comic strip entirely devoted to Donald
Duck.
1939- The last peacetime voyage of the HMS Queen Mary
evacuated Americans fleeing the impending war in Europe. Among the crowd was a
large contingent of Hollywood stars like Bob Hope and Jack Warner who planned
to attend the first Cannes Film Festival (postponed until 1946). The Queen Mary
kept radio silence across the ocean to hide from U-Boats. This was a wise
because her sister ship HMS Athenia was torpedoed.
1968- The first 7-11 store opened in Palmdale California.
Have a Slurpee !
1975- Ralph Bakshi's film "Coonskin". Bad boy
Bakshi's portrayal of African-American urban violence was deemed so offensive
that it caused the first riot ever at the Museum of Modern Art, and died at the
boxoffice. The film was retitled on video "Streetfight".
When Ralph resurfaced
he turned his attention to Sword & Fantasy films.
1980- Willie Nelson released his hit “On the Road Again.”
1993-The David Letterman Show
premiered on CBS. Letterman was wooed away from NBC for $42 million bucks.
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