Birthdays: King Richard III, Nat
Turner, Mahatma Ghandi, Claus Von Hindenburg, Ferdinand Foch, Spanky
MacFarland, Julius Marx known as Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, Moses Gunn, Graham
Greene, LeRoy Shield (composer of the music in the Hal Roach comedies), Donna
Karan, Gordon Sumner known as Sting is 63, Lorraine Bracco is 50, Tiffany,
Kelly Ripa
1950- Charles Schulz's
"Peanuts" comic strip debuts. Good ol'
Charlie Brown was the name of a
fellow post office worker all the guy's liked
to play jokes on. Schulz's idea 'little folks' was initially
rejected
by all the major comic syndicates.
Three months before the strip was accepted his
girlfriend broke off their
engagement. He had left his job at the post office and
she was convinced he would never
amount to anything. At the time of his death Charles
Schulz had mountains on the moon
named for his characters, and he was arguably the richest visual artist on
earth.
1955 - "Good
Eeeeeeevening." The master of mystery movies, Alfred
Hitchcock, presented his brand of
suspense to millions of viewers on CBS
on this night.
1957- Raintree County, the first
film in Panavision.
1958- The Huckleberry Hound show.
1959- The television show the
Twilight Zone debuts. Producer/writer Rod Serling
had fought network execs for
months that a mystery-suspense show could compete with
all the Doctor and Cowboy shows on
TV. He originally wanted Orson Welles to
be
the host of the show but when
Welles asked for too much money, Serling decided to
do it himself. He wrote 90
episodes. He said he got the name Twilight Zone from a
term airline pilots used for the
area when both the clouds and ground are invisible
from view and you lose your
bearings.
1977 - Following a foiled attempt
to steal the body of Elvis Presley from
Forest Hill Cemetery, both
Presley's and his grandmother's bodies were moved
to Graceland.
1978- Future TV star Tim Allen was
busted in Kalamazoo Michigan for selling cocaine.
1982- Godfrey Reggio’s haunting
documentary Koyaanisqatsi premiered at Radio City Music Hall. Music by Phillip
Glass.
1985- Actor Rock Hudson died of
AIDS. The first major celebrity to die of the disease.
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