Birthdays: Horace (Quintus
Horatius), 65BC, Mary Queen of Scots, Gustavus Adolphus, Queen Christina, Jean
Sibelius, George Melies the father of Motion Picture Special Effects, James
Thurber, Richard Fleischer, Eli Whitney, Jim Morrison, Diego Rivera, Emile
Reynaud, Sammy Davis Jr, Maximillian Schell, Flip Wilson, Sam Kinison, Ann
Coulter, Teri Hatcher is 50, Sinead O’Connor is 48, Kim Basinger is 61
1913- ground broken for the
construction of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts.
1940- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
remarry. The two great Mexican artists had been married for ten years but
divorced for a year because of their mutual infidelities. Diego also wanted to
protect Frida from fallout from his political activities. But after a year
apart that decided they couldn’t live without one another and remarried.
1941- On
the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, The civil defense command placed anti-aircraft
guns on the Walt Disney Studio lot because of it's proximity to the aircraft
plant of Lockheed. Walt Disney himself was turned away at the gate for not
wearing his identity badge.
1958- THIS IS JAZZ- Landmark live
CBS television broadcast of jazz greats Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Lester
Young , Coleman Hawkins and Thelonius Monk .
1961-"Surfin’" the first
record by the Beach Boys started to climb the local LA pop charts.
1980- The Bravo Channel began.
Remember when it played only classical concerts and ballets?
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