Birthdays: Salmon P. Chase, Horatio Alger-1834, Sophie
Tucker, Gwen Verdon, Robert Stack, Charles Nelson Reilly, Rip Taylor, Brandon
Tartikoff, Julie Louise Dreyfus is 54, T.Bone Burnett is 67, Patrick Dempsey,
Orlando Bloom is 38
1895- Oscar Wilde’s play The Ideal Husband, premiered in
London.
1906- The first ad for a radio appeared in an American Science
Magazine. It boasted an effective range of over one mile !
1930- The Mickey Mouse comic strip first appeared in US
newspapers. Walt Disney himself wrote them, Ub Iwerks penciled and Winn Smith
inked.
1943- Movie starlet Frances Farmer was dragged screaming in
a straightjacket out of a Hollywood Hotel and committed. She screamed Rats!
Rats! and listed her occupation on her arrest record as “c**ksucker”. Her
career was ruined and she spent years in asylums. But it’s inconclusive whether
she had actually suffered mental illness or it was her mother overreacting to
her sullen, temperamental nature.
1945- Sergei Prokoviev’s 5th Symphony (
Classical) premiered in Moscow.
1946- In his comic strip, Dick Tracy first uses his two-way
wrist radio.
1958- Actress Jayne Mansfield married weightlifter Mickey
Hargitay. Their daughter was Marisa Hargitay
1979 Russian animator Yuri Nortstein’s masterpiece Tale of
Tales premiered.
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