Birthdays: Jean Paul Marat, Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman,
Emmanuel Leutze, Gary Burghoff, Priscilla Presley, Patti LaBelle, Tommy Chong
of Cheech & Chong, Peter Ellenshaw, Kristin Scott Thomas is 55, Alfred
Molina is 62, Jim Broadbent is 66, John C. Reilly is 50, Bob Dylan is 74
1830 –The poem "Mary Had A
Little Lamb," was written.
1844- Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message. From
Washington to Baltimore it said: "What Hath God Wrought?" The message
was from the Bible- Numbers 23:23.
Samuel Morse considered himself an artist first and did a
little inventing to pay the bills. He heard a French inventor had speculated
about the idea of telegraphy so he decided to build a working model and
invented the Morse code system of representing letters with dots and dashes.
Members of Congress and octogenarian former First Lady Dolley Madison were
present at the ceremony. By the decade’s
end, twenty thousand miles of telegraph wire crisscrossed the country.
1850- America’s first nationwide newspaper/magazine Harpers
Weekly began.
1929- The Marx Brothers first movie comedy” The Coconuts”
premiered.
1950- Married movie star Ingrid Bergman shocked American
morality by having an open love affair with neorealist film director Roberto
Rosselini. This day they were finally married but the outcry of conservatives
about this “Apostle of Degradation” was such that her image needed a makeover.
So she played Saint Joan of Arc.
1989- In Los Angeles, a
spectacular fire destroyed the Art-Deco-Moderne all-wood landmark, the Pan
Pacific Auditorium.
1991- Tri-Star Pictures 75 million-dollar mega-flop
"Hudson Hawk" opened.
Star Bruce Willis,
whose own salary was $17 million, blamed the film’s costs on union filmworkers’
salaries. He would return to his car after a day’s shooting to find it covered
with animal excrement. The film almost sank his career. Willis’ next two films,
"Death Becomes Her" and 'Pulp Fiction", he did for scale. In
2000 he made a $100,000 dollar donation to the SAG/AFTRA strike fund.
1991- Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise opened.
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