Birthday: Johannes Brahms, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gary
Cooper, Gabby Hayes, Robert Browning,
Marcus Loew of Loews Theater chain, Darin McGavin, Edward Land (inventor of the
Polaroid lens and camera), Amy Heckerling, Traci Lords
1915- THE LUSITANIA- Off the southern coast of Ireland, the
civilian ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine
U-20. 1,198 drowned, including many Americans, and it gave Winsor McCay a great idea for a new cartoon.
1937-Nobel Prize winning writer William Faulkner hired by
MGM Studios, earning $500 a week. He celebrated by going on a two week long
drinking binge. When MGM's Head of Writing Sam Marx had him tracked down to an
Oakie migrant camp in the Imperial Valley, he was dragged off boozily whining:
" Ah wanna write for Mickey Mouse!!"
1966- “Monday Monday” by the Mammas and the Poppas becomes
#1 in the pop charts.
1996- Comedian Martin Lawrence went berserk and ran down a
main intersection in Van Nuys Cal. raving and waving a pistol. When asked to
explain himself, Lawrence blamed it on “Dehydration.”
1998- Apple Computers introduced
the iMac.
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