Birthdays: Brigham Young, Marilyn Monroe, Pat Boone, Mikhail Glinka, Red Grooms, Karl Von Clausewitz,
Andy Griffith, Morgan Freeman is 78, Nelson Riddle, Lisa Hartman, Cleavon
Little, Frederica Von Stade, Powers Booth, Rene Aubergjenois, Lisa Hartman, Jonathan
Pryce, Brian Cox is 69, Heidi Klum is 42
1931- 48 year old Swiss artist Albert Hurter joined the
Disney staff, giving the look of cartoons like Snow White a more Germanic
storybook look. His hiring created a new type of job at the studio, an
Inspirational Sketch Artist, what we call today a Vis-Dev artist.
1933 - Charlie Chaplin wed actress
Paulette Goddard
1936 - "Lux Radio
Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood.
1939- SUPERMAN- In Cleveland, Joe Seigel and Jerry Shuster,
two aspiring cartoonists in High School created a character called “Superman”.
Jewish kids, they had read about the Nazi concept of the Aryan Superman. They
wanted to show a Superman could be on the American side. On this day they sold
all the rights to their characters to Detective Comics (D.C.) for $130.
When the first megabudget Superman movie was being made in
the 1976, the National Cartoonist's Society spokesman Neal Adams pointed out
that Seigel & Schuster were now poverty stricken. They never shared a
nickel of the multi-millions their creation had generated. Seigel was blind on
disability, and Schuster delivered sandwiches from a local deli. The publicity
forced Warner Bros and DC Comics to award them and their families pensions for
life.
1942- British actor Leslie Howard, who played Ashley
in" Gone with the Wind "was killed. The movie star was doing
diplomacy in Spain, but on the flight home his commercial DC-3 airliner was
shot down by German JU-88s over the Bay of Biscay. He was such an effective
propagandist that when German agents learned his schedule, they sent the
interceptors just to get him.
1961 - FM multiplex stereo
broadcasting 1st heard.
1966 - George Harrison is
impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London.
1967 –Beatles released Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the US and it immediately goes gold.
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel's
"Mrs. Robinson" hits #1
1980- Ted Turner started CNN news channel.
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