Birthdays: French explorer Sieur de LaSalle, George Elliot-
pen name for Mary Anne Evans, Benjamin Britten, Charles DeGaulle, Andre Gide,
Wiley Post, Billy Jean King, Boris Becker, Geraldine Page, John Nance "Cactus
Jack" Garner, Hoagy Carmichael, Rodney Dangerfield, Terry Gilliam is 76,
Robert Vaughn, Tom Conti, Mark Ruffalo, Victoria Paris- porn star of such
classics like Bimbo Bowlers from Buffalo, Stevie Van Zandt is 64, Jamie Lee
Curtis is 57, Scarlett Johanssen is 31
1888- According to Edgar Rice Burroughs this is the birthday
of the boy who would become Tarzan.
1928- Ravel’s Bolero Suite premiered in Paris.
1957- The Miles Davis Quintet debuted.
1963- ONE DAY IN DALLAS- At 12:30 Central time, President
John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. Whether you believe the assassin was Lee
Harvey Oswald, The Military Industrial Complex, Vice President Johnson, the
Mafia, Corsican contract killers, The C.I.A., Fidel Castro, Anti-Castro Cubans,
space aliens, or all of the above, it remains one of the traumatic moments of
US History.
1963- Aldous Huxley died. The author of Brave New World had
inoperable cancer so his wife kept him high on LSD,
1965- The musical The Man of La Mancha opened on Broadway. “
To Dream, the Impossible Dreaaammm…”Brings back memories of middle school band
practice.
1985- Apple ended a long lawsuit with Microsoft and Hewlett
Packard that allowed them to share the visual characteristics of the Macintosh
displays in their Windows software.
1993- Sir Anthony Burgess died.
The author of A Clockwork Orange had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and told
he had one year to live, back in 1959.
1995- Pixar’s Toy Story opened,
the first all CG movie, and the first true CG hit.
2005- Microsoft Xbox 360 goes on
sale.
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