Birthdays: Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain, Winston Churchill,
Jonathan Swift, Shirley Chisholm, Gordon Parks, G. Gordon Liddy, Alan Sherman,
Abbie Hoffman, Virginia Mayo, Ephram Zimbalist Jr, Richard Crenna, Robert
Guiliame, Rex Reason, Mandy Patinkin, Luther Ingram, Ridley Scott is 79, David
Mamet, Shuggie Otis, Billy Idol, Joan Ganz Cooney the creator of Sesame Street,
Dick Clark, Ben Stiller is 50, Henry Selick
1886- Paris’ famed naughty nightclub the Follies Bergere
opened. The home of the Can-Can, Toulouse Lautrec, Josephine Baker, Bricktop, and
Maurice Chevalier.
1900- Oscar Wilde died of meningitis in a hotel in Paris.
His last words; "This wallpaper is appalling! Either it goes or I
do."
1940-Actress Lucille Ball married Cuban band leader Dezi
Arnez. Together they pioneered the new art of Television. They divorced in
1960.
1968- “Love Child” by Diana Ross and the Supremes hit #1 in
the pop charts.
1970- First day shooting on William Freidkin’s film The
French Connection.
1979- ESPN, the 24 hour sports channel began broadcasting.
1982- Nova Pictures is founded, but due to conflict with a
PBS TV show of the same name they change theirs to TriStar Pictures. In 1994
TriStar was merged into SONY Pictures.
1985-Punk band The Dead Kennedys released their album
Frankenchrist.
2003- Roy Disney Jr, the last
serving member of the Disney family, was forced to resign from the Walt Disney
Company. It was claimed to be the mandatory retirement policy, but more likely
he was forced out by the exec he hired to run the company in 1984- Michael
Eisner. So Roy built a successful grass roots stockholders campaign SaveDisney.com.
In 2005 Eisner was compelled to retire. Roy Disney kept an emeritus board
position until his death in 2009.
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