Birthdays: Francesco Zubaran, Madame Curie, Rev. Billy
Graham, Leon Trotsky –real name Lev Bronstein, Albert Camus, Al Hurt, Joni
Mitchell, Joan Sutherland, Judy Tenuda, Clive Barnes, Morgan Spurlock is 45
8AD- Death of Maecenas, Roman millionaire and friend of
Augustus. Maecenas was famous for sponsoring artists and poets like Virgil with
lifetime incomes so they could focus on their art.
1937- Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels sent an
emissary to Paris to talk Marlene Dietrich into coming home. But Germany’s
greatest movie star hated the Nazis and all they stood for.
1951- Frank Sinatra left his wife to marry uber-hot star Ava
Gardner.
1956- Eugene O’Neill’s biographical masterpiece play “Long
Days Journey into Night” first premiered.
1963- The movie “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” premiered
at Hollywood’s new Cinerama Dome theater.
1965- the first Pillsbury Doughboy commercial debuted.
‘Tee-hee-hee!”
1980- Movie star Steve McQueen died of an aggressive cancer
at age 50.
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