Birthdays: English King Edward VII “Bertie”, Emile Dickinson, Ada
Lovelace, E. H. Shepard the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh. Chet Huntley,
Morton Gould, Victor McLaughlin, Dan Blocker, Tommy Kirk, Fionnula Flanagan,
Kenneth Branaugh is 55, Dorothy Lamour, Susan Dey is 63, Michael Clarke Duncan
1905- O. Henry’s short story “ A gift from the Magi” first
published.
1938- To make the film "Gone With the Wind"
Producer David Selznick and director Victor Fleming shot the massive
"Burning of Atlanta" in Culver City, California. The sequence was
storyboarded and designed by William Cameron-Menzies, who designed the sets for
Intolerance for D.W. Griffith. Selznick used the opportunity to clean the
studios backlot storage, destroying sets from King Kong, Little Lord Fauntelroy
and Last of the Mohicans in the inferno. They shot the scenes with three Rhett
Butler stand ins.
1966- The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” hit #1 in pop charts.
1967- R&B star Otis Redding and four of his band the Bar
Kays were killed in a small plane crash near Madison Wisconsin. He was 26.
Redding had recorded his hit “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” just three days
earlier.
2013- Richard Williams famed
unfinished epic animated film the Thief
and the Cobbler received it’s premiere at the Motion Picture Academy in
Beverly Hills. It was begun in 1972.
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