Birthdays: Frank Sinatra is 100!, Roman Emperor Alexander
Severus, Edvard Munch, Gustav Flaubert, Auguste Rodin, Cherokee Confederate
General Stand Watie, John Jay, Edward G. Robinson, Field Marshal Karl Von
Rundstedt-the Black Knight of Germany, NY Mayor Ed Koch, Zack Mosley –the
cartoonist who drew “Smilin' Jack", Connie Francis, Dionne Warwick, Cathy
Rigby, Tracy Austin, Bill Nighy is 65, Tom Wilkerson is 67, Jennifer Connelly
is 45
1897-The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip by Rudolph Dirks
appears. The first comic where characters spoke in word balloons. The
adventures of Hans & Fritz was so popular a rival Hearst newspaper started
an imitation called the Captain & the Kids, leading to the first artistic
plagiarism lawsuit. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas had a problem whenever
they bought the American newspapers for their Paris salon, because Picasso and
Fernand Oliver would fight over who got to read the Katzenjammer Kids first.
1901-First transatlantic wireless signal received by
Guglielmo Marconi. This finally ended the frustrating hoopla over laying
transatlantic telegraph cables and have them break down almost constantly since
the 1850s. The pioneers of radio broadcasting like Armstrong, Lee Deforrest and
David Sarnoff got their start working for the Marconi Wireless Company.
1952- The first Screen Actors Guild Strike. President Walter
Pidgeon -Dr. Morbius in Forbidden Planet- had the movie stars hit the bricks to
win television and commercial residuals. The final deals were settled by then
SAG president Ronald Reagan in 1960. Ronnie compromised with the studio heads
(who later backed his bid for the governorship of California) that only
residuals for films after 1955 would be paid.
Actors who made their big hits in the 30's and 40s like
Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and The Little Rascals were left out.
Mickey Rooney, who's Andy Hardy movies were the box office champs of the
mid-1940's put it mildly: "Reagan screwed me !!"
1980- The song “Whip It” by Devo won a gold record.
1991- Actor Richard Gere married supermodel Cindy Crawford.
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