Birthdays: Paracelsus (otherwise known as Nicholas
Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim) the father of modern medical
diagnosis, Antonio Cimmarosa, William Lyon Mackensie-King, Arthur Fiedler, Bob
Guccione, William Safire, Cal Ripken Sr., Ford Maddox-Ford, Erskine Caldwell,
Tommy Steele, Pope Francis I, Bill Pullman is 62, Eugene Levy is 69, Giovanni
Ribisi is 41, Arman Muehler-Stahl is 85, Wes Studi, Sean Patrick Thomas, Mila
Jovovich is 40, Bart Simpson is 26, Pope Francis 1.
1892- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker”
premiered at the Imperial Ballet in Saint Petersburg. One child dancer playing
a candy cane in that first performance was a Georgian boy named Gyorgi
Balavadajze- later American choreographer George Balanchine.
1955- Carl Perkins awoke in the middle of a bad nights sleep
and wrote Blue Suede Shoes, the first song to be a hit in Country, R&B and
Rock n’ Roll charts simultaneously, especially when sing by Elvis Presley” Well
you can knock me down, step on ma face, etc.”
1962- The Beatles first hit "Love Me Do" enters
the U.K. pop charts.
1969- Walt Disney re-released Fantasia, and it was embraced
by hippy stoners who liked to get high during screenings, Disney did a
black-lite poster for it. It was the first time Fantasia ever made a profit.
1989- After appearing in some interstitial shorts on the
variety Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons first premiered as a regular TV
series.
1999- The film Stuart Little premiered.
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