Birthdays: Clara Barton, Humphrey Bogart, Cab
Calloway, Helena Rubinstein, Rod Serling, Charles Pathe’, Jimmie Buffet,
Quentin Crisp, Mike Mazurki, Conrad Hilton- Paris’ granddad, Anwar El Sadat.
Larry Csonka, Burne Hogarth, Ishmail Merchant, Maurice Utrillo, Kid Ory,
Barbara Mandrell, Dame Rebecca West, Clark Clifford, Annie Lennox is 62, animator Howard
Beckerman, Karl Rove, Sissie Spacek is 66, CCH Pounder is 63
1929- The Fox Atlanta Theater opened on Peachtree St. An
Arabian Nights-type fantasy in part financed by the Shriners so they could use
it for their meetings.
1931-The first BBC World Service Network broadcast. An
address by King George V called "Around the Empire".
1937-NBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the legendary
Arturo Toscanini premieres with its first radio broadcast.
1946- Comedian W.C. Fields died of alcoholism at 67. While in his hospital bed someone saw him
reading a Bible. They said:" W.C., what are you doing with that? "
Fields replied:" Looking for loopholes!"
1955- Chuck Jone's 'One
Froggy Evening' premiered. Director Steven Spielberg called it the
"Citizen Kane of Cartoons." If you wonder why you never heard the old
time ditty 'The Michigan Rag' anywhere else but here, was because Chuck Jones
& Mike Maltese wrote it specifically for the cartoon.
1957- Disney film Old
Yeller premiered.
1962- The film of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird premiered with Gregory Peck and Robert Duval.
1963- Walt Disney’s The
Sword in the Stone released. First animated feature directed by Wolfgang,”
Woolie” Reitherman.
1977- Charlie Chaplin died quietly in his sleep at Vevey,
Switzerland. He was 86.
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