Birthdays: Andrew Jackson, Lee
Schubert-one of Broadways Shubert Brothers, Ry Cooder, Sly Stone, Harry James,
Lightnin' Hopkins, Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, Judd Hirsch, Norm Van Brocklin, Sabu,
Fabio, Reni Harlin, David Cronenburg is 73, Eva Longoria is 41, David Silverman
1915- Universal Studios formed.
Carl Laemmele bought a huge track of Burbank farmland and set up his studio.
Laemmele had wooden bleachers built next to the movie sets where he charged
people a nickel to come watch the filming. He used so many of his relatives in
production that Ogden Nash quipped: "Carl Laemmele has a very large
Fammele." Universal actually had been operating as a film company since
1912 but the company counts today as its birthday.
1933- Young animator Chuck Jones
first hired at Leon Schlesingers Looney Tunes cartoon studio.
1956- Lerner & Lowe’s musical
"My Fair Lady" premiered.
1964- Elizabeth Taylor married
Richard Burton, for the first time.
1964- The book The Feminist
Mystique by Betty Freidan first published. The first major book to point out
women were unhappy with their second class domestic roles. And it coined the
term Feminist.
1977- Television sitcom Threes
Company debuted.
1985- Symbolic.com is assigned the
first registered private domain site on the Internet.
2002- Blue Sky’s hit animated film
Ice Age premiered.
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