Birthdays: Amerigo Vespucci, John Calhoun, Nicholai
Rimsky-Korsakov, Neville Chamberlain, Wilson Picket, Edgar Cayce, John Updike,
Grover Cleveland, Edward Everett Horton, Vanessa Williams, F. W. DeKlerk,
George Plympton, Peter Graves, Irene Cara, Luc Besson, Queen Latifah is 48
1902- BIRTHDAY OF THE RECORDING INDUSTRY. The RCA Victrola
company sends it's engineers to Milan to record ten discs of the young tenor
Enrico Caruso. He becomes a world celebrity and the phonograph moves from being
a scientific curiosity to something every home had to have.
1924-The film “The Thief of Baghdad” starring Douglas
Fairbanks released. Directed by Raoul Walsh and designs by William Cameron
Menzies. It is considered the first great special effects blockbuster.
1931- Schick, Inc. introduced the electric razor.
1942- Paramounts “The Lost Dream” the first Little Audrey
cartoon.
1965-The Rolling Stones are fined 5 English pence for
urinating on a wall in Stratford at ABC recording studio Romford.
1967- The Pirates of the Caribbean ride opened at
Disneyland, designed by master animator Marc Davis. In recent years rampant
political correctness has disturbed the pirates fun. One diorama that portrayed
a lusty buccaneer chasing a wench around a table while she giggles. It was
changed to show he was only interested in her sandwich tray.
1968- Mel Brooks first film “The Producers” premiered with
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Dick Shawn. His screenplay beat out Kubricks 2001
for a Best Screenplay Oscar. In the late 1990s Brooks reworked the screenplay
into a hit Broadway musical.
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