Birthdays: Harold Lloyd, Juan Miro', Adolf Hitler, Tito
Puente, Nina Foch, Gregory Ratoff, Ryan O'Neal, Daniel Day Lewis, Jessica Lange,
Luther Vandross, Don Mattingly, Rosalyn Summers, Crispin Glover, Betty-Lou
Gerson the voice of Cruella da Vil, George Takei, Carmen Electra is 41, Andy
Serkis, Bob Kurtz
1859- " It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of
Times..." Charles Dicken's novel "A Tale of Two Cities" began to
be published in magazine form.
1909- Mary Pickford, the first Movie Star, goes in front of
a camera for the first time.
1925-The Warner Bros. Moving Picture company merged with
Vitagraph, and began experimenting with
fixing sound on to film
1935- Radio program “Your Hit Parade” premiered.
1938- On Hitler’s birthday was the Berlin premiere of Leni
Reifenstahl’s film Olympia, about the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
1939- RCA president David Sarnoff dedicated RCA pavilion at
World's Fair in New York City. First U.S. news event filmed on television.
Sarnoff predicted that one day everyone would have a television in their home!
1970- San Rafael Cal, started a tradition of smoking
marijuana en masse at 4:20, supposedly the police code for a drug bust. The
Greatful Dead took up the tradition and now everyone tokes at 4:20PM.
1974 - Paul McCartney and Wings
releases "Band on the Run"
1976 - George Harrison sang the
Lumberjack Song with the Monty Python comedy troop.
1977- Woody Allen & Diane
Keaton starred in the film “Annie Hall”.
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