Birthdays: Tamerlane, Lenin, Paul Robeson, Jean Paul
Belmondo, Ward Bond, Seve Balesteros,
Carl Perkins, Michael Learned, Tom Lehrer, Paula Poundstone, Cynthia Nixon,
Hugh Hefner is 90, Dennis Quaid is 62, Elle Fanning is 18
1859- Mark Twain received his Mississippi riverboat pilot’s
license.
1914- The first all color film” The World, The Flesh and the
Devil” premiered in London.
1948- Variety columnist Ben Mortimer had been needling Frank
Sinatra for his advocacy of liberal causes. He accused Old Blue Eyes of
draft-dodging and hinted maybe he had pro-Communist sympathies. This day
Sinatra responded by meeting Mortimer in front of Ciro's restaurant on Sunset
Blvd and punched his lights out.
1953- The first issue of the T.V. Guide.
1966-actress Sophia Loren married
producer Carlo Ponti, with whom she had been living with for a decade but not
allowed to marry because Catholics did not allow divorce from their previous
spouses.
1974- Ray Kroc the founder of MacDonalds Restaurants was the
owner of the San Diego Padres baseball team. After yet another sorry
performance, losing 8-0, Kroc stormed over to the broadcast booth, grabbed the
mike and out loud shouted ” You Guys Stink!” Despite this morale boost, the
Padres eventually did win championship pennants and get to the World Series.
1991- The last Horn & Hardardt Automat was closed on 42nd
St in Manhattan. Philadelphia restauranters Joseph Horn and William Hardart saw
German experiments in mass market automated restaurants, and imported the
equipment to start one in Philadelphia in 1902.
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