Birthdays: Ethiopian Emperor Rastafari
Halie Selassie "the Lion of Judah", Raymond Chandler, Raymond Booth,
Don Drysdale, Gloria DeHaven, Arthur Treacher, Pee Wee Reese, Bob Fosse, Harry
Cohn, Don Imus, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Monica Lewinsky, Woody Harrelson is 56,
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Edie McClurg is 66, Daniel Radcliffe is 28
1599- Michel Caravaggio received
his first commission for a painting.
1904 – The Ice Cream Cone created
by Charles E. Menches during the LA Purchase Expo.
1932-The Birthday of Fritos. Texas
ice cream maker Elmer Doolin buys a recipe for corn chips from a Mexican fry
cook for $100 dollars and started the Frito-Lay Company.
1966- The comedy song
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha!" released. The singer was
Napoleon XIV.
1982- Actor Vic Morrow and two
children are killed by a stunt helicopter while filming "Twilight Zone,
the movie". The last scripted line before his death was "I’ll Keep
you safe kids, I swear to God!" The children were being worked into the
early morning hours without a caretaker supervisor in defiance of the Coogan
Laws. Director John Landis was investigated but exonerated. The only filmworker
to dare to testify against Landis, the wardrobe supervisor, was blacklisted and
never worked in Hollywood again.
1984- Vanessa Williams the first
black Miss America, resigned after a photo spread of her in a nude lesbian
scenario in Penthouse magazine. She denied any impropriety until the photos
were published widely.
2004- Two armed men enter the
Munch Museum in Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream at
gunpoint. It was recovered with some water damage in 2007.
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