Birthdays: Confucius, Alexander Dumas fils, Enrique
Granados, Hillaire Belloc, Norman Lear, Maureen McGovern, Keenan Wynn, Leo
Durocher, Peggy Fleming, Bobby Gentry, Jerry Van Dyke, Vincent Canby, Betty
Thomas, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ilya Salkind, David Swift –director of the Haley
Mills Disney films like The Parent Trap, Maya Rudolph is 44, Jonathan Rhys
Meyers is 39.
1940- HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUGS BUNNY. Tex Avery’s short-"A
Wild Hare”-There were several earlier prototypes of the famous rabbit, white
with a different voice, but this is the short that launched his career. Bugs
says “Whats Up Doc?” for the first time, co-opting a line uttered by Clark
Gable while chewing a carrot in the 1934 Frank Capra film “It Happened One
Night”. Interestingly, voice actor Mel Blanc was allergic to carrots, and kept
a bucket nearby to spit them out after chewing.
1946- Writer Gertrude Stein died. Her last words to Alice B.
Toklas were:" What is the Answer?" When Alice said nothing, Gertrude
said:" Well then, What's the Question?"
1953- The Tonight Show debuted on NBC. It's first host was
Steve Allen.
1977- John Lennon got his green card. Richard Nixon
considered him a dangerous radical. Several times he was under 60 day notice to
leave the country.
1993- IBM announced it would eliminate 35,000 white-collar
jobs. Downsizing becomes a popular sport in corporate America. The more workers
laid off, the higher your stock rose. The chairman of General Electric Jack
Welch, was nicknamed “Neutron Jack” after the neutron bomb that kills off
people but leaves buildings intact. He wrote op-eds in the NY Times defending
his practice of outsourcing jobs.
2007- The Simpson’s Movie
debuted.
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