Birthdays: P.T.
Barnum, Beatrix Potter, Mrs. Sarah Siddons, Jean Cocteau, Admiral David
Farragut, Len Lye, George Pompidou, Shirley Knight, Huey Lewis is 66, Julie
Nixon Eisenhower, Milburn Stone (Doc on Gunsmoke), Warren Oates, Henry Cabot
Lodge IV, Eva Green is 37, Edie Falco is 54
1910- Writer O.
Henry died of cirrhosis and tuberculosis at 47. His last words were "Turn
up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark." He became a writer
while serving a jail term for embezzlement.
1935- The Wagner Act
passed congress, decreeing all American workers have the right to collective
bargaining and to form unions.
1943- Betty Grable
married bandleader Harry James.
1954- Elvis Presley
recorded "That’s All Right" at Sun Records in Memphis. Some call it
the first true Rock & Roll song, but that is disputed by Bill Haley’s Rock
Around the Clock, Ike Turners Delta 88 and many other R&B hits. “That’s All
Right” was written by black bluesman Arthur Big-Boy Crudup, who never profited
from the song’s success and died living in a shack.
1954- Tomoyuki
Tanaka announced the beginning of production on the movie Godzilla.
1989- The first
episode of the TV sitcom Seinfeld.
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