Birthdays: President Benjamin
Harrison, Sukenoba Nishikawa, Bernardo O’Higgins, Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry, H.P. Lovecraft, Art Tatum, Issac Hayes, Connie Chung, Jacqueline
Susanne, Rajiv Ghandi, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Joan Allen is 60, Fred
Durst, Alan Reed -the original voice of Fred Flintstone, Slobodan Milosovic’,
Amy Adams is 42
1882 -Peter Tchaikovsky's
"1812 Overture" premiered in Moscow. The composer said of all his
works the two pieces he liked the least were the 1812 Overture and the
Nutcracker Suite. Overture 1812 was Richard Nixon’s favorite classical piece.
1972- Star Hollywood directors
Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich and William Freidkin announced a
partnership in a new production company called "The Director's
Company". Young punks Martin Scorcese, George Lucas and Steven Speilberg
were also involved. The partnership lasted two years then collapsed.
1977- NASA launched the Voyager 1
probe towards the outer planets of our solar system. Among the things Voyager
discovered was that Jupiter had many more moons than previously thought and had
a ring like Saturn. Part of NASA's program was an explanatory simulation film
done on computer by Jim Blinn in 1980 and 1982. He enlisted the aid of some friends who later became the technology arm of PIXAR. The animation was so smooth and
the graphics so breathtaking it expanded the use of the CGI medium and inspired
a new generation of digital artists.
1982- Ralph Bakshi's film Hey Good
Lookin'.
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