Birthdays:
Sir Robert Walpole the first British Prime Minister, Mother Theresa,
Albert the Prince Consort, John Wilkes Booth, Guilliame Appollinaire who coined
the term Surrealism, General Maxwell Taylor, Christopher Isherwood, McCauley
Culkin is 35, Geraldine Ferrarro, Dr. Lee DeForrest, Ben Bradlee, Barbet
Schroeder, Branford Marsalis, Chris Pine is 36, Melissa McCarthy is 46
1868- First practical typewriter
patented by Christopher Scholes. The Remington Company who were famous for
making firearms took up the typewriter and mass produced it. In 1874 Mark Twain
admitted to a friend that he preferred writing on it.
1918- 17 year old Walt Disney dropped
out of high school and faked his parents signature in order to enlist to fight
in World War I. Turned down for his age, he volunteered for the Red Cross.
Assigned to the ambulance corps, he arrived in Europe just as the war was
ending.
1946 - George Orwell published
"Animal Farm". Orwell said he conceived the idea for the novel while
watching out his window a small boy driving a huge draft horse. The horse could
have easily crushed the boy had it the free will, but instead patiently endured
the boys taunts and flicks with a small switch.
1946- First day of shooting on
Jean Cocteau’s film Belle et le Bete, Beauty & the Beast.
1958- First day of shooting on the
Alfred Hitchcock film North By Northwest.
1967 – The Beatles, Mick Jagger
& Marianne Faithful met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1980- Director Tex Avery died
after collapsing in the parking lot of Hanna-Barbera.
1997- Special effects house Boss
Studios, closed.
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