Birthdays: Lope de Vega, St. Pope John XXIII, Andrew
Carnegie, Tina Turner, Joe Dimaggio, Carl Benz of Mercedes Benz, Virgil
Thompson, Jeffrey Hunter, John Kennedy,Jr., Percy Sledge, Ben Stein, Ricardo
Montalban, Bob Matheson, John Larroquette, Gloria Steinem, General Augusto
Pinochet, Christina Applegate, Bucky Dent, Bill Kroyer
1929- Alfred Hitchcock’s film Blackmail opened in London. It
was the first full length talkie in Britain.
1949- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer sung by Gene Autry hit
number one on the musical charts.
1952- The stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s mystery the
Mousetrap opened in London’s West End and became one of the longest running
plays in history.
1960- CBS canceled its remaining five radio soap operas, most
of them now on television.
1975- According to the first movie Rocky, this was the date
of the first prizefight portrayed in the film where we meet Rocky Balboa.
1992- Disney’s Aladdin opened wide in theaters.
1995- Legendary Corporate CEO Akio Morita resigned as the
leader of Sony. Under his guidance Sony went from a little postwar maker of
electric rice cookers to the largest electronics giant in the world. His
official reason was health problems but insiders said the real problem was his
headaches with Sony's Hollywood studios -MGM, Columbia, TriStar losing $2
billion. By the time he died in 1999 the Sony movie studios had pulled out of
their slump and were on top with movies like Men in Black.
1997- Pixar’s A Bugs Life and the short Geri’s Game
premiered.
2009- Disney’s Princess and the Frog released.
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