Birthdays: Jean Baptiste Lully, William Blake, Frederick
Engels, Stefan Zweig, Ernst Roehm, Brooks Atkinson, Berry Gordy the founder of
Motown Records, Anton Rubinstein, Gary Hart, Vern Den Herder, Paul Warfield,
Hope Lange, Ed Harris is 66, Paul Schaefer, Joe Dante, Michael Ritchie, Anna
Nicole-Smith, Randy Newman, John Stewart is 54
1870- Painter Jean Bazille was shot and killed while serving
in the French Army fighting the Prussians. He was only 29. He had been one of
the leaders of the new Impressionists painters. Had he lived he might have
produced many masterpieces and would’ve been as famous as Degas, Monet or
Cezanne.
1907- Russian-Canadian scrap metal dealer Lazar Meir, now
renamed Louis B. Mayer, bought an old burlesque house in Haverhill
Massachusetts to show the new moving picture shows. He renamed it The Orpheum
and the first film he showed was “ From the Manger to the Cross”. L.B. Mayer
grew his film business to become MGM, and at the time of his retirement in 1950 was the
most powerful man in Hollywood. The Motion Picture Academy was his idea.
1925- First radio broadcast from the Grand Ol' Opry in
Nashville.
1947- Disney's cartoon "Chip and Dale".
1948- Hopalong Cassidy premiered on television.
1953- Cartoonist & writer Milt Gross died.
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