Birthdays: Chief Crazy Horse, Samuel Butler*, Thomas
Carlyle, Lillian Russell, Vasilly Kandinsky, Buck Jones, Wink Martindale, Max
Baer Jr.,Robert Vesco, Charles Keating, Wally George, Deanna Durbin, Pappy
Boyington, Horst Bucholtz, Rainer Maria Rilke,, Jeff Bridges is 67, Marisa
Tomei is 52, Tyrah Banks is 43, Johnny Lyon of the band Southside Johnny and
the Asbury Jukes, Jay-Z is 47, Fred Armisen is 50
1931- James Whale’s macabre masterpiece film “Frankenstein”
opened at the Mayfair theater in NY.
English actor William Henry Pratt renamed Boris Karloff played the
monster.
1941- The animated film "Mr. Bug Goes to
Town"-opened. Max Fleischer's last gamble to keep up with Walt Disney and
keep his studio alive. Songs written by top pop song writer Hoagy Carmichael. However
the events of Pearl Harbor three days later not only sink the American Navy,
but also Hoppity's box office and puts Max out of business.
1948- “Hey...Stella!!
A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway with Marlon Brando and
Jessica Tandy.
1955- French mime Marcel Marceau appeared on American TV for
the first time.
1958- Cocoa Puffs cereal invented.
1961- Someone at the Museum of Modern Art in NY noticed that
they had hung Henri Matisse’s painting Le Bateau upside down. It had been that
way for two months, and until now
nobody had noticed.
1965 - Jerry Garcia, Bob, Phil, Bill, and Pigpen first
convened as the Grateful Dead to play as the house band for Ken Kesey and the
Prankster's Acid Test in San Jose, California. The Dead went on to break
records, bend minds, and build a community that continues to carry the torch
today.
1985- The first Cray X-MP Supercomputer booted up.
1988- Actor Gary Busey almost died in a motorcycle accident
on Olympic Blvd. In Los Angeles. He was not wearing a helmet and suffered
massive head trauma. He later claimed to have an out-of-the-body experience at
the scene.
1993- Rocker Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer at age 52.
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