Birthdays: Dmitri Medeleyev- inventor of the Periodic Table of Elements, James Dean,
William T. Sherman, John Williams is 85, Ivan Ivano-Vano, Lana Turner, Jack
Lemmon, Alejandro Rey, Ted Koppel, Nick Nolte, Buck Henry, Gary Coleman, Robert
Klein, Seth Green
1914- THE FIRST TRUE CHARACTER ANIMATION- Windsor McCay's
"Gertie the Dinosaur" premiered as part of a vaudeville act. Up to
then most U.S. animations were attempts to bring popular newspaper comic
characters to life, but Gertie was a new character never before seen. Some
critics had wondered if animated characters weren’t some kind of man in a
special suit, so McCay drew a dinosaur, a character that couldn’t possibly be
impersonated by a living thing. The
brilliant draftsmanship and timing of this film would inspire the generation of
Animation artists of the Golden Age of the 1930's-40s.
1915- THE BIRTH OF A NATION or The Clansman premiered at
Clunes Auditorium in Los Angeles. Film pioneer D.W. Griffith's racist movie was
considered for years the first American feature length film. The discovery in
1999 of a 1913 Richard III film predates it. Son of a Confederate veteran, it’s
been thought that Griffith was making a personal statement, truth is there was
a flood of films to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil War and the book the
Clansman by Thomas Dixon was a best seller. President Woodrow Wilson (another
son of the Confederacy ) called it :"History
written with a thunderbolt and I’m afraid all too true."
1928- Englishman John Logie Baird transmitted a still
television image across the Atlantic from England to Hartsdale New York. It was
a still image of a woman.
1961- Nebraska teenager and future movie star Nick Nolte was
busted for the first time. He was accused of selling fake Draft cards so his
friends could buy alcohol.
1967- Georgy Girl by the Seekers goes to #1 in pop charts.
1976 - TAXI DRIVER, directed by Martin Scorsese and
written by Paul Schrader, starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel,
Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks, was released.
1994- Jack Nicholson destroyed the windshield of a
neighbor’s car with a golf club, screaming “You cut me off!” He settled the
matter out of court.
2001- Walt Disney’s California Adventure theme park opened.
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