Birthdays: Frederic Chopin, Augustus Saint Gaudens, Glen
Miller, Harry Belafonte is 90, David Niven, Oskar Kokoschka, Roger Daltry,
Robert Conrad, Deke Slayton, Yitschak Rabin. Catherine Bach, Timothy Daly, Ron
Howard is 62, Javier Bardem is 48, Zack Snyder is 51
1930- Disney animator Ub Iwerks, the animator/designer of
Mickey Mouse, quit the studio to set up his own place. Walt was stunned by the
defection of one of his first employees and closest friends. Iwerks studio
produced Flip the Frog Cartoons, but it eventually failed, and he'll return to
Disney to invent the xerox process. Iwerks partner was Pat Powers, who’s
PowersCinephone was the process used to put sound on “Steamboat Willie”. Powers
engineered the break between Ub and Walt when Disney refused to let him buy into
a co-partnership in Disney Studio.
1932- Museum of
Modern Art in New York has first major retrospective of the style of
architecture called "THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE" Steel girder frames
with large windows for walls and no ornamentation. This style pioneered by Mies
Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Phillip Johnson. Called by critics
"vertical ice cube trays" they now dominate the skylines around the
world, making Moscow and Shanghai equally unrecognizable from Pretoria, or
Newark, New Jersey.
1936- Max Fleischer's short cartoon "Snow White"
(starring Betty Boop). Cab Calloway singing the "St. James Infirmary
Blues" is a highlight.
1946-The National Cartoonists Society formed.
1951- Frank Sinatra was subpoenaed by the Senate Kefhauver
Committee looking into the activities of the Mafia. In deference to Old Blue
Eyes public persona, strings were pulled so he was allow to testify in his
attorney’s private office high in 30 Rockefeller Plaza at 4:00 a.m.
1961-The Ken Doll introduced.
1978- Unemployed auto mechanics Gatchko Ganas and Roman
Wardas broke into the tomb of Charlie Chaplin in Vevey Switzerland and stole
his remains. They tried to hold it for ransom. The body was recovered and the
two losers were soon arrested. They were trying to make enough money to open a
car repair garage in France.
1988- Apple introduced the first
commercially available CD-ROM drive for your personal computer.
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