Birthdays: James Madison, Conrad Nagel, Dr. Josef Mengele
the Angel of Death, Teresa Berganza, Christa Ludwig, Pat Nixon, Alice Bonheur, Harper
Goff, Gore Verbinsky, Jerry Lewis is 91, Bernardo Bertolucci is 77, Eric
Estrada, Kate Nelligan, Isabelle Huppert is 64, Lauren Graham is 50
1850- Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter
published.
1898- Artist Aubrey Beardsley died of tuberculosis at 25.
Having a religious conversion at the end of his life, but still the stickler
for detail, his last words were :" Destroy all my erotic drawings...all
the bad ones too...." Luckily for history his friends did neither.
1934- Disney’s short The
Three Little Pigs won an Oscar for best animated short.
1961- Walt Disney comedy The
Absent Minded Professor with Fred MacMurray premiered.
2007- Author Michael Crichton was the author of classics
like The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. He had been called the H.G. Wells
of modern times. But today he shocked the scientific community by denouncing
the theory of Global Warming.
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