Birthdays: King Henry VIII, Luigi Pirandello, Jean Jacques
Rousseau, John Dillinger, Richard Rogers, Gilda Radner, Cartoonist George Booth
is 91, Leon Panetta, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kathy Bates is 69, John Cusack is 51,
Mel Brooks is 91
1868- Artist Claude Monet was so broke and depressed he
jumped in the Seine River. After splashing around for a while, he decided its
silly to drown himself so he swam to the riverbank and went for a drink. He
outlived all the Impressionist painters of his generation, dying in 1926.
1928- Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines recorded West End
Blues.
1955- Walt Disney sends a memo to his studio employees to
please come to the grand opening day of Disneyland Park on July 17. He was
concerned not enough people would show up the first day and it would look bad
on the TV cameras. He shouldn’t have worried. 100,000 people came that first
day.
1975- Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling died during open
heart surgery. He was 50. His last movie script was called The Man, about resistance of the Washington powerful to the first
black president of the United States.
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