Birthdays: Salvador Allende, Serge
Koussevitsky, George Bernard Shaw, Gracie Allen,
Carl Jung, Stanley Kubrick, Blake Edwards,
George Grosz, Pearl Buck, Jason Robards Jr,
Aldous Huxley, Jean Shepard, Vivian Vance, Emil Jannings, Sandra Bullock
is 53, Kevin Spacey is 56, Kate Beckinsdale, Mick Jagger is 74
1861-
Mark Twain left St. Jo Missouri to go west and sit out the Civil War. He went
with his brother Oren Clemens who had been appointed to administer the Nevada
territory.
1951- Charlie
Chaplin driven into exile by red-baiters. He was on a holiday to Britain when
he learned his visa had been revoked by the U.S. government. He didn't return
until 1972. Despite his immense achievements in Hollywood History, when the
Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated later that year, Chaplin’s name was
deliberately excluded.
1959- KPFK, Los
Angeles lefty alternative radio of the Pacifica Network, starts up.
1984- Edward Gein
died peacefully in a prison for the criminally insane. Gein was arrested in
1957 and sentenced to life for mass murder. Police found his farm in Wisconsin
decorated with human body parts and heads in the freezer and in the stove, and
the dried cadaver of his mother. His
story inspired "Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the
Lambs".
1991 –
Children’s comic Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman was arrested in Florida for
masturbating in an adult movie theater. The film was Naughty Nurse Nancy.
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