Birthdays: Alex de Tocqueville, Benito Mussolini,, Clara
Bow, Natalie Wood, Paul Taylor, Sig Romberg, Dag Hammarskjold, Peter Jennings,
Michael Spinks, Dave Stevens cartoonist creator of the Rocketeer, Ken Burns is
64, Booth Tarkington, David Warner,
Steven Dorff, Professor Irwin Corey
1890- Near Auvers-sur-Oise, artist Vincent Van Gogh went
behind a hay bale and shot himself. He didn’t shoot himself in the head but in
the gut. He lingered for two more days and died of blood poisoning. He was 37.
His brother Theo was so distraught he died six months later of a brain disease
and melancholia.
1922- In Kansas City, Walt Disney
released his first Laugh-o-Gram short- Little Red Riding Hood.
1936 - RCA shows 1st real TV
program: dancing, a film on locomotives, a Bonwit
Teller fashion show &
monologue from the Tobacco Road radio comedy show.
1938- Three Missing Links- a Three
Stooges comedy with the boys as cave men and Ray Crash Corrigan in a gorilla
suit.
1942- Orson Welles leaves Rio De Janiero after RKO fires him
and stops production of "It's All True". They also have “the
Magnificent Ambersons” re-cut to a more acceptable 90 minutes. The also fired the
executive producer who recruited him to Hollywood.
1948- Former Disney animation
assistant Hank Ketcham’s comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st
appeared.
1962- The film “Dr No” premiered, introducing the world to
the suave spy James Bond 007. They first
considered Cary Grant, David Niven and Patrick McGoohan, James Mason, who all
turned them down. So the producers picked young Scots actor Sean Connery. Ian
Fleming wrote of the decision “ Disaster!!”
1965 - Beatles movie
"Help" premiered, Queen Elizabeth attends.
1972- Mamas and the Papa's chubby singer Mama Cass Eliot
dies of a stroke, not as was widely believed from choking on a sandwich.
1987- Ice cream makers Ben & Jerry announce the flavor Cherry
Garcia, named for rock singer Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.
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