Birthdays: Liberace, General George H. Thomas the "Rock
of Chickamagua", Sebastian Sperling Kresge the founder of S.S. Kresge
stores, Milton Friedman, Sherry Lansing, Geraldine Chaplin, Kurt Gowdy, Dean
Cain, Leon “ Bull “Durham, Primo Levi, Ted Cassidy who played Lurch in the
Adams Family, Wesley Snipes is 55, and according to J.K. Rowling, this is the
birthday of Harry Potter
1930- Radio mystery show “The Shadow” premiered. “Who knows
what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows…heh, heh, heh.” Orson
Welles did the voice of the crime fighting Shadow for a year in 1937 for $185 a
week.
1954- Steve Allen married Jayne Meadows.
1966- Birmingham Alabama held a massed rally to burn Beatles
records after John Lennon joked that the Beatle had become more popular than
Jesus.
1992- Bebe’s Kids released, the first animated
feature directed by an African American, Bruce W. Smith.
1992- The Robert Zemeckis comedy Death Becomes Her opened. With Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce
Willis. It is the first film that widely used the new digital matte technique
to replace traditional optical printing.
1995- The Walt Disney Company bought the ABC Network, the
Discovery Channel and ESPN.
1999- Premiere of Brad Bird’s first movie The Iron Giant.
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