Birthdays: Roman Emperor Claudius, Emperor Pertinax, Francis
Scott Key, William Clark of Lewis & Clark, Herman Melville, Robert Todd
Lincoln, Geoffrey Holder, Yves St. Laurent, Giancarlo Giannini is 75, Dom
Deluise, Jerry Garcia, Coolio, Sam Mendes
1933- The WPA Arts Project set up to employ starving artists
on large public works projects like murals for libraries and bridges, etc.
Artists like Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, Dorothea Lang, Orson Welles and Bernice
Abbott got commissions.
1953- The Alan Ladd movie Shane released.
1960 - Chubby Checker releases
"The Twist" and starts a world wide dance craze.
1970- The first San Diego Comicon. Shel Dorf’s idea of a
mega comic & fantasy fan convention has run continually ever since, and had
brought in the Hollywood studios. There have always been other comicons in
other cities, but San Diego’s has become the premiere event, averaging hundreds
of thousands of attendees.
1971- The Rock Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George
Harrison. The first charity-fund raising rock-concert.
1971- The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour debuted.
1971- PBS started a new television series called Masterpiece
Theater hosted by Alastair Cooke. It’s first presentation was a the Six Wives
of Henry VIII. The high quality BBC and Thames Television programs became so popular
in the USA, that people said PBS stood
for Preferably British Shows.
1973- With the tag line “Where were you in ’62?” the film
American Graffiti opened in theaters. The hit made skinny young director George
Lucas a player in Hollywood, and made stars of kids like Harrison Ford, Richard
Dreyfus and Susanne Somers.
1976- Elizabeth Taylor had married Richard Burton a second
time. Today she divorced Richard Burton a second time. This was her 6th
marriage.
1981-I WANT MY MTV! MTV goes on the air, rock videos 24
hours a day. The idea was funded by a consortium of investors including Mike
Nesmith of the Monkees, then on the board of 3M Paper company. If you put on
the TV this day you saw a slide of an astronaut for several hours, then finally
a voice said :”Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Rock & Roll.” The first rock
video played was by a British New-Wave Band called the Buggles entitled “Video
Killed the Radio Star.” followed by a Pat Benatar single.
1986- Howard the Duck
premiered. George Lucas first major flop.
1991- elderly movie queen Heddy Lamarr was busted in Tampa
Florida for shoplifting.
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