Birthdays: Alexander Glauzunov, Billie Holiday, Eddie
Fisher, Leo Fender, Herbert Hoover, Polish King Jan III Sobieski, Norma
Shearer, Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Dean, Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette is 58,
Antonio Banderas is 57
1629- Spanish painter Diego Velasquez traveled to Italy to
study the Renaissance Masters on the advice of his buddy, painter Peter Paul
Rubens.
1787- Mozart completes his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -A Little
Night Music.
1788- Mozart’s on a roll! This day he completed his Jupiter
Symphony #41. It was his last symphony. He never heard it performed in his
lifetime.
1889 - Dan Rylands patented the
screw -on cap.
1897 -German chemists working for the Bayer Company invent
Aspirin, the first mass market over the counter drug. A powdered willow tree
root that was known to the Native Americans for years. The Romans ground willow
root and dissolved it in water for pain.
1948 – Allen Funt's "Candid
Camera" TV debut on ABC.
1969- The night after Charles
Manson’s cultists murdered actress Sharon Tate, they attacked another Los
Angeles home at random. They murdered attorney Leo and Rosemary LaBianca on
Waverly Drive in the neighborhood of Los Feliz.
1970 - Jim Morrison is charged in
Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1972 - Paul & Linda McCartney
are arrested in Sweden on drug possession.
1981- The animated movie Heavy
Metal opened in theaters..
1987- Clara Peller, the elderly
actress who gained last minute advertising fame by saying Where's the Beef?,
died at 86. The director and writer of
the spots was the father of J.J. Sedelmeir, who created the Ambiguously Gay Duo
and other TV Funhouse animations for SNL.
2001- Warner Bros film Osmosis Jones opened in general theaters.
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