Birthdays: Fess Parker, Karl Stockhausen, George Meany,
Charles Bukowski, Menachim Begin, Otto Mesmer the creator of Felix the Cat,
Myron Grim Natwick the creator of Betty Boop, Hal Foster the creator of Prince
Valiant, Kathie Lee Gifford, Eydie Gorme, Bill Evans, Leslie Ann Warren, Angela
Bassett is 59, Julie Numar is 84, Robert Culp, James Cameron is 63, Bruce
Beresford, Steve Carrell is 55, Madonna, aka Louise Ciccone of Bay City
Michigan, is 59
1938- In Three Forks Misssissippi, Blues legend Robert
Johnson was poisoned by a jealous husband.
1942- Happy Birthday Mighty Mouse. Terrytoon's short:
"The Mouse of Tomorrow".
1969- “ Hey Man, we’re gonna serve breakfast in bed for
500,000” So was hippy Wavy Gravy’s announcement on the second day of the
Woodstock Rock Concert. He said this was the day Americans learned to eat
Granola. It was ladled out en masse in paper cups and has been a diet staple ever
since.
1974- The Ramones play their first gig at the NY club CBGBs.
Hey-Ho, Lets Go!
1977- E-DAY in Memphis. Elvis Presley, donuts and Pizza Hut
box in hand, died of a heart attack while sitting on the toilet. He was reading
the book-the Historic Search for the Face of Jesus. He was 42.
1985- On her birthday, Madonna married Sean Penn. They
divorced shortly after.
1987- The Harmonic Convergence- Another one of these
celestial events that the mainstream media trumpeted as the end of everything.
All nine planets of our solar system were in perfect alignment and the
subsequent gravitational forces were supposed to knock the Earth into the Sun
or something or other that would send us to Hell in a Handbasket. Lots of New
Age types flocked to occult sites like Mt. Shasta and Stonehenge to meditate on
the End of All Things. So what happened?
Nothing.
1991- The original Shamu the Whale died of respiratory
failure at age 16.
2005- Top Pixar story-artist Joe Ranft was killed in an auto
accident. He was 42.
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