Birthdays: George Seurat, Charles Ringling, Julie Harris,
Gianni Verasce, Ray Walston, Monica Seles, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lucy Liu is 49,
Britney Spears is 36
1697- Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London reopened. It was
rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren after being destroyed in the Great Fire of
1666.
1854- Napoleon III was Napoleon's nephew and since 1848
legally elected President of the Second French Republic. But he decided that he
wanted to be an Emperor like his uncle, so he seized dictatorial power on the
anniversary of Austerlitz and arrested all dissenters like Victor Hugo, Alex
DeTocqueville and cartoonist Honore' Daumier
(gotta watch them cartoonists...)
1877- Camille Saint Saens opera “Samson & Delilah”
premiered in Weimar.
1933- Voice actor Clarence “Ducky” Nash began working at
Walt Disney. He would create the voice for Donald Duck and his nephews.
1935- Animator Marc Davis first day at Walt Disney Studios.
He retired in 1978.
1982- Wild-eyed British comedian Marty Feldman (Igor in
Young Frankenstein) suddenly died of a heart attack in Mexico while filming the
comedy YellowBeard. He was 48.
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