Birthdays: Big Jim Fisk , Edmund
Rostand, Lon Chaney, Sir William Harvey, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ali McGraw,
Toshiro Mifune, Debbie Reynolds, Phil Neikro, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Bo
Schembechler, Annette O’Toole, Barry Sonnenfeld, Rachel Maddow is 43, Andreas
Deja is 61.
1488- Ludovico Buonarotti, after
going through a lot of trouble to get his son in the wool and draper’s guild,
gives up hope that the boy would ever be anything other than an artist. He
reluctantly takes him to fresco painter Domenico Ghirlandaio to be his
apprentice. Michelangelo's career begins.
1747-Georg Frederich Handel
premiered his oratorio Judas Maccabeus with the song "Hail, Conquering
Hero!" frequently used at royal functions.
1867- Opening of the Paris World
Exhibition. The first worlds fair was seen as the zenith of Napoleon III’s
Second Empire. Visitors marveled to exhibits as Dr Lister’s new disinfectant, a
new metal alloy called Aluminum, a new butter substitute called margarine, and
in the American exhibit, a novel bit of furniture called a Rocking Chair. The
Art galleries of the exhibition were filled with Ingres, Courbets and
Delacroix. But nothing from Cezanne, Manet, Pizarro or any of the other
weirdoes who would one day be called Impressionists.
1923- Developers S.H. Woodruff and
Canadian William Whitley start advertising lots for sale in Hollywoodland,
beneath their giant new Hollywoodland sign. The sign originally was covered
with lightbulbs. It collapsed and was repaired in 1939, the 'land' part never
restored. The Hollywood Sign was made over again in 1978.
1944- Tex Avery's "Screwball
Squirrel" Only a few shorts were made. As animator Bob Givens reminisced:" Eventually, everyone found that
squirrel just too annoying!"
1949- Zsa Zsa Gabor married George
Sanders.
1972- In a gesture of
turnabout-is-fair-play for women, Playgirl Magazine ran its first male nude
centerfold- Burt Reynolds.
1976- Two college dropouts, Steve
Wozniak and Steve Jobs started a company named Apple Computers. A third partner
small businessman Ron Wayne sold his shares to Jobs & Woz before they filed
papers of incorporation. He didn’t want to get stuck with the bill when they
failed. He sold his third for $800. In 2011 Apple surpassed Microsoft as the
worlds richest company.
1984- Motown star Marvin Gaye was
shot to death by his own father in an argument over plans for the singer's 45th
birthday party the next day.
1996- Animation World Network,
Toontown’s virtual trade magazine, started up. www.AWN.com
2004-
G-Mail invented.
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