Birthdays: General Douglas MacArthur, Stephan Grappelli, Angela Davis, Maria Von Trapp, Wayne Gretsky, Eartha Kitt, Paul Newman, Charles Lane, Roger Vadim, Jules Feiffer is 89, Henry Jaglom, Anita Baker, Edward Abbey, Scott Glenn, David Straitharn, Randy Rhodes,
Ellen DeGeneres is 61
1911- Richard Strauss opera Der Rosenkavalierpremiered in Vienna. Kaiser Wilhelm was offended by the E.T. Hoffman story about aristocrats sleeping around with their servants. He called it "A dirty little play".
1934- Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn bought the rights to L. Frank Baum’s book the Wonderful Wizard of Oz to develop into a movie. Walt Disney and Hal Roach were trying to get it also.
1939- The first day of shooting on the film Gone With the Wind.
1979- The Dukes of Hazard TV show premiered. Catharine Bach’s cutoff jeans became thereafter known for her character- Daisy Dukes.
1983- The software LOTUS 1-2-3 premiered that helped make IBM’s PC into the most popular business computers in the US.
1984- HELP ME TITO! During the filming of a Pepsi commercial at LA’s Shrine Auditorium, a magnesium flash ignited singer Michael Jackson’s Jeri curl hair gel causing him 3rd degree burns on his scalp.
1988- Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musicalThe Phantom of the Opera premiered.
1998- The Japanese town of Ito was attacked by berserk monkeys, injuring 26.
2003- ABC premiered a new late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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