Animation Fun Facts for June 28, 2012 Thurs.

King Henry VIII, Luigi Pirandello, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Dillinger, Richard Rogers, Gilda Radner, Cartoonist George Booth,Kathy Bates is 63, John Cusack is 45, Mel Brooks is 85 1868- Artist Claude Monet was broke and so depressed he jumped in the Seine River. After splashing around for a while, he decided its silly to drown himself so he swam to the riverbank and went for a drink. He outlived all the Impressionist painters of his generation, dying in 1926. 1975- Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling died during open heart surgery. He was 50. His last movie script was The Man, in which James Earl Jones played the first black president of the United States.