Birthdays:,
Roman Emperor Servius Galba, English King John Lackland, Revolutionary Patriot
Dr Benjamin Rush, Kit Carson, Howard Hughes, Ava Gardner, Michael Curtiz,
I.F.Stone, Robert Joffrey of the Joffrey Ballet, Mean Joe Green, John Matusak,
Susan Lucci, Nicholas Meyer, Ricky Martin, Glen McQueen, Ryan Seacrest
1818-the
song Silent Night first sung at the Church of Saint Nicholas in Obersdorf,
Austria. It’s lyrics were written by the minister named Josef Mohr and music by
a teacher named Franz Gruber. Their church could not afford an organ, so this
first singing of Silent Night was accompanied on a guitar.
1888-
Vincent Van Gogh cuts off a piece of his left ear after an argument with fellow
artist Paul Gaugin over the affections of a prostitute named Rachel. He sent
his ear to the prostitute. She fainted. Recent scholarship theorizes his ear
was sliced off by Gaugin waving an antique sword.
1925-
The London Evening News published a story “ In which we are introduced to
Winnie the Pooh, and some Bees.” By A.A. Milne. The first book comes out the
following year.
1937-
Disney short Lonesome Ghosts premiered.
1951-
Gina Carlo Menotti’s opera "Amal and the Night Visitors" premiered on
NBC TV..
1952-
First draft script completed on the MGM film Terror Planet, changed to “
Forbidden Planet.”
1964-
First day shooting on the “Cage” a pilot for a new TV show called Star Trek.
Jeffrey Hunter was the first captain, later replaced by William Shatner when
Hunter’s wife advised him to skip the series. She was worried he’d be typecast.
1966-
Local New York City TV station WPIX premiered The Yule Log. They ran a loop of
6 minutes of a closeup of a log burning in a fireplace in Gracie Mansion. The
loop ran from 11:00PM to 1:00AM with Christmas carols playing. It made the TV
the metaphorical family hearth. New Yorkers loved their kitschy Yule Log
tradition and when WPIX tried to replace it in 1989 hundreds of complaints
forced them to put it back the following year. The log was taped once more in
1970, and that’s been the film ever since.
1968-
Twentieth Century Fox announced that legendary Japanese film director Akira
Kurosawa had been fired from the production of TORA-TORA-TORA. Producer Darryl
Zanuck’s original concept was the story of the Pearl Harbor attack told by
Kurosawa from the Japanese side and David Lean from the American side. But Lean
passed and Richard Fleischer stepped in.
Japanese sections were directed by Toshio Fukusaku and Masuda, whose
previous credit was The Green Slime.
1990-
Tom Cruise married Nicole Kidman.
1997- 62 year old Film director Woody Allen married 27 year
old Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his former lover Mia Farrow. When
asked to explain himself the director said: " The Heart wants what it
Wants.."
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