Birthdays: Ethan Allen, Marshal
Michel Ney, Frank James -Jesse's brother, Francois Poulenc, Ray Bolger (the
Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz), Al Goldstein the publisher of Screw Magazine,
Stephen Ambrose, Sherrill Milnes, Pat Benatar, Sal Mineo, Jim Croce, Rod
Stewart, Walter Hill, George Foreman, Linda Lovelace,
Roy E Disney 1930-2009
1924- Columbia Pictures created,
ruled by Harry Cohn, who's motto was "I don't get ulcers, I give
them!"
1927- Fritz Lang’s masterpiece
film Metropolis premiered.
1929- The comic character Tin Tin
first appeared in a Belgian newspaper XXe Siecle.
1939- Science fiction writer Isaac
Asimov sold his first story to Amazing Stories Magazine "Marooned off
Vesta".
1941- The comedy play ARSENIC AND
OLD LACE opened on Broadway. When buying the movie rights Warner Bros agreed to
wait until the play ended it’s theatrical run. They thought plays usually are
done in a few months. Arsenic and Old Lace ran until 1944.
1949- For years the recording
industry had been working on ways to improve the 78 RPM record –RPM means
Rotations Per Minute. RCA records announced the invention of the 45 RPM record.
Columbia (CBS) had announced the LP 33 rpm record and originally offered to
share the technology but RCA (NBC) was having none of it. But the 33 stored
more music and could use old 78 rpm turntables adapted so the 45 soon became a
vehicle for hit singles.
1958- Jerry Lee Lewis single
"Great Balls of Fire" topped the pop charts.
1970- Masterpiece Theater debuted
on US TV with Alastair Cooke. The first show was the BBC series the First
Churchills. These shows were so popular that for awhile people thought PBS
meant Preferably British Shows.
2000- AOL and Time Warner
announced a $165 billion dollar merger that made it the world’s largest media
company. The deal almost sank both companies, uprooted both chairmen, and they
detached finally in 2009.
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