Birthdays: Dr. Martin Luther King, Moliere, Gamal Abdel
Nasser, outlaw Cole Younger, Charro, Matthew Brady, drummer Gene Krupa, Lloyd
Bridges, Mario Van Peebles, Josef Broyer the mentor of Sigmund Freud, Margaret
O’Brien, Aristotle Onassis, Captain Beefheart, Dr. Edward Teller, Disney animator Dave
Pruiksma
1936-THE DGA- Several top Hollywood directors including
Lewis Milestone, Ruben Mamoulian and William Wellman meet at King Vidor’s house
and pledge $100 dollars each to form the Screen Director’s Guild, later the
Director’s Guild of America. It was a risky thing to do, previous attempts to
form a directors union were broken up with threats by the producers of
perpetual blacklisting. Final recognition and contracts were signed by
President Frank Capra in 1940. One provision insisted on in the contract was
that the director’s credit be the final name in the opening titles before the
movie began. And so it remains.
1942- Disney propaganda short Education for Death debuted.
1960- Walt Disney Presents Leslie Neilsen as revolutionary
war guerrilla Francis Marion in the adventure series Swamp Fox.
1974- The first episode of Happy Days premiered with Ron
Howard as Richie Cuningham and Henry Winkler as Da Fonz.
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