Birthdays: St. Thomas Moore, Eubie
Blake, Sinclair Lewis, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Laura Ingalls Wilder
writer of Little House on the Prairie, Gay Talese, James Spader is 54, Chris
Rock is 49, Eddie Izzard is 52, Ashton Kutcher is 36
1910- The Town of Hollywood annexed
into the City of Los Angeles.
1939, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep was published. Chandler
was a 51year old ex-oil company executive who had taken up writing at the age
of forty-five, after being fired for alcohol-soaked absenteeism. Over the
previous five years he had published enough crime stories in the pulp magazines
to survive, but this was his first novel, the first of seven featuring the
inimitable Philip Marlowe.
1940- Disney's classic
"Pinocchio" premiered.
1964- The GI Joe action figure
born. In 1974 it got the Kung-Fu Grip.
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