Birthdays: George De La Tour,
Wyatt Earp, Dr. David Livingston, William Jennings Bryan, Sir Richard Burton
(The African explorer, not Liz Taylor's ex), Charles M. Russell, Jacky Moms
Mabley, Adolf Eichmann, Phillip Roth, Adolf Galland, Ursula Andress, Patrick
McGoohan, Ornette Coleman, Harvey Weinstein, Bruce Willis is 59, Glenn Close is
67, animator Richard Williams is 81
1875- Mark Twain admits in a
letter to a friend that he now likes to use a typewriter, a new technology
accused of ruining the art of writing.
1895- The Lumiere Brothers shot
their first movie, employees leaving their dad’s factory.
1914- A fire in the negative
vaults of the Eclair Studios in New Jersey destroyed forever all the American
work of pioneer French animator Emile Cohl. He had come to the U.S. to animate
the first cartoon series, George McManus’ "The Newlyweds" later to be
renamed in comic strip form "Life With Father".
1928- the Amos & Andy radio
show debuted. NBC Blue Network, WMAQ in Chicago.
1953- First T.V. broadcast of the
Oscar ceremony. That utterly memorable circus film
"The Greatest Show on
Earth" won top honors. Ironically
it was Cecil B. DeMille’s only Oscar of his career. Before TV, the Oscars
ceremony included a dinner and an hour of dancing before the awards were
presented.
1959- Disney released The Shaggy
Dog, their first live action comedy hit. It's success combined with Sleeping Beauty's disappointing box office soured Walt on more feature animation.
1962- The first Pillsbury Doughboy
commercial.
1964- IBM gives the green light to
plans for the 360 series. The first compatible computers.
1984- I’LL BE BACK- James Cameron
began shooting the film the Terminator. He first considered casting O.J.
Simpson for the cyborg killer before settling on Austrian weightlifter Arnold
Swarzenegger.
1993- Monkey-cam debuted on the
David Letterman Show.
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