Birthdays: Leonardo DaVinci, composer Domenico Gabrieli,
Nanak Ist the Guru of the Sikh religion 1469, Charles Wilson Peale, Theodore
Rousseau, Henry James, Bessie Smith, Heinrich Klee, Kim Il Sung, Claudia
Cardinale is 76, Roy Clark, Emma Thompson is 55, Olympic runner Evelyn Ashford,
Alice Braga is 30, Seth Rogen is 32 Emma Watson is 24, Animation art director
Lou Romano
1874- The first Paris show of Impressionist Painting.
1927- First Hollywood star's footprints in cement ceremony
at Grauman's Chinese theater. Called Hollywood's most enduring publicity stunt.
Norma Talmadge, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Sid Grauman himself are
the first to leave their prints. Grauman also invented the classic Hollywood
premiere with spotlights, red carpet runways and chauffered limousines.
1934- Chief of production Darryl Zanuck quit Warner Bros.
over an argument about employee salary cuts to take over a struggling little
movie studio called Twentieth Century Fox, which he turns into a giant.
1935-Kodachrome film developed. First as motion picture
film, later for home photography.
1953- Famed illustrator Charles R. Knight died peacefully in
a Manhattan hospital. The man who inspired the lush look of such films as 1933
King Kong, his last words were to his daughter Lucy, “Don’t let anything happen to my drawings.”
1955- The First McDonald's Restaurant franchise opens in Des
Plains, Ill. Ray Kroc, a travelling
milkshake machine salesman, buys into a franchise restaurant idea cooked up in
1948 by two brothers named McDonald from Santa Bernadino. He urged the brothers
to go national with their pre-prepared food system but the brothers wanted to
stay local. So he offered them 1 million bucks for their idea and name (would
you go to" Kroc's?") and the rest is history. The oldest surviving McDonald’s
from 1953 in Downey California was recently destroyed despite the efforts of
historians, and replaced with a plastic plaque.
1962-AUNTIE EM, AUNTIE EM! actress Clara Blandick, 80, the
Auntie Em of the Wizard of Oz, took an overdose of sleeping pills and tied a
plastic bag around her head. She left out on a table her resume and press
clippings so the newspapers would get her obituary right.
1983- Tokyo Disneyland opens.
1990- Kennan Ivory Wayans comedy show In Living Color
premiered on FOX TV. The show made stars of Marlon Wayans, Damon Wayans, Jamie
Fox, Jim Carrey and Fly-Girls Jennifer Lopez and Rosie Perez.
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