Birthdays St. Francis Xavier, William Wordsworth, Mongo
Santamaria, Francis Ford Coppola is 75, Walter Winchell, David Frost, Percy
Faith, Daniel Ellsberg, Jerry Brown, Alan Pakula, Billie Holiday, Ravi Shankar,
Irene Castle, Wayne Rogers, Stan Winston, James Garner is 86, Olikirk
Christenson-the inventor of Lego toys, Russell Crowe is 50, Jacky Chan is 60
1891- Showman P.T. Barnum died of old age. The last words of
the man who invented kiddie matinees, the Greatest Show on Earth and coined the
word “Jumbo” were "How were the box office receipts today?"
1927- An audience at the Bell Laboratory watched a three
inch television screen broadcast a sound image of US Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover .
1927- Abel Gances classic film Napoleon premiered at the
Paris Opera. Gances active camera and wild editing were years ahead of their
time, climaxed by a triptych of large images on three movie screens linked by
synchronized projectors. One American man in the audience, Walter Wallin, was
inspired to develop the Panavision wide screen lens, used in many modern movies.
1939-"The Ugly Duckling" the last Disney Silly
Symphony short cartoon.
1949- Musical "South Pacific" debuts. Some
Enchanted Evening…
1970- The film Midnight Cowboy with Dustin Hoffman and John
Voight won the Best Picture Oscar. The first x-rated film to do so. Disney’s It’s
Tough to be a Bird” won best animated short.
1990- The Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center opened a show
of the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe that the Corcoran Gallery in
Washington DC cancelled. Mapplethorpe’s explicit depictions of gay and s/m
lifestyles shocked neoconservative critics of the national endowments for the
arts. A media debate on whether government should subsidize or censor art
raged, and Dennis Barry the museum director was tried for obscenity. His acquittal
was seen as a victory for free expression but the argument cast a pall on
future funding of controversial art.
1995- Walt Disney's A Goofy Movie released.
2155- According to the show Babylon 5 today marked the first
contact between humans and the Centauri Alliance.
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