Birthdays: Tamerlane, N. Lenin, Paul Robeson, Jean Paul
Belmondo, Ward Bond, Seve
Balesteros, Carl Perkins, Michael Learned, Tom Lehrer, Paula Poundstone,
Cynthia Nixon, Hugh Hefner is 88, Dennis Quaid is 60, Elle Fanning is 16
1859- Mark Twain received his Mississippi riverboat pilot’s
license.
1914- The first all color film” The World, The Flesh and the
Devil” premiered in London.
1942- Black opera star Marian Anderson gives her concert at
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to an audience of 75,000. She was snubbed
from giving a recital at the Daughters of the American Revolution Hall which
caused a furious Eleanor Roosevelt to resign from the DAR and arrange this
concert.
1948- Variety columnist Ben Mortimer had been needling Frank
Sinatra for his advocacy of liberal causes. He accused Old Blue Eyes of
draft-dodging and hinted maybe he had pro-Communist sympathies. This day
Sinatra responded by meeting Mortimer in front of Ciro's restaurant on Sunset
Blvd and punched his lights out.
1953- The first issue of the T.V. Guide.
1966-actress Sophia Loren married
producer Carlo Ponti, with whom she had been living with for a decade but not
allowed to marry because Catholics did not allow divorce from their previous
spouses.
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