Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Animation Fun Facts for April 9, 2014

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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