Birthdays: Lyman Frank Baum, Claudio Monteverdi, Richard
Avedon, James Mason, Joseph Cotten, George Brett, Jasper Johns, Anna Maria
Alberghetti, Jean Renoir, Richard Daley Sr., Trini Lopez, Charles Lamont, director of Abbott & Costello Go to
Mars, country singer Eddy Arnold, Chaz Palmintieri is 61, Lainie Kazan
is 73, Walt Disney artist Joe Grant
1863- Edouard Manet first displayed his Dejeuner sur l’Herbe at the Salon des Refuses in Paris. The
painting is of two modern clothed men having a picnic with two nude women by a
river bank. The women aren’t mythical goddesses or muses but just naked ladies.
This shocked Paris society and Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugene called
it “Immodest and obscene”. Its revolutionary simple subject matter heralded the
rise of Impressionism.
1942- The U.S. initiated a program of wartime gas rationing.
Slogans like “Is this Trip Really Necessary?” and a system of ratings vehicles
with A,B & C cards pop up in a lot of gas stations for the duration. C
meant a war-essential worker and you went to the head of the line to get gas. A
cards was the lowest status. Now you can understand all those Looney Tune jokes.
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win
their 1st Grammy for “ If I Had a Hammer”.
1967- Paul McCartney first met his first wife Linda Eastman.
1968 - Paul McCartney & John
Lennon appear on the Johnny Carson Show to promote
Apple records, Joe Garagiola is
substitute host.
1970 – The Beatles' last album,
"Let It Be," is released in US
No comments:
Post a Comment