Birthdays: Bartolomeo Christofori'-inventor of the piano,
Alice Liddel 1852- the inspiration of Alice in Wonderland, Audrey Hepburn –real
name Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten, Roberta Peters, Maynard Ferguson, Pia
Zadora is 60, Howard Da Silva , Tammy Wynette, Randy Travis, Hosni Mubarak,
George Will, Richard Jenkins
1891 –THE DEATH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES According to Sir Arthur
Conan-Doyle, this was the day Sherlock Holmes perished at the Reichenback Falls
grappling with sinister Prof. Moriarity- The Napoleon of Crime. Conan Doyle had tired of his eccentric
detective and wanted to get on to other types of novels. But readers were
horrified he had killed off the great sleuth. Conan-Doyle couldn’t take a walk
down the street without someone stopping him:” Sir, How could you?!” When
touring the US he wanted to lecture about historical subjects, but people only
wanted know more about Holmes & Watson. After a while Arthur Conan-Doyle
gave in and began a new series of the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1927-The Motion
Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences formed.
1940- Last British troops withdrawn from Norway, leaving it
to Nazis occupation.
1947- Paul Rafaelson, the only Jew ever convicted of Nazi
war crimes was tried and hanged in Prague. As a concentration camp trustee he
aided the Nazis zealously in committing atrocities on the inmates of his own
faith.
1948- Norman Mailor's first novel published: "the Naked
and the Dead".
1953 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway for The
Old Man & The Sea.
1957 - Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st
prime-time network rock music show.
1967- The Big Mac hamburger is invented in a MacDonald's
restaurant in Pittsburgh.
1975- Moe Howard died, last of the original Three Stooges.
1991- Bing Crosby’s son Dennis Crosby put a shotgun to his
head and ended his life. In 1989 his younger brother Lindsay had committed
suicide in a similar fashion.
2000- The Love Bug Computer virus ravaged the worlds
commerce through Microsoft Outlook causing $10 billion dollars in damage and
shutting down temporarily the e-commerce of large firms like Reebok. It was
launched by a Philipino AMA Computer College graduate student as part of his
thesis.
2001- Bonnie Lee Blakely, the wife of actor Robert Blake,
was found in her car dead of a gunshot wound to the head outside of Vitello’s
Restaurant in Studio City, Ca. They had just had dinner, and Mr. Blake had
returned into the restaurant to retrieve a gun he had left at his table. In
2005 the actor was acquitted of his wife’s murder, but lost a wrongful death
suit to Blakely’s family. No other suspect was ever identified.
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