Birthdays: Ernesto "Che"
Guevara, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cole Porter, John
Bartlett of Bartletts Familiar Quotations, Boy George O’Dowd, Les Paul,
Burl Ives, Lash LaRue, Happy Rockefeller, Robert MacNamara, Major Bowes, Carl
Neilsen, Donald Trump, Jerzy Kosinski, Pierre Salinger,
Steffy Graff, Marvin Kalb, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist who
formulated Coulomb's Law, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, Michael J. Fox is 53, Johnny Depp is 51, Natalie Portman is 33
1934- Happy 80th Birthday Donald Duck! Walt Disney's short
cartoon"The Little Wise Hen".
1934- The film the Thin Man with William Powell. Myrna Loy
and Asta the dog premiered.
1941- First day shooting on the
film, the Maltese Falcon. It was John Huston’s first directorial effort. The studio
budget was so low, Humphrey Bogart had to wear his own suits. The lead role of Sam Spade was first offered to George Raft, but he turned it down as substandard.
1950- After all appeals fail the first of the Hollywood Ten,
screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, Philip Dunne, Alvah Bessie, Waldo Salt, Edward
Dymtytrk, David Ogden Stewart, Ring Lardner and John Howard Lawson are
sentenced to prison. In the L.A. Municipal Jail one felon greeted the leftist
writers with a smile and said: "Hi Ya, Hollywood Kids!”
1976 – Chuck Barris’ the"
Gong Show" premiered. Where’s Jean-Jean the Dancing Machine?
1992- Congress passed the Internet Communications Act,
opening up the Internet to the public. At this time, when only defense
contractors used it, the Internet had 50 websites; by 2000, it had 77 million
websites, now in the hundreds of millions.
2006- Pixar film Cars released.
Answer: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
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