Birthdays: James Cagney, John
Jacob Astor Ist, Hyacinth Rigaud, Bernice Abbott, Chill Wills, Brian Trottier,
Phoebe Snow, Daryl Lamonica, Prof. Peter Schickele a.k.a. PDQ Bach, Earl
Stanley Gardner the creator of Perry Mason, Art Linkletter, Diane Carroll, David
Hasslehoff is 62, Donald Sutherland is 79, Phyllis Diller
1841 - British humor magazine
"Punch" 1st published.
1893- Representatives of fourteen
stage unions meet to form IATSE, the International Alliance of Theatrical &
Screen Engineers of the U.S. & Canada.
1928- President of Mexico Alvaro
Obregon was at a large banquet for former veterans of the Mexican Revolution.
Part of the party was having an artist stroll about making caricatures of the
guests. Obregon said to cartoonist Leon Toral: "Make sure you make me look
good." Toral responded "Oh, I will.." and pulled a gun and shot
the President to death. A true professional, he actually completed his drawing before his reached for his pistol. Gotta watch them cartoonists….
1935 - Variety's famous headline
"Sticks Nix Hick Pix" meaning audiences in rural areas were not
attending movies with a rustic theme.
1937- the Nazis open an art
exhibit of banned artworks and artists called Entartete Kunst- Degenerate Art.-
Works of Dali and Duchamp, Grosz, Lippschitz, Kandinsky and Miro, with
appropriate insults underneath. The next day Hitler dedicated the Great German
Art Collection, having cleansed the German art world for National Socialist
art, mostly bad deco-greco nudes and dumb Nordic medieval fantasy scenes.
1955 DISNEYLAND OPENED- Walt
Disney's dream of a perfect family amusement park, called 'The Happiest Place
on Earth" was declared open with movie celebrities like Ronald Reagan, Art
Linkletter and the Mouseketeers in attendance. Walt Disney expected to get
10,000 visitors that first day. They got
100,000. Facilities broke down from the huge crowds and the haste with which
the park was built. Concrete pavement
which was poured the night before was still soft under people's feet, there
were no working water fountains and the car parking was a nightmare. To the
Disneyland workers opening day was nicknamed 'Black Sunday". Despite all,
Disneyland became a huge success.
1967 – The Monkees performed at
Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix was their opening act.
1968- The Beatles musical cartoon
feature The Yellow Submarine premiered in London’s Piccadilly Circus. Look Out
! It’s the Blue Meanies!!
1988- A home video tape was
released of actor Rob Lowe making whoopee with two underage girls in his hotel
room.
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