Birthdays: Napoleon Bonaparte, Leon Theremin- inventor of that
weird electronic musical instrument that is in all those 1950s flying saucer
movies, Samuel Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, King Frederick Wilhelm Ist of
Prussia 1685, T.E. Lawrence of Arabia, Ethel Barrymore, Huntz Hall, Bill Baird,
Edna Ferber, Sir Robert Bolt, Rose-Marie is 90, Linda Ellerbee, Gene Upshaw,
Oscar Peterson, Shimon Peres, Mike “Mannix” Connors, Nicholas Roeg, Anthony
Andrews, Ben Afleck is 41, Debra Messing is 45, Julia Child, Jennifer Lawrence
is 23.
1843- Tivoli Gardens opened in Copenhagen. One of the oldest
amusement parks in the world. King Christian said “ When people are amused,
they don’t worry about politics. :
Hans Christian Andersen was a frequent visitor. Walt Disney
visited to get inspiration for Disneyland.
1885- Sir Richard Burton completed his translation from
medieval Persian of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. There had been earlier
attempts like a French edition in 1809, but Burton’s edition introduced the
west to Aladdin and his magic lamp, Sinbad the sailor and Scheherazade.
1935- Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Pictures merge to
become Twentieth Century Fox.
1946- Disney’s Make Mine Music, featuring Blue Bayou, All
the Cats Join In, and Willie the Operatic Whale.
1965- The Beatles play their largest U.S. concert yet, at
New York's Shea Stadium.
1969-WOODSTOCK-Three Days of Peace and Music- The rock
concert of the 20th Century opened. The promoters, one of whom was
heir to the Polident Denture Cream fortune, were hoping to host 50,000 people
and launch a recording studio in the quiet New York farming town. What they got
was 500,000 young fans and the social phenomenon that defined an age. At one
point the more conservative elements of the community got a court order to
block the land to be used, but farmer Max Yasgur offered his cow farm for the
site.
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