HAPPY FIRST DAY OF CLASSES FOR MANY OF US. Have a great Fall Semester.
Birthdays: King Ludwig II the Mad of Bavaria, Leonard
Bernstein, Walt Kelly, Bret Hart, Lola Montez (flamenco dancing mistress of
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria), Alan Pinkerton, Elvis Costello is 60, Clara Bow,
Ruby Keeler, Monty Hall, Van Johnson, Willis Reed, Frederick Forsythe, Wayne
Shorter, Billy Ray Cyrus, Dr. Bruno Bettleheim, Rolly Fingers, Gene Simmons,
Anne Archer, Tim Burton is 56, Claudia Schiffer is 43, Sir
1970- A young British singer named
Elton John did his first US tour, opening at the Troubadour in LA.
1980- The premiere of the Broadway
musical version of the classic movie 42nd Street. In a moment of Broadway
melodrama producer David Merrick came out on stage and startled the cast and
audience by announcing that the director of the play Gower Champion had died
that very day. 42nd Street went on to be a smash hit. The play itself is about
a Broadway director who works himself to death creating a hit musical.
1989- The Voyager 2 probe left
Neptune and shot off into deep space after completing it reconnaissance of the
outer planets of our solar system. It discovered the rings of Jupiter and
Neptune, the additional moons of these planets, and the volcanoes of the Jovian
moon Io, and the ice of Europa. Today you have ten times more computing power
in your laptop than in the Voyager spacecraft, yet all these years later it
continues to transmit signals back to Earth. Voyager is currently in the
Heliosheath, outer border of our solar system.
1991- At the Emmy ceremony, comic
Gilbert Gottfried (AFLACK duck) upset the audience by a flood of masturbation
jokes about Pee Wee Herman. Fox Network apologized the next day.
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