Birthdays:
Sir Robert Walpole the first British Prime Minister, Mother Theresa,
Albert the Prince Consort, John Wilkes Booth, Guilliame Appollinaire who coined
the term Surrealism, General Maxwell Taylor, Christopher Isherwood, McCauley Culkin
is 34, Geraldine Ferrarro, Dr. Lee DeForrest, Ben Bradlee, Barbet Schroeder,
Branford Marsalis, Chris Pine is 34,
Melissa McCarthy is 44
1498- Michelangelo gets a job. The
big Florentine stonecutter was commissioned by Pope Alexander VI Borgia to
carve the Pieta, Mary lamenting over the body of Jesus.
1576- Great artist Titian died at
age 99. He outlived all the artists of the Renaissance, worked every day of his
life and might have gone on, had he not caught the plague.
1918- 17 year old Walt Disney
faked his parents signature in order to enlist to fight in World War I. Assigned to the ambulance corps, he arrived
in Europe as the war was ending.
1946 - George Orwell published
"Animal Farm". Orwell said he conceived the idea for the novel while
watching out his window a small boy driving a huge draft horse. The horse could
have easily crushed the boy had it the free will but instead patiently endured
the boys taunts and flicks with a small switch.
1946- First day of shooting on
Jean Cocteau’s film Belle et le Bete, Beauty & the Beast.
1958- First day of shooting on the
Alfred Hitchcock film North By Northwest. Conceived as a story that ended in a
chase across the stone faces of Mt. Rushmore. The original title of Ernst
Lehman’s script was The Man Who Hung From Lincoln’s Nose.
1980- Director Tex Avery died
after collapsing in the parking lot of Hanna-Barbera. Two weeks before he was
asked by a friend why he was working in Hanna & Barbera. Tex laughed:" Hey, Don’t you know? this is where
all the elephants come to die!"
1997- Special effects house Boss
Studios, closed.
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