Birthdays: Caligula 12AD, Commodus 161AD, Amilcare
Ponchielli, Eldridge Cleaver, Buddy Hackett, James Coburn, Itshak Perleman is 69,
Van Morrison, Arthur Godfrey, Richard Baseheart, Rocky Marciano. Alan J.
Lerner, Hugh Harman,, Maria Montressori (of the Montressori Method of
education), William Saroyan, Richard Gere is 65, Chris Tucker is 42.
1928- In Berlin the ThreePenny Opera premiered, music by
Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bertholdt Brecht with Lotte Lenya as Pirate Jenny.
Mackie Messer or Mack the Knife is born.
1935- Disney cartoon Plutos’ Judgement Day.
1938- Walt Disney puts ten thousand down to buy 51 acres on
Buena Vista Street in Burbank. He will build his modern studio there.
1946- Looney Toon short 'Walky Talky Hawky' the first
Foghorn Leghorn. The character was based on a Fred Allen radio character
Senator Clayton Langhorn, that poked fun at bombastic Southern conservative
politicians.
1948- Disney's 'Melody Time' premiered.
1948- Movie star Robert Mitchum was busted for smoking pot
with a blonde in the Hollywood Hills. This would have normally smoked his
career but the new postwar outlaw, noir attitude was in vogue. So bad-boy
Mitchum emerged from county jail more popular than ever. When asked what he
thought of being in jail, he said it's not much different than being
free....but you meet a better clientele of people IN jail.
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