Birthdays: Piero 'the Fatuous'
DeMedici, King Francis Ist of France-1494, H.L. Mencken, Maurice Chevalier, Ben
Blue, Jesse Owens, Barry White, Alfred A. Knopf, Ian Holm is 83, Hans Zimmer,
Rachael Ward, Michael Odaatje-author of The English Patient, Margaret Hamilton
-"I'm mellllttinnng,,oooohh.."
Joe Pantoliano “Joey Pants”, Louis C.K. is 47, Jennifer Hudson is 33.
1941-THE WALT DISNEY STRIKE ENDS-
Everyone goes back to work after the NLRB, with a lot of behind the scenes
pressure from the Bank of America, settled the dispute. Walt Disney had to
recognize the cartoonists guild, give screen credits, double the salaries of
low paid workers retroactive to May 29th and re-hire animator Art Babbitt. Disney immediately got on a train to
Washington to try and convince the feds to reverse the decision or get an
injunction in court. He failed. Ironically within a few months the war would
break out and artists who had been bitter foes would be compelled to work side
by side in the U.S. Army Picture Unit.
1954- Television comedian Ernie
Kovacs married Edie Adams, the Muriel Cigar Girl. They married in Mexico and at
the insistence of Kovacs used a priest who read the entire service in Spanish,
a language neither of them understood.
1953- THE RED REDHEAD-? McCarthy
investigators accuse top t.v. star Lucille Ball of being a communist. She and
husband Desi Arnez immediately went and testified that Lucy’s grandfather was
an old Socialist who routinely enrolled all his grandkids in the Communist
Party as a birthday present. America wouldn’t stand to see their favorite t.v.
family go down, so the matter quickly blew over. Years later Desi would
condescendingly joke:" Lucy didn’t even know who the mayor of L.A. was.
The only thing that was red about Lucy was her hair, and even that wasn’t real
!"
1965- The Beatles release
'Yesterday'.
1966-"Gee Mr. French..."
Family Affair premiered on TV.
1966- The Monkees TV show
premiered.
1974- Ethiopian Emperor Rastafari
Halie Selassie, "The Lion of Judah" and beloved symbol of the
Rastafarians, is overthrown by his military officers.
1977-South African nationalist
leader Steve Biko died in jail from a savage beating during an interrogation. The
policemen who killed him admitted it in 1997.
1992- Anthony Perkins, the star of
Hitchcock’s Psycho, died of HIV/AIDS. His widow, Berry Berensen the sister of
actress Marisa Berensen, died in one of the hijacked airliners that plunged
into the World Trade Center on 9-11.
2005-
Disneyland Hong Kong opened.
2010-
At the Video Music Awards, singer Lady Gaga wears a dress made out of 50 lbs of
raw meat.
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