Birthdays: James Fennimore Cooper, William Howard Taft,
Porfirio Diaz- Mexican President 1884-1911, Agatha Christie, Cannonball
Adderly, Bruno Walter, Yuri Noorstein, Merlin Olsen, Hank Williams, Oliver
Stone, Jean Renoir (film director and son of painter August Renoir), Alexander
Korda, Jesse Norman, Robert Benchley, Ron Shelton, Fay Wray, Tommy Lee Jones is
68, Britain’s Prince Harry is 30
1930- The first Blondie comic strip.
1930- Hoagy Carmichael first recorded “Georgia on My Mind”.
1936-MGM producer Irving Thallberg, the "Boy
Genius" of Hollywood, died of pneumonia at age 31. He was the
inspiration for F.Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon". His boss
Louis B. Mayer was beginning to resent his popularity. When actress Gloria
Swanson asked Mayer how he felt about Thallberg's death Mayer replied:"
God has been very kind to me."
1965- "Green Acres" t.v. show debuts. Arnold Ziffle
the pig gains national prominence.
1973- Star Trek animated series by Filmation premiered. This
was the first time Kirk, Spock, Sulu and Uhura were united again with a
Roddenberry script since the original series was cancelled in 1967.
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