Birthdays: Anne of
Cleves 1515- Henry VIII’s fourth wife. Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins, Mafioso
Joe Valachi, Michael Farraday, Meryl Streep is 63, John Houseman, Joanie Jett,
Erich Von Stronheim, Tom Lasorda is 87, Paul Muni, Debbie Boone, Scott Baio is
54
1925- Lon Chaney’s
horror classic film the Phantom of the Opera premiered.
1954- Davy Crockett
at the Alamo with Fess Parker, premiered on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of
Color TV show.
1964- The T.V.
series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. premiered. “ Open Channel D Please..”
1964- Jerome
Robbins’ “The Fiddler on the Roof “ opened on Broadway. IBased on the story “Tevye
and His Daughters by Scholom Alecheim in 1894. In 1953 Jerome Robbins had named
names to the HUAC committee to save his career. Now in Fiddler he had to use
blacklisted actors like Zero Mostel and Beatrice Arthur who despised him.
1976- TV show
Charlie’s Angels premiered. It made a star out of Farrah Fawcett.
1979-Hanna Barbera's Super Globetrotter's
Show, featuring Multi-Man, Sphere Man, Gizmo-Man, Spaghetti-Man and Fluid-Man.
1984- Michael Eisner
named CEO of the Walt Disney Corporation.
1994- Friends premiered.
1994- Friends premiered.
1996- Seymour Cray,
genius engineer who designed the most powerful supercomputers for the Control
Data Corporation and Cray Computers, was killed in a car accident. He was 71.
2004- Lost premiered.
2004- Lost premiered.
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