Birthdays: Martin Luther, Giuseppe Verdi, Henry Cavendish 1731- the chemist who discovered Hydrogen, Helen Hayes, Mary Blair, Louis Lumiere, Thelonius Monk, Rod Scribner, LaVerne Harding, Boer leader Paul Kruger, Alberto Giacometti Tanya Tucker, Harold Pinter, Richard Tucker, James Clavel, Jodi Benson the Little Mermaid, David Lee Roth, Bradley Whitford is 55, Sharon Osbourne is 60
1953- "Winky Dink and
You" show. Children were invited to place a piece of celluloid acetate on
their t.v. screens from a kit and help Winky Dink through numerous adventures
by drawing on their t.v. screens. Of course many kids didn’t wait for the
acetate but just drew on their family TVs with indelible markers. The birth of
Interactive T.V. -?
1957- RKO Studios, who produced
King Kong, The John Ford Westerns and the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals,
was sold to Desilu- the television production company of Lucille Ball and Desi
Arnez.
1962- The BBC banned on air play
of a novelty record The Monster Mash, by Bobby Picket. For some reason they
considered it offensive.
1968- Jane Fonda does her
zero-gravity striptease and runs into a kinky organist, the film Barbarella
premiered.
1980- Actor William 'Billy"
Thomas, also known in the Our Gang kiddie comedies as Buckwheat, died at 49.
His last words weren't "O' Taayy !"
1985- Orson Welles and Yul Brynner
die one hour apart. They were both 70. Welles had just finished taping yet
another appearance on the Merv Griffin Show. Brynner had a furious smoking
habit, supposedly leaving one lit cigarette in every room of his house as he
paced around thinking. When he knew he was dying of the stuff, he recorded
several television spots to be aired after his death. He looked squarely at
camera and said: " I smoked. -Don't."
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