Birthdays: Cannaletto, Lotte
Lenya, Wynton Marsalis, George C. Scott, Pierre Trudeau, Lee Harvey Oswald,
Mike Dytka, Peter Boyle, Inger Stevens, Violetta Chamorro, Wendy Wasserstein,
Wynton Marsalis, Martina Navratilova, Zack Efron is 23, Jean Claude Van Damme,
the Muscles from Brussels- is 54.
1896- Joseph Pulitzer's N.Y.
Journal American created the first Sunday Color Comics supplement.
1922- The British Broadcast Corp
or BBC formed.
1926- In Hollywood Sid Grauman's
Egyptian Theater opens.
1946- Walt Disney premiered The
Story of Menstruation.
1950- In a heated and emotional
showdown in the Directors Guild all motions by C.B. DeMille and Frank Capra to
extend the Hollywood anti-Communist blacklist to include expulsion from the
Director's Guild are defeated. Billy Wilder, John Huston, John Ford and Mervyn
LeRoy supported President Joe Mankiewicz who blocked the Blacklist Motions, and
they also prevented a recall vote on Mankiewicz' s presidency.
1954- Hi & Lois comic strip
debuted.
1967- Walt Disney's last cartoon
done under his supervision "the Jungle Book." premiered. Disney had
died the previous December. If you remember the film the end sequence Mowgli
meets four vultures who talk like the Beatles but sing barbershop quartet. That’s
because the characters were supposed to sing a Beatles parody song but Walt
felt the group would soon be forgotten so he didn't want to date the film.
1974- Tobe Hooper's low budget
cult film Texas Chainsaw Massacre first opened. Despite one film critic calling
it " a bunch of sick crap" it became a huge hit.
1984-
Handsome young television star John Eric Hexum died after shooting himself with
a prop pistol loaded with blanks. The concussion of compressed air shattered
his skull at close range. He was playing at mock- Russian Roulette. His last
words were "Lets see if I can do myself in this time!"
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