B-Days: Georgia O'Keefe, Bill Melendez, Irvin Rommel the
"Desert Fox", Avrial Harriman, Daniel Barenboim, George Bolet,
William Pitt the Elder, Veronica Lake, Beverly D'Angelo is 63, Mantovanni, Ed
Asner is 85, Sam Waterson is 74, Otis Armstrong, Petula Clark is 82
1828- Author Victor Hugo signed a contract with Gosselin's
Publishing House to write a story about the cathedral of Notre Dame du Paris.
He was paid 4,000 francs in advance, The HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME was the
result.
1907- The comic strip Mutt & Jeff debuted. The strip was
so popular that it’s creator Harry “Bud “ Fisher became a celebrity and
negotiated the first large backend deal.
1926- FIRST NETWORK BROADCAST- NBC hooks up 20 cities across
America and Canada for a radio program "The Steinway Hour" with
Arthur Rubinstein. It came from the
Steinway building penthouse on 57th St. in Manhattan.
1934- Animator Bill Tytla started work at Walt Disney's on a
trial basis for $150 a week. He would create Grumpy the Dwarf, The Devil in
Fantasia and Dumbo.
1958- Movie star Tyrone Power was
filming a sword duel with George Sanders on the film Solomon and Sheba. He
paused and told the director “ I have to stop, I don’t feel well”. He then
dropped dead of a heart attack. He was 44. His father Tyrone Power Sr had also
died on a Hollywood movie set in 1931 of a heart attack,
1965- Walt Disney announced he
planned to build a second Disneyland, this time in Orlando Florida.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO- 1989- Disney's The Little Mermaid debuted.
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