Birthdays: Robert F. Kennedy, Maya
Plisetskaya, Gene Tierney, Dick Smothers, Bo Derek is 59, Sean Young is 49,
Richard Dawson, Estelle Parsons, Barbera Hendricks, Duane Allman, Joe Walsh,
Chester Gould the creator of Dick Tracy, Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis the
first baseball commissioner, Alastair Cooke, Ming Na -the voice of Muhlan
1895- Beethoven’s opera Fidelio
premiered. He rewrote the overture four times and still wasn’t happy with it.
So he rewrote it once more and published the other four as the Leonore
Overtures.
1947- The longest running
television show in history- Meet the Press, premiered. And it is still on
today.
1998-
Several state governments and the US tobacco industry reach a landmark
settlement arising from lawsuits over smoking illnesses. The trial also killed
off once and for all ads featuring The Marlboro Cowboy and Joe Camel, a cartoon
character that at one point was as recognizable to children as Donald Duck.
1998-
Pixar’s film A Bugs Life was generally released.
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