Birthdays: Will Rogers, Art Carney, Disney animator Ben
Sharpsteen, Loretta Swit, Martin Balsam, Gig Young, Darla Hood, Joe Neikro,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Ralph Maccio, Andrea McArdle, Walter Cronkite, Matthew
McConnaughy is 45, Laura Bush is 68, Kathy Griffin is 54
1931-One of the pioneering trumpet innovators of the new
music called Jazz was Buddy Bolden. He was one of the first soloists to
improvise within the body of a song, and so doing paved the way for the greats
like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. But by 1931 Bolden was forgotten. This
day he died broke in the Louisiana Home for the Insane. His family couldn't even
afford a Dixieland Band to play at his funeral.
1952- UNIVAC, the first all electronic business computer,
accurately predicted Dwight Eisenhower would win in a landslide. The first
computer projected results for an election.
1955- In Arizona, Willie Bioff, former IATSE union official,
who tried to hijack the Hollywood unions (Including the Disney cartoonists) for
Frank Nitti's gang, turns the key in his Ford pickup and explodes. He had
turned informer and was in the Witness Protection plan.
1963- The Beatles are part of the Queens Royal Command
performance in London. John Lennon tells the audience: " Will the people
in the cheap seats clap their hands?, and if the rest of you would just rattle
your jewelry.."
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