Birthdays: Benjamin Disraeli, Josh Gibson- the Home Run King
of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Pat Weaver-TV exec who created the Today Show
and father of Sigourney Weaver, Frank Zappa, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, Florence
Griffith Joyner, Chris Evert, Phil Roman, Jane Fonda is 77, Paul Winchell born
Pinkus Wilchinski, Keifer Sutherland is 48, Samuel L. Jackson is 66, Ray Romano
is 57, Jane Kaszmarek, Judy Delphy is 45, Jeffrey Katzenberg is 64
1914- The premiere of the first feature length film comedy-
Tilly’s Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and a young
Charlie Chaplin.
1933- Twentieth Century Fox signed 5 year old Shirley Temple
to a seven year contract.
1937-Walt Disney's " Snow White and the Seven
Dwarves" had its grand premiere at the Cathay Circle Theater. The first
feature length American cartoon, it became the box office champ of 1938, earning
4 times more than any other film that year.
1944- Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros premiered in Mexico
City.
1968- The Apollo 8 spacecraft was launched to the Moon. Besides
winning the Space Race, and doing the famous Christmas Night reading of Genesis
from lunar orbit, Apollo 8 had one board one of the very first mini-computers.
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was one cubic foot in size, had stored
memory, a language (DSKY) and a digital display. It’s the forerunner of the
personal computer.
1971- Richard William's animated TV special "A
Christmas Carol" with Alastair Sim reprising his Scrooge.
1979- Disney’s Sci-Fi flop The Black Hole opened in
theaters.
2012- The Era will come to an
End, according to the ancient Maya Calendar. The Maya believed that the world
as they knew it occasionally was turned upside down. The word for earthquake
also meant revolution. Translating Mayan can be open to interpretation, so end
of an era may also mean beginning of a new age of enlightenment.
2012- The Walt Disney Company
spent $4.06 billion to buy Lucasfilm, ILM and the Star Wars rights. George
Lucas retired to do philanthropic pursuits.
2089- According to Ridley Scott,
today the good ship Prometheus lands on the Original Planet.
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