Birthdays: Clara Barton, Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway,
Helena Rubinstein, Rod Serling, Charles Pathe, Jimmie Buffet, Quentin Crisp,
Mike Mazurki, Conrad Hilton- Paris’ granddad, Anwar El Sadat. Larry Csonka,
Burne Hogarth, Ishmail Merchant, Maurice Utrillo, Kid Ory, Barbara Mandrell,
Dame Rebecca West, Clark Clifford, Annie Lennox is 61, Howard Beckerman, Karl
Rove, Sissie Spacek is 65, CCH Pounder is 62
1541- After the Christmas services, Michelangelo’s fresco
The Last Judgement was unveiled, done for the Altar wall of the Sistine Chapel
beneath his famous ceiling.
1931-The first BBC World Service Network broadcast. An
address by King George V called "Around the Empire".
1937-NBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the legendary
Arturo Toscanini premieres with its first radio broadcast.
1955- Chuck Jone's 'One Froggy Evening' premiered. Director
Steven Spielberg called it the "Citizen Kane of Cartoons." If you
wonder why you never heard the old time ditty 'The Michigan Rag' anywhere else
but here, was because Chuck Jones & Mike Maltese wrote it specifically for
the cartoon.
1957- Disney film Old Yeller premiered.
1963- Walt Disney’s The Sword in the Stone released. First
animated feature directed by Wolfgang,” Woolie” Reitherman.
1977- Charlie Chaplin died quietly in his sleep at Vevey,
Switzerland. He was 86.
1980- Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns finished reading Simon
Schaara’s novel about the Battle of Gettysburg called The Killer Angels. He
tells his father he is inspired to make a documentary about the Civil War. The
Civil War took six years to make and ran in 1990, but it was one of the most
popular documentary films in the US and redefined the medium of documentary
filmmaking.
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