birthdays: Woodrow
Wilson, Robert Sessions, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Hildegarde Neff, Edgar
Winter, Stan “The Man” Lee is 92, Martin
Branner the creator of Winnie Winkle, Johnny Otis, Martin Milner (1-Adam-12),
Lew Ayres, Lou Jacobi, Terri Garber, Denzel Washington is 60, Maggie Smith is 80,
Sienna Miller is 33, animator Rick Farmiloe is 58
1895- THE BIRTHDAY OF CINEMA- In Paris at the Grande Cafe
des Capuchines the Lumiere brothers combined Edison's kinetoscope using George
Eastman’s roll film with a magic lantern projector and showed a motion picture
to an audience in a theater. Back in the U.S. Thomas Edison thought the idea of
projecting film in a theater was foolish and would never catch on. They called
their device a Cinematograph, hence the word Cinema is born. The screening
included dancers and people leaving a factory but the biggest reaction out of
the audience was from shots of waves crashing on a rocky beach. The audience in
the front row jumped for fear of getting wet.
1897- Edmond Rostands famous play CYRANO DE BERGERAC
premiered in Paris. There really lived a poet-duelist in the 1640’s named
Cyrano de Bergerac-Servigan but little was known about him. Rostand created the
hopelessly lovesick big nosed hero who helps another man romance his Roxanne.
1928- Last recording of Ma Rainey, The Mother of the Blues.
1928- Louis Armstrong recorded West End Blues.
1944- ON THE TOWN, a musical written by Betty Comden &
Adolf Green and young composer Leonard Bernstein premiered in NY.
1968- The Beatles White Album goes to number one on the pop
charts.
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