Birthdays: French King Charles VI the Well-Loved 1380,
Gilbert Stuart, Sven Nykvist, Joseph Conrad real name Josef Korzeniowski, Jean
Luc Godard, Nino Rota, Jim Backus, Maria Callas, Larry Parks, Charles
Pillsbury, Mitsuo Fuchida the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl
Harbor, Darryl Hannah is 54, Katerina Witt, Brendan Fraser is 46, Julianne
Moore is 54, Andrew Stanton is 49, Amanda Seyfried is 29, Ozzie Ozbourne is
65
1894- In Samoa, writer Robert
Louis Stevenson was opening a bottle of wine, when he paused and cried “ What’s
that?”, then he looked at his wife and said “ Does my face look different?”
Then he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 44.
1919- Impressionist painter Pierre
August Renoir died of old age. Suffering from arthritis that left him unable to
paint with his hands, Renoir used a bit that held the brush in his teeth.
1934- Lee Blair, Disney artist and
brother of Preston Blair, Disney artist, married Mary Browne Robinson, Disney
artist. She became the most famous of them as Mary Blair.
1965- The Beatles release the
album Rubber Soul.
1968- Elvis Presley opened in Las
Vegas to rave reviews and packed houses. It marks the beginning of his comeback
and his transition from thin, black leather-jacketed youth to fat, rhinestone
jumpsuit, half tinted sunglasses, karate-swinging middle age.
1974-A 40 foot long inflated pig
broke away from its’ tether at a Pink Floyd photo shoot and became a hazard to
civil aviation. The AeroPork was lost to radar at 8,000 feet.
1991- Hulk Hogan defeated
Undertaker to become WWF champ for the 4th time.
1997 – 56 year old Darlene
Gillespie, an original member of the Mickey Mouse Club, was busted in LA for a
securities fraud scheme.
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