Birthdays: Sir Francis Bacon, D.W.
Griffith, Charles Gordon Lord Byron, August Strindberg, Andre Marie Ampere
(electric Amps), 1960’s UN Secretary General U- Thant, Ann Southern, Sam Cooke,
John Hurt is 75, George McManus, Joseph Waumbaugh, J.J. Johnson, Seymour
Cassell, Jim Jarmusch is 62, Linda Blair
is 57, Piper Laurie is 83, Diane Lane is 50
1918- A Manitoba judge tries to
outlaw movie comedies, because they tend to make the public "too
frivolous".
1938- On a bare stage, Thorton
Wilder’s play Our Town premiered.
1947- Hollywood first commercial
television station KTLA went on the air for regular broadcasting. At the time
in all of LA there were only 350 TV sets.
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1949-Tex Avery’s cartoon "Bad
Luck Blackie".
1968-T.V. comedy review show Rowan
& Martin’s Laugh In premiered. It launched the careers of Lilly Tomlin,
Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan. You bet your sweet Bippy!
1975- Hollywood agents Ron Meyer
and Michael Ovitz leave William Morris and form the Creative Artists Agency, or
CAA.
1984-
Apple releases the Macintosh I personal computer.
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