Birthdays: First Lady Julia Dent
Grant, General Douglas MacArthur, Stephan Grappelli, Angela Davis, Maria Von
Trapp, Wayne Gretsky "The Great One" is 53, Eartha Kitt, Paul Newman,
Roger Vadim, Jules Feiffer is 86, Henry Jaglom, Anita Baker, Edward Abbey, Gene
Siskel, Scott Glenn, David Straitharn, Randy Rhodes, Ellen DeGeneres is 57
1911- Richard Strauss’ opera Die
Rosenkavalier opens in Vienna. Kaiser Wilhelm was offended by the E.T. Hoffman
story about aristocrats sleeping around with their servants. He called it
"A dirty little play".
1934- Hollywood producer Sam
Goldwyn bought the rights to L. Frank Baum’s book the Wonderful Wizard of Oz to
develop into a movie.
1939- The first day of shooting on
the film Gone With the Wind.
1979- The Dukes of Hazard TV show
premiered.
1983- The software LOTUS 1-2-3 premiered
that helped make IBM’s PC into the most popular business computers in the US.
1984-HELP ME TITO! During the
filming of a Pepsi commercial at LA’s Shrine Auditorium, a magnesium flash
ignited singer Michael Jackson’s Jeri curl hair gel causing him 3rd degree
burns,
1988- Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical
Phantom of the Opera premiered.
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