Birthdays-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kaiser Wilhelm II,
Charles Dodgson-better known as Lewis Carroll, Eduard Lalo, William Randolph
Hearst, Samuel Gompers, Jerome Kern, Skitch Henderson, Donna Reed, Bridgette
Fonda, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kate Wolf, Ross Bagdasarian a.k.a. David Seville-
creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks, James Cromwell, Mimi Rogers, Keith
Olbermann, Frank Miller is 58, Patton Oswalt is 46
1926- Englishman John Logie Baird demonstrated his
televisor system- the first true television image.
1927- Charlie Chaplin’s short comedy The Circus
premiered.
1944- WAS WALT A RED? Walt Disney donated money and may have
attended a tribute to cartoonist Art Young in New York who had died three weeks
before. Art Young was a political lefty and a close friend of John Reed and
Louise Bryant, founders of the American Communist Party. The F.B.I. noted the
memorial to Young was sponsored by the socialist newspaper The New Masses and
other attendees included progressives like Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes,
Ernest Hemingway and Carl Sandburg.
Walt was already
a founding member of the Hollywood Society for the Preservation of American
Ideals, a group of conservative Hollywood celebrities meant to counteract the
rampant Hollywood Liberals. Disney later became an F.B.I. informant, but like
Reagan, it may have been after the F.B.I. reminded him of his attendance at
this little soiree'....
1948- The Wireway Company announced the first tape
recorder for sale using the new magnetic tape. It cost $150.
1997- First day shooting on the Cohen Bros. film The Big
Lebowski- The Dude Abides.
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