Birthdays: Thomas Edison, Leslie
Nielsen, Eva Gabor, Tina Louise-Ginger on Gilligan’s Island is 80, Rudolph
Firkusny, Joe Mankewicz, Sidney Sheldon, Burt Reynolds, Sergio Mendes of the
band Brazil 66, Al Eugster, Brandy Norwood, Bobby Picket -who recorded the
Monster Mash, Jennifer Aniston is 46, Sheryl Crow is 53, Sarah Palin is 51
1936- Famed German Expressionist
animator Oscar Fishinger escaped Nazi Germany for the U.S.
1948- Famed Russian film director
Sergei Eisenstein died of a heart attack.
1963- Bell Jar author Sylvia Plath
laid out bread and butter and two glasses of milk for her children, then stuck
her head into an oven and committed suicide. Her poet husband Ted Hughes who
had abandoned her, waited until 1998 to tell his side of the story. Hughes
wrote stories for his children like The Iron Giant.
1976-Chuck Jone’s TV special
"Mowgli’s Brothers."
2000- Disney’s The Tigger Movie
premiered.
2005- Playwright Arthur Miller
died at 90.
2006-While hunting for quail, Vice
President Dick Cheney accidentally shot his hunting partner. After being
treated for buckshot in his face, the victim, an attorney named Whittington,
went before the press and apologized to the Vice President. In 2009 it was
admitted that Whittington was not a close friend of Cheney, and that his wounds
were more life threatening than first reported. Dick Cheney became the first
Vice President since Aaron Burr in 1804 to shoot someone while in office.
Nothing happened to Burr either.
2012- Singer actress Whitney
Houston was found dead in her bathtub. She was 48, She was preparing for the
Grammy Awards when she had a heart attack and drowned in the water.
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