Birthdays: Tallyrand, Charlie Halas a co-founder of the NFL,
James Joyce, Ayn Rand, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifitz, Abba Eban, Farrah
Fawcett, Garth Brooks, Christie Brinkley, Tommy Smothers, Stan Getz, James
Dickey, Liz Smith, Elaine Stritch, Brent Spinner is 66, Shakira is 38
1957- Elizabeth Taylor married producer Mike Todd. Todd was
killed in a plane crash a year later. Despite her famous association with
Richard Burton, Taylor later said Mike Todd was the only one she ever truly
loved.
1961- In a little Greenwich Village nightclub called the
Blue Angel a young stand up comic got his first debut. His name was Woody Allen
1963- In England, singer Helen Schapiro was on tour. On the lower end of her program card was a
new band called the Beatles.
1971- Murakami-Wolf's TV special "The Point" with
Dustin Hoffman narrating and Harry Nilsson's music. In 1973, Hoffman's track
was rerecorded by Ringo Starr for some reason. “Me and my Ar-row…”
1985- O.J. Simpson married Nicole Brown Simpson.
2006-The Cartoon Riots. A Danish newspaper printed a
political cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed with his turban shaped like a bomb.
This so offended the Moslem world that rioting broke out in Lebanon, Iraq,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jakharta and European capitols. Grenades were thrown at
Danish embassies and Danish nationals made to flee. Cartoonist Peter
Westergaard dodged a Somali man who attacked him with an axe, and even today
needs a bodyguard.
2014- Award winning actor Phillip Seymour-Hoffman died of a
drug overdose.
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