Birthdays: Sir Robert Peel founder
of London’s police force- the Bobbies, outlaw Belle Starr, John Carradine,
William Burroughs, Arthur Ochs Schulzburger, Hank Aaron is 82, Tim Holt,
Barbera Hershey, Charlotte Rampling, Roger Staubach, Michael Mann is 72, Bobby
Brown, H. R. Giger, Red Buttons, Christopher Guest, Jennifer Jason Leigh is 54,
Laura Linney is 51, Michael Sheen is 46
1887- Verdi’s opera
"Otello" debuted. Guiseppi Verdi had retired from composing after
1875 but was goaded by a new generation of composers like Arrigo Boito to take
up his pen once more.
1919- Charlie Chaplin, Mary
Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith form the United Artists Studio.
1921- The Loews State Theater in
Chicago opened.
1937- Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times premiered. Chaplin was
inspired to lampoon modern technological madness when he was invited to view
the auto assembly production lines in Detroit and saw men moving like machines.
1953- Walt Disney’s "Peter
Pan" premiered.
1956- Darryl Zanuck resigned from
20th Century Fox, the studio he built into a powerhouse. He later won back the
chairmanship in 1962 only to be ousted finally in 1970.
1957- Mel Lazarus’ comic strip
Miss Peach debuted.
1974- Hearst Media heiress Patty
Hearst kidnapped at gunpoint by an underground radical group called the
Symbianese Liberation Army. She is kept
in a closet, brainwashed, changes her name to Tania, does prison time for a
bank job, and later appears in several John Water’s movies.
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