Birthdays: Torquato Tasso, Marius Pretipa, Raoul Walsh.
Rupert Murdoch is 84, Charlie Ruggles, Lawrence Welk, former British PM Harold
Wilson, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Bobby McFerrin, Sam Donaldson, Justice Antonin
Scalia, Jerry Zucker, Vannevar Bush- MIT scientist who in 1945 predicted
personal computer workstations. Joey Buttafuco, Jules Engel, Douglas Adams, Rob
Paulsen is 59, Terence Howard is 46
1889- The California Legislature splits Orange County from
LA County.
1927- The first Roxy Theater opens at 50th st. & Seventh
Ave. in New York. Roxy was a nickname of theater owner Samuel L. Rothaphel who
pioneered the movie palace and is called the father of De-Luxe presentation.
1943- The Broadway musical team of Richard Rogers and Oscar
Hammerstein opened their first collaboration “Away We Go!”
1971- Philo Farnsworth died of pneumonia at 64. As a young
man in 1922 he had invented the television set, but by the 1960’s he was
forgotten, broke and addicted to painkillers. The only recognition he got was
as a contestant on the quiz show I Got a Secret. He won an $80 check and a
carton of Winston Cigarettes. Today Farnsworth is considered one of the true inventors
of Television, along with John Logie-Baird, Lee DeForrest and Vladimir Zworkin.
1977- Film director Roman Polanski (Rosemary’s Baby,
Chinatown) was arrested for having sex with a 13 year old girl in Jack
Nicholson’s home after he got her stoned on quaaludes. Polanski was charged
with statutory rape. He jumped bail and fled Hollywood for exile in Paris. LA
tried unsuccessfully to get him extradited in 2009.
2011- Mega-flop Mars Needs Moms released.
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