Birthdays: Hugh Walpole, Earl
Charles Grey 1764-English Prime Minister whom the tea blend 'Earl Grey Tea
" is named for, Pope Innocent XII (1615), Abigail Powers Filmore- First
Lady of Millard Filmore, Hugo Wolf, Ted Sears, Sammy Kaye, Danny Kaye, Neil
Sedaka, L. Ron Hubbard, William Macy is 65, Dick Katz, Annabell Gish, Joe Ranft
1928- In New York City, Walt
Disney sent a telegram to his brother Roy back in California, informing him of
his disastrous meeting with producer Charles Mintz. That Mintz had exercised a
clause in their contract to take the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit away
from them. He cabled “ Leaving Tonight, stopping over KC. Arrive Sunday
Morning. Don’t Worry. All Will be Well.” On the train home Walt with Ubb
Iwerks, Les Clark and his wife Lillian came up with a new character named Mickey
Mouse.
1939-Hollywood recognizes the
Screen Director’s Guild later called he DGA. After a nasty battle lasting
several years Guild President Frank Capra signs the contracts representing 80%
of movie directors. They also contractually ensure the custom of the directors
credit being the last one seen at the opening title sequence of a film.
1943- Radio station WNYC goes on
the air.
1944- Abbot & Costello
copyrighted their baseball routine ‘Who’s on First?"
1969- Disney’s comedy about a
Volkswagen beetle "The Love Bug" premiered.
1983- The Larry King Show debuted
on HBO, later moving to CNN. King retired that show in 2010, but still does
shows on cable.
1988-Overly endowed porn star John
Holmes, also called Johnny Wad, died of HIV/AIDS. He claimed to have had sex
with 14,000 women and a few men in his career, but that he contracted the
disease through intravenous drug use. He also got involved with some drug
dealers and was implicated in a murder.
The film Boogie Nights was based on him.
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