Birthdays: George De La Tour,
Wyatt Earp, Dr. David Livingston, William Jennings Bryan, Sir Richard Burton
(The African explorer, not Liz Taylor's ex), Charles M. Russell, Jacky Moms
Mabley, Adolf Eichmann, Phillip Roth, Adolf Galland, Ursula Andress, Patrick
McGoohan, Ornette Coleman, Harvey Weinstein, Bruce Willis is 60, Glenn Close is
68,
animator Richard Williams is 82
1928- the Amos & Andy radio
show debuted. NBC Blue Network, WMAQ in Chicago.
1953- First T.V. broadcast of the
Oscar ceremony. That utterly memorable circus film
"The Greatest Show on
Earth" won top honors. Ironically
it was Cecil B. DeMille’s only Oscar of his career. Before TV, the Oscars
ceremony included a dinner and an hour of dancing before the awards were presented.
1954- Singer Sammy Davis Jr. lost
an eye in an auto accident in the California desert. He was left lying bleeding
unattended in a hallway in Riverside County Hospital. This was because he was
black and it was a segregated facility. Finally actor Jeff Chandler found him
and forced the doctors to treat him. Friend Frank Sinatra urged Davis out of
his depression and got him out on stage again. That first night at Ciro’s
nightclub the entire Ratpack- Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford each
preformed on stage wearing a black eye patch similar to Davis’.
1959- Disney released The Shaggy
Dog, their first live action comedy hit.
1962- The first Pillsbury Doughboy
commercial.
1984- I’LL BE BACK- James Cameron
began shooting the film the Terminator. He first considered casting O.J.
Simpson for the cyborg killer before settling on Austrian weightlifter Arnold
Swarzenegger.
1993- Monkey-cam debuted on the
David Letterman Show.
2004-
Brian Maxwell, the inventor of the Power Bar nutrition snack, died of a heart
attack at age 51.
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