B-Dayz: George Pullman
of Pullman Railroad cars, General Matthew Ridgeway, Jean Harlow, Diana
Barrymore, Akira Ifukube the composer of the music scores to movies like
Godzilla, Tone Loc, Jacky Joyner-Kersee, James Doohan, Ronald Searle, Bruno
Bozzetto, Will Eisner, Bobby Driscoll, Herschel Walker, George Miller, Miranda
Richardson is 57
1875-Claude Bizet's opera CARMEN debuts. Parisians usually
go to see comedies at the Opera Comique and most thought this would be about
the adventures of a coquettish Spanish gypsy. Instead they saw one of the great
dark dramas of opera, a story of sexual power and obsession. The shocking sight
of a slutty smuggler getting knifed by a burnout soldier driven mad with sex
was so upsetting, it was booed off the stage. Bizet never got over the fiasco,
he died six months later. Carmen is now one of the world's most famous operas.
1925- The Warner Bros started up LA’s first radio station,
KFWB. Their father Ben had coined the letters to mean Keep Fighting Warner
Bros, because of their constant bickering. It is still on the air today.
1950-Paramount's "Quack-a-Doodle-Doo" The first
Baby Huey cartoon.
1950-Don Herbert teaches millions of kids about science as
televisions Mr. Wizard.
1966- William Frawley, the bald,
gravel-voiced neighbor Fred Murtz on I Love Lucy, had just seen the movie
Inside Daisy Clover on Hollywood Blvd. He was outside the Knickerbocker Hotel
when he lit a cigar, then dropped dead of a heart attack. He was 79. When his
TV partner Vivian Vance heard the news, she said “ Champagne for Everyone!”
They never liked each other much. She died in 1979.
1975- First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club in a
garage in Menlo Park Ca.
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