Birthdays: King Henry II Plantagenet, Antonio Vivaldi,
Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal, Count Pulaski, Miriam Makeba, Nancy
Wilson, Bernard Haittink, John Garfield, Knute Rockne, Chastity Bono,
prizefighter Ray Boom-Boom Mancini, Patsy Kensit. Katherine O’Hara is 61, James
Ellroy, Mykleti Williamson. Ward Kimball would be 101, Ken Duncan
1887- William Randolph Hearst buys the little San Francisco
Examiner and builds the Hearst newspaper empire. Hearst’s father was owner of
the famed Comstock Mine and thought his son crazy for wasting his time with the
penny-paper business. Hearst died in 1951 at age 88, leaving an estate of $160
million. Today Hearst publications is still 15 magazines and broadcast
networks..
1924- The song “Happy Birthday to You” copyrighted by
Claydon Sunny.
1936- Screenwriter Dudley Nichols publicly refuses the Best
Screenplay Oscar for John Ford’s “The Informer” as protest in support of the
struggling Writer’s Guild.
1946- Alex Raymond's comic strip 'Rip Kirby" premiered.
1952- Ronald Reagan married Nancy Davis at the Little Red
Church on Coldwater Canyon blvd. in L.A. William Holden was best man.
1952- Ernest Hemingway wrote a letter to his
publisher:" I've completed a new novel. I think it's my best one to date."
The Old Man and the Sea.
1956- Burger King introduced their signature hamburger the
Whopper.
1961- In the early stages of filming Cleopatra in London,
actress Elizabeth Taylor developed pneumonia and slipped into a coma. She would
have died, had not doctors at a convention at London’s Dorchester Hotel
performed and emergency tracheotomy. When you seen the film today you can still
see the tracheotomy scar at the base of her throat.
1994- 375 pound comedian John Candy died of heart failure in
his sleep. He was 43.
2000- The Japanese launch of Sony Playstation 2. The most
anticipated videogame launch in history. 600,000 units were sold. One store in
Tokyo’s Ginza had 4,000 people lined up at their door.
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