Birthdays: Michaelangelo
Buonnarotti, Cyrano De Bergerac, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Phil Sheridan, Lou
Costello, Ivan Boesky, Ring Lardner, Gabriele Garcia-Marquez, Valentina Tereschkova
the first woman in space, Tom Arnold, Kiri Te Kanawa, Rob Reiner is 68, Alan
Greenspan, DC Mayor Marion Barry, Stephen Schwartz is 67, Ed McMahon, Shaquille
O’Neal is 43
1927- Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis
opened in the US.
1978- Hustler Magazine publisher
Larry Flynt was shot and crippled by a lunatic.
1979- The film The China Syndrome
premiered. It was about an accident at an American nuclear power plant.. Three
weeks later the real Three Mile Island accident occurred, boosting the box
office. " It's spooky, it's enough
to make you religious" said star Michael Douglas.
1981- CBS News anchor Walter
Cronkite retired. Dan Rather succeeded
him after CBS learned ABC was offering Rather big bux to jump networks. Roger
Mudd, who was thought to be the real successor to Cronkite, left the network to
anchor the History Channel. Dan Rather was the CBS anchor until 2004.
1989-
Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications to become Time Warner, the largest
media conglomerate in the world. They were bought by AOL in 2000 but AOL proved
to be dead weight and they resumed control as TimeWarner in 2003.
1992-
The film The Lawnmower Man premiered. It featured early motion-capture CGI
imagery, and claimed to have the first virtual reality sex scene.
1998-
The Big Lebowski opened in theaters. The Dude Abides…
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