Birthdays: Big Jim Fisk , Edmund
Rostand, Lon Chaney, Sir William Harvey, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ali McGraw,
Toshiro Mifune, Debbie Reynolds is 82, Phil Neikro, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell,
Bo Schembechler, Annette O’Toole, Barry Sonnenfeld, Rachel Maddow is 40,
Disney animator Andreas
Deja is 58.
1944- Tex Avery's "Screwball
Squirrel" Only a few shorts were made. As one artist reminisced:" Everyone found that squirrel just
too annoying!"
1949- Zsa Zsa Gabor married George
Sanders ( the voice of Shere Khan in Jungle Book)
1976- Two college dropouts, Steve
Wozniak and Steve Jobs started a company named Apple Computers. A third partner
small businessman Ron Wayne sold his shares to Jobs & Woz before they filed
papers of incorporation. He didn’t want to get stuck with the bill when they
failed. He sold his third for $800. In 2011 Apple surpassed Microsoft as the
worlds richest company.
1984- Motown star Marvin Gaye was
shot to death by his own father in an argument over plans for the singer's 45th
birthday party the next day.
1995- Chasen's restaurant closed.
Former actor Frederick Chasen opened his exclusive Beverly Hills Restaurant in
1936. James Stewart and Mickey Rooney
were regulars. During the filming of Cleopatra (1963) Elizabeth Taylor had
Chasen's chili flown out to her in Rome. Walt Disney met Leopold Stokowski over
dinner at Chasens and conceived the film Fantasia, Orson Welles and Joe
Mankiewicz got into a fistfight over the script outline of Citizen Kane there,
Bogart, Bacall and John Huston discussed how to fight the Hollywood Blacklist
there. Today there is a booth from Chasens preserved in the Reagan Presidential
Library.
1996- Animation World Network,
Toontown’s virtual trade magazine, started up. www.AWN.com
2004-
G-Mail invented.
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