Birthdays: English King Edward IV
(1442), President James Monroe, Lionel Barrymore, Oskar Schindler, Carolyn
Jones-aka Morticia Addams of the TV Addams Family, Ann Margaret is 74, Jay Leno
is 65, Saddam Hussein, Jean Redpath, James Baker III, Penelope Cruz is 41,
Jessica Alba is 36
1925- T.S. Elliot landed a job at
Faber & Fabers Publishing. His enabled the poet to quit his job as a bank
teller at Lloyds and continue his literary career.
1937- Italy’s famed movie studio
Cinecitta’ opened.
1954- Happy Birthday Godzilla! The
movie by Ichjiro Honda was inspired when a Japanese fishing boat was fatally
exposed by radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test. Godzilla is an
Anglicized version of the Japanese Kohjira, which is a combination of Gorilla
and Whale.
The famous roar was done by
rubbing a resin-covered glove down some bass fiddle strings. The film was later
released in the U.S. with American actor Raymond Burr (actually, Canadian
actor..) acting in inserted scenes. The complete Japanese version of the film
was not seen in North America until 2004. (image courtesy of
1961-At La Scala, When tenor
Guiseppi Di Stefano took ill, a young schoolteacher from Modena took the lead
role in the opera La Boheme. Lucciano Pavarotti debuted.
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