Birthdays: Tamerlane, Lenin, Paul Robeson, Jean Paul
Belmondo, Ward Bond, Seve Balesteros,
Carl Perkins, Michael Learned, Tom Lehrer, Paula Poundstone, Cynthia Nixon,
Hugh Hefner is 89, Dennis Quaid is 61, Elle Fanning is 17
1859- Mark Twain received his Mississippi riverboat pilot’s
license.
1914- The first all color film” The World, The Flesh and the
Devil” premiered in London.
1948- Variety columnist Ben Mortimer had been needling Frank
Sinatra for his advocacy of liberal causes. He accused Old Blue Eyes of
draft-dodging and hinted maybe he had pro-Communist sympathies. This day
Sinatra responded by meeting Mortimer in front of Ciro's restaurant on Sunset
Blvd and punched his lights out.
1953- The first issue of the T.V. Guide.
1966-actress Sophia Loren married
producer Carlo Ponti, with whom she had been living with for a decade but not
allowed to marry because Catholics did not allow divorce from their previous
spouses.
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