Birthdays: Czar Peter the Great, Benny Goodman, Mel Blanc,
Stepin Fetchit, Boris Pasternak, Irving Thalberg, Milt Neil, Howard Hawks, Gale
Sayers, Michael J. Pollard, Wynonna, Keir Dullea is 79, Ceelo Green is 40, Idina
Mensel is 44
1919- Hollywood entrepreneur Charles Tolman bought a natural
declivity north of Hollywood Blvd called Daisy Dell. People had been picnicking
in the grass there for years. Now Tolman wanted to build a concert
amphitheatre. Conductor Hugo Kirchhofer remarked “ It looks like a big bowl!”
So it became the Hollywood Bowl thereafter.
1930- The Lockheed Terminal rededicated as Burbank Airport.
1955- The New York chapter of the
Catholic League of Decency pressured Loews Theater on Broadway to take down a
giant 30-foot billboard of Marilyn Monroe trying to push her skirt down.
1962- Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem had it’s first
performance.
1972- Director choreographer Bob Fosse filmed a live
performance of Liza Minelli’s one-woman show Liza with a Z. It was telecast in
Sept. and became a sensation.
1994 -
Death of Baron Marcel Bich, Italian-born French engineer and industrialist who
created an empire through his disposable BIC pens, lighters and razors.
2003-
Pixar’s Finding Nemo opened.
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