Birthdays: John Randolph, The Marquis DeSade, Martha Custis
Washington, Thomas Hardy, Hedda Hopper, Sir Edward Elgar, Johnny Weismuller,
Charlie Watts, Disney animation story artist Dick Heumer, Lotte Reinniger
Marvin Hamlisch, Barry Levinson, Jon Peters, Dana Carvey, Garo Yepremian, Jerry
Mathers the Beaver of the old TV show Leave it to Beaver, Dayvid Haysbert is 61,
Lasse Halstrom is 69
1896- Gugielmo Marconi took out a patent on wireless
broadcasting - radio.
At the time his
device could be heard from almost 12 miles away !
1920- Eugene O’Neill won a Pulitzer Prize for his first play
Beyond the Horizon.
1928 - Velveeta Cheese invented.
1932- The Screen Publicists Guild formed
1940- Will Eisner's "The Spirit" comic first
appears.
1956- Elvis Presley introduced his song “ You Ain’t Nothin
But a Hound Dog” on the Milton Berle TV show.
1961- Humorist writer George F. Kaufman died. He wanted on
his headstone:
"Over My Dead Body!"
1973- London animator Richard Williams closed down his Soho
studio for a month so his staff could be lectured by Hollywood animation
legends Art Babbitt, Chuck Jones and Ken Harris.
1996- Roy Coombs, who took over the job as host of the TV
game show Family Feud after Richard Dawson, hanged himself with his bed sheets
at Glendale Adventist Hospital.
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