Birthdays: Swedish King Charles
XII "the Madman of the North", Helen Keller, Norma Kamali, Charles
Stuart Parnell, Bob" Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan, Emma Goldman, Walter
Johnson, Ross Perot, Isabella Adjani is 60, Lauren Hill, Alice McDermott, J.J.
Abrams is 49, Tony Leung Chu Wai is 53, Toby McGuire is 40. Katherine Beaumont
the voice of Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan is 77.
1542- Juan Cabrillo set sail from Mexico to explore
the unknown California Coast. He was told he might find the magic kingdom of
Queen Califa, an island east of Asia, next to the Earthly Paradise, populated
with brown amazons with golden swords. He got the idea from a popular novel of
the time.
1922 - Newberry Medal 1st
presented for kids literature, the first winner was Hendrik Van Loon.
1949 - "Captain Video &
His Video Rangers," debut on DUMONT-TV.
1966- TV soap opera Dark Shadows
premiered. Barnabas Collins was the first vampire to have issues with his job,
and so became the ancestor of the modern romantic vampires of True Blood and
Twilight.
1973- Senior White House Counsel
John Dean testified to the Watergate committee that President Richard Nixon
maintained an Enemies List. The list ran from Senator Ted Kennedy to
journalists like Daniel Shore to June Foray who did the cartoon voice of Rocky
the Flying Squirrel.
1984- Hollywood introduced the
PG-13 rating to indicate graphic violence, invented for the film Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom.
1995- Boyishly proper British
actor Hugh Grant is busted for soliciting sex from a Sunset Blvd. street hooker
named Divine Brown. Grant had just released a film called “ The Englishman Who
went up a Hill and Came down a Mountain". Pundits had fun changing the
title to "The Englishman who went to L.A. a Hugh, and Came Back a
John."
2007-
British Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped down after ten years. His security
police nickname in office was Bambi.
2008-
Pixar’s WALL-E opened in theaters.
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