Birthdays: Bernard Hermann, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Slim
Pickens, Nelson Eddy, Gary Busey, John Hench, Little Eva, Harmon Killabrew, Antoine
de Saint Exupery, Anna Sophie-Mutter, Leroy Anderson, Maria Conchita Alonso,
Robert Evans, Matthew Weiner, Brett McKenzie, Roger Allers, Ray Harryhausen
1935- Disney short Who Killed Cock Robin? Directed by Dave
Hand.
1936- Pope Pius XI published an encyclical warning of the
evils of Motion Pictures. “They glorify Lust and Lascivious behavior.”
1940 – ROBIN THE BOY WONDER-
According to Batman Comics, this day mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team
known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick an orphan. He was taken in
by millionaire Bruce Wayne so Batman could have his Robin.
1940- First day shooting on the
film Citizen Kane.
1950- The Hollywood Ten are given jail sentences for
contempt of Congress.
1956- Marilyn Monroe married author Arthur Miller.
1967-Actress Jane Mansfield and her dog were killed in a car
crash when their car slammed into a parked tractor-trailer. Her children
including Marisa Hargitay were in the back seat.
1978- Actor Bob Crane, best known
as the star in the television series Hogan’s Heroes, was found beaten to death
with an electric cord around his neck in a Scottsdale Arizona hotel room.
Around his body were pornographic literature and a large library of home made
porn tapes.
2007-
Pixar’s Ratatouille premiered, directed by Brad Bird.
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