Birthdays: John Paul Jones, Jefferson Davis, Josephine
Baker, King George V, Henry Shrapnel, Allen Ginsburg, Collen Dewhurst, Alain
Renais, Curtis Mayfield, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Evans, Jack Oakey, Jan
Peerce, Zoltan Korda, John Dykstra, Tom Arnold, Hale Irwin, Chuck Barris, Tony
Curtis
1939- Movie director Alexander
Korda married movie star Merle Oberon.
1946- A consumer study finds there are only 10,000
television sets in America.
A follow up study
five years later finds the number at 12 million.
1949 - Dragnet is 1st broadcast on
radio ( KFI in Los Angeles ). Creator Jack Webb wanted to capture the dry,
non-theatrical delivery he heard real cops use. He ordered his actors to “stop
acting, just read the lines”. Webb wrote
the scripts from real LAPD cases and starred as well.
1967 - Aretha Franklin's
"Respect" reaches #1. Sockittome, sockittome, sockittome.
1968- Artist Andy Warhol was shot
in the gut three times by Valerie Solanas, author of the "SCUM
Manifesto". Warhol barely lived. Solanas was institutionalized.
1976 –Galileo-Galileo
Fig-a-ro! Queen's single "Bohemian
Rhapsody" goes gold.
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