Birthdays: King George III, Alvah
Bessie, Rosalind Russell, Gene Barry, Dennis Weaver, Robert Merrill, Bruce
Dern, Andrea Jaeger, Dr Ruth Westheimer, Freddy Fender, Rachael Griffiths, Noah
Wylie is 44, Russell Brand is 40, Angelina Jolie is 40
1916 - Mildred J Hill, one of the
two Hill sisters who composed the song Happy Birthday To You, died at 56.
1938- Date of the infamous Walt
Disney Studio Norconian crew party to celebrate the success of Snow White. The
young artists (average age 26), released of tension and filled with booze,
swapped bedrooms and galloped horses through the Hotel Norconian sending Walt
and Roy fleeing the scene for fear of bad publicity. Walt picked the resort
because when he first held a party at the studio, the crew trashed the place.
One animator drunkenly fell out of a window.
1942- Capitol Records opened for
business.
1947- The film "A Miracle on
34th St." opened. Starring Maureen O’Hara, Edmund Gwen and 8 year old
Natalie Wood.
1951- The Supreme Court upholds
the anti-Communist Smith Act. This act stated you could be fired from your job
or jailed even on a suspicion that you were a communist, no proof required.
1951- Tony Curtis married Janet
Leigh. The result was to produce Jamie Leigh-Curtis.
1967- The television show
"The Monkees" win the Emmy award for Best Comedy.
go figure... The producers of the
Pre-Fab Four raise enough money and clout to fund later projects like the hit
movie Easy Rider. This same ceremony saw Bill Cosby become the first
African-American to win an Emmy, this for his role in the series I-Spy.
1977- The Apple II went on sale.
1990- The New York Daily News
quietly discontinued its long running comic strip Ching Chow. Besides being un
believably racist and offensive, the little one panel strip of a
stereotype Chinese man with a long hair
queue saying silly Confucian platitudes, also was the source of racetrack and
numbers racket tips.
2003- Martha Stewart, the
self-made millionaire leader of a home recipe empire, was indicted for insider
trading.
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