Birthdays: Ernesto "Che"
Guevara, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cole Porter, John
Bartlett of Bartletts Familiar Quotations, Boy George O’Dowd, Les Paul,
Burl Ives, Lash LaRue, Happy Rockefeller, Robert MacNamara, Major Bowes, Carl Neilsen, Donald Trump, Jerzy Kosinski, Pierre Salinger, Steffy
Graff, Marvin Kalb, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist who formulated
Coulomb's Law, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, Michael J. Fox is 54, Johnny Depp is 52, Natalie Portman is 34
1934- Happy Birthday Donald Duck! Walt Disney's short
cartoon"The Little Wise Hen".
1934- The film the Thin Man with William Powell. Myrna Loy
and Asta the dog premiered.
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins the
1st Caldecott Medal for outstanding children’s books.
1941- First day shooting on the
film, the Maltese Falcon. It was John Huston’s first directorial effort. The
studio budget was so low, Humphrey Bogart had to wear his own suits.
1950- After all appeals fail the first of the Hollywood Ten,
screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, Philip Dunne, Alvah Bessie, Waldo Salt, Edward
Dymtytrk, David Ogden Stewart, Ring Lardner and John Howard Lawson are
sentenced to prison. In the L.A. Municipal Jail one felon greeted the leftist
writers with a smile and said: "Hi Ya, Hollywood Kids!”
1976 – Chuck Barris’ the"
Gong Show" premiered. Where’s Jean-Jean the Dancing Machine?
1992- Congress passed the Internet Communications Act,
opening up the Internet to the public. At this time, when only defense
contractors used it, the Internet had 50 websites; by 2000, it had 77 million
websites, now in the hundreds of millions.
2006- Pixar film Cars
released.
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