Birthdays: Petrarch, Sir Edmund
Hilary, Lord Elgin, Quaker Anne Hutchinson, Natalie Wood, Theda Bara the Vamp,
Carlos Santana, Lord Reith- the first Director General of the BBC. Giselle
Bunchen is 35, Sandra Oh is 44, Harrison Ellenshaw, Diana Rigg is 77
1946-Bob Clampett's
cartoon"the Great Piggy Bank Robbery" with Daffy Duck as Duck Tracy.
"I'm gonna rrrrrrrrrrrubbb ya out, see !"
1964 –The first surfin' record to
go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1968 - Iron Butterfly's
"In-a-Gadda-da-Vida", considered the first heavy metal song to
hit the pop charts. The song was written as “ In the Garden of
Eden” but singer Doug Ingle was so drunk and stoned, In a Gadda Da Vida was all
that he could slur out.
1973-
Bruce Lee died of cerebral edema one month before his last film Enter the
Dragon premiered. The handsome kung fu movie star single-handedly made Chinese
martial arts a world wide craze, and the Chop-Socky genre film a standard genre
in world movie theaters. He was buried in his Enter The Dragon costume. Bruce Lee
was only 33.
1976-Warner\Lambert, makers of
Trident sugarless gum, comes out with their famous slogan "Sugarless gum
is recommended by four out of five dentists who chew gum". When people
asked what gum did the fifth dentist recommend, they were brushed.
1984 - Jim Fixx, creator of the
Jogging craze through his hit book Running, died at 52 of a heart attack.
Apologists for a health advocate dying so young, say Fixx would have died even
younger without his physical routine. The creator of PowerBars also died in his
fifties. Pass me another donut.
1994 - OJ Simpson offers $500,000
reward for evidence of ex-wife Nicole’s klller. No clues or suspects other than
himself ever appeared. As David Letterman later said" OJ began to vigorously search
for the real killer on all the major golf courses of the nation."
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