Birthdays: Ethiopian Emperor
Rastafari Halie Selassie "the Lion of Judah", Raymond Chandler,
Raymond Booth, Don Drysdale, Gloria DeHaven, Arthur Treacher, Pee Wee Reese,
Bob Fosse, Harry Cohn, Don Imus, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Monica Lewinsky, Woody
Harrelson is 55, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Edie McClurg is 65, Daniel Radcliffe
is 27
1966- The comedy song
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha!" released. The singer was
Napoleon XIV.
1982- Actor Vic Morrow and two children
are killed by a stunt helicopter while filming "Twilight Zone, the
movie". The last scripted line before his death was "I’ll Keep you
safe kids, I swear to God!" The children were being worked into the early
morning hours without a caretaker supervisor in defiance of the Coogan Laws.
Director John Landis was investigated but exonerated. The only filmworker to
dare to testify against Landis, the wardrobe supervisor, was blacklisted and
never worked in Hollywood again.
2004- Two armed men enter the
Munch Museum in Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream at
gunpoint. It was recovered with some water damage in 2007.
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