Birthdays: Jean Pierre Blanchard the balloonist-1753, George
M. Cohan, Stephen Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Calvin Coolidge, Rube Goldberg,
Louis Armstrong*, Edward Walker the inventor of the Lava Lamp, Mayer Lansky,
Tokyo Rose, Louis B. Mayer, George Murphy, Emerson Boozer, Neil Simon, Mitch
Miller, Eve Marie Saint is 91, Gina Lollabrigida is 88, George Steinbrenner,
Ann Landers, Ron Kovic, Geraldo Rivera, Victoria Abril, Pam Shriver, Rene
Laloux, Gloria Stuart
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4th of July!
4th of July!
1905- Los Angeles developer Abbott Kinney had broke with his
partners over the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier. He moved down the coast to some
marshy wetlands and built a new community with canals, lagoons and gondolas.
VENICE California opened this day. In 1925 the City of LA got rid of most of
the canals and gondolas. Venice went on to be a seaside mecca for Beatniks,
Hippies and weightlifters like young Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1911- The first rollercoaster on the Pacific Coast opened on
Santa Monica Pier.
1914- First day of filming on D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of
an Nation.”
1926- Hungarian film director Mihaly Kertesz arrived in
Hollywood. He changed his name to the more manageable Michael Curtiz and
directed great classic films like Captain Blood and Casablanca. His brother
Andre Kertesz lived in New York and became a famous photographer.
1956- MIT’s TX-1 Whirlwind computer added a keyboard to
enter data. The first computer keyboard.
1969-“ Give Peace a Chance.” released by John Lennon and the
Plastic Ono Band.
1976- What’s Love Got to Do With It? Singer Tina Turner left Ike Turner.
1976- The first true Punk Band, The Ramones, arrived in
England for a tour. They greatly inspired future bands like the Clash and the
Sex Pistols. When playing at the Palladium the Sex Pistols said they couldn’t
get tickets to get in so the Ramones pulled them in through the men’s room
window. Hey, Ho, Lets Go!
1982- Ozzie Ozbourne married Sharon Ozbourne.
1984- First Lady Nancy Reagan began the campaign to combat
drugs among kids by saying “Just Say No”. Two of her Secret Service bodyguards
were cocaine snorters.
1990- 2 Live Crew released the song Banned in the USA.
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