1915 - "Of Human
Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published.
1927- the William Wellman movie
WINGS opened with Howard Arliss and Buddy Rogers, the first
silent film to win best picture at the Academy Awards before the advent of
sound. The second silent film was The Artist, in the year 2012.
1951- Bob McKimson’s Warner Bros short Hillbilly Hair. The short includes the
long routine animated by Emery Hawkins when Bugs Bunny takes over calling a
square dance and uses it to torture the two twin-brother hillbillies who are
after him.
1981- IBM introduced its first PC-
personal computer and PC-DOS I.. Unlike Apple,
IBM shared the basic hardware design, so a myriad of cheaper competitor
PC’s soon flooded the market.
1988- Martin Scorcese’ film The
Last Temptation of Christ opened in theaters to howls of protests from
religious groups. There had been more inflammatory interpretations of the
Christ story on screens in the past like Pasolini’s Gospel According to Saint
Matthew and the Canadian film Hail Mary, but the church groups weren’t that
media savvy yet. Like all these protest efforts, all the controversy really did
was boost it's box office.
2008-
Entertainer and producer Merv Griffin died at age 81. The creator of games
shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, his last statement on his website was
" I was planning to go on vacation, but this is not the destination I
intended."
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