Birthdays: President Benjamin
Harrison, Sukenoba Nishikawa, Bernardo O’Higgins, Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry, H.P. Lovecraft, Art Tatum, Issac Hayes, Connie Chung, Jacqueline
Susanne, Rajiv Ghandi, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin- who co-wrote Stairway to
Heaven, Joan Allen is 59, Fred Durst, Alan Reed -the original voice of Fred
Flintstone, Slobodan Milosovic’, Amy Adams is 41
1882 -Peter Tchaikovsky's
"1812 Overture" premiered in Moscow. The composer said of all his
works the two pieces he liked the least were the 1812 Overture and the
Nutcracker Suite. Overture 1812 was Richard Nixon’s favorite classical piece.
1971- THE ENEMIES LIST. FBI
documents prove this day the Nixon White House began to covertly investigate
journalist Daniel Schorr because of his anti-war editorials. President Richard
Nixon kept an enemies list of people he imagined to be opponents to his
administration. It began with obvious liberals like George McGovern and Ted
Kennedy, then expanded as far as June Foray the voice of Rocky the Flying
Squirrel.
1972- Star Hollywood directors
Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich and William Freidkin announced a
partnership in a new production company called "The Director's
Company" Young punks Martin Scorcese, George Lucas and Steven Speilberg
were also involved. The partnership lasted two years then collapsed.
1977- NASA launched the Voyager 1
probe towards the outer planets of our solar system. Among the things Voyager
discovered was that Jupiter had many more moons than previously thought and had
a ring like Saturn. Part of NASA's program was an explanatory simulation film
done on computer by Jim Blinn in 1980 and 1982. The animation was so smooth and
the graphics so breathtaking it expanded the use of the CGI medium and inspired
a new generation of digital artists.
1982- Ralph Bakshi's film Hey Good
Lookin'.
No comments:
Post a Comment