Birthdays: French King Louis XVI, Gene Kelly, Keith Moon, Rick
Springfield, Sonny Jurgensen, Alphonse Mucha, Vera Miles, River Phoenix, Queen
Noor of Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Ed Benedict the designer of the Flintstones,
Barbara Eden is 80, Shelley Long is 65, Nik Ranieri, Oscar Grillo
1634- Spain’s greatest playwright Lope De Vega wrote his
last poem “El Siglo de Oro” – the Golden Age. He died the next day at age 73. A
duelist and sailor on the Spanish Armada, Voltaire ranked him with Shakespeare
and his work was so popular, the Holy Office of the Inquisition got angry when
people sang a blasphemous doggerel that began “We believe in One Lope, the Poet
Almighty…”
1926- Screen idol Rudolph Valentino died in a New York
hospital of an infection due to a burst appendix and bleeding ulcer. Today this
condition could be controlled by anti-biotics, but they weren’t invented yet..
Women around the world went mad with grief. From L.A. to Budapest women
committed suicide before his picture. In Japan two women jumped into a volcano
shouting his name.
1937- At the urging of the Stanford Dean of engineering Fred
Terman, graduate Bill Hewlett had his first meeting with David Packard. They called
their company started out of their Palo Alto garage the Engineering Service
Company. The Hewlett-Packard Company would one day be one of the biggest names
in computers and their garage hailed as the birthplace of Silicon Valley.
1964- Twist and Shout! The Beatles played the Hollywood
Bowl.
1994- Jeffrey Katzenburg
announced he was leaving Disney.
No comments:
Post a Comment