Birthdays:
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Daniel O'Connell "the Liberator", Dutch Schultz
(real name Arthur Fleigenheimer), Louella Parsons, Lucille Ball, Robert
Mitchum, Andy Warhol, Hoot Gibson, William B. Williams, Michelle Yeoh, M. Night
Shyamalan, Melissa George, Soliel Moon-Frye
1926-
Warner Brothers Studio premiered it’s motion picture sound on disk system. The
film was Don Juan with John Barrymore the Great Profile. It didn’t really have much impact until they
made the "Jazz Singer" with Al Jolson two years later.
1958-
Chuck Jones short Rocket By Baby premiered. “Mot!”
1959-
Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest premiered.
1970-
THE HIPPIES ATTACK DISNEYLAND- A nationwide call for civil disobedience at the
famous American-establishment tourist spot was called for August 6th. Called
"Yippie Day" Yippies were considered more militant than Hippies. 750
long haired, denim clad young teens filtered into park. Once in they quickly
massed, then invaded the Wilderness Fort in Frontierland. There they raised the
Vietcong flag, passed out marijuana to tourists and chanted "Stop the War!
Free Charlie Manson!" They were finally expelled with great difficulty by
park security and the Anaheim police.
In the
1980’s Disney was almost invaded by Nazi skinheads, but this time they were
ready.
1991- Tim
Berner’s Lee of CERN announced the world wide web, aka www. Today the first
website of the web went online- http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
1999- I
see dead people..” The Sixth Sense premiered.
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