Birthdays: King Henry V of England, John Dryden, Sir Issac
Walton-author of the Compleat Angler, Melanie Griffith, Whitney Houston, David
Steinberg, Bob Cousy, Jill St. John, Robert Shaw, Robert Aldrich, Sam Elliot is
71, Gillian Anderson is 47, Pamela Lyndon Travers –the creator of Mary Poppins,
Marvin Minsky, Eric Bana is 48, Audrey Tautou is 37, Philippe Bergeron is 56
1854- Henry David Thoreau published “Walden”, the first
great work about nature conservation.
1919- The first story of Zorro
appeared in All Story Weekly magazine. Created by Johnstom McCulley.
1930- Max Fleischer's cartoon "Dizzy Dishes"
introduces Betty Boop. A singing star named Helen Kane sued Fleischer claiming
that they stole her distinctive Boop-Ooop-a-Doop from her, but the case was
thrown out when it was revealed Kane had stolen it herself from another singer.
Betty was supposed to be a dog character to match her male couterpart Bimbo.
But Animator Grim Natwick had done a lot of drawing of girls in Paris and New
York and turned the character into a saucy little flapper.
1944- Antoine Du Saint-Exupery, the author of the Little
Prince, died when he crashed his fighter plane. He was not shot down by the
Germans, he was just a terrible pilot. The main protagonist of the little
prince is an aviator who crashes his plane.
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