Birthdays: Katushika Hokusai, Dizzy Gillespie, Whitey Ford,
Alfred Nobel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Blair, Carrie Fisher is 59, Patty
Davis (Reagan's daughter), Benjamin Netanyahu, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Manfred
Mann, Sir Georg Solti, Angus McFadyen, Ken Watanabe is 56, Kim Kardasian is 35.
1932- The film Red Dust premiered. It made stars out of
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow.
1959- Six months after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright his
last creation the Guggenheim Museum in New York City opened.
1969- Beat Generation author of On
the Road- Jacques Kerouac died of alcoholism and stomach bleeding, a pencil and
pad on his lap. He grew bitter about how his call for youth rebellion had been
reinterpreted by the 60's generation as hippies and flower power. When he came
upon a gathering of kids at an anti-war rally distributing American flags to
burn, Kerouac collected them all and folded them neatly.
1972- Curtis Mayfield’s soundtrack theme to the movie
“Superfly” debuted at Number #1 in the Billboard charts.
2015-
According to Robert Zemeckis 1989 film Back to the Future II, all the events
Marty McFly and Doc Brown experience in the future occur on this date. Got your
hoverboard, yet?
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