Birthdays: John
Adams, Christopher Columbus, English playwright Richard Sheridan,
Ezra Pound, Emily Post, Louis Malle, Henry Winkler is 68,
Charles Atlas, Ruth Gordon,
Claude LeLouch, Dick Gautier, Louis Malle, Ted Williams,
Grace Slick, Diego Maradona
1811- Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility published.
1931- first day shooting on the movie Tarzan the Ape Man,
starring former Olympic Gold Medal swimming champ Johnny Weissmuller.
1936- English Publishers George Allen & Unwin had
received a manuscript from an Oxford languages professor named J.R.R. Tolkein.
Raynar Unwin, the son of the publisher, read it and made a report “ This book
will be a very good read for children from ages 5-7.” So they published “The
Hobbit”.
1973- The Carlin Case- Radical radio station WBAI in New
York broadcast hippy comedian George Carlin’s routine about the “Seven Deadly
Words” the naughty words you can’t say on the air. I can’t write them because children read this
column but you all
know what they are anyway. The FCC slapped a heavy fine and
WBAI sued for free speech and the case made it to the Supreme Court. Today the
High Court found for the FCC and those 7 deadly words remain banned from
airwaves today. Aw, Sh*t!
2002- Rap star of Run-DMC Jam Master Jay was shot dead in
the lounge of his recording
studio in Queens NY. The killer was never found.
2005- Disney feature Chicken Little premiered.
2012- The Walt Disney Company announced it was buying out
George Lucas holdings (including the Star Wars franchise) for $4.05 billion.
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