Birthdays: Camille Saint Saens, E. Howard Hunt, Jacques
Tati, Alastair Sim, Bruce Catton, Joe Pepitone, cartoonist Mike Peters,
Savannah, John Lennon would be 75, his son Sean Lennon, E. Howard Hunt, Scott
Bakula, Peter Tosh, Charles Rudolph Walgren-the inventor of the modern
Drugstore, Guillermo Del Toro is 50, Tony Schaloub is 62, Pete Doctor is 47.
1609- Invalid Captain John Smith is put on a ship back to
England. Smith had earlier gotten stung by a stingray and almost died. This
time a powder horn exploded on his hip and blew out part of his side. While
Smith was leader of the Jamestown Colony he had many enemies among the jealous
gentry. Some don't think he had an accident. Opinions also differ as to why the
Jamestown settlers put Smith through a two month Atlantic crossing that could
kill even healthy men. Some say they were hoping he wouldn't make it. He
survived but never returned to Jamestown. Nobody told Pocahontas, and when she
visited camp the men told her he was dead and forget about him. She would meet him ten years later in England
when she was a wife and mother of the children of settler John Rolfe.
1938- Eugene
O'Neill's play 'The Iceman Cometh' opened.
1951- RKO Pictures asked Marilyn Monroe to please wear
panties while working, She was upsetting the film crew.
1986- People said there would never be more than three
networks. Today the first show of the fourth network, The Fox Network's the
Joan River's Show, premiered. That show didn't last, but future hits like The
Simpson's, Married With Children and the X-Files made Fox a major network within
ten years.
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