Birthdays: Roman Emperor Nerva, Bram Stoker, Sir Edmund
Halley, June Havoc, Margaret Mitchell, Joe Flynn- the cranky Captain
Binghampton in the 60’s TV show McHales Navy, Ricky Lee Jones, Bonny Raitt, Dr.
Christiaan Barnard, Ester Rolle, Katherine Hepburn, Parker Posey is 47, Gretchen
Mol is 43, Tara Reid.
1929- New York’s Museum of Modern Art opened.
1943- The first one man show of American abstract painter
named Jackson Pollock. Pollock later created his brushless dripping form of
painting that earned him the nickname:” Jack the Dripper”.
1965- The Days of Our Lives soap opera first premiered on
TV.
1966- Former actor and SAG president Ronald Reagan elected
Governor of California trouncing two-term incumbent Pat Brown.
Uber-Conservative Reagan declared a tough line with the Hippies of Haight
Ashbury and Berkeley.
1966- Doctors at St. Josephs Hospital removed one of Walt
Disney’s cancerous lungs, but discovered the cancer had spread to his lymph
nodes and liver. They determined he did not have long to live.
1973- Walt Disney’s animated Robin Hood premiered.
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