Birthdays: TA-TA-TA-TUMMMMMM!!! Ludwig Van
Beethoven, Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's wife number one), Marshal Gerbhard
von Blucher, Lenoid Brezhnev, Jane Austen, Margaret Mead, Noel Coward, George
Santayanna, Liv Ullmann is 74, Steve Bochco, Leslie Stahl. Quentin Blake- dean
of British illustrators favored by Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K.
Dick, Miranda Otto is 47.
1900 -EARLY ANIMATED FILM
"ENCHANTED DRAWINGS', James Stuart Blackton was a New York World
cartoonist who used to do a vaudeville act in drag. He came to do an article on
Thomas Edison then Edison put him on the payroll. He created this and several
other trickfilms. It doesn’t move much more than his vaudeville lightning
drawing act, His 1906 film Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is considered the
first animated cartoon.
1905- Variety magazine born.
1913- Young English music hall
actor named Charlie Chaplin got a job at Keystone Studios in Hollywood. His
first film he would play a villain.
1966- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
released the song ‘Hey Joe’.
1971- Don McClean released the
long version of the song ‘American Pie’.
1978- The Disney short The Small
One, directed by Don Bluth.
1980- Colonel Harland Sanders, the
Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, died.
1988- Shockjock Howard Stern is
fined $100,000 by the FCC for having on his radio show a man who could play the
piano with his penis.
1993- Producer Aaron Spelling
fired Shannon Dougherty off the TV soap Beverly Hills 90210.
1999- Julie Andrews, star of Mary
Poppins and the Sound of Music, sued New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital for
destroying her singing voice during a routine throat operation.
2009- Roy E.
Disney died, the Walt Disney nephew who oversaw the animation resurgence of the
1990s.
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