Birthdays: James Watt, Edgar Allen
Poe, Robert E. Lee, Paul Cezanne', Janis Joplin, Tipi Hedren, Slobodan
Milosovic’, radio star Ish Kabibble, Dolly Parton, Michael Crawford, Chic
Young, Guy Madison, Richard Lester, John H. Johnson publisher of Ebony and Jet
Magazines, Jean Stapleton, Fritz Weaver, Sean Wayans, Robin MacNeill, Paul
Rodriquez, Antoine Fuqua, Drea Di Matteo is 44, and Bart the Bear-1977 Bear who
starred in movies like Clan of the Cave Bear, The Bear, White Fang and Legends
of the Fall.
1829 Johann Von Goethe published
Faust Part 1.
1853- Giuseppe Verdi's Il
Trovatore with the famous Anvil Chorus premiered in Rome.
1919- Famed dancer of the Ballet
Russe Vaslav Nijinsky danced his last performance at a hotel in San Moritz
Switzerland. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he became an incarcerated mental
patient for the next 30 years, and underwent numerous extreme shock therapies
until his death in 1950.
1940- The Three Stooges do their
impression of Hitler and the top Nazis in the Columbia Pictures short comedy
“You Natzy Spy”. Moe Howard was still the best Hitler impersonator.
“Hail-Hail-Hailstone of Moronica! Waahoo!”
1961- The first episode of the
Dick Van Dyke Show was filmed.
1979- Wendy O. Williams,
mohawk-haired lead singer of the punk band the Plasmatics was arrested in
Milwaukee for masturbating on stage with a sledgehammer.
1985- Bruce Springsteen's Born in
the USA peaked the pop charts at #9.
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