Birthdays: Marc Anthony 82BC, Dr. Albert Schweitzer,
Benedict Arnold, Faye Dunaway is 75, Hal Roach, Richard F. Outcault, Cecil
Beaton, John Dos Passos, Lawrence Kasdan, Guy Williams, Andy Rooney, Julian
Bond, Steven Soderbergh is 53, LL Cool J, Emily Watson is 49
1831- Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame first
published.
1900- Puccini's opera "Tosca" debuts in Rome.
1952-The NBC "Today" show debuts with Dave
Garroway, Jim Fleming and J. Fred Muggs the chimp.
1954- actress Marilyn Monroe married baseball great Joe
DiMaggio.
1957- Humphrey Bogart died of esophageal cancer at age 57.
When he was buried at Forrest Lawn, wife Lauren Bacall put in with his ashes a
solid gold whistle inscribed with the famous line from "To Have and To
Have Not"- 'If you ever need me, just whistle.' The group of friends
around Bogie and Bacall were nicknamed ‘The Rat Pack” .
After Bogart’s death Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin made the
Rat Pack famous.
1964- Hanna & Barbera's ' The Magilla Gorilla' cartoon
show.
1967- HIPPIES! The first “ Human Be-In” in Golden Gate Park.
The Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead performed. Allan Ginsburg, Ram Dass
and Timothy Leary spoke. LSD was laced into turkey sandwiches, and soon the
crowd of 30,000 was high. The national
media played up the event, and the rest of America first saw the power of the
Hippy youth culture, and heard the word like “psychedelic” and Timothy Leary
saying “ Tune in, Turn on, Drop out.” It was the prelude to the Summer of Love.
1972- Norman Lear’s hit TV comedy series Sanford & Son
premiered. Starring Red Fox, it was based on the English show Steptoe &
Son.
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