Birthdays: Yukon poet Robert
Service, Andre Michelin 1853 the pneumatic tire inventor, Ethel Merman, Dizzy
Dean, Peter Ustinov, Henry Mancini, A.J. Foyt, Marilyn Horne, Sade, Michael
Wilding, Eartha Kitt, Debbie Allen is 66, John Carpenter, Diane Fossey, Kate Moss is 42, Tsianina Joelson
1940- Lee Francis, then
Hollywood’s top madam, was busted for prostitution.
1942-Actress Carol Lombard and her
mother died in a plane crash in the Sierra Mountains while returning from a war
bond drive. Her husband movie king Clark Cable was so disconsolate that he
joined an airforce combat squadron instead of doing USO work and took dangerous
missions trying to get killed.
1954-THE WAR ON COMICS- Senator
Estes Kevfauver chaired a U.S. Senate subcommittee to study juvenile delinquency.
They conclude that one of the contributing factors to adolescent moral decay
was four-color comic books. The probe was sparked by the publication of a book
called The Seduction of the Innocent. It charged among other things that Batman
& Robin were gay because when not fighting crime, Bruce Wayne & Dick
Grayson lounged around all day in silk pajamas with no women! Despite testimony
by Walt Kelly, Milt Caniff, Al Capp and Bill Gaines, 350 comic book companies
including the EC "Tales from the Crypt" label were driven out of
business. The strict comics-code was established. The comic book industry,
which had been selling one million books a month, never regained that level of
prosperity in the US again.
1962- Television pioneer Ernie
Kovacs died when he plowed his Corvair into a tree at Beverly Glen and Santa
Monica Blvds. Kovacs had a fondness for all night poker and vodka parties. Friend Jack Lemmon said Ernie was so
fanatical for a good card game that once when over a friend's house no table
large enough could be procured for a game, Kovacs ordered the front door taken
off it's hinges and a tablecloth thrown over it so they could all play.
1962-First day of shooting on the
film Dr No with a young actor named Sean Connery in the role of James Bond. Ian
Fleming thought the casting of Connery would be a disaster, he wanted Cary
Grant or David Niven.
1974- Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws
first published.
1995-
The UPN Network (Universal-Paramount Network) began telecasting.
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