Birthdays: Barbara Tuchman, Walt “Moose” Dropo, Olaf Palme,
Dick Martin, Louis S. Rukeyser, Dorothy Malone, Boris Spassky, John Ireland,
Douglas Englebart, Phil Collins, Vanessa Redgrave is 79, Gene Hackman is 86,
Christian Bale is 42, Former VP Dick Cheney is 76
1931- Hollywood Premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights.
Later at a dance at the Biltmore Hotel, writer Herman Mankewicz (Citizen Kane,
Duck Soup) got into a drunken fistfight with producer David O. Selznick (Gone
With the Wind, Rebecca). You’ll never eat turtle-soup in this town again!
1933- HI-YO SILVER!! The Lone Ranger debuted on radio. The
Masked Man was invented by the WXYZ Detroit station owner George Trendle and
writer Fran Striker with absolutely no experience of cowboys or Indians. They
just wanted a hero like Zorro with a strict moral code. He was later voiced by
actor William Conrad who did the Rocky & Bullwinkle narration and the TV
series Cannon.
1956- Elvis Presley recorded Blue Suede Shoes.
1960- For years after the making of Fantasia, critics had pondered
Igor Stravinsky's cryptic reaction to Disney's portrayal of his "Rite of
Spring". Disney publicity said he
was "speechless with admiration!" Today in a Saturday Review article,
Stravinsky said Stokowski's editing of his music was 'execrable' and the
visuals "an unresisting imbecility".
His opinion still didn't stop him from selling the studio film rights to
several other of his pieces including "The Firebird' in 1942. Igor needed
the cash.
1961-H-B's the Yogi Bear Show.
1963- MIT Grad student Ivan Sutherland published his thesis
Sketchpad, the first animation software.
For the first time, a computer could draw lines instead of just numbers.
When students at the University of Utah like Ed Catmull, Nolan Bushnell and Jim
Blinn were learning about CG. The first thing they were asked to read was
Sutherland’s Sketchpad. Everything from Buzz Lightyear, Laura Croft, Gravity
and Mortal Combat results.
1969- The rock band the Beatles last public appearance as a
group. They tried to do a free concert in the London streets but were banned by
police for fear of congestion and noise complaints. So they withdrew to a
rooftop above their recording studio and played anyway. John Lennon ended the
concert by saying: ‘Thank you very much
on behalf of the band and myself and I hope we passed the audition.”
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