Birthdays: Former British PM
Harold Macmillan, Jimmy Durante, Bertholdt Brecht, Leontyne Price, Roberta
Flack, tennis great Bill Tilden, Lon Chaney Jr., Stella Adler, Mark Spitz,
Boris Pasternak, Dame Judith Anderson, Greg Norman, Donavan, Dr Alex Comfort
author of the Joy of Sex, Michael Apted, Jerry Goldsmith, Robert Wagner, Laura
Dern is 49
1870- The town of Anaheim Cal
founded. No Disneyland yet. The name means Ana, as in Santa Anna River and
Heim, the German word for home.
1929- Elsa Lanchester married
Charles Laughton.
1938- RKO screwball comedy with
Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant “ Bringing Up Baby” premiered.
1940-MGM's "Puss gets the
Boot" the first Tom and Jerry cartoon and the first collaboration of the
team of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.
1949- The premiere of Arthur
Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman".
1966- CBS co-ops broadcasting the
senate Kennan Hearings on the conduct of the Vietnam War with reruns of "I
Love Lucy'. CBS news division president Fred Friendly quits in protest.
1992- The children’s book- The
Stinky Cheese Man debuted.
1996- IBM computer Deep Blue
defeated world chess master Garry Kasparov. The first time a computer ever beat
a human chess champion.
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