Birthdays- FFelix
Mendelson-Bartoldy, Horace Greely, Pretty Boy Floyd, Gertrude Stein, Norman
Rockwell, James A. Michener, Joey Bishop, Shelley Berman, John Fiedler the voice of Piglet, Victor Buono, Blythe Danner is 73,
Morgan Fairchild is 66, Nathan Lane the voice of Timon is 60
1920- The play Beyond the Horizon premiered. The first hit
of a young man who tried to drink himself to death, but instead became a
playwright- Eugene O’Neill.
1930- Roy Disney signed a deal with M. George Borgfeldt Co.
of New York to sell figurines of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Disney merchandising
is born!
1945- Walt Disney’s the Three Caballeros premiered.
1948- The first Cadillac’s with big rear tail fins were
produced.
1953- Jacques Cousteau, inventor of the Aqua Lung published
The Silent World, and later made a film version of the book with Louis Malle.
1959 "The Day the Music Died" The first Rock &
Roll tragedy. Top pop stars Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson died
in plane crash. They were on tour and Holly chartered the small plane so they
could get to Fargo, North Dakota in time to get his shirts cleaned. Waylon
Jennings was supposed to join them but he gave up his seat to Richardson
because Richardson was running a fever and didn’t want a long cold bus ride. As
they left Richardson teased Jennings:” Hope your bus doesn’t freeze.” And
Jennings joked:” Hope your plane doesn’t crash.” The plane was called the
American Pie, which inspired a Don McClean’s hit song “Bye, Bye Miss American
Pie.”
1986- After three months of negotiations, Steve Jobs bought
the George Lucas Film Graphics Division, now under their new name Pixar Inc.
1989- Swiss firm L'Oreal/Nestle bought animation studio
Filmation from Westinghouse and shut it down laying off 229 artists the day
before a new federal regulation requiring a company give it's employees 60 day
notice before closing went into effect.
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