Birthdays: Sir Robert Peel founder
of London’s police force- the Bobbies, outlaw Belle Starr, John Carradine,
William Burroughs, Arthur Ochs Schulzburger, Hank Aaron is 83, Tim Holt,
Barbera Hershey, Charlotte Rampling, Roger Staubach, Michael Mann is 73, Bobby
Brown, H. R. Giger, Red Buttons, Christopher Guest, Jennifer Jason Leigh is 55,
Laura Linney is 52, Michael Sheen is 47
1916- Enrico Caruso recorded O
Solo Mio for the Victor Talking Machine Co.
1919- Charlie Chaplin, Mary
Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith form the United Artists Studio.
1921- The Loews State Theater in
Chicago opened.
1922- The Reader’s Digest began
publication.
1936-THE BATTLE OF JARAMA -
Spanish General Franco’s Fascist army was thrown back from the gates of Madrid
with help from the Republic’s newly arrived foreign volunteers, called the
International Brigades. These idealistic young Europeans and Americans (the
Abraham Lincoln Brigade) were thrown into the battle with no training as they
had just arrived. They suffered 50% casualties, but still won the day.
The Lincolns sang a tune to Popeye the Sailor
Man:
"In a green
little vale called Jarama, We made all the fascists cry "Mama!; we fight
for our pay, just six cents a day, and play football with a bomb-a "
1937- Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times premiered. Chaplin was
inspired to lampoon modern technological madness when he was invited to view
the auto assembly production lines in Detroit and saw men moving like machines.
1944- British scientists at
Bletchley Park booted up the Colossus Mark I, a huge early computer used to
decode Hitler’s secret messages. Eleven more Colossus computers were built.
After the war all but one were destroyed, and the scientists put under a vow of
secrecy for thirty years.
1953- Walt Disney’s "Peter
Pan" premiered.
1956- Darryl Zanuck resigned from
20th Century Fox, the studio he built into a powerhouse. He later won back the
chairmanship in 1962 only to be ousted finally in 1970.
1957- Mel Lazarus’ comic strip
Miss Peach debuted.
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