Birthdays: St. Thomas Moore, Eubie
Blake, Sinclair Lewis, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Laura Ingalls Wilder
writer of Little House on the Prairie, Gay Talese, James Spader is 56, Chris
Rock is 51, Eddie Izzard is 54, Ashton Kutcher is 38
1910- The Town of Hollywood annexed
into the City of Los Angeles.
1939, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep was published. Chandler
was a 51year old ex-oil company executive who had taken up writing at the age
of forty-five, after being fired for alcohol-soaked absenteeism. Over the
previous five years he had published enough crime stories in the pulp magazines
to survive, but this was his first novel, the first of seven featuring the
inimitable Philip Marlowe.
1940- Disney's classic
"Pinocchio" premiered.
1964- THE BRITISH ROCK INVASION
BEGAN. Thousands of screaming fans welcomed THE BEATLES to New York for their
first U.S. Tour. The last music out of England to be taken seriously by
Americans was The Lambeth Walk, now the UK announced itself as a powerhouse of
rock & roll. For a Brit to do Rock & Roll in America was as audacious
as an American reciting Shakespeare in Stratford, but the welcome for the
Beatles was so overwhelming that other bands like the Rolling Stones and
Herman’s Hermits soon followed.
Local New York disc jockeys Cousin
Brucie and Murray the K wiggled to the front of the crowds and got a national
audience by following the young musicians around. The crowds of teenagers were
so excited they mobbed a Rolls Royce in front of the Warwick Hotel where the
Beatles were staying just because they figured a Rolls Royce would be something
they drove in. They actually used taxicabs.
1964- The GI Joe action figure
born. In 1974 it got the Kung-Fu Grip.
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