Birthdays:
Jack Kerouac, Billy "Buckwheat "Thomas, Darryl Strawberry, Edward
Albee, Andrew Young, Joan Kennedy, Eugene Ormandy, Gordon McCrae, Liza Minelli
is 70, Courtenay Vance, James Taylor, Frank Welker, Al Jareau, Maurice Evans, porn
star Ron Jeremy, Barbara Feldon- agent 99 in Get Smart, DeWitt Bodeen- writer
of the 1942 film Cat People. Aaron Eckart is 48
1932-Disney
short "Mickey’s Revue" featuring Dippy Dog, now turned into a new
character named "the Goof" or Goofy.
1951-
Former Disney assistant animator Hank Ketcham was trying his hand as a print
cartoonist. He had some success selling gags to the New Yorker Magazine. His
baby son Dennis was a precocious infant. Once after she caught the child smearing
the contents of his diaper around the house, his mother exclaimed to Hank-“
Your son is a Menace!” That gave Ketcham an idea. Today the first Dennis the
Menace comic strip was published.
1955-
BIRD DIED- Jazz genius Charlie "Bird" Parker had a lifelong drug
addiction. Since the death of his infant daughter earlier that year his drug
use had spiraled out of control. He was sleeping on the couch in the NY
apartment of the Baroness du Rothschild-Konigswarter, a jazz supporter. He
awoke to watch TV. While laughing at a juggler on the Dorsey Brothers Variety
Show, he died. The coroner said death was by heart failure, cirrhosis and
pneumonia. He estimated Parker’s age at 65. He was really 34. When his band
heard of his death they paused between sets to all shoot up with heroin in his
honor. "Seems silly now, come to
think of it." Said one musician later.
1969-
Mrs. Robinson –a song written by two young folk singers named Simon & Garfunkel, won a Grammy award.
1969- Paul
and Linda McCartney married.
1989-
Tim Berners-Lee flicked a switch and the World Wide Web became operational,
connecting several regional web systems into a global network.
1992-
Warren Beatty married Annette Benning.
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