Birthdays: Hugh Walpole, Earl
Charles Grey 1764-English Prime Minister whom the tea blend 'Earl Grey Tea
" is named for, Pope Innocent XII (1615), Abigail Powers Filmore- First
Lady of Millard Filmore, Hugo Wolf, Ted Sears, Sammy Kaye, Danny Kaye, Neil
Sedaka, L. Ron Hubbard, William Macy is 66, Dick Katz, Annabell Gish, Joe Ranft
1928- In New York City, Walt
Disney sent a telegram to his brother Roy back in California, informing him of
his disastrous meeting with producer Charles Mintz. That Mintz had exercised a
clause in their contract to take the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit away
from them. He cabled “ Leaving Tonight, stopping over KC. Arrive Sunday Morning.
Don’t Worry. All Will be Well.” Later Walt with Ubb Iwerks, Les Clark and his
wife Lillian came up with a new character named Mickey Mouse.
1939-Hollywood recognizes the
Screen Director’s Guild later called he DGA. After a nasty battle lasting
several years Guild President Frank Capra signs the contracts representing 80%
of movie directors. They also contractually ensure the custom of the directors
credit being the last one seen at the opening title sequence of a film.
1943- Radio station WNYC goes on
the air.
1944- Abbot & Costello
copyrighted their baseball routine ‘Who’s on First?"
1965- Guitarist Eric Clapton quit
the band The Yardbirds.
1969- Disney’s comedy about a
Volkswagen beetle "The Love Bug" premiered.
1983- The Larry King Show debuted
on HBO, later moving to CNN. King retired that show in 2010, but still does
shows on cable.
1988-Overly endowed porn star John
Holmes, also called Johnny Wad, died of HIV/AIDS. He claimed to have had sex
with 14,000 women and a few men in his career, but that he contracted the
disease through intravenous drug use. He also got involved with some drug
dealers and was implicated in a murder.
The film Boogie Nights was based on him.
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