Birthdays: Michelangelo
Buonnarotti, Cyrano De Bergerac, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Phil Sheridan, Lou
Costello, Ivan Boesky, Ring Lardner, Gabriele Garcia-Marquez, Valentina
Tereschkova the first woman in space, Tom Arnold, Kiri Te Kanawa, Rob Reiner is
69, Alan Greenspan, DC Mayor Marion Barry, Stephen Schwartz is 68, Ed McMahon,
Shaquille O’Neal is 44
1921- The film Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse premiered. The first Hollywood film to earn over one million
dollars, and it made a major star out of Rudolf Valentino..
1933- Two days after inauguration Eleanor
Roosevelt became the first First Lady to hold her own separate press
conference. She insisted only female journalists could attend.
1978- Hustler Magazine publisher
Larry Flynt was shot and crippled by a lunatic.
1979- The film The China Syndrome
premiered. It was about an accident at an American nuclear power plant.. Three
weeks later the real Three Mile Island accident occurred, boosting the box
office. " It's spooky, it's enough
to make you religious" said star Michael Douglas.
1981- CBS News anchor Walter
Cronkite retired. Dan Rather succeeded
him after CBS learned ABC was offering Rather big bux to jump networks. Roger
Mudd, who was thought to be the real successor to Cronkite, left the network to
anchor the History Channel. Dan Rather was the CBS anchor until 2004.
1989-
Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications to become Time Warner, the largest
media conglomerate in the world. They were bought by AOL in 2000 but AOL proved
to be dead weight and they resumed control as TimeWarner in 2003.
1992-
The film The Lawnmower Man premiered. It featured early motion-capture CGI
imagery, and claimed to have the first virtual reality sex scene.
1998-
The Big Lebowski opened in theaters. The Dude Abides…
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