Birthdays: Plato, Swinburne, Booker T. Washington, Josef
Lister, Bette Davis, Nadar, Jean Fragonard, Hicks Lokey, Nguyen Van Thieu,
historian Robert Bloch, Gale Storm, Washington Atlee-Burpee the mail order seed
king, Spencer Tracy, Frank Gorshin, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Nigel
Hawthorne, Peter Greenaway, Gregory Peck, Roger Corman is 90, Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA is 66, Colin Powell is 79,
Pharrell Williams is 43.
1874- Johann Strauss Jr.’s operetta Die Fledermaus premiered
in Vienna.
1923- Lois Armstrong, King Oliver and the Creole Jazz Band
took a train from Chicago to Richmond Indiana to record Chimes Blues. Satchmo’s
first record.
1930 -James Dewar invented the Twinkie. Dewar ate two every
day of his life and called them “The best darn-tootin idea I ever had!” As an
experiment in 1996 five top French master chefs were given the assignment of
trying to recreate a Twinkie. They all failed.
1931- Fox Film Company dropped their option on young star
John Wayne as a dud not going anywhere. Wayne eked out an existence doing cheap
westerns for Republic and Monogram until John Ford made him a star in 1939’s
Stagecoach.
1945- The first Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.
1963- The Lava Lamp invented by Dr Edward Craven Walker.
1965- Julie Andrews had created the role of Eliza Doolittle
in My Fair Lady on Broadway. But when filming the motion picture the studio
decided she was not a big enough star so they used Audrey Hepburn with a dubbed
singing voice. But Ms Andrews had her revenge. At the Academy Awards My Fair
Lady won Best Picture and Rex Harrison best actor, but Julie Andrews won the
best actress Oscar for Mary Poppins.
1985- Singer David Lee Roth quit the rock band Van Halen to
pursue a solo career.
1994- Grunge rock star Kurt Kobain shot himself. His body wasn’t
discovered until two days later.
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