Birthdays: Mary Harris a.k.a.
Mother Jones, Marshal Vauban 1633, Benjamin Latrobe, Calamity Jane, Joseph
Addison, Kate Smith, Jack Paar, Joseph Heller, Rita Coolidge, Steve Cauthen,
Judy Collins, Glen Ford, Ray Parker Jr., Maurice Noble, Fyodor Khytruk, Louis
Nye, John Woo, Wes Anderson is 47, Joanna Lumley is 70, Disney animator Eric Goldberg is 61
1902- Richard Outcault's comic
strip Buster Brown and Tige first appeared. Outcault, the creator of the first
hit cartoon the Yellow Kid was so famous that as part of his deal to do this
strip he negotiated the first back-end deal for a percentage of the merchandise
sales.
1939- The first Batman comics
created by Bob Kane appear on newsstands.
1941- Orson Welles film
"Citizen Kane" debuted at the Paramount theater (the El Capitan) in
Hollywood. At the last minute William Randolph Hearst's friend Louis B. Mayer
tried to buy and destroy every print of the film and the Hearst press went
crazy attacking it. Hearst spokesperson Louella Parsons threatened "A
Beautiful Lawsuit" if the film was not pulled. Despite winning some Oscars
the film didn't do well in it's initial release, but it remains one of the
greatest films of all time. Welles said later:" The problem I've always had is my movies become classics ten years
later."
1964- Scientist John Kemeny at
Dartmouth created the computer language BASIC.
1967- Elvis Presley married Priscilla
Beaulieu at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas.
1989- Walt Disney Feature
Animation in Orlando Florida opens. It closed in 2006.
1993- The Florida Animation Union
Local 843 chartered.
1997- Bebe, the dolphin who played
Flipper on the television show, died at age 40.
1999- Spongebob Squarepants
premiered on Nickelodeon.
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