Birthdays: King Manuel Ist of
Portugal –1495, Walt Whitman, Fred Allen, Don Ameche, Prince Ranier, Dr. Norman
Vincent Peale, Ranier Fassbinder, Brooke Shields, Joe Namath, Richie Valens,
John Kemeny-the co-creator of BASIC, Tom Berenger, Denholm Elliot, Peter
Yarrow, Lea Thompson, John Bonzo Bonham of Led Zepplin, Colin Ferrell is 40,
Clint Eastwood is 86
1928- The song “ Old Man River
“sung by Pail Robeson came out as a single.
1928- Steamboat Willie was the
first Mickey Mouse cartoon, but Mickey didn’t speak much. He just whistled,
yelped and laughed. In the cartoon released this day “the Carnival Kid” Mickey
spoke his first words “ Hot Dogs!” The voice was musician Carl Stalling.
1958 - Dick Dale invents
"surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin".
1984- Martial arts movie star
Steven Segal married soap opera star Adrienne LaRussa. But what Adrienne didn’t
know was he already had a wife named Miyako Fujetani and two kids waiting for
him in Japan. A few months after this he fell for another actress named Kelly
LeBrock.
1985- John Sculley was a former
exec from Pepsi brought in by Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak to help run the company. This day his solution to help the company run
better was to fire Steve Jobs. Wozniak retired and Sculley eventually moved on.
Before his death, Steve Jobs came back to Apple and make it the worlds most
profitable company, as well as run PIXAR and be on the board of the Walt Disney
Company.
1989- "Skinhead Day at the
Magic Kingdom" Disneyland refused to admit a rally of skinheads, Nazis and
Klansmen.
1990- Television sitcom Seinfeld
premiered based on a TV special about the standup comedian called the Seinfeld
Chronicles. No Soup for You!
1995- A young Mexican-American
Tejana singer named Selena was gaining a growing crossover appeal in pop music
and there seemed no limit. This day her career was cut short when she was shot
and killed by the Yolanda Saldivia, the president of the Selena Fan club.
2000- The first Survivor show
premiered, shepherding in a new era in America of TV Reality shows.
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