Birthdays: Bartolomeo Christofori'-inventor of the piano,
Alice Liddel 1852- the inspiration of Alice in Wonderland, Audrey Hepburn –real
name Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten, Roberta Peters, Maynard Ferguson, Pia
Zadora is 62, Howard Da Silva , Tammy Wynette, Randy Travis, Hosni Mubarak,
George Will, Richard Jenkins
1897- In Paris during a charity cinematograph show the
nitrate film catches fire and 200 die. Movie film before the 1940’s was made
from a very unstable Nitrate mixture and could explode from the slightest
contact with flame.
1927-The Motion
Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences formed. Studio heads Irving Thalberg and
Louis B. Mayer originally conceived the Academy as an arbiter where studio
artists could air grievances without fear of retaliation, thereby sidetracking
the call for unions. It didn't work, because of the nature of it's founders.
After the stock market crash the Academy supported the studio heads enforced
employee salary cuts. Soon all pretense as an ombudsman was abandoned and AMPAS
focused instead on being the arbiter of artistic achievement.
Writer Dorothy Parker commented: "Going to the Academy
with your problems is like trying to get laid in your mother's house, someone's
always peeking through the curtains"
1948- Norman Mailor's first novel published: "the Naked
and the Dead".
1953 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway for The
Old Man & The Sea.
1957 - Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st
prime-time network rock music show.
1967- The Big Mac hamburger is invented in a MacDonald's
restaurant in Pittsburgh.
1975- Moe Howard died, last of the original Three Stooges.
1991- Bing Crosby’s son Dennis Crosby put a shotgun to his
head and ended his life. In 1989 his younger brother Lindsay had committed
suicide in a similar fashion.
2000- The Love Bug Computer virus ravaged the worlds
commerce through Microsoft Outlook causing $10 billion dollars in damage and
shutting down temporarily the e-commerce of large firms like Reebok. It was
launched by a Philippine grad student as part of his thesis.
2001- Bonnie Lee Blakely, the wife of actor Robert Blake,
was found in her car dead of a gunshot wound to the head outside of Vitello’s
Restaurant in Studio City, Ca. They had just had dinner, and Mr. Blake had
returned into the restaurant to retrieve a gun he had left at his table. In
2005 the actor was acquitted of his wife’s murder, but lost a wrongful death
suit to Blakely’s family. No other suspect has ever been identified.
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