Birthdays: Maximillien Robespierre, Sigmund Freud, Rudolph
Valentino, Orson Welles, Robert Peary, Willie Mays, Stewart Granger, Bob
Seger, Toots Schoor, Weeb Ewbank, Andriana Caselotti- the voice of Snow White,
Ruben Hurricane Carter, Christian Clavier, Tony Blair, George Clooney is 55.
1919- Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum died of heart
disease at 62. He was trying at the time to buy real estate in Los Angeles for
an Oz- theme amusement park.
1937- THE FLEISCHER STRIKE-Cartoonists vote to strike Max
Fleischers Studio after Max fires 13 animators for union activity and
complaining about the 6 day work week.
The strike was
settled several weeks later when parent company Paramount forced Max to concede.
Strikers sang "We're Popeye the Union Man! We're Popeye the Union Man!
We'll Fight to the Finish, Cause We Can't Live on Spinach ! We're
Popeye...etc."
1937- The Society of Motion Picture Art Directors formed.
1941- A friend of Bob Hope who was now in the military
suggested the comedian come and entertain troops on their army post. Hope takes
the suggestion and it becomes his signature event. Into his eighties he
entertained servicemen around the world in five wars.
1946- Curly Howard, was the most outrageous of the comedy
troupe The Three Stooges.
While people laughed at his antics, he lived a wild
Hollywood life, lots of clubs, drinking, smoking and girls. This day while
filming the short Halfwits Holiday, he suffered a massive stroke. He was only 42.
He survived 6 more years in debilitated health, moved from hospital to hospital by his
brothers. He died in 1952 at age 48.
2001- Variety reported that the Walt Disney Company in
promoting their upcoming summer film Pearl Harbor, had canceled plans for Pearl
Harbor Happy Meals at McDonalds, as being in bad taste.
2003- A tornado destroyed the
factory in Jackson, Tennessee that produced most of the world’s supply of
Pringles Potato Chips.
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