Birthdays: Swedish King Charles
XII "the Madman of the North", Helen Keller, Norma Kamali, Charles
Stuart Parnell, Bob" Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan, Emma Goldman, Marine General Chesty Puller, Walter Johnson,
Ross Perot, Isabella Adjani is 61, Lauren Hill, Alice McDermott, J.J. Abrams is
50, Tony Leung ChuWai is 54, Toby McGuire is 41. Katherine Beaumont the voice
of Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan is 78.
1949 - "Captain Video &
His Video Rangers," debut on DUMONT-TV.
1962- Daryl F. Zanuck showed up at
the quarterly meeting of the exec board of 20th Century Fox, and in
a celebrated corporate showdown, he wrested back control of the company he
founded in 1935, but had lost control of.
50 Years Ago- 1966- TV soap opera Dark Shadows
premiered. Barnabas Collins was the first vampire to have issues with his job,
and so became the ancestor of the modern romantic vampires of Anne Rice stories, True Blood and
Twilight.
1973- Senior White House Counsel
John Dean testified to the Watergate committee that President Richard Nixon
maintained an Enemies List. The list ran from Senator Ted Kennedy and
journalist Daniel Shore, to June Foray and Bill Scott, who did the cartoon
voices of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose.
1984- Hollywood introduced the
PG-13 rating to indicate graphic violence, invented for the film Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom.
1995- Boyishly proper British
actor Hugh Grant is busted for soliciting sex from a Sunset Blvd. street hooker
named Divine Brown. Grant had just released a film called “ The Englishman Who
went up a Hill and Came down a Mountain". Pundits had fun changing the
title to "The Englishman who went to L.A. a Hugh, and Came Back a
John."
2007-
British Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped down after ten years. His security
police nickname in office was Bambi.
2008-
Pixar’s WALL-E opened in theaters.
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