Birthdays: William Makepeace
Thackeray, Chill Wills, Nelson Mandela, James Brolin, Elizabeth McGovern,
Screaming Jay Hawkins, Hume Cronyn, Red Skelton, Hunter H. Thompson, Clifford
Odets, Paul Verhoeven, John Glenn is 95!, Vin Diesel is 49.
1877- Thomas Edison recorded sound
on tin foil cylinder `Mary Had a Little Lamb-'
1933- Jewish Agency leader David
Ben Gurion met with Palestinian Nationalist leader Awni Abd Al’Haadi, the
nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and co-founder of Al Fatah. Ben Gurion
asked "if it is possible to
reconcile the ultimate goals of the Jewish people and the goals of the Arabs
within Palestine? They only agreed to keep talking.
1939-MGM tried a sneak preview of
the film The Wizard of Oz. Afterward they debated cutting the song Somewhere
Over the Rainbow as slowing down the pace. Finally they decided to leave it in.
The film debuted in August to wild success and acclaim.
1939- RKO pictures signed Orson Welles
to direct movies in Hollywood. That Hollywood signed a 24 year old radio star
who never directed a movie, and gave him complete freedom and final cut was an
amazing deal.
1950- Walt Disney’s live action
film Treaure Island Premiered, with Robert Newton as Long John Silver, Capt
Jack Sparrow’s role model. Arrrr-mateys!
1964- Bob McKimson’s "A False
Hare", the last Bugs Bunny theatrical short for Warner Bros until 1985.
1966- Bobby Fuller who made the
hit song "I fought the Law and the
Law Won" was found in LA in his mothers Oldsmobile beaten and dead
from "forcible inhalation of gasoline"- huffing.
1998-
Pokemon the First movie released in Japan, stoking the Pokemon craze.
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