Birthdays: Salvador
Allende, Serge Koussevitsky, George Bernard Shaw, Gracie Allen,
Carl Jung, Stanley
Kubrick, Blake Edwards, George Grosz, Pearl Buck, Jason Robards Jr, Aldous Huxley, Jean Shepard, Vivian Vance,
Emil Jannings, Sandra Bullock is 52, Kevin Spacey is 55, Kate Beckinsdale, Mick
Jagger is 73
1861- Mark Twain left St. Jo
Missouri to go west and sit out the Civil War. He went with his brother Oren
Clemens who had been appointed to administer the Nevada territory.
1951- Charlie Chaplin driven into exile by red-baiters. He
was on a holiday to Britain when he learned his visa had been revoked by the
U.S. government. He didn't return until 1972. Despite his immense achievements
in Hollywood History, when the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated later that
year, Chaplin’s name was deliberately excluded.
1959- KPFK, Los Angeles lefty alternative radio of the
Pacifica Network, starts up.
1984- Edward Gein died peacefully in a prison for the
criminally insane. Gein was arrested in 1957 and sentenced to life for mass
murder. Police found his farm in Wisconsin decorated with human body parts and
heads in the freezer and in the stove, and the dried cadaver of his
mother. His story inspired "Psycho,
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs".
1991 – Children’s comic Paul
Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman was arrested in Florida for masturbating in an adult
movie theater. The film was Naughty Nurse Nancy.
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