Birthdays: Roman Emperor Claudius, Emperor Pertinax, Francis
Scott Key, William Clark of Lewis & Clark, Herman Melville, Robert Todd
Lincoln, Geoffrey Holder, Yves St. Laurent, Giancarlo Giannini is 74, Dom
Deluise, Jerry Garcia, Coolio, Sam Mendes
1953- The Alan Ladd movie Shane released.
1960 - Chubby Checker releases
"The Twist" and starts a world wide dance craze.
1960 –A young Baptist preachers
daughter who had sung nothing but gospel went into a recording booth to try her
hand at R & B. Aretha Franklin’s
career began.
1971- The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour debuted.
1971- PBS started a new television series called Masterpiece
Theater hosted by Alastair Cooke. It’s first presentation was a the Six Wives
of Henry VIII. The high quality BBC and Thames Television programs became so
popular in the USA, that people said PBS stood for Preferably British Shows.
1973- With the tag line “Where were you in ’62?” the film
American Graffiti opened in theaters. The hit made skinny young director George
Lucas a player in Hollywood, and made stars of kids like Harrison Ford, Richard
Dreyfus and Susanne Somers.
1976- Elizabeth Taylor had married Richard Burton a second
time. Today she divorced Richard Burton a second time. This was her 6th
marriage.
1981-I WANT MY MTV! MTV goes on the air, rock videos 24
hours a day. The idea was funded by a consortium of investors including Mike
Nesmith of the Monkees, then on the board of 3M Paper company. If you put on
the TV this day you saw a slide of an astronaut for several hours, then finally
a voice said :”Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Rock & Roll.” The first rock
video played was by a British New-Wave Band called the Buggles entitled “Video
Killed the Radio Star.” followed by a Pat Benatar single.
1991- elderly movie queen Heddy Lamarr was busted in Tampa
Florida for shoplifting.
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