Birthdays: Napoleon Bonaparte, Leon Theremin- inventor of that
weird electronic musical instrument that is in all those 1950s flying saucer
movies, Samuel Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, King Frederick Wilhelm Ist of
Prussia 1685, Lawrence of Arabia, Ethel Barrymore, Huntz Hall, Bill Baird, Edna
Ferber, Sir Robert Bolt, Rose-Marie is 92, Linda Ellerbee, Gene Upshaw, Oscar
Peterson, Shimon Peres, Mike “Mannix” Connors, Nicholas Roeg, Anthony Andrews,
Ben Afleck is 43, Debra Messing is 47, Julia Child, Jennifer Lawrence is 25.
1843- Tivoli Gardens opened in Copenhagen. One of the oldest
amusement parks in the world. King Christian said “ When people are amused, they
don’t worry about politics.”
Hans Christian Andersen was a frequent visitor. One hundred
years later, Walt Disney visited to get inspiration for his Disneyland.
1885- Sir Richard Burton completed his translation from
medieval Persian of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. There had been earlier
attempts like a French edition in 1809, but Burton’s edition introduced the
west to Aladdin and his magic lamp, Sinbad the sailor and Scheherazade.
1935- Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Pictures merge to
become Twentieth Century Fox.
1935- Humorist writer Will Rogers and his pilot Wiley Post
are killed when their small plane crashed in Barrow, Alaska.
1946- Disney’s Make Mine Music, featuring Blue Bayou, All
the Cats Join In, and Willie the Operatic Whale.
1958 - Buddy Holly weds Maria
Santiago.
1965- The Beatles play their largest U.S. concert yet, at
New York's Shea Stadium.
1968- The pirate radio station Radio Free London began
transmitting.
1969-WOODSTOCK-Three Days of Peace and Music- The rock
concert of the 20th Century opened. The promoters, one of whom was
heir to the Polident Denture Cream fortune, were hoping to host 50,000 people
and launch a recording studio in the quiet New York farming town. What they got
was 500,000 young fans and the social phenomenon that defined an age.
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