Birthdays: King Ludwig II the Mad of Bavaria, Leonard
Bernstein, Walt Kelly, Bret Hart, Lola Montez (flamenco dancing mistress of
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria), Alan Pinkerton, Elvis Costello is 63, Clara Bow,
Ruby Keeler, Monty Hall, Van Johnson, Willis Reed, Frederick Forsythe, Wayne
Shorter, Billy Ray Cyrus, Dr. Bruno Bettleheim, Rolly Fingers, Gene Simmons,
Anne Archer, Tim Burton is 58, Sean Connery is 86, Claudia Schiffer is 45
1835- The New York Sun newspaper
ran a story that British astronomer Sir William Herschel, the discoverer of
Neptune, had observed little men living on the surface of the Moon! The story proved false, but it boosted the
sales of the paper.
1970- A young singer named Elton
John did his first US tour, opening at the Troubadour in LA.
1980- The premiere of the Broadway
musical version of the classic movie 42nd Street. In a moment of Broadway
melodrama producer David Merrick came out on stage and startled the cast and
audience by announcing that the director of the play Gower Champion had died
that very day. 42nd Street went on to be a smash hit. The play itself is about
a Broadway director who works himself to death creating a hit musical.
1991- At the Emmy ceremony, comic
Gilbert Gottfried (AFLACK duck, Iago in Aladdin) upset the audience by a flood of masturbation
jokes about Pee Wee Herman. Fox Network apologized the next day.
2001-Beautiful 22 year old R&B
singer Alleiya was killed, when her overloaded charter plane crashed on the
island of Abaco in the Bahamas.
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