Birthdays: Percy Shelley, Hans Christian Andersen, Nicholas
Conte' 1777-inventor of the modern pencil and the conte'-crayon, Louis
Armstrong, William Pater, Dr Alexander Schure, Richard Belzer, Franco Corelli,
Elizabeth-England's late Queen Mum, Roger Clemens, runner Mary Decker-Slaney,
Billy-Bob Thornton is 62, President Barack Obama is 55
1782- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart married Constanze Weber, the
aunt of composer Karl Maria Von Weber. Mozart had first proposed to Constanze's
sister but she chose another.
1821- 1st edition of Saturday
Evening Post -published until 1969.
1855 - John Bartlett publishes his
first book of "Familiar Quotations"
1921 The Motion Picture Fund created.
1922- In honor of the passing of Alexander Graham Bell, all
13 million telephones in the United States observed three minutes of silence.
1942- The Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire-Marjorie Reynolds film
the Holiday Inn released. The film featured Irving Berlin hit songs like White
Christmas and Easter Parade but is hardly ever shown anymore because the
Lincoln’s Birthday skit featured the cast in embarrassing minstrel blackface,
singing “bout Massa Lincoln”.
1956- Elvis Presley released his
version of the Big Mama Mabel Thornton song
" You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog".
1984- Actor Johnny Depp opened his own club on the Sunset
Strip called the Viper Room. The original club on that site had once been owned
by mobster Bugsy Siegel.
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