Birthdays: Guy de Maupassant, Amboise Thomas, William- first black
child born in British America, Neil Armstrong, John Huston, Robert Taylor,
Conrad Aiken, Roman Gabriel, Selma Diamond, Patrick Ewing, John Merrick the
Elephant Man, Loni Anderson, John Saxon, Jonathan Silverman is 45
1921- KDKA Pittsburgh does the 1st radio baseball broadcast
Pirates-8, Phillies-0.
1924- Arf, Arf ! the first Little Orphan Annie comic strip drawn
by Harold Gray.
1926- Magician Harry Houdini stays in a coffin under water for one
hour.
1953- The film “From Here to Eternity” opened, starring Deborah
Kerr, Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift. But the big story was Frank
Sinatra’s Oscar winning performance as Maggio that signaled the turnaround in
his slumping career.
1955- The Screen Actor’s Guild strikes Hollywood for television
residuals. Their president was Walter Pidgeon who had played Dr. Morbius in
Forbidden Planet.
1957- American Bandstand featuring the eternally teenage Dick
Clark debuts on television.
1962- GOODBYE, NORMA JEAN. Marilyn Monroe found nude in bed, dead
of barbiturate overdose. She was 36. Whether you think the starlet overdosed by
accident, suicide, or was done in by the Mafia, the Kennedys, a Svengali like
personal physician, lovesick lesbian physical therapist or space aliens, it is
still a mystery. She made a call to Attorney General Bobby Kennedy’s office in
Washington several hours earlier but was rebuffed. Her last call was to her
hairdresser Mr. Guilaroff. She left the bulk of her belongings to her drama
teacher Lee Strassberg and her funeral was organized by ex-husband Joe
Dimaggio. Her Westwood cottage suite had a tile over the doorway which read
:"All my troubles end Here."
1964 - Actress Anne Bancroft & Comedian Mel Brooks wed.
1966- Caesar’s Palace Hotel & Casino first opened to the
public. This was the first of the super-resort casinos, with a total theme park
design and three times the space and accommodations of anything yet seen on the
Vegas Strip. It’s success ushered in an accelerated era of building for Las
Vegas casinos.
1966 –It a moment of youthful indiscretion, John Lennon declared
his band the Beatles were now more popular than Jesus. This flippant comment provoked
a firestorm of nationwide protest among conservative elements in the US. Beatles albums were publicly burned in the
streets. Lennon apologized, then followed up by saying he was being crucified
over the comment. Paul McCartney rush up to the mike to insist that wasn't the
choice of words they preferred.
1967- Bobby Gentry released “Ode to Billy Jo”.
1980- The Osmond Brothers break up.
1984- Welsh actor Richard Burton died of cerebral hemorrhage at
64. With a tumultuous career and two marriages to Elizabeth Taylor, the hard
drinking Burton was the most famous English-speaking thespian of his day. But
unlike Olivier and Gielgud, he was never knighted. The monarchy objected to
their portrayal, when Burton starred in a TV miniseries on Winston Churchill.
Burton was buried with a copy of Dylan Thomas’ poems.
1984- Joan Benoit won the first Women’s Olympic Marathon.
1986 - It's revealed painter Andrew Wyeth had secretly created 240
drawings & paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
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