Birthdays: Roman general Pompey Magnus, Miguel de Cervantes,
Admiral Horatio Nelson, Rudolph Diesel (inventor of the engine), Enrico Fermi,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Autrey, Lech Walesa, Stanley Kramer, Bryant Gumbel, Greer
Garson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ian McShane, Anita Ekberg, Andrew Dice-Clay,
cartoonist Russ Heath is 90, Tom Sizemore, Emily Lloyd is 46, Silvio Berlusconi,
Stephanie Miller is 55
1930-Ninety year old writer George Bernard Shaw turned down
the offer of a Peerage.
1930- First day of shooting on the Tod Browning horror
classic Dracula. Hungarian actor and recreational morphine addict Bela Lugosi
played the lead role he had already made famous on stage. Lugosi was identified
with the character Dracula for the rest of his life and when he died he was
buried in the Dracula cape.
1933- The movie A Bill of Divorcement introduced the star
Katherine Hepburn.
1953- The television show “Make Room for Daddy” premiered,
making a star out of big nosed nightclub entertainer Danny Thomas. The Lebanese
Thomas had tried to break into films with no luck. He burst into tears after Columbia studio
chief Harry Cohn suggested he get a nose job and forget about it. Danny Thomas
at one time was the richest man in Beverly Hills.
1959- Hanna Barbera's "Quick Draw McGraw" TV show.
Baba Louie and El Kabong!
1961- Russian ballet star Rudolph Nureyev, acclaimed as the
greatest dancer of his age, defected to the west in Paris and was granted
asylum.
1969- The TV series Love American Style premiered.
1975- The legendary R&B singer Jackie Wilson, collapsed of a heart attack while performing
on stage for Dick Clark’s ‘Good
Ol’ Rock and Roll Revue’ at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, N.J. He lingered
in an out of a coma for 8 years, dying in 1984. He was only 49. All the time he
was comatose, Dick Clark covered all his medical bills, and kept it a secret.
1976- At his birthday party musician Jerry Lee Lewis
accidentally shot his bass player Norman Owens in the chest with s 357 magnum.
He said he was using the gun to try and open a soft drink bottle and it
accidentally went off. Owens survived and sued Lewis.
1996- The first Nintendo 64 bit
game system, The NES, debuted in the US. It sold 500,000 the first day.
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