Birthdays: Louis XIV The Sun King, Jesse James, Cardinal
Richelieu, Johann Christian Bach, Jacopo Meyerbeer, John Cage, Quentin de la
Tour, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, Bob Newhart is 87, George Lazenby, Raquel
Welch is 76, Kathy Guisewhite, Dweezil Zappa, Werner Herzog is 76, Michael
Keaton is 65, Rose McGowan is 44
1935- Tumbling Tumbleweeds premiered, the film that made a
star out of Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy.
1943- Young British cartoonist Ronald Searle is captured by
the Japanese in Burma. He spent his time as a P.O.W. working on the infamous
Bridge on the River Kwai and making sketches of the nightmarish conditions of
his fellow prisoners.
1957- Jacques Kerouac’s ode to the beat life ON THE ROAD,
first published. Kerouac wrote it in a white heat using one large roll of white
paper stuffed into his typewriter instead of individual sheets. When the editor
got the novel it had no paragraph breaks of chapter breaks. Another young
writer of the time, Truman Capote, was unimpressed. “That’s not writing, it’s
typing.”
1958 The novel DR ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak published in
US. It was banned in Russia until the collapse of Communism.
1964- Buffalo NY cook Angela Bellissima took some chicken
wings, threw them into a deep fryer with spices and invented Buffalo Wings.
1965- CBS television network headquarters are moved into a
sleek building on 6th Ave. in Manhattan. Because of it's black granite and
smoke tinted window's it's nicknamed "Black Rock". NBC's headquarters
in Rockefeller Center are called "30 Rock". ABC's, owing to their
status as the third network, called their headquarters "Little Rock".
1994- Patrick McDonnell started
drawing the comic strip MUTTS.
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