Birthdays: Katushika Hokusai, Dizzy Gillespie, Whitey Ford,
Alfred Nobel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Blair, Carrie Fisher is 60, Patty
Davis (Reagan's daughter), Benjamin Netanyahu, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Manfred
Mann, Sir Georg Solti, Angus McFadyen, Ken Watanabe is 567, Kim Kardasian is 36.
1932- The film Red Dust premiered. It made stars out of
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow.
1959- Six months after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright his
last creation the Guggenheim Museum in New York City opened.
1969- Beat Generation author of On
the Road- Jacques Kerouac died of alcoholism and stomach bleeding, a pencil and
pad on his lap. He grew bitter about how his call for youth rebellion had been
reinterpreted by the 60's generation as hippies and flower power. When he came upon
a gathering of kids at an anti-war rally distributing American flags to burn,
Kerouac collected them all and folded them neatly.
1972- Curtis Mayfield’s soundtrack theme to the movie
“Superfly” debuted at Number #1 in the Billboard charts.
2003-
The Great California Brush Fires. Hot dry wind and a lost hunter ignited the
worst brush fires in California history. Ten fires from Ventura County north of
Los Angeles to Tijuana Mexico burned hundreds of thousands of acres for two
weeks, destroyed 3000 homes and killed 20. The smoke clouds were visible from
space.
2015-
According to Robert Zemeckis 1989 film Back to the Future II, all the events
Marty McFly and Doc Brown experience in the future occur on this date. Got your
hoverboard, yet?
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