Birthdays: Gore Vidal, Mikail Lermontov, Harvey Kurtzman,
Chubby Checker, James Herriot, Eleanor Duse, Emily Post, Leo McCarey the
director of the Marx Brothers classic film Duck Soup, and many Laurel &
Hardy shorts, Steven Reich, Dave Winfield, Tommy Lee, Neve Cambell, Clive Owen
is 52
1955- 'Good Morning, Captain.' The Captain Kangaroo kiddy
Show debuted on television.
1955- The Mickey Mouse Club TV show premiered. “Who’s the
leader of the Band that’s Made for you and me…?”
1957-Walter Lantz's The Woody Woodpecker TV Show debuted.
1957- Jayne Mansfield met Greta Garbo and asked for her
autograph.
1961- The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered. It made stars of Van
Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore and was written by ex-Sid Caesar writer Carl Reiner
and Rocky & Bullwinkle writer Alan Burns.
1967- Folksinger and union activist Woodie Guthrie died of
Huntington’s Chorea. His family scattered his ashes in New York Harbor, then
went to Nathans on the Coney Island Boardwalk for hot dogs, Woody’s favorite.
1995- After a long sensationalist trial turned into a media
spectacle, celebrity O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the double murder of his
second wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. He was later convicted in a
wrongful death suit brought in Civil Court by Nicole’s family.
2003- The Siegfried and Roy
magic show in Las Vegas comes to an end after a large Bengal Tiger attacks Roy
Horn and tears his throat open in front of an audience. Most thought it was
part of the act.Answer: Louis XIV of France.
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