Birthdays: French King Louis X The Stubborn 1314, Richard
Cromwell-“ Tumbledown Dick, “ President Rutherford B. Hayes, Frederick
Remington, Jean Millet, Buster Keaton, Englebert Dolfuss, Charlton Heston,
Susan Sarandon is 70, Armand Assante, Damon Runyon, Alvin Tofler author of Future
Shock, Anne Rice, Alicia Silverstone is 40, Christoph Waltz is 60, Liev
Schreiber is 49
1931- Chester Gould's "Dick
Tracy" comic strip debuts.
1943- Actor Clark Gable was
awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for flying combat missions over Germany.
It was said Gable took these deliberately dangerous missions instead of doing
USO shows out of a death-wish in grief for his wife Carole Lombard, who was
killed in a plane crash the year before.
1950- The first Peanuts comic
strip introducing Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy.
1957-"Leave it to Beaver'
debuts on CBS.
1969- Diane Linkletter, the
daughter of television personality Art Linkletter got high on LSD and leapt out
of a window to her death. Her boyfriend snatched at the belt loops of her dress
in an attempt to save her, but they tore away. Afterwards Art Linkletter became
a livelong crusader against drug abuse.
1971- Janis Joplin was found dead
of a drug overdose at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood. She was 27. Her song “Me
and Bobby McGee” was as yet unreleased but soon topped the pop charts. Joplin
left a considerable sum in her will for a party for her friends. The invitation
read “ The Drinks are on Pearl”, her nickname.
1986- On a New York street a man
named William Tager walked up to CBS News anchor Dan Rather and mumbling
“Kenneth, what’s the Frequency?” started furiously punching Rather. He thought
CBS was beaming microwaves at his brain and it was Dan’s fault. Who Kenneth
was, remains a mystery.
2006-
Julian Assange began Wikileaks.
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