Birthdays:
Wendel Wilkie, President Chester Allen Arthur, Ray Kroc the founder of
MacDonalds restaurants, Louis Lumiere, Vaslav Havel, Larry Fine of the Three
Stooges" , Bob Geldorf, Mario Lemieux, Josh Logan, Bill Dana "my name
Jose Jimenez", Bill Keane, Clive Barker, Glynnis Johns, Donald Pleasance,
Maya Lin, Bernie Mac, Karen Allen is 65, Kate Winslet is 41, Guy Pearce is 49, Jesse Eisenberg is 33
1932-
MGM Studios fired famed comic Buster Keaton.
1933-
Warner Bros musical Footlight Parade with James Cagney premiered.
1945-
The BATTLE OF BURBANK.- Three thousand striking union filmworkers (and a few
animators) battled the Burbank police in front of Gate 2 of the Warner Bros.
Studio lot. chains, bricks, tear gas, firehoses, burning cars. Jack Warner
placed sharpshooters behind those large movie billboards on Barham and Pass.
One of the strikeleaders arrested was a background painter for Tex Avery
cartoons. Herb Sorrel, the union leader, was pulled into a car and beaten up by
gangsters, then arrested for incitement to riot.
1961-
The film Breakfast at Tiffany’s opened, with Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly,
the song Moon River.
1969-
Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted on British television BBC-1.
1969-
Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy was seen going into a Manhattan cinema to see
the Swedish x-rated film I Am Curious Yellow. Jackie-O beat up the photographer
who caught her, but her example spawned a beautiful people fashion called
Porn-Chic.
2011-
Steve Jobs died at age 56 of a pancreatic
neuroendocrine tumor (pNET) that spread to his liver. As he faded away, he
looked straight ahead as if he was seeing something and murmured "oh wow....oh....wow...."
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