Birthdays: Robert F. Kennedy, Joe
Biden, Maya Plisetskaya, Gene Tierney, Dick Smothers, Bo Derek is 61, Sean
Young is 51, Richard Dawson, Estelle Parsons, Barbera Hendricks, Duane Allman,
Joe Walsh, Chester Gould the creator of Dick Tracy, Judge Kennesaw Mountain
Landis the first baseball commissioner, Alastair Cooke, Ming Na -the voice of
Mulan
1895- Beethoven’s opera Fidelio
premiered. He rewrote the overture four times and still wasn’t happy with it.
So he rewrote it once more and published the other four as the Leonore
Overtures.
1820- In the Pacific Ocean the
Nantucket whaling ship Essex was sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Only six men
survived floating on driftwood for ninety days, resorting to cannibalism before
being rescued. This incident is thought to have been one of the inspirations
for Herman Melville to write his novel Moby Dick.
1875- Henry James published his
first novel Rockwell Hudson.
1894- Prince Ananias premiered, the first operetta of Victor Herbert.
1947- The longest running
television show in history- Meet the Press, premiered. And it is still on
today.
1994- Rock & Roll star David
Crosby received a new liver.
1998-
Several state governments and the US tobacco industry reach a landmark
settlement arising from lawsuits over smoking illnesses. The trial also killed
off once and for all ads featuring The Marlboro Cowboy and Joe Camel, a cartoon
character that at one point was as recognizable to children as Donald Duck.
1998-
Pixar’s film A Bugs Life was generally released.
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