Birthdays: Heinrich Heine, Mary Todd Lincoln, Dick Van Dyke
is 91, Mike Mosley, Darryl Zanuck Jr., George Schulz, Christopher Plummer is
87, Steve Buscemi is 59, Jamie Fox is 47, Lynn Holly Johnson, Wendy Malick,
Taylor Swift is 27.
1895- Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony “Resurrection”
premiered.
1928- Leopold Damrosch conducted the premiere of George
Gershwin's -"An American in Paris."
1936- At the urging of New Yorker editor Harold Ross to find
a better line of work, actor Dave Chasen opened Chasen's restaurant in Beverly
Hills, which catered to Hollywood stars for 60 years. It is the restaurant
where Leopold Stokowski was introduced to Walt Disney and as a result they
conceived "Fantasia". Humphrey Bogart, John Huston and Lauren Bacall
met upstairs to discuss the Blacklist of 1947. Elizabeth Taylor ordered
Chasen’s chili flown out to Rome so she could eat it on the set of Cleopatra.
The restaurant closed in 1995 because the Chasen family wanted to cash in on the
real estate. Today it’s a supermarket.
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1940- Fleischer Popeye cartoon "Eugene the Jeep"
.The Thimble Theater character would give its name to the new army General
Purpose vehicle- G.P. or "Jeep".
1961- Jimmy Dean’s folk ballad Big Bad John went to #1 of the
country charts. Later Dean had his own TV variety show and started Jimmy Dean’s
Pure Pork Sausage Company.
1969- Arlo Guthrie’s hit song Alice’s Restaurant released.
1971- Disney’s film Bedknobs
and Broom Sticks opened.
1996- In Terry Gilliams’ sci-fi apocalypse epic the Plague
of the 12 Monkeys was unleashed today, a virus that killed 4/5ths of the
world’s population and drove the remainder underground.
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