Birthdays: English King Edward VII “Bertie”, Emile Dickinson, Ada
Lovelace, E. H. Shepard the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh. Chet Huntley,
Morton Gould, Victor McLaughlin, Dan Blocker, Tommy Kirk, Fionnula Flanagan,
Kenneth Branaugh is 56, Dorothy Lamour, Susan Dey is 64, Michael Clarke Duncan
1607- Captain John Smith left the Jamestown camp with two
men to find food. They were captured by the Indians who killed the other men
and dragged Smith before chief Powhatan. He ordered Smith’s head to be placed
on a flat stone and bashed in with a war club. But Powhatan’s favorite daughter
Pocahontas threw herself over Smith and protected him. Smith could speak no
Algonquin and the Indians no English and neither could sing any Broadway
tunes.
1905- O. Henry’s short story “ A gift from the Magi” first
published.
1938- To make the film "Gone With the Wind"
Producer David Selznick and director Victor Fleming shot the massive
"Burning of Atlanta" in Culver City, California.
1941-The Hollywood Victory Committee formed. Top Hollywood
agents like Abe Lastfogel, Lou Wasserman and Myron Selznick (David's brother)
start signing up movie stars for bond drives and touring shows for the troops.
1966- The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” hit #1 in pop charts.
1967- R&B star Otis Redding and four of his band the Bar
Kays were killed in a small plane crash near Madison Wisconsin. He was 26.
Redding had recorded his hit “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” just three days
earlier.
2013- Richard Williams
unfinished epic animated film the Thief
and the Cobbler received its premiere at the Motion Picture Academy in
Beverly Hills. It was begun in 1972.
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