Birthdays: Ludwig Van
Beethoven, Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's wife number one), Marshal Gerbhard
von Blucher, Lenoid Brezhnev, Jane Austen, Margaret Mead, Noel Coward, George
Santayanna, Liv Ullmann is 75, Steve Bochco, Leslie Stahl. Quentin Blake- dean
of British illustrators favored by Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K.
Dick, Miranda Otto is 48.
1900 -EARLY ANIMATED FILM "ENCHANTED DRAWINGS', James
Stuart Blackton was a New York World cartoonist who used to do a vaudeville act
in drag. He came to do an article on Thomas Edison then Edison put him on the
payroll. He created this and several other trickfilms. It doesn’t move much
more than his vaudeville lightning drawing act, His 1906 film Humorous Phases
of Funny Faces is considered the first animated cartoon.
1905- Variety magazine born.
1913- Young English music hall actor named Charlie Chaplin
got a job at Keystone Studios in Hollywood. His first film he would play a
villain.
1966- The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the song ‘Hey
Joe’.
Fifty Years Ago 1966- Sergio Leone’s epic Spaghetti Western,
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly premiered in Rome. The last of the Man with No
Name trilogy. Clint Eastwood never worked with Leone again.
1971- Don McClean released the long version of the song
‘American Pie’.
1978- The Disney short The Small One, directed by Don Bluth.
1980- Colonel Harland Sanders, the Kentucky Fried Chicken
founder, died.
1988- Shockjock Howard Stern is fined $100,000 by the FCC
for having on his radio show a man who could play the piano with his penis.
1993- Producer Aaron Spelling fired Shannon Dougherty off
the TV soap Beverly Hills 90210.
1999- Julie Andrews, star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of
Music, sued New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital for destroying her singing voice
during a routine throat operation.
2009- Roy E. Disney died, the Walt Disney nephew who oversaw
the animation resurgence of the 1990s.
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