Birthdays: Benjamin Disraeli, Josh Gibson- the Home Run King
of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Pat Weaver-TV exec who created the Today Show
and father of Sigourney Weaver, Frank Zappa, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, Florence
Griffith Joyner, Chris Evert, Phil Roman, Jane Fonda is 79, Paul Winchell born
Pinkus Wilchinski, Keifer Sutherland is 50, Samuel L. Jackson is 68, Ray Romano
is 59, Jane Kaszmarek, Judy Delphy is 47, Jeffrey Katzenberg is 66
1914- The premiere of the first feature length film comedy-
Tilly’s Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and a young
Charlie Chaplin.
1925- Sergei Eisenstein’s cinematic masterpiece Battleship Potemkin premiered in Moscow. The films
pioneering use of montage and allegorical imagery intercut inspired a
generation of filmmakers.
1933- Twentieth Century Fox signed 5 year old Shirley Temple
to a seven year contract.
1937-Walt Disney's "
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" had its grand premiere at the Cathay
Circle Theater. The first feature length American cartoon, it became the box
office champ of 1938, earning 4 times more than any other film that year.
1940- Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (44) died of a heart attack
at Hollywood columnist Sheila Graham's house.
She had just left the house to buy him some candy.
His last words were 'Hershey bars will be fine..."
1944- Walt Disney’s The
Three Caballeros premiered in Mexico City.
1971- Richard William's animated TV special "A Christmas Carol" with Alastair
Sim reprising his Scrooge.
1979- Disney’s Sci-Fi flop The Black Hole opened in theaters.
1982- Thom Riley, one of the stars of the TV cop show ChiPS
was busted for driving stoned on Quaaludes.
2012- The Walt Disney Company
spent $4.06 billion to buy Lucasfilm, ILM and the Star Wars rights. George
Lucas retired to do philanthropic pursuits.
2089- According to Ridley Scott,
today the good ship Prometheus lands on the Original Planet.
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