Birthdays: Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Mao zse Tung,
Charles Babbage, Admiral Dewey, Richard Widmark, Steve Allen, Henry Miller,
Carlton Fisk, Chris Chambliss, Alan King, Phil Spector, Fred Schepsi, Jared
Leto is 44
1924- Baby Frances Gumm first appeared on a stage at 2 1/2
years old. Grown up she would change her name to Judy Garland.
1926- Young artist Al Hirschfeld had made his first caricature
for the Broadway Stage. A drawing of actor Sasha Guitry. A friend took it to
The New York Tribune and sold it. He figured here's a nifty way to make a
living, so soon he was selling to all the papers including the New York Times.
1938- Young playwright Thomas Williams moved from Saint
Louis to New Orleans and changed his name to Tennessee Williams.
1939- Walt Disney Animation moves from Hyperion to the new
Burbank Studio lot. The buildings are designed l0pzxike hospital wards, so in
case he hits economic trouble, Disney could sell them to the planned St.
Joseph's Hospital across the street. Animator Ward Kimball said it was the
first time he worked in a studio where all the furniture matched. The old
Hyperion Studio was bulldozed in 1966, the year of Walt Disney’s death.
1941- Goofy cartoon, the
Art of Self Defense, premiered.
1944- Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie premiered in Chicago.
1973- The horror film The
Exorcist starring Linda Blair premiered. Merry Christmas! Have some pea
soup!
1985- Gorillas in the
Mist author and ape anthropologist Diane Fossey was murdered by machete in
her lab in Africa.
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