Birthdays: Willa Cather, Larry Bird, Piero Mascagni, Madame
Tussaud-1761, Johnny Bench, Louis Prima, Ted Knight –real name Wladsyslaw
Konopka, Victor Kiam II, Noam Chomsky, Ellen Burstyn-real name Edna Mae
Gilhooley, Harry Chapin, Clarence Nash the voice of Donald Duck, Eli Wallach, Tom
Waits, Jeffrey Wright is 52
1919- “Blind Husbands” premiered, the first film by Erich
Von Stroheim. Originally a Viennese hat salesman, Stroheim cultivated his
Germanic aristocratic image on the silver screen. The premiere issue of the New
Yorker in 1923 glibly noted how “Mr. Stroheim has grown a very stylish “Von” in
the Southern California Sun”.
1927- Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record
in the 150-meter freestyle, one minute 25 and 2/5th seconds. He
competed in two Olympics and was never beaten. He later went to Hollywood and
was the star of the Tarzan movies.
1942- An RAF bomber pilot named Lumsden filed a report about
seeing a UFO following his plane in the night skies over the English Channel.
British pilots nicknamed the unexplained lights Foo Fighters, after a phrase in
a comic strip.
1964- Height of student uprising at Berkeley College in
California. Students won more liberalized curriculum and open teaching and
created the first major student protest of the tumultuous 1960's and earned
Berkeley the national reputation of the nations most radicalized school. The
Oakland police were later nicknamed the Blue Meanies after the villains in the
Beatles cartoon Yellow Submarine.
1974- The disco song “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas hit
#1 in the pop charts.
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