Birthdays: First Lady Julia Dent
Grant, General Douglas MacArthur, Stephan Grappelli, Angela Davis, Maria Von
Trapp, Wayne Gretsky, Eartha Kitt, Paul Newman, Roger Vadim, Jules Feiffer is 88,
Henry Jaglom, Anita Baker, Edward Abbey, Scott Glenn, David Straitharn, Randy
Rhodes, Ellen DeGeneres is 59
1911- Richard Strauss’ opera Die
Rosenkavalier opens in Vienna. Kaiser Wilhelm was offended by the E.T. Hoffman
story about aristocrats sleeping around with their servants. He called it
"A dirty little play".
1934- Hollywood producer Sam
Goldwyn bought the rights to L. Frank Baum’s book the Wonderful Wizard of Oz to
develop into a movie.
1939- The first day of shooting on
the film Gone With the Wind.
1979- The Dukes of Hazard TV show
premiered. Catharine Bach’s cutoff jeans became thereafter known for her
character- Daisy Dukes.
1983- The software LOTUS 1-2-3
premiered that helped make IBM’s PC into the most popular business computers in
the US.
1984-HELP ME TITO! During the
filming of a Pepsi commercial at LA’s Shrine Auditorium, a magnesium flash
ignited singer Michael Jackson’s Jeri curl hair gel causing him 3rd degree
burns on his scalp.
1988- Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical
Phantom of the Opera premiered.
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