Birthdays:
Giambattista Piazzetta, Bess Truman, Grant Wood, Lord Randolph Churchill,
Fyodor Chaliapin, Peter Tork, Oliver Reed, Chuck Yeager, Woody Hayes, Tennessee
Ernie Ford, Carol Lynley, Kim Novak is 84, George Segal is 83, Peter Gabriel,
Jerry Springer is 71, Stockard Channing is 72, Kelly Hu, Mena Suvari
1867- The Blue
Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss Jr premiered in Vienna.
1886- Artist Thomas
Eakins resigned his professorship at the Philadelphia Academy of Art in disgust
when he was attacked for having women students in his art class drawing male
nudes.
1932- Free Eats, the
first Our Gang short comedy to feature Spanky MacFarland.
1933-comic character
Blondie married Dagwood Bumstead.
1939- Producer David
O. Selznick replaced directors on Gone
With the Wind. George Cukor was out, Victor Fleming was in after completing
The Wizard of Oz. Vivien Leigh liked
Cukor who was known for directing women, but Clark Gable convinced the
producers that they needed an action director. About 15 minutes of George
Cukor’s work remains in the picture.
1937- Hal Foster's
comic hero Prince Valiant first
appeared.
1959 -Happy Birthday
BARBIE ! Mattel introduces the plastic nymph, originally named by the German
artist who created her 'Lily" but changed to 'Barbie" by Mattel
co-owner Ruth Handler who's daughter Barbara was nicknamed that.
1964- The Invention
of Cool Whip.
1996- The
off-Broadway musical Rent by John
Lawson, premiered
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