Birthdays: Honore' Daumier, Nancy Wilson, Ansel Adams, Cindy
Crawford, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robert Altman, Roger Penske. Phil Esposito,
Jennifer O’Neill, Ivanna Trump, Mike Leigh, Lili Taylor, Sidney Poitier is 89
1845- The Battle of the Cahuenga Pass. Angry Spanish Californians rancheros led by
Juan de Alvarado and Pio Pico clashed with the Mexican governor Miguel de
Micheltorena. The only casualty was a mule. The story of Alvarado may be one of
the origins of Zorro.
1925- Willis O’Brien’s silent movie The Lost World premiered. Based on
Conan-Doyles 1912 novel. The stop motion animation of dinosaurs and exploding
volcanoes issued in a new era of special effects films. O'Brien later did King Kong and trained kids like Ray
Harryhausen.
1936- The film “Follow
the Fleet” premiered, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
1947- In a lecture to the London Mathematical Society, Computer
pioneer Alan Turing said the best way to test the intelligence of a computer
would be to teach it to play chess. Earliest reference to interactive gaming.
2006- The animated film Wallace
& Gromet: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, won the British Academy Award (BAFTA)
for the best British Film of the year. It beat out the Constant Gardner, and
Pride & Prejudice.
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