Birthdays: Steve McQueen, Lawrence Ferlingetti, Ub Iwerks
(the first Disney animator), John Wesley Powell, Harry Houdini aka Eric Weiss,
Edward Weston, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Clyde Barrow of Bonnie & Clyde, Bob
Mackie, Robert Carradine, Jesus Alou, Laura Flynn-Boyle, Alyson Hannigan, Joe
Barbera, R. Lee Ermey drill instructor in Full
Metal Jacket (Hoo-Rah!), Peyton Manning, Sir Elton John is 71
1912- Sir Arthur Conan-Doyles adventure novel The Lost
World, first published in magazine installments. Conan Doyle was inspired when
he in 1905 he attended a lecture at the Royal Geographic Society, when an
Amazon explorer described finding dinosaur bones. It was the first of the
Land-of-the-Dinosaurs type stories.
In 1925, Willis O'Brien made the Lost World into the
first dinosaur monster movie.
1939- The film the Hound of the Baskervilles premiered with
actors Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. They
became the most famous interpreters of the characters and went on to make a
dozen more films.
1943 - The first Japanese anime’ feature premiered
"Momotaro's Sea Eagles".
1955- Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
debuts at Broadway's Marosco Theater. Barbera Bel-Geddes was the first Cat, and
Burl Ives was " Big Daddy".
1958- Elvis Presley inducted into the Army. G.I. Blues!
1973- In Buffalo, a drunk fan bit singer Lou Reed on the
ass.
2006- 13 year old Miley Cyrus
debuts on TV as Disney’s Hanna Montana.
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