B-Dayz: George Pullman of Pullman Railroad cars, General
Matthew Ridgeway, Jean Harlow, Diana Barrymore, Akira Ifukube the composer of
the music scores to movies like Godzilla, Tone Loc, Jacky Joyner-Kersee, James
Doohan, Ronald Searle, Bruno Bozzetto, Bobby Driscoll, Herschel Walker, George
Miller, Miranda Richardson
1925- The Warner Bros started up LA’s first radio station,
KFWB. Their father Ben had coined the letters to mean Keep Fighting Warner
Bros, because of their constant bickering. It went through several hands and
was sold to a Bollywood music company and changed its letters March 1, 2016.
1938- The skies over Los Angeles finally clear after two
huge Pacific storms ravaged the region, causing massive flooding from Long
Beach to Glendale. The destruction and flooding caused Los Angeles to cover the
Los Angeles and Burbank Rivers in concrete, creating the flood basin the
Terminator races motorcycles and trucks through.
1950-Paramount's "Quack-a-Doodle-Doo" The first
Baby Huey cartoon.
1950- Don Herbert teaches millions of kids about science as
televisions Mr. Wizard.
1966- William Frawley, the bald,
gravel-voiced neighbor Fred Murtz on I Love Lucy, had just seen the movie Inside Daisy Clover on Hollywood Blvd.
He was outside the Knickerbocker Hotel when he lit a cigar, then dropped dead
of a heart attack. He was 79. When his TV partner Vivian Vance heard the news,
she said “ Champagne for everyone!” They never liked each other much. She died
in 1979.
1975- First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club in a
garage in Menlo Park Ca.
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