Birthdays: King
Henry II Plantagenet, Antonio Vivaldi, Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal,
Count Pulaski, Miriam Makeba, Nancy Wilson, Bernard Haittink, John Garfield,
Knute Rockne, Chastity Bono, prizefighter Ray Boom-Boom Mancini, Patsy Kensit.
Katherine O’Hara is 63, James Ellroy, Mykleti Williamson. Ward Kimball, Ken
Duncan
1924- The song “Happy
Birthday to You” copyrighted by Claydon Sunny.
1936- Screenwriter
Dudley Nichols publicly refuses the Best Screenplay Oscar for John Ford’s “The
Informer” as protest in support of the struggling Writer’s Guild.
1946- Alex Raymond's
comic strip 'Rip Kirby" premiered.
1952- Ronald Reagan
married Nancy Davis at the Little Red Church on Coldwater Canyon blvd. in L.A.
William Holden was their best man.
1952- Ernest
Hemingway wrote a letter to his publisher:" I've completed a new novel. I
think it's my best one to date." The Old Man and the Sea.
1956- Burger King
introduced their signature hamburger the Whopper.
1960-Famed American
opera baritone Leonard Warren collapsed and died on the stage of the
Metropolitan Opera in the 2nd act of Verdi's La Forza Del Destino.
1961- In the early
stages of filming Cleopatra in London, actress Elizabeth Taylor developed
pneumonia and slipped into a coma. She would have died, had not doctors at a
convention at London’s Dorchester Hotel performed and emergency tracheotomy.
When you seen the film today you can still see the tracheotomy scar at the base
of her throat.
1994- 375 pound
comedian John Candy died of apnea in his sleep. He was 43.
2000- The Japanese launch
of Sony Playstation 2. The most anticipated videogame launch in history.
600,000 units were sold. One store in Tokyo’s Ginza had 4,000 people lined up
at their door. It remained a hot for 13
years.
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