Birthdays: Michelangelo
Buonnarotti, Cyrano De Bergerac, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Phil Sheridan, Lou
Costello, Ivan Boesky, Ring Lardner, Gabriele Garcia-Marquez, Valentina
Tereschkova the first woman in space, Tom Arnold, Kiri Te Kanawa, Rob Reiner is
70, Alan Greenspan, DC Mayor Marion Barry, Stephen Schwartz is 69, Ed McMahon,
Shaquille O’Neal is 45, Will Eisner would be 100!
1921- The film Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse premiered. The first Hollywood film to earn over one million
dollars, and it made a major star out of Rudolf Valentino..
1978- Hustler Magazine publisher
Larry Flynt was shot and crippled by a lunatic.
1979- The film The China Syndrome
premiered. It was about an accident at an American nuclear power plant. Three
weeks later the real Three Mile Island accident occurred, boosting the box
office. " It's spooky, it's enough
to make you religious" said star Michael Douglas.
1989-
Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications to become Time Warner, the largest
media conglomerate in the world. They were bought by AOL in 2000 but AOL proved
to be dead weight and they resumed control as TimeWarner in 2003.
1992-
The film The Lawnmower Man premiered. It featured early motion-capture CGI
imagery, and claimed to have the first virtual reality sex scene.
1998-
The Big Lebowski opened in theaters. The Dude Abides…
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