Birthdays: Josef Pulitzer, Lew Wallace, George Arliss, Omar
Sharif, Harry Morgan, Max Von Sydow is 88, Ken Griffey Sr, Claire Booth Luce, Chuck Connors, John
Madden, Don Meredith, Paul Theroux, David Halberstram, Steven Segal is 66,
Orlando Jones, Mandy Moore is 33, Haley Joel Osment is 29
1923- Peeps invented. The sweet Easter marshmallow
confection that is shaped like a yellow baby chick and can stick to most
surfaces.
1925- F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
published by Scribners.
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1947- THE FBI PAY A VISIT to Screen Actor’s Guild president
Ronald Reagan and actress-wife Jane Wyman. They accuse them of belonging to
Communist Party front organizations. Ronnie agrees to become an informer on his
own guild, and just about everyone else in Hollywood. Jane Wyman later divorced
him.
1952-ELIA THE FINK-Film director Elia Kazan ( On the Waterfront, East of Eden,etc.)
saved his career but earned the lasting hatred of Hollywood by testifying to
the House Un American Activities Committee. He named 8 of his friends as
Communists, including writers Clifford Odets and Lillian Hellman.
1953- The Vincent Price film The House of Wax in 3d premiered.
1971- Rob Reiner married Penny Marshall.
1973- At Xerox PARC, Dick Schoups team of scientists created
Superpaint, the first digital paint and surfacing system for CG images. The
first picture on the computer was a photo of Dick holding a sign that read “ It
works, sort of.”
1985- A new singer named Madonna began her first tour, the
Virgin Tour.
1992- Bill & Sue Kroyer’s Ferngully the Last Rainforest premiered.
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