Birthdays: Daniel Defoe, William de Kooning, St. Vincent de
Paul, Morgan Earp, Jack E. Leonard, Dame Ethel Smyth, Jill Ireland, Eric
Bogosian, Sue Grafton, Robert Penn Warren, Barbera Streisand is 75, Cedric the
Entertainer is 54, Shirley McLaine is 83
1933- Ub Iwerk's "Fiddlesticks"
the first Flip the Frog cartoon, done in a simple two-color process. Iwerks was
the first designer and animator of Mickey Mouse, who had left Walt Disney to
open his own studio.
1944- Film Noir classic film Double Indemnity premiered.
1954- Handsome English actor Peter Lawford married John F.
Kennedy’s sister Patricia Kennedy. This union would give JFK his link to
Hollywood, Frank Sinatra and the RatPack.
1961- First day of shooting on the film King of Kings, the Christ story starring Jeffrey Hunter. Called by
one critic” I was a Teenage Jesus” In 1966 Jeffrey Hunter turned down a TV
series after doing the pilot episode. His wife worried that he’d be typecast.
The role of Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, went instead went to William Shatner.
1981- Small companies like Apple and Commodore had dominated
the personal computer market while giants like IBM stuck with large business
systems. Now IBM weighed in with The IBM PC –personal computer, with basic
software language DOS provided by Microsoft. It soon came to dominate the
market.
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