Birthdays: Roman Emperor Caracalla, Edweard Muybridge, Maya
Angelou, Frances Langford, Irv Spence-Tom & Jerry animator, Gil Hodges,
Arthur Murray, Muddy Waters, Cloris Leachman, Dorothea Dix, Elmer Bernstein,
Bijan, Heath Ledger, Robert Downey Jr is 52, Barry Pepper, Craig T. Nelson is 73,
Hugo Weaving is 57
1952- CARTOON COMMIES- Nationally syndicated columnist
Walter Winchell accused the owners of a New York commercial animation studio,
Tempo Productions, of Communist
sympathies. One of the owners was Disney Layoutman Dave Hilberman, who was a
union organizer and was the only artist personally named by Walt Disney to the
House UnAmerican Activities Committee. The F.B.I. began investigating Tempo and
their Madison Avenue clients quickly pulled their business. Tempo closed,
laying off 50 artists. Mr. Clean, Markie Maypo and the Hamm’s Beer Bear were
once again safe from Red subversion.
1954- Arturo Toscanini, who had been making music since the
1880’s, conducted his final concert. Toscanini’s studio space at NBC is today
the set of the Saturday Night Live TV show.
1958- Screen goddess Lana Turner and her gangster lover
Johnny Stompanato had a violent argument that ended when Turner’s teenage
daughter plunged a kitchen knife into his chest. She was acquitted as justifiable
homicide, and rumors maintain the daughter was covering for her mother’s own actions.
It was whispered Hollywood society ladies had nicknamed Stompanato’s willy
Oscar for it’s size.
1967- Van Nuys premier head shop Captain Ed’s Heads &
Highs first opened for business.
1984- In George Orwell’s novel 1984, this is the day Winston
Smith started a secret diary and first wrote the dangerous thought-crime “Down
With Big Brother”.
1987- Ronald Reagan’s FCC voted to repeal The Fairness
Doctrine, which ordered news services to report unbiased news reflecting all
opinions. This set the stage for the highly partisan political fake news
reporting of today.
1994- Marc Andreesen and Jim Clark start Netscape. Clark
also founded Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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