Birthdays: 110 anniv of the birth of Sir Lawrence Olivier (1907-1989),
Mary Cassatt, Richard Wagner, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, T. Bone Pickens, Judith
Christ, Irene Pappas, Paul Winfield, Richard Benjamin, Susan Strassberg, George
Baker, Paul Winchell, Tommy John, Naomi Cambell, Dr. Robert Moog –inventor of the
first music synthesizer, Ginnifer Goodwin is 39
1915-The San Fernando Valley voted
to become part of Los Angeles.
1925- First day of shooting on
Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis.
1954- Bob Dylan’s Bar Mitzvah.
Maseltov!
1955-The Golden Age of Radio ended
when after 22 years the Jack Benny show was canceled. Once the top broadcast show
in the nation, Benny went into television.
1966- Bill Cosby became the first
African-American to win an Emmy Award for starring in a television series-
I-Spy.
1967- T.V. children's show Mr.
Roger's Neighborhood debuted.
1973- Scientist Bob Metcalfe of
Xerox PARC patented the Ethernet.
1985- Top Disney animation
director Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman who directed the Jungle Book
among other films, died in a car crash following lunch at the Smoke House in
Burbank.
1992- The film Encino Man
premiered, with Brendan Frazier and Pauly Shore.
2001- Ted Turner and Jane Fonda divorced.
2002-The Ayatollahs of Iran outlaw
Barbie dolls. They denounce Barbie as "agents of subversive Zionist
Western propaganda."
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