Birthdays: Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Josef Broz Tito,
Igor Sikorsky, Pontormo, Bennett Cerf, Claude Akins, Leslie Uggams, Bill
Bojangles Robinson, Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz), Beverly Sills, Robert
Ludlum, Anne Heche, Irwin Winkler, Mike Myers is 54, Ray Stevenson is 53, Ian
McKellen is 78
1878- Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore premiered at the
Savoy in London.
1911- Thomas Mann visited Venice Italy. On the Lido Beach he
was inspired to write A Death in Venice.
1932-Mickey’s Revue,
the first Disney cartoon that featured the character that would eventually be
called Goofy.
1942- First day shooting on the film “ Casablanca”.
1946- Chuck Jones cartoon Hare Raising Hare, where Bugs meets a large shaggy monster named
Gossamer “ Monsters are such inn…teresting people…”
1957- Sid Caesar's Your
Show of Show's canceled after nearly a decade. The show used future star
writers like Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Woody Allen and Neil Simon. They pioneered the executive strategy of
network programmer Pat Weaver to not let the show be owned by an entire sponsor,
but the network would produce the show and would sell the sponsor commercial
time in 30 second chunks. Pat Weaver’s daughter is Sigorney Weaver. Your Show of Shows was finally bested in
the ratings by The Lawrence Welk Show.
1968- The Rolling Stones release the song Jumping Jack Flash.
1969- John Schlesinger’s film Midnight Cowboy premiered. The first X-rated film to ever win the
Oscar for Best Film.
1977- The Hollywood premiere of George Lucas’ movie Star Wars. The movie opened on the 28th.
1979- Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Alien opened. It featured the exotic designs of Hungarian artist
Giger, and John Hurt with a classic case of chest pains!
1980- Evangelist Oral Roberts claimed he saw a 900-foot
Jesus over his bed.
1983- Return of the
Jedi opened. It was originally Revenge of the Jedi, but George Lucas
changed the name just a month before.
1994- First International Conference on the World Wide Web. Tim
Berners-Lee and CERN talked on how to implement and unify the new World Wide Web.
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