Birthdays: Czar
Peter the Great, Benny Goodman, Mel Blanc, Stepin Fetchit, Boris Pasternak,
Irving Thalberg, Milt Neil, Howard Hawks, Gale Sayers, Michael J. Pollard,
Wynonna, Keir Dullea is 81, Ceelo Green is 42, Idina Menzel is 46
1919- Hollywood
entrepreneur Charles Tolman bought a natural declivity north of Hollywood Blvd
called Daisy Dell. People had been picnicking in the grass there for years. Now
Tolman wanted to build a concert amphitheatre. Conductor Hugo Kirchhofer
remarked “ It looks like a big bowl!” So it became the Hollywood Bowl
thereafter.
1930- The Lockheed Terminal
rededicated as Burbank Airport.
1955- The
New York chapter of the Catholic League of Decency pressured Loews Theater on
Broadway to take down a giant 30-foot billboard of Marilyn Monroe trying to
push her skirt down.
1962- Benjamin
Britten’s War Requiem had its first
performance.
1972- Director
choreographer Bob Fosse filmed a live performance of Liza Minelli’s one-woman
show Liza with a Z. It was telecast
in Sept. and became a sensation.
1994 - Death of Baron Marcel Bich, Italian-born French
engineer and industrialist who created an empire through his disposable BIC
pens, lighters and razors.
2003- Pixar’s Finding
Nemo opened.
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