Birthdays: Harry Truman, Roberto
Rossellini, Leopold Bakhunin, Louis Gottschalk, Oscar Hammerstein, Ted
Sorenson, Sonny Liston, Toni Tennille, Ricky Nelson, Peter Benchley, Thomas
Pinchon, David Attenborough is 91, Keith Jarrett, Alex Van Halen, Melissa
Gilbert, French illustrator Jean Giraud aka Moebius, Enrique Inglesias, Bob
Clampett, Don Rickles
1824- Ludwig Von Beethoven
performed his Ninth (Choral) Symphony and Missa Solemnis in concert for the
first time.
1878- David Hughes invents the
Microphone while trying to get over bronchitis.
1910-Russian-Jewish immigrant
glove salesman Schmuel Gelpfisch married Blanche Lasky, the daughter of
vaudeville performer Jesse Lasky. Gelpfisch later changed his name to Sam Goldfish,
then Sam Goldwyn. He and his father in law Jesse Lasky went into the new
flicker business and started the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. They soon
moved to Hollywood.
1912- The movie studio Famous
Players Lasky born. In 1914 they changed their name to Paramount Pictures.
1943- Tex Avery's "Red Hot
Riding Hood"- Ooohh Wolfy !
1962-"A Funny thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Forum" opened
on Broadway.
1962- Director Joe Mankiewicz shot
the climactic spectacle scene of Cleopatra –Elizabeth Taylor, entering Rome
through the Arch of Titus on a mobile sphinx surrounded by thousands of extras.
The shot had been delayed six months after a stunt woman fell off an elephant
and then the light in the Forum had not been right. When Elizabeth Taylor appeared
in the scene, the Italian extras were supposed to shout "Hail
Cleopatra!", but instead they all shouted "Liz! Liz!"
1998-
The impotence drug Viagra gains national prominence when retired Senator Bob
Dole confessed on the Larry King talk show that he participated in the drugs
test trials and the had "thoroughly enjoyed himself."
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