Birthdays:
Captain George Vancouver, Eric Maria Remarque, John Dillinger, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Mike Todd, Billy Wilder, Joe Papp, Bill Blass, Oskar Fischinger,
Pistol Pete Maravich, Klaus Maria Brandauer is 73, Ed Bradley, Emmanuelle
Seigner, Prunella Scales, Meryl Streep is 67, Konrad Zuse, Kris Kristofferson
is 81, Matt Doherty,
Disney legend Floyd Norman is 82.
1894
- Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner. She remained devoted to him even after
his death. Every Halloween for twenty years she held a séance to try and
contact him.
1966
– The film "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?" opened. Based on the play by Edward Albee and starring Richard
Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was the first to use four letter words. Just a
year before comedian Lenny Bruce had gone to jail for saying the same words,
although everyone including President Johnson swore in everyday parlance.
1969-
Singer actress Judy Garland OD’s on sleeping pills. She was 47. Whether it was
an accident or a suicide we will never know.
1977- Walt
Disney’s The Rescuers opened in
theaters.
1996-
Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame
opened.
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