Birthdays: William Makepeace
Thackeray, Chill Wills, Nelson Mandela, James Brolin, Elizabeth McGovern,
Screaming Jay Hawkins, Hume Cronyn, Red Skelton, Hunter H. Thompson, Clifford
Odets, Paul Verhoeven, John Glenn, Vin Diesel is 50
1877- Thomas Edison recorded sound
on tin foil cylinder `Mary Had a Little Lamb-'
1939-MGM tried a sneak preview of
the film The Wizard of Oz. Afterward
they debated cutting the song Somewhere
Over the Rainbow as slowing down the pace. Finally they decided to leave it
in. The film debuted in August to wild success and acclaim.
1939- RKO pictures signed Orson
Welles to direct movies in Hollywood. That Hollywood signed a 24 year old radio
star who never directed a single film, and gave him complete freedom and final
cut was an amazing deal.
1950- Walt Disney’s live action
film Treaure Island Premiered, with
Robert Newton as Long John Silver, Capt Jack Sparrow’s role model.
Arrrr-mateys!
1964- Bob McKimson’s "A False Hare", the last Bugs
Bunny theatrical short for Warner Bros until 1985.
1966- Bobby Fuller who made the
hit song "I fought the Law and the
Law Won" was found in LA in his mothers Oldsmobile, beaten and dead
from "forcible inhalation of gasoline"- huffing.
1975- Famed underground cartoonist
Vaughn Bode’ died of auto-asphyxiation. His last words were to his son, “ Mark,
I’ve seen God four times, and I am going to see him again soon. “ He was 33.
1998-
Pokemon the First movie released in Japan, stoking the Pokemon craze.
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