Birthdays: Ethiopian Emperor
Rastafari Halie Selassie "the Lion of Judah", Raymond Chandler,
Raymond Booth, Don Drysdale, Gloria DeHaven, Arthur Treacher, Pee Wee Reese,
Bob Fosse, Harry Cohn, Don Imus, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Monica Lewinsky, Woody
Harrelson is 57, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Edie McClurg is 67, Daniel Radcliffe
is 29
1599- Michel Caravaggio received
his first commission for a painting.
1886- This was the day Bowery
saloonkeeper Steve Brodie claimed he jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and lived
to tell about it.
1904 – The Ice Cream Cone created
by Charles E. Menches during the LA Purchase Expo.
1932-The Birthday of Fritos. Texas
ice cream maker Elmer Doolin buys a recipe for corn chips from a Mexican fry
cook for $100 dollars and started the Frito-Lay Company.
1951-Thelonius Monk recorded the
seminal jazz album Straight, No Chaser.
1966- The comedy song
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha!" released. The singer was
Napoleon XIV.
1982- Actor Vic Morrow and two
children are killed by a stunt helicopter while filming "Twilight Zone,
the movie". The last scripted line before his death was "I’ll Keep
you safe kids, I swear to God!" The children were being worked into the
early morning hours without a caretaker supervisor in defiance of the Coogan
Laws. Director John Landis was investigated but exonerated. The only filmworker
to dare to testify against Landis, the wardrobe supervisor, was blacklisted and
never worked in Hollywood again.
2004- Two armed men enter the
Munch Museum in Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream at
gunpoint. It was recovered with some water damage three years later.
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