Birthdays: Arthur Balfour, Thomas Eakins, Maxfield Parrish, Stuart K.
Hine 1899 missionary who wrote the hymn "How Great Thou Art", Walter
Payton, Walter Brennan, David Belasco, Adnan Khashoggi, Imam, Jack Gilford,
Illeana Douglas, Estelle Getty, Matt LeBlanc, Louise Brown the first
"test-tube" baby-conceived by invetrofertilization-1978
1788- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
completed his Symphony #40 in G minor.
1897- Young writer Jack London
went to the Klondike to look for gold. He didn’t find much gold, but did get
material for a lot of good stories.
1940- In Nazi occupied Paris, a
Gestapo agent walked into the French offices of MGM studios and confiscated the
six release prints of "Gone With The Wind" sent from America. They were
taken to Berlin for a screening for top Nazis officials. Gone with the Wind was
one of Hitler’s favorite movies.
1943- The Birth of L.A. Smog! A
newspaper headline from this date mentions a 'gas-attack' of exhaust and haze
that reduced visibility to three short blocks.
1951- CBS conducts the first
broadcast of color television. NBC made color TV popular in the mid 1960's.
1953- Chuck Jone's "Duck
Dodgers in the 24 and 1/2 Century".
1965 – Folk Music star Bob Dylan
was booed off stage at the Newport Folk Festival for using an electric guitar.
Alan Lomax, the great Smithsonian Folk Music historian got into a fistfight
over it, and Pete Seeger threatened to pull the electric plugs.
1968- Pope Paul VI published the
encyclical Humane Vitae, which set the Church policy against all forms of birth
control other than the Rhythm Method. No to the Pill, Condoms and other
contraception. This made the Pope a real drag to the Swinging Sixties.
1969 - 1st performance of Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young at the Fillmore East in NYC.
1975 - "A Chorus Line,"
longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiered.
1985- Movie star Rock Hudson
publicly acknowledged that he had AIDS. The first major public figure to do so.
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