Birthdays: P.T.
Barnum, Beatrix Potter, Mrs. Sarah Siddons, Jean Cocteau, Admiral David
Farragut, Len Lye, George Pompidou, Shirley Knight, Huey Lewis is 67, Julie
Nixon Eisenhower, Milburn Stone (Doc on Gunsmoke), Warren Oates, Henry Cabot
Lodge IV, Eva Green is 38, Edie Falco is 55
1910- Writer O. Henry
died of cirrhosis and tuberculosis at 47. His last words were "Turn up the
lights, I don't want to go home in the dark." He became a writer while
serving a jail term for embezzlement.
1935- The Wagner Act
passed congress, decreeing all American workers have the right to collective
bargaining and to form unions.
1943- Betty Grable
married bandleader Harry James.
1954- Elvis Presley
recorded "That’s All Right" at Sun Records in Memphis. Some call it
the first true Rock & Roll song, but that is disputed by Bill Haley’s Rock
Around the Clock, Ike Turners Delta 88 and many other R&B hits. “That’s All
Right” was written by black bluesman Arthur Big-Boy Crudup, who never profited
from the song’s success and died living in a shack.
1954- Tomoyuki
Tanaka announced the beginning of production on the movie Godzilla.
1989- The first
episode of the TV sitcom Seinfeld.
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