Birthdays: President Benjamin
Harrison, Sukenoba Nishikawa, Bernardo O’Higgins, Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry, H.P. Lovecraft, Art Tatum, Issac Hayes, Connie Chung, Jacqueline
Susanne, Rajiv Ghandi, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Joan Allen is 61, Fred
Durst, Alan Reed -the original voice of Fred Flintstone, Slobodan Milosovic’,
Amy Adams is 43
1882 -Peter Tchaikovsky's
"1812 Overture" premiered in Moscow. The composer said of all his
works the two pieces he liked the least were the 1812 Overture and the
Nutcracker Suite. Overture 1812 was Richard Nixon’s favorite classical piece.
1971- THE ENEMIES LIST. FBI
documents prove this day the Nixon White House began to covertly investigate
journalist Daniel Schorr because of his anti-war editorials. President Richard
Nixon kept an enemies list of people he imagined to be opponents to his
administration. It began with obvious liberals like George McGovern and Ted
Kennedy, then expanded as far as June Foray the voice of Rocky the Flying
Squirrel.
1972- Star Hollywood directors
Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich and William Freidkin announced a
partnership in a new production company called "The Director's
Company". Young punks Martin Scorcese, George Lucas and Steven Speilberg
were also involved. The partnership lasted two years then collapsed.
1982- Ralph Bakshi's film Hey Good
Lookin'.
1989- George and Joy Adamson, the
naturalists who inspired the book Born Free, were murdered by Somali poachers
with machetes in Kampi Ya Simba, Africa.
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