Birthdays:
Sir Robert Walpole the first British Prime Minister, Mother Theresa,
Albert the Prince Consort, John Wilkes Booth, Guilliame Appollinaire who coined
the term Surrealism, General Maxwell Taylor, Christopher Isherwood, McCauley
Culkin is 36, Geraldine Ferarro, Dr. Lee DeForrest, Ben Bradlee, Barbet
Schroeder, Branford Marsalis, Chris Pine is 37, Melissa McCarthy is 47
1498- Michelangelo gets a job. The
big Florentine stonecutter was commissioned by Pope Alexander VI Borgia to
carve the Pieta, Mary lamenting over the body of Jesus.
1576- The artist Titian died at
age 88. He outlived all the artists of the Renaissance, worked every day of his
life, and might have gone on had he not caught a touch of plague.
1838- American poet Ralph Waldo
Emerson met English writer Thomas Carlyle.
1918- 17 year old Walt Disney dropped
out of high school and faked his parents signature in order to enlist to fight
in World War I. Turned down for his age, he volunteered for the Red Cross.
Assigned to the ambulance corps, he arrived in Europe just as the war was
ending.
1946 - George Orwell published
"Animal Farm". Orwell said he conceived the idea for the novel while
watching out his window a small boy driving a huge draft horse. The horse could
have easily crushed the boy had it the free will, but instead patiently endured
the boys taunts and flicks with a small switch.
1946- First day of shooting on
Jean Cocteau’s film Belle et le Bete, Beauty & the Beast.
1958- First day of shooting on the
Alfred Hitchcock film North By Northwest. Conceived as a story that ended in a
chase across the stone faces of Mt. Rushmore. The original title of Ernst
Lehman’s script was The Man Who Hung From Lincoln’s Nose.
1967 – The Beatles, Mick Jagger
& Marianne Faithful met the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1980- Director Tex Avery died
after collapsing in the parking lot of Hanna-Barbera. Two weeks before he was
asked by a friend why he was working in Hanna & Barbera.
Tex laughed:" Hey, Don’t you know? this is where all the elephants come to
die!"
1997- Special effects house Boss
Studios, closed.
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