Birthdays: Piero 'the Fatuous' de
Medici, King Francis I of France-1494, H.L. Mencken, Maurice Chevalier, Ben
Blue, Jesse Owens, Barry White, Alfred A. Knopf, Ian Holm is 86, Hans Zimmer,
Rachael Ward, Michael Odaatje- author of The English Patient, Margaret Hamilton
-"I'm mellllttinnng,,oooohh.." Joe Pantoliano “Joey Pants”, Louis
C.K. is 50, Jennifer Hudson is 37.
1846- Poet Elizabeth Barrett
secretly eloped with poet Robert Browning and were married at St. Marlybone
Church in Durham England. Her father had refused his permission for the match
but the Brownings did it anyway, and ran off to Italy.
1866-Theater producer Fred Niblo
got stuck with a French ballet troupe stranded and broke after the New York
Academy of Music burned down. So he combined the dancers with a rather mundane
melodrama and created" The Black Crook" the first true Broadway
Musical. It ran for twenty years and was continually revived until 1925.
1910- Gustav Mahler’s Symphony #
8, The Symphony of a Thousand, premiered in Munich.
1940- In southern France near
Montignac a pet dog fell through a crack in the ground into an underground
chamber. When four boys follow in to retrieve the dog they discover the Lascaux
Caves Ice-Age paintings, where, a Stone Age man created some of the earliest
artwork.
1941-THE WALT DISNEY STRIKE ENDS-
Everyone goes back to work after the NLRB, with a lot of behind the scenes
pressure from the Bank of America, settled the dispute. Walt Disney had to
recognize the cartoonists guild, give screen credits, double the salaries of
low paid workers retroactive to May 29th and re-hire animator Art Babbitt. Walt Disney immediately got on a train to
Washington to try and convince the feds to reverse the decision or get an
injunction in court. He failed. Ironically within a few months the war would
break out and artists who had been bitter foes would be compelled to work side
by side in the U.S. Army Picture Unit.
1954- Television comedian Ernie
Kovacs married Edie Adams, the Muriel Cigar Girl. They married in Mexico, and
at the insistence of Kovacs used a priest who read the entire service in
Spanish, a language neither of them understood.
1953- John F. Kennedy married
Jacqueline Bouvier.
1953- THE RED REDHEAD? McCarthy
investigators accuse top TV star Lucille Ball of being a communist. She and
husband Desi Arnez immediately went and testified that Lucy’s grandfather was
an old Socialist who routinely enrolled all his grandkids in the Communist
Party as their birthday present. America wouldn’t stand to see their favorite TV
family go down, so the matter quickly blew over. Years later Desi would
condescendingly joke:" Lucy didn’t even know who the mayor of L.A. was.””
The only thing that was red about Lucy was her hair, and even that wasn’t real!"
1965- The Beatles release
'Yesterday'.
1966-"Gee Mr. French..."
Family Affair premiered on TV.
1966- The Monkees TV show
premiered. Two young television executives Bert Schneider and Sam Rafaelson
convince their network to make "A Hard Day's Night" for American
television. Of the four kids in the make-believe band Mike Nesmith was the only
real musician. Micky Dolenz had to be taught how to play the drums the first
day of shooting. Insiders nicknamed them "The Pre-Fab Four". Still, the show was a major hit, won Emmy
Awards and all their albums went gold.
1992- Anthony Perkins, the star of
Hitchcock’s Psycho, died of HIV/AIDS. His widow, Berry Berensen the sister of
actress Marisa Berensen, died in one of the hijacked airliners that plunged
into the World Trade Center on 9-11.
2003- Country-western singer
Johnny Cash died of diabetes at 71.
2005-
Disneyland Hong Kong opened.
2010-
At the Video Music Awards, singer Lady Gaga wears a dress made out of 50 lbs of
raw meat.
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