Birthdays: J.C. Penney (James Cash Penney), B.B. King, Anne
Francis, Linda Darnel, Nadia Boulanger, Alan Funt, George Chakiris, Peter Falk,
Ed Begley Jr, Jennifer Tilly, Molly Shannon, Marvin Middlemark 1919-the inventor
of the rabbit ears TV antenna, Mickey Rourke is 61, Lauren Bacall
1920- Enrico Caruso made his last recordings for the Victor
Recording Company.
1941- CBS Radio premiered the Arkansas Traveler Show. In it
bandleader Bob Burns played a strange instrument made out of a stovepipe he
called a Bazooka. Later when the US Army issued the first hand-held anti-tank
rocket launchers to their infantry, the GI’s called the things Bazookas because
it resembled Burns instrument.
1949-Chuck Jones "Fast
and Furrious" the First Road Runner-Coyote cartoon.
1953- The St. Louis Browns Baseball team moved to Baltimore
and became the Baltimore Orioles.
1963- The Beatles record “She Loves You-Yeah,Yeah,Yeah.” on
the Swan Records label.
1963- The sci-fi thriller series The Outer Limits premiered- Do not
attempt to adjust your television- we control the horizontal, etc.
1964- The Peter
Potamus Show debuted. Time for my hippo-hurricane-holler.
1965- The Dean Martin
Show premiered on NBC. “Well, Ah think I’m gonna go to da couch now..”
1966- the last LOOK magazine published.
1966- The new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center had
its opening night. A performance of Samuel Barbers Anthony & Cleopatra sung
by Leontyne Price and Justino Diaz. It was a near disastrous night because Ms
Price got locked in a pyramid for awhile and couldn’t get out.
1969- President Nixon appears on the TV comedy "Rowan
and Martin's Laugh-In" and says:" Sock it to Me?"
1983- Arnold Schwarzenegger became a US citizen.
1984- “Miami Vice”
TV show debuted.
2003- Sheb Wooley, the composer
of the 1951 hit “One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater” and the theme
song of the TV show Hee Haw, died in Henderson Tennessee at age 82.
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