Birthdays: Hank Williams, Spiro Agnew, Ken Kesey, Jerry
Colonna, Roddy MacDowell, George Blanda, Wendy Carlos Williams, Elvira- real
name Cassandra Peterson, Anne Bancroft, Jeff MacNelly, John Ritter, Sir
Frederick Ashton, Rita Rudner, Tim Walker, Baz Luhrmann is 55
1925- In Mexico City, a streetcar crashed into a
schoolbus carrying 14 year old Frida Kahlo. It fractured her pelvis, when she
had already been dealing with polio. The difficulty she suffered recovering had
a great impact on her painting.
1932- Mickey Mouse short The Whoopee Party, premiered.
1965- If you ever wondered what could be funny about being
held in a Nazi prison camp, you could watch the TV sitcom HOGANS HEROES, which
debuted this day. Nazi Commandant Colonel Klink was acted by Werner Klemperer,
whose father was the famous orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer who had to flee
Germany because they were Jewish. Sargent Schulz and the Frenchman LeBeau were
also played by actors who survived the Holocaust- John Banner and Robert Clary.
1971- RCA gave up and pulled out of the retail computer
market.
1972- Filmation's The Groovie Ghoulies" debuts.
1991- The TV show Home
Improvement debuted, making a star out of stand up comedian Tim Allen.
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