Question: Who was Uriah Heep? ( hint: not the 70’s
rock band)
Birthdays: Anne of
Cleves 1515- Henry VIII’s fourth wife. Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins, Mafioso
Joe Valachi, Michael Farraday, Meryl Streep is 67, John Houseman, Joanie Jett,
Erich Von Stronheim, Tom Lasorda is 90, Paul Muni, Debbie Boone
1925- Lon Chaney’s
horror classic film The Phantom of the
Opera premiered.
1963- Davy Crockett
at the Alamo with Fess Parker premiered on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color
TV show.
1964- The T.V.
series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
premiered. “Open Channel D, Please..”
1964- Jerome
Robbins’ “The Fiddler on the Roof “
opened on Broadway. Based on the story “Tevye and His Daughters” by Scholom
Alecheim in 1894. In 1953 Jerome Robbins had named names to the HUAC committee
to save his career. Now in Fiddler he had to use blacklisted actors like Zero
Mostel and Beatrice Arthur who despised him.
1976- TV show
Charlie’s Angels premiered. It made a star out of Farrah Fawcett.
1979- Hanna Barbera's Super Globetrotter's
Show, featuring Multi-Man, Sphere Man, Gizmo-Man, Spaghetti-Man and Fluid-Man.
1984- Michael Eisner
named CEO of the Walt Disney Corporation.
1994- Friends TV show premiered.
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