Birthdays: Louis XIV The Sun King, Jesse James, Cardinal Richelieu,
Johann Christian Bach, Jacopo Meyerbeer, John Cage, Quentin de la Tour, Darryl
F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, Bob Newhart is 88, George Lazenby, Raquel Welch is 77,
Kathy Guisewhite, Dweezil Zappa, Werner Herzog is 77, Michael Keaton is 66,
Rose McGowan is 45
1882- The first Labor Day parade occurred when 10,000 union workers
marched in Union Square New York.
1921: FATTY ARBUCKLE. After completing three feature films
simultaneously, comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle rented three rooms
in San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel for a big party. One attendee, Actress Virginia Rappe, died of
peritonitis a few days afterward. Maude Delmont, a professional blackmailer who
also attended, spread the story that Arbuckle had raped the actress. She never
testified in court.
The Hearst Press took up the story and sensationalized it as an
example of Hollywood depravity. Fatty Arbuckle was found innocent after three
sensational trials (the last jury actually apologized to him). The Motion
Picture Production Code was formed as a direct result. Its first action was to
ban Arbuckle from the screen. Fatty Arbuckle directed comedy for ten years
under the pseudonym Will B. Good, and appeared in a successful series of short
sound films in 1932, but died the same day that Warner Brothers signed him for
a feature.
1932- Paul Bern, the studio executive husband of sexy starlet Jean
Harlow, was found lying naked on his bathroom floor with a bullet in his head.
He had committed suicide and left a note apologizing to Harlow. Harlow called
the studio and her agent before calling the police. Bern’s brother revealed
that Paul Bern had another wife he was hiding. All jumped to hush up the
scandal.
1935- Tumbling Tumbleweeds premiered, the film that made a star out
of Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy.
1943- Young British cartoonist Ronald Searle is captured by the
Japanese in Burma. He spent his time as a P.O.W. working on the infamous Bridge
on the River Kwai and making sketches of the nightmarish conditions of his
fellow prisoners.
1957- Jacques Kerouac’s ode to the beat life ON THE ROAD, first
published. Kerouac wrote it in a white heat using one large roll of white paper
stuffed into his typewriter instead of individual sheets. When the editor got
the novel it had no paragraph breaks of chapter breaks. Another young writer of
the time, Truman Capote, was unimpressed. “That’s not writing, it’s typing.”
1958 The novel DR ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak published in US. It
was banned in Russia until the collapse of Communism.
1964- Buffalo NY cook Angela Bellissima took some chicken wings,
threw them into a deep fryer with spices and invented Buffalo Wings.
1965- CBS television network headquarters are moved into a sleek
building on 6th Ave. in Manhattan. Because of it's black granite and smoke
tinted window's it's nicknamed "Black Rock". NBC's headquarters in
Rockefeller Center are called "30 Rock". ABC's, owing to their status
as the third network, called their headquarters "Little Rock".
1977- NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe towards the
outer planets of our solar system. Among the things Voyager discovered was that
Jupiter had many more moons than previously thought and had a ring like Saturn.
In 2012 it became the first man-made object to leave our solar system and enter
interstellar space.
Part of NASA's program was an explanatory simulation
film done on computer by Jim Blinn in 1980 and 1982. The animation was so
smooth and the graphics so breathtaking it expanded the use of the CGI medium
and inspired a new generation of digital artists.
1994- Patrick
McDonnell started drawing the comic strip MUTTS.
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