Birthdays: Richard the LionHearted, Michel Caravaggio,
Antonin Dvorak, Patsy Cline, Jimmy Rogers the Singing Brakeman, Peter Sellars,
Sid Caesar, Freddy Mercury, Lyndon LaRouche, Ewell Gibbons- natural food
advocate, Heather Thomas, David Arquette is 45, Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, Pink is
38, Alvy Ray Smith is 74
1926- Screen actress Greta Garbo
skipped her own wedding and left John Gilbert alone at the altar. They still
stayed lovers and lived together.
1935-A vocal group called "4 Joes from Hoboken"
get their first break on Major Bo's radio show. One of the singers is a young
man named Frank Sinatra.
1935- Top Hollywood musical director Buzby Berkeley (42nd
Street, Footlight Parade) got drunk at a party in Malibu and drove his Cadillac
head on into oncoming traffic on Pacific Coast Highway near where Gladestones
Fish Restaurant is today. He piled into three other cars. Berkeley was unhurt
but three people died and four were injured. After three trials for 2nd
degree murder Berkeley was found innocent. The reason star defense attorney
Jerry Geisler gave was “cancerous tires”. Later it was revealed that all the
tire experts who testified in the defense were on the Warner Bros. payroll.
1939- British film director Alfred Hitchcock began shooting
his first Hollywood picture- Rebecca,
for David Selznick.
1954- Akira Kurosawa’s film The Seven Samurai premiered at the
Venice Film Festival.
1960- Penquin Books was charged with obscenity for the first
large public paperback printing of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady's Chatterley's Lover'.
1965 - Dorothy Danridge, beautiful
black actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in
Hollywood of sleeping pills
overdose.
1966- STAR TREK debuts. LA Policeman turned screenwriter
Gene Roddenberry pitched it as “ Wagon Train in Outer Space.” The first episode
“ The Man Trap” aired tonight. That season it ranked 52nd in the Neilsen
ratings, behind #1 "Iron Horse" starring Rory Calhoun and "Mr.
Terrific". It was canceled after two seasons but a letter writing campaign
won it a third season. Star Trek then found a new life in syndication.
The cult fan base called Trekkies kept the memory of the
show alive for ten years until Paramount felt compelled to revive it to cash in
on the Star Wars-Close Encounters craze. First as a Filmation animated series,
and then from 1979 a series of feature films, then spin-offs.
Frank Sinatra once said: "The only good thing to come
out of the Nineteen Sixties was Star Trek."
1966 - "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell premieres on
ABC-TV
1968 - "Funny Girl" premiered, starring a young singer named Barbra
Striesand.
1971- Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center opened. It was
planned in the early sixties by John and Jackie Kennedy, although then unaware
that their name would be on it. The performance featured the debut of Leonard
Bernstein’s choral work “Mass”.
1974- Daredevil Evil Kneival in his most famous stunt,
jumped the Snake River Gorge in a rocket powered motorcycle.
1979- Jean Seberg, actress
(Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40. She had been in love with a
member of the radical Black Panther Party and was under continual harassment by
the FBI and other Federal authorities.
1986-
The Chicago based television talk show the Oprah Winfrey Show went national and
became one of the most successful talk shows ever.
2008-
The Rachael Maddow Show premiered on TV.
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