Welcome to Month Number 8,
Octubrius to the Romans. In 138 AD the Roman Senate wanted to rename month
eight as Faustina, after the wife of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. But being a rare modest empress, she declined
the honor.
Birthdays: Vladimir Horowitz,
Julie Andrews is 82, Walter Matthau, Richard Harris, Phillipe Noiret, James Whitmore,
Pres. Jimmy Carter is 93, Everett Sloane, Rod Carew, Stanley Holloway, Tom
Bosley, Randy Quaid, Cindy Margolis, Zack Galifanakis is 48
1945- Looney Tunes director Frank
Tashlin left the cartoon business to work full time at Paramount doing live
action movies. He wrote for the Marx Brothers and later directed the Dean
Martin Jerry Lewis comedies.
1952- This Is Your Life TV show
hosted by Ralph Edwards premiered.
1955- The Honeymooners with Jackie
Gleason, Jayne Meadows and Art Carney premiered on TV.
1957- Los Angeles outlaws garbage incineration to
try and cut down smog levels. Even though Los Angeles has reduced it's
pollution levels by 30% in ten years it still had the worst air in the United
States until surpassed by Houston in 1999.
1962- Johnny Carson took over the
Tonight Show, after host Jack Paar in a rage walked of the set and resigned.
Paar was annoyed at network censors for cutting a comedy sketch that featured
the sound of a toilet flushing. At first, people were cool to Carson. Even his
own mother in Nebraska wasn’t impressed. But by years end Johnny Carson became
the king of late night TV, and ruled it for 32 years.
1968-George Romero's weird film
"Night of the Living Dead' premieres.
1982- Disney's EPCOT opens.
1992
-The Cartoon Network started.
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