Birthdays; Johnny Carson, Adlai Stevenson, Pele, Zioniev, Weird
Al Yankovic, Dwight Yoakham, Michael Crichton, Chi-Chi Rodriquez, Phillip
Kaufman, porn star Jasmine St. Claire, Gummo Marx, Ang Lee is 63, Ryan Reynolds
is 41, Sam Raimi is 58
1928- A financial consortium led by Wall St. banker-bootlegger
Joseph Kennedy Sr. buys the Keith Albee theater circuit and merged it with the
Radio Company and the Orpheum theaters to form Radio-Keith-Orpheum or RKO
pictures. After Joe Kennedy met with the other Hollywood moguls he told a
friend: ”They’re all a bunch of Austrian
Pants Pressers! I can take their businesses away from them!” Kennedy made a
quick killing then got out of the picture business in 1930, just before the
Depression dropped his studios stock value. RKO made films like King Kong,
Fort Apache and Citizen Kane before merging into Desilu in 1957.
1930- The first Miniature Golf tournament held in
Chattanooga Tenn.
1940- Shooting on the film Citizen Kane wrapped.
1941- Walt Disney’s Dumbo
premiered.
1971-Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opened.
1983- Jessica Savitch was one of the first women journalists
to break the barrier for women getting the top anchor jobs in network news
broadcasting. This day she died in a car accident.
2001- Apple Computers launched the i-pod.
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