Birthdays: James Boswell, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Keats,
Sir Edmund Halley, Louis Blanc, Fanny Brice, Joseph Goebbels, Richard Dreyfus
is 70, Zoot Sims, Winona Ryder, Jesse Barfield, Kate Jackson, Bill Maudlin,
Akim Tamiroff, Ralph Bakshi is 79, Rufus Sewell, Neal Hefti-composer of the
theme song for TV shows like Batman and the Odd Couple. Dan Castellenata, the
voice of Homer Simpson.
1923-General Mustapha Kemal 7abolished the Ottoman Sultans
and declared Turkey a secular Republic. For this he was named Ataturk, or
"Father of the Turks". To this day Islamic fundamentalism has had a
harder time in Turkey, where the example of Ataturk is respected as much as
George Washington here. It is a federal crime to even criticize Ataturk.
1923- The musical Running Wild opened on Broadway,
introducing the dance craze the Charleston.
1993- Tim Burton’s fantasy A Nightmare Before Christmas,
directed by Henry Selick, premiered in the US.
2012- Hurricane Sandy –a late
season hurricane the size of Europe collided with a storm front coming from the
west and a cold front from Canada and slammed into the mid Atlantic coastline.
110 killed, 6 million without power and the Wall St area flooded, The Atlantic
City boardwalk, Asbury Park and Jersey Shore destroyed.
2012- Disney’s Wreck-it Ralph
premiered.
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