Birthdays: Roman Emperor Vespasian 9 A.D, Il Bronzino,
August Ferdinand Moebius-1790 the inventor of the Moebius Strip. General
Bernard Montgomery, Rock Hudson- real name Roy Sherer, Peter Cook, Lorne
Michaels, Isamu Noguchi, Lauren Hutton, Tom Seaver, Gordon Lightfoot, Les
Clark, Lee Strassberg, Shelby Foote, Sophie Marceau, Martin Scorcese is 75,
Danny deVito is 73
1876- Peter Tchaikovsky’s musical rhapsody the Marche
Slav premiered.
1891- Polish pianist Ignaz Paderewski made his American
debut at Carnegie Hall. Paderewski created the cliché image of the temperamental
classical musician with long flowing hair combed straight back. Classical music
became known as longhair music.
1933- The Marx Bros classic Duck Soup premiered.
1968- THE HEIDI GAME- NBC was broadcasting a football game
between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders. The game was running late
and would interfere with the broadcast of the movie "Heidi". The network heads felt with the Jets leading
32-29 with 65 seconds left, why disappoint the kiddies? So they pre-empted the rest of the game to
start the movie. Oakland won 43-32 in a miracle comeback scoring the final
touchdown in the final nine seconds. The embarrassed programmers had to answer
nationwide firestorm of complaints from outraged football fans. So to this day
on television, no matter how dull a football game is, it is seen to its very
end.
1978-
This night, our world was rocked by a disturbance in The Force more powerful
than the destruction of Alderon, It was "The Star Wars Holiday Special", a two-hour comedy variety show
on CBS, with Harrison Ford, Beatrice Arthur and Nelvana’s animated cartoon.
1989- Don Bluth's animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven premiered.
1994- The Sony Corporation posted a $2.7 billion dollar loss
from it’s first year owning a Hollywood movie studio. Yet despite a lot of
industry jokes ( “What’s the difference
between Sony Pictures and the Titanic?-answer: The Titanic had entertainment.”)
By 1996 the studio was on top with blockbusters like “Men in Black”
2002- Premiere of Disney’s Treasure Planet.
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