Birthdays: Salmon P. Chase, Horatio Alger-1834, Sophie
Tucker, Gwen Verdon, Robert Stack, Charles Nelson Reilly, Rip Taylor, Brandon
Tartikoff, Julie Louise Dreyfus is 57, T. Bone Burnett is 70, Patrick Dempsey,
Orlando Bloom is 41
1847- Gen. Andres Pico signed the
capitulation of Campo de Cahuenga (the little park across from Universal
studios today), surrendering the Mexican state of Alta-California to U.S.
1854- The modern Accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.
Polka fans rejoice!
1864-Stephen Foster,
the composer of "My Old Kentucky Home" and "Camptown Races"
was found dead, a penniless drunk in New York's Bowery slum. In his hands was a
piece of paper with the words "Dear friends and gentle hearts... ". A
Pennsylvania Yankee, despite writing a lot of music about the South, he only
visited it once, to New Orleans in 1852.
1895- Oscar Wilde’s play The Ideal Husband, premiered in
London.
1906- The first ad for a radio appeared in an American Science
Magazine. It boasted an effective range of over one mile !
1910- Dr. Lee Deforest experimenting with his new radio
vacuum tubes broadcast singers from New York's Metropolitan Opera for the first
time. The regular Texaco 'Live from the Met' broadcasts wouldn't get going
until 1934.
1925- THE FIRST CALIFORNIA GURU- Indian spiritual teacher Parahamansa
Yogananda , then called “The Swami” settled in Los Angeles and gave his first
lecture to an audience in LA Philharmonic Hall. He founded the Malibu
Self-Realization Center in 1950. It featured one shovel-full of ashes from the
funeral pyre of Mahatma Gandhi.
1930- The Mickey Mouse comic strip first appeared in US
newspapers. Walt Disney himself wrote them, Ub Iwerks penciled and Winn Smith
inked.
1943- Movie starlet Frances Farmer was dragged screaming in
a straightjacket out of a Hollywood Hotel and committed. She screamed Rats!
Rats! and listed her occupation on her arrest record as “c**ksucker”. Her
career was ruined and she spent years in asylums. But it’s inconclusive whether
she had actually suffered mental illness or it was her mother overreacting to
her sullen, temperamental nature.
1945- Sergei Prokoviev’s 5th Symphony (Classical)
premiered in Moscow.
1946- In his comic strip, Dick Tracy first uses his two-way
wrist radio.
1958- Actress Jayne Mansfield married weightlifter Mickey
Hargitay. Their daughter was Marisa Hargitay
1979- The Young Men’s Christian Association filed a lawsuit
against the rock group the Village People over their hit song “YMCA”.
1979- Russian animator Yuri Nortstein’s masterpiece Tale
of Tales premiered.
1985- Carol Wayne, an actress who played bimbo blonde roles
on shows like Johnny Carson, drowned while swimming in Mexico. She was 41.
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