Birthdays: Sir Francis Bacon, D.W.
Griffith, Lord Byron, August Strindberg, Andre Marie Ampere (electric Amps),
1960’s UN Secretary General U-Thant, Ann Southern, Sam Cooke, John Hurt, George
McManus, Joseph Waumbaugh, J.J. Johnson, Seymour Cassell, Jim Jarmusch is 65,
Linda Blair is 60, Piper Laurie is 86, Diane Lane is 53
1938- On a bare stage, Thorton
Wilder’s play Our Town premiered.
1947- Hollywood first commercial
television station KTLA went on the air for regular broadcasting. At the time
in all of Los Angeles there were only 350 TV sets.
1949- Mao Tse Tung (MaoZseDong)
and the Communists capture Peking (Beijing).
1949- Tex Avery’s cartoon "Bad
Luck Blackie".
1954- The Los Angeles Fire
Department is ordered by federal courts to integrate.
FIFTY YEARS AGO 1968-T.V. comedy review show Rowan
& Martin’s Laugh In premiered. It launched the careers of Lilly Tomlin,
Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan. You bet your sweet Bippy!
1972- In an interview with Melody
Maker magazine, rocker David Bowie outed himself and said he was gay.
Technically he would be bi-sexual since his wife Angela did catch him in bed
with Bianca Jagger. Others called him a closet-heterosexual.
1973- While President Richard
Nixon celebrated his second inaugural with a concert, Leonard Bernstein
conducted a Concert for Peace at the Washington Cathedral. While Nixon’s
orchestra played his favorite classical piece Tchaikovsky’s Overture 1812 with
real cannons, Bernstein played Haydn’s Mass in a Time of War to 15,000 people
against the War in Vietnam.
1975- Hollywood agents Ron Meyer
and Michael Ovitz leave William Morris and form the Creative Artists Agency, or
CAA.
1984-
Apple releases the Macintosh I personal computer.
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