Birthdays: King Henry VII Tudor, Jose Marti, Colette,
Jackson Pollack, Claus Oldenburg, Arthur Rubenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, Connie
Rasinski, Susan Sontag, Barbie Benton, General George Pickett, William
Burroughs (1855) the inventor of the calculator, Mo Rocca, Alan Alda is 82,
Elijah Wood is 38
1926- Composer Kurt Weill married his Pirate Jenny- Lotte
Lenya.
1930- Warner Brothers Cartoons Born. Leon Schlesinger, the head of Pacific Art and
Title, signed a deal with several unemployed Disney animators who had left Walt
to form their own studio to draw Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but had been stiffed
by their contacts. Schlesinger had connections with the Warner Bros. since he
helped them get funding for the 'Jazz Singer'. They created Leon Schlesinger's
Studio Looney Tunes, in imitation of Disney's Silly Symphonies. Their first
character was Bosko, but eventually they would create Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,
Porky Pig, Pepe LePew and more.
1949- The Admiral Broadway Review premiered on television.
The one and a half hour comedy review starred Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The
show was so popular Admiral was swamped for orders for new televisions and
ironically was forced to cancel the show to focus on their production needs.
The show was revived as Your Show of Shows, one of the great shows of early
television.
1956- Young singer Elvis Presley first appeared to
television audiences on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show.
1978- Premiere of Hanna Barbera's the Three Robonic Stooges.
1982- Danny DeVito married Rhea Perlman.
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