Birthdays: Barbara Tuchman, Walt “Moose” Dropo, Olaf Palme, Dick
Martin, Louis S. Rukeyser, Dorothy Malone, Boris Spassky, John Ireland, Douglas
Englebart, Phil Collins, Vanessa Redgrave is 81, Gene Hackman is 88, Christian
Bale is 44, Former VP Dick Cheney is 78
1931- The Premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights at the
Los Angeles Theater. Albert Einstein
came as his guest. Later at a dance at the Biltmore Hotel, writer Herman Mankiewicz
(Citizen Kane, Duck Soup) got into a drunken fistfight with producer David O.
Selznick (Gone With the Wind, Rebecca). You’ll never eat turtle-soup in this
town again!
1933- HI-YO SILVER!! The Lone Ranger debuted on radio. The
Masked Man was invented by the WXYZ Detroit station owner George Trendle and
writer Fran Striker with absolutely no experience of cowboys or Indians. They
just wanted a hero like Zorro with a strict moral code. He was later voiced by
actor William Conrad who did the Rocky & Bullwinkle narration and the TV
series Cannon.
1934- Artist Salvador Dali married Gala.
1956- Elvis Presley recorded Blue Suede Shoes.
1961-H-B's the Yogi Bear Show.
1963- MIT Grad student Ivan Sutherland published his thesis
Sketchpad, the first animation software.
For the first time, a computer could draw lines instead of just numbers.
When students at the University of Utah like Ed Catmull, Nolan Bushnell and Jim
Blinn were learning about CG. The first thing they were asked to read was
Sutherland’s Sketchpad. Everything from Buzz Lightyear, Laura Croft, Coco and
Mortal Combat results.
1969- The rock band the Beatles last public appearance as a
group. They tried to do a free concert in the London streets but were banned by
police for fear of congestion and noise complaints. So they withdrew to a
rooftop above their recording studio and played anyway. John Lennon ended the
concert by saying: ‘Thank you very much
on behalf of the band and myself, and I hope we passed the audition.”
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