Birthdays: Roman Emperor
Constantine the Great, Montgomery Ward, Red Barber, Marian Anderson, C'haim
Potok, Jim Brown, Rene Russo, Michael Bay, Jerry O’Connell, Cybil Shepard, Lou
Diamond Phillips is 56, Denise Richards is 47 and Paris Hilton is 37, Michael
Jordan is 55, Hal Holbrook is 93, Joseph Gordon Levitt is 49
1890- The Los Angeles City Council
voted to change the name of their main street, called Fort Street, to Broadway.
1912- THE NEW YORK ARMORY
SHOW-Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein introduce Post expressionist modern art to
the U.S. public. The first U.S. showings of Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp and the
Italian futurists. The show was denounced as a "chamber of horrors"
and Matisse was burned in effigy in Chicago. Marcel Duchamp's "Nude
Descending a Staircase" was described by an art critic as "an
explosion in a shingle factory".
Duchamp was highly gratified, I believe.
1925- First issue of Harold Ross’s
The New Yorker magazine.
1942- Ernst Lubitsch’s screwball
comedy "To Be , Or Not To Be" debuted. Adolf Hitler enters a room and
after everyone "Sieg Heil" salutes him, he replies "Heil
Myself!" But the comedy flopped, in part because it’s female star Carole
Lombard had died tragically in a plane crash just before the film opened.
1958 – Johnny Hart’s comic strip
"BC" 1st appears
1967 – The Beatles release
"Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
1979- A Prairie Home Companion
radio show starring Garrison Keilor was first broadcast nationally. It was a
feature on Minnesota Public Radio since 1974. Garrison retired in 2016 and was
accused of Me-Too sexual abuse shortly after.
1989- "Bill & Ted’s
Excellent Adventure" premiered starring the most excellent Keanu Reeves
and Alex Winter. Whoah-Dude!
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