Birthdays: Queen Mary I Tudor
-Bloody Mary, Pietro Guarnieri the violin maker, Harry Grover- Seeley one of
the founders of Paleontology, Louis Tiffany, Andre Segovia, Wendell Wilkie,
Billy de Wolfe, Enzo Ferrarri, Yoko Ono is 85, Jack Palance, Milos Forman,
Bobby Bachman of the Bachman Turner Overdrive, Gahan Wilson, Johnny Hart, Matt
Dillon is 54, John Travolta is 64, John Hughes, Dr. Dre
1842- Two hundred of New York
City’s high society and top politicians held a banquet in honor of the visiting
English author Charles Dickens. Dickens spent the evening depressing everyone
with talk about his tour of the cities prisons, slums and poorhouses.
1885- Mark Twain's 'Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn' published.
1888- The Hotel Coronado in San
Diego Cal. opened for guests. It remains one of the largest remaining wood
structures in the U.S. Several presidents stayed there, the Duke of Windsor met
Wallis Simpson there, and films like the Marilyn Monroe film Some Like it
Hot and The Stuntman were shot there.
1950- First Mr. Magoo cartoon "Ragtime
Bear".
1953- First 3-D stereoscopic movie,
"B'wana Devil" starring Robert Stack.
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