Birthdays: Honore' Daumier, Nancy Wilson, Ansel Adams, Cindy
Crawford, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robert Altman, Roger Penske. Phil Esposito,
Jennifer O’Neill, Ivanna Trump, Mike Leigh, Lili Taylor, Sidney Poitier is 90
1816- "Fee-Garr-Row! Fig-Ar- Roww- Figaro-Figaro, Figaro,
Figaro"- Giacomo Rossini's opera 'The Barber of Seville' premiered.
Rossini endured bad press and heavy criticism at the time because the another
opera of the Marriage of Figaro had just been premiered by Paisiello, an
inferior composer who then was more popular than him.
1845- The Battle of the Cahuenga Pass. Angry Spanish Californians rancheros led by
Juan de Alvarado and Pio Pico clashed with the Mexican governor Miguel de
Micheltorena. The only casualty was a mule. The story of Alvarado may be one of
the origins of Zorro.
1925- Willis O’Brien’s silent movie The Lost World premiered. Based on
Conan-Doyles 1912 novel. The stop motion animation of dinosaurs and exploding
volcanoes issued in a new era of special effects films. O'Brien later did King Kong and trained kids like Ray
Harryhausen.
1936- The film “Follow
the Fleet” premiered, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
1947- In a lecture to the London Mathematical Society, Computer
pioneer Alan Turing said the best way to test the intelligence of a computer
would be to teach it to play chess. Earliest reference to interactive gaming.
1980- Bon Scott, vocalist for the band AC/DC, was found dead
in a friend’s automobile choked in his own vomit.
2006- The animated film Wallace
& Gromet: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, won the British Academy Award (BAFTA)
for the best British Film of the year. It beat out the Constant Gardner, and
Pride & Prejudice.
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