Birthdays: George Fredrich Handel, Samuel Pepys (pronounced
'peeps'), Mayer Amschel Rothschild-1743- founder of the Rothschild banking
dynasty, Victor Fleming, W.E.B. DuBois, Johnny Winter, Peter Fonda is 78,
William Shirer, Allan MacLeod Cormack-inventor of the CAT Scan, Kelly
MacDonald, Tom Bodet, Neal McDonough, Kristin Davis is 53, Dakota Fanning is 24.
1821- In a house in Rome’s Piazza de Espagna, 25 year old
English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis. As he was dying he joked: ” I can
feel daisies growing over me”. He instructed that his grave marker bear only
the self-deprecating message” Here lies one Who’s Fame was Written in Water.”
1927- animator Les Clark began work at the Walt Disney
Studio. He was the first of Walt’s Nine Old Men.
1935- Walt Disney Mickey & Donald cartoon "The Band
Concert." This was the first color Mickey Mouse cartoon.
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