Birthdays- French King Charles VI the Mad –1380, Felix
Mendelson-Bartoldy, Horace Greely, Gideon Mantell 1790-pioneer British fossil
hunter that named the Iguanadon, Pretty Boy Floyd, Gertrude Stein, Norman
Rockwell, James A. Michener, Joey Bishop, Shelley Berman, Bob Griese, Fran
Tarkenton, John Fiedler the voice of Piglet, Victor Buono, Blythe Danner is 75,
Morgan Fairchild is 68, Nathan Lane is 62
1920- The play Beyond the Horizon premiered. The first hit
of a young man who tried to drink himself to death, but instead became a
playwright- Eugene O’Neill.
1930- Roy Disney signed a deal with M. George Borgfeldt Co.
of New York to sell figurines of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Disney merchandising
is born!
1945- Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros premiered.
1953- Jacques Cousteau, inventor of the Aqua Lung published
The Silent World, and later made a film version of the book with Louis Malle.
1959 "The Day the Music Died" The first Rock &
Roll tragedy. Top pop stars Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson died
in plane crash. They were on tour and Holly chartered the small plane so they
could get to Fargo, North Dakota in time to get his shirts cleaned. Waylon
Jennings was supposed to join them but he gave up his seat to Richardson
because Richardson was running a fever and didn’t want a long cold bus ride. As
they left Richardson teased Jennings:” Hope your bus doesn’t freeze.” And
Jennings joked:” Hope your plane doesn’t crash.” The plane was called the American
Pie, which inspired a Don McClean’s hit song “Bye, Bye Miss American Pie.”
1986- After three months of negotiations, Steve Jobs signed
papers to purchase the George Lucas Film Graphics Division, now under their new
name Pixar Inc.
1989- Swiss firm L'Oreal/Nestle bought animation studio
Filmation from Westinghouse and shut it down laying off 229 artists the day
before a new federal regulation requiring a company give it's employees 60 day
notice before closing went into effect.
2003-Legendary rock and roll producer Phil Spector shot his
girlfriend B-Movie actress Lana Clarkson at his LA mansion. Spector created the
Wall of Sound concert technique and produced for the Beatles, Diana Ross and
Lenny Bruce among many others.
The few days before, Phil Spector said to the British Daily
Telegraph, “. I would say I'm probably
relatively insane, to an extent. I take medication for schizophrenia, but I
wouldn't say I'm schizophrenic. I have a bipolar personality, which is
strange.”
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