Birthdays: Former British PM
Harold Macmillan, Jimmy Durante, Bertholdt Brecht, Leontyne Price, Roberta
Flack, tennis great Bill Tilden, Lon Chaney Jr., Stella Adler, Mark Spitz,
Boris Pasternak, Dame Judith Anderson, Greg Norman, Donavan, Dr Alex Comfort
author of the Joy of Sex, Michael Apted, Jerry Goldsmith, Robert Wagner, Laura
Dern is 51
1862- After a hard night partying
with fellow poet Swinburne, pre-Raphaelite Dante Rossetti returned home to find
his wife dead of an opium overdose.
1870- The town of Anaheim Cal
founded. No Disneyland yet. The name means Ana, as in Santa Anna River, and
Heim, the German word for home. Most of the settlers were German immigrants.
1888- The City of Long Beach
incorporated.
1929- Elsa Lanchester married
Charles Laughton.
1938- RKO screwball comedy with
Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant “ Bringing
Up Baby” premiered.
1940- MGM's "Puss gets the Boot" the first Tom
and Jerry cartoon and the first collaboration of the team of Bill Hanna and Joe
Barbera.
1949- The premiere of Arthur
Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman".
1966- CBS co-ops broadcasting the
senate Kennan Hearings on the conduct of the Vietnam War with reruns of "I
Love Lucy'. CBS news division president Fred Friendly quit in protest.
1966- Jaqueline Susanne’s novel
The Valley of the Dolls first published. Although critics considered it cheap
and trashy- Time Magazine called it “Dirty Book of the Month”, and Truman
Capote called Susanne in her heavy sixties eye shadow, a “Truck Driver in Drag”
Valley of the Dolls sold like wildfire.
Its frank portrayal of single women enjoying casual sex and taking drugs
in suburbia was a big step in the sexual revolution of the 1960’s.
1992- The children’s book- The Stinky Cheese Man debuted.
1996- IBM computer Deep Blue
defeated world chess master Garry Kasparov. The first time a computer ever beat
a human chess champion.
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