Birthdays: Torquato Tasso, Marius Pretipa, Raoul Walsh.
Rupert Murdoch is 87, Charlie Ruggles, Lawrence Welk, former British PM Harold
Wilson, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Bobby McFerrin, Sam Donaldson, Antonin Scalia,
Jerry Zucker, Vannevar Bush- MIT scientist who in 1945 predicted personal
computers. Joey Buttafuco, Jules Engel, Douglas Adams, Pinky and the Brain actor Rob Paulsen is 62,
Terence Howard is 49
200 Year Anniversary 1818- Mary Shelly's great novel "FRANKENSTEIN, or the
Modern Prometheus" first published. It’s considered the first true science
fiction novel. The heroes are not knights or kings but modern scientists. Whether you believe 21 year old Ms. Shelly
invented the story one dark and stormy night in 1816 while smoking opium with
her homeboys Percy Shelly and Lord Byron is a matter of conjecture. Still, it's
a good story.
1889- The California Legislature splits Orange County from
LA County.
1927- The first Roxy Theater opens at 50th st. & Seventh
Ave. in New York. Roxy was a nickname of theater owner Samuel L. Rothaphel who
pioneered the movie palace and is called the father of De-Luxe presentation.
1943- The Broadway musical team of Richard Rogers and Oscar
Hammerstein opened their first collaboration “Away We Go!”
1971- Philo Farnsworth died of pneumonia at 64. The young
Utah native in 1922 he had invented the television set, but by the 1960’s he
was forgotten, broke and addicted to painkillers. The only recognition he got
was as a contestant on the quiz show I Got a Secret. He won an $80 check and a
carton of Winston Cigarettes. Today Farnsworth is considered one of the true
inventors of Television, along with John Logie-Baird.
1977- Film director Roman Polanski (Rosemary’s Baby,
Chinatown) was arrested for having sex with a 13 year old girl in Jack
Nicholson’s home after he got her stoned on quaaludes. Polanski was charged
with statutory rape. He jumped bail and fled Hollywood for exile in Paris. LA courts
have been trying unsuccessfully to get him extradited ever since.
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