Birthdays: James Madison, Conrad Nagel, Dr. Josef Mengele
the Nazi Angel of Death, Teresa Berganza, Christa Ludwig, Pat Nixon, Alice
Bonheur, Harper Goff, Gore Verbinsky, Jerry Lewis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Eric
Estrada, Kate Nelligan, Isabelle Huppert is 65, Lauren Graham is 51
1850- Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter
published.
1898- Artist Aubrey Beardsley died of tuberculosis at 25.
Having a religious conversion at the end of his life, but still the stickler for
detail, his last words were:" Destroy all my erotic drawings...all the bad
ones too...." Luckily for history his friends did neither.
1934- Disney’s short The
Three Little Pigs won an Oscar for best animated short.
1961- Walt Disney comedy The
Absent Minded Professor with Fred MacMurray premiered.
1994- Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding was arrested for
obstructing the prosecution of the case of the attack on her rival Nancy
Kerrigan.
2007- Author Michael Crichton was the author of classics
like The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. He had been called the H.G. Wells
of modern times. But today he shocked the scientific community by denouncing
the theory of Global Warming.
2005- Old actor Robert Blake was acquitted of the murder of
his wife Bonnie Lee Blakeley. She was shot in the head while in their car after
having dinner together. Blake claimed he had returned to the restaurant to
retrieve his gun. (?) Another suspect has never been found.
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