Birthdays: George De La Tour,
Wyatt Earp, Dr. David Livingston, William Jennings Bryan, Sir Richard Burton
(The African explorer, not Liz Taylor's ex), Charles M. Russell, Jacky Moms
Mabley, Adolf Eichmann, Phillip Roth, Adolf Galland, Ursula Andress, Patrick
McGoohan, Ornette Coleman, Harvey Weinstein, Bruce Willis is 63, Glenn Close is
71, animator Richard Williams is 85
1687- French explorer Sieur de
LaSalle was killed by his own men on the shores of the Mississippi in an
argument over scarce food rations. He was 43.
1799- Franz Josef Haydn’s oratorio
The Creation premiered. Haydn was inspired when he heard Handel’s The
Messiah in London.
1853- Charles Dicken’s novel Bleak
House first appeared in magazine installments. It is the first novel to mention
dinosaurs-" It would be wonderful to
meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long, waddling like an elephantine lizard up
Holborn Hill…"
1859- Charles Gounod's opera 'Faust"
premiered.
1875- Mark Twain admits in a
letter to a friend that he now likes to use a typewriter, a new technology
accused of ruining the art of writing.
1895- The Lumiere Brothers shot
their first movie, employees leaving their dad’s factory.
1914- A fire in the negative
vaults of the Eclair Studios in New Jersey destroyed forever all the American
work of pioneer French animator Emile Cohl. He had come to the U.S. to animate
the first cartoon series, George McManus’ "The Newlyweds" later to be
renamed in comic strip form "Life With Father".
1928- the Amos & Andy radio
show debuted. NBC Blue Network, WMAQ in Chicago.
1953- First T.V. broadcast of the
Oscar ceremony. That utterly memorable circus film
"The Greatest Show on
Earth" won top honors. Ironically it was Cecil B. DeMille’s only Oscar of
his career. Before TV, the Oscars ceremony included a dinner and an hour of
dancing before the awards were presented.
1959- Disney released The Shaggy
Dog, their low budget live action comedy hit.
1962- The first Pillsbury Doughboy
commercial.
1964- IBM gives the green light to
plans for the 360 series. The first compatible computers.
1964- First day shooting on the
James Bond film Goldfinger.
1974- The band Jefferson Airplane
changed its name to Jefferson Starship.
1979- C-Span cable channel started
broadcasting live from the floor of Congress. The first Congressman to speak on
camera was Al Gore.
1984- I’LL BE BACK- James Cameron
began shooting the film the Terminator. He first considered casting O.J.
Simpson for the cyborg killer before settling on Austrian weightlifter Arnold
Swarzenegger.
1993- Monkey-cam debuted on the
David Letterman Show.
1996- The Ambiguously Gay Duo
premiered on the Dana Carvey Show. J.J. Sedelmeir did the animation, Steve
Carrell and Stephen Colbert did the voices.
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