Birthdays: US Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Akira
Kurosawa, Joan Crawford, Dr Werner Von Braun, Juan Gris, Chaka Khan, Paul
Grimault, Sidney Hillman Jack Ruby, Joan Collins, Eric Fromm, Fanny Farmer,
Catherine Keener is 59, Hope Davis is 54
1894- Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan-Doyle was in Davo
Switzerland helping his wife recover from tuberculosis at a spa in the Alps.
While there, the Swiss introduced him to a new sport that he quickly took to.
This day he wrote to London enthusiastically about Ski-Running, or Skiing. Conan-Doyle
predicted in the Strand Magazine “Within
a generation, thousands of English people will be coming to the Alps to ski.”
Today there are is a statue of Sir Arthur in Davo, Switzerland.
1936- Ollie Johnston got a job as Fred Moore’s assistant at
the Walt Disney Studio.
1957- Art Clokey's Gumby Show. Clokey created the green clay
fellow for his USC college thesis film Gumbasia.
1977- The first Richard Nixon-David Frost interview.
1987- After meeting creator Matt Groening, animators David
Silverman, Wes Archer and Bill Kopp began animating the very first Simpson’s
short for the Tracy Ullmann Show.
2003- Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away won the Oscar for Best
Animated Feature Film, Beating out Lilo
& Stitch and Treasure Planet.
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