Birthdays: Sandro Botticelli, Eric Satie, Ayatollah Khomeni, Edmond Jenner, Archibald Cox, Sugar Ray Leonard, Maureen O'Sullivan, Howard Ashman, Craig Ferguson, Bill Paxton, Ralph Wright- the original voice of Eeyore, Alan Kay-inventor of the laptop computer, Dennis Hopper, Enya is 57- born Eithne Patricia Ni’ Bhraonain
1826- Artist-Naturalist John James Audubon departs for England ”in deep sorrow” because he could find no publisher in America for his masterpiece the “Birds of North America”.
1890 - Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic newspaper, published in London.
1924- Marcus Loew of the Loew's theater chain buys Metro Pictures and combines them with Sam Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer’s studio to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
1931- Vaudeville dancer James Cagney became a tough guy movie star when the Howard Hawk’s film The Public Enemydebuted. “I wish you wuz a wishing well… so I could tie a bucket to ya and sink ya!”
1938 - Radio quiz show "Information Please!"debuts on NBC Blue Network.
1941- The Looney Toon Lockout. Producer Leon Schlesinger tries to forestall the unionization of his Bugs Bunny cartoonists by locking them out. After a week he relents and recognizes the cartoonist guild. Chuck Jones called it “our own little six-day war.”
1965- Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke shake hands and agree to write a sci-fi movie, with accompanying novel. First called How the Solar System was Won, then Journey Beyond the Stars, the title was finally- 2001: A Space Odyssey.
1967 – Bob Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
1971 - Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premiered off-Broadway.
1973 - Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
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