Birthdays: John Paul Jones, Czar Nicholas Ist, Frida Kahlo, Della Reese, Bill Haley,
Nancy Reagan, Sylvester Stallone is 72, Merv Griffin, Janet Leigh, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sebastian Cabot, James Bodrero, The Dalai Lama, LaVerne Andrews of the Andrews Sisters, Geoffrey Rush is 67, Ned Beatty, President George W. Bush is 72, Fifty Cent is 43, Jennifer Saunders is 60.
1917 – As Lowell Thomas’ newsreel cameras rolled, Lawrence of Arabia and Bedouin Sheik Ouda Abu-Tai captures the Red Sea Port of Aqaba from Turkish troops. The battle was dramatized in the 1962 David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia.
1928- The film "The Lights of New York" premiered at the Strand theater on Broadway.1927's the Jazz Singer popularized sound movies while still being half silent. This film was the first with an all dialogue track.
1957-Chuck Jones short "What’s Opera, Doc?"debuted. “Kill da wa-bitt, kill da wa-bitt..."
1957-16 year old John Lennon first met 15 year old Paul McCartney at a church picnic near Woolton, England. Lennon invited McCartney to join his first band called the Quarrymen, but McCartney missed their first engagement because of a boy scout trip.
1964 - Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night"premieres in London. The bands iconoclastic, antics portrayed by Richard Lester’s surreal free style direction set the style for the music videos of the future.
1965- TV sitcom F-Troop premiered. Shortly after the series began production it was learned that lead actress Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane) was actually underage, she was 15 years old. She kept her part, but the writers had to tone down any sexual innuendo in the scripts.
1965 - Rock group Jefferson Airplane formed.
1974- The first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keilor’s ode to small town life in Minnesota. Brought to you by Powdermilk Biscuits. His last broadcast was in 2016, and he was kicked out of his own company for inappropriate behavior in 2017.
1996- Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump opened in theaters.
1998- French workers at Disneyland Paris theme park went on strike for better pay .
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