B-Days: Robert Frost, Chico Marx, Conde Nast, Tennessee Williams, Alfred Houseman, Joseph Campbell, General William Westmorland, Erica Jong, Duncan Hines, Bob Woodward, Leonard Nimoy, Alan Arkin, James Caan is 80, Diana Ross is 76, Justice Sandra Day-O’Connor, Martin Short, Bob Elliot of Bob & Ray, T. Hee, Michael Imperioli is 54, Keira Knightley is 35
1811- Poet Percy Shelley was expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet that argued that God didn¹t exist.
1827- Ludwig van Beethoven died at age 56. Six people visited him while he was sick, 20,000 attended his funeral in Vienna. Romantic legend says he died at the violent peak of a thunderstorm raising his fists skyward in a last act of defiance to God and the elements, but in actual fact he died peacefully in his sleep.
1832- Artist George Catlin began his first trip to the West. He departed up the Missouri River on the American Fur Trading steamer the Yellowstone. Catlin¹s paintings of Plains Indians became famous.
1900- The Happy Hooligan comic strip.
1909- The U.S. Board of Censorship created.
1920- This Side of Paradise, the first novel published by a young Minnesota writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a descendant of Francis Scott Key, writer of the Star Spangled Banner.
1937- A statue of Popeye the Sailor unveiled at the Crystal City Texas Spinach Festival.
1959- Writer Dashell Hammett died.
1969- The western movie 100 Rifles premiered. It broke taboos, because it featured sexy Raquel Welch making love to sexy black hero Jim Brown. And Burt Reynolds as the bandito Yaqui Joe Hererra.
1969- On this day a frustrated young writer named John Kennedy Toole committed suicide. When his mother went through his things she found the manuscript of a novel in an old shoebox. Seven years after John Kennedy Toole killed himself, his mother forced the manuscript upon novelist Walker Percy to read. He was teaching at Loyola University in New Orleans. He was stunned with what he read. That lead to it being published by Louisiana State University Press. The book the"Confederacy of Dunces” went on to be a critically acclaimed bestseller and win a Pulitzer Prize.
1970- Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary admitted to having sex with a 14 year old girl.
1975 - The Who¹s rock opera "Tommy" premiered in London.
1976- USC sophomore Levar Burton screen tested for the role of Kunta Kinte in the landmark TV miniseries Roots. The role made him a star.
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album .
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his first record "Less Than Zero"
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1992- Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson was convicted of rape.
1997- Turner Animation's film 'Cat's Don't Dance", featuring the last movie work of Gene Kelly. He was a consultant on the dance sequences.
2008- Arnold Schwarzenegger fired Clint Eastwood. No, its’ not a movie plot line. The former actor, turned Republican Governor, objected to a position the actor/director and former Republican mayor took on the California State Parks Commission.
2228 - According to Star Fleet records- James T. Kirk, captain of Federation Star Ship Enterprise (Star Trek) was born.
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