Birthdays: Bernard Hermann, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Slim Pickens, Nelson Eddy, Gary Busey, John Hench, Little Eva, Harmon Killabrew, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Anna Sophie-Mutter, Leroy Anderson, Maria Conchita Alonso, Robert Evans, Matthew Weiner, Brett McKenzie, animation director Roger Allers, Ray Harryhausen
1935- Disney short Who Killed Cock Robin?Directed by Dave Hand.
1936- Pope Pius XI published an encyclical warning of the evils of Motion Pictures. “They glorify Lust and Lascivious behavior.”
1940 – ROBIN THE BOY WONDER- According to Batman Comics, this day mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick an orphan. He was taken in by millionaire Bruce Wayne so Batman could have his Robin.
1940- First day shooting on the film Citizen Kane.
1950- The Hollywood 10 were given jail sentences for contempt of Congress.
1956- Marilyn Monroe married author Arthur Miller.
1967- At 2:30AM outside of Biloxi, Mississippi, actress Jane Mansfield and her dog were killed in a car crash when their car slammed into the rear of a parked truck. Her children including Marisa Hargitay were in the back seat but unhurt. Ever since then, high chassis trucks have to have Mansfield bars in the back.
1968 - "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17.
1978- Actor Bob Crane, best known as the star in the television series Hogan’s Heroes, was found beaten to death with an electric cord wrapped around his neck in a Scottsdale Arizona hotel room. Around his body were piles of his homemade porn tapes. He was 49. A killer was never found.
2007- Pixar’s Ratatouille premiered, directed by Brad Bird.
2007- Steve Jobs introduced the iphone, initiating the era of the smartphone.
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