Birthdays: Paul Whiteman, Pearl Bailey, Freddy Bartholomew, Dirk Bogarde, Wade Hampton, pianist Rudolph Serkin, Swifty Lazar, Marlin Perkins, Diane Weist is 72, Reba McEntire, Vince Vaughn is 50, Julia Stiles is 39, Lady Gaga is 34
1881- P.T. Barnum formed a partnership with his chief competitor James Bailey to create Barnum & Bailey’s Circus. He proclaimed it the Greatest Show on Earth!
1920- Silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford married.
1928- Via radio broadcast, the public heard the voice of Charlie Chaplin for the first time.
1929- Disney short The Opry House was released. The first short where they changed Mickey Mouses’ design to give him white gloves.
1935- Leni Reifenstahl’s hypnotic movie paean to Nazism- Triumph of the Will, premiered.
1941- English writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse in Sussex. Her body was never found.
1942- Albert Hurter, Swiss designer for Walt Disney's "Snow White' and 'Pinnochio", and called the first inspirational artist in animation, died of rheumatic heart disease. He was 59.
1958- The Killer Slide- US 1, The Pacific Coast Highway has always been at the mercy of wind and weather erosion effecting the unstable cliffs it was carved from. This day while repairing a large landslide construction workers were caught in an even bigger hillside collapse- Bulldozers rode on top of the avalanche but several people were killed.
1999- Matt Groening’s cartoon series Futurama debuted.
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The 1958 entry notes a landslide on the Pacific Coast Highway, which is called US 1. It's really California state highway 1. US 1 runs up the east coast. A very nit-picky comment!
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