Birthdays: Maurice Ravel, Piet Mondrian, Roman Emperor Geta, Luther Burbank, Tammy Fae Baker, Willard Scott, Lynn Swann, Franco Harris, Daniel D. Travanti, Rachel Weisz is 49, Michael Eisner is 78, Wanda Sykes is 56, Peter Saarsgard is 49, Bryan Cranston is 64.
1945- At the Academy Awards, Tom & Jerry cartoon Quiet Please won best animated short.
1955- The first televised Emmy Awards on NBC. Steve Allen hosted. The Disneyland show won two emmys for " Operation Undersea".
1988- 300 pound female impersonator Harris Milstead, better known as Divine in the John Waters films, died of sleep apnea. He was 42.
1999- Film director Stanley Kubrick died of a heart attack in his sleep, just five days after screening his final film Eyes Wide Shut. He was 71.
2010- Pixar's Up won best animated feature at the 85 Academy Awards.
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