Birthdays: Jean Paul Marat, Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Emmanuel Leutze, Gary Burghoff, Priscilla Presley, Patti LaBelle, Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong, Peter Ellenshaw, Kristin Scott Thomas is 60, Alfred Molina is 67, Jim Broadbent is 71, John C. Reilly is 55, Bob Dylan is 79
1830 –The poem "Mary Had A Little Lamb," was written.
1850- America’s first nationwide newspaper/magazine Harpers Weekly began.
1929- The Marx Brothers first movie comedy” The Coconuts” premiered.
1941- Paramount Pictures seized control of the Max Fleischer Studio in Miami. They allowed Max and Dave Fleischer another 26 weeks to complete their projects in house but as Paramount employees. They had to sign “resignations in blank” to be exercised at Paramount’s discretion when the 26 weeks were up. Max and Dave quit by then anyway. The studio was re-organized as Famous Studio and moved back to New York in Jan 1943.
1950- Married movie star Ingrid Bergman shocked American morality by having an open love affair with neorealist film director Roberto Rosselini. This day they were finally married but the outcry of conservatives about this “Apostle of Degradation” was such that her image needed a makeover. So she played Saint Joan of Arc.
1954 - IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain, a computer that could perform 10
million operations an hour.
1958 – United Press & International News Service merge into United Press International.
1976 - 1st commercial SST Concorde flight to North America -London to Wash DC.
1989- In Los Angeles, a spectacular fire destroyed the Art-Deco-Moderne all-wood landmark, the Pan Pacific Auditorium.
1991- Tri-Star Pictures $75 million-dollar flop "Hudson Hawk" opened.
Star Bruce Willis, whose own salary was $17 million, blamed the film’s costs on union filmworkers’ salaries. He would return to his car after a day’s shooting to find it covered with animal excrement. The film almost sank his career. Willis’ next two films, "Death Becomes Her" and 'Pulp Fiction", he did for scale.
1991- Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise opened.
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