Birthdays: Charles James Stuart the Old Pretender, Yamaoka Tesshu (1832- Japanese swordsman), Saul Bellow, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Frederick Loew (of Lerner & Loew), Howlin’ Wolf, Maurice Sendak, Gina Gershon is 58, Leilee Sobieski is 37, Jean Triplehorn is 57, Jurgen Prochnow, Elizabeth Hurley is 54, Britain’s Prince Phillip is 99!
1776- The great English actor David Garrick went on stage for the last time, playing in a benefit for The Decayed Actor’s Fund. Hmm, I wonder if we could start a Decayed Animator’s Fund….
1847 –The Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1865- Wagners opera Tristan und Isolde premiered in Munich. To meet the demands of Wagner’s music the orchestra needed to be so much larger than usual that they had to take out the first two rows of seats to enlarge the orchestra pit.
1902 - Patent for the window envelope granted to H F Callahan.
1926- Artist Antonio Gaudi was run over by a streetcar while crossing in front of his famous cathedral in Barcelona. Construction begun in 1886, The Cathedral Sacreda Familia is still scheduled for completion- in the year 2035.
1936- Movie star Jean Harlow died suddenly from a respiratory infection. She was 26.
1939 - Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
1944- A USO troop was entertaining soldiers in Normandy from the back of a truck but they lacked a piano player. They called out to the G.I. audience if anyone could play. A shy cattle rancher’s son from Modesto California came up and played. He did so well his colonel ordered him out of the line and told him to form his own G.I. band.
Dave Brubeck’s jazz career began.
1957- “Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog” cartoon debuted on the Captain Kangaroo show.
1980- Comedian Richard Pryor had been doing so much cocaine even his dealers were worried about him. This day, while trying to freebase he exploded, and ran screaming down his street on fire. Another version of the story said he tried to commit suicide by pouring tequila on himself and setting it alight. He recovered, but suffered greatly from MS the remaining years of his life.
1995-110,000 people jam Central Park in New York to see Disney's Pocahontas, the largest audience ever to attend an animated movie premiere.
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