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 50, Michael Eisner is 79, Wanda Sykes is 57, Peter Saarsgard is 50, Bryan Cranston is 65.
1945- Tom & Jerry short Quiet Please won the Oscar for Best Animated Short.
1955- The first Emmy Awards to be televised. Steve Allen hosted.
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- The Pixar film UP won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
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