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Birthdays: Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, Frederick the Warlike of Saxony-1370, Ethel Kennedy, Joel Grey is 89, Louise Lasser, Mason Reese, Oleg Cassini, Cameron Mitchell. Norman McClaren, Bill Irwin, John Milius, Jennifer Esposito
1890- In England John Merrick, who was known as the Elephant Man, died.
1906- Albert Einstein published his Theory of Relativity.
1907- Baseball N.Y. Giant's Roger Bresnahan becomes the first catcher to wear a mask and shin guards. He had the mask built based on a sword fencing mask.
1914- George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion premiered at the Haymarket in London.
1926- Horticulturist Luther Burbank died. His last words;" I don't feel good."
1931- Dorothy Parker resigned her job as drama critic for the New Yorker Magazine. She married an actor named Alan Cambell, and moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. While on her honeymoon the magazine editor bugged her for some final fixes on an article. She sent a telegram from Paris:
” Don’t bother me. Stop. F*cking busy. Stop. And visa-versa. “
1933- the Bauhaus directed by Mies Van Der Rohe was closed down by the Nazis.
1950- First day filming on the movie All About Eve. As Bette Davis said “Fasten your seatbelts, its going to be a bumpy night.
1955- WABD in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles began running pre-1948 Warner Bros cartoon shorts in a half hour format, introducing the baby boomer generation to the world of Bugs, Daffy and Porky.
1957- Poet Pablo Neruda was arrested by authorities in Buenos Aires.
1981- Valerie Bertinelli married rocker Eddie Van Halen.
1983- At that year’s Academy Awards the winner for Best Animated Short was Polish artist Zybigniew Rybcyznski for his film Tango. During the ceremony he stepped outside for a smoke. When Security guards refused to let him re-enter, he became combative, shouting the only English he knew: ” I Have Oscar!” He wound up in an LA jail for assault, and his Oscar wound up in the bushes.
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