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 61, Alfred Molina is 68, Jim Broadbent is 72, John C. Reilly is 56, Bob Dylan is 80
1830 –The poem "Mary Had A Little Lamb," was written.
1850- America’s first nationwide newspaper/magazine Harpers Weekly began.
1860-A group of College of California men from Oakland stood on a rock and watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. One of them, Frederick Billings, recalled the words of George Berkeley, Irish Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, "Westward the course of empire takes its way," They decided to name their new settlement and site for their college, Berkeley.
1929- The Marx Brothers first movie comedy” The Coconuts” premiered.
1935- The first Baseball night game- Reds vs. Phillies.
1941- Paramount Pictures seized control of the 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.
1958 – United Press & International News Service merge into United Press International.
1989- In Los Angeles, a spectacular fire destroyed the Art-Deco-Moderne all-wood landmark, the Pan Pacific Auditorium.
1991- Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise opened.
1991- Ron Howard’s Backdraft opened.
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