Birthdays: Tyrone Power, Karl Marx, Elizabeth Cochrane called Nellie Bly, Soren Kierkegard, Alice Faye, James Beard, Michael Palin is 79, Jim Kelly, Pat Carroll, Patrick Ewing, John Rhys Davies is 77, Lance Henriksen is 81, Brian Williams, Floyd Gottfredson
National Cartoonist's Day.
1891-Carnegie Hall in New York opened.
1945- Happy Birthday Yosemite Sam! Hare Trigger, the first cartoon to feature the red mustachioed desperado premiered.
1953- Broadway Director Jerome Robbins was riding high after directing hits like On the Town and King & I, when he was labeled a Communist. To save his career, this day he testified before Joseph McCarthy’s House UnAmerican Activities Committee and named names. Ironically, Jerome Robbins went on to direct two of his biggest hits “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the Fiddler on the Roof using blacklisted actors like Zero Mostel, Beatrice Arthur and Jack Gilford, who all hated him.
1968- Albert Dekker, character actor and star of movies like Dr. Cyclops, was found dead kneeling in his bathtub, handcuffed, Noose around his neck, ballgag and wearing ladies lingerie. A narcotics needle was sticking in his arm. Someone wrote in red lipstick on his butt “ whip”. The police declared it an “ auto-erotic episode that had gone wrong."
1975- Anne Rice’s hit novel The Interview With The Vampire first published.
1983- At a regional Comicon, the first edition comic of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came out and sold out within two hours.
2006- Walt Disney Company formally acquired Pixar Studio.
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