Birthdays: Mary Shelley, Jacques Louis David, Huey Long, Fred MacMurray, Raymond Massey, Ted Williams, John Blondell, Nancy Kulp, Timothy Bottoms, Jean-Claude Killy, Shirley Booth, John Landis, Tug McGraw, R. Crumb is 78, Lewis Black is 73, Cameron Diaz is 49
1935- “Top Hat” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers premiered.
1936- First newspaper comic strip entirely devoted to Donald Duck.
1939- The last peacetime voyage of the HMS Queen Mary left Southampton evacuating Americans fleeing the impending war in Europe. Among the crowd was a large contingent of Hollywood stars like Robert Montgomery, Loretta Young, Bob Hope and Jack Warner who planned to attend the first Cannes Film Festival (postponed until 1946).
The Queen Mary kept radio silence across the ocean to hide from U-Boats. This was wise, because her sister ship HMS Athenia was torpedoed.
1942- Cartoonist Al Kapp premiered his comic strip “ Fearless Fosdick”, a spoof of Dick Tracy detective stories.
1968- The first 7-11 store opened in Palmdale California. Have a Slurpee !
1975- Ralph Bakshi's film "Coonskin". Bad boy Bakshi's portrayal of African-American urban violence was deemed so offensive that it caused the first ever riot at the Museum of Modern Art, and it died at the box office. The film was retitled on video "Streetfight".
When Ralph resurfaced, he turned his attention to Sword & Fantasy films.
1980- Willie Nelson released his hit song “On the Road Again.”
1993- The David Letterman Show premiered on CBS. Letterman was wooed away from NBC for $42 million bucks.
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