Birthdays: Harold Lloyd, Juan Miro', Adolf Hitler, Tito Puente, Nina Foch, Gregory Ratoff, Ryan O'Neal, Daniel Day Lewis, Jessica Lange, Luther Vandross, Don Mattingly, Rosalyn Summers, Crispin Glover, Betty-Lou Gerson the voice of Cruella da Vil, George Takei, Carmen Electra is 47, Andy Serkis is 59,
Animator and educator Bob Kurtz
1859- " It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times..." Charles Dicken's novel "A Tale of Two Cities" began to be published in magazine form.
1909- Mary Pickford, the first Movie Star, goes in front of a camera for the first time.
1912- The first baseball game played at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Stockings, defeated the New York Highlanders (Yankees), 6-1.
1914- Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs opened. Commuters on the “El” could see how their cubbies were doing by looking for the W or L flag flying.
1912- A London West End theater manager and failed author named Abraham “Bram” Stoker died. He was 65. He managed the Lyceum theater where famed stage actor Henry King performed. If anyone noticed him, it was because he worked with Henry King. Bram Stokers seven books and several plays made little money in his time. But a decade later a play adapted from one of his novels made him world famous. Dracula.
1925- The Warner Bros. Moving Picture Company merged with Vitagraph, and began experimenting with fixing sound on to film.
1935- Radio program “Your Hit Parade” premiered.
1938- On Hitler’s birthday, was the Berlin premiere of Leni Reifenstahl’s film Olympia, about the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
1939- RCA president David Sarnoff dedicated RCA pavilion at World's Fair in New York City. First U.S. news event filmed on television. Sarnoff predicted that one day everyone would have a television in their home!
1970- The people of San Rafael Cal, started a tradition of smoking marijuana en masse at 4:20, the police code for a drug bust. The Grateful Dead took up the tradition and now everyone lights up and tokes at 4:20PM.
1974 - Paul McCartney and Wings releases "Band on the Run" .
1976 - At a stage performance at City Center NYC, George Harrison secretly slipped in and sang the Lumberjack Song with the Monty Python comedy troop.
1977- Woody Allen & Diane Keaton starred in the film “Annie Hall”. Young Christopher Walken did an early cameo as Annie’s weird brother.
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