Birthdays: Louis XIV the Sun King, Jesse James, Cardinal Richelieu, Johann Christian Bach, Jacopo Meyerbeer, John Cage, Quentin de la Tour, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack Valenti, Bob Newhart, George Lazenby, Freddy Mercury, Raquel Welch, born Raquel Tejada is 82, Kathy Guisewhite, Dweezil Zappa, Werner Herzog is 82, Michael Keaton is 71, Rose McGowan is 50
LABOR DAY -In most countries the day to honor working people is MayDay. This day in 1882 A carpenter named Peter McGuire got New York union leaders to hold a march to honor American workers. Ten thousand marched down 5th Ave. A few years later, AF of L Pres. Samuel Gompers convinced President Grover Cleveland that America needed a day to honor working people without the radical political connotations of May Day. And besides, we could all use a day off between the 4th of July and Thanksgiving anyway. The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1894.
1927- Walt Disney’s Trolley Troubles, the first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walt losing the rights to this character a year later caused him to design Mickey Mouse.
1932- Paul Bern, the studio executive husband of sexy starlet Jean Harlow, was found lying naked on his bathroom floor with a bullet in his head. He had committed suicide and left a note apologizing to Harlow. Harlow called the studio and her agent before calling the police. Bern’s brother revealed that Paul Bern had another wife he was hiding. All jumped to hush up the scandal.
1935- Tumbling Tumbleweeds premiered, the film that made a star out of Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy.
1943- Young British cartoonist Ronald Searle is captured by the Japanese in Burma. He spent his time as a P.O.W. working on the infamous Bridge on the River Kwai and making sketches of the nightmarish conditions of his fellow prisoners.
1957- Jacques Kerouac’s ode to the beat life ON THE ROAD, first published. Kerouac wrote it in a heat using one large roll of white paper stuffed into his typewriter instead of individual sheets. When the editor got the novel it had no paragraph breaks of chapter breaks. Another young writer of the time, Truman Capote, was unimpressed. “That’s not writing, it’s typing.”
1958- The novel DR ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak published in US. It was banned in Russia until the collapse of Communism.
1964- Cook Teressa Bellissimo of the Anchor Bar in Buffalo NY, took some left over chicken wings, threw them into a deep fryer with spices and blue cheese dip and invented Buffalo Wings.
1965- CBS television network headquarters are moved into a sleek building on 6th Ave. in Manhattan. Because of its black granite and smoke tinted window's it's nicknamed "Black Rock". NBC's headquarters in Rockefeller Center are called "30 Rock". ABC's, owing to their status as the third network, called their headquarters "Little Rock".
1983- Filmation's "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" premiered on TV. I Have The Powerrrrrr!!!
1992- Bruce Tim’s Batman the animated series premiered.
1993- Two Stupid Dogs premiered on TV.
1994- Patrick McDonnell started drawing the comic strip MUTTS.
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