Welcome to Month Number 8, Octubrius to the Romans. In 138AD the Roman Senate wanted to rename month Faustina, after the wife of the Emperor Antonius Pius. But she being a rare modest empress, declined the honor.
Birthdays: Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Matthau, Richard Harris, Phillipe Noiret, James Whitmore, Everett Sloane, Rod Carew, Stanley Holloway, Tom Bosley, Randy Quaid, Cindy Margolis, Zack Galifanakis is 53, R.O. Blechman is 92, Brie Larson is 33, Julie Andrews is 87, Pres. Jimmy Carter is 98.
1945- Looney Tunes director Frank Tashlin left the cartoon business to work full time as a screenwriter at Paramount on live action movies. He wrote for the Marx Brothers and later directed the Dean Martin Jerry Lewis comedies.
1952- This Is Your Life TV show hosted by Ralph Edwards premiered.
1955- The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason, Jayne Meadows and Art Carney premiered on TV.
1957- Los Angeles outlawed garbage incineration to try and cut down smog levels. Even though Los Angeles has reduced it's pollution levels by 30% in ten years it still had the worst air in the United States until surpassed by Houston in 1999.
1962- Johnny Carson took over the Tonight Show, after host Jack Paar walked off the set in a rage and resigned. Paar was annoyed the network censors cut a comedy sketch that featured a joke about a WC (water-closet). At first, people were cool to Carson. Even his own mother in Nebraska wasn’t impressed. But by years end Johnny Carson became the king of late night TV, and ruled it for 32 years. Jack Paar later said quitting was the worst mistake of his life.
1968- George Romero's film "Night of the Living Dead' premieres. Despite one film critic describing it as,” A bunch of sick crap”, it went on to become a cult hit.
1971-Walt Disney World Florida opened to the public.
1982- Disney's EPCOT opens.
1987- The Whittier Earthquake rocks L.A. 5.9 on the Richter Scale, it killed 8 and caused millions in damage.
1992 -The Cartoon Network started.
2009- The Walt Disney Family Museum opened in San Francisco.
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