Birthdays: Maurice Ravel, Piet Mondrian, Roman Emperor Geta, Luther Burbank, Tammy Fae Baker, Willard Scott, Lynn Swann, Franco Harris, Daniel D. Travanti, Rachel Weisz is 53, Michael Eisner is 81, Wanda Sykes is 59, Peter Saarsgard is 52, Bryan Cranston is 67.
1877- Bill Reed, a Union Pacific Railroad worker discovered a vast field of dinosaur fossils at Como Bluff Wyoming. "The bones extend for seven miles and are by the ton!"
1945- Tom & Jerry short Quiet Please won the Oscar for Best Animated Short.
1955- The 7th Emmy Awards, the first to be nationally televised. Steve Allen hosted. Held at the Moulin Rouge nightclub.
1985- Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson released “ We Are The World” a song recorded by many of the top names in pop music at the time, all proceeds going to help starving children in Africa. Bruce, Springsteen, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and more. It became the 8th most popular single of all time.
1988- 300 pound female impersonator Harris Milstead, better known as Divine in the John Waters films, died of sleep apnea. He was 42.
1999- Film director Stanley Kubrick died of a heart attack in his sleep, just five days after screening his final film Eyes Wide Shut. He was 71.
2010- The Pixar film UP won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. It was also nominated for Best Picture, the only other animated film to be so honored since Beauty and the Beast.
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