Birthdays: President John Tyler, Sir William Walton, Eric Idle is 80, former English P.M. John Major, Bud Cort is 75, LaToya Jackson, Eugene McCarthy, Jennifer Capriati, M.C. Hammer, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Cy Young, Christopher Lambert is 68, Jimmy Dodd, Disney animator Jack Kinney, Brendan Gleeson is 68, Lucy Lawless, Elle MacPherson, Amy Sedaris is 62
1886- COCA-COLA invented. Atlanta Pharmacist and liver pill salesman John Pemberton developed the carbonated drink, originally with Cocaine in it. His bookkeeper Francis Robinson penned the famous script logo, still in use today. Advertising for the drink claimed it cured everything from hysteria, cholic and the common cold.
The formula is still a secret. During World War II the Nazis openly worried how a break with the United States would affect their supply of Coca Cola, so Reichminister Goebbels arrested Coke execs in Germany and forced them to develop a substitute. This became Fanta Cola.
1891- Impressionist painter George Seurat died at age 31. Before he died, he told his parents that he had a mistress named Maureen Knobloch, and had a child by her. Surprise!
1936- Republic Pictures formed.
1939- Moviestars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard marry.
1951- 'The King and I' debuted on Broadway with Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner, who shaved his head for the first time for the role.
1971- First day of shooting on the film The Godfather.
50th Anniv.1973- The last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam. President Nixon announced that night " We have Peace with Honor". Communists conquered South Vietnam two years later.
1974- Mariner 10 was the first satellite to reach the planet Mercury.
1974- A Chinese farmer digging a well discovered the huge, terracotta army buried with Chinas’ first emperor at XIAN.
1989- As part of one of the silliest Oscar telecasts in history, actor Rob Lowe had to dance and sing 'Proud Mary" with a Las Vegas showgirl named Eileen Bowman dressed as Disney’s Snow White. Rob Lowe had just been embarrassed by the publication of a videotape shot in a hotel room of him having sex with two teenage girls. The Walt Disney Company immediately threatened a lawsuit. The Academy apologized and replaced director Alan Carr with Gilbert Cates.
1993- At the 65th Academy Awards, Disney’s Aladdin won two Academy Awards for Best Song and Best Track. Best Animated Short was Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase by Joan Gratz.
2018- A Buzzfeed article detailed how animator John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren & Stimpy, preyed on underage girls, promising them careers at his studio.
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