B-Days: Robert Frost, Chico Marx, Conde Nast, Tennessee Williams, Alfred Houseman, Leigh Harline, Joseph Campbell, Gen. William Westmorland, Erica Jong, Duncan Hines, Bob Woodward, Leonard Nimoy, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Diana Ross is 79, Sandra Day-O’Connor, Martin Short, Bob Elliot of Bob & Ray would be 100, T. Hee, Michael Imperioli is 58, Keira Knightley is 38, Alan Silvestri, Steven Tyler, Chris Bailey, John Pomeroy is 72.
1832- Artist George Catlin began his first trip to the West. He traveled up the Missouri River on the American Fur Trading steamer The Yellowstone. Catlin’s portrait paintings of Plains Indians became famous.
1900- The Happy Hooligan comic strip.
1920- This Side of Paradise, the first novel published by a young Minnesota writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a descendant of Francis Scott Key, writer of the Star Spangled Banner.
1937- A statue of Popeye the Sailor unveiled at the Crystal City Texas Spinach Festival.
1955- The song The Ballad of Davey Crockett, went to number 1 in the U.S. pop charts.
1960- THE MOULIN ROUGE AGREEMENT- Las Vegas gambling casinos finally integrate. Before this stars like Sammy Davis Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald could headline in the clubs but had to exit via the kitchens and sleep across town in the colored section. Singer Nat King Cole was requested to keep his eyes on his piano keys for fear if he looked up he would seduce young white girls. Frank Sinatra played a big part in lobbying the Vegas Mob guys to change with the times. Marlene Dietrich grabbed Lena Horne by the arm and stormed into a casino bar defying any reaction. None came. The Moulin Rouge was the first completely integrated casino.
1969- The western movie 100 Rifles premiered. It broke taboos, because it featured sexy Raquel Welch making love to sexy black actor Jim Brown. And Burt Reynolds as the bandito Yaqui Joe Hererra.
1969- On this day a frustrated young writer named John Kennedy Toole committed suicide. When his mother went through his things, she found the manuscript of a novel in an old shoebox. She forced the manuscript on novelist Walker Percy to read. He was stunned by what he read. That lead to it being published by Louisiana State University Press. The book the "Confederacy of Dunces” went on to be a critically acclaimed bestseller and win a Pulitzer Prize.
1970- Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary admitted to having sex with a 14 year old girl.
1973- The Young and the Restless soap opera premiered.
1975 - The Who¹s rock opera "Tommy" premiered in London.
1976- USC sophomore Levar Burton screen tested for the role of Kunta Kinte in the landmark TV miniseries Roots. The role made him a star.
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album .
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his first record "Less Than Zero"
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1990- The Little Mermaid’s composers Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken won two academy awards. For Best Score and the song “ Under the Sea”.
1997- Turner Animation's film 'Cat's Don't Dance", Directed by Mark Dindal, featuring the last movie work of Gene Kelly. He was a consultant on the dance sequences.
2008- Arnold Schwarzenegger fired Clint Eastwood. No, it’s not a movie plot line. The former actor turned Republican Governor, objected to a position the actor/director and former Republican mayor took on the California State Parks Commission.
2228-According to Star Fleet records- James T. Kirk, captain of Federation Star Ship Enterprise (Star Trek) was born.
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