Birthdays: Marquis De Lafayette, Max Schreck (Nosferatu), Joseph Kennedy Sr., Felix Salten- the author of Bambi, Buddy Holly, Jane Curtin, Sergio Aragones is 86, Swoozie Kurtz, Jo Ann Worley, Rosie Perez is 58, Billy Rose, Ernest Tubb, Justin Whalin, Idris Elba is 50, Anika Noni-Rose, animator Bruce Smith.
1696- William Kidd set sail from Portsmouth with a heavily armed ship named the Adventure. Captain Kidd’s orders were to clear the Indian Ocean of pirates, but instead, he became a pirate himself.
1791- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera La Celemenza de Tito premiered in Prague.
1910- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughn-Williams premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral. Vaughn Williams had not attempted sacred music yet, but was inspired by a melody written by Renaissance composer Tallis in 1567. During rehearsals, the organist wrote a friend it was “A queer, mad work, by an odd fellow from Chelsea.”
1916- Piggly-Wiggly, the first true Supermarket, opened in Memphis Tenn.
1935- the musical Top Hat opened with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
1958- The Spunky and Tadpole show debuts!
1968- Many momentous events occurred in 1968: assassinations, riots. But that’s nothing compared to the television premiere of H.R. PUFNSTUFF this day! Witchipoo, Orson and the Vroom Broom. Whether or not Sid and Marty Kroffts strange kiddie show was a code for drug use -HR meaning Hand-Rolled Puffing Stuff, is a matter for scholastic conjecture.
1969- DePatie-Freleng's The Pink Panther TV Show premiered.
1972 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appeared on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
1997- The great funeral of Princess Diana of Wales brought England to a halt and was televised around the world.
2017- Our First Close Encounter? Scientists in Hawaii spotted a giant cigar-shaped object pass through our solar system. At first thought to be a comet, its speed did not behave like a comet, and it had no comets tail. An astrophysicist at Harvard said it might have been a probe sent by another civilization, but no one is sure. They named it Oumuamua- Hawaiian for “scout”.
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