Birthdays: Quintus Virgilius-Virgil 70 BC, Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great 1542, Oscar Wilde, Fredrich Nietszche, Mikail Lermontov, John L. Sullivan, Jane Darnell, Burt Gillett, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Trout, Klaus Barbie the Butcher of Lyon, P.G. Wodehouse, Penny Marshall, Mario Puzo, Sarah Ferguson-Fergie' the former Duchess of York, Chef Emeril LeGasse, Chuck Berry
1905- Premiere of Claude Debussy’s tone poem La Mer- the Sea.
1929- The Canadian Parliament passed a resolution declaring women to be people, too.
1930- Duke Ellington first recorded Mood Indigo.
1937- The Disney short Clock Cleaners premiered. “Loudly the Bell, in the Old Town rings….”
1940- Charlie Chaplin’s film The Great Dictator premiered.
1951- THE FIRST I LOVE LUCY SHOW- The successful family sitcom began its pilot episode this night. CBS and sponsor Phillip Morris had wanted Lucille Ball to transfer her popular radio show-“My Favorite Husband” to television. The story of the family life of Ricky Ricardo, a Cuban immigrant nightclub bandleader, his daffy wife Lucy, and their landlord friends Fred and Ethel Murtz became an overnight sensation.
1959- Twentieth Century Fox signed Elizabeth Taylor to star in their new movie Cleopatra. The first time an actor was paid a million dollars for one movie. By the time production wrapped, she had earned $7 million.
1969- The film musical Paint Your Wagon opened. Lerner & Lowe, Paddy Chayevsky, Andre Previn, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Nelson Riddle, Josh Logan, with Clint Eastwood singing!
1976- What’s Love got to do with it? Ike and Tina Turner break up.
1988- Bottom of the 9th, old, injured, Kirk Gibson came off the bench and hit the game winning home run to give the LA Dodgers victory over the Oakland A’s.
1989- Wayne Gretsky surpassed Gordie Howe’s all time record of scored points in hockey-1,850.
2018- Sears Roebuck, once the largest retail store in America, declared bankruptcy.
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