Birthdays: Marie Antoinette, President Warren Harding, Stephen Crane, Marcel Ophuls, Benevento Cellini, Larry Flynt, Walter Matthau, Fernando Valenzuela, Lyle Lovett, Willie D, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, animator Retta Davidson, Jenny McCarthy is 51, Toni Collette is 51, animator Will Finn, director Brenda Chapman-Lima
1895- Emil and Max Skladowsky set up a Bioscope projector in Berlin's Wintergarden. The Birth of German Cinema.
1920- The first issue of American Cinematographer.
1925- Gabriel Leuville, called Max Linder, was the first international movie star. Before the Great War, audiences flocked to see his suave debonair character. Before Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, Max Linder created the style of cinema slapstick comedy. When WWI broke out, he patriotically enlisted in the army. He survived the war, but the experience left him chronically depressed with PTSD. This day in Austria, Max and his 18 year old wife Corrine committed suicide together, leaving a 16 month old daughter.
1939- Rockefeller Center in New York City opened.
1946- THE FIRST NBA BASKETBALL GAME- The first professional game was the New York Knicks 68, the Toronto Huskies 66. The first basket was scored by Ozzie Sheckmann.
1968- To replace the outmoded Hays Commission Production Code, the Motion Picture Ratings System was introduced-"G, M, R, and X"- Later PG, PG-13, R and NC-17".
1978- The movie version of the bestselling book “Watership Down” premiered. Martin Rosen and John Hubley directing. John Hubley died after only completing the first ten minutes of the film.
1988- Jeff Goldblum married Gena Davis. They divorced several years later. They are both over 6 feet tall.
2003- Walt Disney’s feature Brother Bear opened in theaters.
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