Birthdays: Francesco Zubaran, Madame Curie, Rev. Billy Graham, Leon Trotsky –born Lev Bronstein, Albert Camus, Al Hurt, Dean Jagger, Joni Mitchell, Joan Sutherland, Judy Tenuda, Clive Barnes, Lindsay Duncan, Morgan Spurlock, Lucille LaVerne, the voice of the Wicked Queen in Disney’s Snow White.
1865- The London Gazette is founded.
1874- Cartoonist Thomas Nast first drew The Republican Party as an elephant.
1899-The play Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekov, premiered at the Imperial Art Theatre in Moscow, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski.
1937- Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels sent an emissary to Paris to try to talk Marlene Dietrich into coming home. But Germany’s greatest movie star hated the Nazis and all they stood for.
1951- Frank Sinatra left his wife to marry hot moviestar Ava Gardner.
1956- Eugene O’Neill’s biographical masterpiece play “Long Days Journey into Night” first premiered.
60th Anniversary 1963- The movie “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” premiered at Hollywood’s new Cinerama Dome theater.
1980- Movie star Steve McQueen died of cancer at age 50.
2007- Walt Disney Pictures Enchanted premiered at the Odeon West End in London.
2014- Walt Disney’s Big Hero 6 opened. The short Feast preceded it.
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