Birthdays: French King Charles VI the Well-Served 1380, Gilbert Stuart, Sven Nykvist, Joseph Conrad- real name Josef Korzeniowski, Jean Luc Godard, Nino Rota, Jim Backus, Maria Callas, Larry Parks, Charles Pillsbury, Mitsuo Fuchida the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, Darryl Hannah is 63, Katerina Witt, Brendan Fraser is 55, Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore is 63, Andrew Stanton, Amanda Seyfried is 38
1894- In Samoa, writer Robert Louis Stevenson was opening a bottle of wine, when he paused and cried “What’s that?”, then he looked at his wife and said “Does my face look strange?” Then he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 44.
1919- Impressionist painter Pierre August Renoir died at age 79. Suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, when he could no longer paint with his hands, Renoir used a bit that held the brush in his teeth.
1925- GEORGE GERSHWIN PLAYED CARNEGIE HALL. Gershwin always wanted to be taken seriously as a composer, and not just a Tin Pan Alley songwriter. While in Paris he met Maurice Ravel, but instead of giving him advice, Ravel said: "You make HOW much from your songs? Maybe I should learn from you!" When he asked to be Arnold Schoenberg's pupil, Schoenburg told him :" Why do you want to be a bad Schoenburg, when you're already such a good Gershwin?"
1931- Happy Birthday Alka Seltzer! The fizzy tablet was invented by chemist Maurice Treener for the Dr. Miles Medicine Company of Indiana.
1934- Lee Blair, Disney artist and brother of Preston Blair, Disney artist, married Mary Browne Robinson, Disney artist. She became the most famous of them as Mary Blair.
1944- A Nazi newspaper published on this day features a photo of a young Austrian S.S. officer with his commander in Greece. After the war his commander was hanged as a war criminal. The young man became Secretary General of the United Nations, President of Austria, and winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, Kurt Waldheim.
1948- Happy Ozzy Day! Ozzie Ozbourne is 75. ”I never set out to be a businessman. I just wanted to have fun, f—k chicks, and do drugs.”
1948- Walt Disney’s Mickey and the Seal, debuted. Directed by Charles Nichols.
1965- The Beatles release the album Rubber Soul.
1967- Dr. Christiaan Barnard of Capetown performed the first heart transplant.
1968- Elvis Presley opened in Las Vegas to rave reviews and packed houses. It marks the beginning of his comeback and his transition from thin, black leather-jacketed youth to fat, rhinestone jumpsuit, half tinted sunglasses middle age.
1991- Hulk Hogan defeated Undertaker to become WWF champ for the 4th time.
1997 – 56 year old Darlene Gillespie, an original member of the Mickey Mouse Club, was busted in LA for a securities fraud scheme.
1997- Young basketball star Latrell Sprewell lost his $32 million contract with the Golden State Warriors for trying to strangle his coach, P.J. Carlesino. Chill out, dude.
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