Birthdays: George Seurat, Charles Ringling, Julie Harris, Jack Davis, Gianni Verasce, Monica Seles, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lucy Liu is 56, Britney Spears is 43
1697- Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London reopened. It was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren after being destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
1863- The dome of the U.S. Capitol completed as the Goddess of Freedom is hoisted up into place.
1877- Camille Saint Saens opera “Samson & Delilah” premiered in Weimar.
1896- We remember Wyatt Earp as the marshal of Dodge City and gunfighter of the 1881 OK Corral gunfight. He was better known to people of his own time as the referee of the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey Heavyweight prizefight in San Francisco. After leaving Tombstone Arizona, Wyatt Earp drifted to San Francisco where his skills as a fight referee were called upon for this last of the big bare-knuckle bouts.
He enraged the public when he declared the fight for Sharkey in the 3rd round after Big-Bob Fitzsimmons couldn't stop bleeding. More people were out to kill him over this decision than were ever out to get him over the OK Corral. He quickly pulled up stakes and went to the Yukon for the gold rush. He was all but forgotten until a little book called Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal published in 1920 made him famous.
1933- Voice actor Clarence “Ducky” Nash began working at Walt Disney. He would create the voice for Donald Duck and his nephews.
1935- Animator Marc Davis first day at Walt Disney Studios. He retired in 1978.
1965- Walt Disney live action comedy That Darned Cat, with Dean Jones and Hayley Mills, opened.
1982- Wild-eyed British comedian Marty Feldman (Igor in Young Frankenstein) suddenly died of a heart attack in Mexico while filming the comedy YellowBeard. He was 48.
40 Years Ago 1983- The full 13 minute video version of Michael Jackson’s song Thriller, premiered on MTV. Directed by John Landis.
1993- NASA astronauts do a series of space walks from their shuttle to adjust the Hubble space telescope. The Hubble cost billions of dollars but was sent into orbit with a flaw in its lenses. It was nearsighted. The spacewalk in effect gave the Hubble a set of glasses to see better the furthest details of deep space.
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