Birthdays: Dr. Martin Luther King, Moliere, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Cole Younger, Charro, Matthew Brady, drummer Gene Krupa, Lloyd Bridges, Mario Van Peebles, Josef Broyer the mentor of Sigmund Freud, Margaret O’Brien, Aristotle Onassis, Captain Beefheart, Dr. Edward Teller, Regina King is 53, Disney animator Dave Pruiksma
1919- Hollywood celebrities Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists Studio. Newspapers wrote “ The Lunatics have taken over the asylum.”
1936-THE DGA- Several top Hollywood directors including Lewis Milestone, Ruben Mamoulian and William Wellman met at King Vidor’s house and pledged $100 dollars each to form the Screen Director’s Guild, later the Director’s Guild of America. It was a risky thing to do, previous attempts to form a director’s union were broken up a threat by the producers of perpetual blacklisting. Final recognition and contracts were signed by President Frank Capra in 1940. One provision insisted on in the contract was that the director’s credit always be the final name in the opening titles before the movie began. And so it remains.
1943- Walt Disney released Education for Death, a wartime short directed by Clyde Geromini and animated principally by Ward Kimball.
1960- Walt Disney Presents Leslie Nielsen as Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion in the adventure series Swamp Fox.
1961- Berry Gordy of Motown Records signed a new group called The Supremes.
1967- THE FIRST SUPER BOWL- After a decade of professional football conference title games, the AFL and NFL combined to make a single championship game- Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 at the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum.
1974- The first episode of Happy Days premiered with Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham and Henry Winkler as Da Fonz.
2009- THE MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON- Capt. Sully Sullenberger safely ditched his disabled airliner in the Hudson River, saving all his passengers.
2021- Wandavision premiered streaming on Disney+
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