Birthdays: Leadbelly (Harlan Ledbetter), Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, J. Carol Naish, Tele Savalas, Christian Dior, Placido Domingo, Wolfman Jack, Paul Scofield, Robby Benson, Jack Nicklaus, Benny Hill, Emma Bunton- Baby Spice of the Spice Girls, Gena Davis is 68, Ken Leung is 54
1789- The first American novel published- The Power of Sympathy: An Epistolary Romance by William Hill Brown.
1888- A key portion of Charles Babbage’s Differential Engine was tested for the first time. Babbage had already died, and the prototype was completed by his son. The Differential Engine was the grandfather of the modern computer.
1916- The National Board of Review outlawed nudity in Hollywood movies.
1930- Walt’s top animator and right hand Ub Iwerks quit Walt Disney to start his own rival company.
1935- Disney animator Ollie Johnston’s first day at the studio, at $17 a week.
1938 – Max Fleischer told his New York cartoon studio they were relocating to Florida.
1938- George Melies, the father of Motion Picture Visual Effects, died at age 76. He had been reduced to selling trinkets in a little store in a Paris train station but had a bit of the rediscovery by the film community in his final years. On his deathbed he gave his friends a drawing he made of a champagne bottle popping. He said “Laugh, my friends. Laugh with me, laugh for me, because I dream your dreams."
1943- Legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa was arrested in San Francisco for sending a kid to get him some marijuana. He served 84 of a 90 day sentence.
1959- Former 'Our Gang' child star Carl 'Alfalfa" Switzer was killed in a bar in Mission Hills, Ca. He pulled a knife on a man over a $50 debt on a hunting dog. The man then shot him. He was 32. According to fellow Little Rascal Darla Hood, Switzer was a brute who bullied the other children, and bitter his adult acting career never blossomed.
1992- Disney's Beauty and the Beast became the first animated film ever to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. The Best Animated Feature Oscar was not created until 2001.
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