Monday, February 26, 2024

Tom Sito's Animation Almanac for Feb 26, 2024


Birthday: King Wenceslas of Bohemia-1361, Frances Marion, Victor Hugo, Buffalo Bill Cody, Emma Destin, Levi Strauss, Jackie Gleason, Fats Domino, Betty Hutton, Johnny Cash, William Frawley, Robert Alda, Tony Randall- born Arthur Rosenberg, Erhyke Bahdu, Fred “Tex” Avery


1929- Congress declared the Grand Tetons a national park.


1942- Walt Disney received the Irving Thalberg Award at the Academy Awards. Leopold Stokowski got a special Oscar for his work on Fantasia, Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace won Best Score for Dumbo.


1962- First day shooting on the first James Bond film Dr. No. The scene was in M's office and featured Bernard Lee, Peter Burton and their new discovery, Sean Connery.


1965- First day of shooting on the Beatle's second film 'Help!"


1983- Michael Jackson’s album Thriller went to #1 in the pop charts and stayed for weeks. Twenty-six year later, after Jackson’s death in 2009, Thriller again went to #1 around the world.



1986- Dragon Ball Z premiered in Japan


1990- Cornell Gunther, lead singer for the DooWop group the Coasters, was shot dead at a Las Vegas intersection."Yakkety-Yak, Don't Talk Back!"


1991- At a meeting in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the first Web Browser.


1996- Silicon Graphics Corp (SGI) bought Cray Research. 


2002- Terminal 1 of Sacramento Airport was evacuated because of a suspicious package that might be a bomb. Turns out it contained a Mickey Mouse snow globe.


2017- Disney's Zootopia won best animated feature Oscar, and Pixar's Piper won best animated short.


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