Birthdays: Sam Houston, Alexander Graham Bell, Kurt Weill, Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III), Ted Geisel aka Dr. Suess, Mikhail Gorbachov, Willis O'Brian, Moe Berg, Karen Carpenter, Lou Reed, Jennifer Jones, John Cullum, John Irving, Tom Wolfe, animator Bob Givens, Jon Bon Jovi is 62, Daniel Craig is 56, animator Stephen Chiodo
1933- "KING KONG"s exclusive premiere at the new Radio City Music Hall in New York. It opened in the rest of the country in April. “Twas Beauty killed the Beast.”
1935- The Looney Tune Cartoon "I haven’t Got a Hat" premiered. This cartoon gave birth to the first permanent Warner Bros. cartoon star- Porky Pig.
1940- SEABISCUIT. The small ungainly racehorse Seabiscuit had lost the Santa Anita Handicap Stakes twice before. Now at 7 years old, with ligament tears, he was considered all washed up. But he was entered one more time to try to win this race. The jockey Red Pollard was an alcoholic who had broken his leg and collarbone and was told he couldn’t walk, much less ever ride again.
Today this unlikely duo raced one more time against odds more like a Hollywood movie than a stakes race. The Biscuit not only won his last race, but set a track record, the second fastest time ever, and the richest win for that time. It’s called one of the greatest comeback stories in sports history.
When discussing the Sports Legends of the Twentieth Century- Seabiscuit and Secretariat are the only non-humans.
1940- Chuck Jones’ Elmer’s Candid Camera, where Elmer Fudd meets an early prototype of Bugs Bunny.
1961- Pablo Picasso married his second wife Jacqueline. He was 80, she was 35. Jacqueline cared for the increasingly reclusive artist and kept even his family at a distance. When Picasso died in 1973, she turned away many family members from the funeral. Jacqueline committed suicide in 1986.
1962- The classic Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man premiered. It’s a Cookbook!
1965- The movie The Sound of Music opened at the Rivoli theater in Manhattan.
1971- Charles Engelhard died, a venture capitalist whose wild investments and grand lifestyle made him the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s villain Auric Goldfinger.
1973- The Women in Film organization founded.
1976- Francis Ford Coppola began shooting his epic film “Apocalypse Now” in the Philippines.
1979- The Anglo-French Concord supersonic airliner service introduced. It was discontinued because of bad economics in 2003.
1982- Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick died of a stroke in Santa Ana, California. He was 53. The author of stories the movies Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall and the series The Man in the High Castle were based. Dick said he was at times possessed by a superalien who appeared in his mind in a beam of pink light. His autobiography was entitled “I am alive, and you are dead.”
2014- Walt Disney’s Frozen won the best animated feature Oscar.
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