Birthdays: Amerigo Vespucci, Eddie Foy, Yuri Gargarin, John Lounsberry, Samuel Barber, chess master Bobby Fischer, Mickey Spillane, Vita Sackville-West, Raul Julia, Vacheslav Molotov, Juliet Binoche is 50, Linda Fiorentino is 66, Lil’ Bow-Wow is 37
1599- “The Nine Days of Wonder”. William Kemp, famous stage clown in Shakespeare plays completed his vow to Morris Dance from London to Norwich. About 110 miles. This day he completed his trek to the cheers of the crowd, and nailed his buskers to the door of the Norwich town hall.
1888- While strolling through his garden, writer Jules Verne was shot by an emotional deranged nephew Gaston. He recovered, but walked with a limp for the rest of his life.
1907- Former Edison animator J. Stuart Blackton started "Moving Picture World" an early movie fanzine.
1913- Virginia Woolf completed her first novel The Voyage Out.
1954- Edgar R. Murrow does his "See It Now" television broadcast detailing the life of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the commie-chaser. The obvious contradictions and gross opportunism in McCarthy's record when laid out before a nationwide audience, destroyed his career and took the steam out of the "Red Scare" of the 50's. It is probably television journalism's finest moment. For the lowest? Well, what's on tonight?
1955- “Man In Space” First of a three part series premiered on Walt Disney’s TV show Disneyland. Walt Kimball with NASA German scientists Werner Von Braun and Hans Hauber featured. Walt created this in cooperation with the US Government to help generate enthusiasm for the Space Program.
1955- Actor James Dean’s last film, East of Eden, premiered today,
1959-The first "Clutch Cargo" show. Clark Haas of Cambria Studios tried to do animation cheaply using their Synchro-Vox Technique. Matching live action mouths over animated character.
1984- Roy E. Disney Jr., Walt’s nephew, resigned from the central board of the Walt Disney Company, setting in motion a series of takeover bids and maneuvering that by August would wrest control of the company from Ron Miller, Walt’s son-in-law.
1984- Touchstone pictures Splash premiered, featuring Tom Hanks, John Candy and a tastefully topless Daryl Hannah.
1989- Artist-photographer Robert Maplethorpe died of AIDS. He was 42.
1997- Gangsta-rap singer Christopher Wallace, who was known as the Notorious B.I.G. and also called Biggie Smalls, was shot and killed by a gangsta-style drive by. His last album was entitled Life After Death. Notorious BIG could never shake the accusation that he was involved in the similar murder of singer Tupac Shakur.
2007- Zack Snyder’s film “300” opened. This is Sparta!
2012-John Carter premiered. Directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), Based on the original story by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It became one of Disney’s biggest flops. Costing over $275 million, and earning $70 million.
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