Birthdays: Paul Whiteman, Pearl Bailey, Freddy Bartholomew, Dirk Bogarde, Gen. Wade Hampton, pianist Rudolph Serkin, Swifty Lazar, Marlin Perkins, Diane Weist, Reba McEntire, Vince Vaughn is 54, Julia Stiles is 43, Lady Gaga (born Stefani Germanetta) is 38
1881- P.T. Barnum formed a partnership with his chief competitor James Bailey to create Barnum & Bailey’s Circus. He proclaimed it the Greatest Show on Earth!
1920- Silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford married.
1928- Via radio broadcast, the public heard the voice of Charlie Chaplin for the first time.
1929- Disney short The Opry House was released. The first short where they changed Mickey Mouses’ design to give him white gloves.
1935- Leni Reifenstahl’s hypnotic movie paean to Nazism- Triumph of the Will, premiered.
1941- English writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse in Sussex. Her body was never found.
1942- Albert Hurter, Swiss designer for Walt Disney's "Snow White' and 'Pinocchio", and called the first inspirational artist in animation, died of rheumatic heart disease. He was 59.
1979- THREE MILE ISLAND- Partial Meltdown of the Pennsylvania reactor panicked the nation. Despite the official attempts to belittle the danger, Governor Richard Thornburg in Harrisburg moved his office underground to a bunker and Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia gave the entire counties of Lancaster and Harrisburg a blanket unction (Last Rites). just in case.... The accident spawned the largest civilian protests since the Vietnam War and nuclear energy business never quite recovered.
1999- Matt Groening’s cartoon series Futurama debuted.
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