Birthdays: Frankish Emperor Charlemagne, Giacomo Casanova, Hans Christian Andersen, Marvin Gaye, Emile Zola, Max Ernst, Buddy Ebsen, Sir Alec Guinness would have been 110, Frederick Bartholdi, Emmy Lou Harris, Isaiah Washington, Karl Castle, Linda Hunt is 79.
1836- Charles Dickens married Elizabeth Howarth.
1877- First man shot out of a cannon.
1877- The first White House egg-rolling contest.
1902- The first movie theater opened in Los Angeles.
1934- Ward Kimball’s first day at Walt Disney as an inbetweener.
1943- Disney short 'Private Pluto' the first Chip & Dale cartoon.
1943- Warner short “Super Rabbit”. Directed by Chuck Jones.
1943- This day Harvard Dean Henry Chauncey supervised the distribution of 316,000 High School seniors of the Army-Navy College Qualifying Test, later re-titled the Scholastic Aptitude Tests or SAT. The SAT became a standardized test that manages every year to raise the stress level of seniors regardless of race, class or religion. Go On To Next Page.
1951- Author Jack Kerouac began writing his masterpiece On the Road, on one long roll of teletype paper. He tried to write in a marathon, reinforced by cigarettes, coffee and Benzedrine. The book was one long paragraph, with no page or chapter breaks.“ The only people for me are the mad ones…”
50 Years Ago. 1974-While actor David Niven was speaking at the Academy Awards telecast a nude streaker named Bob Opel ran past him on nationwide television. Mr. Niven, completely unflustered, dryly commented: "The only laugh that man will ever get is by stripping off his clothes and showing off his shortcomings. "
50 Years Ago. 1974- Later at that same Oscar telecast, Francis Ford Coppola presented the last award of the evening, the Best Picture. But Francis held up the show to launch into a speech about the coming revolution in computer technology in movies. “A revolution that will make the Industrial Revolution seem like a small-town try-out!” The audience was confused and annoyed at being delayed any longer to get to their parties. No one knew what he was talking about.
1978- The TV show "Dallas" debuts.
1993- Bullocks Wilshire department store with the famous Tea Room closed.
2004- Walt Disney Studio released Home on the Range.
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