Monday, May 13, 2024

Tom Sito's Animation Almanac for May 13, 2024

Birthdays: Sir Arthur Sullivan, Cyrus McCormick, Stevie Wonder, George Braque, Daphne DuMaurier, Joe Louis, Richie Valens, Gil Evans, Beatrice Arthur, Harvey Keitel is 83, Dennis Rodman, Clive Barnes, Disney animator Burny Mattinson, Steven Colbert is 59


1956- Actor Montgomery Clift was disfigured in a car crash. He had to have his jaw wired until it could heal.


1963- The English adventure comic Modesty Blaise, by Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway debuted.



1963- Marvel published the first X-Men comic book.


1965 - Rolling Stones recorded "Satisfaction".


1965- In a DC nightclub, the Ramsey Lewis Trio recorded live “The In Crowd”, one of the last jazz singles to crossover and become a hit pop song. 


1966 - Rolling Stones released "Paint it Black"


1971 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane was seriously injured in a car accident


1988- Legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker “The Prince of Cool” died when he fell off a window ledge of the Hotel Prinz Hendrik in Amsterdam. He frequently locked himself out of his room and trying to climb in a window. Heroin and cocaine were found in his system. He was 58.


1992- Police arrest the manager of Comic Book Heaven in Sarasota Florida on seven counts of "displaying materiel harmful to minors", i.e., comic books.


2006- Disney’s The Little Match Girl, directed by Roger Allers was released.




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