Birthdays: Captain George Vancouver, Eric Maria Remarque, John Dillinger, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Mike Todd, Billy Wilder, Joe Papp, Bill Blass, Oskar Fischinger, Pistol Pete Maravich, Klaus Maria Brandauer is 81, Graham Greene is 72, Ed Bradley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Prunella Scales, Meryl Streep is 75, Konrad Zuse, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Frees, Matt Doherty, Elizabeth Warren, Animator Floyd Norman is 89.
1342 – According to JRR Tolkeins’ book the Hobbit, this day Bilbo Baggins returned to his home in the Shire, with the one true Ring.
1894 - Harry Houdini married Bessie Rahner. She remained devoted to him even after his death. Every Halloween for twenty years she held a séance to try and contact him.
1933- Max Fleischer promoted Lillian Friedman to be the first woman animator in American commercial animation. She animated a test of Betty Boop and with the help of a female camera operator, filmed it without a name slate. Then she had it screened in front of the crew at dailies. Dave Fleischer said "Hire that guy!" "It's a girl", he was told. So, Lillian Friedman (Astor) was hired at 25 dollars a week when the male animators were making up to $125.00. I asked her about this. She said "It was the Depression and I was supporting my husband who was out of work. I wasn't angry then, but I am angry now."
1941- Walt Disney assistant animator Bill Hurtz married Mary Whitney, one of Walt Disney’s secretaries. Hurtz later went on to become an award winning director at UPA.
1944- Congress passed the Rankin-Barden Servicemen’s Adjustment Act, better known as the "GI Bill" giving college and home loans to returning veterans.
1966 – The Mike Nichols film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened. Based on the play by Edward Albee and starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was the first American movie to use four letter cuss words. Just a year before comedian Lenny Bruce had gone to jail for saying the same words, even though everyone including President Johnson swore in everyday parlance.
1969- Singer actress Judy Garland OD’s on sleeping pills. She was 47. Whether it was an accident or a suicide we will never know.
1970- President Nixon signed the law lowering the voting age in the U.S. from 21 to 18.
1977- Walt Disney’s The Rescuers opened in theaters.
1978 - James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced.
1990- A signal of the end of the Cold War, "Checkpoint Charlie" the main dividing gate between East and West Berlin was dismantled. John Le Carre' and other spy novel writers mourned. There is a replica and a Cold War Museum at the site today.
2012- Pixar’s Brave came out. Written and directed by Brenda Chapman-Lima.
2012- Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter opened.
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