Birthdays: Fae Wray, Ian Fleming, Robert Wise, Raymond Scott (composer of pop songs Carl Stalling loved to score into Bugs Bunny cartoons), Margaret Trudeau, Amy Irving, Arnold Palmer, Charles Kuralt, Jose Feliciano, Karl Lagerfield, Chris Columbus, Charles Simonyi- who designed Microsoft Word, Colin Firth is 64
1920- Silent movie star Olive Thomas, nicknamed America's Kid Sister, partied a little too hard at the Dead Rat Cafe in Paris. It was said the 25 year old died of an overdose of cocaine and alcohol. Another theory was she accidentally drank the mercury bichloride used by her husband to treat his syphilis. The scandal started the first investigation of drugs in Hollywood. It netted an army captain named Spaulding who admitted that film stars like Thomas, Mabel Normand and Ramon Navarro were regular clients for prescription drugs. In 1928 Groucho Marx put in his Broadway show Animal Crackers the song Hooray for Captain Spaulding.
1953 - Swanson Foods sells its first TV dinner.
1955- the TV series 'Gunsmoke' premiered.
1963- The First New York Film Festival opened with Luis Bunuel’s The Exterminating Angel.
1966- H&B's Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles debut.
1968- Hanna Barbera's Space Ghost and Dino Boy' debut.
1972- Premiere of the TV special Liza with a Z. Bob Fosse directed and choreographed the one woman show of the spangled 23 year old.
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1977- H&B’s “Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels’ show, also the Three Robonic Stooges.”
1977- H&B’s The Laughalympics”
1981- Picasso left instructions in his will that his famous painting Guernica never return to Spain during the Franco dictatorship. “Only when freedom returns to Spain.” It was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in NY for decades. This day Guernica was at last returned to Spain.
1993- The TV series The X Files premiered. The truth is out there.
2009- The first D-23 opened in Anaheim. It is an annual Comicon just for Disneyanna fans. D-23 means the year the Walt Disney Company began, 1923.
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