Tom Sito's animation almanac for Sept 13, 2024

 Question: Which person was not born in England? Joan Collins, Gustav Holst, A. A. Milne, Cary Grant, J.R.R. Tolkien.

Yesterdays Question: What does it mean to call someone a Quisling? (Hint: 1940s slang)

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History for 9/13/2024 

Birthdays: Gen "BlackJack" Pershing, Clara Schumann, Milton Hershey, Arnold Schoenburg, Yma Sumac (Star of Brazilian jazz- real name Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, from Ichocán, Peru. Descendent of Inca royalty), Jacqueline Bissett is 79, Frank Marshal, Laura Secord, Jesse L. Lasky, Richard Kiel – Jaws in the James Bond movies, Maurice Jarre, Mae Questel the voice of Betty Boop. Roald Dahl, Don Bluth is 87, Fred Silverman- “The Man with the Golden Gut.” Tyler Perry is 55 

1916- A Tennessee judge ordered Margo the circus elephant to be hanged for killing three men.  It took a railroad crane and steel cable, but it sure taught her a lesson!  

1928- Riding high on their big hit film The Jazz Singer, the Warner Bros. buy out First National Pictures and move into their big Burbank studio lot, where they are still today.  

1945- NY gangster Bugsy Siegel bought a 30-acre roadside tract from a widow in Las Vegas. On it will rise the Las Vegas Casino hotel-resort, the Flamingo. There were two little hayseed casinos in Vegas already, but the big glitzy hotel strip of mega casinos was Bugsy's dream.  

1961- TV sitcom Car 54, Where Are You? debuted. 

1965 – Ghidrah the Three Headed Monster was released in the U.S. 

1969- Hanna & Barbera's "Scooby-Doo, where are you?" and "Dastardly and Mutley and their Flying Machines" premiered.  

1971- General Lin Piao, leader of the Red Guard movement and would-be successor to Mao Zedong, died in plane crash. The Cultural Revolution that had been raging since 1966 seems to fade away afterward.    

1974- The Rockford Files TV series with James Garner debut. 

1974- Kolchak the Night Stalker mystery TV series with Darin McGavin premiered. It was the show that inspired Chris Carter to create The X-Files.

 1979- On his birthday, Animator Don Bluth quit Walt Disney Studios, taking a third of the top artists with him. Bluth becomes Disney's most serious rival since Max Fleischer and helped sparked the animation renaissance of the 1990s. A whole new group of young talent, "bluthies", exert great influence throughout the animation business.  

1993- The Animaniacs Show premiered.