Birthdays: James Fennimore Cooper, William Howard Taft, Porfirio Diaz- Mexican President 1884-1911, Agatha Christie, Cannonball Adderly, Bruno Walter, Yuri Noorstein, Merlin Olsen, Oliver Stone, Jean Renoir (film director and son of painter August Renoir), Alexander Korda, Jesse Norman, Robert Benchley, Albert Whitlock, Ron Shelton, Tommy Lee Jones is 78, Britain’s Prince Harry is 40
In Japan, this is Respect for the Aged Day.
1858- The Butterfield Overland Mail service started up, driving stagecoaches throughout the Old West.
1928- Walt Disney staged the first recording session for the music for Steamboat Willie. He was unhappy with the results, so he pawned his car to raise the cash to make a second recording session happen. Steamboat Willie premiered on Nov. 18th.
1930- The first Blondie comic strip.
1930- Hoagy Carmichael first recorded “Georgia on My Mind”.
1936- MGM producer Irving Thallberg, the "Boy Genius" of Hollywood, died of a pneumonia at age 37. He was the inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon". His boss Louis B. Mayer was beginning to resent his popularity. When actress Gloria Swanson asked Mayer how he felt about Thallberg's death, Mayer replied:" God has been very kind to me."
1945- In occupied Berlin, composer Anton Webern was shot and killed by an American sentry when he went outside for a smoke in violation citywide night curfew orders.
1954- The day of shooting on the film The Seven Year Itch, when Marilyn Monroe stood over the subway grate and let the breeze blow her dress up, much to the annoyance of her husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio. They did it live in NYC, but director Billy Wilder was unhappy with the results, so he had it reshot back in Hollywood on set. Her little white halter dress was thereafter known as a Marilyn Dress.
1957-The TV series Bachelor Father starring John Forsythe premiered.”
1960- The Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse cartoon show premiered.
1965- "Green Acres" TV show debuted. Arnold Ziffel the pig gains national prominence.
1971 –The environmental political movement Greenpeace founded in Vancouver by twelve members of the Don’t Make a Wave Committee..
2009- Waking Sleeping Beauty documentary by Don Hahn premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
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