Birthdays: Anne of Cleves 1515- Henry VIII’s fourth wife. Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins, Mafioso Joe Valachi, Michael Farraday, Meryl Streep is 74, John Houseman, Joanie Jett, Erich Von Stronheim, Tom Lasorda, Paul Muni, Debbie Boone, John Woo is 78
Happy Fall.
3001-Bilbo Baggins left the Shire, having entrusted the one true ring to the custody of his nephew Frodo.
1925- Lon Chaney’s horror classic film The Phantom of the Opera premiered.
1927- The Dempsey-Tunney championship fight. Tunney won in the famous 'long count', meaning the referee delayed the count because Dempsey wouldn’t return to his neutral corner. The extra time allowed Tunney to recover his wits and continue the fight to victory. Jack Dempsey had been world heavyweight champion for ten years but retired a year later.
1944- Disney short First Aiders, the first short of Minnie Mouse without Mickey.
1964- The T.V. series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. premiered. “Open Channel D, Please..”
1964- Jerome Robbins’ “The Fiddler on the Roof “ opened on Broadway. Based on the story “Tevye and His Daughters” by Sholom Aleichem in 1894. In 1953 Jerome Robbins had named names to the HUAC committee to save his career. Now on Fiddler he had to use blacklisted actors like Zero Mostel and Beatrice Arthur, who all despised him.
1967- Farewell voyage of the Queen Mary, in service since 1936.
1976- TV show Charlie’s Angels premiered. It made a star out of Farrah Fawcett.
1979- Hanna Barbera's Super Globetrotter's Show, featuring Multi-Man, Sphere Man, Gizmo-Man, Spaghetti-Man and Fluid-Man.
1984- Michael Eisner named CEO of the Walt Disney Corporation.
1994- Friends TV show premiered.
1996- Seymour Cray, the genius engineer who designed the most powerful supercomputers for the Control Data Corporation and Cray Computers, was in a bad car accident in Colorado Springs. He died two weeks later on Oct. 5th. He was 71.
2011- Scientists at the CERN accelerator claimed to make a particle go faster than the speed of light, something Einstein said could not be done.
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