Birthdays: Hank Williams, Spiro Agnew, Ken Kesey, Jerry Colonna, Roddy MacDowell, George Blanda, Wendy Carlos Williams, Elvira- real name Cassandra Peterson, Anne Bancroft, Jeff MacNelly, John Ritter, Sir Frederick Ashton, Rita Rudner, animator Tim Walker, Baz Luhrmann is 62
1179- Death of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval female composer and mystic.
1857- James Pierpont, an uncle of banker J.P. Morgan, had moved from Massachusetts to Savannah Georgia to be organist in a local church. There he missed the snowy winters of home. So, this day he published a song he wrote about what fun it was to ride in a sleigh. He called it The One-Horse Open Sleigh, but we know it by its popular chorus- Jingle Bells.
1925- In Mexico City, a streetcar crashed into a schoolbus carrying 14 year old Frida Kahlo. It fractured her pelvis when she had already been dealing with polio. The difficulty she suffered recovering had a great impact on her painting.
1932- Mickey Mouse short The Whoopee Party premiered.
1965- If you ever wondered whatever could be funny about being held in a German prison camp during WW2 you could watch the TV sitcom HOGANS HEROES, which debuted this day. Commandant Colonel Klink was acted by Werner Klemperer, whose father was the famous orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer. They had to flee Germany because they were Jewish. Sargent Schulz and the Frenchman LeBeau were also played by actors who were Holocaust survivors- John Banner and Robert Clary.
1966- The original TV series of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE premiered this night. Starring Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Barbera Bain, Greg Morris and Peter Lupus.
1971- RCA gave up and pulled out of the retail computer market.
1972- Filmation’s The Groovie Ghoulies" debuts.
1991- The TV show Home Improvement debuted, making a star out of comedian Tim Allen.
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