Birthdays: Martin Luther, Giuseppe Verdi, Henry Cavendish 1731- the chemist who discovered Hydrogen, Helen Hayes, Mary Blair, Louis Lumiere, Billy Burke, Thelonius Monk, Rod Scribner, Early female animator LaVerne Harding, Boer leader Paul Kruger, Ed Wood Jr., Alberto Giacometti, Tanya Tucker, Harold Pinter, Richard Tucker, James Clavel, Jodi Benson the original voice of Little Mermaid is 63, David Lee Roth, Michael Giacchino is 57, Bradley Whitford is 66, Sharon Osbourne is 72, animator Gary Perkovac
1846- Neptune’s moon Triton discovered by William Lassell.
1886- The first Tuxedo worn by Pierre Lorrilard IV at the Autumn Ball at Tuxedo Park, New York. Another story of the origin of the fashion was supposedly invented by English gentleman on safari with Bertie the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). Wanting to appear at dinner formally but because of heat and high spikey grass they cut the lower part of their long dinner jackets off.
1936- Disney short " Mickey's Elephant, featuring some of the first animation of newly promoted Frank Thomas.
1949- Chuck Jone’s short “Frigid-Hare” where Bugs meets the little Penguin. “ Hoboken? Ooh, I’m dying again!”
1953- "Winky Dink and You" show. Children were invited to place a piece of celluloid acetate on their TV screens from a kit and help Winky Dink through numerous adventures by drawing on their TV screens. Of course, many kids didn’t wait for the acetate but just drew on their family TVs with indelible markers. The birth of Interactive T.V.
1957- RKO Studios, who produced King Kong, The John Ford Westerns and the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, was sold to Desilu- the television production company owned by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.
1957- Walt Disney’s TV show Zorro starring Guy Williams premiered.
1962- The BBC banned on-air play of a novelty record The Monster Mash, by Bobby Picket. For some reason they considered it offensive.
1965- In the Peanuts comic strip. Snoopy first appears in his guise as the World War I fighter ace after the Red Baron.
1968- Jane Fonda does her zero-gravity striptease and runs into a kinky organist Duran-Duran, the film Barbarellapremiered.
1971- The reconstructed London Bridge dedicated at Lake Havasu City Arizona. Moving London Bridge from the Thames to the American Southwest was the brainchild of Kirk McCullough, the chainsaw tycoon. After winning the auction of the bridge as he flew home he filled out the little customs declaration card- "Amount of goods you are bringing into the country, not to exceed $400. McCullough wrote-" One Bridge. $2,500,000.00. Antique, therefore – TARIFF EXEMPT."
1985- Orson Welles and Yul Brynner die one hour apart. They were both 70. Welles had just finished taping yet another appearance on the Merv Griffin Show. Brynner had a furious smoking habit, supposedly leaving one lit cigarette in every room of his house as he paced around thinking. When he knew he was dying of the stuff, he recorded several television spots to be aired after his death. He looked squarely at camera and said: " I smoked. -Don't."
2003- Quentin Tarentino’s film Kill Bill, Vol. 1. Uma Thurman joked “ Look at me! I’m an action hero!” The animated anime sequence about young O-Ren Ishi was done by Kazuto Nakazawa at Studio IG. Tokyo.
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