Birthdays: Quintus Virgilius-Virgil 70 BC, Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great 1542, Oscar Wilde, Fredrich Nietszche, Mikail Lermontov, John L. Sullivan, Jane Darnell, Burt Gillett, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Trout, Klaus Barbie the Butcher of Lyon, P.G. Wodehouse, Penny Marshall, Mario Puzo, Sarah Ferguson-Fergie' the former Duchess of York, Chef Emeril LeGasse, Chuck Berry
1905- First Little Nemo comic strip by Winsor McCay premiered in the NY Herald. McCay modeled the child on his own son Robert, and name Nemo came from a Latin root meaning no one.
1905- Premiere of Claude Debussy’s tone poem La Mer- the Sea.
1929- The Canadian Parliament passed a resolution declaring women to be people, too.
1930- Duke Ellington first recorded Mood Indigo.
1937- The Disney short Clock Cleaners premiered. “Loudly the Bell, in the Old Town rings….”
1940- Charlie Chaplin’s film The Great Dictator premiered.
1951- THE FIRST I LOVE LUCY SHOW- The successful family sitcom began its pilot episode this night. CBS and sponsor Phillip Morris had wanted Lucille Ball to transfer her popular radio show-“My Favorite Husband” to television. The story of the family life of Ricky Ricardo, a Cuban immigrant nightclub bandleader, his daffy wife Lucy, and their landlord friends Fred and Ethel Murtz became an overnight sensation.
Oct 15, 1959- 20th Century Fox signed Elizabeth Taylor to star in their new movie Cleopatra. Legend has it when the studio called, Husband Eddie Fisher answered the phone. He called out to Taylor in the next room " Its Hal Wallis (producer). They want you to star in Cleopatra!" Taylor responded, " Tell him I'll do it for a million dollars!" After Fisher relayed the message, a pause, then Fisher said " He said yes!" The first time an actor was paid a million dollars for one role.
1969- The film musical Paint Your Wagon opened. Lerner & Lowe, Paddy Chayevsky, Andre Previn, Lee Marvin, Jean Seberg, Nelson Riddle, Josh Logan, with Clint Eastwood singing!
1976- What’s Love got to do with it? Ike and Tina Turner break up.
1988- Bottom of the 9th, old, injured, Kirk Gibson came off the bench and hit the game winning home run to give the LA Dodgers victory over the Oakland A’s.
1989- Wayne Gretsky surpassed Gordie Howe’s all time record of scored points in hockey-1,850. The Great One went on to set a new record of 2,837 points before his retirement.
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