Birthdays: Martha "Patsy" Jefferson, Auguste Lumiere, Tor Johnson, John Le Carre', Peter Tosh, Amy Carter, Jack Anderson, Peter Max, animator Lou Scheimer, John Lithgow is 79, Robert Reed of the Brady Bunch, Evander Holyfield, Patricia Ireland, Michael Gambon, John Favreau is 58, Trey Parker of South Park is 54
1845- Richard Wagners’ opera Tannhauser premiered.
1901- Brazilian Santos Dumont flew a small dirigible around the Eiffel Tower in Paris. This proved that a balloon could be maneuvered by a propeller motor. This was four years before the Wright Brothers. A crowd of 100,000 cheered including Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.
1926- King George VI of England was known to have a bad stammer that embarrassed him when speaking in public. This day, George had his first appointment with his Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue at his Harley St. office. The event was dramatized in the film- The King’s Speech.
Wyeth self-portrait1945- Near his Chadd’s Ford home, N.C. Wyeth, artist and father of Andrew Wyeth, was killed by a train that struck his car. His grandson was in the car with him and was also killed. He was 62.
1953 – Arthur Godfrey had one of the more popular TV variety shows at the time. One of his headliners was the singer Julius LaRosa. But Godfrey was seen to act more and more imperiously with his cast and crew. This day after a song, Godfrey put his arm around LaRosa and said gently. "Julie lacks humility, So, Julie, to teach you a lesson, you’re fired." La Rosa and the audience first thought he was kidding, but he wasn’t. He had fired LaRosa live, nationwide on the air.
1957- Montreal Hockey great Maurice Rocket Richard became the first player to score 500 goals.
1964- Doo Wah Diddy Diddy by Manfred Mann hit the pop charts.
1968- RUPERT MURDOCH INVADED ENGLAND. Never mind the Vikings or William the Conqueror, on this day the little Australian landed at Heathrow to begin a takeover war for his first English newspaper, the News of the World. Until now the Fleet Street press barons were a closed club of rich old gentlemen. Murdoch used Sir Robert Caro as his cover to get in and defeat a hostile takeover bid from Robert Maxwell. He then demoted Caro out of his leadership of the paper. He soon bought the London Times and The Sun. Rupert Murdoch later became a U.S. citizen so he could build the Fox News and TV empires.
1985- Take on Me by Aha hit number one on the pop charts.
1990- Kevin Costner’s film Dances With Wolves premiered.
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