Birthdays: Francesco Zubaran, Madame Curie, Rev. Billy Graham, Leon Trotsky –born Lev Bronstein, Albert Camus, Al Hurt, Dean Jagger, Joni Mitchell, Joan Sutherland, Judy Tenuda, Clive Barnes, Lindsay Duncan, Morgan Spurlock, Gracie Lantz, Lucille LaVerne, the voice of the Wicked Queen in Disney’s Snow White. Stubby Kaye- born Bernard Shalom Gotzin.
1865- The London Gazette is founded.
1872- The S.S. Mary Celeste sets sail from New York bound for Italy. The ship was later found mid ocean with the entire crew and passengers mysteriously gone....
1874- Cartoonist Thomas Nast first drew The Republican Party as an elephant.
1885- The Canadian Pacific Railway completed, linking Montreal with British Columbia.
1899-The play Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekov, premiered at the Imperial Art Theatre in Moscow, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. Stanislavski went on to write important books about acting technique.
1937- Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels sent an emissary to Paris to try to talk Marlene Dietrich into coming home. But Germany’s greatest movie star hated the Nazis and all they stood for.
1951- Frank Sinatra left his wife to marry moviestar Ava Gardner.
1956- Eugene O’Neill’s biographical masterpiece play “Long Days Journey into Night” first premiered.
1963- The movie “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” premiered at Hollywood’s new Cinerama Dome theater.
1965- the first Pillsbury Doughboy commercial debuted. ‘Tee-hee-hee!”
1966- Walt Disney was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital for cancer surgery.
1977- Harvey Milk won election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the U.S A.
1980- Movie star Steve McQueen died of cancer at age 50.
1991- “Even Me” Basketball star Ervin “Magic” Johnson revealed he had HIV.
1997- Someone published a stolen home video of Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and rock star Tommy Lee having sex on their honeymoon on Lake Meade, including Tommy steering his boat with his willy. The Pamela-Tommy video became the most downloaded file on the Internet and rented video in history. In 1998 Pamela Anderson Lee was the subject of 1% of the total traffic on the entire World Wide Web.
2007- Walt Disney Pictures Enchanted premiered at the Odeon West End in London.
2014- Walt Disney’s Big Hero 6 opened. The short Feast preceded it.
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