Birthdays: George Seurat, Charles Ringling, Julie Harris, Jack Davis, Gianni Verasce, Monica Seles, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lucy Liu is 57, Britney Spears is 44
1697- Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London reopened. It was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren after being destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
1854- Napoleon III was Napoleon's nephew and since 1848 legally elected President of the Second French Republic. But he decided that he wanted to be an Emperor like his uncle, so he seized dictatorial power on the anniversary of Austerlitz and arrested all dissenters like Victor Hugo, Alex DeTocqueville and cartoonist Honore' Daumier (gotta watch those cartoonists...)
1863- The dome of the U.S. Capitol completed as the Goddess of Freedom is hoisted up into place.
1877- Camille Saint Saens opera “Samson & Delilah” premiered in Weimar.
1901- Mr. King Gillette invented the safety razor.
1933- Voice actor Clarence “Ducky” Nash began working at Walt Disney. He would create the voice for Donald Duck and his nephews.
1935- Animator Marc Davis first day at Walt Disney Studios. He retired in 1978.
1965- Walt Disney live action comedy That Darned Cat, with Dean Jones and Hayley Mills, opened.
1982- Wild-eyed British comedian Marty Feldman (Igor in Young Frankenstein) suddenly died of a heart attack in Mexico while filming the comedy YellowBeard. He was 48.
1983- The full 13 minute video version of Michael Jackson’s song Thriller, premiered on MTV. Directed by John Landis. Makeup by Rick Baker. Storyboarded by Dave Stevens ( The Rocketeer).Costumes by Kelly Kimball, the daughter of Disney animator Ward Kimball.
1993- NASA astronauts do a series of space walks from their shuttle to adjust the Hubble space telescope. The Hubble cost billions of dollars but was sent into orbit with a flaw in its lenses. It was nearsighted. The spacewalk in effect gave the Hubble a set of glasses to see better the furthest details of deep space.
1994- LA jury found Heidi Fleiss ‘The Hollywood Madam” guilty of running a prostitution ring. Charlie Sheen and Sean Penn were among her frequent clients.
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