St. Vincents Day- "If Vincents Day be Rainy Weather, shall rain then 30 days together.”
Birthdays: Sir Francis Bacon, D.W. Griffith, Lord Byron, August Strindberg, Andre Marie Ampere (electric Amps), Conrad Veidt, 1960’s UN Secretary General U-Thant, Ann Southern, Sam Cooke, Bill Bixby, John Hurt, George McManus, Joseph Waumbaugh, J.J. Johnson, Seymour Cassell, Jim Jarmusch is 71, Linda Blair is 66, Piper Laurie is 92, Diane Lane is 59
1912- The first bridgeway connecting Key West and the Florida Keys opened.
1918- A Manitoba judge tries to outlaw movie comedies, because they tend to make the public "too frivolous".
1930- Work began on the foundation of the Empire State Building in New York.
1933- The day after Ub Iwerks quit Walt Disney, music director Carl Stalling quit as well. When work at Iwerks new studio didn’t pan out, he ended up at Warner Bros. scoring the Looney Tunes.
1938- On a bare stage, Thorton Wilder’s play Our Town premiered.
1947- Hollywood first commercial television station KTLA went on the air for regular broadcasting. At the time in all of Los Angeles there were only 350 TV sets.
1949- Mao Zedong and the Communist People’s Liberation Army captured Peking (Beijing).
1949- Tex Avery’s cartoon "Bad Luck Blackie".
1968-T.V. comedy review show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In premiered. It launched the careers of Lilly Tomlin, Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan. You bet your sweet Bippy!
1972- In an interview with Melody Maker magazine, rocker David Bowie outed himself and said he was gay. Technically he would be bi-sexual since his wife Angela did catch him in bed with Bianca Jagger. Others called him a closet-heterosexual.
1975- Hollywood agents Ron Meyer and Michael Ovitz leave William Morris and form the Creative Artists Agency, or CAA.
1984- Amazon Indians attack an oil drilling crew with blowguns.
1984- Apple released the Macintosh I personal computer.
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