Birthdays: King Henry VII Tudor, Jose Marti, Colette, Jackson Pollack, Claus Oldenburg, Arthur Rubenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, Connie Rasinski, Susan Sontag, Barbie Benton, General George Pickett, William Burroughs (1855) the inventor of the calculator, Mo Rocca, Frank Darabont, Alan Alda is 89, Elijah Wood is 45
1926- Composer Kurt Weill married his Pirate Jenny- Lotte Lenya.
1930- Warner Bros Cartoons Born. Leon Schlesinger, the head of Pacific Art and Title, signed a deal with several unemployed Disney animators who had left Walt to form their own studio to draw Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but had been stiffed by their contacts. Schlesinger had connections with Warner Bros. since he helped them get funding for the 'Jazz Singer'. They created Leon Schlesinger's Studio Looney Tunes, in imitation of Disney's Silly Symphonies. Their first character was Bosko, but eventually they would create Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and more. Schlesinger sold his company to WB outright in 1944 when he retired.
1949- The Admiral Broadway Review premiered on television. The one and a half hour comedy review starred Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The show was so popular Admiral was swamped for orders for new televisions and ironically was forced to cancel the show to focus on their production needs. The show was revived as Your Show of Shows, one of the great shows of early television.
1956- Young singer Elvis Presley first appeared to television audiences on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show.
1978- At the Golden Globe Awards John Williams won for his score for Star Wars (IV: A New Hope), beating out Irving Kostal’s score for Pete’s Dragon.
1978- Hanna-Barbera's the Three Robonic Stooges.
1982- Danny DeVito married Rhea Perlman.
1985- “WE ARE THE WORLD”, Singer Harry Belafonte enlisted Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones to create a song to help raise money for famine relief in Africa. Inspired by the Feed The World Christmas song in England. Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson wrote the song in a few days. Rather than record lots of celebrities separately they used the American Music Awards bringing celebrities into LA to gather them all in one studio. After the award show ended, 45 of the most famous singers of that time spent all night recording We Are the World. Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Cindy Lauper, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Bob. Dylan and many more.
1986- THE CHALLENGER DISASTER- As the world watched, the Space shuttle Challenger exploded 74 seconds after takeoff killing all twelve crew members. They included New Hampshire schoolteacher Christie McAuliffe who had won the space ride in a contest. It was blamed on defective O-rings in the rocket booster.
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