Birthdays: Mark Anthony 82 BC, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Benedict Arnold, Hal Roach, Richard F. Outcault, Cecil Beaton, John Dos Passos, Lawrence Kasdan, William Bendix, Guy Williams- born Armando Catalano, Andy Rooney, Julian Bond, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits is 94, Steven Soderbergh is 62, LL Cool J, Faye Dunaway is 84, Emily Watson is 58
1699- The Pilgrims of Salem held a day of fasting and prayer to atone for any people they may have unjustly executed as witches.
1831- Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame first published.
1900- Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premiere in Rome.
1952-The NBC "Today" show debuts with Dave Garroway, Jim Fleming and J. Fred Muggs the chimp.
1954- Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
1957- Humphrey Bogart died of esophageal cancer at age 57. When he was buried at Forrest Lawn, wife Lauren Bacall put in with his ashes a solid gold whistle inscribed with the famous line from "To Have and To Have Not"- 'If you ever need me, just whistle.'
1964- Hanna- Barbera's ' The Magilla Gorilla' cartoon show.
1969- At the Academy Awards, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day won best animated short. It is the last award credited to Walt Disney. Although he had died at the end of 1966, he had greenlit it and worked on it. Woolie Reitherman accepted the award.
1972- Norman Lear’s hit TV comedy series Sanford & Son premiered. Starring Red Fox, it was based on the English show Steptoe & Son.
1974- Sylvia Holland, British born story/concept artist at Disney on Fantasia/ Make Mine Music, died at age 74.
2005- The Cassini-Huygens Probe landed on Saturn’s moon Titan.
2016- Actor Alan Rickman passed away at age 69 of pancreatic cancer.
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