Birthdays: Dr. Martin Luther King, Moliere, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Cole Younger, Charro, Matthew Brady, drummer Gene Krupa, Lloyd Bridges, Mario Van Peebles, Josef Broyer the mentor of Sigmund Freud, Margaret O’Brien, Aristotle Onassis, Captain Beefheart, Dr. Edward Teller, Regina King is 54, Phyllis Coates, Disney animator-educator Dave Pruiksma
1919- Hollywood celebrities Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists Studio. Newspapers wrote “ The Lunatics have taken over the asylum.”
1927- The Dumbarton Bridge carried the first auto traffic across San Francisco Bay.
1936-THE DGA- Several top Hollywood directors including Lewis Milestone, Ruben Mamoulian and William Wellman met at King Vidor’s house and pledged $100 dollars each to form the Screen Director’s Guild, later the Director’s Guild of America. It was a risky thing to do, previous attempts to form a director’s union were broken up a threat by the producers of perpetual blacklisting. Final recognition and contracts were signed by President Frank Capra in 1940. One provision insisted on in the contract was that the director’s credit always be the final name in the opening titles before the movie began. And so it remains.
1942- THE GREEN LIGHT LETTER. Major League Baseball Commissioner Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis wrote President Franklin Roosevelt that in light of the Pearl Harbor attack, perhaps big-league play be suspended until the war ended? The president responded in what’s known as “the green light letter,” encouraging Landis go ahead with the baseball season. “I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going,” Roosevelt wrote. “There will be fewer people unemployed, and everybody will work longer hours, and harder than ever before. And that means that they ought to have a chance for recreation, and for taking their minds off their work, even more than before.”
1943- Walt Disney released Education for Death, a wartime short directed by Clyde Geromini and animated principally by Ward Kimball.
1960- Walt Disney presents Leslie Nielsen as Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion in the adventure series Swamp Fox.
1961- Berry Gordy of Motown Records signed a new group called The Supremes.
1967- THE FIRST SUPER BOWL- After a decade of professional football conference title games, the AFL and NFL combined to make a single championship game- Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The half-time show was the University of Arizona and Grambling State University marching bands. The telecast was blacked out in LA because the coliseum was not sold out, But if you attached a coat hanger to your rooftop TV antenna you could watch via an out-of-town station like Bakersfield or San Diego.
1974- The first episode of Happy Days premiered with Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham and Henry Winkler as Da Fonz.
2009- THE MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON- Capt. Sully Sullenberger safely ditched his disabled airliner in the Hudson River, saving all his passengers.
2021- Wandavision premiered streaming on Disney+
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