B-Days: Robert Frost, Chico Marx, Conde Nast, Tennessee Williams, Alfred Houseman, Leigh Harline, Joseph Campbell, Gen. William Westmorland, Erica Jong, Duncan Hines, Bob Woodward, Leonard Nimoy, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Diana Ross is 81, Sandra Day-O’Connor, Martin Short, Bob Elliot of Bob & Ray, Thornton “T” Hee, Michael Imperioli is 60, Keira Knightley is 40, Edward Sorel. Alan Silvestri, Steven Tyler, Chris Bailey, Yon Duk Jhun, John Pomeroy. Aubry Mintz
1832- Artist George Catlin began his first trip to the West. He traveled up the Missouri River on the American Fur Trading steamer The Yellowstone. Catlin’s portrait paintings of Plains Indians became famous.
1883-To inaugurate her opulent new 5th Ave. mansion Mrs. Cornelia Vanderbilt held one of the most lavish costume balls in New York City history. She and Mrs. Astor had formed the Social Register, also called the Golden 400, the ranking of the top families in polite society. If you weren’t on their list, then darling, you simply weren’t anybody.
The mansion stood where Bergdorf Goodman¹s faces the Plaza Hotel today. The party set new standards for the conspicuous wealth and excess of the Gilded Age. Many guests dressed as Venetian nobility. Mrs. J.P. Morgan dressed as “Electric Light: The Wonder of the Age.”
1900- The Happy Hooligan comic strip.
1909- The U.S. Board of Censorship created.
1920- This Side of Paradise, the first novel published by a young Minnesota writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a descendant of Francis Scott Key, writer of the Star Spangled Banner.
1937- A statue of Popeye the Sailor unveiled at the Crystal City Texas Spinach Festival.
1953-The Salk Vaccine for Polio announced.
1955- The song The Ballad of Davy Crockett, went to number 1 in the U.S. pop charts and stayed there for 5 weeks.
1959- Writer Dashell Hammett died.
1969- The western movie 100 Rifles premiered. It broke taboos, because it featured sexy Raquel Welch making love to sexy black actor Jim Brown. And Burt Reynolds as the bandito Yaqui Joe Hererra.
1970- Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary admitted to having sex with a 14 year old girl.
1973- The Young and the Restless soap opera premiered.
1975 - The Who¹s rock opera "Tommy" premiered in London.
1976- USC film school sophomore Levar Burton screen tested for the role of Kunta Kinte in the landmark TV miniseries Roots. The role made him a star.
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album.
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his first record "Less Than Zero"
1978- The skull of Swedish scientist-philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg auctioned at Sotheby¹s for $3,200. Swedenborg's family had found it in an antique shop and kept it until the auction. They said they needed the money.
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982- In Washington DC, groundbreaking for the Vietnam War Memorial. aka The Wall.
1989- The first free elections in Russia made Boris Yeltsin President.
1990- The Little Mermaid’s composers Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken won two academy awards. For Best Score and Best Song “ Under the Sea”.
1997- Turner Animation's film 'Cat's Don't Dance", Directed by Mark Dindal, featuring the last movie work of Gene Kelly. He was a consultant on the dance sequences.
2008- Arnold Schwarzenegger fired Clint Eastwood. No, it’s not a movie plot line. The former actor turned Republican Governor, objected to a position the actor/director and former Republican mayor took on the California State Parks Commission.
2228-According to Star Fleet records- James T. Kirk, captain of Federation Star Ship Enterprise (Star Trek) was born.
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