Birthdays: Tamerlane, Eadweard Muybridge, Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Paul Robeson, Jean Paul Belmondo, Ward Bond, Seve Balesteros, Carl Perkins, Michael Learned, Tom Lehrer, Paula Poundstone, Cynthia Nixon, Hugh Hefner, Dennis Quaid is 70, Elle Fanning is 27, Tom Lehrer is 97.
1914- The first all color film” The World, The Flesh and the Devil” premiered in London.
1938- In an interview with Liberty Magazine, Walt Disney said he, “had plans to put animation to various well-known pieces of music, with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice being only the start.” He was beginning to think of expanding the short into a concert feature. The result of which would be Fantasia.
1942- Black opera star Marian Anderson gave her concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to an audience of 75,000. She was snubbed from giving a recital at the Daughters of the American Revolution Hall which caused a furious Eleanor Roosevelt to resign from the DAR and arrange this concert.
1943- A U.S. Patents court concluded that Guglielmo Marconi had used several of Nichola Tesla’s patents to create Wireless Broadcasting. So in effect, Tesla was the real inventor of radio broadcasting. Vindication came too late. Marconi died a rich Nobel-Prize winner, and Tesla died alone and penniless.
1948- Variety columnist Lee Mortimer had been needling Frank Sinatra for his advocacy of liberal causes. He accused Old Blue Eyes of draft-dodging, and hinted maybe he had pro-Communist sympathies. This day as Sinatra passed Mortimer in front of Ciro's restaurant on Sunset Blvd. he heard Mortimer call him a dirty dago. Frank went at Mortimer and punched his lights out.
1952- The quiz show “I’ve Got A Secret” hosted by Gary Moore premiered on the Dumont Network and ran for 15 years.
1953- The first issue of the T.V. Guide.
1962- The musical West Side Story swept the Academy Awards.
1963- Animator Vernon Stallings died (1891-1963) He is known for inventing the animation disc while working on Felix the Cat in the 1920s.
1991- The last Horn & Hardardt Automat was closed on 42nd St in Manhattan. Philadelphia restaurateurs Joseph Horn and William Hardart saw German experiments in mass market automated restaurants, and imported the equipment to start one in Philadelphia in 1902.
2003- Baghdad fell to invading US and British armies.
2004- Archaeologists in Cyprus discover the 10,000 year-old grave of a New Stone Age man. With him were the remains of a cat that looks like it was deliberately placed there. This is the oldest evidence of man domesticating cats. So rest in peace- Gronk and Fluffy.
2008- Stuntman Rupert MacDonald built a full-size Viking ship out of 15 million popsicle sticks.
2023- Illuminations’ Super Mario Bros. Movie breaks all records for an animated movie opening, and a movie based on a game. $484 million USD over the Easter holiday.
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