Birthdays: Salvador Dali', Jean Jerome, Chang and Eng Bunker-the original Siamese Twins-1811, Baron Munchausen, Irving Berlin, King Oliver, Martha Graham, Dr. Richard Fenyman, Mort Sahl, Foster Brooks, Denver Pyle, Henry Morgenthau, Doug McClure, Randy Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Albert Hurter, Margaret Kerry the model for Walt Disney’s Tinkerbell is 96
Happy Mothers Day (US) 1908. The holiday was inspiration of a West Virginia social activist named Anna Jarvis. She had 13 children herself, 4 of whom died of childhood diseases, and 5 died in the Civil War. Mrs. Jarvis had spent her life mobilizing mothers to care for their children and she wanted mothers' work to be recognized. "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mothers' day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life." She began organizing Mother’s Day Clubs as early as 1858. After her death, her daughter Anna Maria Jarvis took up the cause. She celebrated The First Mother's Day on the anniversary of her mothers passing in 1908; it became a national holiday in 1914. Mrs, Jarvis insisted the holiday idea not be commercially exploited. She hated the commercialization of Mother’s Day so much that in 1943 she circulated a petition trying to get the holiday rescinded. It failed. In 1948 Anna Maria Jarvis died broke and surrounded by store-made Mother’s Day cards and candy from fans.
1831- French writer Alexis De Tocqueville visited the United States.
1934- The Howard Hawks screwball comedy Twentieth Century premiered with John Barrymore and Carol Lombard.
1935- Disney Silly Symphony Water Babies, directed by Wilfried Jackson.
1968 - Actor Richard Harris attempted a singing career, releasing the song "MacArthur Park".
1972 -On the Dick Cavett talk show rock star and peace activist John Lennon said his phone had been tapped by FBI. It turns out it was, but at the time we all thought he was just paranoid from too many drugs.
1981- The musical play CATS opened in London.
1981- Bob Marley died of brain cancer at age 36. Marley and his group the Wailers, made Jamaican Reggae mainstream in pop music.
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