Birthdays: Alex de Tocqueville, Benito Mussolini, Clara Bow, Sig Romberg, William Cameron Menzies, Natalie Wood, Paul Taylor, Dag Hammarskjold, Peter Jennings, Michael Spinks, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dave Stevens creator of the Rocketeer, Booth Tarkington, David Warner, Steven Dorff, Professor Irwin Corey, William Cameron-Menzies, Peter Jennings, William Powell, Ken Burns is 71, Will Wheaton is 53
1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF.
1922- In Kansas City, Walt Disney released his first Laugh-o-Gram short- Little Red Riding Hood, animated by Rudy Ising.
1938- Three Missing Links- a Three Stooges comedy with the boys as cave men and Ray "Crash" Corrigan in a gorilla suit.
1942- Orson Welles left Rio De Janiero after RKO fired him and stopped production of "It's All True". RKO also had “the Magnificent Ambersons” re-cut to a more acceptable 90 minutes and fired the executive producer who brought Welles out to Hollywood.
1948- Former Disney assistant-animator Hank Ketcham’s comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appeared.
1957-Happy Birthday NASA! President Eisenhower signed the bill creating the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, or NASA to oversee the space program, separate from the military.
1957- The Tonight Show with Jack Paar as host premiered.
1962- The film “Dr No” premiered, introducing the world to the suave spy James Bond 007. They first considered Cary Grant, David Niven, Patrick McGoohan, and James Mason, who all turned them down. So, the producers chose young Scots actor Sean Connery. Ian Fleming wrote of the choice, “Disaster!!” Fleming always imagined Bond would resemble band-leader Hoagy Carmichael. Sean Connery had just starred as the villain in a Tarzan film, and the producers wanted him to film the sequel. He asked for a time off to go do, “a little spy picture.”
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" had its Royal World premiere at the London Pavilion in the West End. Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon in attendance. The film actually opened a month later. People said the movie was filmed “in a haze of marijuana smoke” and most people on the film didn’t know what was next as they were writing it as they went along.
1974- Mamas and the Papa's singer Mama Cass Eliot died of a stroke, not as was widely believed from choking on a sandwich. She was 32.
1981- Prince Charles of England married Lady Diana Spencer. The ill-fated fairy tale wedding was seen around the world on live television. Unknown to Di at the time was Prince Charles was already romantically involved with Mrs. Camilla Parker-Bowles.
1989- Miyazaki’s film Kiki’s Delivery Service premiered in Japan.
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