Birthdays: Georgio Vasari, Henry Ford, Emily Bronte', Casey Stengel, Roy Williams, Vladimir Zworykin, Arnold Schwarzenegger is 78, Ed "Kookie" Byrnes, Peter Bogdanovich, Delta Burke, Henry Moore, Anita Hill, Lawrence Fishburne is 64, Jean Reno is 77, Hilary Swank is 51, Christopher Nolan is 55, Lisa Kudrow is 62
1889- Start of the Sherlock Holmes mystery, the Naval Treaty.
1929 -The Hollywood Bowl musicians go on strike.
1932-Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees” the first Technicolor Cartoon. Disney had worked out a deal with Technicolor creator Dr. Herbert Kalmus to use his technique exclusively for two years to demonstrate larger Hollywood studios its quality. The short premiered at Grauman's Chinese with the feature film Strange Interlude".
1932- The first Los Angeles hosting of the Olympic Games in their brand spanking new Coliseum. Gold medalists in swimming Larry Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller, who later became movie stars. Another medalist, the Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, began to teach the Californians about a new sport- surfing!
1935- The first paperback book. Andre Maurois 'Ariel, a Life of Shelley', published in this new form by Penguin Books of London.
1936- Producer David O. Selznick bought the movie rights to the best-selling novel “Gone With The Wind” from an ailing Irving Thalberg. The "boy genius" Thalberg was hoping that Selznick would ruin himself in the process of making this film. Thalberg was convinced that GWTW would prove to be a massive flop because "Costume dramas are box office poison." It was a blockbuster hit.
1942- Walt Disney war time short "Out of the Frying Pan and into The Firing Line." Minnie Mouse is told to recycle bacon grease to be turned into glycerine for the war effort.
1948 - Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1954 - Elvis Presley joins Local 71, the Memphis Federation of Musicians.
1966 - BATMAN: THE MOVIE, and based on the 1966 BATMAN television series, opened. Directed by Leslie H. Martinson and starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin,
1972- John Boorman’s thriller Deliverance, with Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty.
1974- Flesh Gordon, the x-rated spoof of Flash Gordon adventure serials. Directed by Howard Zeim and Michael Beneviste.
1986- Walt Disney released “Flight of the Navigator”, directed by Randal Kleiser, featuring early photo-real CG VFX done by Canadian studio Omnibus.
1988- The last Playboy Club in America closed. It was in Lansing, Mich. In 2006 Hugh Hefner opened a Playboy Club themed casino in Las Vegas.
1999- The Blair Witch Project opened in theaters. The low-budget indy became a huge hit due to an on-line grass roots campaign claiming that the footage of teenager encountering the supernatural was genuine. The first successful on-line publicity campaign.
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