Today in History: 1933 - Dancing Lady, Fred Astaires first film, was released. Joan Crawford was his dance partner 1943 - Carmen Jones opened on Broadway. It was Oscar Hammerstein the Seconds contemporary reworking of the Bizet opera Carmen with an all-black cast. 1949 - Gene Autrys Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer hit the pop charts. 1973 - mail-in ticket requests for a Bob Dylan U.S. tour went on sale. At one San Francisco post office, there was a five block-long traffic jam. 1973 - The Who spent the night in jail in Montreal after causing $6,000 worth of damage to a hotel room. The incident inspired John Entwistle to write Cell Block Number Seven. 1979 - Stevie Wonder appeared at New Yorks Metropolitan Opera House. He performed selections from his album Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants with the National Afro-American Philharmonic Orchestra. 1986 - Jerry Lee Lewis checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to overcome an addition to painkillers. 1990 - composer Aaron Copland died at age 90. 1990 - actress Katharine Hepburn made a rare appearance in Washington to accept the Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement. 1996 - actor Burt Reynolds filed for bankruptcy. 2004 - Brian Williams anchored his first Nightly News on NBC. He took over for Tom Brokaw.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:27:06 +0000
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